Black Diamond

Prologue - Death in a village -

Sakura's P.O.V

Walking up the hill in the park just after school got out; I was on my way home for my ninth birthday. I think that my mother was throwing a party for me. So I began to run as fast as I could. I didn't want to be late for my party. There was a deep forest that I was staring into with a shaking stomach. There was a feeling that I had, something was wrong. I start to run through the trees till I came up to the village.

I crossed the training fields and began to walk up the to my village housing departments. This is where the slaves for the mine were kept. I looked over my shoulder and then I turned around. The village was completely…empty. I ran over to my house, run into the door, rampage past the kitchen then up the stares. My door to my room was closed. I am yelling for my mom and dad as I slowly turn the knob.

I crept into my room as if I knew there was someone in there. My mom and dad were lying on the floor on their stomachs. Their hands were tied to their feet. There was a dark figure that crept up behind me he slashed at the curtain of my window, closing it. It became pitch black in there. I hear my mothers voice cry out in despair. I jolt my hands over my eyes as I hear the jaw clenching screams of their deaths.

"Mom," I cry out wile sobbing uncontrollably.

The dark figure comes over to me, shoves me into the corner of my room, he pulls out his blade and places it on my neck.

"What…are you going to kill me?" I ask as I shake my way down the wall.

"do you wish to see my face first?" He asked me as he pushed the blade harder against my neck.

He ripped at the curtain, as it fell… the room became lit with the brilliant sun. As he looked at me…I stared into his fire red eyes and said,

"What do you wish to do of me?"

He clenched his jaws and Carved and R into the side of my neck.

He said with a slight grin, "this R stands for revenge. It is there so that you will never forget me, and what I did to your family."

The next thing I knew He was gone.

I stepped outside the back door, as I stared into the deep, dark, abyss, trying not to think about what just happened. I slowly Trudged my way up the stairs. I gripped the bloody ropes that tied my parents up, I drug them down the stairs one by one. I then rolled them over onto the stock pile for the furnace. I then lit them on fire with the rest of the village. I began to walk towards the valley that leads to the abyss.

That night I could hardly sleep. I was starving, Shaking, and scared. There was three shadows passing through the tree tops. They were making ear cracking screeches. The next morning, I stepped out to the edge of the cliff, looking over the side at the abyss one last time before continuing on my voyage. There hands that came wrapping around my arms. I slowly turned around to see the strange green leachy type creatures gripping me with their clawed fingers. I began to scream as loud as I possibly could. One of their hands came wrapping around my mouth to keep me from screaming more. I do not stop, I begin to muffle,

"help someone help me….Please…"

They began to yell at me," shut up young child."

"W-who are you, What do you want of me…?"

The middle figure slightly whispered to the others,

"Strange her to be sad."

"Why do you not answer me?" I began to shout.

"We are from deep caves in the abyss. The minerals of life Lie in the bedrock of the river. That is why we are here."

"What do you mean by that?" I yelled angrily.

"Come with us child, we will protect you, you seed dear," they grinned at one another while rubbing their hands together.