Relive

“Where is the stone?”

“Why are you asking for our stone? Its our property and you dare not intrude into our home by this hour of the night to ask for something we will never give you”

“Who said I came to ask for it? My Alpha instructed me to take it with or without your consent and even if you are dead or alive”

“Leave immediately before we tear your flesh into shreds”

“I want to see you try”

It was the middle of the night and every child my age were all in their beds having a good night rest in preparation for the next day’s work but the noises of banging, shouting, heavy footsteps and screaming that sounded from the living room was enough to make me jump out of my bed and hurry down the stairs as fast as my little legs could carry me to see what was happening between my parents and the strange voice I heard.

“Hugo!!! Hugo!! Wake up!! Let's fight him together” I heard mother’s voice speak.

“He’s a dead man now, and you will soon join him if you do not tell me where it is” the strange voice spoke.

“Never!! I will never tell you where it is” mother replied and I could hear some struggling and then a vase shattering on the ground.

On reaching downstairs, I hid at the corner of the staircase where no one would notice my presence apart from mother that already knew I was there because of the bond we shared. I saw father lying on the ground lifeless in the pool of his own blood and my mother struggling for her dear life as the huge man who was almost twice her size held her to the wall strangling her.

“Run and don’t look back, go now” mother said telepathically as her voice resonated in my head like a church bell. But I couldn’t leave her there alone, I knew she was going to die anyways but I wanted to do something bad to the one who killed her, he cannot just walk away a free man after murdering my parents and rendering me an orphan.

“Where is it? If you tell me I might just spare your life and that of your daughter upstairs” the man said to my mother releasing his hand gently from her throat just in case she was ready to tell him what he wanted to know.

“I’ll rather die than give up my family legacy, tell your alpha that I did this to him I caused his downfall and even from heaven where I will be seated I will laugh hilariously at him as he slowly dies without saving” mother said trying to buy time for me to sneak into the kitchen and run away using the back door.

“Your husband died protecting you and you want your daughter to suffer the same fate too? What a ruthless mother, I will kill you and go up there and snuff life out of that little girl till her body turns numb” the man said dropping her to the ground and turning to head for the staircase with hopes I was in my room.

While he turned I launched at him stabbing him in the chest and on his stomach, he still stood his ground trying to grab me and probably strangle me like he threatened but I dodged all his attempts and was able to get to his back and push him with all my might. He fell on the staircase breaking his neck, I stabbed him multiple times till he started choking on his own blood like what he did to my father. I stood there looking down at the man who murdered my parents with hate, anguish, pain, disgust and an odd feeling of satisfaction that he was the first man to die by my young hands. I rushed towards mother who held and pressed the stab wound on her abdomen that she probably got when she was trying to help father from the man that continuously stabbed him without mercy.

“Mother!! Its alright we’re going to get help, just press down on your wound I heard it helps stop the bleeding” I said as tears flowed down my eyes blurring my vision from seeing anything and I gave a weak smile trying to encourage her to keep fighting for her life.

“Somebody Help!! Anybody!!” I screamed on top of my voice hoping someone from anywhere would come and help us but the pack house was about a mile away.

“Elaine, don’t forget who we are, never give up on your gift and never disclose the location of the stone” mother said and her eyes closed slowly and I felt her drifting away into death.

“Mother!! No come back, you can’t leave me, you promised to stay no matter what happens, why are you leaving me now?” I screamed on top of my voice holding her body closer to myself as her blood stained my white night dress.

I called out for her even if I knew that there was nothing I could do that would bring my parents back to life, she died trying to protect me and I promise to avenge her death even if I too died trying. I wouldn’t have ever thought that my life of peace and happiness would end in blood and tears as I lost both my parents on the same day at the age of eleven, this life was indeed cruel. I sat on the hard floor holding my mother’s dead body that was beginning to turn cold, this was the end of my childhood and the beginning of a premature adulthood I was about to venture into. If they thought they tamed my parents and they could now have it their way they are very wrong because this was the just the beginning of the bitter end for them all.

I opened my eyes slowland tears rolled down my eyes, I just relived the death of my parents in my dream and I realized just how much pain I have kept bottled up these past few years.