Chapter 2: Sonja's Daring Ride

The next evening, Sonja woke up before anyone else, got dressed, had a quick cup of blood for both herself and her horse, tacked her horse up, and rode into the forest. Sonja knew the old saying that said to never judge a book by its cover, so she decided to ask Sadie what she was doing or looking for in the village yesterday, and try and straighten things out. She rode into the clearing that she saw Sadie go underground, and inside Sadie was watching from her many machines that she designed and/or bought from her old home with her magical abilities. Sadie had used her machinery to open an entrance which was convenient at the sight of it for Sonja, and safe enough in which her horse could walk through as well. When she walked in completely, she found herself in a very roomy stable for her horse, and Sadie was right there to actually greet her. Sonja was nervous, and Sadie was too, but when the princess struggled into taking the tack off her horse, Sadie shyly but bravely came forward, helped out, and showed her where to put the tack for later.

"Thank you Sadie." Sonja replied.

"Any time," Sadie commented. "Yet I would like to know your name and what your doing here, in a good way of course, and I do of course know about the vampires as well as the different kinds of werewolves in these lands."

"My name is Sonja," said Sonja. "Daughter of Viktor, king of the vampires, and I came here upon wondering, can you tell me your purpose of being in the village yesterday?"

"Sure I can," answered Sadie. "I wanted to ask someone if he or she knew where in these lands are the best known waters for fishing, so that I know where to get more food for the four dolphins I've got downstairs."

"You have dolphins!" asked Sonja in an astonished tone.

"I sure do." Sadie replied proudly.

"I also have other questions in which the citizens of these lands say things about you," added Sonja.

"Follow me," Sadie requested. "And then I'll see what questions I can answer."

Sadie led Sonja through tunnels and passageways, all the way to the swing-bench on the rooftop where the view was the most spectacular sight Sonja had ever seen, and she thought the swing-bench was very comfortable.

"My first question would be," Sonja began. "Are you really the reason wild werewolves aren't attacking as much?"

"I actually am," answered Sadie. "And I could explain the real reason why a small pack of them still do, if you'll let me, of course it's a long story."

"I'm listening," Sonja replied.

"My story begins in the year 2011," Sadie began. "Where in a town called Gardiner, a girl not even 17 years old, discovers she has gained many unusual but magical abilities like shape-shifting into other animals, talking to animals, even controlling the forces of nature along with making objects do what she wants them to in naming a few. That girl is of course me, and yes I'm from the future."

Sonja was speechless the moment she heard these words, and thought to herself, the mysterious hooded figure known as Sadie, from the future, that's amazing!

"The only people I told about my powers," Sadie continued. "Were all the members of my family, and the friends I had who were closest to me, as long as they helped me keep my powers a secret and they did. It was when a sideshow came to town that soon changed my life; one of those involved with it saw me using one of my powers, saw me with my parents and talked with us about me joining the sideshow because of my abilities, but we refused. But then we had a bigger problem: the sideshow performers wouldn't accept or respect our answer, and then they pestered us with the same question for weeks, which was then my parents decided enough was enough. They decided that the only way to relieve us from the question being said so many times, was for me to be put in what we in the future know as foster homes. It was then that I discovered the sideshow had signed up to adopt me, and I didn't want to let that happen, so before that big day, I used my storage abilities to keep my things away for later.

"Then I ran away to somewhere even if in another part of time, I could use my powers in which no one would give me up because of such a pestering request of wanting me to join them for my abilities. I found these lands and looked throughout them to find where to make myself at home, when I found this clearing, and decided to move in underground along with using my magic, putting in and designing it with everything I could ever have in it the way I liked. I designed every room up and down, and chose what to put in it and what to consider it along with equipping the entire cavern with every known machinery of the future for both work and play. Even cast a spell on this area of the forest to protect it from any kind of natural disaster you can think of such as fires or floods."

Sadie paused for a moment to rest a bit, then Sonja said, "That's the saddest story I've ever heard, especially being forced to leave your family."

"Yes," Sadie replied. "And as promised, I'm about to get to the real reason about only a small pack of wild werewolves attacking." Sonja who had listened and waited patiently, heard out the rest of Sadie's story.

"I had heard tell about the werewolves," she continued. "So I thought it was time that I used my werewolf charming ability. I started with Vertrand, the leader of the pack, because the leader is the one who affects the others through the charming of the golden locket I give a werewolf and singing to them to convince them to resist the urge to kill.

"When Vertrand could speak and control himself again, he and the others all excepted my offering at teaching them to like the food humans usually eat, and expressing my wisdom through means of peace with what they used to be. All but one of them along with the friends most loyal to him listened to the education I provided them with, his name was Sozin. He and his allies continued on with terrorizing the local humans by killing and attacking them, feeding on and turning them, and yet killing their livestock.

"When Sozin's actions were learned of, he and his friends were banished from the pack, he vowed revenge on me, and along with his friends, they've been on the prowl of terrorizing anyone they came upon ever since then."