"Annabel, did you break these plates?" My mother asked me while I was still trying to make sense of all the mind confusion from the swapping bodies and the pieces of fragmented soul I had lost and was somehow aware of it. Did that mean I couldn't die over and over?
"I don't remember breaking anything. Why do you ask?" I tell my mother, who quickly but quietly runs over to me to place her hand over my mouth as she then whispers next to my ear some bizarre lines.
"Don't make a noise; I think the warehouses found your scent; it's very possible this place isn't safe for us anymore." My mother suddenly revealed some heavy information to me, like I was somehow supposed to know what she said meant all of a sudden, but I had no idea what the fuck she was on about.
"Werewolves?" I whisper back to my mother, who whispers back at me with an exact response.
"Yes, your scent is quite peculiar since you're practically a newborn, fuck I thought I had gone far enough from their range, but it seems like I messed up; I'm sorry." My mother quietly began to move stuff behind me, packing what looked like a backpack with clothes and other things in as much silence as possible.
My scent was very peculiar. It's what Mother said right before I noticed my red eyes and the reveal that I'm a cannibal in this new small body of mine. Was I like a vampire or some sort of creature like that now? Was that the whole reason a werewolf would want to feats upon my body?
"What do we do now?" I whisper to my mom as she hurries up her pace once tiny footsteps can be heard outside the house.
"Shhhh!" My mother places her finger over my mouth, shushing me as soon as very low growls and footsteps walk by our house, suddenly giving a chill down my spine. Was it true? There really were werewolves in this new world? No way, I thought right before remembering that there are fucking magical powers in this world, so why would werewolves be out of the question!?
The wild growls of an animal soon began to turn to human mumbles, followed by the footsteps getting heavier and heavier like those of a person. All of a sudden, I felt even worse, tightening my entire body in fear. I hadn't even seen the things yet, and I was already shitting my pants.
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"Open your door, dear Claudia, we just want to talk," A male voice speaks as someone knocks on the door, causing my mother to shove me under the bed. "You must run as fast and far as possible once I distract them. You have to promise me to do that." My mother whispers as she hands me over the little bag filled with clothes and snacks.
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I was still confused and startled by the whole thing. Don't refuse my new mother's request, simply nodding along as I didn't wish to die again so soon. I had just reincarnated for a second time and wasn't planning on dying again anytime soon, not after knowing that the system could mess me up if it fucks up my reincarnation. What if I lost something else next time? It was too risky.
"Leave me alone, Darryl; I already told you the progenitor girl is not with me." My mother says as she slowly cracks the door open, letting me see the true horror of a monster; the man wasn't a man in any shape or form as they looked more like a wild beast with the shape of a human.
The guy had long hairy legs and arms, claw-like hands, very sharp eyes, a weird tone, and was shaped like a night predator. My mother, on the other hand, looked quite ordinary, yet she also had her weird looks with long fangs and the same blood-colored eyes I had.
"Don't lie now, Claudy; I know you have her here; this whole place smells like young blood. You know what happens to liars that hide away their children from us, don't you?" The man soon grabs my mother by the cheek with his claw-like hand, which easily pierces my mother's skin, causing her some bleeding from the injuries.
"I swear I'm not lying, Darryl; I'm telling you the truth." My mother tries to play it cool until the man slaps her down with his right hand as he starts sniffing the house, getting ever closer and closer to me, causing me to tremble and shake in fear even more.
"I can smell your fear, little one! Come out wherever you are. You can't hide away forever," The wolfman keeps sniffing the house, getting just a couple of feet away from me. I panic and have a sudden urge to run for my life, yet I still hold on to my mother's signal, which she seemed ever closer to giving me.
"It's like I told you, Darryl, there's no young progenitor here; your sense of smell must be off." My mother says as she sneakily hides away a knife between her clothes, getting ever closer to Darryl's back, who was now practically sniffing over my bed.
"Stop lying, woman! The child is right under here, isn't she!? Oh! You're in trouble now, Claudia!" The wolfman scares me to death as soon as he reaches my hair from under the bed, quickly pulling me from under it to the outside where I can see the man's true nature so close to me I pee myself just a little bit.
"Look who we found here; I'll make a couple of belts out of you, that's for damn sure," I can feel the man's aura crushing my spirit with just the use of his stare that pierces right through my wretched soul, giving me a taste of real evil of someone so fucked up in the head it makes me even more terrified of them.
"NOW, ANNABEL, RUN!" My mother suddenly breaks away from the man's grip over me as she stabs the man on the back, who lets go of me for a second to try and pry over the knife from his back. "You bitch! I will turn you into a coat for this, Claudia! You stupid vampire!"
I don't even hesitate to run out as fast as I can as soon as my mother distracts the wolf man, who angrily begins to beat the shit out of my mother with his bare hands. I could hear the blood gushing out of my mom with every punch. Even when I was a little far away, I could still hear the punches and screams of pain from my mother as the werewolf brutally killed her.
Goddammit, I thought as I ran faster than I had ever run before. Couldn't I just get a normal rerun for life? Was life set up in hardcore mode just for me, or what?