“H-Huh? Where am I?”

The nine years old girl woke up when she realized she was in the middle of the room, wearing a white loose shirt and black shorts. Her silverish-white hair was messy and short with bangs almost covering her blindfolded eyes, she also has a winter-like light fair complexion that she looks like she’s eleven—lastly a pair of white wolf ears and her tail behind her lower back. Until she realized she has been dragged here after being stuck in this hell, and where is she? When did she get here?

The girl doesn’t know but what she knew is that she need to escape from here, this is the place that she was unfamiliar with. And all of a sudden, she felt hands grabbing both of her arms and pulled into her feet, feeling that she was tied from behind and she’d gasped—but didn’t resist. “Do as I say if you don’t want to get hurt!” the voice snapped, sounded like he was covered by a mask. The girl nodded frantically as she seems terrified, and followed wherever the hands dragging her through.

The girl was dropped to the ground that the stage’s floor slightly bruised her knees, hissing slightly when the blindfold released her closed eyes—showing her teal-blue round eyes—seeing that the cage was trapping her around her. The place was dark and red that all around her was almost pitch black in here, the slightest bits of lights could be seen from above her. A curtain? The girl thought, trying to figure out what it is and is it a stage?

The girl has been stuck here for unknown time and made her want to leave this place, how long was it? Months? More than a year? It has been very long after she got here from being dragged by those people. It was hell, and she missed her family.

The girl suddenly watched the curtain opened from two sides in an instance, that was when she realized—she was on stage. Her eyes widened to see the audience were all here, and they were wearing opera masks which are intimidating. As she scanned everything around her, she’s horrified that she needs her parents—where are they? This made her scared, and there was an auctioneer standing on the podium in black suit while facing an audience without looking at her. “With the girl, starting at 40,000 Dinars.”

There were murmurs from the crowds and some booing on him, but the man did not seems to be disturbed. “Do not fret and getting worked up, it was indeed difficult to obtain her and I’m aware on how is she looks like. Now look,” he showed the wolf ears and tail that she has, which made them astonished by the sight of her. “Her wolf ears and tails are authentic and natural from birth, a hybrid from of wolf and human crossbreeds, how’s that?” he was wearing a white mask, looking over her when the audience starts to cheers and bids for the higher price with the cards. “She was about to be part of the experiments, by Reverse that is.”

“60,000 Dinars!

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“90,000 Dinars!”

“100,000 Dinars!”

The girl was literally just sitting there with her head hung low facing the floor, tears running down her eyes to her cheeks. As she put her hands on her ears, preventing the voices of those cheering demons from getting all heard. Was she getting sold to these people? What happened to her parents? Have they gotten killed because of them? It made her frustrated and scared at the same time.

“200,000 Dinars!”

“250,000 Dinars!”

“300,000 Dinars!”

“400,000 Dinars!”

The girl is staring at the floor without saying anything to the whole audience, while listening mindlessly at amount of people bidding and offering to buy her. What she will become? A slave? A plaything? All those thoughts made her think if she will be sold over and over to someone, and it scarred her so much. So many cries of bidding starts to make her thinking if they will do something bad to her, if they bought her--she just want to leave this hell. There she saw another girl with white and light purple knee-length hair, turquoise-blue eyes and fair complexion also cried because she has a white-light purple small water serpent dragon's horns behind her ears and a long dark purple serpent dragon-like tail with a tuft of fur at the end. That was until she heard one of them answered, making her look up in horror.

"5,000,000 Dinars."

The whole theatre turned silent when someone was speaking amongst them, the attacker was unseen and nowhere to be found. "Who's there?" the auctioneer demanded for the answer, looking around in searching for the sources until a gunshot echoing around the hall. One of the female guests screamed, when one of the guests was shot on the head by sudden instances.

The girl stopped crying when she heard another gunshot coming once again, it didn't terrified her but made her stop from that. "H-Huh?" the crowds went panicked, one of the bodyguards got shot and the auctioneer was shot on the head. "Ah!" a key fell on the floor in front of her, she grabbed the key quickly and unlocked the padlock and then the door's opened.

The girl used the other key that was dropped by the auctioneer, unlocking the cage where the other girl was being locked inside. "Let's go, we are escaping."

"B-But..." the other girl said meekly, but the girl insisted. "Trust me."

Once she escapes from the cage as the girl handed out her hand that she grabs it with her shaking hands, they could see dead bodies in piles everywhere from the hall--but they choose to ignore them. They ran off from there through the haze of the smoke, where the two nine-years old girls has ran off from the hall and leaving the underground city.

The girl was panting when she walk up towards the stairway outside above, she finally reached the ground and turn around to see the explosion of the building. Her eyes widened when she saw the men ran off from the explosion, the one who set the whole explosives in there. "They… saved me? And her...?" she murmured, before she turn around to see the city from the distance--now she had to continue there which is not far from where she was.

The girl shake her head when she think about them, both of them walk up towards the path of the city to find a place to stay.