Queen of Theives
Chapter 1: Two Men
"Aura! Get down here quick!" A woman with brown hair and green eyes shouted up the stairs of her house. "What is it??" A young girl with dirty blonde hair and green eyes said as she ran down the stairs. "Its Pansey! Shes having her kittens!" The woman said happily. The girl called Aura smiled from ear to ear as she ran to the corner the cat was giving birth in. "Look Mamma! Shes already had 2!" Aura shouted to her mother.
Arianna, Auras mother, walked over to the girl and the cats. She knelt down and tucked her light blue dress under her knees. She pulled over a blanket that was laying on a table near the corner and layed it on the floor. Aura picked up the kittens and put them on the blanket. "Can we keep them? Please!" Aura pleeded. Arianna smiled, "Maybe 1. No more then that thought. Okay?" she answered.
A look of disappointment appeared on Auras face, then quickly disappeared as she saw the next kitten had come.
30 minutes later and the cat had given birth to 9 kittens. 3 white, 2 black and 4 grey with stripes. Aura chose to keep the only girl kitten with stripes. "I'll name her... Katana!" Aura said gleefully. "Katana? Are you sure? Thats a type of weapon you know..." Arianna said with an eyebrow raised. "Thats why i want to name her that! Almost everyone names their girl kitties stupid things like cookie and fluffy. Honestly. I want to give my kitten a good name." Aura said happily. Arianna looked at her daughter, then rolled her eyes and smiled. "Fine. Its your kitten. Now go get ready for bed. Ill be up soon to tuck you in." Aura nodded and went upstairs.
5 minutes later Aura heard her mother start up the stairs. There was a knock on the door. Arianna walked back down the stairs and went to the door. "Who would be at the door at this time of night..." Arianna muttered as she reached for the door handle.
She opened the door. There were 2 men at the door. One was short and bald. The other a little taller. He had short, light brown hair. The taller one pushed past Arianna and ran into the house. "Who are you?! What do you want?!" Arianna shouted.
Aura heard her mothers shouts and ran down the stairs. "Get back up stairs! Now!" Arianna shouted as she saw one of the men had a sword. "Get out of my house!" She shouted as she reached for the puter candle stick on the table. She picked it up and swung heavily at the man nearest her, hitting him hard in the shoulder. "Little wench!!" The man yelled, pulling out his sword.
Arianna shreiked and ran toward the door. The shorter man ran ahead of her and held her still. Aura watched in horror as the men walked out of the house, arms full of their expensive belongings, covered in her mothers blood.
Aura walked down the stairs to her mothers body. Shaking, she put her hand on her mothers shoulder. "Mamma?" She said shakily. Aura shook her mothers body as she burst tears. "Mamma!" She screamed repeatedly between sobs. She lay across her mothers body, crying.
The next morning, she still lay across her mother. Her eyes tired and her throat sore from crying. She lifted herself up from her mother. She sat there looking at her mother. She sighed and got up. Aura walked to the kittens and took them outside while the mother cat followed. She put them by the barn on a haybale.
She went back into the house and got all the food she could fit into her bag, then got the largest bottle in the house and filled it with as much milk as she could. Aura went back outside and began carrying hay into the house and laying it on the table. She spread hay all through the house. She then struggled to get mothers body onto the table. She put the nicest blanket she could find over her mother then packed hay around her. She threw lamp oil all around the house.
Aura went to her mother, kissed her cheek, then put oil all over her. She walked outside and threw a lit torch onto the house. She burst into tears again as she watched her house and her mother burn.
She picked up Katana and put her into a bundle of blankets in the basket she was carrying, then started walking toward town.