4 Elements

Chapter Two - Family Reunion

Chapter Two - Family Reunited

My name is Alisa Heart and I'm 18 years old, my birthday is on the 8th August. I use to have an ordinary family; me, my mum, my dad; and the twins Joseph and Jane. We were a happy family, always spending time together, always having fun. But I guess they forgot to tell me one thing that I'm a bender. I guess they had their reasons why but they should have told me non-less.

I don't really like talking or even thinking about my past, not everyone does. I was 11 years old when they found me. 'They' I found out are benders that couldn't control their elements and let it take over them; they are called 'The Turned'.

The turned came to get me one hot summer night a few weeks after my birthday. I woke up that night to find the house on fire, the walls collapsing and the roof falling. My room wasn't on fire yet but I could see the smoke coming in from under the closed door. Running to the corner of my room were Honey my teddy bear was I could heard my mothers' screams and my fathers' shouts coming from the garden. Jo and Jane were crying from the room next to me; as I was starting to get up to go next to them everything went quite. My mum wasn't screaming, dad wasn't shouting and the twins weren't crying.

Sitting back down in my corner I started to rock back and forth, my family's screams of help ringing in my head. The door swung open with a loud thud and I began screaming too. A man, if you even wanted to call it that, stood in my bedroom doorway. The light of the fire burning behind him giving his face a whole other effect that would make you squirm. He obviously wasn't human, not with his non-existent nose, crazed red eyes and a mouth full of sharp teeth like a piranha. He had two arms but claws at the end of his hands; his skin was a pale pastel colour and he was wearing shredded cloths that hardily covered anything. The monster in front of me had some kind of pattern all over his body; it was beautiful but disgusting at the same time.

It walked over to where I was huddled up in the corner and crouched down to my level. Red eyes looking straight into my dark green, I pressed myself even further into the corner if that was even possible. The monster grabbed my chin in to his claws pulling my head up so I was looking into his eyes again, his claws cutting into the sides of my cheek.

"You're going to come with me," he growled like a dog, saliva dripping on to the floor as if he was same kind of wild animal. I whimpered away shaking my head slightly in a sign of no.  

His red crazed eyes widened with anger and went even more crazed when I responded to him. He raised his hand and ran his claws all the way down my left leg from thigh to ankle. Screaming out in pain I tried to push him off me, well that was a mistake because he pushed his claws even further in to my thigh as he slowly went down my leg.

The pain was way too much to handle so I let go. Then everything went black. 

When I woke up that day years ago I will always wish I never did. I woke up in a cement cell, chained up on the wall. It all started with them asking me silly questions like 'Where is it?' and 'Show us yours'. When they finally understood that I don't have a clue on what the heck they were asking the beating started along with the torcher. Whenever someone came in all they did was beat the hell out of me then leave. When I turned 15 the Turned went to a whole new level with torched, I'll never forget that day, no one would forget the day they were raped.

Years went by and the same thing happened every day. The day they unchained me was the day of my escape. The Turned had made their mind up to kill me; I was no use to them if I didn't know anything. I had been planning my escape for years now and the fact that they had unchained me was just a plus in my plan. As soon as they undid my chains I kneed the man in front of me and grabbed his knife in his back pocket. Taking it out I stabbed him while he was on the floor, the second one came charging at me with his red eyes wide. Stepping out of the way he went right past me and ran straight into the rock wall.