Three young girls sat behind a couch. The two smaller ones hugged the older girl, who put her arms around the little ones holding them close and covering their ears. From upstairs they could all

hear the yells of their adoptive parents. "Z-Zephyr?" the youngest of them, Yetsy, looked up at the oldest, Zephyr. Zephyr looked down at the purple haired pre-teen. "What is it, Yetsy?" She asked

stroking the young girl's purple hair. "I want them to stop! I want to get out of here!" Yetsy yelled in response as she buried her face into Zephyr's chest. Zephyr sighed and pulled the girl off of her

and handed her to the second oldest girl. "Xian, take her and whatever happens, don't go up stairs," Zephyr said as she stood up and emerged from behind the couch. "Zephyr! What are you

doing?" Xian asked as she peeked out from behind the couch and up at the older girl. "I'm gonna make them stop," she responded looking over her shoulder at Xian with a glare. Xian saw the

look on her sister's eyes and nodded. Zephyr made her way up the stairs toward her "parents" room where crashes and things breaking could be heard from. She tip toed all the way to slightly

ajar door, moved her red bangs from her eyes, and peeked in. The adoptive parents was yelling at each other. They were so loud, Zephyr couldn't understand what they were saying. She risked

looking in further, but one of the boards beneath her feet squeak giving away her position. The father looked and spotted the teenager at the door. He stomped over to her, yanked the door

completely open and grabbed Zephyr by her hair and threw her into the room in front of the adoptive mother. Zephyr stood up and looked at the woman. 'She's high!' Zephyr thought, then she

looked at the man and saw he was completely drunk. Then he suddenly lunged at Zephyr and before she even knew what had happened, her left eye was burning! She screamed and kicked the

man off of her and cover her left eye. She pulled back her hand and saw blood and a lot of it. Then something clicked. She looked up and saw that the man she was forced to call father had a

cocked gun in his hand. Zephyr looked back down and covered her head and began to cry hard. She flinched and screamed at the sound of the gun shot, she could also hear the sound of her

sisters screaming down stairs. When she didn't feel any other pain then the pain in her left eye. She looked up surprised at the man, gun still in his hand, but it wasn't pointed at Zephyr, it was

pointed behind her. She turned her head and screamed at the sight. The woman she called mother, who would never be her true mother, laid there eyes wide with a bullet hole in her forehead.

She quickly turned back to the man hearing another gunshot. Then man fell to his knees then went face first to the ground in front of Zephyr. She was so freaked out she couldn't scream

anymore. She sat in the room, in a puddle of blood, looking between the two adults who had kept her and her sisters prisoners here in the house. She slowly stood up, wincing at the pain in her

eye. She slowly made her way out of the room, wide eyes staring at the floor in front of her. She descended the stairs and walked into the living room. "ZEPHYR!" two voice yelled at her, but she

didn't look up. She continued to stare down as her world slowly became black. "Zeph-ZEPHYR!" Xian yelled as she caught her falling older sister. Xian looked down at her sister worriedly, and saw

the marks over her eye, four of them. "Blood loss has rendered her unconscious," Xian said then looked at Yetsy. She had tears in her eyes but refused to let them fall. "She'll be fine though,"

Xian said turning her attention back to Zephyr. Then suddenly the two heard sirens and looked to see blue and red lights threw the window. Yetsy ran to Xian's side as she looked at the lights.

"X-Xian?" Yetsy stammered. "Shhh it's ok Yetsy. It's just the police, they'll know what to do," Xian said staring at the door ready for it to burst open and for police to start swarming the house.

Xian shook her bangs from her face and held Zephyr tighter and the same with Yetsy. Suddenly the door to the house was banged open making the two girls scream and hold each other tighter.

Police ran into the house. Guns raised and ready, into the kitchen, upstairs, in the hall, everywhere. Then a couple of them walked into the living room and found the two shuttering girls, and one

unconscious, bleeding girl. One started talking into the walkie-talkie he had, asking for paramedics. The other one, a woman, came and knelt down in front of the girls. "Are you two alright?" she

asked. They looked at each other then slowly nodded their head at her. Then Yetsy broke away from Xian and ran to the police officer's arms. This shocked the policewoman, but she put her arms

around the pre-teen. "It's ok they can't hurt you anymore," she whispered into Yetsy's hair. Then two paramedics came in started to look Zephyr over. The other police officer pulled Xian away

from her sister, she didn't protest, she knew they could help her sister. Zephyr suddenly groaned just as the medics had finished wrapping up her eye. Her eye fluttered open and she put her

hand to her head. She felt the bandages and sat up. She fingered the bandages, remembering what had happened. "Zephyr!" she heard to voices. She turned her head and then Xian and Yetsy

tackled her into a hug. "You're okay!" thy both yelled. Zephyr laid there with her sisters hugging her, and glaring at the ceiling. "Get off," she said simply. Her sisters looked down at her then

complied. Zephyr stood up, still glaring and then walked outside of her house, her two little sisters following her. The two bodies of their adoptive parents were in body bags. Zephyr walked over

to the bags and glared down at them with her good eye. "You will give no more pain," she growled. Then she turned back to the house she had lived in for many years. Then down at her sisters.

They looked at her. She sighed and smiled at them, and they smiled back. Zephyr opened her arms and the two sisters ran into her arms.