Honor in Revenge

Chapter 1 - New Life

                She kept running, too afraid to stop.  She was such a small girl yet her fear and sorrow could amount to that of a city’s.  They were after her, they’d killed her parents to get to her.  She didn’t have the slightest clue what they wanted, or who they were, she only had the hole in her heart that they had created, and the instinctive feeling of danger in her gut.

                The hot afternoon sun beat down onto her face, and she hadn’t had anything to eat since they found her.  It started to settle into her mind that she wasn’t going to get away; they were going to catch her, she was weak and tired and on the verge of giving up.

That’s when she saw it, it was only a bed time story back home but there it was in all of its iron gated glory.  The City of Humans stood before her eyes, she wanted to stop and just stare, but they were not far behind.  She could see them in the distance the heat making her vision seem shaky but they were there non-the-less. 

                Her chest was on fire, her head pounding, and feet throbbing.  She could hear them getting closer to her, her joy turned to fear.  She’d gotten so far, she didn’t want it all to go to waste when she was this close to safety.  She knew what they were and she wanted no part of their horrible nature.  Wolves were foul creatures and being near them scared the living day lights out of her, they might be worse as humans than they are as animals.  But a moon cycle has pasted since she had started running which meant their full moon was approaching soon, they would be stronger and faster than they’d been before.

                Her legs threatened to buckle as she pushed herself even faster towards the gate.  She was close enough that she was in the shade from the towering boundaries surrounding the city.  She started to scream to anyone who might be on the other side. “Open the gate!  Please let me in, Hurry!”  She had reached the gate; she pounded her frail hands against door sending jolts of pain down her sore and sunburnt arms. 

                Desperation consumed her she kept screaming and banging on the door, tears welling up in her eyes at the thought of what will happen if they chose not to open the gate.  But when she’d began to accept her wretched fate the gate shifted, and opened just enough for her to slip through.  Once she was inside she let her tears flow, as she collapsed on the smooth dirt.  She lifted her hand to shield her eyes from the sun; she found that her hands were bleeding from pounding on the gate.  The warm liquid slowly tricked down her arm, she was too overwhelmed with the fact that she was safe, to feel pain.

                The people she figured to be guards started to surround her, she watched their lips move and it looked to her as though they were speaking, but she couldn’t hear anything except a faint buzzing noise.  She just remained lying on her back staring at their faces, the faces that saved her life. 

                A loud pounding interrupted her silence; she quickly realized that the pounding was on the gate, it was them.  “NO!” she shouted covering her ears “Don’t let them take me, please don’t let them take me!” she cried clutching onto a red haired guard.

                “No one’s going to let them get you.”  She looked up into his eyes, and she could tell that he’d meant what he said.  Nobody but her father had ever protected her from danger, she suddenly felt self-conscious, and felt bad about spreading her blood all over his clothes, even though he didn’t seem to mind.

                He scooped her up in his arms and started carrying her through the city.  “Where are we going?” she asked, not that she was worried, but because she was curious.  She’d never seen so many people or buildings in one place before.