Killer
I knew this was wrong. Everything my people stand for was in front of me but yet I couldn't bring myself to do it. Tears fall down my face as he yelled for me to complete my mission. Since that's all he was, my mission and nothing else. I looked at the knife, it was mine, carved to fit perfectly in mine hand and the weight was balanced. It had my family crest on it, a moon inside of a sun. It gleamed as I turned it. I looked at him one more time just to see his eyes. They were black full of anger and disgust but I couldn't blame him. He taken me into is home made me apart of his family and had even maybe truly loved me. I betrayed him I was disgusted with myself. I saw it all now. I was becoming my father. After all I was a mistake. You see in a family of slayers or like they like to put it, protectors of the world, girls are never born into the family. I was a rare mistake; they thought something was wrong with my father, though he did have a son my brother, Henry. He had named me Serena for my great grandmother who had betrayed her husband and ran away with a creature from the shadows. I looked like her and they didn't expect anything out of me. Like my grandmother I have blonde hair and blue eyes, around 4'11. I am 18 years old. This is my life and how it became so complicated. Even as I twirl the knife around in my hand I can't help think why this all started.
3 years earlier
I woke up to the sound swords being sharpen, and of weapons clinging. The smell of blood was in the air. I walked to the opening of my tent, and peeked out to see if the scouting party had return. I didn't see my brother who led the party. I saw my father talking to the general about heading out soon. As slayers we are always on the move. We wouldn't want to take the chance of being discovered by anyone. I decided to get dress and break down my tent. As I exit my tent I overheard my father saying something about Sammy can find our trail and catch up. "We are not leaving my brother behind". My father turn his head open his mouth and sneer at me as he said "a girl should remember her place in our society". "I'm not just a girl I'm your daughter and the best fighter here you should remember that next time you need a champion when someone challenges your place as leader". I said angrily. He has no right to treat me like this, but what is to be expected from someone who hates you since the day you were born. Every since then my father has been question about his leadership, also my birth cause my mother to almost die but giving birth to Sammy killed her. My father never talks about her and I have no idea what she looks like. He looked away and told the general to tell everyone to be ready to leave in two hours. An hour past and still no sign of the scouting party. Something wasn't right; he should have been back by now. I went to go see Irene, my stepmother. She like my father despised me. "We are to be leaving in an hour do you have ever thing". I ask while staring down at my half brother, Mel, named after my father. Irene looked at me with anger "didn't anybody treat you manners or were just born a barbaric". "No Irene I was born a slayer and I didn't know that I had been given permission to enter my father's tent". I said empathizing on my father knowing that she hated that I was his child. "SERENA!" I heard my father yell my name. "Yes, father".
"We are leaving now gather your horse and go."
"We're leaving now, but Sammy hasn't even arrived yet".
"You are leaving with general Rubeus".
"But shouldn't I stay with you while traveling" I said hoping to convince him to not make me go with Rubeus. I despise that man. He has no respect for the women here and always tries to hit in me when we are alone
"While I thought it would be nice to travel with your future husband". The blood left my face my stomach drop; I thought I was going to throw up.
"What did you just say?"
"You and Rubeus are to be marrying in seven months; it was your mother's idea".
"You mean Irene's idea to pond me off to the one man that I cannot stand, how Ironic". I said to them. I knew that they didn't want me around but I didn't know that they would ever do this to me; to freely give me to a man that they both knew was a monster. I wasn't going give in so easily.
"We thought that this would be good for you". Irene said
"The best thing for me would to let me decide who to be with." I yelled
"Listen hear, you will not speak to me or your mother this way do you understand, we want what is the best for our people and for you, and it isn't because Irene dislikes you. You will not be like your mother and bring shame to us, to our family." My father the angriest I've ever heard him
"My mother what does she have to do with any of this, she died from giving birth to Sammy, or did you lie about that too" I asked
My father turn away to walk out of the tent as he left he said "there will be no more discussion of this you will marry Rubeus end of story."