~Part one~
Today was market day, Izzy knew she could get some food from the little money she had.
She stood up a little see how many people there were to cross the bridge. Her dress had become tight across her breast and hips now that she was a women of 16, it was ripped and stained but she did not have enough money to buy a new one.
After the last person she could see pasted her, she crawl out from behind the bushes and started to cross the bridge. Her bare feet had welcomed the new feeling of wood, instead of dirt and mud. She jumped at the sound of people yelling. At first she had thought it was her they were yelling at, but instead it was a man, his dark brown hair flying behind him as he ran across the town path, see could see what he had in his arms now. It was nothing but a few loaves of bread and a small block of cheese.
He was in such a rush he had not even noticed her in the middle of the bridge causing him to ram right in to her thin, little body making her crash to the floor with his heavily build body on top.
"Dammit," He blatantly cursed as he picked up the bread off the floor. He looked up into her green eyes and his face scrunched up in disgust has he realized who she was.
"Watch where you're going, filthy whore."
Izzy knew she was no whore, but she still burned holes in the back of the boys head as he carried on running. It was people like him that angered her most. She did not sleep with men and did not kill her family like the towns people thought. That is why she hid away from them. If she did not, some will surely kill her.
She jumped back into the bushes once again to hide form the people.
"The little rat!" A chubby, old man yelled at wind. His thinning hair and short, buggy build was only something a mother could love.
"Oh, shut up, Harold!" A small women yelled, "There is no point at yelling at the wind, it did nothing to you and you still made more than enough money toady."
The women started walking away while the man grumbled and followed the her back to their stall.
Izzy sighed and walked down the hill, under the bridge and into the water. She didn't mind being filthy, but not feeling it. She tried to wash the dirt off, but it wouldn't.
Tears leaked out of her eyes, more because of anger rather than sadness.
"This is all your doing." She whispered so no one would hear her.
"No, sweetie, this is your doing." They whispered back.
"I did nothing wrong." She hissed.
"Be quiet child, this is no time do be fighting when there is a town full of people about us."
"I do not wish to talk to you anymore." She said exiting the river. Before she knew it the shadows had push her back and she fell backwards into the water wincing when landed on the stones. The shadows had all covered her making it seem as dark as the night.
"You do not have a say when we have finished talking, little girl!" They hissed at her. They all left when a breeze flew by.
Izzy washed her face before she left to her home in the middle of the woods just outside the town. It was getting dark now so she picked up her speed because she knows that many evil things come out to play when it is dark.
She froze when she here a low laughing and talking off to her left. It's to early for the things to show.
"Do you think we will find anything?" A deep, chilling voice asked.
"How would I know that? Anyway I can feel a unicorn near by." A higher voice answered.
Izzy looked up through the trees to see a full moon. She shook her head at the poor men.
"The werewolves will get you before you get the unicorn." She whispered so low only she could hear.
She carried on walking once she thought the men had gone. It was becoming much darker now and she knew she had little time to get to her little hut.
Her eyes widened at the snapping noise that come from her foot.
"Did you hear John?" The deeper voice whispered. "Do you think it's a unicorn?"
She was frozen on the spot as the voices came near.
"No, it can't be. We aren't deep enough to even be close to finding one." He whispered back.
A very tall, dark man stepped into the dimming light with his arrow aim at her. He dropped the arrow to his side and smirked. This man was very handsome, even with his unusually dark skin and black eyes.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? The towns local whore." He said as he looked her over.
Anger began to boil in her body, but she held her tongue not wanting to anger this strange man. She watched as he moved to the side so a shorter white man could see what the fuss was about.
"Look what we have here, John." The dark man said still smirking at Izzy.
John looked her up and down just as the dark man had done. She watched him as he walked up to her, he bent down so he so he could talk to her face.
His dark blue eyes made her shiver, or was it because she was cold?
"I could give you something for one good night." John said very low so only she could hear.
She didn't do anything but watch has the dark man was taken away into the darkness of the woods again.
"Cat got your tongue?" He laughed in her face, she glared at him and stepped back a few feet.
"You should not be out at night on a full moon." She said quietly.
John looked at her wide eyed and laughed at her silliness.
"Werewolves are just a myth, sweetie."
Izzy cocked her head to the side.
"And unicorns aren't?"
Before he could say anything a huge hand pulled at his arm, twisting him around to see the red eyes of the werewolf. It was so much bigger than John and so much more ugly. It deformed body mixed between a man, a wolf and only had patches of fur making it look more horrid.
John didn't have time to scream before the werewolf had it teeth covered in his blood, devouring the front of John's body.
Izzy turned on her heels and ran in to her hut.
She looked behind her to see the werewolf closing in on her. With every 3 steps she took, he took 1 step. She looked back in front of her and could see her hut just a head.
She made her legs run faster when see heard a low growl just behind her. Her heart hammered against her tiny chest, her breath ragged as she touched the handle.
The beast stop in his tracks and looked at her. She smiled sweetly and opened the door and walked in.
"You were so close this time." She wheezed as she watched the werewolf pace back and forth across her door.
"I will get you one day, little girl." He growled and ran back into the darkness.
She closed the door behind her and walked to her wooden bed. This time she almost lost the game... and her life.
