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A slap to the face woke me...literally.
I looked up at the young girl whom I had seen just before being brutally dragged in here.
A million questions entered my head at once,
Was this the girl I saved? Were they twins? What the cheese on ice cream was going on?
She uncomfortably began laughing, loudly and uncontrollably. Her head flying backwards as she did so, as if she had seen the funniest thing she had ever witnessed. This scared me further.
I found it extremely creepy.
My eyes moved over to Amy whom was standing in a black dress, her ginger hair tied back. She was refusing to look at me like the coward she was.
The young girl then walked towards me again and greeted me with another slap to the face.
This time there was a little nail-action, and I wanted to desperately clutch at my cheek which was red, swollen, and stung. This little girl had some fight in her, that I could tell.
Still she was giggling, acting like a child. She began skipping back over to me, kneeling down as she clasped my hands with her two tiny hands. She smiled at me, a comforting smile.
Which then became an evil smirk.
"I'm sorry did that hurt?" She spoke with sarcasm, putting her hand over her mouth in mockery. The smirk never even leaving her face the entire time.
She came closer this time, pushing my boundaries of personal space. But then, I was chained to a wall with zero ways and defending myself.
The girl came close to my ear and whispered lightly.
"It's nothing compared to what I'm going to do to you your highness."
My eyes immediately opened as the dots connected, she was the girl in the woods who I spared. Anger filled me and I regretted not ripping her to shreds when I had the chance. I could've ended it all right there if I had the courage. But how was she able to change? Why did I see her outside? Nothing made any sense...
I mustered up my courage to snap back at her, but the only thing I'd be able to use was my voice. Not so threatening.
"W-Who's in charge here?" I struggled to speak, but managed to do loud and clear.
The girl stared at me, one side of her face raising a side smirk.
"Well...I'd think that would be fairly obviously...wouldn't you?" She spoke, not caring about a thing but instead twirling her hair around her finger.
"Really? I wouldn't think they let infants be in charge." I snapped. Immediately she stopped twirling her light hair and I knew i'd hit a nerve. I tried to fight back the urge to smile as her face filled with anger. Turning a bright Red.
Her eyebrows narrowed as she pointed a finger directly in my face, unable to stop it from shaking with anger. This filled me with even more happiness, I'd angered her...she wasn't invincible. She was the exact same as every other girl out there - she wasn't special.
"Oh you have no idea who you are dealing with princess." She shouted, running her hands through her thin hair. Amy was standing at the back of the room, trying not to look at me as much as she possibly could.
She looked like if she had the chance to either look at me or the sun...she'd choose the sun and burn her eyes out. I had to admit, it hurt.
She was supposed to be my best friend, but it made sense now that I hadn't seen her much in the last few weeks...it was because she was helping with all of this. Was our friendship ever real?
I snapped back to the young girl, and pretended not the find her threatening at all. Even though the way she spoke to me gave me goosebumps up and down my arms. Her presence immediately gave me chills, I knew to be afraid of her it was natural instinct.
"Then tell me." I practically spat through my teeth at her, once again she marched towards me. Leaving me with another sore cheek. She grabbed a large chunk of my hair and pulled my head up to face her.
"You asked for it!" She laughed, stepping backwards and morphing into something else.
It wasn't a wolf, it wasn't even a creature.
It was a human.
The young girl standing before me was now a young woman with dyed-white hair and long legs. She had tanned skin, and looked as if she could have been from native-American roots.
Her bright brown eyes shone with anger and I couldn't help but feel a little fear at the look that she gave me.
No one else seemed to have even cared that she had just literally changed what she looked like altogether, giving me the idea that it was normal for her. Okay this b*tch could age - I could take her on...I think.
I tried not to be intimidated by how pretty she was, even though that didn't seem to matter..she seemed familiar, dangerously familiar.
"I am not, nor have I ever been a child in my existence!" She boomed out in another accent dominantly. Her eyes turning red in fury, and her hand shaking.
"You will give no cheek to me for I have existed since the beginning of wolves!" She fired back, I couldn't help but whimper in fear at the intensity of her voice.
I backed myself up against the wall, not even caring about my broken arm. All I cared about was putting as much distance between us as possible.
This caused the girl/woman/whatever the fudge she was to begin laughing again. This time the creepy guy in his suit joined in. And Amy looked like she wanted to cry at the back of the room.
"What are you?" I nearly whispered, my head bowed down before her. Whatever she was, she wasn't messing around.
"Hmm....what am I?" She began, walking a round the room as if she was thinking.
If she were to ever take drama in school, she'd defiantly get a A.
"I am the girl you spared in the woods." She pointed to me," you sparing me just showed how pathetic you really were." She laughed, "besides I needed finally give you a head start on who you are, I was getting annoyed watching you pretend to be a nobody." She smirked.
"I am a shapeshifter that can change to any face or creature I want."
"I am the person that is in control here, that loves to keep all of her animals in cages." She laughed. By animals, she was meaning wolves. She was deliberately keeping wolves to suck their souls, but why?
"I am...lets see, I'm the beast that sucks the souls from any paranormal creature." She grinned her teeth. It all made sense, that's why they were all here. All the wolves were here being caged like animals because this b*tch wanted their souls.
"What on earth do you need them for?!" I shouted at her, catching her off guard. She wasn't going to dominate me, nobody would.
"I see you do still have a voice." She spoke lightly, coming close to me.
"Good....you'll need for when I want to hear you scream."
"Oh, and to answer your question." She smiled, "How do you think I change forms?" The girl answered my question with another.
She was stealing bits of wolves souls at a time so she could change her damn face. She was murdering them, slaughtering them for her own health.
She was the true definition of evil.
"I never finished what I was did I?" She giggles, "Let's continue..."
Her smirk was infuriatingly annoying and she knew it. "I am Catori...and I had the great pleasure of sucking your mother dry of her Soul." She tilts her head slightly as she lifts my chin.
My vision began turning red, and I was shaking from anger. My head was exploding from thoughts and she knew it.
"I am going to kill you you!" I lunged at her, nearly having her in my arms ready to rip apart until my chains decided to work again.
They just weren't long enough, and I could see the fear in her eyes, even if she didn't want to admit it.
"Oh princess, you don't stand a chance." She burst out into laughter, coming close again to further interrogate me. Even having the guts to touch my cheek.
"You don't even know who you are...."
This sentence caught me off-guard. Was she talking about the fact that I didn't grow up in a fancy palace or castle? Was she meaning about how I didn't even know I was a wolf until just over two months ago?
She found it comedic that I didn't know what She was talking about and instead further mentioned it, knowing my hand was now shaking more than before.
"Funny how they never ever decided to mention it to you, honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they even knew." Catori continued, enjoying the sound of her own voice.
Know what? I found myself screaming inside.
"Hmm, how cool would it be if I was the only one to know...of course I'm not though. They have a big-ass painting of you in the 'kingdom that yours'" She stressed. Now, she was just trying to annoy me...and it was working.
"I'm sure they've been waiting what 1000 years?" She asked the other guy in the room with us. And for the first time he spoke,
"Oh Catori...it's clearly more than that!" He laughed sinisterly.
"It's a shame though, it's gonna end the exact same way as last time." He snarled at her, attempting to winding me up.
At this point I was done.
"What are you talking about!"I shouted, immediately the room went quiet before Catori walked over and spoke softly with a smile.
"We are talking about how I'm going to kill you again." She smiled, "but don't worry princess... This time it won't be as quick."
"Amy what's she talking about!?" I shouted, involving her in all of this. "Why am I here! Why are you here?"
"Amelia here, has been helping me keep track of you over the last few months." Catori laughed, and for once Amy spoke up for herself.
"I did not have a choice! You were going to kill my family! Cece you need to believe me I didn't want a part of any of this!" Tears were forming in her eyes, and I watched as Catori marched over to her and grabbed her my the neck.
Her arms began emitting red light that was similar to my own as she made contact with my best friend. Amy began struggling to breathe from literally having the life sucked out of her, her skin became paler and drier looking.
I began screaming out for her to leave Amy alone. She didn't deserve this, she had a family.
Parents that loved her, a little sister.
They needed her.
But Catori wasn't a force to be reckoned with, she smiled as she dropped my best friends lifeless body onto the ground. Not even seeming to care, but tears were streaming down my face as I didn't know what to think.
What did she mean by killing me again? Why was she watching me?
Well...that didn't go as planned, heck it was even a waste. Humans don't do justice for me you know that." She spoke to the suited man.
She even had the cheek to explain to me what she was talking about.
"Well dear Princess, you see the higher the rank of the paranormal creature. The bigger the energy or 'soul' they have which means more for me." She smiled, talking about people as if they were meals.
"But ugh, you're mother came in a close second for the best. I didn't have to touch another soul for two years after that. Shame, I never managed to finish off your father either...he was saved by the time I could completely eat his. It's a shame though, he's better off dead anyway. From what I've heard he just stares into space 24 hours a day."
It hit me.
"You did it to them! It was you! You broke my family apart!" I screamed, trying to get near her but failing miserably. She laughed at this and raised her eyebrow at my pathetic attempt.
"Oh trust me they weren't the only Royals I've killed." She snickered, "I goes all the way back to the very first werewolf." She smiled, counting her fingers as she analyses how many members of my family she had murdered.
"You killed Cecilinda!" I yelled, burning up from the heat I was feeling around my body.
There's was nothing I'd be happier to do then kill her right here, right now.
"Funny how you talk about Cecilinda in that way...it's unusual." She spoke curiously, walking back and forth and staring at me like I was prey.
"What do you mean!" I screamed, standing while in my chains. Desperate for an answer of any sort. "You've never seen a painting of her have you?" She giggled to herself, "well of course you've not." She rolled her eyes at herself.
"Princess...the only reason you're even here, is because Cecilinda had the biggest amount of 'energy' coming from her." She paused, "I didn't touch another soul for 500 years after that." She smirked, causing my stomach to turn.
"What that got to do with me!?"
She sighed, laughed and spoke gently.
"You are the reincarnation of Cecilinda Darkfall."
"And I am going to slowly eat your soul...
piece by piece."
Yo this took 5 hours to write, I had ZERO idea of doing it even though I planned it out. That's why a lot of so repetitive, so sorry.
Also I'm on holidays currently, so I've had alot of free time to write which I'm pretty happy about.
Please leave suggestions about how you want it to end. I obviously have it all planned out by I want to here your suggestions.
Is it confusing because I feel like it might be ? Don't worry though, everything will be explained more in further chapters.
Vote and comments are appreciated!