Author's note: I posted this story some time ago (I actually started wrote the prologue when I was 15, that was 4 years ago) but I had to take it down because a) I couldn't make any progress aside from a few cringe chapter drafts b) the plot is there, but I somehow couldn't tie it up together c) my life is a mess.

This was based off a fairytale, one that is very close to my heart. Now I won't name it, but after I watched that certain tale's live action and left the cinema with a black hole where my satisfaction was, I decided to put time and effort into this story again. I simply cannot not do it.

So anyway, welcome to a "new story" by yours truly. I dedicate this to broken dreams, sleepless nights and to that tiny piece in our hearts that'll remain a child forever.

Disclaimer: Cardcaptor Sakura does not belong to me in any form.

This story is a work of fiction, anything similar or bear any likeness to a person, a place or an even is purely coincidental.


In the towering woods surrounding a small village, a certain creature stalked, protecting the villagers from invaders and providing them rich harvests. Yet his services does not come free. Every decade, a maiden is sent into the woods as offering to the unseen creature. Her blood will satisfy the creature's never ending hunger and she will never be seen again...

Sakura's only dream was to escape the confining space of the village she grew up in. She wished to step out of the shelter of the tall trees she'd known since birth. She almost did it too, had the creature who'd been slumbering near their village not awakened and demanded a human sacrifice.

Suddenly, she found herself dressed in the intricate cloths she'd woven herself and tossed into the woods with nothing but a torch in her hand to guide her path. Then, she was staring into the most terrifying pair golden eyes she'd ever seen…