《Shadows Drawing》


 The beginning

    The year was 3031 and it was a cold fall morning. Thale was in a white room in the Hospital performing Cataract Surgery on a woman who was about 60 years old. Thale normally didn¡¯t do surgery on adults he normally worked with kids. The only reason he was doing the surgery was because his coworker Adam had called out sick. Thale had been scared when he had been asked to do this surgery because he was seven foot and three inches. He was very tall for his age even if they were on the planet Saturn. Thale had come to Saturn five years ago. He had been one of the smartest people to get to go to Saturn. When people pass a test on Earth they can have the opportunity to join the rest of the people who made it to Saturn.


    Thale had a wife and two kids. His oldest kid was 14 years old and she was a pain. Her name was Lily. She had a younger brother named Theo who was Seven Years old. They would both be going back to school in the next few days. Lily would be going into High School and Theo would be going into second grade. Thale¡¯s wife was an athlete. She played Soccer. Her position on the soccer team was striker or forward as some people know it. Thale was 32 years old while his wife was 34 years old. The whole family had auburn hair and emerald green eyes.


    When Thale went on his lunch break after the surgery he was watching the news when he heard that there was a killing. When he looked at the picture of the woman that was just killed he realized that it was a woman of one of the kids he treated just a couple of days ago. The kid was only six years old and his father was in prison for who knows what at this point. The kid had no relatives and even if he did have any who would want to take him in when all that would happen when he was eight would be that he would be put into an arena and told to kill or be killed. This is how the government was killing off the weak they only wanted the strong to survive. The people of Saturn have been trying to stop this because once kids turn eight they might have to fight to the death if their name gets called. They stop having to worry about fighting to the death after they turn nineteen. When parents see that their kids most fight most of them lose hope that they will come back home.


    Thale already was scared every year because Lily was fourteen years old and so far her name hasn¡¯t been called to fight in the arena but that doesn¡¯t mean that in three days that she will not get called. Thale and others had already tried to talk to the mayor and see if he would stop making the kids fight in the arena every year on April 1st. Today was March 29th and Thale was wondering if this year his fear for Lily would come true or if he would be spared another year to the point where both Lily and Theo would have the chance to be called and fight in the Arena. The mayor said he wasn¡¯t going to stop the yearly event because it was a way of making the population stronger, not weaker. Thale didn¡¯t understand why the mayor was like this because everyone is strong just in their own way. Everyone in his opinion had their own strengths and weaknesses. Support the creativity of authors by visiting the original site for this novel and more.


    Three days later¡­ Thale stood in the middle of the town square with Lily waiting to see if she would get called. As the mayor stood up to remind them of why this was happening Lily was crying because she didn¡¯t want to fight because she knew that if she got called then she would most likely die in the arena. The mayor reminded them that they were doing this so that what happened to Earth didn¡¯t happen to Saturn. After he got done reminding them he called twenty-two names. Eleven boys and eleven girls. Thale was happy because twenty-one names had been called and there was no way that the last name to be called would be Lily but boy was he wrong. The mayor called the last name and when he did he said ¡° The last girl to fight in the arena will be Lily Athrood¡±  Thale stood there in pain as he watched his daughter walk away from him to go fight in the arena and possibly die. Before Thale could stop Theo he ran to his sister and said ¡°You can¡¯t go. You CAN¡¯T GO. YOU CAN¡¯T GO¡± Theo didn¡¯t want his sister to die. He wanted his sister to be able to be home and help him with his homework when he was stuck. He wanted to play soccer with his sister.


    Thale couldn¡¯t go to work just because his daughter was in an arena. He had kids to treat and in his spare time, he had a killer to find. More and more kids were ending up without parents because they were being killed. Thale already knew the killer wasn¡¯t human he had seen the bodies. The victims had their stomachs ripped out and they had to bleed to death in pain while being killed for no reason.  Thale was pretty sure the monster was a werewolf and all he had to do was find the proof that said it was and find how to kill it.


    Thale was hoping he could stop the killings and see his daughter again but things didn¡¯t tend to happen like that. He hoped that if he had to choose one then he would rather die from the monster if that meant he got to see his daughter again. Thale was watching his daughter fight when he could. He would stay up late at night just to find out how to kill a werewolf. One week after April 1st Thale finally got the proof that he was looking for to be able to confirm the werewolf theory. Thale also found a way to kill the werewolf. The way he found to kill the wolf was with Wolfsbane. Thale already knew who the wolf was. It was a man named Osric and he was killing the parents of children because he had lost his child to a gunshot wound a month ago.