Chapter 1.
"Get your hands off me!" Was the last thing she said, before she was blinded by a flash of light.
June had not prepared herself for what just happened, well, she has not prepared herself for anything that happened or what was about to happen today. An unexpected proposal from a guy she barely hung out with for a month, to being stalked, and then being thrown into the road.
As she shut her eyes to seemingly wish the light before her coming from the moving truck was a dream, she opened her eyes to something much worse with a scream.
"AHHHH~"
It had been a while but nothing seemed to happen, a whole minute had gone by since she let out that embarrassing scream for her life.
"Fay, what's wrong?". A male's voice called out.
For a moment she stopped screaming, "fay?" It definitely didn't sound like her name but it sure did sound like they were calling out to her.
Instantly the smell in the air changed, what trickled her nose was not the smell of blood but the smell of burning incense, of green grass, of fruits, and she thought to herself, "that can't be right!"
Slowly she opened her eyes and the earth stood still.
The man who called out Fay was tightly holding on to her left hand, a look of worry in his eyes. Her scream probably freaked the hell out of him, not just him but everyone else in the room, but just as they were stunned, so was she.
The room instantly fell into silence as June stiffly turned around to watch her surroundings.
Oil lamps lit in coconut shells, the smell of incense coming from a burnt offering laid upon a stone altar, people dressed in animal hide, had special markings and long feral ears and a tail?! That couldn't be right.
"Fay?" The young man with fox ears called out to her, "is everything alright, the beast mother was just about to proclaim the verdict."
Her brows rumpled, "what verdi-"
"You!"
The annoyed voice of an angry old woman who had gone invisible standing before her, snapped June back to reality. "You cannot have children," she said to June, amounting in gasps from the villagers as if they had heard something serious.
Of course this came out as a shock to June, sure she had never visited the hospital to get checked for something like that but this news was definitely a shocker to her, "Excuse me?"
"An abomination!" The woman cried, instantly letting go of June's hand cupped in hers, she turned around, as she walked towards the altar, chanting strange sounds.
June had just realised that her surroundings were filled with gaps as the people around her had created a distance, their eyes filled with hate and disappointment.
Children holding tightly to their parents, lovers holding tightly to each other as though she would contaminate them, she was stuck in a maze of confusion, not sure how she got there or what was going on.
The man who had eyes of longing for June instantly let go of her hand and stood far from her, and a woman, who had the grace of a damsel in distress ran by into his arms, "Oh, Arik!" She cried. Her voice low and clearly hoarse, "I told you Fay was no good, that's why she didn't want to have the rites ceremony and just go straight to the mate ceremony, you would have ended up with a female who can't even conceive."
Instantly, Arik casted a hateful look towards Fay, a shadow of the love he supposedly has for her as he took the other young lady into his arms, holding her tightly as if to protect her.
Everything was happening at once to June, it was too much to bear. Who is this Fay? How'd she get into her body? And wasn't she about to die just a while ago? How was any of this possible?!
The more she thought about it, the more her brain seemed to fry.
"Did I- Don't tell me! Did I get isekaied into a beast world?" She wondered. That had to be the only explanation to what was going on, otherwise, she might as well admit she had gone mad.
Suddenly the day darkened, "great, it wants to rain," she thought, but she was so very wrong.
A voice from behind suddenly screamed, "the beast gods are angry because of her."
"Beast god?" She lashed out in shock. Her eyes scanned the environment in search of what could possibly look like a deity and found none, until she realized they were all staring at the sky and praying in fear. She could no longer hide her shock, "What are you talking about, it's just rain, and it's still miles away, it might not even fall."
"Silence!!!" The old woman roared, "This lowly infertile girl dares to claim she knows the will of the beast gods, after bringing upon us such calamity."
The thunderclouds clapped and instantly everyone lowered their heads as if to hide from the horror. June couldn't believe it, one minute she's dealing with a stalker, the next minute she's dealing with rain problems.
Suddenly the elderly woman facing the crowd raised her hands to the sky, "we must offer her, to the beast gods, that is the only way we can appease their anger," she said.
"Huh?!!! Offer who?!"
It was obvious at that moment, as six hefty warrior men stepped forward, they didn't look like the type she could outrun in a race nor a battle.
She could only step back in fear, chuckling sheepishly, "This has to be a mistake!"
"No it's not, the beast mother doesn't make mistakes," Arik yelled with the people cheering behind him.
The elderly woman nodded in approval, "Tonight, we shall offer this female, as a sacrifice, to our beastgod to appease his anger before she brings upon us, a great calamity. Sound the drums!!!"
Before she could get the chance to object, a fist to her stomach instantly blacks her out.
***
"Fuck!" She cursed, her eyes slowly opening to the not so familiar world.
June sat up, the scenery seemingly changed but not the people, this time, they had the look of warriors on their faces with a different marking from what she recalled before she fainted.
She was tied up to a tree, the knots were well done too. The beast mother walked closer towards her, "you are an abomination that shouldn't exist, a female unable to birth cubs is only meant for a sacrifice," she said, "but that's good, it means the beast gods will honor us at least, thank you for your sacrifice."
At that the crowd turned around and headed back home, "wait, you can't leave me here, this has to be a mistake or something. Let me go! Let me go, you old hag!"
The last set of people to leave was Arik and the distressed female who cunningly mocked her. She drew near and whispered into June's ear, "I warned you to stay away from my man."
At that moment, as if she has been run over with a vehicle, her head throbbed with a terrifying pain and the memories from the previous owner came rushing in.
The owner of this body, Fay, was bullied by this woman, and her mother was the sacred beast mother, she had planned with her mother to kill her so she can take Arik for herself and poisoned her by with a needle during the ceremony but Fay died and June took over her body so the woman had to switch tactics.
She wasn't in this mess because she couldn't get pregnant but because two scamming mother an daughter didn't like her. "The nerve!" She yelled as the woman walked away, hand in hand with her two timing boyfriend Arik and now she was alone, in the middle of no where, the day doing darker with storm clouds and no way out.
"What the fuck am I going to do now?" She finally cried.
DING!!!
DING!!!
System connected to host!
[Greetings Host, I am Bigo, your Beast world guide]