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Enjoy the prologue!
Prologue
"Faster, Idunn! Faster!" The terrified man encouraged his wife as they ran through the jungle, twigs snapping and leaves crunching under their rushing feet, loud barking echoing behind them. In the arms of the father, a five year old girl silently cries. She had little knowledge on what was actually happening; but she did know that whatever it was, it had her parents shaking from their head to toes, and if anything can scare her parents, it damn well is dangerous.
Their heart raced, their legs ached, their lungs burned, but they ran. They ran just until they could not anymore. As they ran, they began to realize the stone like walls beginning to encase them from the sides; but they didn't stop. They kept going, the walls slowly curving inwards towards itself until it another wall appeared in front of the family of three. Looking up they could see that they were at the bottom of a cliff that was probably more than 200 ft high. The male of the trio looked left and right, but there was nothing but bushes and tall stone walls, and the only way to escape this dead end was to go back; but they could not even do that. It would be one hell of a risk.
"Shit!" The man growled. He turned to his wife, Idunn "There's no way out, and we can't go back!"
"Agdar calm down," She assured, "They probably lost us?"
"No, they couldn't have! They have hounds! They know our scent, a-and they're getting closer!" Agdar turned his attention to the sobbing girl in his arms, then frantically scanned his surroundings. "There!"
He placed the girl onto the ground and got onto one knee, matching her height so that they could be eye to eye. "Anna, darling. Listen to me! Listen to papa!"
The little girl, Anna, stared into her father's eyes, then nodded slowly.
"Alright, you see that bush over there?" Agdar pointed to a bush behind his daughter. Anna glanced at it and nodded once again. He placed his hand upon her auburn hair, stroking it lightly, "I need you to go hide behind it. Don't make a sound, and don't come out for anything! Do you understand?"
A nod.
"Good. Think of it like a game. Like hide and seek. You don't want the bad man to find you, so you have to hide until he leaves; and when he leaves, count to fifty. Then, and only then, is when you can come out, okay?"
"Okay." Anna replied simply.
*snap*
Everyone's attention was turned towards the area where the sound came from.
"Agdar!" Idunn gulped
Agdar, for the last time, looked towards his daughter, "Alright, now go! And remember what i said! Stay quiet, stay put, and don't come out until you've reached fifty! Go!"
Anna raced towards the bushes, pushed herself through them, and hid just behind. She sat down, and hugged her knees to her chest. A wave of fear overcame her once more, and she was on the verge of crying; but like her father said, she must stay quiet. So she attempted to swallow her fear, and the urge to cry. Glancing up, she noticed a small gap between the leaves of the bush, which allowed her to get a view of her parents. The gap wasn't wide enough for her to be seen through, but just so that she could see what would occur on the other side. She watched as her father gi`ve her mother a quick kiss on the temple, as the sound of snapping twigs and shuffling leaves grew closer. Just then, five men appeared into view. With those men were two hounds, growling in hunger and warning at her parents. Their teeth were bared, their eyes were darkened, and they tugged at their leashes, hoping to get free and tear Agdar and Idunn apart limb by limb. One man, the tallest out of all five, took a few steps, placing himself between Anna's parents and his crew. He smiled, his hand reaching up to pick at his brunette beard thoughtfully. It was eerily quiet, save the audible growling of the hounds. No one spoke, for they all knew what was to come. No one thought, for they all knew there was nothing to think about. No one moved, for they all knew, not a twitch could prevent their fate. Anna watched closely, praying to God that her parents were going to be okay. She then caught notice of the brunette haired man reach slowly to the back of his waist. He lifted up his shirt slightly, and his fingers danced their way around the handle of a stainless-steel object, pulling it from the back of his pants and bringing it between him and Agdar. Agdar didn't even blink.
"So this is how it has to be, eh?" Agdar sighed.
"Yeah, it is." The other man stated.
"You know, I trusted you Cedrick." This time, Agdar's voice was filled with pain, and betrayal. This made the other man smile.
"Yeah," the man, Cedrick, chuckled, "you did."
"All this, for a jungle? For an island?"
"I have big plans Agdar, big plans! And if you won't give me the rights to this island, then i'll have to take it from you." Cedrick's green eyes showed hatred, anger, and had a sinister glow to it. It made Anna shiver with discomfort.
"Those plans involve you destroying what my ancestors founded, and what my father passed on to me."
"I don't care." Cedrick rolled his eyes.
"You do know, that if anything happens to me, you can't get the rights to this land."
"Oh I know."
A silence.
"Hey, Cedrick, where's the kid?" Another one of the five asked. This was was short, and his head was cleared of hair. His brown eyes scanned the area for Anna.
"That doesn't matter," Cedrick replied, "She's as good as dead anyway."
He turned his attention back to the married couple, "I'm gonna give you one last chance, Agdar. Sign the papers."
Agdar stared the man straight in the eye, a blank expression on his face, "Over. My. Dead. Body."
Cedrick shrugged, "suit yourself."
With what happened next, it took all of Anna's willpower not to scream in terror. Cedrick squeezed the trigger on the gun. A loud *bang* sounded, and the next thing Anna knew, her father was on the ground, and a hole was in his head. Another *bang* and her mother followed. Anna's hands were practically clamped tight over her lips so that she wouldn't scream. Tears fell freely down her face as she shut her eyes tightly and rocked back and forth to calm herself. She could hear the footsteps of the five men, as they walked away with the looks of triumph on their face.
'One'
They were gone
'Two'
Her parents were just murdered
'Three'
Her parents are Dead
'Four'
She's all alone now
'five'
They've abandoned her
Anna counted, and counted. Rocking back and forth in hopes that she will forget everything she saw. She even pinched herself a couple times in hopes that this was all a dream and that she'll wake up anytime soon. But she knows she won't. She knows that she'll never forget. She will forever have to hear the gunshots, feel the pain, fear, and shock, see the bodies of her guardians fall to the ground limp and lifeless; she will forever have to smell the smoke from the gun and the stench from the corpses. There was just no escaping it. Even as she realizes this she still pinches, and rocks, and counts. It was when she got to fifty that she realized…
she was trapped here
on this island…
alone.
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