Chosen by fate

chapter 1

Elsa found herself Alone in the dark forest at a night where the huge and tall mangrove trees blocked out every ray of moonlight intending to illuminate the forest.

Still wondering how she got here in the first place, she heard noises from the opposite direction, though still clouded in darkness, her pupils had dilated, forcing her eyes to adapt to the darkness, allowing her to be able to see a few inches away from her face in the dark.

Elsa followed where the sounds were coming from and after walking through shrubs and moving leaves sideways from her face as she maneuvers through little trees and hanging tree branches, she stepped into an opening of level and clear ground.

Still dark but unlike how it was in the dark forest, she could now see that she had burst onto land covered with short stubborn Grass.

Not familiar with her environment, she began surveying from left to right and as her head turn right in full, faraway, she could see a bright light far off, she could see some group of persons sitting around a burning fire.

It made her realize how cold the night was and it made her body begin craving for some warmth.

Elsa had no idea where she was nor who the people were, but she knows for sure that she wouldn't survive the night out here with the severe cold that covered the night sky with fog, covering the view of the moon from the cloudy dark sky.

Out of impulse, her feet began moving toward the direction of the light.

Now inches away from the unidentified people sitting around the fire, she stopped as caution kicked in, Elsa realized she was walking towards strangers that she has no idea who they might be as they could also be dangerous and cause her harm but the heat keeps luring her closer.

Elsa clutched her arms around her body as she was already shivering from the exposure to the cold, still looking at the strange figures sitting around the fire, she made a headcount of three persons, went a bit closer, and crouched behind a little growing tree with broad green leaves and it partially hid her from sight.

Elsa had a better view from this close range as she could now see what the people sitting around the fireplace looked like.

For the first time tonight, Elsa could make out the faces of the three adults sitting around the fire as their faces glowed from the sparkling and crackling fire that keeps being fed with dry wood by one of the adults to keep the fire burning.

Elsa figured out they were a pair of two men, one older than the other and then the last person was an elderly woman who keeps eye contact with both men as they kept chatting endlessly with happiness in the air and Elsa knew that whatever they must be talking about should be interesting as they all seem focused and deep into the conversation.

While Elsa was trying to eavesdrop on them as she pushed her body over the little tree to figure out what they were doing here alone in the cold, she rested on the little tree and it twitched from its stem as the young tree couldn't hold on to the weight resting on it.

She Lost balance and almost fell but she quickly regained balance to overcome the pull of gravity, the whole scene generated sounds that made the strangers look back trying to figure out what is making the noise and where it came from.

As the strangers all turned back, breaking away from their conversation, Elsa was able to see their faces clearly, she wanted to duck and hide away but she froze for a second as she made eye contact with the strangers, suddenly, nothing made sense to her as her brain was processing the faces looking back at her, all puzzled.

Elsa couldn't believe her eyes as she quickly recognized those faces instantly, she rubbed her eyes and opened them again hoping that she wasn't being tricked.

She became more discombobulated because she knew that the images unfolding before her weren't supposed to be real.

The faces relaxed back and smiled back at her, and that was when Elsa knew that they also recognized her, meaning that what she was seeing wasn't an illusion, it was the household of the royal blood of the brown claws of Segrus--------her very own family.

While wondering how possible it was for her dad, the alpha, her mom, the queen, and her elder brother, the heir to the throne to be outside of an unmarked location far from their palace to a place deep in the woods at night, the group suddenly began calling out for her to come to join them sit around the fire.

Elsa had many queries in her mind but at the moment, she couldn't resist the warmth of the fire as her teeth were almost clattering from the cold.

Now feeling different and safe as the people she once considered strangers turned out to be family, she felt comfortable and tried moving to where they were, but her feet wouldn't move, Elsa was confused in the dark as to what could be hindering her movement.

When she bent down to check what it was, Elsa couldn't believe that a pair of branches had formed into some hard fiber rope wrapped tightly around her legs, she tried loosening it but it was too thick, she was beginning to wonder why tonight was weird and it even began to worsen up.

Elsa tried all she could to remove the ropes but when she couldn't, she stood up straight to ask for help from her family.

That was when she noticed something huge and dangerous sneaking up on them from the back.

Elsa tried to scream to them to run as the evil beast that had red fiery eyes approached them from the back carefully without noise, but no sound came from her vocal cords.

Elsa felt dreadful as she couldn't move an inch as she was tied up with the rope, so she motioned to them with her finger pointing to where the creature was coming from in the dark but her family seems not to get her message as they helplessly looked back at each other hoping that the other understood what she was pointing at, they shook their head as they couldn't understand what she meant.

Elsa became more aggressive as the creature came close enough for its form to be visible as it's now closer than ever.

She struggled and suddenly, she brainstormed, Elsa bent over, picked a stick Lying on the ground, and threw it towards the creature, her family followed the projectiles of the stick as it sailed through the air, Elsa's aim came true as the stick landed just in front of the creature which has now been close enough for her to see that it was a werewolf with fiery eyes ready to devour its prey.

She was happy as her family finally saw the werewolf she had been warning them about, but what they did next surprised Elsa to her bones.