A New Shape-shifting Friend from the Future.

By Singing Dreamer

Chapter 1. A Mysterious New Citizen Living in the Forest

Hungary 1212 A.D.

It was a moonless summer night and eight year old vampire princess Sonja was riding on her horse into the town nearest to her home, Castle Corvinus. But when she got there she discovered that no one was around, and all the buildings were closed in every way with all the townsfolk inside.

Then she heard: "Psst, Sonja in here"

She turned and saw that it was her father Viktor urging her to come inside, which she did. and noticed that except for the light of a fire, everyone inside was scared and in the dark, except for a single slightly opened window.

"What's everyone doing in a dark, barricaded, and covered building tonight?" she asked.

Lucian, the young lycan who lived as a slave wearing a tightly locked collar with spikes pointing at his neck within her home as her father's "favorite pet", and training to be a blacksmith, stepped forward.

He answered with a scary kind of look on his face and his hands positioned like claws, "Along with this entire village, we're hiding from that wicked hooded figure out there, and waiting for her to leave before going back out again."

Sonja looked out the window and saw a hooded figure kicking at the ground, then the figure looked in her direction.

"Did you see her princess?" said one of the Death Dealers in a teasing sort of manner. "Did you see, Sadie?"

"Elijah!" shouted the head Death Dealer Solomon. "I've told you a hundred times never to say that name!"

"Well, I saw her glance this way." Sonja answered.

"Glance wickedly this way," corrected Tannis in a scared sort of tone.

"And then all of you just freak out for no good reason." continued Sonja.

"No good reason?" asked Viktor surprisingly. "You call protecting others even if you're ruthless no good reason? The moment Lucian saw Sadie walking into town, he was shaking in his collar, so I swept him up, we all warned the town, and everyone got inside just in time. Especially because of knowing Sadie was coming."

"She's mysterious." Lucian replied.

"Sinister." whispered Solomon.

"And spooooky." exclaimed Tannis.

With a scowl, Sonja turned to look out the window at Sadie, then everyone else crowded around her looking in the same direction. At that moment, the mysterious hooded figure known as Sadie, (whose back was in their direction,) took off her hood, making the crowd gasp at the sight of her. "Will please stop doing that?" asked Sonja expressing that she was annoyed.

"Sorry," said Lucian. "A lot of us just can't help it, she just looks so scary with or without that hood on. Many have known that she lives underground in a cavern in the forest, and they say that she designed things in it herself."

"That maybe because she came here sometime ago and is still trying to settle in a bit, or she's probably looking for something." suggested Sonja. "But I still don't understand why your all considering her mysterious, sinister, and spooky."

At that moment, a girl child villager stepped forward and explained:

"Rumor has it that she's the reason not many wild werewolves are attacking as much and can actually speak which we're grateful for, but a small pack of them still does and we're guessing that her 'magic', didn't have any effect on them. So we basically judge her as a werewolf charming sort of fraud. In fact many of us make so many different guesses about her, that no one can agree which one is the most possible."

Then suddenly, everyone in the room started arguing about all their guesses being the most possible, except for Sonja who was looking out the window just in time to see Sadie heading back to the forest. Since everyone was too busy bickering about their theories, Sonja was able to sneak out of the room quietly, climb back onto her horse, and follow secretly follow Sadie all the way back to the location of her cavern home. When she found the location she started back home where her father with relieving happiness greeted her.