A werehog's mate 2: chapter 1

Shadow's POV

I woke up early in the morning before the sun was even up. Not that it was supposed to be up now even though it was around 6 am already. It was in the middle of winter. So the sun wasn't supposed to be up and lighting our day already. I curled up underneath my blanket and tried to let the comfortable warmth, that was more then welcome in the cold of the winter, to make me fall back to sleep again.

I sighed when i heard my mom call for me when i was about to continue my slumber. I hoped to sleep the rest of winter away, but unfortunatly i wasn't going to be able to try and do so since i had to get up early for my chores.

"I'm up!" I yelled and threw the blanket off of my body. I shivered as i was met with a wave of cold air that floated around in the house because we never turned on the heater at night. Mom and dad feared that if they heated the house at night that we would suffer from carbon dioxide poisoning while we slept. I rubbed my arms and searched my closet for any warm clothes i could wear for today. I grabbed a blouse with a high collar, to keep my neck warm, a pants and some other necessary clothing articles.

Later on i walked out of the bathroom when i was fully dressed and made my way downstairs. I made my way into the kitchen and saw my mom setting up the table.

"good morning, honey." She said with a smile as she put three plates on the table.

"morning, mom." I said and stretched my arms and back.

"you better go outside and help you father. the sooner you do that, the sooner you two can eat breakfast." She said and i didn't waste any time to take my jacket, my boots, my scarf and my gloves and walked out through the back door.

I shivered as a colder wave then before hit my body. I searched for my dad's whereabouts while trying to ignore the harsh wind hitting my face. Making my face feel numb after being outside for just a few moments. I pulled my scarf over my muzzle and came upon the stables.

"dad?" I called as i looked around the stables. We had a few stables. One was for our cows, another one for our sheep and pigs and the last one for the few horses we had. The horses being for horse riding lessons for extra money for our house and food for out cattle.

The animals in this stable, the one with the pigs and sheep, looked spooked. I wondered by what.

"dad?" I said again, but i recieved no answer. He must be at the other stables. I turned to make my way out of this stable and to one of the other two when something caught my attention from the corners of my eyes. I turned to what seemed a hole torn through the wood of the old stable wall. I gasped as i recognized this hole as i had seen this countless of times before. I turned and counted the amount of animals in this barn. The pigs were still the same amount as yesterday. The sheep, however.

I crawled through the large hole and looked at the thick layer of snow that covered the ground. My suspicions were confirmed as i saw the huge canine tracks in the snow that were accompanied by blood spots. I followed the trail as i hoped to find that the sheep had survived after somehow escaping the monster canine's cawls and teeth. As i followed the trail i saw my father up ahead. He was having some trouble with some news reporters who followed strange happenings like this for the past months ever since it came out on the news for the first time.

"dad?" I called and he turned towards me.

"Shadow? what're you doing here? go back to your mother." He said as if i was still a small child even though i had turned 16 a few months ago.

"what happened?" I asked and stood by him, but my question was answered when i saw the bloodied form of the sheep, or what i guessed was our sheep, in the snow. My stomach twisted and i felt like throwing up when i saw the torn up body. I turned away before my dinner from the evening before spilt from my mouth. It wouldn't be a good sight to be aired on tv by those news reporters. I felt my dad rub my back and asking me if i was okay. I nodded and looked at the corpse from the corner of my eyes. Whatever had been roaming around here had taken another innocent life during the night. In the same manner it had done to all the others before this one.