Embers

Rescue (pt. 1)

Bruno gets jolted awake with a shock that goes throughout his body and he screams loudly then pants and his vision starts to focus and then a slap hits him causing him to unfocus and his ears to ring and he coughed a bit. Bruno looks around to see blurry figures around him and he sighed and says "My god guys, just leave me alone i'm not going to tell you anything.........." He says weakly and some more bolts of electricity go through his body and he can smell his hands getting burned into from the rusty old looking metal chair he is sitting in and he moans slowly and his head goes to one side and he tires to catch his breath. A guy walks up to him and sits in front of him and pulls up Bruno's head so Bruno can look at him and his vision finally focuses on the man who looks to be in his mid 40's and has some gray hair in his dark black hair and on his dark Goethe, and he has long and bony looking arms with trimmed nails that looks like they are cut back a bit too far and his body looks as small and as bony as his arms with a low button shirt that is open down to his belly button that shows his hairless chest and a revolver and holster can also be seen poking out the side of the shirt. He looks at Bruno's face then looks deep into his eyes then lets his head go and stand back up "Hurt him some more he hasn't felt the true pain we can make him feel."

After the man leaves the other men take turns beating on Bruno with a plethora of things ranging from pipes to shards of glass put into pieces of wood they stop after the glass gets stuck in his shoulder blade and they call back the man from before. The man walks back in and is picking at his teeth with a tooth pick and sits back down in front of Bruno "So gonna tell us anything yet? If no then i'm sorry to say we will have to keep it up til you tell us  what we need to know." The man says flicking the tooth pick at Bruno who sighed and said "O-o-ok look I-I have no idea who t-t-this Ontario person is, y-y-you guys sure your not looking for the place called in Canada o-of the same name?" He asks looking down at his legs which are covered in deep cuts and bruises and one toe seems to be smashed beyond repair, Bruno looks up awaiting either a response or another fury of beatings but he gets neither, instead he gets a rub on the head by the name who chuckles a bit and looks at his men and winks. "This one is smart, looks like he knows about the world outside his own city!" He kicks Bruno over and he hits his head on the side of the wall and lands to the point of where his head is forced sideways and is pressed up against the wall which is covered with his wet blood and the dry blood of other tortured victims. Bruno struggles to breath a bit and the goons start to shock him to which Bruno screams as loud as his cut off air way will let him and then after a while he passes out. 

Bruno has a strange dream of his home country of Germany where he would run around a forest with his best friend named Carlin Taub every afternoon after school they would go hang out around a old building, they would always try to find a way in but they never could "I wonder how old this building is, and what is in it?" Carlin would ask everyday and would kick the same part of the wall every time and Bruno would always walk of leaving him behind. One night after his parents both got into a argument and got drunk Bruno decided he could sneak out without being noticed so he grabbed a flashlight and a camera and ran down to the building and see that the door is open "Huh? I wonder who did this, maybe someone lives here then?" Bruno exclaims as he walks into the dark building slowly, on the inside is a old looking counter that has a lot of books stacked up with  dust on them on the ground in front of the counter is a scale with two books in each side and isn't covered in dust. Bruno walks through a door that is propped open with a broken chair and sees someone in front of him Bruno walks up to them "Oh hello there, are you you the person who lives here?" He asks and puts his hand on there shoulder and they turn around and its Carlin.

"CARLIN!!!!!! What are you doing here?" Bruno asked a bit surprised "Was you the one who opened the doors?" Bruno looks him up and down and sees that Carlins hands are torn and bloody so he touches them lightly "What happened to you?" Bruno asks just as a female hand grabs Carlin by the shoulder and then a snap and a wall crumbles and a portal opens up and a hooded figure with a glowing necklace pulls Carlins in Bruno grabs his hand "NO LET HIM GO!!!!!!!" He yells and another snap is heard and a portal appears below Bruno and he falls in and all goes a swirl of colors and then Bruno wakes up from his dream hanging upside down with chains attached to his legs that goes up to the ceiling and ones that goes from the ground to his wrists so he cant move at all. Bruno looks around "Oh shit whats going to happen now?" He says and then a voice say "Oh just a bit of......... batting practice." A person walks from behind Bruno and its a young man in his 20's with a strong looking face a build, he has a head full of messy brownish hair and a freshly shaved chin, so fresh he smells of aftershave he has a shirt that has cut off sleeves and short pants on that shows off his very muscular looking legs and he kicks his wooden bat every time he walks a step. He looks at him then hets in a swing stance and says "Batter up!!!!!!" He starts to swing at Bruno's body breaking bones in the process, with every swing at Bruno's body Bruno wonders if Proton is going to come to his rescue.