Dreadful

Introduction

Dreadful

/Dredfol/

Definition: Causing or involving great suffering, fear, or unhappiness; extremely bad or serious.

Synonyms: Terrible, Frightful, Horrible, Grim, Awful, Dire.

How fitting.
Welcome to a small town in the middle of absolute nowhere. There is no other civilization for three hundred square miles. You are stuck in this dreadful town due to a grim loss of your mother. Your main objective is to leave without your father knowing your location. The only problem? Oh just the fact that your father is a psychopathic maniac who wants to have you in his sights at all times. You have to escape him. You need to escape him. He beat you and your mother. He would break your bones. It would send chills down your spine every time you heard him beating your mother, frightened that he would come after you next. You had to leave.

I had forgotten one thing. Your name. Ah yes your name. Your name should be something fitting. Something frightening. Something that would make everyone horrified. Something eerie. Something macabre. Macabre. Macabre sounds lovely.

Macabre

/məˈkäbrə/

Definition: Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.

Synonyms: gruesome, grisly, grim, gory, morbid, ghastly, unearthly, grotesque, hideous, horrific, shocking, dreadful, loathsome, repugnant, repulsive, sickening.

So unique. It suits you. Macabre. Now how did your parents come up with your name? You were born with your mother's beauty, but with your father's demonic eyes. He used his mind to control people and objects around him. Your mother could calm any creature that felt threatened or afraid. Her name was Mia. Your father's name is Phenec. Phenec was after Mia's beauty thinking she knew where the fountain of youth was. The only issue is they became infatuated with one another. The being Phenec was trying to bring water from the fountain to was called Macabre. By the time they started talking about finding the fountain of youth, it was already too late. Mia was nineteen weeks pregnant. Phenec decided then to name you Macabre in honor of his dear friend. Word started spreading, and Phenec was scheduled to be executed for mating with a nymph. By that faithful day, you had been born. Mia had saved him from the execution. But he had been beaten badly. He believed that Mia had seduced him. He tried killing her and the newly born child. Fast forward fifteen years, nothing has changed. Although he succeeded at killing Mia last year. He is focused on one thing now. And that's you.