The Light in the Dark

Prologue

             I watched as my father was dragged away by the dark men, thrown into a wooden chair, and was tied up by the men. The men who didn't like my family. My mother was with me, her hand over my mouth as we crouched low in the floorboards, peering threw the cracks. My mother had a thick rug pulled over herself. She glowed, it felt like. Whenever she was in a room full of people, it was like she glowed. It was amazing, but right now, it was what would get us killed. I knew that. It didn't matter that I was only 6. I knew what death was, and these dark men brought it.

           "Where is the girl!" The dark man yelled at my father, hitting him.

           I winced, silent tears rolling down my small cheeks. How long would they beat him? To death? I glanced at my mother, and I could see vapor rising from her eyes. That's new...

          The man hit my father again, and I wanted to stop him so badly. Break the floorboards and tell the man to stop. Stop hurting my dad. My mother covered her head with the rug again and chanted a silent prayer. Though, the words... they were not English. All of a sudden, she jumped up and pried the loose floorboards away. She ran over to her husband and kissed him. 

         "She is safe, my dear. They can not get her," She whispered, although I could not hear it.

         "Seize the witch! She is a demoness! She has bewitched this man for a child!" The dark guard screamed. His cronies obeyed him and grabbed my mother by her arms. She did not resist, but let them do so. I tried to scream, tried to speak, to get them to stop, but it was like my voice had been temporarily taken away. 

         My mother gasped and went slack in the guard's arms. All of a sudden, her body started to move, and then float. Her eyes rolled back in her head, and a golden light shone through them and her mouth, "THE PROPHECY!" The dark men cried.

         "The golden child of the day, the pitch-black son of the night, will come together and reunite. They will rid the world of the beasts, and save humanity from the priests. The daughter of day, and the son of night, shall come forth in the years, and with them the mighty sear." My mother spoke.

          I watching In horror as my mother fell to the floor, limp and... no longer glowing. I knew instantly she was dead. I tried to scream, tried to move from my spot under the floor, I needed to get to my mother, but I had no voice, and I could not move. I realized my mother had not prayed, no, but instead had recited an enchantment to keep me from moving or speaking.

        My father was moving now, trying to get out of his ropes, trying to get to his beloved wife, but in the process, fell to the ground, still attached to his chair, "How unfortunate for you, but now it is much easier to kill thou. All we needed was your wife and your child, but we have you. Ax him, Lucie."

        The guard by the name Lucie walked up to my father with an ax in hand. I opened my mouth to scream again, I tried to move has hard as I could to get to the man about to murder my father, but it was no use. All I could do was watch my father be killed.

        "My wife and I may be dead, but you will never kill her. You won't find her. She will never be caught by you," Those were the last words my father uttered, before his beheading. As his blood seeped threw the floor cracks, I touched a small puddle near my foot and looked at my finger. I cried, my salty tears mixing with my father's red blood.

         "Check the floors for the girl," I heard the general say. I panicked, looking at the fingers prying open the loose floorboard. I shut my eyes and squeezed my hands into fists.

          'Don't let him see you, don't let him see you, don't let him see you,' I chanted in my head. Right as I heard the floorboard come off with a deafening snap, I could hear a fire crackling. The heat of the flames warming my face, and the small glow emitting from it threw my closed eyes. Then those were gone, replaced with cold rain, and the smell of spring.

         I opened my eyes, and there, in front of me, was a huge brick building. A sign above the large iron doors read-

        "Mages orphanage: Welcome little one"

Hi! This was something that popped into my head just now, and I wanted to get it down before my creative juices stopped flowing, so this is sum that I thought people might like. If you liked it, then please comment if I should continue this book, or scrap it.