Chapeuzinho Vermelho

Single Chapter (Eng version)

The wind ruffled the beautiful little girl's long hair as she ran past her grandmother's house. She was kind, and everyone in the village loved the sweet girl. However, no one loved her more than her grandmother. The lady who lived in the middle of the forest, a few kilometers from the village, did everything for her granddaughter, including filling her with gifts, such as the cape with the red hood that gave rise to her nickname among the locals and family, "Little Red Riding Hood.".

Every day, Little Red Riding Hood's mother spoke to her daughter before she left for her grandmother's house alone:

— Little Red Riding Hood, don't forget the basket with the snacks I made for your grandmother and you to eat. Go straight to her house in silence and never leave the path.

The little girl always obeyed her mother, never leaving the path and always passing it in silence so as not to attract the attention of strangers. She arrived safely at the lady's house and spent every morning with her.

On one of the mornings she spent with her grandmother, one of the bushes near the house was moving so much that it frightened the girl. Taking the courage to find out what was there, Little Red Riding Hood went through the leaves, and in the middle of the bush, trapped between the foliage and with a piece of wood stuck in its paw, a wolf cub was desperately trying to get free. Thinking quickly, she broke the branches around the animal and pulled it out with her little hands. Once they were out of the bushes, she carefully removed the wood from the little paw. The wolf's cries drew the attention of her grandmother, who ran to find out what had happened and helped her granddaughter clean the cub's wound and return it to the forest.

From that day on, every day that the little girl spent the morning at her grandmother's house, the wolf would appear and play with her as if she were a child. The animal seemed to understand every word the little girl said. Her grandmother watched everything from the window, fearing that the cub had a mother looking for him and would appear there and devour her granddaughter, but this had never happened. The cub seemed lonely, always coming and going alone in the forest.

A few years later, however, when the wolf appeared one morning, he managed to drag the little girl behind one of the trees and, what had been a wolf, became a girl of Little Red Riding Hood's age. Frightened but excited to have a new friend, she ran into her grandmother's house to get some clothes so that she could play with her. And so the two grew up together, meeting almost every morning. They played and knew every detail about each other.

A few weeks before her eighteenth birthday, Little Red Riding Hood still spent her mornings going to her grandmother's house, but unlike when she was a child, she now left the trail and spent a few hours in the forest with the she-wolf, who was no longer a cub either. The two of them would run through the woods to the corner they had named their own, near a stream where the noise of the water prevented them from hearing the surroundings, and the surroundings couldn't hear the two of them. Little Riding Hood liked to lie on top of the big she-wolf and feel the soft fur on her skin. It was like paradise for her.

Her mother hardly reminded her about the dangers or the trail anymore, but that particular morning, she had. She repeated the exact phrase she used to say every morning when she was younger, always emphasizing going straight to her grandmother's house. When she saw the transformed she-wolf sitting on two legs waiting for her, she couldn't help but laugh because she wasn't only leaving the trail. She was also meeting one of the most dangerous beings in the forest. When the two of them are at the stream, now both in human form, her she-wolf asks why she was laughing before, and when she explains, it's the two of them who are laughing. Lying next to each other, embracing, Little Red Riding Hood smiles.