"Hunny, I need to you go and hide ok? Like we talked about remember?" I nodded, this must be serious, because I was told that this was only for emergencies, this must be an emergency. "Do you still remember how to hide yourself and use your thoughts to keep things closed?" I nodded again; this must be very, very bad if I was being told this. "I need you to go and do that ok? Go find the safest place you can think of and use your shadows and your mind to hide you ok?" I just nodded as mommy and daddy hugged me, then I ran back up the stairs, straight for the little trap door under my bed, the one that almost no one knew about. I slid into that hole and I used my mind, just like mommy taught me to, to hide myself.
I could hear the crash of the door being broken in, and I could hear shouting. I was scared; I hid in my corner and shook. Eventually the noise died down, so I snuck out of my hole, leaving the door open in case I needed to get in there quickly. I snuck downstairs, hiding in the shadows, using my mind still to make myself almost invisible. I got to the basement door and I crept down there, it was nice and dark so no one would be able to see me. I got down there and gasped at what I saw, I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, all that was going through my head was the image of my mom and dad, hanging from the ceiling by their wrists, all cut up and bloody and dead. The realisation hit me hard; I fell back against the wall with the weight of it. Mommy and daddy were dead; those men killed my mommy and daddy, now they had to pay for what they did.
"We have to find the girl, she is the whole reason we came. She is an abomination that needs to be destroyed. They all are." The leader spoke; he had hair the color of gold and eyes that were golden, like the amber rock mommy wears for special occasions. Fury over took me, I wasn't thinking like a little girl anymore, I was thinking like a wolf now, and that wolf knew only one thing. Those men must die. I screamed and unleashed my anger at them, they all flew against the wall, some of them landed on sharp things that went through them and those ones stopped moving. The rest were trying to figure out where the blast came from, I concentrated and my shadows crept up and blinded them, even deafened some of them as it crawled down one throat at a time and suffocated them. I got them all, except for the golden eyed man, he managed to get away as me power faltered and he was able to see enough to get away. I was so tired that I barely managed to finish the last one off before collapsing.
I smelt something funny, it was burning my nose, it smelt like the campfires we have out back. I slowly pulled myself out of sleep and everything came crashing back, my mommy and daddy were laying bloody on the floor, I could vaguely remember using my powers and cutting them down, there were dead men everywhere, then I remembered about the golden eye guy came to mind, he had gotten away. I ran upstairs and I saw the orange flames licking at the wall and crawling across the roof. I ran out the front door, and leapt across the little pool of fire on the stairs, I stopped once I was on the down the road, banging on Bradley's door, he mommy opened the door and seemed upset.
"Jasper, what are you doing? Its 3 a.m., you should be in bed." She gave me a stern motherly look and I broke down crying. She quickly saw that something was wrong and scooped me up into her arms. "What's wrong hunny?" she asked, I burst out with even harder sobs.
"Mommy...Daddy...dead...both dead...and fire...all over...burning..." I was sobbing so hard that I could barely get the words out. Bradley's mother quickly called the police and told them that there was an emergency, briefly explained and continued to hold me, letting me cry into her shoulder. I clung to her like she was the last thing keeping me afloat, truth be told, she probably was. Everything was a blur after that, the police, the ambulance people, everything. I was lying in Bradley's bed, he slept on the floor by me, and as I drifted off to sleep, I saw the face of the golden eyed man, laughing and calling my name.