Little Girl Lost

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"Little Girl Lost"

by: Wes Robert Ward

There was a Little Girl lost in the woods. The deep dark woods that is. So lost and frightened beyond nothing could compare to the fear within this Little Girl.

Lost for two days now and hungry so hungry. Also cold so cold. She hides within a hollow hole of an old tree when she hears the howl of a wolf.

Fear sets in as she bundles deep within the hollow hole of the old tree. Her Grandmother once told her the tale of Little Red Riding Hood, but that was a fantasy this on the other hand was reality.

How did she get lost you say? She missed the school bus and decided to walk home. There's an old saying, better to take the long way home than the short path that is unknown. That unknown was the dark forest of no return. Well that's what kids on the playground had called it.

The Little Girl thought she found the right path, but she was confused and perplexed by how almost every tree looked alike and every rock or slight ravine she encountered.

Sadly the Little Girl was so far deep in the woods she was miles and miles from town. By now her Mother and Grandmother would be worried and her Father would be getting people together to search for her.

After walking for so long and for so many hours crying for help soon night was upon her. She found an odd looking opening inside a hole of a large standing tree almost hollow, but with enough room for her, so she climb into it.

Not so comfortable she had thought, but it kept the nightly mist off her. In the distance all she saw was lightning bugs flutter this way and that, she wished she could use them as a beacon in the dark sky to show the search party where she was at.

"Aroooo!!!" bellowed a Wolf, sounding awfully close, "Aroooo!!!"

The Little Girl trembled with terror as she tried to hide herself as good as possible. The thought of a hungry rabid wolf ripping her to shreds scared her immensely. She didn't want to imagine the Wolf biting her and ripping skin, bone, and spilling her blood all over the place as she screamed in pain and agony.

She watched a few horror movies with her siblings and some of those horror movies were gruesome and gave her nightmares. She didn't want to become one of those victims in those horror movies. She rather watch cartoons instead and wished she was at home watching the cartoon channel right now.

Suddenly she heard the crackling of the fallen leaves on the ground as if something was walking on them. So dark it was she couldn't see what it was from within the tree she hid in, but she knew it was the Wolf.

Why? She heard no voices so it couldn't be human. She heard sniffing in the air, a snuffling sound as if some carnivorous animal was trying to smell her scent.

Her scent was fear. It dripped from her forehead and half off her face. Her fear was so strong she could smell it herself.

The Little Girl remained ever so quiet and silent, not wanting to alert the Wolf or even if it's a pack of wolves let alone a hungry bear out for a late midnight snack.

Tears fell down her face, she wished she was back home in town with Daddy and Mommy, Grandpa and Grandma, her brothers and sisters, her uncles and aunts, even all her friends as well.

She wished she never took the short path home. Was it truly a short path or was she mistaken by the distance to home. To late now, she wished for so many things especially not missing that stupid school bus. She gave God and Jesus a solid oath if she ever got out of this she wouldn't miss that stupid school bus ever again. That and not taking the long way home.

Just then a crackling of leaves behind her in the back of the tree hole she hid in made a loud noise. She gulped and thought, ' The Wolf is behind me. If he rounds my tree he'll have me cornered.'

She was trapped. She wished she had climbed a tree instead, but it was too late. She knew she was going to die any minute now. Mommy was on her mind right then and there, she wanted Mommy more than anything.

She closed her eyes just briefly to pray. When she opened them she saw the biggest blackest Wolf ever staring right at her just a short distance from where she hid. Like a game of hide & seek, she had lost.

The Wolf growled an ugly horrible growl, it's snout was large and his teeth were very sharp with some drool coming out, maybe even blood itself. He leaned down as if ready to pounce and attack.

The Little Girl cried with such a fright as she tried to back as far as she could into the tree hollow as she could to get away, but she was trapped. 'This is it,' she had suddenly thought with traumatizing terror, 'I'm going to die.'

The Wolf pounced and sprung to attack and kill his prey before him. The Little Girl screamed such a scream it was like murder.

The Wolf never made it to her screaming terrified face as a sudden rifle shot rang out. One second she saw the Wolf about to rip her to shreds and the next the Wolf was thrown sideways against another tree.

She looked towards the Wolf who had a bloody hole in his heart. He looked up at her with his last dying pant, his eyes gleamed with hurt and shock, then his head dropped to the ground and his tongue rolled out.

The Wolf had died. The predator had become the prey. The Wolf laid there huge, ugly, and dead as a door nail.

The Little Girl climbed out of the tree hollow and looked to see where the rifle shot had come from.

Her eyes grew wide with what she saw. In the distance not so far were a dozen or so flashlights searching for her. It was her search party. And the man who shot the Wolf was standing close by as if he went ahead of them.

"Amy? Is that you?" said a tired yet worried voice in the darkness. He trembled as much as her, but on stronger legs.

"DADDY!!!" cried the Little Girl as she ran to him crying her eyes out, "DADDY!!!"

She flew into his arms and the man dropped his empty rifle, scooped her up, and hugged her tightly. He cried as well as he kissed her forehead, "It's you, it's really you. Thank you, Lord."

The Man held his crying Little Girl and thanked his lucky stars above for getting to her before the Wolf did. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if he was a second to late.

The Little Girl's Mother ran up soon after with all the town's people. The Little Girl had her Mommy and her Mother was holding her so tight she feared she'd smother, but her Mother cried such happiness in finding her child safe and sound.

The Father walked up to the dead Wolf and said to his own old man, "That is the ugliest biggest bloodiest Wolf I ever killed."

The Little Girl's Grandfather nodded as he held a lit lamp over it, "Good riddance, it's killed twelve children. I guess thirteen was his unlucky number."

The End. \ud83d\udc3a

(In regards to this particular type of story I wrote, I wanted it to be as close to a realistic version of a Grimm's Fairy Tale and a thriller horror. The ending shows how that the Little Girl is lucky to be alive because the Wolf had killed twelve other children and he wasn't going to show mercy to her so he got what he deserved in the end.)

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