This is my first story, and my first attempt outside of school to even write a story, and if you do follow the story I am busy with school and my job, but i will try to update as often as I can
I am a teenage boy named Colt Andrew, I am 17 and live in Central Texas. I have always been an oddball at school, and stood out due to being one of the shortest people in any of my classes, I am about 5'2 and keep my hair maintainable yet some what long, it is a deep dirty blond and usually greasy due to the little care I give it, I am skinny but not fit either, being anemic I usually wear a sweat shirt anywhere that was 75 degrees fahrenheit or less, I live in a rather small house with my step-dad, my mom, my younger sister, and the house pet eevee(the eevee really only liked my sister).
Today was a normal day, nothing really stood out about it, I slept through most of my classes and was still tired after getting home. As I lied down on my bed with the door to my room left open so it could be seen I was home I heared a high pitched squeal. "Bweee Bweeee", it was the family eevee, it must have come to my room because my sister usually arrived home a half hour later than I do. "Eevee are you hungry", I asked it, it squealed in response and I got up from my bed to get it some food.
When I got to the kitchen I let the eevee pick the food it wanted from the various assortment my sister had our mom buy it, it choose the grilled magikarp and I opened the can and as i set it to the floor the eevee bit my hand in anticipation. I pulled the food back and scolded the brown fox for biting me. As i scolded the fox my sister Kayla walked in and yelled at me for scolding the eevee.
Kayla, despite being two years younger than me, was taller than me by at least three inches. She, like everyone else in my biological family, had dark brown hair. It was as if she had gotten the good genes that were left after I got the scraps.
"Don't yell at eevee" she said, "He bit me when I was feeding him" I told her, "He was just trying to play with you" she defended, "whatever, you feed him, he does not like me anyways" I said as I handed her the can of food, "I will be in my room if you need anything" I told her as I retreated to my room and shut my door. I collapsed on my bed and fell asleep instantly.
When I woke up I could smell dinner cooking, it had been about two hours since I had fallen asleep, it was about eight and the sun has been set as the moon ascended in the sky. When I went to the kitchen my mom was finishing up the part of dinner she cooked for tonight, it was usually me or my sister that made rice then one of our parents that made the meat we ate with it. Tonight my mom made chicken and the rice was seasoned to be on the savory side. After I made my plate I thanked my mom and sister for making the dinner tonight and I then took my food to the back patio and ate in the moonlight.
From where we lived the moon was going through a rare occurance that could only be seen from certain areas in the U.S. tonight. We were having what was called the strawberry moon, or the blood moon. This rare event made the moon seem a deep red color. It was mesmerizing, I found myself lost in a trance as I stared at the moon. I loved the color red, red and black were my favorite color combination despite my favorite color being blue.
After a few minutes I was snapped out of my trance at the sound of the door opening, it was my sister. "It is beautiful tonight, isn't it" she asked me, "Yeah, it looks amazing" I replied. After we both stared at the moon I finished my dinner and went back inside.
Since my sister helped with dinner it was my job to clean all of the dishes, I tried to finish them fast so that i could be in bed before my step-dad got home from work. After I finished washing the dishes I told my mom good night, and reminded my sister to feed the eevee. With that I retreated to my room for the rest of the night. I thought about what I was going to do, it was the last week of school during my senior year. I would be a graduate soon, I was ready to move out and svaed up some money from my part-time job at Taco Weepinbell. I plan to move out about a week after I graduate and get my own place, and I have already put in for full time at my job so that I can make extra money. After a few years of work when I get some money saved up I plan on going on my own pokemon journey. They make it look so much easier in the games than it really is.
I soon fell asleep once again. I started having a dream, and it felt real. I was in a dark gloomy space, nothing really stood out from it, some of the fog cleared and revealed the deep red moon above me. The moon looked much larger in the sky than usually did, as if it was much closer to the earth. Then two red eyes opened in the sky, one on each side of the moon. A loud and hoarse voice spoke. "COLT, YOU HAVE BEEN CHOOSEN BY THE LIGHT OF THE RED MOON, JOIN US" the ominous voice boomed, then I woke up.
I was sweating like a Grumpig after that dream, I got up to get a drink of water and looked out the back door. It was still night, all the light werw off which ment my step-dad was already home and everyone was in bed. The red moon was still high in the sky. As I was staring at the moon I felt an intense pain over my entire body.
Well that is it for the first chapter of When the red moon rises
I hope it was ok, as I said this is my first time writing a story outside of school so I hope I did not make too many mistakes. Enjoy the cliffhanger and thanks for reading.