Scaredy Cat Kook

It was incredibly dark that night, the light from the moon was blocked out by the thick rain clouds, the thunder crashed and the lightning flashed, pretty appropriate for a halloween night. Kook stood by the window looking out to the darkness, the rain falling inches from his face.

"I wish that this rain would stop." he said sighing. "I need to get out, stretch my wings."

"Stop moaning Kook." Skabb replied. "Just come and sit down, watch some TV."

Kook sighed again, and slowly moved away from the window. With his hands in his pockets, he sat down on the sofa next to Gildar, as Skabb pressed the button on the remote to turn the TV on, there was a loud bang and everything went dark.

"AGH!" Kook screamed. The electric had gone off.

"Kook, get off me." said Gildar in the darkness.

Kook then realised, in shock, he'd jumped up onto Gildar's back, he quickly jumped down.

"Sorry Gildar, I was just a bit startled." he said landing on the floor.

"Or were you scared?" Ballista asked.

"What? No, no no no."

"So what are we going to do until the power comes back on?" Thorne asked.

"I know. We'll tell scary stories." Skabb suggested.

"Erm..." Kook started. "Are you sure that you wanted to do that? I mean, I don't want any of you guys to get scared."

"Or is it you who's going to get scared?"

"No, no I don't scare that easily."

Everyone gathered in a circle and shared the scariest stories they could think of, Kook sat in silence with his knees brought up close to his chest, there had been stories about vampires, monsters and zombies, from Gildar, Shaiden and Skabb, soon it was Ballista's turn.

"It was cold and dark in the woods. They walked further and watched as everything got darker and colder around them, What they didn't know was that they were being watched. There was something by the trees, hidden in the shadows, that creature...A WEREWOLF!" Kook jumped as she raised her voice. "They started to pick up speed, soon they were running for their lives, but they were too slow, and those two poor sould were never seen ever, ever again."

There was silence when she stopped talking.

"Are you okay Kook?" Gildar asked.

"Oh, erm...yeah." Kook replied, his voice slightly shaking. "I'm just a bit cold."

The room suddenly got a lot darker as the fire slowly started to die down, and the firewood was pretty much used up.

"Kookaburra, would you be a dear and go and get some more firewood, we seem to have run out." Knightriss asked.

Kook froze. "What? You mean...out there? In the cold?"

"Yeah, unless your scared." said Ballista.

"No, there's nothing out there that would scare me."

"Go on then."

"Okay, fine. I will."

Kook slowly stood up and walked out of the castle, as he was walking towards the doors, Ballista's story was still ringing in his ears. As he slowly approached the front doors, his hands started to shake as he grabbed the door handle.

"Come on Kook, there's nothing to be scared of." He said to himself. "There's no such thing as werewolves, it was just a story. There's nothing out there."

The sounds of the night filled the corridor as he opened the doors, which was pretty much nothing, the rain had stopped and the wind had died down, but apart from that...not a sound. Kook gulped and looked around the surrounding area for danger.

"Come on Kook, there's nothing to be worried about." he thought. "On the count of three, just run for it. One...two...three!"

Kook ran, he ran faster than he'd ever ran before, he didn't stop until he was deep in the woods, he looked around him, to check for any danger. When we was convinced that he was completely safe, he returned to the task he was given, there was plenty of firewood around, he'd have collected enough in no time, which pleased Kook very much.

As Kook turned around and was about to walk back to the castle, he heard a twig snap loudly from behind him, he spun around instantly.

"Who's there?" he asked. There was no reply. "Gildar, is this you? If it is stop it, it's not funny and I know what funny is, this isn't it."

A wolf howled in the distance and Kook could take it no longer, with the firewood still in his arms, he ran back to the castle, as fast as he could and not looking back, if he was being followed by something, he didn't want to know what it was.

When Kook was safe inside the castle walls, he could relax, he'd made it, if there was something out there, he'd survived it. Kook leaned back against the doors to catch his breath.

"You okay Kook?" Shaiden asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Kook replied, his voice slightly shaking.

"Did you get the firewood?"

"Yep."

As he handed the wood over to Shaiden, his hands started to tremble violently.

"You look really pale, are you sure that you're alright?"

"Yeah, I told you, I'm fine."

"You were scared weren't you?"

"No."

"You were. Come on Kook, tell the truth."

"Alright, fine. I was scared, alright?"

"You should have told us."

"You would've just laughed."

"No we wouldn't."

"Wouldn't you?"

"No, we're your friends. We wouldn't laugh at that."

"I'm not normally scared at stuff like this. It's becuase of that story Ballista told."

"But that was a story, there's no such thing as werewolves."

"Yeah true. I mean what's out there that could hurt me?"