Chapter 1 The Beginning

• “All my life, I have never been touched by a man. I’ve remained clean and chaste” – Ava Goodchild
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• Prologue
• “Spread your legs, little Ava. Open it and let me devour you.”
• I trembled at his tone of words used, with my hands clenched around my garment tightly.
• His voice sounded like sin itself and his eyes held a lustful gaze, darkened with desire.
• “P-Please, we don’t have to use this way.” I said.
• “A-An insemination would w-work quite fine—”
• A pissed growl configured the entire room. He pounced towards me, clearing everything in his way.
• My eyes wandered to his fur springing out of his shoulders. I swallowed a gulp, in anxiousness.
• “Do it or my guards would do it for you. You do not want to test a beast!!”
• He growled powerfully. With his aura, holding a dangerous presence.
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• The first thing I laid my eyes on when I woke up, was an old chest. Brownish, with strikes of rusted gold engraved on its body.
• The room seemed like a small cubicle. With multiple engravings and paintings on the wall. It held a mysterious and ancient impression.
• I stood, up rubbing the back of my forehead softly.
• “Where am I?”
• Those words, I asked myself. In the dimly lit room, I had a hard time seeing clearly.
• Suddenly, a door creaked open.
• Just at the entrance of the door lied a large shadow.
• Since it was dark, I was really having a hard time seeing who it was.
• “I see you’re awake, little Ava.”
• Bulky steps begun to pound towards me.
• It was like I was a prey being predated on.
• “W-Who are you? A-And, w-where am I?”
• I stammered, my voice breaking at each sentence.
• Hands unexpectedly wrapped around my waist, drawing me closer.
• My thighs clenched and I felt a little wet, just in between my legs. Something hard connected to me, giving me a totally weird feeling that left me confused.
• “You seem to not remember anything.” His rough and husky tone constructed.
• “N-not in d-detail. A l-little reminder might h-help please,”
• Still in his arms, a timorous feeling occupied me.
• “As my breeder, we’ll be christening every part of this castle, little one”
• My eyes widened, in shock.
• “W-what??”
• My head recalled some scenes immediately. Memory begun to jeer from the previous day. . .
• *Flashback*
• “Ladies and gentlemen, as you all know, once in every 200 years, a virgin outcast is sacrificed to the beast.”
• The speaker’s voice boomed through our community.
• He was a male with a clownish expression. Dressed elegantly in one of the finest robes our village had to offer.
• My eyes searched through the crowd, looking towards Moses. I looked up to him because he didn’t treat me like a weirdo like most of the villagers around.
• I wondered what ran through his mind.
• To escape the selection, we planned on running away today. I mean it had been announced that it was the next day.
• But it seemed like they played on our intelligence. It was today.
• And in a way, we were damned.
• “Lily, Tabitha, Rose…Enchantress…” Various names of girls who were marked out as being weird were listed out.
• I knew this worked in different ways.
• In our village, girls with eccentric opinion were marked out as witches.
• Anomaly.
• They were like a plague. An outcast to be avoided.
• And I was one of them.
• “Ava Goodchild,”
• The announcer finally stated. I seemed to be the last on the list. Didn’t mean I was any different from the rest of them.
• I held the hems of my gown, making my way towards the outskirts of where the girls were asked to stay.
• “NO!! NO!!! Ava dear!!”
• A voice beseeched from the crowd. I looked back hopelessly, only to see the woman that raised me, running towards me.
• “COME BACK, AVA!! This is not for you!”
• She was instantly held back by the guards, but she still fought furiously.
• Walking towards her, I held the sides of her face with my both palms.
• “I’m going to be okay, mum.”
• I told her.
• “OH SWEETIE. This is all my fault. I should have raised you better,” she choked out bitterly.
• Her face was red all over and she shed tears like she had just lost someone on a battle field.
• “Promise me to take care of mum,” I directed to Moses, who had maneuvered his way to calm her down.
• “If things go haywire, promise to always be with her,”
• He gave me a re-assuring look, and slowly I untangled my hands from mum’s face. Her eyes, misty, seemed lost. She was taken back slowly.
• Quickly, I made my way to the stage stairs, climbing up to where the other girls were.
• “Well, that was quite some unsettling drama,” The announcer commented.
• He snapped his fingers.
• “Bring the box of luck forward,”
• Knowing exactly what to do, each of us picked a letter.
• And one by one, stepped forward, passing it to the assigned speaker to read it out.
• “You’re safe,”
• That was all it took for him to say to every girl after he viewed their letter.
• It was done turn by turn and there were numerous jeers from the crowd.
• “Safe…Safe…. You’re safe,”
• Turn by turn, he made it known to the girls.
• For you to be safe from being chosen, you had to possess a number that was even. Once you got an odd, you would be carried to represent the beast’s breeder.
• “Taken,”
• A cry was let out and one of the girls trembled with so much fear. A gasp from the crowd was heard as the girl tried to flee from being chosen.
• I recognized her from the library.
• “Get her!!”
• A shot was let out. I watched in shock as the girl fell down from the impact.
• Crimson flowed out of her lifeless body. Immediately, she dropped dead right in front of us.
• “This goes as a lesson to anyone who tries to escape her fate!”
• The speaker fiercely announced.
• “Clear her remains,” he ordered the ferocious guards.
• They did as he said, and he commenced.
• “Safe, safe, safe, taken,”
• A few rounds to go. I yawned with tiredness as I handed my letter. It was forbidden to look inside without it being the speaker, that was why I hadn’t peeked in.
• “Taken,”
• A single word that I couldn’t believe hearing.
• “NOOOOO!! Not my Ava? Not my pretty little Ava! She’s just a child! She’s just a little child!!”
• Mum yelled through the crowd.
• Moses dragged her to safety, knowing she could be gunned down anytime.
• “Be safe, dear. Do as he says, so you would be let go,”
• Everyone looked at us hopelessly as we were being taken.
• No girl had ever survived in the beast’s hands.
• On our way, some girls tried to escape to but it only led to their lives being ended.
• We ended up remaining only two.
• Mysteriously, we were tied to a tree, in the midst of a forest with large and tall trees. Left to the dangers that could come from anywhere.
• And mostly, to be devoured by the beast.