The Real Red Riding Hood: The Forever Wolf

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Nobody cares about the real story of "Little Red Riding Hood" , she really wasn't so little.

Years before us, their lived a peaceful family ,the Hoods, and their 6 little girls. All a year apart, the oldest being 16 the youngest 11.There was Sophia-Ann the oldest, then Felicity the 15 year old, next came 14 year old naïve Gretchen, the fourth child was angry Hailey-Beth(13), then Rareabella-Renee(12), and lastly sweet young Mary. For Short Rareabella-Renee was call Red Riding Hood. The girls did everything for their parents. They would go into town to buy cloth, or anything their mother needed. Mr. Hood was strange. Every month he would disappear around the full moon and come back after it had passed over head. One fateful night Red Ridding Hood followed her father into the wood...

I crept slowly behind father making no sound. He couldn't hear me, I knew he couldn't. Once the moon was in the highest point we arrived at the cave of the "Were-Wolf of The Eastern Lands", on a full moon! NO he couldn't be, is not, nay would my kind father be the monster the ripped villages to shreds orphaning children, widowing spouses. I refuse to believe this. I stared at my father who now stares at the moon. His eyes, usually a happy green, turn black as the sky night. He shakes, and I hear his bones shattering and my father morphed into the hideous black wolf with a scar on its ear like in all the tales of the werewolf. He howls, and sniffs the air. His fur rises, slowly, very slowly he turns to look at me. My father is a monster. I try to run, but the branches of dead trees grab onto my hood of red silk, claw at my legs. I scream in agony as my father, no as the monster rips into the flesh of my arm with one bite, he releases and falls down in pain. He returns to my father, and he stares at me, saying only this, "My curse has become yours my dear one, you now live immortal, only the blood of your 5th child on your wolf tongue breaks the cruse and turns you back to a human." He then  grabs a sharp rock, drags it across his wrist and its his blood flow onto me. I feel every bone in my body break turning me into a silver wolf but my father gapes. "No, your not, your the true wolf, the one with golden eyes, like those of your human form." I speak "You are not pure like you once were, you must die for the deeds that you have done." and I killed my own father. I had a vision of everyone in my family who was an un-pure wolf.  I must end the ones in my family who were wolfs before my father.  Aunt Elizabeth, Uncle Bernard, and Grandmother. Aunt Elizabeth lives two villages from here. I must keep her from turning another. Once I arrived at Aunt Elizabeth's I thought about being my human self, wearing a blood red gown with my best silk red hood over my head. MY bones re-break and I'm me again. I knock on her door, and she opens the door with a lantern. "My dear!" she exclaims. I hug her and push her into her chair. She looks at me with hatred only a past wolf can posses, "You don't disrespect your elders girl." she raises her hand and brings it next to my face, I grab it before it gets to it. She cries in agony when  I crush every bone in  her hand. I transform into my wolf form, and she bows like I'm the queen. I swipe her cheek where she would've hit me. I snap her neck with another swipe of my claws. I gallop off to my abusive Uncle Bernard. After arriving at his home it's close to day break. I must hurry. No waste, I charge the house, I find him strangling his wife with his 2 year old son on the floor looking dead. He looks scared. I charge at him knocking him off Alexandria, who runs over to young Garret. He clings  to her for life. I push Bernard into a corner. He screams, and that's the last sound he makes. I turn to my aunt and cousin and bow, earning their happy smiles, I turn to  my human form when the sun rises and I'm in the dress I was at Elizabeth's. They gasp and run to me, "Thank you my little Red Ridding Hood.". I nod and rush off to home,now sixteen villages away. To Grandmother's tomorrow, she had started the curse with grandfather. Father killed him, I must killed her. I ran faster than I ever had before, no rest was needed. The long journey only took minutes. I reached home,I called tears to my eyes, and my breath to fasten it's pace. I rushed inside screaming at the top of my lungs about father, uncle Bernard, and aunt Elizabeth. Mother, Felicity, Gretchen automatically burst into tears. Sophia-Ann, Hailey-Beth and Mary just stared at me. Sweet Mary, so little asked my worst nightmare. "How dear sister do you know of the dreaded things and sister, what big eyes you have." Mary mustn't know of me. "I was heading off to Uncle Bernard's and saw father and Aunt Elizabeth on the floor dead and the Uncle Bernard sliced his own throat. He killed them!" I screamed and then Sophia-Ann asked, "Why, Rare, what big ears you have." She mustn't know. I grabbed a knife off the table. like the voice of my wolf form's, "Why so many questions my sisters?" I flung the knife into mothers neck, grabbed it stabbed Hailey-Beth in the chest, sliced Gretchen's neck, cut off Felicity's head, cut off Sophia-Ann's hands, and faced Mary, my favorite little sister. "Come with me my dear one, or die with them, die with the traitors." She looked at me with fear, hatred, and a fading love. "No my dear sister. I mustn't leave them I will die with them." and then that was when I killed my last living sister. "Grandmother, off to Grandmothers cottage." I left them and went off to her house, only little ways into the forest. I arrived at her door when the sun was just setting. I knocked on her door and heard her old voice yell come in. I walked in and saw her making stew. "Hello Grandmother."I spoke like she hadn't cursed our family. "Oh, hello dearie." and she smiled. I smiled back and then felt my bones break, and her smile dropped and turned into a glare. "Child, I have had people, and wolves alike try to end me." I Smiled and felt my fur grow and the last bone break. I turned into the wolf. She didn't mind I was her undoing. She laughed! I lunged at her and bit her throat, she starts to bleed and looks at me like I would care. "You have ended the one who started it, you have ended our families cruse, but you must stay a wolf forever." she gasped in, and died laughing at me. I will forever be a wolf...

Now people claim that they see a sliver wolf roaming the woods. No one knows what happened to Little Red Riding Hood or her relative that she saved. Its said that she still hunts the un-pure and on full moons her broken  howl is like the scream of the broken girl who was Rareabella-Renee Hood, or as her dead family called her, Little Red Riding Hood.

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