Taken Ann Away
Ann's little body ached as she sat up on the bed, and the day had fully broken. She opened her eyes with the back of her palms, rubbing them and wondering which room she was in, as she had a terrible dream the previous night that looked so real and still frightened her.
Ann saw her parents killed by three black wolves, and the one with white fur at its tail had turned to her with green glowing eyes. Next, she saw the three wolves engaged in a ruthless battle, tearing each other apart and howling loudly.
Vividly, Ann remembered that her mother used to tell her why they never traveled back to her mother's village, the Greshood village. As the village was surrounded by a thick black forest, and her mother also told her a folktale about humans who could shapeshift into wolves, also known as werewolves.
Ann sat up on the bed and stretched, staring around the big, dark room as her eyes finally flung open. Fear gripped her, and she immediately jumped down from the bed, wondering where she was. "Where am I?" Little Ann asked herself as she stared around the big, dark room, and her eyes also came into contact with a fish bone head behind her on a table, making her scream out, "Ah!"
Jason Tristan was outside their mansion when he heard Ann's scream, and his sister and mother immediately stared at him, wondering where the sound came from.
"What was that, Jason?" Chloe asked her son. "Nothing, Mom. I will be back," Jason shifted away and, like a flash, darted back into the two-story mansion, making his way upstairs to the third floor, where his multiple rooms were.
They were rich, and Greshood packs were farther separated from the city, where they formed their packs, and the werewolves lived happily. His father, Alpha Eli, was the current Alpha, and since Jason was young, he was next in line to become the Alpha of the Greshood packs.
Similarly, they plotted to take down the human world, as the humans never believed in their existence, secretly kidnapping and feeding on some humans. Jason plotted to end that when he became the next Alpha.
Their pack was beautiful, and they never lacked anything; they shapeshifted freely without having to be bothered about the humans discovering them. The humans were totally unaware of them. Some hunters had tried to discover them and their kingdom and even killed some of them in their wolf form. But once the hunters were caught and captured, they were killed.
Jason was only 12 years old when he ventured farther away from the Greshood packs, wanting to hunt with his two best friends, Evan George and Max Weston, who were both his age.
It had been a long time since they hunted, and Jason was eager for that. Although sometimes they traveled to the human world to shop for all they needed, as the humans were the main dealers and distributors of all kinds of products, wears, and accessories.
Jason wished he could just grab one of the humans there and feed on the humans' flesh. His father, Eli Tristan, one of the strongest Alphas, had warned him never to leave the Greshood packs again, as he had almost shapeshifted in broad daylight to devour a little girl he saw in Gold City Palace when they traveled to the Gold City Kingdom to visit the ruler.
The little girl was as yellow as the girl he had seen in the car with her parents, and his blood boiled hot and hungry to feed on her flesh. She was chubby with a round, cute face and blue sparkling eyes. As she stared at him in shock when Evan and Max had attacked her parents, horror was clearly written in her eyes as they were in their wolf forms hunting, hungry to eat her raw.
Jason had told Evan and Max not to harm her, but he didn't trust them, as they would reveal his secret of wanting to bring a human into their werewolf kingdom. They didn't bring humans, except those that were turned into werewolves like them, as they shapeshifted freely both day and night.
The humans hunted for them, and some werewolves had been killed in their wolf form. Jason quickly made his way upstairs to the third floor and arrived at his chamber door. He slowly pushed the door open after removing the padlock, revealing the frightening little human female standing in his view.
He could have tied her little mouth shut to prevent her screams, as she almost alerted his parents. They could hear her from afar since she was a human, to avoid exposing their shapeshifting secrets.
Ann shivered and moved backward in fear as Jason walked into his dark room and shut the door closed behind him.
"Who are you?" Little Ann asked in her shaking voice, staring at the black boy with long, curly black hair standing in front of her.
She had never seen a boy with such long black hair before, and his chest was bare, with him wearing a brown skirt.
Ann stared down at his waistline, and seeing him wearing a brown skirt. She burst out laughing, but Jason's dark face, matching the dark room, was non-smiling to her.
Jason stared at his little prey, wanting to tear her little body apart as she laughed and looked so cute in his eyes, making him remain silent and not laugh with her.
He slowly pushed the door to lock behind him, securing the room door properly, he sauntered to meet her, making Ann take a few steps backward.
"Why are you wearing a skirt?" Ann blurted out. "And why is this room so dark?" She asked Jason, stammering, causing him to pause. He chuckled darkly and walked to his bed, climbed on it, and stood there like an animal on all fours, staring at Ann like his prey. Who was shaking and staring at his dark image as little light illuminated the slightly dark room through the small space between the closed windows.
"Do you remember me?" Jason finally asked her, and Ann shivered, not knowing him and not remembering who he was, as she couldn't even see his face clearly.
"I don't know you. Who are you? And open the window at once!" Ann commanded him, and Jason's nerves flinched as his green eyes immediately glowed at her and narrowed, causing his sharp claws and fingernails to grow longer.
He jumped down from his bed toward Ann, making Ann scream out, "Ah!"
Ann fell backward onto her buttocks as the black boy looked like those three wolves that had attacked her parents—only that he was a human, but he was scaring the life out of her.
"You don't command me! I am not your servant; you are my prey, and I will eat you up when you have grown bigger," Jason spoke, and Ann shivered, not understanding what he meant by eating her.
Ann kept staring at Jason as he stood on all fours, placing his hands and knees on the floor, crawling toward her like a dog while she stayed on the floor. He approached her shaky body and stared at her round, cute face beneath him as he towered over her.
He then walked around her in a circle. He paused, finally standing upright on his legs. He walked back to the door, and in a blink, he unlocked it and exited his room.
Ann sat back up on the floor and thought she was probably still dreaming, but she subtly pinched her little body to wake up from the terrifying nightmare and run back into her mother's arms for her mother to console her.
Ann missed her older brother, Samuel Maverick, who was 11 years old, and her younger sister, Mia Maverick, who was 6 years old. She curled up in a corner of the slightly dark room and sobbed, realizing it was no dream, and that her parents had been attacked by wild dogs that looked like wolves.
Likewise, Ann didn't know how she got into the house or who the black boy was.
"Where's Mama?" Ann cried out, unable to stand up and escape. Being young, she was frightened by the boy who behaved like a wolf, reminding her of the three wild wolves that had broken her father's car windows and dragged them out.
Ann looked at her underarm and saw the scratched marks there, from the claw scratches, and knew it was no dream. But how did she get into the house? Ann was frightened, and she waited for her savior to come rescue her from the horrible reality that she was in.
Her stomach grumbled loudly in hunger as she sat on the tiled floor crying, not knowing what to do next.
Jason stepped out of his room, remembering Ann laughing at him as he wore a brown short skirt. They were wolves, and only when they wanted to visit the human world did they mostly dress like humans.
Ann was cute in Jason's eyes, and he wasn't going to kill her yet nor release her, as she was his special food that he had hunted for. He killed Evan and Max, his two best friends, and he knew their parents would soon come searching for them.
They would report the matter to his father, who was the Alpha, but he killed them to avoid revealing his secret of wanting to keep the human in their packs as his pet and nurture her so she would grow up to become his personal meal.
Jason was angered at Max, who scratched her arms and dragged her roughly after devouring her mother, and Evan also attacked her father, but the moment he saw her, he lost interest in her parents and was only focused on taking her away.