Little Red Ridinghood

Chapter 2

"Show time...." He smirked, baring his ivory fangs with ease.

He hopped out of some bushes behind Little Red which startles the tiny girl.

The wolf approaches her slowly which was a paw step or two away since he was nearly as big as a truck. The little girl, petrified with fear, stood frozen in place, looking at the big, strange, scary wolf that everyone has been talking about for decades.

"Hello, Little Red...." The wolf greeted her sweetly as he sat in front of her. "Lovely day, isn't it?" He asked, carrying on a conversation to hopefully get what he wanted out of his pray.

"I-I'm not supposed to talk to strangers... Especially wolfs...." Little Red whimpered as she began to back up a couple of tiny steps away from the big, black wolf blocking her path.

The wolf frowned and laid down in front of her in submission. "We aren't strangers..... I know you, Little Red." He said softy. "My name is Ace and I live in these woods. I help everyone that lives with me. I help the squirrels collect nuts, rabbits dig holes, beavers collect wood, and bears find food and in return, they give me food and help me." He lied through his teeth with ease. "There.... Now we aren't strangers." He said smiling once more at the sweet little thing.

Little Red seemed to relax some at his introduction. "Oh... Alright. Hello Ace." She mumbled.

'Foolish child with your naïve ways....' He thought as he sat up. "So..... What are you doing on a chilly day like this?" asked Ace. "Shouldn't you be curled up in bed, sleeping the day away?"

Little Red shook her head. "No. I'm bringing food to my grandmother. She is terribly ill and in poor health so to avoid her from getting sicker, I bring food to her." Little Red said, sounding so proud of herself.

"Silly, actually..." Ace started. "... Letting a girl of the age of three-"

"I'm actually nine." She corrected quickly.

"Whatever... -go off into the forest by herself. It's just murder. Did you know there's monsters out here? Hunters that shoot everything in sight...." He growled to her. "Look at what they did to me." He said as he turned and showed his right thigh to the little girl. There, on this thigh, was a large healed but scarred slash that fur refused to grow in. "They hurt anything and everything." He finished.

She gasped in fear and huddled closer to the large wolf since he, now, wasn't the, supposedly, scariest thing out there. "Oh no!" She shrieked, looking up at him with her big round bright blue eyes.

She reminded him of someone from his past. Someone he killed. He shook off the thought quickly for he didn't want his thoughts to jeopardize his mission now.

Ace refused the urge to flinch away and snap at her but instead, he wrapped his tail around her protectively. "Don't worry, my dear... I'll keep you safe from the monsters." He whisper and pressed his cold nose to the little girls arm.

"Are you sick? Your nose is cold." She said as she pulled away from him. "Here.... Take a loaf of bread. Grandma never finishes the bread I give her." She dug into her basket and held out a large loaf of bread with both of her small hands. "Here you go, Ace."

Ace suppressed the need to roll his eyes at the dumb statement of his nose being cold for it was always cold. It was supposed to be cold. If it was anything BUT cold, then there would be a problem with him. When Little Red took out the food, he glance at the warm soft freshly baked bread. His stomach growled and he had to resists the urge to rip it away for her along with her arms. He leaned forward and took it from her gently and began to eat it, bite by bite instead of ripping it ravenously like the wild animal he was.

"Thank you, Little Red. Your kindness is very much appreciated." Ace said after he finished eating the loaf, now licking his jaws clean. "For you kindness that you showed towards me, I shall scout ahead and make sure your path is clear of monsters and I'll meet you at Grandmas house so you are safe and sound, alright?" He said, sounding hopeful.

Little Red nodded eagerly. "Yes!" She shouted.

Ace turned and began to walk away before he made a little 'Tsk' with his tongue, loud enough so she could hear. "I just remembered...." He frowned, making it look realistic and like he actually meant it. "I don't know the way to grandmas house..." He whined.

"I can tell you!" Little Red chirped. "You take the main road then you take a hard-left at a fork in the road and you continue. You'll come to another split road, take a left and a you'll reach grandmas house!" She explained to Ace with another disgustingly sweet smile on her face.

"Alright! I'll go ahead and make sure no monsters are in the forest on your way to grandam's house." Ace said with a soft smile before he turned back around. "See you soon, Little Red." He said before he ran off down the dirt road in the direction Little Red told him to go.

Within a couple of minutes, which would be ten to fifteen to a person, he was at the fork and just like Little Red said, he took a hard left and continued down the road. After a couple more minutes, he came to a split in the road which he took another left without stopping.

Within no time, he came to a cozy little cottage deep within the woods. It was a dark brown with a white door and a semi-light green roof and a classic red brick chimney. It's shutters were a light blue and it even had a white picket fence that outlined a well-kempt lawn.

"How sweet..." Ace growled as he stepped over the white fence and onto the well embedded slabs of rock in the dirt that made a path up to the front door.

He glanced around in a shady manner before he swung his tail around and tapped the door with it twice, knocking. There, he bent down in front of the door in a hunting position, getting ready to lung forward once those doors opened.