Through Neva's Eyes

            My hand grasped tightly that of my little sister's as we hurtled deeper into the woods.  Stumbling over twigs and rocks, we dashed into a clearing as fast as our three and two years old legs could carry us.  I could hear them behind us they were getting closer.  In a frantic search for a hiding place, I pulled my sister into a thorn bush near the edge of the clearing.  They were almost on top of us, so I struggled deeper into the bush.  Thorns cutting into my flesh, I held me breath as two people entered the clearing.  One, a woman with long flowing red hair.  She was beautiful even as the leaves stuck to knots in places.  The other a man muscular with blue eyes and curly brown disheveled locks of hair.  Mom and Dad, I made to leave the bush and go to them when I saw more movement coming toward our hiding place.  Into the clearing came two men, one was hairy and had teeth that looked like the belonged on a puma, he had furs draped over his broad shoulders and his blond hair and whiskers looked as if they hadn't been combed in years, his feral eyes sweeping the clearing finally resting on my parents.  I held my sister closer and silently begged her to remain still and quite as the second man entered the clearing.  His cold blue eyes a stark contrast with his flowing scarlet cape and matching helmet.  His voice velvet as he spoke to our father, "Now, Jeff, why did you have to go and do that?  Hmm?  It truly disappoints me…" those eyes made of the coldest blue sapphires once more traveled the length of the glen.  "Where are the girls, Gale?"  Then mom spit at him, "You'll have to kill me first Magneto!"  "Now, now" he answered coyly, "Haven't we been through this already.  Call me Eric; after all, I am your brother in law.  Bring me the girls; they won't be hurt they have done nothing wrong.  You two are the ones who crossed the line and shall pay the price."  "Please, Eric we just want to leave in peace."  Father spoke "If you are truly my brother you will respect that."  "I'm sorry, but that just isn't acceptable, and if you won't tell me where my nieces are I'll just have to find them myself" he spoke as he raised his hand and sent all sorts of metal scraps cascading toward my parents.  If I weren't crying I would have wondered where it all came from, but sure enough there it was from screws to tire hubs.  Mother brought up her hand and the winds blew with the strength of a hurricane whipping up so much dirt we only saw the cat man pounce before all was blanked out by a curtain of dust.  It took almost all I had to keep myself and my sister from coughing or sneezing.  Out of nowhere I felt a sharp pain pierce my arm.  As I reached to grab my sister better more shards ricocheted through the bush.  A whole storm of metal hit her before she even had a chance to scream in pain…screaming I awoke in my bed to find a scorching heat pressing in on me.  It was no more then a moth later in the orphanage.  My sister had been sent to the hospital when I dragged her out of the woods with me.  I haven't seen her since.  The flames had almost engulfed my bedroom, as I just barely made it out the window.  I fell all three stories to the ground and felt the shattering pain in my leg when I made impact.  My leg was broken.  The fire men where unable to get the fire under control that night, the orphanages burnt down.  Two close calls in less then a year…orphaned and sister less I was sent to a new house to live in.  It wasn't so bad that's where I met my best friend, Rina, and was adopted about a year ago a new older sister came with the deal.  I'm now fifteen.