Royal One

Chapter 1- Festival Watch

Jesse

I am here now in the town square watching the villagers dancing to their hearts content with laughter escaping from their mouths and sweat from their skins.

People are dancing around the pole that we erected. Normally it is just a plain old steel pole in the middle of the square and nothing special.

But today is an exemption for the reason that we are celebrating the harvesting and thanksgiving season. The pole have colorful streamers from the top to the roof of houses that surrounds it.

The villagers are dancing with their best clothes, I think. If you think wearing dirty dark brown slacks and polo for men, dirty dresses for the women are best, then yes, it is their best dresses.

But even though our clothes are not the best, we don't care because we are just the same, we are peasants or commoner living and serving under the King.

They are dancing in the streets that are covered with autumn leaves. Brown, red, orange and yellow leaves almost cover the whole street. Some are falling from the trees near their houses.

I smile at the sight. The sun shining down us but not much. Clouds that are puffy with some are grey and sunlight is escaping through patches in the cloud making it look like a ray.

Even though it is in middle of the afternoon, the whole area is a little bit cooler thanks to the climate that it is now autumn.

With the leaves falling and their bristling sounds from the wind, it gives us a scene that seems right out of a fairytale book and magically turning it into real life.

"Jesse!"

I had regained my senses back to reality from a shout on my right. I turn my head and saw someone running towards me. And I think it is a girl, I smile at that because I can see her face clearly and I think I know who she was.

"Jesse! What are you doing?", she said, my friend Jenny said while she pants, trying to catch her breath from her running.

"Just watching the villagers dance", I said and turn my head toward the sight again.

"Oh that sounds like fun watching them. You know there are other that would be more fun than watching them?", she said and I look at her again. Giving her a questioning look.

"What is it?"

"Let's dance with them", she said while she drags me towards the center. I try to wiggle myself from her so I can escape but she held my wrist tighter.

"Oh don't be become a shy little bunny", she said and I glare at her for saying those insults at me.

"Oh shut up", I said and she just chuckles at me.

"Oh shush. Speaking of bunny. We really are a bunny compared to those beasts in the woods", she said and stops running because we are in the middle of the crowd dancing in the square.

"Oh it is about the wolves again?", I said and she just nodded. We join the dance while I contemplate on what had happened. I grab her arms and I stretch it so I can turn her.

Those wolves are really a frightening creature and also fascinating. I heard some stories from the villagers that they saw a wolf family but they scurried off in a hurry because almost after they saw the family, they have been growled by the wolves.

But mostly they say that they attack when you saw them especially, Him. They say that he is a very dangerous wolf. Much more dangerous than the others and they say he is the leader of a pack because other wolf follow him.

They say that he is a very very large wolf. Larger than other wolves. And much larger than humans. Their description of the wolf is sketchy but they are sure of some description.