A/N: IMPORTANT!: Hey guys, so I decided on re-writing the whole story. Sorry it took me forever to update, I've fixing at this story and deciding on what I wanted to do differently, I also am trying to make Evelyn even less of a warrior mary-sue so feel free to point out whenever you feel she's turning into a mary-sue or if you feel like the characters might be acting too OOC. So HERE YOU GO!
Prologue
Unknown POV
I ran down the twisting, eerie path, looking behind me every so often. I felt a surge of pain run through my nose, and before I knew it, I was lying on my back, the air knocked out of me. Unable to do anything else, I lay there and gasp, grabbing my nose, I could feel the warm liquid pour out, and I could feel that there was a possibility that I just broke my nose. I cursed loudly, forgetting about my situation before a certain nightmare of a man reminded me.
"Kara! Come back here! If you don't get back here I swear you'll receive an even worse punishment," the cruel voice that I always feared yelled, not sounding that far away.
Out of fear, I jumped up, running off of the forest path into the deep, dark woods. My throat burned at my need for water, and I sound found my shoulders and my ribs aching while my pants became harder and hoarser.
I couldn't take the pain anymore and I ended up taking a break and leaning against a tree, listening for the sound of footsteps, or any sound at all. But I couldn't hear anything, it was quiet… too quiet. I decided I needed to continue and so, I pushed the pain as much as possible to the back of my brain before sprinting off in the direction I guessed was the way farthest from my fear.
Freedom spiked my heart with hope just before I felt a pair of strong arms wrap themselves around me in a threatening way. "Gottcha!" he yelled.
"No, let me go, please… please… I'm begging you… I won't run ever again, I swear," I cried, ending up full blown sobbing near the end.
"Shut up before I cut your lips off!" he yelled.
We moved towards the dock of a lake and he threw me on there, sending me tumbling just before I caught myself right before falling in. "Take off your shirt," he ordered.
"I-I'm sorry," I sobbed. I knew what was going to happen if I did take it off, and tonight, I just knew I couldn't stand it anymore.
"What did I just say! Take. Off. Your. Shirt." He ordered again. Slowly, I pulled off my shirt, and then gripped the wood of the dock bracing myself for the pain I would soon have to endure.
I gritted my teeth feeling the slashing on the belt buckle against my back, before I would've screamed and cried a river of tears, but now, I accepted the pain and the fact that I would end up with scars, and strangely, I afterwards it just hurt less than before.
Suddenly he grabbed my face then slashed my face and neck a couple times. I let out a blood curdling scream as I felt it cut and burn right over my right eye. "You know what, I don't think you've learned your lesson yet," he said before shoving me into the cold lake.
I gasped in surprise and quickly swam to the surface. I took in a large breath before I felt a hand on top of my head, and it shoved me right back under. I struggled under the grasp, the water burning my throat and panic increasing my heart rate, and as I looked up, I could see a blurred figure of a man.
To be continued…
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