Book 1: Breaking the Ice Prologue
Me: Hey! What's up? Well, I almost forgot I was going to work on my remake for the first book. I made a few changes to it. I worked on this a long time ago. So this is going to be a really short prologue. Enjoy!
A beautiful young female weasel stood in the ankle-deep snow at her mother's grave. She had snow white fur dappled with black spots, black shoulder-length hair, and cerulean eyes. She was standing there, mourning and singing sad songs for her loss. A few minutes later, her eyes widened. "Oh, shoot! I'm going to get a beating! Mommy, I have to go." With that, she quickly told her mother that she loved her then dashed through the snow in the direction of her home.
Once she got there, she saw her horror standing in front of her. Her twin sister was standing behind the man. She had the same fur color and spot color as her, same hair color and length, but she had hazel eyes instead of blue. Her name was Roxanne. She stared at her, Rosalina, with worry and anxiety. After a moment of silence, the male asked her angrily with a death glare, "Where were you?"
Rosalina flinched at how loud his voice was when he asked her this. Shaking, she replied, "I-I w-w-was j-j-just p-p-p-paying m-m-mom a v-visit. I-I-I'm s-s-sorry."
The male weasel sneered, "Sorry doesn't cut it." He turned around to Roxanne and commanded, "You go to your room! I need to teach this accident a lesson." The she-weasel gave her sister a sympathetic look before running into the room they shared. Roxanne covered her ears with a small whimper.
"T-Tim, p-p-please d-d-don't d-d-do this." Rosalina begged, stuttering nervously. She was too scared to back away from him. She knew that if she did, he'd do more damage to her than he was already planning on giving her.
"Shut up!" Tim snapped while pushing her against the wall harshly. She grunted loudly then yelped when Tim's hand smacked her across the face, leaving a red mark on her cheek. Rosalina felt tears beginning to fill her eyes. She was too late to stop them from falling down her face.
"Tim, s-s-stop. P-p-p-please!" The helpless she-weasel begged again while sobbing.
"I said shut up!" He yelled while beating her with his fists.
Rosalina fell to the ground and landed on her side. She sobbed as she was getting kicked by this monster they have to call their step-dad. Tim continued to beat her. Rosalina's cries got louder and louder with each kick and punch thrown at her. A cry of pain escaped her throat as Tim slashed her arm, creating a good-sized gash on her arm. The smell of blood made Rosalina nearly faint. Not only that, but her step-father was still beating her.
"You were an accident right from the start! Your real father never loved you! You're the reason why your mother is dead!" Tim yelled at her while kicking her again.
From Rosalina and Roxanne's room, Rosalina's twin watched from her room and stared teary-eyed at her vulnerable sister being abused by that monster. She looked up at the cave ceiling and started praying desperately. While she was doing so, she kept hearing her sister's pleas to stop, her sobs, and her screams of pain. It was breaking her heart into a million of pieces. She felt miserable for hearing these sounds every night. Suddenly, she heard silence.
Back in the entrance area, Tim had Rosalina held by her scruff. The beaten-down she-weasel whimpered in fear as his face got close to hers. He growled, "Don't you ever get home late again. If you do, there's going to be more hell to pay." He threw Rosalina down on the ground shamelessly. Rosalina shook like a leaf as he began to laugh evilly at her defenseless form that lay before him.
She watched as Tim walked into his room, which was across from the room her and her sister shared. After she stared at nothing for a long time, Rosalina began to pant heavily and went to the nearest puddle of water to look at the damage. She gasped in horror. She had scratches, cuts, and bad bruises all over her arms, legs, and a nasty bruise that was on her cheek, not to mention the still-bleeding gash on her right arm.
Roxanne came out of their room and made a bee-line sprint towards her sister. She wrapped her arms around her sister and asked while sobbing, "Are you all right?" She looked at all the wounds on her sister and whispered, "Oh, look at you. Rosalina, we have to get out of here. I can't take this anymore. Let me look at you for a moment."
Then, Roxanne pulled her sister back and gasped at what she saw. Unfortunately, there was damage on her sides and back. She saw long scratch marks running down her back and more nasty bruises on her sides and waist. Rosalina quickly escaped Roxanne's grasp to keep her from looking at the work that has been done by their step-dad. She began to wash the blood off her fur by getting inside the puddle and scrubbing the crimson liquid off her until it seemed to go away.
Once she was finished, Rosalina sighed sadly, "If we leave, we'll get in trouble. We're his slaves, Roxanne. We can't leave."
"But I'm tired of seeing you getting beaten by that monster. We have to do what's right for us. And that thing that we have to do now is to get away from here." Rosalina gave her sister an objecting expression. Roxanne sighed and tried to convince her sister some more.
"Well, how do you expect us to escape from here without getting caught?" Rosalina asked. Her eyes widened when her sister pulled her close to her and whispered in her ear. She noted that she had a plan. She listened carefully to every word her sister spoke. After she was done, Roxanne whispered, "Trust me on this one, sis."
"Are you sure it will work?" Her sister asked with a hint of anxiety in her tone. Roxanne nodded with a positive smile. The smile gave Rosalina a somewhat reassuring feeling. Rosalina tried to smile back then walked with her sister into their room and lay down on the hard cave floor.
Roxanne lay down next to her sister and whispered, "Goodnight, sis."
"Goodnight, Roxanne." Rosalina replied tiredly. She snuggled closer to her twin, burying her face into Roxanne's shoulder. This made the hazel-eyed female smile softly and she wrapped her arms around Rosalina, holding her close.
Last, but not least, they said in unison, "Goodnight, mom." With that, they closed their eyes and slept the rest of the night away.
Me: I told you this was going to be a short prologue. I'll try to make the other chapters longer before I update them. In the meantime, I'm going to work on chapter one. I'll see ya'll shortly!
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