"Get me that stupid monster!!" Shouted a voice.
"Master, is there trouble?" asked a servant.
"You do not ask questions from me. Just obey my order!" the master replied.
The servant hurriedly went into the dungeon. With the key he's holding, he opened a door that shows a dark passageway. He lit his torch and entered the darkest area of the castle.
"Man do I hate going in here. This place gives me the creeps." The servant thought.
Blood could be smelled from the hallway of that dark alley, and an awful stench of vomit and spoiled food. At the end of the hallway is a locked prison door made of metal. When shone with light, crusted blood can be seen on the bars. The servant opened the door using a silver key. There revealed inside is a prison room with a small window that only a speck of sunlight can pass through. The prison room looks more like a torture room in comparison to other dungeons. The servant searched the room, and shone his torch at a lump on the floor. He approached the lump and kicked it. The lump twitched and uncurled revealing a small girl under the dirty, smelly and ragged blanket. The girl's hair is very long that runs down up to her knees and is twisted even to the very tips of it showing that it has not been brushed for ages. She has bangs that cover her left eye revealing only her right. Her hands are shackled and so is her feet, she has a leash made of metal on her neck, connecting her to a lock on the wall. The girl is extremely thin and malnourished, that if she is compared to a street kid, she is like skin and bones, a living corpse, gossip the servants. Signs of beating done to her can be seen. Her legs are bruised and blue, some of her wounds are even infected, as puss and blood flowed from them. Scars of burns are on her arms, and her hands are rough and wounded. To normal people, surely they will think torture was done on her, but to her masters, it's just a matter of disciplining a pet. The servant took a staff from the wall and smacked her head. Blood flowed from a small cut under her golden limiter. She spun her head, and coughed but just stared at the servant.
"Come with me. The master needs you." The servant spoke, releasing the lock on her leash. Holding the released end of the leash chain, the servant dragged the girl out of her prison.
"Master, she's here." The servant spoke, approaching the throne of his master, dragging behind him the heretic girl.
"Good. Now leave." The master spoke. The servant left the room, locking the girl's leash on the hook beside the master.
"Ah, my dear pet, I have a mission for you. If you do this properly and not fail me, I might grant one of your requests. I might give you your name." the master spoke.
The girl looked up on her master with hopeful eyes. She searches for assurance, but there was none. The master just smirked at her.
"How sad my dear pet, you know not how to speak, write or read. Not even a name was given to you. But that's your fate! You we're brought into this world to serve me and my clan! Now I order you to destroy those who wish to oppose me. I heard that there are four travelers from the east that invades one of my castles and destroys it, killing one of my sons. Destroy them! That's my order, or else, you know the consequences stupid brat!" the master shouted hitting the girl with the back of his left hand, scratching her cheek with the fancy ring he wears. The girl stood up and bowed. Releasing the lock from her leash, she runs to the gate exiting the palace. Oh how she wishes to run for freedom, but she can't. As long as she has those shackles that bind her body, she can never escape from that dreadful castle. Those shackles are also tracking devices that will electrocute her continuously until she returns into the castle, if ever she decided to flee from the mission and her master. She once tried to flee,but she ony ended up getting tortured by her old master. She ran heading towards east, with only the mission in her mind, and hope of just having a name in her heart.
Sanzo and his companions travel from the east to the land of the setting sun. Unknown to them, golden eyes lurks behind them, watching their every move. Like a predator, hunting its prey. But neither side is aware that this meeting will cause an impact to their lives, especially the lives of the two heretics. Neither knows that their counterparts are just near; neither even knows the existence of the other. And so the other thought that killing them is her ticket to freedom. So she stood at the shadows, waiting to kill her prey.
"I have to kill them… I have to finish this mission. Then maybe, my master will be pleased, then I can beg for my freedom…" she thought.
