chapter 1

Chapter 1

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      “Run… Hide!!” Yelled a woman “Stay away from them!!”

  The woman cried as blood gushed out of her mouth. Lydia sobbed as she lifted her mother’s head into her lap.

  It was a shock for a 6 years old girl to lose her mother and witness her being torn out like a paper in their claws.

      “No! I do not want to leave you!” screamed Lydia “I can not leave mama! I can not live without you!”

  She held her mother closer to her small and fragile body, hoping she could get more power to protect her mother from their attack.

      “Ly… Lydia…” mumbled the mother “Y… You can… Can not… You shall… You must s… Survive… You have to run…”

      “But…” cried Lydia

      “You are not safe here… G… Go away and hide… I will die anyway! I can not do it!! Please run! I beg you!”

      “No!!”

      “RUNAWAY!! RUN NOW!!”

      “Please, do not say so! You can make it! We can make it together!! I believe you can survive! I do not want to lose you! I do not want to be alone! Mama, I am scared!! Mama!!! Mama!!!”

  The little girl grew pale, as tears gushed out of her small pearly eyes, imagining a future without her tender and loving mother.

      “You will not be alone, Lydia…” smiled the mother as she rose her hand towards her daughter’s cheeks “You have papa… You have my soul forever… And soon you will have a husband… This is so early for you, but you will have one soon… Do not marry a werewolf… Do not meet a werewolf… Do not get in contact with these monsters…”

      “I hate werewolf, mama. I hate them. They hurt mama.”

      “Papa will find you soon, until then you have to hide. Promise me to hide!”

      “But…”

      “No… Promise me! Promise mama to hide!! I will cry for you.”

      “I can not leave you!!!”

      “Go away!!! Go!! GO!!! I do not want to see you!! Go out of my sight, Lydia!!! I do not love you!! I do not want to see you! GO AWAY!!”

  She yelled with the last bit of her energy to convince her child to run from them. They might reach her soon. Lydia, helplessly, wailed and cried loudly, as sobs eeked out of her soul and shivering lips.

  She thought that her mother had really hated her, so she left the area hastily towards the deepest forest, in hope her father might find her.

  The mother released a sigh of relief, as she heard their footsteps approaching her. Tears ran out of her eyes like and escaping damp as she murmured: “Lydia, do not leave mama… Lydia, come back and save me… I do not want to die… I do not want to be killed... Please… Save me… I do not want to die… Please… Anyone… Any person… Lydia… I love you…”

  Lydia did not know why that was happening with her. She was only wondering around the woods, near to their villa, with her mother, just as ever. However, a group of rogue and powerful werewolves attacked them from behind, when their father was far from them.

  The mother tried to protect Lydia with her body, until she was severely injured. They had disappeared for two straight days, as Lydia’s father was searching for them insanely.

  Lydia, then, could hear a loud scream from behind, that made her body freeze in its place. She knew well what it meant by then, and it made her head spin and all of her body ache.

  She tugged her hands into her ears, as her body convulsed violently. She fell into her knees, lowering her head onto the ground, pouring her tears down to the soil, and wishing that her father would find her soon.

  Her mother was… Her mother was no more… Existing in that world…

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  Lydia gasped as she shot up in her bed, eyes bulging widely, face pouring sweat and hands trembling nervously. Even though the night was cold at that time of the year, yet her body was hot and poring sweat.

  The nightmare was not any new to her, but rather a repeated film that could remind her of her mother’s face, which she had kind of forgotten. Yet, it was haunting her from time to time for almost half of her life.

  The terrible dream had never failed to disturb her that deeply.

  Peering out of the window of her father’s villa, she could tell that the sun had already risen. It was nearly morning, as the light violet and deep orange rays started to emerge through the trees into her room. The whole woods was mesmerizing for her silver eyes.

  Looking around her, she could remember why her father had walled the woods around them with high walls. The whole villa had a small forest around, hidden in the walls which her father had built after that accident. He wanted to be sure that Lydia could enjoy the woods safely from the werewolves.

  A crowd of trees around her attracted many small animals to come by and pay a visit, they were the only friends she had. Lydia loved the animals and they loved her in exchange. She had been spending her time in her father’s walled forest, and was never ever attacked by these creatures.

  Lydia’s mother had always loved the forest and the animals, which made her daughter fall for nature as well.

  She closed her eyes and felt the beauty of nature around her, as she remembered that her mother had once stated: “Whenever you miss me, listen to the nature’s voice. Because nature is a mother, and mother is nature.”

  As she was meditating after her fearful dream, a loud voice could interrupt her to return her to her fearful reality.

  Her nightmares were no different from the life she was living.

      “Lydia!! Get down, now!!” yelled the voice “We have prepared you and your animals a feast. So, have a breakfast and eat together with your type.”