Chapter One: Silent Madness:
Rin's auburn eyes that once held such innocent joy, childlike aura, now were empty and soulless. Bandits along with wolf demons had raided her village, killed everyone, but not after torturing a fair few. That fair few turned out to be her family members and other leaders of the village. Rin's mother and father hid her in one wardrobe while hiding her smaller siblings in another across the room. Rin's mother (or who Rin thought of as her mother) demanded Rin be silent, no matter what she saw and no matter what she heard. "Promise me Rin, there's no time. Promise me right now." She shook Rin gently but firmly to awaken her from her fearful daze.
Tears fell down rosy cheeks, but Rin whispered, "I promise mommy." The Miko sighed in relief and said, "Good girl, stay here. No matter what, stay in this wardrobe you hear me?"
Rin nodded and more tears were shed between the both of them as the Miko kissed Rin's forehead and shut the wardrobe doors. She then turned the wardrobe around to where the doors were pressed against the wall…locking Rin in the wardrobe with no escape. There was a small hole about Rin's eye level in the back of the wardrobe that lent Rin air and Rin to be able to see into the room.
She watched as her parents ran out of the room and out into the unknown. But Rin knew they ran to their deaths. Rin could hear her siblings' whimpers and cries from across the room. She begged silently to God to calm them and to silence them so they could all be safe. And then, it all happened so suddenly, bandits ran into the room.
Rin held her breath and made sure not to move an inch of her body, horrified at what she was seeing. Rin closed her eyes at the terrified scream of one of her siblings. Rin opened her eyes once more in time to see the bandit's turn to the dresser Yuki and Yumi were in. Yuki was only three, while Yumi was only seven months younger than Rin's six years old.
Yumi was the one most likely to have screamed, seeing as Yuki was only three and did not know what was going on. Suddenly one bandit yanked open that dresser and dragged both of Rin's younger sisters. Luckily both were quick deaths but the ferocity of the kills haunted Rin and almost made her scream, which would have broken the promise she made to her Miko mother. So, she did nothing, ashamed at not protecting her siblings, but too horrified to move. It was then that both her parents were dragged into the room by their hair.
She almost screamed again at how bloody they were and what she knew was to come, but she knew she would have gotten killed as well.
Her father restrained, forced as well to watch his wife tortured, raped and then slaughtered before his very eyes. The bandits were seeking information about a girl with demon parents supposedly hidden at this village. Her father said they killed her already, he pointed at Yumi. Rin knew he was lying, but why would he? He wouldn't know this girl, would he? Bandits brought in a wolf demon who had lost one eye and seemed to sniff her sister Yumi. Rin knew why. He wanted to scent if it was true, but he found her father in his lie. He raked his claws against her father's face in anger, "Liar! Tell the truth! Where is she?"
Rin held her breath as her father glanced at her wardrobe hiding spot for the slightest second. He didn't look away quick enough and soon the wolf demon turned to Rin as if he could see her in the wardrobe. Shock filled Rin, and then denial later. Her father wasn't her father? Rin was the girl these bandits were searching for?
A clawed hand broke through the back of the wardrobe Rin was hiding in and grabbed her from it. He held her by the throat in the air and turned towards the man Rin deemed as her father. He fought furiously against the hold of two bandits, but then stilled suddenly. It took Rin a second to process what she just saw, but she started screaming as a headache formed in response. Another wolf demon, this time in wolf form, stalked up to her father and started eating him alive. He first bit his arm off as Rin's father tried to defend himself and then he went for his head.
The simple headache turned into a head-splitting one, and she saw red…literally. Then she saw flames as a blinding light flashed knocking Rin out into the sweet bliss of sleep. When she woke up, she lay in soot and ash.
She sat up woozily and looked around at her village that was no more. There was nothing left of her small quaint village than ash and bones. She could see wolf bones and human ones. Likely those of bandits and wolf demons. Trees were flattened and burned for a three-mile radius all around. Her village lay in ruins, literally. Burned to ashes, and apparently, Rin was the only survivor. Tears did not come, nor did her voice, but Rin could feel her sorrow and despair through every inch of her six-year-old body. Rin then succumbed to the silent madness of her mind.
Rin was found early the next morning and brought to a new village as a slave. All people knew of her was that she was silent and obviously tormented by what she witnessed. Many believed her to be mad and so they kicked her around and put her through hard labor. This village was not quaint, nor kind like her previous one once was. They tormented her, belittled her, and bullied her. So, Rin further slipped into the silent recesses of her mind, threatening to slip into the madness the villagers already thought she had succumbed to.