Ana was sitting in the balcony of my room, looking at the garden down below, recalling the saddest incidents of the previous year. Never in her 20 years of existence did she feel so pained.
She was about to write her college entrance exams the day before her parents and her sweet brother died in car accident, she felt devastated, broken and alone. For once in her life she was going to be happy but the worst hit her with a blow.
She was looking at the stars and wishing hard for something good to happen to her, at least for once.
She wished so hard that the stars decided to make her life too interesting even for her.
As she was about to come down from the balcony, she slipped and fell in a mud puddle and that did not look good on her white shorts and blue sports bra.
Ana stood up disgusted by the sudden events and started shaking her arms and legs off, she was so concentrated on getting the mud off her hair that she didn't notice the bright light that was shining on the other side of the garden that led to the forest.
When she was done shaking off the mud, she looked ahead and saw the light fading, and since it was so boring and quiet in the house she decided to walk to the forest with her phone and find out what was making the dark and humid forest shine so brightly.
She walked past the garden doors and set foot on the path of the forest where there were less trees and less branches to prevent it from scratching her already dirty clothes.
She took a long walk for about 30 minutes and didn't spot anything interesting or anything that could make the forest as shiny as it was, she decided to give up and go back home, but as she turned around 90• to her right, she heard a crackling sound coming from the nearby bushes.
The hairs on her neck stood up and she swallowed hard, with the torchlight of her phone she tried to see what was there, but she was too scared to walk forward, Ana took a deep breath and gathered courage, she walked to the bush where she heard the sound and a creature jumped out of it, she screamed and started making a run for it, she was sweating madly and that's when she realized she had walked too far from home and was lost.
The ugly looking creature was still after her so she kept on running, but just as she looked back and was about to start running again, she hit a rock solid hard surface and fell to the ground with a big "stump".
" You should watch where your going girl, before you break your skull and your brains turn to pulp", said a very deep, elegant and manly voice, she got chills just from hearing him talk and she looked up and saw someone looking down on her with bright blue eyes, she freaked out and wanted to run but then the ugly creature was already growling behind her.
"Smells like a human, but with an addition of something else, what do you think about her Edward?", asked Alexander to his right hand man who was standing behind one if the trees.
" I don't know your majesty, she looks pretty human to me, but there is another off smell coming from her" said Edward as he walked closer to see what the girl looked like.
'Are they talking about me?' Ana asked herself as she was breathing heavily and looking at the two men in front of her.
"Hmmm poor little thing, you should have avoided the light when you fell down from that balcony. Marcus, pick the human up, we're taking her back to the castle, and take her light thingy too" said Alexander to the creature as they turned their backs on the girl and vanished.
"Wait..... nooo don't leave me here with this thing!" she screamed at the men that vanished and then turned around to look at the creature with fear, and before she knew it, she vanished too.
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Up in the mountains of Gilmore, there stood a very high, big and beautiful castle, but for some reason it was only filled with the maids and guards that were working there. The people in the village dreaded to even walk in the paths that led to the castle. Some said that travelers who walked around the area were killed or dragged away by wolf-like creatures or disappeared without a trace, every villager maintained their distance from the castle and those who were making the deliveries to the castle were the most terrified of all, because they didn't know when they'll disappear for good or be eaten by the creatures.
Alexander, Edward and the dog Marcus came back home to the castle with Ana, and all the maids and guards around bowed their heads at their arrival. The maids were covering their eyes because the girl they were dragging seemed to be almost naked to them and they started to whisper, Alexander on the other hand smiled to them and said.
"This young lass will be staying here in the castle as my guest, treat her the way I want and do not disappoint me unless you want your heads hanging on the scaffold in the village, take her away for a bath and get her some clean clothes" he said as he walked past them and entered the castle.
"Wait hold on a second, you can't just tell them to take me away like I'm some kind of thing, and who says I want to stay here?" Ana was trying to be bold but she was shaking like a maniac, you could even catch it in the tone of her voice.
Alexander on the other hand ignored her and told the servants to do as he said and walked past them.
"Miss, please come with us" said one of the maids as they accompanied her to a room in the castle.
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Inside Alexander's chambers Edward spoke.
"What do you plan on doing with the girl?"
"Anything interesting that comes to my mind Edward, I'm bored of all the prostitutes in the taverns or in the house of lots, I need a new toy to play with, and besides this one has caught my attention by her dressing style" he smiled and looked out the window.
"But what if she's not a prostitute, people from the 21st century might have a different dress style" said Edward trying to change Alexander's mind.
"Oh please Edward stop it, where in the world will a sane lady only cover her body with just those pieces of materials she was putting on" asked Alexander putting on his cigarette.
"We're in the 15th century my Lord, and she's from another world entirely, don't you think what we did will disturb the balance?", asked Edward concerned.
" Stop being so soft Edward there is no balance in this wicked world, the good suffer more than the bad, the rich keep getting richer and the poor are stagnant on their horrible life styles, and you talk about balance... Don't be ridiculous " concluded Alexander while giggling and taking a puff from his cigarette.
"I just hope your right about things this time Alex, I hope you really are" said Edward as he left the room.
After the maids took Ana to the room they excused themselves to get thing to polish her and make her look neat. But as soon as they left the room, she searched it and found a terrace, she grabbed the sheets on the bed and tied it around the rings of the gather and used it to jump down from the tower where the chamber was located.
Immediately she landed on the ground, she made a run for it, anything that could get her away from the crazy man who kidnapped her and brought her to this strange fantasy looking place.
The maids came back to the room and saw all the sheets of the bed tied on the gather, they were alarmed and sent word to Alexander about the girl's sudden disappearance.
He looked at the maid who reported to him with disgust and anger.
"You incompetent fools, how could you let her get away that easily, is there something wrong with your services or you all helped her leave this place? "
He asked angrily but the maid shook in fear and explained what happened once again only to to be silenced.
"Shut your damn mouth and get out of here if you still value your life" yelled Alexander as he left his chambers and proceeded to the front gates of the palace.
"Guards, find that girl I brought into the castle immediately, and if she leaves this castle I will behead every single one of you"
Alexander sped up his pace until he was in the courtyard of the palace, he ordered Marcus to find the girl and the beast like creature obeyed.
Ana was heaving like she'd stolen from the bank and a dozen police cars were after her, she stopped for a whole to catch her breath, only for Marcus to find her and chase her.
"Are you fucking kidding me?" she took the other route and was running without looking back, she saw a huge gate and smiled to herself.
'I'm going to be free, I'll be free' she said to herself until she hit Alexander's chest and fell on the floor again.
"I told you to watch where you were going before didn't I?" he said with a sarcastic smile on his face.
"Fuck" she said as she realized it was Alexander, she wanted to run the other way but Marcus had already caught up with her.
She stood there in the middle of the man that kidnapped her and the creature that looked like a wolf and a bear at the same time, she was breaking cold sweat and as the creature was walking closer to her, she lost her balance and passed out.