His Little Red Riding Hood

"~Don't wander too much or the big bad wolf will come, so wear this red hood for you to return safe and sound~" I sing while wearing my red hood and see my reflection on the mirror. I'm really lucky, that I got a beautiful wavy blonde hair and a pretty face. Kids on the town used to praise me on how pretty I am as I answer them 'I know, right?' when I reply that to them they have this race that looks like I'm some trash that so full of myself. I mean, I'm not really narcissistic, it's just that I know I'm pretty so why be humble about about it? It's not always you can be lucky and have this face I didn't see my parents not even once in my entire 19 years of living but I'm guessing that the two of them are pretty too for me to have this face. "mother, father, please be safe on whatever place you are" I pray. Grandma said to do that when you talk about dead person but actually I just chant it out of habit. I don't really mean it. Cause why would I pray to someone I didn't meet my whole life? I don't even know why they left me alone to Grandma who's really weak and old and always nag to me.. Grandma just told me before that they left me in the doorstep with a letter that write my name on it "Solene Fairmint, Get your butt in here!" Grandma yelled downstairs. Geez, I'm still mesmerising my beautiful looks in this red hood. She just want me to pick those herbs on the deep mountain and make it on some potion or whatever liquid its is. Its just a secret but my Grandma is a witch, but she can't retain her face like those other witch on the woods. They're beautiful and looks so young than I am. If you didn't ask their age, you wouldn't know they're an old hag "Yeah, Coming!" I grab my basket that I always use when I pick herbs and look to the mirror before walking out when I heard her calling my name again When I arrived at the living room, I saw her mixing a potion in a big pot. Most Grannys are old and have wrinkled face but Grandma, even she have a wrinkled face she still look beautiful and have charm to attract man. She's wearing a black and blue dress which compliment her dark wavy hair. I admit, she's too beautiful for her age Our house is small since its under the big old Wisteria tree. We're exactly living in its root for the living room and kitchen but our room upstairs, Grandma build a big hole before and make some room for her to rest. "yo, what's up, Grandma" I did an informal greeting to her like saluting in my head then winking at her. She just throw her book at me as her reply "Act as a lady not a tomboy or I'll bath you in this boiling potion?" She said while pointing on the pot. I just grab some brownies on the table that she made earlier. I'm used to her attitude, so I won't take it seriously besides I'm holding my favourite snack and I love to chug it down my throat than giving her an attention. "I choose bath in the boiling potion. It's been a while since I had a hot bath" I eat one pice of brownies while looking at her so boredly. If I continue any further than this, it'll become a pain in the butt later. "I'll just collect Safflower, Blackthorn and Heather, then head home straight... Bye" I was about to head off when she grab my hood and making me stumble back. "What now, old hag?" I receive a hit in the head when I said that. But she's really an old hag, She's way more older than those witch I met when they came in this house. What's wrong with that? "stay still" She spray a potion to me. It's the potion that she always use when I go out to pick herbs in the mountain. She never said to me what that contains or do whenever I ask, but I feel safe to that for some reason, so I don't doubt her. "what's this? You're not going to ask, what this thing is about?" She grin at me teasingly after she's done spraying it all over my cloak. I just wear back my hood and head off without answering her back "Even if I ask you, you wouldn't even tell me" I whisper to myself when I'm meters away from her. I pick a stick on the ground and start swinging it around while singing the word Grandma always used to say to me "~Don't wander too much or the big bad wolf will come, so wear this red hood for you to return safe and sound~" I don't know why Grandma always said that and what wolf she was saying. In almost 13 years of me wandering in this woods to pick some herbs, I never met a wolf. Not even once. I'm starting to think that, the wolf she was saying was a word with two meaning. Well, I know there's a lot of bad guys out there but we're too far from the town and our place is a place where no one can return to if they enter. So to that I'm glad, I can't meet bad guys. Because, even if my attitude are like this, I'm still a girl who's weak and don't know how to fight. Well, unless we're talking about poison then I'm great at that thing "~Sol, is a weak, fragile girl. Don't let bad wolf hurt her. Sol is a little sunshine still growing until she's old. Sol, is pretty so praise her ~" I sing while searching for the place that I always visit. Its a garden lots of herbs that Grandma hide before she had me " Wait. That song didn't come out right... I'm no weak, nor fragile" I talk to myself when I realise how bad it is and get disgusted to the words I describe to myself. If the other child in the town heard this, they will look at me like I'm trash again, and I despise it even though I admit that I'm pretty. "~When the almighty Sol's light goes down, Selene appear with her incomparable beauty~ ~She's a beauty you can't take your eyes off with her blonde hair, and he's a man full of promising achievements ~ ~the moon and sun fell inlove even it's forbidden and create the little moonlight~ ~and solene the little sunshine appear~" I stop on my track when I realise the song I'm singing. It always pop up in my head when I'm spacing out. To all the song I made, that's the song Grandma forbid me to sing as she end up getting mad and throw away eve8then later on get drunk. Even I'm still a new born baby when my parents leave me, I know that the song is the last thing they gave to me before going away. I always wonder why they die, Grandma never said anything to me and keep all the burden to herself. "tch, what the hell I am thinking? The dead people should mind their own business, so I'll do mine too" I mess my hair in irritation and loosen the ribbon in my neck then remove the hood to look around "WHERE the f**k am I?" I always use the track that Grandma build before but for some reason I'm off track now. I'm always on the track and even I'm not in my right mind I end up in my destination but now, I'm off the track and I don't know where the hell I am. " For some reason, something's tell me that I should get the hell out of here" okay, I'm not stupid enough to continue on this road. I'll just go back to where I am before and look to another garden for the herbs. I might die if I continue this road I look back on the road I take a while ago and the end of the road seems dark and gloomy that it's so scary to go continue. It gives an ominous aura and surrounded by the mist, that's the first I felt this when I'm in the forest. I should go where there's a light or I might die in nervousness and fear The more I go back and turn the more lose I am. I'm thinking that some scumbag witchy b***h are here playing on me or a Mage is in the area and cast a spell on the forest but i don't feel any mana at all. Until the plants in my feet started to bloom one by one and open a path for me "Do you think, you could trick me on that? Huh, you wish! I've been train by the most horrible witch in the world! So go away!" The flowers still bloom and make a carpet like pathway heading deep in the forest. I'm getting nervous now, my house are in the North but this thing tells me to head south. I've been wandering here but there's no shortcut in the South to head north. Until a flower blooms and a fairy came out from it. She just wake up and yawn cutely, she flies towards me and held my picky that is very heavy for her to carry. She was pulling me to follow the path "Grandma said fairies are good. But if you end up being a spawn of evil I'm gonna boil you in the boiling poison" I threaten to her but she just roll her eyes and let go of my hand and fly towards the flowers that keeps on blooming I walk on the flower-carpet but those flowers keep on pulling my hood so I shout at them to 'stop doing it!'. If I remove this cloak, I don't know what might happen to me and I don't want to expect on something bad. I just wanna go home now So far nothing's happen to me and I'm grateful for that but I'm still not letting my guard down. The fairies lead me to a very beautiful garden. It has different flowers and herbs on it and I found some Safflower, Blackthorn and Heather there. Not much but it can do for a potion. Some fairies came out from their flower and help me picking some flower and teasing me by throwing a flower-powder on me and some design my long, wavy blonde hair by beautiful flowers that shines under the sunlight. Thinking of it, this is the only place where the sun can get through and the only place where lots of fairies and flowers grow. It's an open space in the middle of the deep forest. I stop picking on the herbs I need, I don't want to get all the herbs since it's also the home of some fairies here. When I turn around I saw the thing that made me smile. Its a flower that is really beautiful, I walk towards it and the fairies starts to gasp and hide in the flowers while watching my move "no matter how beautiful you are, you're still a flaw" I distance myself to that flower for about five meters enough for me not to inhale its powder. If I'm stupid, I'll already be dead by now but since I raise by a witch and read a lots of book. I know that this shinny blue flower that look so innocent is a poison that could kill you instantly. "Don't judge a book by its cover... Okay, Ugly fairies. You can come out now, I'm not gonna go there and kill myself. Don't worry I'm not stupid and suicidal person to do that. I still love my pathetic life" I go back again in the center and play with the fairies while sharing to them the brownies Grandma made Someone's POV "Die, You useless mutt! Burn down the Prince! Let go of my daughter, You monster! Please have mercy!" Countless of different scream flash in my head as different scenarios came that is full of blood and killing until I saw the glowing red eyes in the dark that laugh hysterically. I quickly wake up from my sleep as the mirror break in pieces and the bat's are flying outside I pant looking the place I am now until I realise its my room. I feel like I'm drowning earlier in the ocean and can't find a room to breath, sweat are also building in my forehead that runs down to my neck. Not a moment pass when I feel a surge of pain came from every part of my body "Damn, my back hurts a f*****g lot and my head!! "This bed of mine get torn and I didn't know that I'm sleeping with rats and c**k roaches. My room became a cave for bats and vines surround my bed but there's a little sunlight came from above My clothes are still the same but a little ruin and dirty. My black hair got too long but I immediately cut my long black hair with my claws. It's getting on my sight. I clench my fist and then undo to test my strength and learn that My real strength aren't completely coming back yet. I get a mirror on the side that is in pieces and see the reflection of my eyes that is now completely bloody red I grin when I learn my experiment got successful. And laugh darkly until I smell a sweet taste like chocolate not far from here. My stomach grumbles, its normal since I slept so long. Its obvious that it'll drain my energy. But chocolate? There's someone living near here? They don't know someone like me who lives here? They must be wishing for death. I quickly run outside with my usual fast spee but after my sleep, I became more faster than I'm used to be. Werewolves are born fast to bunt their target but I surpass even a Vampire this time I follow the scent of the chocolate that head towards South until I heard some laughter. I saw a figure in the middle of the forest in a place where the sunlight only shines to. I transform in my black wolf form that is really big. I hide in the bushes to peek at the person that is laughing. My nose flinch when I smell something disgusting in her cloak, but the chocolate overwhelm it. I get in my fighting stunt when she stands and smell a flower that gave by a fairy. Suddenly I felt something so light but so good that brush pass me. The hood of the girl falls when the breeze came. Her hair fly on the air so graciously, while she smiles on that flower as the sun shines to her making her look so beautiful. The flowers around her feels like dancing and singing for her She's like an angel that came down from the sky "Okay, small Fuckers! Who wants to bath in poison?" she said while pointing at those fairies who tremble in fear I take that back. I never saw someone like her. She's not an angel. She's a spawn of an evil. But even so, I felt that weird feeling before but I know clearly that "She's not my mate" a werewolf would know if a person is their mate and she's not that. I lose something like that before due to my ignorance and my forbidden experiment, so the goddess of moon punish me and would never grant me something so precious to me again. My stomach grumbles in hunger and I'm getting salivate just by looking at the small chocolate cake that she place on the ground with her handkerchief. When she suddenly stand and pick her basket then run away from there I Don't know what happened but I slowly walk towards the food and growls to the fairies that tries to get their hands on it. They all gasp seeing me and hide in their flowers while others fly away from here in fear Sol POV "Sol, get out of there. Come back!" A voice that suddenly popin my mind and I know it came from Grandma. She sound so hurt and whimpering in pain. I don't know what's going on the house now or who attack Grandma, all I think now is head home faster than I ever could " Sol, take care of yourself" Her voice sound so weak it brings me to tear because of the fear. Fear of losing her, fear of not having someone around. Fear of been leaving alone, again. "Grandma!" I scream on the forest while running even she can't hear me since I don't know any spell to cast one. Tears streaming down my checks as I feel more cold than I am earlier. When I return home, I barge in the door and look for grandma around I look at the Living room and there I saw her body lying on the ground lifeless and separated from her head that stuck in a spear that is standing. I stumble in my feet on how gruesome the view is and vomit. The blood ticks my nose but I stand on my feet again and hold her head while crying "No! No! No! Aaaaaaah!!!! No!!! Please, No!!!! Grandma, open your eyes!! Please, Don't do this!!!" I crawl back to her body and tried to connect it but it end up rolling back to me "No, I can't accept this!!! Why?! Why you must leave me like this?! You're just shouting to me earlier, why this happened now?!! I can't accept this!! No!! No I don't want to be left alone!! Please come back! You always have that spell on you right?! Please stop joking around and come back!!" I cried while holding her head that is crying a blood too. Its a symbol that she died as a witch I place her head near her body and quickly run on the library to see the spell that can ressurect a body. I throw all the books that is useless, my hands are trembling and my cry intensify on how useless and pathetic I am now. Until the shelf break and all the books rain on me. My head hit on the ground when I fall but I didn't mind the pain when I saw the book i'm looking for and scan the page "This is it!!" I wipe my tears and run down till I get near Grandma's body and shakily draw the circle around her. I cut my long hair for sacrifice and chant the spells "North can go South, South returns to North. Bring back the time for this body and called the deceased soul to return to its container. Grant me magic for I'm Solene Fairmint the caster!" Nothing happens. I repeat it again but nothing's happening. The magic circle won't glow like how Grandma do. At this point, this magic circle are only a circle, nothing more nothing less. I know this before, the reason all my magic circle or spells won't works was the reason me having no mana at all. I'm just a useless container who knows how to poison a person. I'm so useless. I'm so hopeless. The time where I needed the most that ability was the time it turn its back on me. I have knowledge on spells but having no mana waste all of thaf I fell in my feet and hopelessly crawl to Grandma's body while tears streaming down my cheeks and held her head in my lap. Her blood cover my enter being and the red cloak are now soaking in blood in the floor. Her words about the hood makes me cry like there's no tomorrow. Rain came, Thunder howls, Lightning spark covering the scream I'm making and the sadness I'm have "Aaaaaaahhhh!!!!!!!!!!"