A/N: I'm new here and I need a beta for this story. This is a QuinnOC and CreedyOC as well. I hope you like this and please review.

Prologue

The night sky was beautiful and clear. The stars glistened in the night, but they were obscured by the smoke that was rising from the large mansion that housed many survivors of flying terrors of the century. Now, raided through, and children locked in different rooms, it was useless. A woman was on her knees looking upon the terrible. She screamed and struggled, despite her injuries, upon seeing her friend being dragged away by some men. Her lip curled in, in an attempt to bite back the tears. She tasted blood from her full lip, now made swollen by her earlier scuffle.

"Well, well, aren't you a pretty one?" The stench of a large dirty man filled her nostrils. Fear grasped her like an iron clasp. She wanted to run, but they held her tight. She looked up at the burning building in front of her. The raiders sure had fun picking at that place. The field of corn, if you could call it that had been picked through, leaving no hope of a next harvest. The tomato, cucumber, lettuce, radish and even the cows and horses had been picked on and eaten. If they weren't being digested in someone's stomach, it was being packed away for the future.

The man in charge of the raiders stepped in front of her blocking her view of the building. She struggled with the men holding her, only to hear their sickly chuckles.

"Oh, she's got spirit! I haven't had one like you in a while. Normally I prefer fare-hair, but you'll do for now. Your redheaded friend was taken already so, well, beggars can't be choosers." The man smiled. He had dirt, mud and ash all over his pale face. He had a rotting, greasy smile. His hair was slicked back with sweat. He was a very large man, and that doesn't mean obese. He had very large muscles. He could have been easily 6'5. For the 4'11 woman being held hostage by a man that was the size he was, the outcome wouldn't be pretty; especially if the man in question hadn't seen a woman in almost a year. The dark-haired woman looked the man square in the eye; her brown eyes verse his grey eyes.

From what she could feel, she broke her right arm and sprained her left wrist. Her pelvis bone must have been bruised but from her position on the ground, it was hard to tell. She also had a bullet wound in her shoulder. Her small form was covered in mud and her bleeding was now beginning to harden. She instantly felt her form was shaken violently, causing her to wince painfully. Upon assessing her wounds, she missed a question her captor had asked.

"What is your bloody name?" She remained silent. Slowly he grew angrier and slapped her across the face. The woman didn't think he would oblige with her right to remain silent… not that she would actually tell him her name.

"Fine, you look like a… I don't know…hmm… Sarah. Well, Sarah, do you want to have fun?" He looked at her suggestively. The woman thought that he would have been handsome if he just cleaned up a bit, and didn't have what ever he planned to do with her going around in his head.

"I'm guessing you will be extra fun. You have spirit and you can defiantly fight back." He nodded to a few men who were carrying crates towards the vehicles they possessed. Many of them were sporting black eyes, concussions or some other like injuries.

"I'm guessing you know some sort of martial arts, mixed with kickboxing. You are defiantly going to be fun." In the distance, a woman's shriek echoed in the distance. The woman lifted her head at the voice. The man smiled.

"I wonder if you will scream like that." He turned back to her. The woman let out a breath that she didn't know she was holding. A surge of energy ran through her as she looked up at the man. Slowly, she started to stand up. The man's eyes brightened, as the woman before him showed a strong streak of defiance. Then, she acted before he blinked.

Using the men holding her, she lifted herself, and lashed out forward with her feet, hitting the head of the raiders directly in the chest. She kicked her right leg up in a complete vertical kick, with the steel toe of her boots hitting the man behind her directly in the eye. She quickly kicked the man to her left in the groan before running at a breakneck speed towards the other woman's shrieks. Before she knew it she was in the forest behind the manor and ran through the forest, swift and quietly like how she was trained, getting closer and closer to her destination. She ran into the clearing seeing the men switch places, one man placing himself between the woman as if it was his right when she struck him behind the head with her fist, knocking him unconscious. Pain blazed through her hand, but she went to attack the man holding the redhead down. She grabbed a stick and began to hit and hit the man before her, giving her friend the chance to get up and get out of the brunette's way.

The man was unconscious within seconds. The brunette then heard the sound of other men heading in their direction. She instantly got up and grabbed a nearby rifle, when the redhead grabbed the woman from the back of the brunette's shirt and started to pull her towards the manor.

"He locked all the children… the children… my daughter," the brunette began in a hoarse whisper.

"I know, but the stables. We could warn a nearby community of them. These people came from the east. We should head west, and warn the community." By then they reached the stables with many horses, that wren't eaten or haven't been tied up for the future, running around outside the burning building. One of them noticed the women and ran towards them. The brown horse let the woman clamber up on them and took off in the given direction.

The brunette felt pain as she rode, but didn't bring it up. The rifle was strapped securely over her shoulder and she held onto the tall redhead. They ran into the distance, the redhead focused on their direction, while the brunette kept one eye on the sky and one behind her to see if they had any pursuers.

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