Lone Wolf

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Maddy Smith a seemingly normal 14 year old schoolgirl, is inside her house watching the closing credits of a movie when she hears strange noises outside pausing the movie. Maddy goes to the backyard and finds two large timber wolves with bright yellow eyes rummaging through the trash and garbage. The wolves are in fact her wolfblood (humans that turn in to wolves) parents who have transformed due to the full moon that night and have escaped the cellar that they are kept in when they wolf out. Maddy is not old enough yet to transform, but she does have the ability to communicate and calm down other wolfbloods (her eyes turn yellow during this process) so she uses this to convince the wolf to go back in to the cellar for the night until the moon is gone and her parents turn in to humans. Her mother (still a wolf) however tries to leap out of the cellar once more, but Maddy retaliates by hitting her on the nose with a shoe. The next morning with her parents back in their human forms, Maddy is getting ready for yet another day at school. Emma (Maddy's mother) scolds Maddy for hitting her on the nose with a shoe the previous full moon evening, and it is then that Maddy realizes her good shoes have been all chewed up by her wolfed out parents from the night before, meaning that she has no shoes for school. Maddy arrives at school later being teased severely due to the fact that she is wearing big ugly green rainboots, she meets up with her friends Tom and Shannon (who along with everyone else know nothing of the wolfblood secret) Shannon is becoming increasingly obsessed with something she calls beast of the moors, and spends virtually all her free time searching for the evidence of his beast. In the hall by their lockers Shannon notices that the sign up sheet for the Photography Club (which she, Maddy and Tom are the only members of) is completely filled. She is ecstatic because they have been constantly searching for the new recruits. Mrs Jeffries a teacher walks over, and on closer inspection it is revealed that all the names on the sign up sheet are made up, such as Bum Head and Incredible Hulk, Mr Jeffries accuses the three of them for making the photography club up just so that they could use the photography room as their own personal den during school hours and informs them that he will shut the club down if they do not gain three new members by the next morning. After the confrontation Maddy smells something suspicious, but chooses to dismiss it after the scent leads to a dead end. During class Mr Jeffries announces that there is a new student named Rhydian Morris. The 3 Ks a group of three popular girls whose names all began with the letter K instantly develop a crush on him, while the school bully Jimi and his friends make fun of his Welsh name even through Rhydian himself is not from Wales. Maddy realizes the odd scent is coming from him, a scent which reminds of her parents. Without meaning to she blurts out you small like my parents which everyone laugh at her for. She realizes that the reason he small like her parents is because he is a wolfblood too and her sensitive nose was able to pick up on this. After class Maddy confronts Rhydian in the halls, and accuses his family of invading her family's wolfblood territory. Rhydian has no idea what is talking about, as he has ever heard the word wolfblood before much less heard any rules about territory and ridicules her for being a crazy and smelly girl. During lunch Rhydian sits alone and is sketching when The 3 Ks approach him and sit at his table, although he says he would rather be alone. Realizing that he can not get rid them and the only way to entertain him is to talk, he asks The 3 Ks about Maddy who is sitting with Tom and Shannon at the next table. They tell him not to even bother his time with her as her and her friends are much to weird. In the darkroom (the photography room) Maddy, Shannon and Tom are all taking a break when Shannon says she as an idea on how to recruit new members. She shows them a poster outside in the hall for the badger watching club and she says that a good way to get new members would be to lend a camera watching, making them want to join the club for the cameras The three of them agree to meet up after school to go with the badger watchers. Meanwhile Rhydian opens his locker and a large leek tumbles out, Jimi and his friends who have planted the leek inside his locker, tease him and ask if the leek is his Welsh lunch Rhydian angrily replies that he is not Welsh and his fury he throws the leek at Jimi's back. Jimi turns around and is about to hit Rhydian when Rhydian leaps on Jimi pinning him to the ground, Maddy watching on from the side sees that Rhydian's veins are turning darker, a telltale sign that he is about to transform in to a wolf and quickly bundles him up in the photography room, where he apologizes quickly before he transforms. As a wolf he rans along the darkroom, destroying equipment and photos, until Maddy using her wolfblood powers is finally able to calm him down. He t back in to a human and a states that she is just like him (a wolfblood) in a mildly happy tone, as he is glad he is not the only one, Maddy shoots back that they are nothing a like as she does not wolf out every time she gets angry and how they will never be remotely similar. Tom and Shannon enter the dark toom and askes what happened, but before Maddy can reply Rhydian storms out angered by Maddy's harsh remark. After school Tom, Shannon and Maddy head over to a small shop called Bernie's to rest before heading out with the badger watchers. It is there that Bernie tell Maddy that Rhydian is a foster child, and as no family Maddy realizes that Rhydian's family was not trying to invade the Smith's territory, as Rhydian does not even have a family. Thinking over the mistakes she makes Maddy leaves the shop in a hurry to search for Rhydian while badger watching are getting set up with cameras the Photography Club (just Shannon and Tom as Maddy left Bernie's in a rush) have lent them, Maddy finally finds Rhydian. He tells her that she doesn't have to worry about him anymore because he is leaving Stonebridge for good. Maddy tries to convince him otherwise, But Rhydian says that she she'll just try to take his wolf powers away from him and that his wolfblood powers are the only good thing that ever has happened to him. Maddy replies that she won't but Rhydian unsure of this, runs off using his increased wolfblood speed, Maddy resigned chases after him elsewhere the badger watchers are watchers are waiting for the badgers, while Shannon and Tom are worried about why Maddy is so late. Maddy chases Rhydian through the woods and somewhere along the way, the chase starts turning more playful  with him intentionally taunting her by climbing up trees and then whistling down to her. Maddy finally catches up to him, throwing them both off balance as the two of them go tumbling down the hill that the badger watches are coincidentally station at. The badger watchers all leave and none join the photography, as Maddy and Rhydian have probably  scared off every badge with miles. Afterwards Rhydian is sitting with Maddy, Tom and Shannon at a table  in Bernie's, deciding that he is not going to leave Stoneybridge just yet The 3 Ks approach the four of them and offer a deal, if the photography club takes professional photos of The 3 Ks for their portfolios then they will join the Photography Club so that Mr Jeffries does not shut it down. Maddy accepts and to have a bit of fun with it, she spits in her hand and offers a handshake to seal the deal Maddy and Rhydian are walking home from Bernie's and Rhydian tells her that he's glad there are other people like him, as he thought he was the only werewolf. Maddy corrects him saying that they are wolfblood, not monster werewolves like folktales make them to be, she says that he has a lot to learn about being a wolfblood and asks him what they will do the next time he loses his temper, Rhydian replies that it would be an interesting day for them all before walking off,

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