Overwatch: Blood Moon

Prologue

Ashley's View Age 8

Ugh why does my phone need to startle me awake? Fine be that way phone! I get out of bed and take the phone off the dock to stop the annoying chiming.

Where's my pangolin plush? Oh he fell off the bed I'm so sorry! Poor thing, your friends Panda, Kitty, Judy Hopps and Elsa will keep you company okay? I want to wear green makeup but mom says it's bad for my skin so I'm Judy Hopps instead of the wicked witch.

I grab my Zootopia 3 bag, phone, my LoveNikki login bonuses, and DM Aliyah telling her for the last time I'm not going to download After School okay!?

And DM Isabella telling her the outfit she made in LoveNikki is amazing! I can't believe how many outfits I missed in that game when you no longer needed a Facebook to play gosh I hate that app.

I pound on my brother's door. "Get up sleepyhead it's Halloween today! We have school today please eat with me!"

I open his door and he still looks tired.

"Wow your Genji costume is so good!"

"Thanks sis! I Facetimed Genji and he helped me you know."

Mom says, "Waffles are ready!"

We rush down the hall and eat them. "So how's Judy Hopps and Genji today?"

I look up and tell her, "We're good. I can't wait to get out there! Halloween should be like a day off."

Mom then tells me agreeing. "I know right! It's actually a holiday people care about and it matters it isn't like President's Day or whatever."

Her phone makes a notification sound, "For the last time I don't care if someone I don't know started a live video!"

I feel my feet swinging as I eat I'm so happy for Halloween today! It's cheer season too and everyone knows me throughout the Youth League as an amazing flyer. These syrupy waffles smell so good too.

I finish my orange juice and mom puts celery carrots and lunchmeat turkey sandwiches in our lunchboxes. Mom walks us to school, it's a bit cool this morning and I like it better than the bus or just sitting in a van.

I see other kids in Halloween costumes but Angel and I have the best ones. I hear the wind going through different trees and birds chirping. We meet up with Isabella, Carlos, and a few more of our friends and their parents.

We have the best costumes, I really like how the fabric feels. Of course our parents helped so it wasn't really DIY.

Angel Abby Carlos and Trang are walking in front of us, laughing at their silly Snapchat filters.

"You guys better not forget to share with me I know what you're doing!"

I send them a selfie with a big mouth filter and weird swirly colors in the sky filter.

Wow Isabella slays in her costume! Of course I was there helping her with it. "I really like your pink glitterbow. Your wings are amazing too."

She smiles warmly. "Aww thanks! Hey are you just complementing yourself since you helped me with it? Just kidding Ash! So how's..."

She whispers. "Judith?"

I whisper back. "She's fine. I'm still not sure if mom believes in good omnics yet."

Carlos looks like he's going to say something funny! His eyes have that prankster gleam, "Guess what I'm planning?"

Angel tells Carlos in a pleading tone, "No farting ok! Carlos, I like you and everything but fart jokes aren't funny they're gross!"

Carlos with a tone like he'd have if they didn't have a shirt he really really liked but not in his size, "But you love my jokes!"

"Not those ones!"

Carlos slowly moves his hand under his sleeve.

Abby tilts her head pointing her finger kinda up. "Carlos! Don't you even think about it."

He sighs, slumping forward. "Ugh, fine."

Mom then reminds us. "You guys really loved the meme Carlos sent you!"

She tells him. "I was there."

She's right, it was funny, but it wasn't a gross and stupid fart joke!

The sounds of other kids walking and talking overcome the hallway and the hall smells bleachy.

Another kid looks over to Angel with wide eyes and an open mouth, "Mr. Foreman is singing into his phone!"

I feel my eyelids narrowing, "Please, do not open that door."

Carlos says, "His Youtube isn't doing so well."

Isabella interrupts, "What if he's just doing it for fun?"

We walk into our classroom and Mr. Foreman is dressed like a pirate. He put his phone down saying, "Happy Halloween class! I've got so many fun projects for all you guys. I'll take your partial quotient and reading homework now thank you."

You can so tell he loves teaching. Ugh I hate division so much! I tap my feet so much, I just wanna get out of here.

He stands, then makes graphs on the smartboard, "Anyway you'll need to prepare sooo much for all the tests."

"There are those of you who don't take education seriously and think they can post Mr. Foreman looks like a dork and smells like a butt on After School..."

gives Dean his you're in big trouble mister stare.

"Women on Bumble say I'm a big beautiful ebony god so I'm going to believe them over a JD wannabe who thinks he's like so cool."

Ha ha Dean's face is so red! He slumps back in his chair covering his face.

"Oh I almost forgot, as much as I love your Genji costume Angel you have to take off your mask."

He looks down a little shaking his head. "I know...I know I don't make the rules but I'll get in trouble if I let you wear it so...yeah."

Angel nods, quietly sighs and takes his mask off.

Ugh, we're doing division now.

draws boxes on the smartboard. "Okay class now you're drawing your strip diagram horizontally. The Girl Scouts raised 918 in cookie sales. They raised 5 times as much as Talon. How much did Talon raise?"

Okay it's 918/5.

I'll start with putting 80 in each box. 80x5=400 so 918-400=518

I'll put 80 in the boxes again so 518-400=118 I hope I won't have to do this all over again.

Now I'll do 20 so that's 118-100 and finally 3 so 18-15=3 so the remainder is 3

80+80+20+3=183 so 183 with a remainder of 3. Wow using a calculator app would have saved so much time!

Yay lunchtime! We sit at a table in the courtyard. Palms are spread all over, clattering in the gentle breeze.

I sit with Abby and I know what that smile means! I'm excited for Halloween too, "Hey Ashley. Halloween is going to be the best, I just know it."

I catch a piece of carrot as it falls out of its little box. "I like your spirit Abby maybe you should be a cheerleader."

"No thanks I just like karate and soccer better."

"That's okay but you don't know the fun you're missing."

Abby then strokes her chin. "You know, you being so Ashtastic is so much of why it's gonna be so good."

Isabella then says, "I know right. You'd be so amazing!"

Trang asks, "How's your guitar practice going Angel?"

"I'm doing fine with it."

He bites a peanut butter celery stick.

Takis rest in Carlos's hand, Angel grabs one and thanks him.

"I'm also practicing guitar I wanna be in a band. I'll get so much YouTube and Spotify money! Everyone will like me and actually listen to me."

Isabella looks at him after he takes a bite of his sandwich.

"It's because we're kids. Like no one listens to us and it makes me mad too."

Her eyes look up with her hand on her chin, then looks at my brother, "You know how lucky you are to have a sister like Ashley? She's the best bestie ever!"

I feel so warm inside! "Thanks, you're the best bestie too!"

Carlos looks kinda sad. His head is down and he breaths out. "My uncle is fighting omnics. I mean why him?"

I then tell him, "I never got to know mine. He died when his work blew up."

Carlos's eyes widen like he's just seen three front handspring into a six times full, "Wasn't your uncle Gabriel Reyes?!"

I tell him, "Yeah and literally everyone says he was like such an amazing guy. My cousins always talk about him."

I take a bite out of my sandwich, my feet almost touching the ground but still dangling. "I can't wait to trick or treat!"

I take a bite out of my sandwich then Aliyah mentions, "I can't wait to trick or treat! My parents weren't allowed to you know."

Uh oh Isabella's smirking like she's going to get us all in trouble with her. She goes into her bag pulling out a roll of toilet paper, "We're going to TP houses...right?"

"That's not funny Izzie! I don't wanna make people mad and get in trouble!"

Abby then tells her. "That wouldn't be Izzietastic of you now would it?"

Angel then says after biting his rice sticks. "I just wish Jacob could trick or treat with us."

Jacob then says. "I really want to but my parents won't let me because it just isn't one of our holidays."

I then tell him. "Wahibah can't either in her country."

Lunch ends so we wait for school to end.