Paradise Is Here

Fight The Whole World (Lady Lesso)

Y/N is Ilaria Lavelle

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The sound of heavy breathing and speeding feet ripped through the dead silence of the dark and frightening forest. A young woman is trying to survive another alarming night in the woods while a disgusting debt collector is chasing after her.

"Come on, darling. You gotta pay those debts one way or another." His cold, filled with nothing but evil of a voice, thundered loudly in the eerie woods.

Ilaria was running out of breath and energy to keep on running. She hid behind a tree and crouched down. The collectors footsteps can still be heard and it's getting closer. The scared woman tried controlling her breathing.

Please, god or anybody who could hear me. Help me! I beg of you!

She prayed and when she looked up, Ilaria almost lost hope when she noticed the red sky. She took that as a sign that there was no one to save her and that there was no god because who would think there's a god if the colour of the Heaven is red?

No, there was only the devil and that devil is the collector chasing her.

Suddenly, the voice of the collector was nowhere to be heard nor his footsteps. She took this moment to look behind the tree and she saw nothing, but darkness. Once she pulled herself back she tensed up, from the corner of her eyes she could see a dark figure standing right beside her.

She landed her sight on the worn out and dirty boots, making her way up till she saw the face of the collector, smiling creepily down on her. "Found you." Ilaria gathered up the short amount of energy during that tiny pause and sprinted for her life. "You can run, but you can't hide!"

The forest seems like it's never ending. Ilaria keeps on running and running, and though she has lived almost half of her life in the forest and has memorised the paths, trees, everything. However, everything had seemed unfamiliar to her now.

Ilaria stole a glance from behind her, no one was there, just trees. When she turned back to the direction she was heading Ilaria quickly stopped herself from running. She was now standing at the edge of a cliff. "Well, well, looks like there is nowhere else for you to go." Her heart dropped as she heard the man snickered.

"Please, d-don't do this." Ilaria pleaded, hoping that somewhere deep in his heart he would let her go. Except, a man like him doesn't have a heart, yet if he does, his heart would be a wretched one.

"You've not paid your debts for how long? I've lost count. Don't you think it's time to pay?" As the man queried he inches closer to Ilaria.

"I-I promise that I w-will pay, sir. J-Just give me some t-time!" Ilaria pleaded, she wanted to step back away from the man in front of her, but if she do, she's going to fall from the cliff, and there was no space for her to make a run as the cliff was as narrow as a wooden plank.

"I've given you more than enough of my time and you've just wasted it, so it's time I get them back!" The collector swiftly took Ilaria's hand and began pulling her.

"NO! Let me go!" Poor Ilaria tried her mightiest to remove the collector's grip off of her, but his grip only got tighter to the point where her hand had gone completely numb in just a few seconds. "PLEASE! LET ME GO! IT HURTS!" She cried, but the man only chuckled.

"It's going to hurt more or less later on, girl." And began dragging the vulnerable girl. Then out of nowhere, they were taken back by a loud screech coming from the red sky. The two of them looked up and Ilaria slightly surprised at how unfazed the man was towards the red sky.

A split second later, another screech was heard. Now the man was becoming frantic, "What was that?" Ilaria didn't reply as she, too, had no clue what the noise was.