Heartless Reflections Prologue: Why?

Where it all started.

"Huff... huff" *leaves rustling* "Pant.. pant" "I didn't mean for any of this to happen..." said the girl, crying while running away from pursuits.

This world is an ugly one. I'm here to tell you a story, a certain story about a certain girl. This story was not just about any regular girl. No, this story is about the journey of the last existing wolf.

In this world, this ugly world you see, the humans killed almost all of the wolf people that we used to coexist with. Although they were wolf people, they weren't too different from us humans, appearance wise anyways. They had a human body, a human face, feet, hands, and hair. The only difference was their ears and their physical abilities to do certain things. Their ears matched a wolf's and their physical abilities were far greater beyond any human. Their speed, strength, endurance, and all five senses was better than any human.

Even still, with this difference, the wolf people and the humans continued to live peacefully together. All until one day when they were all almost completely wiped out from this world when Project Zero was created. Project Zero, the plan to exterminate all of the wolf people. Why this plan was created was something that nobody knew, something that nobody questioned, just submitted to. This project sent the wolves running for their lives, in fear of those whom they used to live peacefully with.

See? What an ugly world. Nobody objected to Project Zero. The humans began to hunt the wolves, murdering them with no proper reasons, ignoring their pleads for help, their tears. Although the wolves were physically stronger, they also had a limit. Sunrise was their limit. Their physical abilities were cut in half when it was daytime, but this also meant that their ears were like a human's ears. They would have an appearance that was no different from a human's. Project Zero, this was their fate, this was something that they couldn't do anything about but cry for help. Help that will never exist.

Many years past since Project Zero was created. "Why?..." was all I could think about at that time. Why me? Why did this happen to me? Why did the wolf girl appear before me? The last wolf. The wolf that was wanted dead by the humans. She just stood there, staring at me. She looked exhausted and had many wounds on her. She looked like she could fall over at any moment. She was crying. Her hands were covered in blood. Her face and clothing had blood on it.

As she looked at me with her crying face, she growled at me, like a wolf. I backed away in fear that she might do anything. I had no weapons to protect myself with at the moment and this situation was something that anyone in my position would consider themselves as "unlucky". Was I really "unlucky" to have met her? This was something that even till this day, I still wondered about. Why me?

There were pursuits behind her coming closer towards us. They were loud and had a terrifying voice, a voice filled with anger. The girl growled at me once more, then fell over, crying. If it was anybody else in this position, they might have heard her growl as a threat for them to move out of the way, but for me, that wasn't what I heard. What I heard was completely different. Rather than a threat, it was more like a desperate plead for help. As the pursuits came closer, I took her and carried her on my back as I ran. I carried her back to my house in the mountains. I don't know why I did this, but I felt like this was meant to happen.

Was this fate? Why me? "Why?" was all I could've asked myself, but then I started to think, to think that maybe, just maybe, that this was alright. I also thought that I went crazy, but that was okay too. I felt that our journey, our story was just about to begin.