Faeriel: heheheh, you'll find out in the NEXT chapter about the name thingy. Oh, and I wrote this WAAAYY before I had ever seen Star Wars.
R&R
Chapter 2
I regained consciousness slowly. As I awoke pain came. Pain like no other. It was sheer torture just blinking my eyes. At last my sight returned. Though it was still rather bleary I saw that I was lying on a thin and sheer blanket on a rough and chilly stone floor. Beside me there were three soft and warm looking beds. Only one of them was occupied. I wished that one was for me. Unfortunately, the other two were rumpled as if someone had slept in them. Where the wall to the room should have been there was a metal bar wall. On the other side was a room filled with couches, books and such things for one to pass time with. Obviously they were for my guards.
Suddenly I gasped. What I had believed was pain earlier was nothing compared to this. My body racked with shivers and tears ran down my face unchecked. I felt as if I would tear apart. This torture went on for ages. When it finally lessened I saw that I had knocked down my glass of water. I was going to have to go on, without any water. I would just have to do without it, I thought. I hoped that my body could take it.
The figure lying on the bed rose up. When I saw who it was my eyebrows rose up. It was none other than my so-called rescuer, Jesse. I would have attacked him if I could but the chains on my arms were too heavy.
"So you're awake."
"Yeah, well no thanks to you." Jesse had the decency to look ashamed. I refused to speak any more. After all, what was the point?
As I stared at the wall stonily a young lady at around the age of nineteen walked in.
"The girl is awake now." She stated without expecting an answer. When I looked at her I was a bit unnerved. The girl was tall and beautiful and didn't have the bloody red eyes her kind had. In fact, if I wasn't mistaken her silver gaze looked very kind. Her eyes matched mine. Was it contacts. She probably was a mutation. She was surely of age and the Red Ones' eyes turned red during that age. Immediately by her side a young girl about the age of 10 materialized. A replica of the older one. Probably her sister.
For no reason I suddenly burst into tears. I wanted to go home! Why had these people kidnapped me? I had never done ANYTHING! My Lord! The red Side dudes seriously needed to get a life. Kidnapping innocent girls, honestly.
"I am sorry that we had to meet in these circumstances but there was no way of preventing it. It's a long story. I am terribly sorry for this but there is nothing that can be done. I am Leah and that is my sister, Rebecca. I see you've met my brother, Jesse." The older girl told me. I truly felt that she was sincere but how was that going to help me. I couldn't spend my life in such a dump.
Hey, wait a second! How long had I been there? I had to ask that question. Even if I was going to ignore my jailers during the rest of my, hopefully short, stay I needed to know.
"How long have I been here?" I managed to force out. I kneeled on my knees using the little strength I had. The curiosity was killing me. The answer only put me in shock.
"Jesse, should we tell her? She'll lose it." Leah asked worriedly.
"I don't think so. But maybe we-" Jesse replied.
"God, Leah what's the big deal the girl wants to know!" Rebecca shouted. "You've been here for about-" She stopped to count her fingers. "Thirty-two days."
THIRTY-TWO DAYS! I had been locked up in a stupid prison far from home for thirty-two days…unconscious and among people I didn't even KNOW!
"Rebecca!" I hear Jesse and Leah reprimand. I unlike them felt no displeasure in the innocent child. She at least was willing to tell me the truth. But 32 days. I couldn't believe it. No wonder I was so hungry, I found myself thinking. Now wasn't that pathetic, I was in a life and death situation and I was worried about food.
I sank down onto the floor, the knowledge sinking in. I groped for the piece of bread that was supposed to be my lunch. Immediately, I stuffed it into my mouth to keep myself from throwing myself at them. Not that I would have been able to anyways. The stupid chains were too heavy for my now weak body.
After I swallowed I suddenly felt tired and woozy again. I fought to stay awake but was unable to fight the waves of darkness. My head hit the stone floor with a tremendous whack and I fainted.
When I once again awoke I saw that it was night.
Night. I was to spend another night in a place in which I had no knowledge of. In a place with strangers. The thing was though Jesse, Rebecca and Leah didn't seem like huge psychos who were out to kill me and did seem to feel bad about what they had to do, I honest to god did NOT feel safe. I missed my mother and my family. But most of all I missed Dad. Though he was no fairy (I wish I could say is) I knew that he would have found a way to get me out. To save me. To save me from this horrible place. A place which just might kill me…
I had to forget about that. I had to concentrate my sparse energy on an escape route. Ha, I was KIDDING myself. How the heck was I going to get past my guards? Besides, Jesse had too much muscle for me to take him on with all my chains. If I could just get them off… But he had Leah. I wouldn't say Rebecca because I truly doubt that Leah and him were heartless enough to send their little sister into battle. Even is it was against me.
Yeah…sure beat up my exceedingly strong prison guard. Probably be tortured more for that.
Suddenly, I saw one of the figures on the bed stir. I jumped, well sort of, that is. Considering I was on my butt with chains wrapped around me.
I peered closer, it was Leah. She slipped out from underneath the covers and walked towards me. I recoiled in horror, was she going to stick me with pins or something? Another torture? That was too much. I was about to scream.
"Shh, don't be afraid," Leah whispered in her gentle voice. Suddenly I wasn't frightened any more. It was like she had the soothing voice of a silver fairy. Like me. Well, technically I'm only half but whatever.
"Um, okay," I spoke.
"I want to tell you a story," Her mystic voice enveloped me.
"Uh, sure. Why not?"
"It all started when a young red fairy had joined the army. He wanted to prove himself. He was the younger brother of the 2 siblings. His older brother had the more power yet he was his parents' favorite. Being the baby of the family he was coddled and treated like glass, as if he would break. Snap in half. So he had a mission. He was going to prove that he was just as strong, if not better, than his older brother.
"So when his regiment was called for battle he went. Before that it had all been training. Pushups, V-sits, you name it. Magic exercises, psychological tests…well you get the idea. So when he went he thought that he was prepared. He was. He fought like a pro-hurling magic fire at this obstacle and the next. He fought millions of battles, bringing down cloud after cloud.
"He was a hero." She stopped after seeing my eyes flash. "A hero for the red side at least."
I nodded placated.
"Anyways, his parents were proud and is elder brother finally respected him. His captain loved him. So at the age of 23 he was sent into even harder country. Not that the army was any stronger or had weird secret machines. No it was because the area in which he was placed had innocent villagers. And that man had never ever hurt an innocent soul before. Not once.
"Still the young fairy went on too the place. Even with all the warnings that his family had given to him. He refused to give them any heed. Why should he? He was a war hero. But it turned out that fighting against this village was tougher than he had ever imagined. Not because of the army, nor because of sneaky tricks. The reason why the young man found it so hard to fight against that certain village was because he had fallen in love with a young lady. And the young lady in question just happened to be one of the villagers. Your usual girl of about 19 who still wasn't hitched yet nor had a huge job that wrapped up her life, the daughter of a regular citizen. Which meant that he had fallen in love with none other than the enemy. And the funny thing was…she loved him back!"
