Hunter's Moon
Tap. Tap. Tap. Sera looked up from her book. It was about midnight and she was all alone, well besides her pet wolf-dog, Nuka. She looked down at the gold colored wolf. He stirred slightly in his sleep but kept snoozing.
The girl rolled her eyes, irritated. Her father was working late as usual. Ugh he was always working. You see, he was sorta like a big shot military scientist and was never home to spend time with her.
Sera sat up on her bed, one leg out in front her and the other bent. Sera smiled lightly at Nuka who was using her leg as pillow. She had had Nuka since her ninth birthday, and through the years the two became inseparable. She would always call him, her guardian angel, the way he would try to protect her with his life. Sera yawned and began reading her book, Bitten by Kelley Armstrong.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Sera closed her book, she knowing exactly what part she was at, since she had read the book bout five times. She was getting into a juicy part with Elena and Clay, the two main characters.
Sera blushed bright red as her mind drifted to her and her boyfriend, Justin. They have been going out since she first started high school. Justin had been two grades above her, so she had to watch him graduate and all that jazz. She smiled, relieved that this year was her last year.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Sera growled mentally, "Ok that is getting very fucking irritating!" She successfully took her leg out from Nuka without waking him, but as she tried to walk she crumbled to the floor.
"Damn it" she cursed at her numb leg. She looked up on the bed and found she had woken up the beast. Nuka had his back to her, so he looking over his shoulder at her. The look he gave her was so priceless, she couldn't help but laugh.
She crawled over by the bed and patted his head lightly. "It ok pup, go back to sleep" she whispered in the wolf's ear. Nuka let out a tired groan and dropped his head back on her bed, letting out a long tired sigh.
Sera chuckled and left the room. She crept down the hall, listening intently for the tapping. Not finding anything upstairs, she headed downstairs. She checked the doors just in case, all were locked and bolted. Sera didn't find anything. No tapping. She growled in frustration, and began heading upstairs when she heard a noise from the attic.
"What in gods name was that?"she thought, silently going upstairs and grabbing her pistol from a small hidden safe, in her father's room. Sera jogged back to her room and locked the door behind her, startling Nuka awake yet again. He growled at first, half dazed then hopped down by Sera, who was crouching on the floor, next to her computer desk.
Sera looked up at the concerned wolf. He gave her an -are you ok? - look. A crash now came from the level just above her room. She pointed her gun at the door. Nuka stood by her side growling low with his hackles raised.
It was nearly an hour and half both Nuka and Sera stared at the door intently, tense and ready. Sera slowly walked to her door, she shakily opened it and peer down the hall.
Nothing. She took a breathe and walked out of the room gun raised and pointed to kill. Nuka tried to follow her but Sera snapped her fingers, and did what looked to be sign language. Nuka huffed and walked back in her room lying down, ready to leap forward if called. She smiled lightly.
When Sera was little, Nuka and her would spend hours teaching each other signs and body language to communicate. Weird maybe but Sera didn't care, it came in handy at times, kinda like this. Sera nodded to Nuka and walked down the hall to the attic door, she gulped and opened the door silently and began making her way up the stairs.
It was dark, only the moon lighting the room, but it didn't matter to Sera. When she was 14, Sera's father took her and got what seemed an almost science fictional surgery, Eye shine. Thus, she gained the ability to see in the dark, but in turn her eyes become sensitive to light, although through the years it has been getting better.
Sera looked around the attic, keeping her gun raised and ready. She walked near the back wall. Suddenly something leapt at Sera's face. Sera screamed and fell backwards on her butt, rising her gun to shoot. But she stopped herself as she got a look at her attacker.
"You stupid fucking cat!!" she yelled, at a tiny gray striped cat. It was Bella, Ms. Greenwell's, the next door neighbor's cat. Now don't get Sera wrong she loved spending time with Ms. Greenwell or Eve as she called her, and her three cats but her cats could be such a pain.
"Bella you little shit" she panted "You scared me half to death." Sera crept over to pick the cat up.
"How the hell did you get in her-?" she stopped, Bella began to cowered away and puffed up. "Hey now it's just-"she stopped again as Bella hissed, something she was never known to do, before running off down stairs. Sera frowned and turned around, immediately wishing she hadn't.