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This story contains depictions of violence, sexuality, strong language, and other mature themes.
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[ CHAPTER 1: THE HUMAN ]
"Ahh..."
After she had undressed, Bella slowly sunk herself into the warm water in her tub. Another long breath escaped her reddish smooth lips as she indulged herself in the serenity of the wonderful warm bubble bath, inhaling the relaxing scent of the scented candle that she had burnt before going into the tub.
It was a long day at college and she was having quite a bad day... sort of. She needed to calm herself before she continues on her day with her chores and school assignments. She must finish her chores before her mom and stepdad comes back home or else they'll surely lecture her again for being lazy and all. She hates them, her mom and her stepdad, for never once try to understand her. She hated college and those goodie-too-shoes phoney bitches who always tried to pick on her although they'd never once succeeded in doing so. She hated the teachers who always pretended to be concerned about her. She hated her ex who showed her unconditional love, pampered her like a princess and made her feel like the luckiest girl yet had cheated on her with her lifelong best friend-- her step sister. She hated that bitch whom she had never could have guessed to actually be a pretentious narcissist, a boyfriend snatcher, a backstabber, a heinous slut that had ruined her peaceful normal life. 
Bella Montgomery hated everyone. They said she's changed. They said she has an 'anger issue'. Great. Now she's the one with the problem. What the fuck...? Meh.
She was about to doze off when she felt something grasping her legs and arms. It felt like slimy hands. And she was being pulled into the water. Bella struggled hard, trying to push herself up from the tub.
What the fuck's happening?!
She unintentionally gulped down water when she was trying to scream for help. When she thought she was going to drown and die in her own bathtub, she managed to emerge out to the surface. However, something wasn't right.
The water was cold and her nose immediately caught a fishy, disgusting smell. Her jaw felt loose and her mouth immediately parted open as though wanting to scream, yet no sound was coming out of her mouth.
Bella found herself weirdly coming out from a cold, shallow river. As if that wasn't crazy enough, she found dead bodies of weird-looking people floating in the shallow river, not far from her!
"What... What's going on?!"
Bella pushed herself up as she stared down at the bodies that doesn't look like normal people at all, with her hands covering her bare breasts and her butt still in the water, not sure of what to do.
They look like... half-man, half... animal?
Indeed, the floating bodies had bull-like horns and antlers, while some of them even had clawed furry hands. Most of them had tails of different kinds. They also seemed a lot bigger than normal people. Bella pushed the bodies aside, letting the river flow them away, wondering if they were real, as she carefully headed forward with both her hands still covering her bare breasts. She didn't dare to walk out from the water as she was still butt-naked, so she could only pace forth against the direction of the flow with her lower body still in the water.
Is this some kind of a sick joke? Am I in a stupid fucking prank TV show or something...?
"Okay, really funny, Damien! Whatever prank this is, I'm not falling for any of it!!"
Surely, her ex was wealthy enough to pull these pranks on her. Then again, why would he? 
Soon after, Bella realized it wasn't a joke or a stupid prank or any Youtube show.
"Waaarghhh...!!"
"Arghhh!!"
She turned around to where the screaming and shouting were and it turned out that she was now in the middle of a battle of half-beast man-like creatures from both sides of the shallow river!
JUST WHAT THE FUCK...?!
On her left, creatures that looked somewhat like men dressed in ancient warrior armors of tiger and leopard skin with metal plates on their shoulders and chests, but with tails sticking out of their butts. They were roaring like wild animals, each holding swords and bows and arrows. They leaped high above her, towards the other side of the river, attacking the other group of men with wolf furs on the shoulders of their metal plate armors, also had tails sticking out of their butts, but more fluffy ones.
The clashing of metal swords hurt her ears that she immediately tried to run out from the water. Arrows were being shot from above like rain, and the eerie screaming of predator birds could be heard echoing throughout the forest. She couldn't see what was above her nor she understood what was going on, but she sensed danger. She must find a place to hide. 
"Ah!"
Bella shrieked when one of the fluffy-tailed was thrown into the river next to her, cold water splashed on her face, and instantly tasted the metallic taste of blood in her mouth when she had accidentally swallowed the water.
"Uwerkk! Ptuih, ptuih!"
Bella retched and spat out the water she had swallowed. When she sensed danger, she turned her head only to find one hideous-looking man with an antelope face with long horns from his forehead, leaping towards her, raising the sword in his hand at her. He was huge, very tall, and very scary. 
Bella's eyes were widened at the sight. Before she could even react, she felt her body was being held by a pair of strong arms that swiftly pulled her out from the river.
Strong cold wind crashed against her skin as she felt the world around her swirling. It didn't take her long to realize that it wasn't the earth that was moving, it was her. It felt exactly like the time she went on a crazy rollercoaster ride alone, sitting at the front row seat. Only scarier.
She opened her eyes but couldn't see clearly, for the wind was too strong it hurt her eyes. In seconds, she found herself surrounded by tall trees. She was being held bridal style by a dark brown-haired man but her vision was still blurry she couldn't really see the face of her savior.
"Are you alright...?"
That someone who had saved her questioned in a deep, soothing manly voice as he slowly placed her down until her feet touched the grassy soil. Bella raised her face to find a very tall man with a pair of humongous, dark brown wings. His wide-spread wings slowly curled in as the worried look on his face softened.
"Uh..."
Bella was stunned by his beautiful wings that her voice got stuck in her throat for a second. The man was so tall he was probably more than six foot five, a lot more, Bella thought. She then came back to her senses and shook her head slightly. The tall winged man was wearing the same metal plates armor with furs on his shoulders. Bella tried to see if the winged man had a fluffy tail as well but she couldn't see his backside because his wings had blocked her sight. 
Bella noticed the hands that were on her waist when they moved to clasp her shoulders... they were clawed. Long and sharp, she felt them piercing her skin.
"What were you doing in the river, female? Do you not know there is a war going on?"
War...? What war?
The winged man was so tall he had to bend over to face her when he spoke. When Bella looked up to see his face again, she realized how beautiful was the face of the man who was gripping her shoulders. He had thick straight dark brown eyebrows, red pigment painted across his eyes, his skin was fair as snow,  he had a perfect jawline, and his eyes...
His eyes were sharp and fierce-looking. But what's even more striking was his bright yellow irises. When she noticed his weirdly bright yellow irises slowly moved down and his face turned crimson right after that, Bella shrieked so loud that the man covered his ears with his clawed hands.
"Yaaaaaaarghhhhhh...!!!"
The man almost fell to the ground as if his legs went limp all of the sudden.
"You are... so loud. You will attract the Ra armies to come here and kill you."
He said after Bella had stopped screaming. Bella glared at the man with both her hands covering for her breasts and crotch.
"Look away, you fuckin' pervert!"
She gnarled. The man immediately turned his face away while taking off his armor and handed it to her without turning his face.
"Here," he said.
Bella took the armor and put it on, only to find it hard to move in it as the armor was big and heavy. He then pointed his clawed finger to a bush behind Bella, 
"Female, hide in there and do not come out no matter what. Wait for me, I will come back for you. If a Ra soldier finds you..."
The winged man pulled out his sword and handed it to Bella. The man then rushed her to the bushes and flapped his huge wings to fly away.
"Wait! What the fuck am I supposed to do with this?!"
And... where the fuck am I...
Bella looked up and could only watch as the winged man flew off, leaving her alone. She didn't even get to ask the name of her savior. Bella stared down at the sword in her grip, it was really heavy and she couldn't even lift it high.
She crouched and kept her head down when she heard a rustling, she breathed slow, afraid that her breathing could be heard by whatever that was nearby. It could be the hideous antelope-faced again, Bella thought as she nervously tightened her grip on the two-handed sword. All of a sudden, something didn't feel right. Her hand reached down to touch her own crotch when she felt...
What the fuuuuuck... Does it have to be now?!
Bella slowly took a dry leaf to wipe off the period blood on her palm when she heard a low, long growl just outside the bush where she was hiding.
It sounded like an angry big tiger.
"I can smell the heat from you, female."
Bella gulped, she held her breath, she clenched the handle of the sword in her hand, ready to fight, if she have to.
"Come out now or I shall devour you right here if you do not obey my order."
Does that mean he'll spare me if I listen? Wait, wait... What the fuck does he mean by... eat me?
"Wah!!"
Bella gasped when a huge crooked blade slashed the tall grasses and revealed where she was crouching. She looked up to find a very tall man with golden orange wavy locks, he had a long piece of red cloth tied around his forehead like a headband and black pigment painted on both sides of his jaw like a tiger pattern, he was wearing tiger skinned leather armor with metal plates and he had a long tiger tail behind him, moving slowly in a wave motion.
The corners of his lips curved to form a sinister grin, revealing his sharp incisors. His vicious-looking greenish golden irises glared straight at her, and his large pupils constricted as he pointed his crooked sword at Bella,
"So, you are from the Zov tribe."
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