《Miserable, Dead》


 Meet the Queen of Happiness

    Avyreloved morning''s. Waking up fresheveryday, the wait for a day over; absolutely wonderful.Avyrecouldn''t just begin to wonder what today''s new day would bring, what joy''s it would bring her; she was too excited.


    Avyregot out ofbedandmade it just like her grandmother had taught her.''Oh Grandma, how do I miss you...''Avyrecouldn¡¯thelp but remember how her grandmother had passed away last year, she especiallycouldn''t forget her lastwords:"Mygranddaughter,neverchange.You bring joy to this world, I know it."


    On that day,Avyrelived as joyfully as humanely possible.Every oneof her friends knew her for how happy she was, and how happy she made those around her. That may also have been the reason thatAvyrewas the most popular kid in herhigh school. Her body was by no means the best,and neither was her face godly enough to seduce any man, it was all in her personality.


    Just so you know,Avyrenever kept anysecretsfrom her friends. She once told them how she was born in Iran, how she was taught Persian there, and how people didn''t agree with the way she lived her life, forcing her parents to seek abetterlife in Canada. She told her friends all about her journey here, especiallyhow nice the airport security was. Her friends believed most of her stories...


    But some stories her friends always foundabsurd. Especially the one story of her hikingin the woods and getting attacked by a stray wolf. They never believed how she managed to tame the hungry wolf withhypnosisandput it to sleep. They always laughed, butAvyrenever took offense, she enjoyed laughing with her friends.


    Avyrerealizedthat she was stuck in her mind after she was called down by Mother to eatbreakfast.Avyrefinished making her bed and ran down to the kitchento greet her mother and her father with a kiss. After the family exchanged greetings, they sat down to eat.Thispassed rather quickly, as both the mother and the father had tohurryoff to work, andAvyreto school.


    After breakfast was done,Avyrejoyfully prepared her lunch, putting in the usual; one milkshake, a turkey sandwich, and several fruits.Oncethelunch bagwas done and dusted with,Avyreran up to her room on the second floor of her house. She had to get ready for school, soAvyrebrushed her hair, and applied a little bit of makeup.She then changed out of herpajamas, and took a quick look at her body, to check if nothing was wrong.


    She still had her A cup breasts, which haven''t grown since she turned twelve. It was a littledisappointingsinceAvyrewas sixteennow, but she couldn''t let herself be brought down by such small things. She still hadher darkcaramelcoloredskin and deep green eyes, which had been there since her birth. She still had her shoulder length ravenblack hair, which grewswiftlyand would need cut soon.This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.


    After seeingeverythingwas asitalways was,Avyrelooked at what she would wear for today. For today, she would probably wear overall''s and a stripped blue and white navy sailor shirt.That would do just dandy!Avyrequickly gotdressedandprepared her backpack by gathering all her finished homework off her worktable. An ace student like her had to be prepared, after all.


    After she had prepared completely for the day, she went to feed her pets. First, she got her little gecko some worms to eat. She watched it happily catch the small worms withitstiny tongue; it gave her peace knowing her animals were happy. AfterAvyrefinished with her gecko, she went to her hamster, feeding it very small bits of a carrot. After finishing with her hamster,Avyremade sure to leave both her pets some more food for the day, and then she left for school.


    --One peacefully joyous bus ride later--


    Avyregot off the bus and thanked the driver with a happy smile. She walked several meters before one of her friends, Sammy, came up greeting her behind her. He was a Canadian born boy, who she met in her previous junior high school. Back then,Avyretried to talk to him, but found him to very shy. She warmed him up over the course of two years, and now he was lively as ever when talking to her.


    "Avyre! How was your morning?"


    "It was wonderful Sammy! How was yours?"


    "It was fine, I''m still waking up being overheated by my blanket, but everything is fine."


    "That''s good!"


    Avyreenjoyed talking to Sammy, it was always great hearing how her friends were doing.


    "By the way, how do you think you did on yesterday''s test?"


    "I think I did pretty well!"


    This is how most of the conversations went withAvyre''sfriends. This also represented how her day would usually go. She would talk to her friends as equals, treat them as equals, and most of all, bring joy to everyone around her. Most of thedayswent by like this, but a few occasionaldayswere a bit different.


    Today was one of thosedays.Avyrewas going through today''s news on her phone, when she reloaded it, as to see ifanythingnew came up. It was then that she saw it;Ms.Juniper''s botany storehad burned down! Thismeantthat hermother''ssupply of flowers would be greatly reduced!Avyrewas said, but she would not let herself be brought down by this, she had to keeppursuing the happiness!


    So,the day went on,Avyregoing through it as happily as humanely possible. When school had finally ended,Avyrenoticed how nice it was outside;''I think I can walk home today.''On her peaceful walk home,Avyresaw something strange. She saw a small squirrel, nothing out of the regular except one thing: This squirrel was eating something white.Avyrestared at it foramoment, before she kept heading on forward, paying no mind as to why the squirrel was eating snow.


    At home,Avyrehad mostlynothingto do. She would check and feed her two pets, go and eat her supper, and finally go back to her room and do her schoolwork. Once all was done, it was time forAvyreto rest, which she celebrated by going to sleep.


    Unknown toAvyre,theworldwas changing. Irreversiblethings were set in motion that wouldchangeher life forever...


    Notfor the better.

 Who Let The Wolves Out?!

    The week passed without incident in the small town of Enterprise, one of the most successful and rapidly growing towns in Northern Canada. Avyre''s days were going by as they normally would. She woke up, went to school, brought happiness to everyone around her, and then repeated each day. It was a boring cycle, but it was all worth it to make people happy. Especially if she was happy while doing it too.


    But the recent day''s made it hard for her to make people happy, let alone be joyous herself. There were several people who dissapeared from the town of Enterprise, never to be seen again. There were also reports of people seeing animals wandering the area around the town, seemingly getting closer with each passing day. And probably the most unsettling thing was that these animals were not looking like the regular animals of today. It was mentioned that the wolves fangs grew sharper and longer, and their spines had something growing from them.


    This incidents weren''t only limited to Enterprise however. The national broadcast station of Canada, the CNBN, or the Canadian News Broadcasting Network, has been reporting for a week now about strange things happening in Canada and around the world. Specifically in Canada, there has been an extremely unnatural growth rate among animals, with some growig back to what they once were during the Ice Age. The network also told of how new species have been appearing; they weren''t exactly new however. The "new" animals that were apearing were coming back from the dead, from extinction, and into the present time.


    Woolly Mammoth''s, North American horses, short-faced bears, saber-tooth tigers, and even glyptodon came back. Of course, they came with adaptations to survive in today''s climate, but they still came back with hundreds of other species. As you would expect, scientists were baffled by this, and it didn''t take long for most paleontologists, zooligists, and biologist to come back into the spotlight and go head on and research how and why this was happening. And while the scientists marveled at what was happening before their lives, some people went the darker route.


    Poachers had an entire new buisness open up to them. They killed the animals, and then took several things from their corpses, like the elongated teeth or the new hid. This caused a lot of problems for the law enforcement agencies around Canada, but it calmed down around the time the week had ended.


    Avyre however, couldn''t let herself worry about the world changing; she had joy to bring to humans around her community. She was preparing to meet up with a friend of hers before she started to remember the news she watched beforehand. She had to forget the uncertainties of the world, and go on with her best to show. So, when finally all prepared, she went out to the cafe she was going to meet up in; The Lunacy. Contrary to the name, the cafe dosen''t house any lunatics; it was was named after some event that happened in late 1800''s with something to do with the Moon.


    Coming into the cafe, she saw her friend, Cossero. He was a nice kid, that she enjoyed being around because he also brought joy to the people around him. Avyre ordered her usual, a hot chocolate, and Cossero ordered a coffee latte with a donut on the side. They sat down on a vacant table, and started to talk about their lives, almost like a couple. They shared a few laughs, before something strange happened.


    The cafe started to shake. It was small and barely noticeable at first, but after half-a-minute passed, everyone and everything in the cafe was shaking. By that point, people who were standing fell to the floor. Then the buildings started to crumble, piece by piece. By this point, both Avyre and Cossero had ran out from the cafe with several other people. There was almost no one remaining in the building, except maybe some workers that were quickly running out. Avyre looked in shock, Canada didn''t have earthquakes, and if it did, they were never this big.If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.


    The earthquake kept going past the natural limit of thirty second to a minute and a half, making everything in the area Avyre was in completely collapse. It was almost like the apocalypse had begun for her but without the skies turning blood red or as dark as the night sky. After the earthquake finially finished two minutes later, the entire area had been demolished. The buildings became rubble, with stones littered about as freely as the humans on the streets. Some buildings even exploded, leaving fiery rubble in their wake.


    From Avyre understanding, some people even died, as she judged by the wails of sadness and woe not too far away. Avyre was covered by a thin covering of dust from all the wreckage, but she didn''t care about that, she had to go home to her family. Avyre got up, a little bit wonky from all her shock, and headed of towards where her home was. But she was cut short by a scream; it wasn''t of sadness or despair, it was that of primal fear. Avyre stopped her entire body from moving a centimeter forward, and looked behind her. She couldn''t see where the scream came from because of the clouds of dust surrounding her, but she knew the dreadful silence that came with the clouds was unnatural.


    And then the world came crashing down. More screams came from the fog of dust, screams of people that were being hurt; their screams made it sound like they were being eaten alive. Avyre tried to move, but her legs refused to respond to her brain. So Avyre, out of desperation, closed her eyes.''This is all a dream this is all a dream this is all a dream! I will wake up and see mom greeting me with a kiss and everything will go back to normal...''


    Avyre opened her eyes and saw a body about two meters from her. It wasn''t a human body, no it was something much fiercer than that. The face of the beast Avyre in front had slightly pointed ears, black, void like eye''s, and a mouth with a row of teeth that were meant to tear flesh from bone. The body had a lot of fur on it and quite the lanky legs. Avyre realised very quickly that she was looking at a dire wolf, as no regular wolf was that size. The beast stared at Avyre, but after she opened her eyes, it sprang into action. The beast opened it''s maw as it flying through the air, ready to tear Avyre from flesh to bone.


    But right at the zenith of it''s flight, the wolf was struck down by someone wielding a water pipe. Avyre, by this point, had fallen on her ass and brought her arms to her face. She looked to who it was; it was Cossero! He was here to save her from this hell, and she was relieved because of it. Cossero looked to where the wolf had fallen, realizing that it would get up very quickly. Cossero brought up his pipe, ready to defend himself and Avyre behind him. As the wolf was getting up, both the teenagers heard more screams coming from the fog of dust, more people getting torn up into bits.


    The wolf, after it had risen, started to circle Cossero and Avyre, who had crawled to Cossero''s leg. The wolf kept did half a circle before it finally decided to attack the two teenagers. The wolf went for Cossero, who swinged at the wolf; unluckily for him, the beast learn''t from the first time. As Cossero swung down his pipe, the beast caught it with it''s mouth, wrangling it from from his hands and throwing it to the side. The wolf than wasted no time and jumped onto Cossero, who had tried to stop it midair with his hands.


    While the beast was jumping on top of Cossero, Avyre fearfully crawled away from the soon be corpse. SH esat, watching in horror how Cossero''s pointless struggles were overun by the wolf''''s strength. She wanted to help him, so she got up and tried to go for the pipe to try and knock the wolf down from Cossero''s body. As she got up, she saw two more dire wolves appear from the settling dust cloud, and jump onto Cossero''s body. His screams only intensified, his cries for help drowned out by the sounds of flesh being violently ripped from bone. Avyre stood there, wanting to help; but she knew she was too late, even if she could get the wolves off him.


    So Avyre ran as fast as she could away from the wolves and her friend. She cried tears of fear and anguish as she ran, hearing more and more people get slaughtered like lambs at a butchery. With each passing scream, Avyre ran faster, wanting to not fall to the same as the butchered. Soon, she heard the wolves run, meaning they were on her tail and she will die fast if she can''t escape them. She looked around, hoping to see something through thesettling fog. She saw nothing but rubble, nothing that would give her any means to fight off the wolves. She will die.


    But then, almost like a beacon of despair, something ran out from the fog. It was a dog Avayre had seen before only in the flower shop Ms.Juniper owned.''But Ms. Juniper never let''s her dog out alone...oh no...''Before Avyre could finish the wretched thought, the dog jumped out inbetween her and the wolves, making them stop in their tracks and look at the dog. Avyre didn''t look back as she ran out ahead, feeling sorry for the little pupper.


    Avyre kept running even after the whelps had began and stopped, and then she finally saw it, a building that hadn''t completely collapsed. Half of it was missing, but that would be fine. In this situation, she would take everything given to her.