Chapt:1 From Grace to Grass
Young Zena at the age of four years
Young Zena POV
Glaring from the backseat car windshield and staring at the narrowed coal-tarred lonely road, scary masquerade trees coated with snow take my pleasure while I count the trees.
I knelt in the back seat of the car while facing the back windshield because that was my favorite position to watch the car drive.
I was bored staring at the front windshield wiper as it flips out the snowflakes on the car screen left and right, which made me almost snooze.
My mom is busy scanning through a rectangle shape piece of paper that looks, exactly, the same one my geography teacher had used to teach us how to study the map of the world.
I have no idea where we were going, but I overheard my mom and my dad some time ago, they were having a conversation about buying a new apartment in a new community.
I hope it is not where we are going because I am going to miss my friend Jennifer, she is the only person who understands me in the class.
I am three years old, but my mom still calls me a baby, most times she gets worried about me because she thinks that I am more hyperactive than my age and over-curious.
Every so often, I wish I could be like Wonder Woman, saving people's lives with my hand shield, but my strength is too little to lift a cup of coffee or even take a shower by myself.
A few times in my quiet mood, I get to hear pandemonium voices from a distance and I can't figure out one speech from their conversation.
And, when I am angry, I get hyperpyrexia which could be dangerous and disastrous, especially when my parent is not around and Jennifer was not in school to calm me down.
I got expelled from six daycare schools because my teachers could not put up with my anger issue, although that is exactly what the headmistress said to my parent.
Bullying my classmate is not my thing, but I get upset when they make a joke or fun of my drawings, especially James who always poo in his diapers.
It was not my intention to bully him, but he made me angry by dropping his orange juice on my new drawing.
Some of my classmates see me as a monster, and I'm different from the other normal children because I easily get angry.
And most times they refer to me as an angry lion, but I wonder what an angry lion looks like thou.
While I was previously watching the front windshield of the car, my mom had noticed that I was observing her and,
she said to me, coiling up her cheeks and her lips extending nicely with her teeth that were sparkling so bright like a lovely smile,
“baby, do you want some snacks?”, I could not tell her anything because I wasn't ready to speak up, I just rejected her offer by shaking my head.
Emmy is my teddy baby, the only friend I have now, especially when I'm not with Jennifer,
I held her very close to my bosom because I started feeling uncomfortable when I notice that the day is already dark,
and only the headlights from our car could be the means I see through the front windshield from the car.
An average old couple in their seventies, living in a house that has a single story and a roof that is not very steep,
and their home could be seen that they are just poor farmers living in poor village woods.
Mr.and Mrs. Angus are poor couples with no child of their own, although, they once had two daughters, they were killed by the mystery animal that roams about the village.
Mrs.Angus just started making dinner when her husband was in a rush to leave the house,
“Where are you going, Mr. Angus? it's late already, and it's not safe in the woods.”
“My dear, I have to check my trap in the woods tonight before it flees with the assistance of its fellow animal.”
Adjusting the jacket from his neckline, the old faded ash color garment he wore while he wraps his neck with his old colorful Scotland tartan scarf.
His wife yelled from the cluster corner inside the house that is used as a kitchen, and she said,
“Please go with the lamp. Oh! It's the only one we have here.” she said, wiping her hands on her old above-knee flora sky-blue skirt.
“You are right, my dear, I need the lamp.” before he could snail pace and arrange himself, his wife came out from the kitchen space and said,
“I have to go with you because I can't stay here all by myself, and it will be dark for me” she double-quicks her walk to the lampstand and carried it.
Her husband looked at her with a goof look that portrays, this old woman can't stop disturbing or following me around ever since we lost our two daughters.
And both of them journey inside the dark woods to check their animal trap.
My dad was still driving down the lonely road, and my mom did not insist on giving me the snacks again, rather she return to the strange-looking paper that she placed on her thighs.
Suddenly, I heard her telling my dad,
“Honey, did you see that?”,
I looked immediately, and saw a human in the shape of an animal that zoom immediately at the corner side of her window,
and I fleet very fast at the back windshield of our car,
and saw a huge animal in human shape, stotting like an antelope while bouncing up and down on all four legs.
I was mute because I have never seen a gigantic thing like that in my entire life, and could not even find a word to call it.
I glared again, in the dark road from the back windshield, it looks like the animals were gathering like a pack.
Not only that, they gathered, but they were more and fast approaching our car, I was shocked and scared that I immediately screamed from the back seat.
“Mommy, mommy, look the giant dogs are following us, and they are running towards our car very fast.”
I suddenly knew, my dad was driving our car very fast like the car racing sports show I normally watch with him every weekend.
Suddenly, there is an unexpected bash on the car twice from the outside corner of the car like it was smashed with a huge based ball plank.
Fear immediately circulate my body, and my heart started beeping very fast like I was about to fall from a high mountain when our car suddenly start drifting left and right.
All I could hear, was my mom screaming,
“Annie, get your seat belt on!”,
It was like a movie when I felt the bash again on our car and suddenly, my dad and my mom screamed in a high hoarse voice and I also scream with them too,
Not up to a minute, I glance out the window, I could see the sky and our car was floating in the air, suddenly it start going down like it was falling from the sky.
Kaboom sounded a bit of distance in the woods, not far from where the couple went to check for their animal trap.
It was like an earthquake the landed car gave its sound, which made both couples tremble with fear, their heart received a sudden shock that almost made Mr.Angus pass out.
He held his chest to get himself from the heart cessation, and he whispered to his wife even though he almost went scared to death,
“Did you hear the strange, loud sound?”
“Yes my dear, we should go check where it is coming from, maybe something terrible must h-” before she could finish her statement.
Multiple loud woof sounds echo in the woods, which got the couples more scared, but they were quick enough to reach where Annie parent's car had landed.
The more they reach the car distance, the more the couple could hear slightly, a young child screaming.
They approached the vehicle looking very perplexed because the car has tumbled and the wheels were still spinning.
“What's that smell? like some kind of cooking flammable liquid.” Mrs. Angus curiously asked.
“It is the car petrol, and we need to save the child” he affirmed.
“What about her parent, can we save them too?”
“Yes, I think.”
He hurriedly gave his wife the lamp and rushed to the driver's door, trying to pull the door open, but the door was stiff,
he went to the passenger's side to help the carrying baby.
But the car doors were a bit difficult to open, and he added more strength while he forcefully open the car door and carried out young Annie,
he handed her over to his wife while he collect the flame lamp from her.
Still trying to save the unconscious couple that was stuck in the car, but it has seen very difficult.
He had an idea to get anything that can break the glass window, he fleet-footed a bit distance from the car at least, he thought if he can get a wood he would use to break the car glass window,
His wife took young Annie to a safe corner in the woods when suddenly she heard an explosive sound from the car's distance.
Although the heat wave was harsh on her skin, all that could spread in her thought was her husband's existence.
However, the wave had blown her husband to a dark corner that she could not have seen, but later saw him after she had thoroughly searched for him.
Lucky for her, he is still conscious, she tapped him after she had carried him up,
The couple then again heard the strange woof voices, and another strange sound like a dog is about to give birth.
Suddenly, they heard the woofing sound again and this time around, it feels like whatever it is, maybe very close to them.
They started assuming it could be the destructive animal that kills humans in the community and Mr. Angus double-quick to the flaming lamp as he picks it up for sightseeing.
Mrs. Angus has already carried Annie while they ran without looking back, as fast as their legs could carry them home.
They immediately zoom into their old wretched and dateless house.
Both couples were seriously panting very heavily like their hearts were about to explode because they had never expected such exercise.
Fear grips their thought to the extent, that they stood like they were frozen or more like a statue inside the house.
Staring at the door from inside like they were expecting someone to bang the door from the outer side,
they stood for some minutes eavesdropping to hear any further strange sounds or voices.
After a few minutes of waiting, they felt relaxed but slightly worried about what will happen next to them and the new child they saved from the car explosion.
Mrs.Angus moved to lay the newfound child on the plain-clothed wood that looks like a bed.
She was about to lay the young child, and suddenly, something sparkled from the side of the young child's dress, like a metal,
she looked further and saw a gold necklace on Annie's neck,
she took the necklace off her neck while she places the gold necklace in a safe box, that would hardly be noticed in their old fashion house.
She return to the bedside where she laid Annie,
Mrs. Angus POV
I was staring at the young child when suddenly salty liquid dropped from my cheek and my heart was heavy that I could not control myself as the tears drips.
I wondered what could be the fate of this innocent-looking child, after seeing the way her parent died in the car explosion made me think of myself.
Maybe heaven has blessed me with a child finally, that will take care of me when my husband and I will be old,
and, I'm not ready to give up on this child because I will guard and take care of this precious gift with my life.
While tears drop constantly on her cheeks, she wipes them with her left hand and unconsciously continues flicking Annie's hair backward.
“What shall we call her?” he shocked his wife with his unexpected presence.
“She shall be called Zena!, the moon girl.
Look, my dear husband, isn't she pretty like the moon?”
Mr.Angus snail pace close to his wife and the young child that later went unconscious after much crying,
he glared at her very close and his heart suddenly went mute as his jaw dropped immediately,
he saw a unique rare birthmark, a familiar one from the tales of wolverine, the mark of true blood of an Alpha.
