Bounded

Prologue

I've always been alone, being of a solitary type. I always had to depend on myself for my own survival. Since I was little, as long as I can remember, it was only Kyrann, Hale and me.
Kyrann was my beloved and only sister, ten years my elder. Our parents disappeared I don't know when nor where. Kyrann used to tell me they went off on a trip and never came back, leaving their only daughters behind. She said I must have been around two years old. Hale was my cat; the first and only friend of my childhood. She was a beautiful grayish-black Korat, with sparkling green eyes, and one of a kind. She was a sort of mother for me too: every time we had no place to go, she would find some abandoned area where we could stay for a bit and live on. She would even hunt and come back most of the time with a bird or a mouse, clinging from her jaw, with her whiskers upright and baring a joyful and proud expression.
Even though our life was made of misery, it was a joyful one to which I grew accustomed. Kyrann was very caring and would always make sure I had everything I needed and that I had a smile on my face. We lived like that for ten years. But one day, everything changed.

It had been several years since I'd noticed a change in my sister's behavior. She was growing more distant and was less present at home. I had never wondered how she always got food and how we had survived. Maybe because I had been too young, or maybe because I just couldn't care. But now that I was almost thirteen years old, I started asking myself more questions about our whole situation. I tried for months to get information from Kyrann and I would stalk her, but every time I was too late and she had disappeared from eye sight.
One night, I had decided to stay up with Hale and surprise her when she'd come home. It must have been about half-past midnight, I was getting really tired and I was ready to fall asleep when I heard a loud bang on the big doors of our abandoned hangar. I stood up bolt right and waited, my heart pounding in my chest as the newly silence grew stifling. All of a sudden I saw the doors open a crack as a slick figure made it's way through it. I sighed of relief as I recognized it as Kyrann. But as I got closer I saw she was wearing a thin black leather uniform that I didn't recognize, and that she had several bruises all over her face, with blood dripping from her nose.
I hurried in horror to help her, and as she saw me she stopped, surprised, and seemed embarrassed.
"What are you doing up so late!" She scowled as I got to her height.
"I'd like to ask you the same thing!" I snapped back in rage.
"Look littl'sis I can't explain anything right now, but please: just trust m-"
She never got to finish her sentence, as a huge blow broke the doors open. We were projected to the floor and my ears were buzzing, as my eye-sight grew faint and blurry. I was about to close my eyes when I felt a rough tongue licking me. Hale was standing there next to me, miowling like a mad cat, as if to beg me to get up. I turned my head to my right and saw Kyrann, who was trying to get up. As she finally got to her trembling feet, I heard her moan "Shit...That damn bastard followed me!".
She turned towards me and tried to contort her face in a smile, and yelled to me "Get out of here!".
I painfully got up to my feet, my senses still faint and mixed up, and ran behind one of the multiple walls on the side of the hangar. I popped my head out of the side of the cement and saw my big sister take out two little guns, that she quickly placed in each hand. I was shocked at what I was seeing, and tons of questions rushed through my tumbled mind: "What is she?!", "Is she a spy?", "A secret agent of some sort?". But my thoughts were interrupted by a big roar and the trembling of the hangar's floor. I looked up to the broken doors, as the clouds of dust were wearing away, and saw a huge silhouette, coming steadily through and up to my sister.
This silhouette was a man, or was he? He looked half-man, half-beast, as I took a look at all his muscles and his big height. He bore an unbearable grin and a laugh that gave me chills down my spine. To my surprise, Kyrann was grinning too, as if this was her fate and that the situation was amusing her.
Without warning, the beast jumped towards her, yelling and bearing an unbelievably big axe. Kyrann swiftly moved to the side, as the giant missed, and slid under him to arrive face to his back, were she relentlessly fired at him. The giant turned around and swung his other arm so fast that I didn't even have time to see it coming, and before I knew it, my sister was flying through the air and crashing into the walls at a high speed. The monster went towards her landing place, steadily, taking all his time, as if he were sure to have won. I gritted my teeth to stop myself from yelling as I saw him arrive right above her. To my bewilderment Kyrann wasn't moving. "No." I thought as I was watching the horrifying seen, "She can't be beaten already?!" The man lifted the big axe, and with a triumphant scream, plunged it into the lifeless young women's chest standing underneath him. "No!!!!!!!!!" I yelled, as I saw blood, Kyrann's blood, flying in the air. The giant turned and looked towards me and I could do nothing before I had realized my mistake.