THE WOLF'S DEN

Chapter 2

I woke up early the next day and walked over to my window to see Michael already up and replanting the seed for next years harvest my father stood over him and watched him work, that must be his punishment I decided to watch for awhile until I heard nocking on my door and and the handle being pulled open my brother Alex's head peek in and scanned the room for me, once he saw me by the window he cleared his throat and said "mother said to get ready you are going into town with her since I have to do chores and Michael and Kain are busy" he shut the door and walked away I was Literally bouncing of the walls with joy I have waited for ages for an excuse to go into town. I need to get the boys into trouble more often, I was searching for something to wear in my closet and came across my emerald green gown with gold embroidery along the bottom the gown was quite thin so I reach for the red hood my Grandmother made for me before she died three years ago It was my favourite thing to wear and I never took it off I even slept in it so my family started to call me little red or red riding hood, I pulled on a pair of green slippers and headed down to the stables were my mother was saddening up her horse an old mare that she raised from a filly and trained, I was gifted a black Arabian for my birthday five years ago and I have formed a very close bond wither her I walked over to Majesty's stall and softly stroked her face she nuzzled her snout into my shoulder and snorted I giggled and unhooked the latch to her stall and lead her out by her bridal over to the post were my brother Kain began to brush her down for me and saddled her up, I normally brushed her but I didn't want to be covered in horse hair, once she was saddled and ready to go I stood on a stool and mounted her side saddle, Kane handed me a basket my mother and I had woven the previous summer I had spent hours decorating it by treading red ribbon through it making it more sturdy but mainly prettier, I lead Majesty out of the stables and over to my mother who was mounted on her grey mare with her ocean blue shawl my father gave her for their anniversary I halted when I was next to my mother and waited till they finished talking, My father walked around to me and handed me a small pouch of coins and said "here little red go and buy something nice for yourself" he smiled up to me I leaned down and kissed his forehead "thank you daddy" I sat strait and followed my mother in a slow trot down the dirt path leading to town. we rode for about fifteen minutes though a big grassy felid what had wild flowers and white butterfly's flying around as we got closer over the hill I saw the tops of the buildings and houses of the town all surrounded by the great wall my grandfather helped build along with a few other men during his younger years those were the darker days when the wolf attacked regularly and lots of young girls went missing even my Grandmother best friend went missing when she was bathing down by the stream they never found her body, as we got closer to the town's entrance I noticed a few guards with silver tipped spears and bow's and arrows lined up along the top of the wall, A small hatch opened in the gate and an older man stepped out and said "state your name and purpose for entering the town of Ravens Wood?" he was an elderly man around my grandfathers age if he was still alive my mother spoke up and said "we are ladies of the Red household and we come to shop" she didn't sound nervous or anything she sounded board like she's done it 100's of times he nodded and the metal gate started to squeak as it lifted to allow us entry we rode into the town and I was mesmerised the place was exactly like I remember it the bakery and the florist the dress shop and the black-smith their were long lines of stalls lining the streets and lots of people yelling about things for sale and the yelling of people bartering for something, it all amazed me we rode down the centre of town and a few of the young men tapped on their buddies shoulder and pointed to me and talked among themselves it was quiet unnerving and made me fidget in my saddle so I rode up closer to my mother, we rode unto a free post and tied up our horses I clutched my little bag of coins and wondered over to the stalls that had many sparely things and anything shiny that caught my eye my weakness is shiny sparkly things as they fill me with joy and I just love it when the shine in the light, I played with a few trinkets and necklaces until I felt someone staring at me I turn't around and what I saw shocked me he was the most handsomest man I had ever seen in my seventeen years of being alive he had silky chocolate coloured hair what I bet would feel like pure silk if you ran your fingers through, a strong sculpted jawline with a slight stubble and lush pink lips what I could kiss forever and gorgeous sea blue eyes and long thick lashes I envied he was the definition of gorgeous and he was staring right at me strait into my emerald green eyes, I snapped out of my trance and looked back to the variety of Jewellery displayed on the table and I noticed a silver chain attached to a silver rose pendant with a shiny crystal in the centre I was in love with it I asked the stall keeper "how much for the rose chain?" I spoke with a new found confidence knowing that the necklace will be mine, the stingy looking man replied "six shillings" was he insane that was too over priced "I will give you three shillings" he shook his head and said "four shillings and not a penny less" I nodded in agreement and gave him the coins I would have given him six but I wanted to save some money for some new tread to make a new embroidery on my dress, I walked around town for awhile and felt someone was watching me I turned around and the gorgeous guy from before was their just staring at me I turned back to look at the treads and looked back over my shoulder to see he wasn't their anymore I turn't back to pay for my thread and then I heard screaming "WOLF...WOLF THE WOLF IS HERE RUN!" people began to panic and I could see my mother anywhere I stated running towards Majesty and noticed my mothers horse still tied to the post I waited for her but the screams were getting louder and closer to me and I was starting to panic I then spotted my mother running towards me I hopped off Majesty and ran towards her but I was yanked into an ally way and pushed into a wall my chest was firmly pushed into the wall and a very solid wall was gluing me to the wall I tired to turn my head to the side but something pushed something into my neck and inhaled deeply their nose was very wet and they were very hairy I couldn't see their face I could only feel them pressed up against me I then headed the streaking of my mother "KATERINA OH MY GOD SOMEONE HELP THE BEAS HAS MY DAUGHTER SOMEONE HELP" I was confused by her streaking until the thing holding me let out a low growl what made me stiffen I craned my neck to the side and what I saw horrified me I saw the head of a giant black dog with long teeth and deep blue eyes I shrieked and tried to push it away but it only pushed back harder and growled I was so scarred I started hyperventilating, I heard the sudden shouts of men as they got closer probably on a mission to save me and kill the wolf but as they got closer the beats rammed it's head into my neck and it's long fangs pierced into my neck I felt my warm blood drip down my chest and after that the pressure on my back decreased and all I saw was darkness as I fell to the floor and fainted I heard the fait cry of my mother yelling my name "KATERINA!" and then it all went dark.

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Chapter 2 I'm really proud of it