Chains Of Blood

Chapter Three

"Answer my question, where is my girlfriend?" She added with a stiff tone. "Let me repeat myself...",He said, his tone was rough and sinister, "...she is with me and if you like to ever see her alive again, then you would have to give yourself up to me, forever". "You have till dusk tomorrow, if you don't accept my ultimatum, then she will die, and it will be slow and I will make you watch", his voice was bone chilling. She meant to say something but what could she say, she just growled at her father. He turned into dust. Maia fell to knees and landed into the dust and was crying and screaming. "Jonathan, he has my girlfriend, I can't let her die", she said still sobbing. "I know, but I need to put you first..." He said. "Jonathan what are you saying?", Maia's tone was unsure. Jonathan grabbed his sister and put her over his shoulder, he took no notice that she was kicking a screaming. He dropped her on her bed a tied her to the bed frame, she was growling and hissing at her brother. He tied a cloth around her mouth to stop her from screaming and he locked her door in front of him before leaving the room. She was trying to speak but she wasn't loud enough. "Jonathan", her screaming was muffled. Her brother was ignoring her, he walked away from her room and buried his head in hands and waited for her sister to stop screaming.

*FLASHBACK*

"Jonathan, have you seen Matthew's football shirt, I can't find it" Maia huffed. "Jonathan..." She said. She walked down the stairs and saw the basement door open, eager to investigate she walked under the door frame and saw her father with a syringe in his hand, Maia gasped and saw her father pierce the skin of her brother, the liquid was red as blood with white bubbles. "Now, this should keep you calm for the next couple of days....", her father breathed, "....Now go your sister is calling you, I will deal with her tonight". Maia ran to the kitchen saw Matthew eating a cookie out of the cookie jar. "Matt, you know you are not supposed to eat those cookies until after football practice", Maia giggled. Her brother had melted chocolate and cookie bits all over his face. Matt finished his cookie and washed his hands and face. "Matthew Collins, you naughty boy," Maia said. Matthew jumped on his sister and she fell on the floor and the both crawled to the sofa, Maia was tickling her brother and Matthew was screaming in delight, after a while they both stopped.

Jonathan walked into the room, "Matthew, go and do your homework, otherwise you can't go football today" Jonathan said, his voice was deep and demanding. "Jonathan, we were just playing, come on relax...." Maia said she was out of breath. "Maia, I will go, don't worry", said Matthew. He ran upstairs I could hear his boots run to his room. "Haven't you got work to do, little sister?" Jonathan said. "No, I did my homework yesterday", "Jonathan you are 17, not 18, you don't actually get to tell me what to do" Maia was trying to be clever. "Maia you are only 13, at the moment, so you have to listen to me, father or our mother" her brother's tone was still. "Am I taking Matt today?" She questioned. "No I am, and father wants you to do a couple of things" Jonathan still had an unemotional tone in his voice. "Mother is working late today, I will bring food home and you will stay here with father". "Wait, Jonathan, me and Sophie are going out today, I can't stay here all day" she pleaded. "I don't care, you are staying here" his voice was rough. "Jonathan, that's so not fair, I have waited two weeks for this weekend" Maia complained. She ran towards her brother to punch him but her father was behind Jonathan and Jonathan moved out the way, the punched landed in her father, she fell backwards, out of breath and saw what she did, "Father was aiming for Jonathan, not you, sorry".

Her father grabbed her wrist and hauled her to her feet and she tried to twist her way out her father's grasp. "Father, I..", she didn't finish her sentence, her father carried her over his shoulder and walked upstairs to the attic and threw her inside. Her father locked the door and shut the light from the outside. Maia was banging on to door, she hated to attic, she was usually the only one who was in there the most, if Matt was in there she would take him out and volunteer to go in, Matthew was afraid of the dark, Maia wasn't.

She would hear voices and noises in the attic, that would usually scare her. In the attic, it had a carpet and it was clean-ish. Maia put a pillow and blankets in the attic because she could be forced to spend nights here, so the only thing she could do is sleep, or try to. The attic would hardly have any heat, so she could sit there freezing. She heard noises and moaning sounds in the corner of the attic, she tried to ignore them. She felt something cold touch grab her ankle, a hand or something. She couldn't move, it's grip was tight and was getting tighter, it pulled her towards the corner, she was screaming and yelling, she saw the what was gripping her, it was some kind of animal, she gasps, and saw its face, it's monstrous face. It keeps trying to pull her, her father rushed in with a flashlight in his hand, the monster shrieked and ran back to the corner of darkness. Her father dragged her back, out of the attic, she couldn't breathe, her father saw her bleeding leg, it looked like a bite mark.