Chains

Chapter 2: Why Do I Have To Be So Special??

I woke up on my couch, dazed as ever. I got up off the couch, but only to get insanely dizzy and fall on my back. I heard footsteps rushing to the living room. I saw black and white converse, and blood drip a couple inches from my face. I didn't want to die like the poor bastard he'd just gutted or chopped up.

I did what first came to mind, I grabbed his foot and pulled with all the strength I had left. I watched as both of his axes fell from his grip as his back hit the hardwood floor. I grabbed them as he began to get up. I spun around to face and yelled

"WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, AND WHY ARE YOU HERE?!"

The guy rose his hands out in front of him in surrender, or was it defense? It didn't matter, all that did was the fact that he was under my roof, he came in without permission too, not that I would give him any, he looked like a complete Psycho! But yet again aren't we all?

"I'm here under order." He said in calm voice, but I could tell he was frightened.

"Yeah? In the name of FUCKING WHO?!"

He stood up on his feet, and slowly made his way towards me, one step at a time. I swung the axes towards his body, I screamed

"THAT'S CLOSE ENOUGH, YOU SADISTIC, PSYCHOTIC BASTARD!!"

He laughed and said

"That's true, I don't have a father...I killed him... I killed them all..." His eyes started to tear up. Was he really crying? Or was he waiting for me to comfort him, so that he could kill me? I was about to say thst he was lying. I then felt a soft thud. I looked at the ground to see him craddled in a ball, knees pulled up under his chin. Then did I realize that he wasn't lying.

He cried

"Dad...M-Mom! PLEASE FORGIVE ME! I HAD NO CHOICE!" he screamed at the floor, like they would answer him. I told him

"Hey, who's the guy who gave you the order to kill your family anyway?"

He looked at me, and said

"He has alot of names, but we call him Master."

There were more of him?! What the hell did I just get myself into?! And the guy who gave him the order is called...Master? I then felt bad for the guy, I don't even know his name, I don't even know HIM, and yet I feel guilty? I then did the most stupidest thing ever

"Hey, Guy, here's your...urm...axes?"

"Hatchets, and thanks."

I turn to run upstairs before he killed me, but before I took a step. He grasped my arm, spun me around, and said

"By the way, Astrid, my name is not "Guy", it's T-Ticci Toby, or if you prefer, Toby. It doesn't matter to me, I'll answer to any two...Anyway, thanks again. And I'm not here to kill you..."

I sputtered

"Th-Then what are you here for?

He took a moment and said calmy, but promisingly

"I'm here to protect you, Astrid.."

I though to myself as I ran up the stairs to my bedroom

'Why do I have to be so special?'