Scary Stories For Kids – Werewolf
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And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolf-bane blooms, And the autumn moon is bright.”  “BEWARE!!! DANGER!!!” So read the sign next to the open gate of a park which you walk by everyday on your way home. Odd that you had never noticed that sign there before. What could possibly be so dangerous in such a peaceful neighborhood? Unknown to you, just beyond the gate and around a corner of the park wall, a shadow lies waiting for just the right moment to pounce on an unsuspecting passerby. Are you ready for it? Are you sure? You have been warned. Then proceed at your own risk. This is Halloween night and you are on your way home after a very successful night of Trick-or-Treating. Your friends have long departed to their respective houses to eat their bags of goodies while you walk the rest of the way home all alone. You reach the gate of this park only blocks from your house. Rusted and creaking the gate leading into the park blows open beckoning that someone enter for a stroll down its dark paths. Why not? It’s a nice moonlit night and you have time to kill. (But will “time” be all there is to kill tonight or does someone or someTHING have some other type of killing in mind?)
Summer is over, but the cold frost of winter is yet to arrive. The night air is heavy with the promise of things to come. A stray autumn breeze gently stirs the leaves of trees nearby. The path you walk on leads you towards a wall with gently swaying trees behind it. You turn a corner of the wall for a better view, as if drawn like a magnet towards the gentle stirrings of the leaves above. As you stand there beneath the trees, you hear their branches rustling above you. As you look up, you see a canopy of dark leafy arms which seem to want to come down and embrace you. (Will its embrace protect you from harm or perhaps keep you from escaping?) The branches wave to you in the night air as they try to warn you of danger, and you catch a glimpse of the full moon as it seems to peek through the leaves for a better look at what may be sneaking up behind you. Slowly, almost like from a dream, a throaty growl rises up from the ground. Was that your stomach growling? Of course not. The growl did not come from within you but from BEHIND you. Disbelieving, you turn quickly to meet a dark furry shadow as it leaps at you. The slash of long canine teeth and hot foul breath of the creature squelches your scream before it leaves your throat. There isn’t enough time to react. Fighting or running is out of the question for the force of the attack throws you backwards onto the moist leafy ground. The weight of the furry shadow pins you down as it starts to feed. As you lay there limp and powerless with the creature lapping up your life’s blood, you see the full moon retreat behind the tree branches not wanting to bear witness to this scene. Slowly, your vision fades. You see only darkness and feel the awful stillness broken by a long mournful howl.
This Halloween night, in the dark, around the corner of a park wall located beneath the trees, a growling shadow awaits another who may be fool enough to pass through the park’s open gate. You were warned. Gotcha! |
