I awoke to the screams of a child. I ran out of the room and outside to check what was going on. People were crowded around what I'm guessing was a dead body. I pushed through the people so I could get a look. Now I wish I hadn't, on the ground was a little girl, her hair was blond, but most of it was soaked in blood, her eyes were closed. But I could tell that they would have held the expression of fear. Her throat was torn to shreds, and her stomach was torn to reveal her intestines. But what was strange about this body is that nothing was missing, the wolf didn't eat her, just killed her. I bent down to the body and felt her skin. It wasn't ice cold, meaning that it was only dead for a little bit, maybe 2 hours at the most. Why would the wolf only kill her? Was it a warning?
I started to get up when I realized everyone was watching me. and not very kindly either. Talen was the one who spoke.
"It was her! Its her fault, the wolf hadn't hunted us for weeks till she came here! We must make a sacrifice of her!" he was pointing at me, shaking with rage. I looked around at the villagers and saw that they believed him. Oh shit.
"Talen, shut up. Get back to the hut. This girl is here to help us, if you know what is good for you, you will all be nice. Now let the family morn in peace!" I looked for the voice and saw The Old One. I smiled my thanks and walked out of the circle to see Talen glare as he went back to the hut. I decided that it wasn't a very good time to go in there and walked into the woods, I need to talk to wolf.
I leaned against a tree and started my breathing. In 1-2-3-4 out 1-2-3-4-5, in 1-2-3-4 out 1-2-3-4-5. I relaxed slowly, and was transported into my mind. I opened my eyes to see me, not by the lake, but in some barren forest, I looked around, not sure of where I was.
"Where the fuck is this?" I got up and started to look around. I walked towards something on the ground, at glance; it looked like a dead animal. But on a closer look I could see it was wolf, but it wasn't, the eyes were red, and the coat instead of being a dark grey almost black, was a light, light grey. She looked…. I don't know…evil.
"Wolf? Are you ok?" she looked up slowly and fixed her eyes upon me, not really recognizing me. Suddenly she drew back her lips revealing sharp teeth.
"Its your fault its all your fault! You did this to us!" she leapt up, her haunches up, teeth bared, I never knew Wolf to be like this, this cant be her.
"Wolf, please, don't do this, I don't know what you're talking about." I didn't want to hurt her, but more over I didn't want her to hurt me. I took off running. But she didn't fallow me. I ran till I found the clearing with the pond. I sat down on the rock and started to think. What was with Wolf? What was that place? What did I do wrong?
"Rain? What's wrong?" I looked around and saw wolf, but she was normal, just her. I jumped down and hugged her coat, on the bridge of tears. "Rain what happened?"
"It was awful, I came here because I wanted to talk to you, but I didn't come here, I went to this barren forest, you were there, but it wasn't you, it was awful, you told me it was my fault. What's going on?" I let go so I could look at her.
"We all have a bad side, so in your mind you can find your evil side, and ours too. I don't know why you just met mine now, but it probably had some reason that you'll find out soon enough. You'll have to ask Fox about that stuff, but why did you want to talk to me in the first place?"
"The village I'm staying at has a wolf that hunts these people, I think I'm supposed to free these people of this wolf. But I don't think this is a normal wolf, nor do I think this is a normal village. The people have a strange look and air around them that I cant really understand. And the wolf seems to be alone, only killing the villagers, but today there was a killing but that's it, it was just a killing, the wolf didn't feed on it, just killed it."
"That's probably a warning then, I think it knows you're there, and doesn't like you. As for the people, you need to find out more about them. But tonight I think you should take the form of a wolf and try and track down where it is exactly, but only that, don't meet it, don't communicate with it, nothing, just look. I don't think this is a normal wolf." She paused while giving my face a reassuring lick. "you must go now, don't waste any time. You can talk to Fox and Cat later, go, now. I must talk to them about our other halves." With that she ran off. And I came back to my senses.
Sighing and bit scared I stood up and looked around. Ok I should talk to these people first. I think the Old One might have some answers. I walked to her hut and went in. she was sitting on the rocker.
"Old One, I was wondering if you could answer some questions."
"I will only answer some, but you may ask."
"How did this village start off?"
"It was founded a long time ago, you're not asking the right questions dear." Ugh.
"When did this wolf appear?"
"A bit better, about 10 years ago."
"Did anyone ever see this wolf?"
"I did, it has black eyes all black with a silt of yellow going down each eye. The fur was an odd black yellow color." That seemed weird; it must have looked like her. Wait.
"What are you?" she smiled, revealing little sharp teeth.
"That my girl is the right question. Unfortunately, I'm not the wolf. But I come from a line of werewolves. Most of this village are werewolves, but we don't change, only one person does, and that's my son." A look of fear spread across her face as someone came through the door, "you should go now, ahh Talen, there you are, would you like something to eat dear?" I turned around to see Talen, he heard, I just know he did. I can't leave her alone, he'll kill her. Shit. His eyes met mine and I knew he was planning something.
"No mother, I'll eat later." He smirked at me when he said this and walked back out. I followed him out, and he turned around.
"What are you doing?"
"Um walking? Duh." I tried to go past him but he grabbed my arm. And whispered in my ear.
"I know what you're planning to do, but it would be a shame for mother dearest to die wouldn't it?"
"You think I care about one woman?" I hissed, I broke free and walked into the woods, waiting for night to shield me. So much for Wolf's advice, I can't just look tonight, tonight I have to act.