Short Stories-Whatever Happened To The Big Bad Wolf

"Whatever Happened To The Big Bad Wolf"


In the mist of the frosty North in the forest of Hungary where the breath of the frost shadows the feet and the face and makes every face a stranger.

There lived a small village beyond a hill called the blinking fireflies...

It began with a whisper, a simple voice in the wind that blew to the ears of a child boren by a woman and a man in one lonely night.

Day became night and nights became days and soon both made many moons and the child came of age.
He was named Adrian Of Wintrest, as Wintress was the name of their village.

Then it began to grow, like a seed in the mind of the boy. He was a forest boy.
On a morning of lowly silence he followed that voice as it calls into the forest, resounding into the distance like the ripple of a water drop carried by the wind.

There in the mist that lowers and pours into a stream, in magnificence was the mist in the image of men talking but soon disappears in an eye' twinkle.

Every night the hills glitter with fireflies it is believed that the gods hide in the mist watching over their village.

Something happened that was not written on the moon, Adrian fell in love with a farmer's fair daughter named Dreya.
She loves him as much as he loves her and both soon to tie the knot when he blooms into a full man.

The way anything good must be opposed by bad, the heart of men did not sit well with their love, so they conspired and schemed to break 'em apart.

One sad evening Dreya was returning from picking blueberries that has been said gives colors to her blue eyes. She was seized by some men and hidden in the forest where men or beast seldom visit.

Her parents with many villagers took lighted oiled lamps in search of Dreya but she was no where to be found.

This act of jealousy set the path to restless nights in Winteress Village. It is said that travellers have said to have seen faces in the mist and also heard their whispers.

Little they they know that a man pure in heart such as Adrian, is a prophetic child. Anything he thinks or dreams is the form the mist takes and the course fulfilled.

As Adrian's heart was not at peace, the mist continues to rise too. One night he dreamt he turned into a wolf and tore apart the house of the jealous men and interrogates them about his missing Dreya.

He woke up and saw that his dreams came true, a wolf rode in the mist, tore apart the homes of some villagers and bruised some. He ran into the forest to find out the truth and rescue Dreya.

He ran like the wind in the forest, and in the mist he could catch the bliss of the Wolf by his side. Asking him 'What do you need me to do Adrian? '

He hits his leg and stopped 'I need to find Dreya, I need to..  Then became sober.

The mist answered 'I can help you find Dreya but a much bigger task lie ahead of you Adrian, the Garistas are only a league away'
Adrian asked
'who are am I?'
You are the one Adrian that the mist listen to, it can be anything you think it to be'

'Who are they, the Garistas?'
The mist appeared behind him
'They must be stopped or they'll enslave your kind, we have been protecting your kind since time unknown '

Adrian went on,
'we must warn the villagers, it must be why the hills did not blink last night'

The mist answered,
'This is your fight Adrian, let 'em remain in peace'

Adrian said 'First you need to find Dreya, take this it has her perfume it'll help, go go'
Adrian ran back to the hills and commanded legion of armies from the mist and they rose with amours of battle.

They chased the Garistas into the West as they disappeared with the setting sun.

The wolf tore apart the village looking for Dreya and caught her scent following one of the captors that went into a cave in the forest. The wolf swept in smashing them to the ground and set free Dreya and disappeared.

Dreya went back to the village unharmed, everyone shocked by her coming. She searched around for Adrian and they told her he is in the forest.

Adrian came back covered in muddy earth and she hugged and kissed him. She quickly told him she was rescued by a wolf and it is the same Wolf that is tearing up the village.

Then Adrian took her to the forest, from behind her the wolf came back and he said 'I am the Big Bad Wolf that was tearing the village apart looking for you my love'
Then she runs to him and hugged him, saying 'you are my hero'.
Ends...