The Moon Will Fall (Moonlight 2)

Chapter 5-Where The Lines Overlap

By the time Monday morning had come around, I'd moved to Michael's place for the week. There was an air of nervousness as we entered the almost empty school grounds. Michael beside me let out a yawn, and I could see Ashton waiting at the table. I don't think I'd ever been to school so early before, it was unearthly quiet. If I closed my eyes I could just picture myself running through the trees. It was that peaceful.

The bond had been down this morning, so Calum had messaged us to say that he had found something and to be at school early. It was hard to tell from the message but both Michael and I were curious as to what Calum wanted us here for. I hoped that getting here so early was worth it. I frowned though, Calum was nowhere to be found.

"Is Cal here yet?" Michael questioned Ashton, as we joined him at the table.

Ashton shook his head, "No, but hopefully he's on his way."

We waited for a few more minutes, I was beginning to grow worried. Where was he? Michael and I had been concerned that we were running late, but perhaps not.

Just as the three of us began to speculate his whereabouts, suddenly Calum came bounding down the steps at an inhumanly fast speed. With a frown, I looked around to make sure that no one was watching.

"I've got something." Calum declares as he joins us at the table. He quickly pulls out two pieces of paper putting them before the three of us. I noticed that one was the original sketch we had done from the dirt, the other was a chart with all sorts of strange symbols. I frowned, he did have something but I couldn't understand any of it. I looked back up at him in confusion. Michael beside me raised an eyebrow and Ashton was staring at it intently as if trying to work it out.

"These are symbols that I found on the internet," Calum grinned, when none of us spoke. "They're called runes, I think." We continued to stare at him, causing Calum to let out a sigh, "Anyway, these symbols seem to match up with those listed on here."

Michael frowned, "Come on, are we really up to trusting the internet?"

I frowned, Michael was right. Calum had even been the one to say that we couldn't trust the internet. I nodded, shooting a worried look at Calum. Even Ashton looked a little concerned.

"You don't get it." Calum frowned, "Let me explain."

He smoothed out the pieces of paper, pushing them closer to us. The three of us crowded around it. I looked over the printed page closer, the series of shapes, dots and dashes, beside each symbol were words like chaos, heat and harmony. I frowned I wasn't seeing how these could help us. One glance at both Ashton and Michael and their bemused expressions told me that they were feeling the same way.

"We've been looking at the whole picture, but I think we just needed to break it up." Calum explains before pointing to the upside-down triangle on the bottom and a similar symbol on the sheet. "See here, the triangle on the bottom matches up with the word beast."

"Beast? See I knew it was a werewolf!" Michael declares, standing up in excitement. I notice a few people who have just arrived from the table near us raise eyebrows. Michael bites his lip quickly sitting back down. The three of us glare at him, we didn't need anyone getting suspicious of us.

"And if I break the picture up, I think this symbol here means moon." Calum says matching it up with the chart.

"Exactly, my point beast, moon; it's a werewolf, isn't it?" Michael declared.

I couldn't help but agree, with symbols that represented moon and beast. A werewolf was looking likely. There were more than two symbols though so they could point to something else.