Red Moon

After travelling for hours. The van had stopped deep into the mountains. It was already night and the moon was clear bright outside. One of the men from passenger seats gets out and goes near the trees. He fiddles around for a while in his pockets and then takes out a whistle. The whistle had the crest of the red half moon, it looked ancient but was still kept in perfect shape.

The man then blows into the whistle, however, no sound comes out from the whistle. He stands still and just waits. Soon, the ground starts shaking, like many animals were running here. The men stayed calm and laid back like this is nothing unusual. Tian was still unconscious and her pulse was starting to get slower by the second.

All of a sudden, a wolf appears out of the trees. It had dark black fur like the deep darkness. Its eyes were the colour of deep purple like you could see the whole galaxy. The wolf grunts at the man for a second but then look at the van. The van in which Tian was. The wolf stares at the van for while before leaping straight at the van. As soon as the man with the whistles sees the wolf actions, he blows the whistle powerfully. Although there was no sound, you could feel that if you heard it, your ears would have started to bleed.

As soon as the men blew the whistle, the wolf dropped on the ground and started whining. The man grumpily walks towards the wolf and kicks it. The wolf travels all the way to the tree and hits it. The wolf whines in pain and stares at the man. The man walks up to the wolf and stanches the necklace the had a key in the chain from the wolf's neck.

"You shouldn't get ahead of yourself" the man kicks the wolf one more time before going back in the van. The men in the driver seat start driving. The van goes deeper into the mountains. The colour of the moon started to change. It was starting to get yellow but the more the van drove into the mountain, the moon turned redder. The van finally stops in front of an apartment building.

The building looked like it was brand new and was kept in excellent condition. Most of the floors had large windows. One of the men from the building doors walks towards the van and takes out Tian. He holds her in his arms and starts walking towards the building. You could hardly hear Tian's heartbeat. They walk through the long corridor until they come across a big door.

The door slams open and the man with Tian walks inside. The whole room was deep in darkness except a bright light in the centre of the room. The light came from the roof where the moon was shining above. Although the moon was red, the light it emitted was white. The men walk towards the light and drop Tian in the middle.

The sound of voices comes around from all direction. Everyone was hidden in the cloth of darkness. Everyone shouted, but their voices were muffled over each other.

"Quite!" A loud voice breaks down the noise and the whole room falls silent again.

"What have you brought us? We told you to bring the ring, not a girl!" The men's voice brings a cold shudder to the whole room.

The two men who brought Tian inside drop to the ground immediately. Even if they wanted, they could not get up. It was like huge invisible hands were forcing them to stay on the ground.

"My Lord. We apologise. We did bring the ring but the girl is wearing the ring. No matter what we tried, the ring won't come off." Both men started to tremble in fear as they explained everything to the dark room.

"What!" The same voice roars throughout the whole room. Both men get pressed to the ground. The whole room is silent like everyone is talking through their inner thoughts. Nobody dares speak out.

Somebody comes out from the darkness and walks towards Tian. His eyes pupil colour was red just like the colour of the moon in the sky. His hairs were pure black with the hints of gold colour in them. As he walked, the whole room started to whisper again. He stopped near Tian and stared at her face. He stared at the ring. The ring was no longer the colour of blue but instead, it had just become a lump of a black stone. Whispering noises started to arise in the room again.

"Silence! Have you forgotten your manners?" The man shouts again but he didn't look up. His eyes never left Tian's face.

The men move his feet and touch Tian's body. Tian stays still, her whole body was numb and unconscious. He kicks Tian again but gets no response in return. Something flashes in his eyes, like a sudden evil, was about to possess his body. He puts his shoes on Tian's hands and starts crushing it. The whole room was silent except for the sound of bones breaking in Tian's hands.

Tian grunts out in pain. Her eyes open slowly and the same scenario happens again. Blood pours out of Tian's mouth and soon, you could see red lights flashing everywhere. Instead of lights, it was the colour of peoples eyes. Like the animals looking at their prey in the night. Tian's eyes begun closing again.

The men stare at the blood around her lips and on the mouth. He smiles and then turns around to leave.

"You guys can keep her as your dinner set. First, five to reach her can have her as a meal for tonight. The ring is useless to us now." The Lord starts walking towards the darkness again but stops in midway when a voice disrupts him.

"But Lord..." The men who had brought Tian into the room looks up to speak but don't dare to say the whole sentence.

"Don't dare defy me! Otherwise, you would be joining the wolves outside." The Lord doesn't even bother turning around. As soon as he is completely devoured by the darkness, a whole bunch of people jump out from the darkness. Their eyes full of hunger.

Nobody notices the ring changing colours again. One second it was the black stone, the next it was purple, then red, the blue. Everyone was drove mad by the hunger that they never noticed the change happening. These bunch of fools never expected the twist...