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Chapter 8 - Monster Pack Is On the Loose!

I didn't have any safe place to hide. I couldn't get away from the mob of angry villagers coming my way. I wanted to get out of the dark woods, before the mob took me and my two adoptive sons got lost even deeper in the shadowy night.

I grabbed hold of Mark and Valentino by their hands. And guided them through the rest of the way, father deeper into the woods. "Don't let them get away from us!" I heard an angry, older man leading the Monster Pack coming toward us in the dark woods. They carried their burning touches in their hands, holding them above their heads. To guide a path of light in front of them, in the dark.

Looking behind me, I saw the Monster Pack was farther behind us, coming after us. I quickly pushed Mark and Valentino through some shadowy trees in front of us. Their faces smacked against the side of the leaves.

Ducking our heads low behind the trees in the dark woods, Mark, Valentino, and myself turned and watched the leader of the Monster Pack hurry past our shadows. My two sons, and I quickly hid behind the trees. 

Grabbing a long, dead twig off the ground in the middle of the woods, behind the trees, I picked it up. Trying to make a distraction, to scare off the Monster Pack, we all three jumped behind the trees, we all hid behind. As a brown, hound dog saw Mark and Valentino's shadow in the path of moonlight, behind the two trees we three hid behind.

The hound dog started sniffing the ground at their shadows. I pulled Mark and Valentino away from the trees, behind us. Snapping the twig in my hands twice, the brown hound dog perked up his ears. As I tossed the broken twig in my hands, farther into the woods, the little guard dog quickly barked loudly. Getting the angry mob of villager's attention. 

Hearing the dog barking, the angry mob of Monster Pack quickly hurried in our direction. I grabbed hold of Mark and Valentino by their arms and hurried away from the darkness of the trees we each hid behind from.

I don't think they suspected we were trying to confuse them into tricking them. We were trying to get away from them. Holding on to my two son's arms, I headed them back into the middle of town, safely.

Moonlight appeared in the path of street pavement. "There they are! After them!" shouted the leader of the Monster Pack. We three each turned to look behind us. Gasping with fright, we turned and saw the leader and his men with their guard dog barking and yelling at us. Getting closer, I grabbed hold of Mark and Valentino by their hands. And we three each took off back into the town's neighborhood.

Suddenly, just as I was about to cross the side of the dark, empty wet street in the neighborhood, a yellow taxi cab came to a screeching halt in front of us. In the middle of the street we gathered next to.

Looking back at the shouting and crying Monster Pack after us, I told Mark and Valentino to quickly get into the back seat of the yellow taxi cab. They nodded and quickly obeyed me. Getting in the back seat of the taxi cab, I just told the taxi driver to drive. He peeled on the gas pedal, and sped off into the foggy, suddenly stormy night in our spooky little town.

I turned and looked out the side of the taxi cab window in the back seat I was in. I saw they had stopped at the edge of the empty street. As we watched the hound dog, barking at us, as the angry mob of villagers were not happy about our escape.

After the taxi cab had dropped Mark, Valentino, and myself at our house in Sparkle Town, the cab quickly took over after we climbed out of the back seats of the taxi cab. Looking around the houses of our other neighbors, all the houses seemed dark and quiet. Like everybody was still asleep.

I hurried up the front porch and grabbed the keys, Russell and I kept under a welcome door mat. I quickly opened the front door. The porch light suddenly flashed on, startling us. Just as I was about to open the doorknob, it quickly squeaked open.

Squinting to see us in the dim light, I saw it was my husband, Russell Changeling, peeking out the front door. "Emma? Sons? What's going on?" he asked, like he was waking up from a lazy nap.

Hearing the hound dog barking in our direction, I turned back to look at the dark, empty streets in our neighborhood. "Hurry, honey. Let us in," I explained. Pushing and shoving open the front door, I almost knocked my husband to the ground with a thud on the floor in the dark living room.

Mark and Valentino entered the front door, after I walked in, closing the front door and locking it. Looking out the front living room window, Mark and Valentino watched as the angry mob of villagers hurried past the empty neighborhood, holding their burning torches above their heads, and following after the barking hound dog.

I quickly turned Mark and Valentino away from the living room window. They walked over to my husband, Russell, who was lying on the carpeted floor, next to the couch in the living room. "Is everybody okay?" I asked my family, turning to look away from the window and looked at my scared and frightened little family.

I walked over to the couch in the living room and turned on a lamp light switch on a little brown table, my husband and two sons were sitting next to. "I don't think we have anything to worry about now, kids and love of my life," I said, honestly. 

But I don't think my family was paying attention. Because they kept listening to the eerie wolf howling nearby. I don't know where it was coming from. I suddenly realized there was a predator nearby. 

We all covered our ears to block out the wild creature from howling at the top of his lungs. That's when an animal covered in black fur suddenly came crashing through the living room window. It seemed the monsters hiding in the woods found us. 

Hiding behind the couch in the living room, we watched its scary looking shadow standing up behind us. It quickly saw us cowering behind the couch in our living room. Leaping over the furniture, the howling wild animal quickly grabbed hold of Mark and Valentino by their arms.

Looking at Russell and myself, the creature drooled angrily, his eyes were glowing yellow and trying to hypnotize us. Taking its hairy, clawed hand, the wolf animal quickly smacked us on the side of our faces!

Making us fly across the side of the wall, hitting the flatscreen TV wall behind. Knocking Russell and myself out, I watched drearily as the werewolf creature hurriedly snatched Mark and Valentino by their arms. And leaped out of the broken living room window, it came crashing into.

I didn't have any strength left in me. I collapsed onto the floor, next to my husband. We both passed out with a groan. 

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