It Started in the Woods ((ON HOLD))

Prologue

Jaelyn is an eight-year-old little girl. Her personality is as sweet as honey. She is a very elegant, caring, and affectionate girl. If someone were to look at her and think about what her life would be like they would imagine that she'd have the perfect eight-year-old child life filled with laughter, friends, and family. But if they looked at her that way, they would be wrong. Jaelyn faces every day the mystery as to how her mother passed away when she was six, but her father would always refuse to tell her. Jaelyn never liked to use the word 'hate', but she hated her father so much she almost didn't ever want to call him her father once she lost her mother. Jaelyn had to soon face something that no child should ever have to face - abuse. Both physical and mental or emotional. She was fed the lies every hour of every day that it was her fault that her mother had passed. Her father was horrible, getting drunk every day either at home by himself or at the bar with all his sick, bastard buddies. Almost every day she would end up with new cuts, bruises, or wounds of some sort. The lies repeated in her poor, precious mind every night she would be trying to sleep. 

You're not good enough, he said. 

You'll never have the life you deserve, he said. 

It's all your fault you lost your own mother, he said. 

You're just an ugly, little bitch, he said. Just lies and more lies would fuel the nightmares she sometimes occasionally had to face. More and more the demons of fear and anxiety would follow her, worry and hopelessness filling her helpless, little soul. No matter how hard Jaelyn would try to fight against the dirty hands of her father, she could never seem to escape. Anytime she would finally find a quiet house when he would go to the bar she would try her best to figure out any possible escape plan. But it was always too late. 

But there's gotta be a way, she would think to herself every day. Before she went to bed, she would pray every night for a way to be able to get out of the place she once called her home which soon became the place she called hell. The only thing is she didn't quite know who she was praying to. 

Whoever may be up there watching over me, please help me escape. I can't take it anymore, she would pray out loud quietly; where are you, guardian angel?  

A couple more torturous, painful years passed as Jaelyn soon became eight years old. She was actually having a rather peaceful sleep one night when suddenly she woke up. She didn't know what it was that made her wake up, but it was as if she could feel a different, invisible presence in her room. Then she came up with an idea. She knew it was time...she knew it was the perfect time to make her escape. Her father was going to be gone the whole night until morning, he was having an all-night party with all his buddies. And their house was practically out in the middle of nowhere so it wasn't like the house would get broken into or anything like that. Jaelyn had gotten up out of bed and looked outside. She saw it was pitch black dark out, except for the bright glow of the moon and the twinkling stars. Slowly she walked through her house to finally get out of the front door for good. And she was at peace knowing her father wasn't there to stop her dead in her tracks. For the first time into actual freedom, she finally opened the front door and actually took full steps out of it into the cool night. It was a little chilly but she didn't mind that. Wearing her favorite tennis shoes she immediately slammed the door and just made a bolt for it. Jaelyn only had one other place she felt safe away from the hands of her father and that place was the Salmon-Challis Forest behind her house. Her new forever home stood in front of her. She would make the forest her home and she knew she would adapt to it well and love it. Which this was a true fact. 

She was still eight when months passed after claiming the forest as her home. And strange, yet amazing and wondrous things began to happen to her. Since she was a 4-year-old child she had always worn this necklace that had a bright, green sparkling leaf on it. As Jaelyn adapted to being in the woods she had formed unbelievable relationships with animals that inhabited the forest. She could read their thoughts and feelings that humans could never be able to detect. And she could amazingly communicate with them as well. She could get face-to-face with the meanest, most dangerous of predators and not pose as a single threat to them. That was because the creatures of the forest could understand her as well, even the tiniest of ladybugs. 

Jaelyn could not believe she could finally have a normal life without pain and worry. Even though she still feared her father being able to find her again she could fight away those lies better than she ever could have. She still had scars on her body that she could never go a day without looking back at, but she could soon remind herself that she could not have to face that anymore. Things in her outside home, however, would never remain the same. One day, another evil horror entered her life, and this one evil will be even harder for her to escape. She would need major help to overcome this one. But what will happen on that fateful day when she finds a giant intelligent robot in the middle of her forest home?