My Personal Sacrifice
I knew I was in Japan, but for some reason it looked a lot different then what it does now. I must be in Japan in the past. I was dreaming so, yep here comes Naru. He walked up to me and I asked him where we were. "We're at the location of the house but 150 years in the past."
That explains why everything looks so different. Well I was here for a reason, let's get this over with. Naru led me to a small village with several huts then a larger house in the middle. "In there is where the Elder lives and where this towns shrine is located", Naru told me. But something was very wrong with this town, there were no people in sight.
"Naru, where is everyone?", I asked. Naru turned around and looked toward a path. I waited anticipating the worst. After about 5 minutes I heard yelling and then from the woods a young women with beautiful red hair came running out of the woods. Not long after people were chasing her, in their hands were pitch forks.
The young women ran towards the Elders house. "No, I don't think you should go in there!", I yelled. Something bad is going to happen. I ran after her and when I got inside she was surrounded by guards. What looked like an old man, which I was guessing was the Elder, came out from the shrine.
"Please Father, why are you letting this happen to me!", she yelled. What, that's her father! Why is he treating her so cruelly? I walked closer so I could hear what they were saying. "Oh Ruka, for what you have done you must die," the Elder said.
"All I did was try a few spells, I was trying a healing potion for the ill", Ruka said in tears. One of the guards slapped her across the face. "Silence, you witch! You have no authority to speak here freely anymore", he said. Ruka fell to the floor crying her eyes out.. The Elder thought of what should be done.
"Bind her, she shall be burned at the stake", he said. How could he do this to his own daughter? I had seen enough of this dream, no, nightmare, but it felt otherwise. I had a feeling I was going to see this through to the end whether I wanted to or not.
The time fast forwarded to the night. I walked to where a large group of people were standing and looked at the horror that was in front of me. Ruka was tied to a large piece of wood with bark and tree leaves underneath her. She was gagged and blindfolded. I looked as one of the villagers through a torch into the leaves and everything set ablaze.
Ruka tried to get free of her bindings but only succeeded with the gag and blindfold. She saw what was happening to her. With one final sentence she burned to death.
She said, " I curse this family and all who step on it's grounds. You will all suffer as I have suffered!" That's it, I've seen all I can take! The last thing I saw before finally waking up from this nightmare was Ruka's father shedding not one…single…tear.
I jumped out of my seat and screamed to make it stop. Lin stopped the van and I got out and ran to the side of the road. I fell to my knees and I couldn't stop crying. Naru actually got out and came to sit next to me.
He asked me what happened in my dream, but no words could come out. He sighed, picked me up and carried me back to the car. He got in the back with me and then told Lin to keep driving.
After awhile words finally came to me. "Naru, that was no dream, that was a nightmare. All I remember is the smell of burning and flesh and the scorching heat of a giant fire. Naru, that house has a curse on it", I finished.
He turned back away and looked out the window at the trees whizzing by.
He finally turned back to me and said,
" A curse huh?", he smirked, " Challenge Accepted."
