Well here's the first rewritten chapter of the new and improved 'Dangerous Flower! To be honest, it feels good to be posting a REAL chapter again. Hopefully this chapter is better than the original version, and you guys like it better. (Oh and by the way, this chapter will be a bit gory, and I didn't know if I should rate it M or not, so if it is, then let me know so I can change the story from T to M. Because most likely, the chapters will be similar to this and I don't want anyone nagging me for it.) Anyway, I know I kept you guys waiting for a really long time, for this, so here you go!

Breathing heavily and heart pounding in her chest the young serpent collapsed to the ground in a small heap. Her throat felt raw and dry with every breath she took. All around her body were deep cuts and bruises that were the size of basketballs. There were also long claw marks on both sides of her body that stretched feom her neck to her rattle, and whip marks that were laced across her stomach, back, and rattle. Blood was pooring through every single one of those wounds, which spilled down to the ground and stained the forest floor below her. The pain she felt was unbearable. All the wounds in her body stung and every time she moved, she felt like she was on fire. Her eyes were closed shut, and in her mind, she was hoping, no, PRAYING that somehow she could escape the nightmare she was in. Sadly, her prayer was never answered. Instead, she felt the stinging pain from a whip at her side.

"Get Up You Weakling!" a voice shouted.

Her eyes shot open when she immediately recognized that voice and panicked. No matter how much she wanted to lay on the ground and rest, she knew that if she didn't do as she was told, she would be punished.

She tried raising her body from the ground while causing the least amount of pain, but soon yelped when the whip lashed her neck.

"I said Get Up! Now hurry up, else old Silas here will give you another set of those marks!" her father shouted.

The young serpent had no choice but to force herself off the ground. Every muscle in her body ached and more blood spilled from her wounds. Her body was practically shouting at her to stop, but she knew she couldn't afford it. Before she knew it, she took longer than anticipated, and was dearly punished for it. When she almost got herself up, she had strong, thick coils wrap around her neck and felt herself being thrown across the floor.

A new surge of pain coursed throughout her body as she hit the ground. Hard.

Her body rolled on the ground until it came to a slow stop. She moaned in agony as the pain immediately flared and more blood spilled from her wounds as they opened increasingly due to the impact.

All of a sudden she felt a heavy weight on her small body. She tried cracking her eyes open to see what the weight was, but soon screamed when long claws raked through her body. She tried to get herself out of this extreme torture but all she could do was squirm around pitifully and scream in agony. She then all of a sudden heard the taunting voice of her father through her screaming.

"It hurts doesn't it?! You want Silas to stop don't you?! In fact you want all of this to stop don't you?!" he yelled through her screaming.

Tears started rolling down her cheeks as the pain got increasingly worse as she felt the hawk's claws rake her body once again. Tearing through her soft flesh like a piece of meat. She felt her own blood burst through the wound and spill everywhere. She saw it stain the floor, her own scales, even on the claws of the hawk. She wondered for a brief moment why she hadn't passed out due to the pain and blood loss.

"Well Don't You?!"

She gritted her teeth in hurt and anger as she knew she had to answer him.

"Y-Yes! Yes, I do!" she cried.

"Well then if you want him to stop, fight back!" he yelled.

She closed her eyes shut and knew that he was right. No one was going to help her, and she knew it. She was on her own and that's that. Somehow she got into this mess, now she needed to get herself out of it. She need to fight for herself if she wanted to live. She needed to fight for her freedom.

She managed to twist part of her body around to face the hawk, open her jaws wide, and bite the hawk in the leg.

Silas screeched in pain and shock as he felt small needle like teeth puncture his leg in a vice like grip. He immediately got off the serpent hoping that she would let go of him. Luckily for him, she did, but before he could react, she recoiled, sprang at him, and sank her teeth in his neck.

He stumbled backwards at first, and desperately tried to shake her off him but to no avail. So he tried ramming her body against a tree in hopes to remove her jaws from his throat. What he got instead, was small, but strong, coils wrap around his neck and tighten to a point where he could barely breathe. Before he even knew it, the tables had turned against him.

The young snake finally released her jaws from his neck, but wasn't finished with him just yet. She then tightened her coils around his neck, and with all the strength she had left, she made a quick jerk, which was enough to topple the massive bird to the ground. He fell with a loud thud which caused some dirt to fly into the air and create a small cloud.

After a moment or two, the dirt started clearing and the forest floor was starting to look visible again. Once everything cleared, the forest revealed a surprising scene.

There was the young girl, standing right in front of the unconscious form of Silas. She was breathing quite heavily as she was staring down at the hawk. Her pain in her wounds were starting to aggravate her again, and she soon saw more of her blood trickle down her scales and onto the ground. Pretty soon her body started shaking with each breath she took, and it was only then did she realize how weak and exhausted she was. And before she knew it, her body collapsed on the floor.

Unable to move any longer, she closed her eyes shut once again, and continued to rest there and hope that she could just lay there forever. Hopefully, she would get what she always wanted and that her luck hadn't run out just yet.

However, luck was no longer at her side.

Suddenly a large shadow loomed over her. Then she heard a clanking sound, and felt something cold being placed around her neck. She opened her eyes to see what that was, and soon gasped when she saw that it was a chain!

"What?!" she said out loud.

She tried freeing herself by pulling on the chain, and hopefully breaking it somehow, but to no avail. Her eyes followed the long chain, and saw that it was connected to a nearby tree. That's when she immediately knew, that she was trapped.

Then she heard chuckling and turned her head to see her father glaring down at her.

"Shocked aren't you?" he teased.

The small child had a confused look on her face and was on the inkling of an alarm. Something was terribly wrong.

"What's going on?! I thought you said you would stop!" she yelled. Now she was getting scared and soon started to panic.

He smirked at her worried expression. "Oh Did I now?" he laughed. "I don't recall ever saying that!"

"But you did! You said if I fought back you said you'd stop! You said it would all stop!" she exclaimed.

He shook his head evilly. "I never said that. I said that HE would stop," he motioned to Silas. "Not once did I say your punishment was ending." he stated.

She remained silent for a moment. Then, her eyes opened wide, and soon she was shaking with fear, refusing to believe what was happening.

Her father's smirk grew at her reaction when she realized the situation she was in. "In fact, Your punishment is just beginning!"

Not believeing what he said, she shook her head in denial. "No. No. Please No!"

The grin on his fave prooved otherwise. Then she saw him slithering closer to her.

"No! Please!" The poor girl tried running away from this fate, but unfortunately she was stopped by the chain wrapped around her neck. She tried pulling harder and harder on the chain, but it was hopeless. She was trapped.

Realizing that she had no way of escape, she turned to face her father, and backed away as far as she could. Tears started rolling down her cheeks, which she tried shaking them away. Her vision started to blur as her father got closer and closer to her. She tried blinking her tears away as best she could, but they all kept coming.

"Why can't you just leave me alone? Why torture me like this? What did I do to deserve this?!" she cried.

He his smirk was soon replaced with a glare. "Why, you say?" he asked.

"Well maybe because you killed my wife!" he yelled. "Your responsible for her death! YOU killed her! You killed my Elizabeth! If it weren't for you she'd still be alive! That's why you need to be punished, you horrible demon child!"

By now, the small girl coiled away from, and was staring at him with wide eyes. She couldn't believe it. He blamed her for her mother's death. He thought that she was the one who killed her. How could he say something like that! She loved her mother with all her heart. Her mother was the one who showed her love and kindness. She was the one who took care of her until her death, when she was only three. How could he even think that she would even do such a thing.

Her heart ached when she thought about her mother. How she used to play with her, and tuck her in at night. How she would tell her bedtime stories when she couldn't go to sleep or had nightmares. Things were great when her mother was around. Until the illness that she had finally took its toll and killed her.

That was also when the girl's torture all began.

She was suddenly snapped out of her thoughts when she heard her father speak again.

"Now it's time for you to pay!" he yelled. And with that, he took out a long dagger that was twice the size of his poisonous fangs. The dagger was serrated and was so sharp that it could easily cut wood with a single swipe. In other words, it could rip flesh apart as easy as cutting through butter.

After seeing the large dagger, the small serpent cowered away as far as she could until she reached the bark of the tree. Hoping that all of this was just a dream. Some crazy nightmare, that she'll wake up from. That she'll be alright and everything will be ok. But despite all her hopes, this wasn't a dream. In fact, this was one nightmare she will never wake up from.

"Please Don't! Please! I beg you! Please!" she pleaded.

But when she saw him raise the dagger to strike, she screamed.

"NNNOO!"

A female rattlesnake woke up with a start. She was breathing heavily and her heart was beating quickly against her chest. Her body was quivering and her eyes were frantically looking at her surroundings preparing for whatever came to attack. But after a while, she realized nothing was happening and that she was alone.

She soon started to calmed down, took a deep breath, and settled back into her previous position. It was then that she realized it was just dream...about her past.

"Funny. I hadn't dreamt about that for a while," she thought out loud.

She sighed and shook her head. She then got up, and slithered out of the small hole she was in. When she finally reached the exit, she peeked her head out to see her surroundings.

At first she had to flinch back, due to the sun beating down on her eyes, but once she got used to the light, she took a good look at her surroundings.

Based on how high the sun was, she assumed it was noon. The sun's rays were bearing down at the desert sand, creating the scorching heat the desert was known for. As usual there were hardly any clouds since it hardly rained at all. So the sky was basically blue with the sun standing out. The desert seemed more or less empty, except for the occasional cactus and desert shrub. The sand was just like it had always been: sand. Nothing has really changed at all since she fell asleep.

Once getting a good look at the desert, the female rattlesnake slithered out of her hole and out into the open, revealing the rest of her form.

She had light brown scales all over her body, and an even darker brown scales on her back that formed into the shapes of diamonds, which gave her species their trademark name: diamondback. She also had big blue eyes that were even bluer than the sky, which only turned icy-cold when she was angry. All in all she was a very beautiful snake.

But when you take a closer look at her, one could see faint scars laced across her body. From gashes, whip marks, claw marks, you name it, she has it. Each scar told similar stories about her past. About how she got them, and why. Those scars also explain why she's even in the desert in the first place.

Well, like her dream, she was abused during her childhood by none other than her own father. Ever since her mother passed away, her father completely changed. He became more aggressive, less caring, and more like a deranged person filled with anger. Then one day, he turned all that anger on his own daughter.

Beating her everyday, using whips, knives, daggers, you name it. And in every week he would beat her, then force her to fight their natural predators: hawks.

How, you say? Well, her father is one of the richest businessman in the entire forest. He earns a living by selling weaponry. Guns rifles, bombs, knives, cannons, etc. In fact, he's pretty famous around these parts since pretty much everyone in the desert uses guns and rifles. And since he's so rich, he could hire anyone he wanted. Even a rattlesnake's most feared predator.

She's been living through all that torture since she was three years old. Then one day she couldn't take it anymore. She msde the most daring thing she has ever done.

Run away.

That day was 8 months ago. Eight months ago she was back in a forest where her home was. Eight months ago she was being beaten to death by her own father. Eight months ago she escaped hell.

Now she's in the desert. Traveling through the sand and not looking back the way she came. Leaving with nothing but the scales on her body. But of course she had to stop at a couple of towns to get some water and supplies. She would only stay at least a couple of days. A month or two the most. Then moved on without anyone noticing.

Although she had a couple of brushes with some bandits during her travel, but they were nothing. During her time with her father, he had at least taught her (forcefully) how to fight and protect herself. He also showed her some really impressive moves that were very difficult to out maneuver. However, he would still beat her even if she did do the maneuvers correctly.

It has been a little more than a month since she last saw a town and people and she was running really low on supplies.

She knew if she didn't find a town soon, then she wouldn't last much longer in this desert. So with a big sigh, the female rattlesnake slithered away from her hole and out into the desert.

Her body moved from side to side as she traveled through the sand. Her scales glistened as the light from the sun shined on them, and it was on that moment, that her scars were barely visible. Her blue eyes scanned the area just in case something was heading here way and wasn't too friendly. She was also looking for a town of some sort, so she could resupply all the necessities she needed.

After many hours had past, the sun was already starting to set. The sky was growing dark, the sun was disappearing, and night would soon take over. In fact, stars were already forming and were illuminating the blackening sky.

Yet, the female rattlesnake still had not found a town.

She was getting tired by the minute and all she wanted was to rest in a comfy bed. But she knew in order to get what she wanted, she needed to find a town first, despte how difficult the task on hand was becoming. She didn't know which way to go or which town she was close to, so she just kept moving forward, hoping to stumble on one any minute now.

Then all of a sudden, she herd a familiar screeching sound. She immediately recognized it as a hawks.

She tensed up and knew she had to find some shelter and fast. She looked around and tried to find some sort of spot and almost gasped out loud when she herd the screech again. She moved quickly and frantically searched to find a spot. Any spot for that matter.

Although she wasn't really afraid of big birds, unlike other snakes, (since her father made her fight against them) she didn't particularly want to see one at the moment. Not to mention be its midnight snack.

The female almost cheered out loud when she found a log on top of a big hole that seemed to be just her size. She wiggled her way under it and curled up in the hole. She knew she would be safe in it for the night. She heaved a big sigh and rested her head on top of her coils. She then closed her eyes and before she went to sleep, she silently hoped that she would find a town soon the next day.

:D So what do you guys think? Like it? Love it? hate it? (hopefully not!) Again, it feels SO good to post a real chapter again! And hopefully its a S*** load better than the original! Most likely the chapters will be similar to this length, so lucky you guys! More for you all to read!

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