Chapter 1
A young girl with black hair and green eyes lay on her back in the cold dark forest. She carefully licked her cracked and swollen lips. Her breathing was very shallow as she looked up through one of her heavy lids at the full silver moon that was twinkling through some of the tree branches. Her other eye was swollen shut from a beating that she had taking only moments earlier.
Her attackers had left her for dead or to be consumed by the beasts of the forest. No one would hear her screams except for the animals. She knew that her husband had been the one to do this horrible deed. He left her with only her nightgown and underwear on. Not that either of which would do any good against the cool fall air. Her nightgown was tattered and bloodied from the beating he had given her.
She attempted to move one of her arms but felt nothing but sharp pain searing through it. She tried to move one of her legs but cried out in pain. Hot tears fell down her face as she realized that this was going to be her last night on this earth.
Her thoughts drifted to her abdomen which contracted in pain from several bruises. She thought about her unborn child that she would never get the chance to see and that would never have the chance to be born.
As she continued to lie on the cold ground, she could have sworn that she saw a ghost moving towards her. She knew that this was it. Her time had come to an end. She heard it growl as it knelt down beside her. Then she heard purring coming from it as the ghost began to lift her off the ground.
She cried out in pain as she felt her broken limbs being moved and the ghost continued to purr as it cradled her close to it. It walked through the thick woods until she saw a bright light shinning ahead of them. She thought that the ghost was taking her to heaven so her body would no longer feel any pain and that, per chance, her child might have a chance to be born and live up in heaven.
She slowly looked around and saw smoke and what appeared to be metal walls. She saw other creatures wandering around with armor on and face masks that concealed who they were.
If this is suppose to be the way to heaven, then what is this? A gateway to heaven? She thought as she was taken to a room and laid down on a cold metal table. She let out a small whimper as the ghost revealed itself and attempted to straighten her limbs but was unsuccessful.
She heard a door open and saw another one just like the ghost walking into the room. She listened as they conversed in what sounded like a guttural debate. Her ghost pointed at her and gave, what sounded like, an order. The other one appeared to be arguing with her ghost and she knew it was over her.
She felt her ghost lay a hand on her undamaged leg and give it a gentle pat and a squeeze. Then her ghost released her leg and walked out of the room, leaving her to the mercy of another ghost.
She watched as the other ghost produced a syringe with some sort of green substance inside it. He was about to inject her arm with the foreign substance but laid a hand on her head, which was shaking in fear, and turned her head away from him. She felt the needle go into the side of her neck and she tensed as the liquid was injected into her body, burning as it flowed into her body.
She felt her eyelids grow heavy as she drifted off into a deep slumber.