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Blood Moon
Chapter two
"Who thought they saw the man?" Sam asked.
"Oh that was Billy Ryder, but Billy drinks a lot and no one paid much attention to him. He spends most of his nights hanging out at the local bars."
The waitress then took their order and walked back to the kitchen.
Later at their motel
Sam sat on the bed with a telephone book in front of him writing down the addresses of the three men the waitress had mentioned.
"What do you say we head out to the bars and see if we can track down this Billy Ryder?" Dean asked.
"Might as well, we got to start somewhere."
Local bar
There were only two bars in the small town. The first bar yielded nothing, but the second bar hit pay dirt. The bar tender pointed out Billy Ryder who was sitting by himself in a corner.
They walked over and stood at his table.
"Hi." Dean said smiling.
The man looked up at them but said nothing.
"I'm Dean and this is my partner Sam, we're reporters with the Bedford Gazette." They both flashed their fake IDs "Mind if we sit down?"
The man waved his hand toward the chairs offering them a seat.
"We're writing a report on the recent dog attacks in town and we heard you arrived shortly after one of the attacks and were in on the search for the dogs." Sam said leaning forward in his seat.
"Yeah, I was there. But what I saw wasn't a dog." The man said as he took a swallow of his beer.
Sam glanced at Dean.
"What is it you saw?"
"You boys aren't going to believe me anymore then the people in town believed me."
"Try us."
"It wasn't a dog, it was a man…Well, not really a man, but it resembled a man."
"What do you mean?"
"I was in the woods right after the murder occurred and I heard this horrible growling noise behind me and I turned around and…." The man hesitated.
"Go on."
"I saw this….this thing….It looked half human, half animal… It was horrible."
"What happened?"
"I shot at it….I think I might have hit it in its hand."
"And?"
"Well it yelped in pain then ran off into the woods. I wasn't about to go after it…not after what I saw."
"No one else saw it?" Dean asked.
"Nope…..I'll admit it, I like my booze, but I wasn't drunk, I know what I saw."
"This ….this thing….What did it have on? What was it wearing?" Sam asked.
"It looked like work clothes to me, you know those one piece outfits mechanics wear, but they were ripped to shreds and…and covered in blood." The man looked back and forth between them. "You think I'm nuts don't you?"
"No Mr. Ryder, we don't think you're nuts."
Later in the car
"What do you think?" Sam asked.
"Well it certainly sounds like it could be a werewolf…or a shape shifter. But I'm leaning more toward werewolf since according to the computer all the attacks occurred during a full moon."
"The moon will be full the day after tomorrow."
"Ryder said he thinks he hit the thing in the hand." Dean looked at Sam. "I say we pay Mr.Walton and Mr. Barnet a little visit and see if either has any kind of injury to their hand."
TBC