Chapter 7- Alone- Melissa
It all happened so fast, as soon as I hung up the phone, something crashed through the door and came around me… I couldn't move as I felt my body slip into unconsciousness. Yet when I awoke, I found myself in a prison, surrounded by brick and a large oak door… I wasn't alone.
"Aunt Melissa?" I knew that sweet little voice anywhere; it was Mark's oldest daughter Jessica. She came to me with tears in her eyes. "Aunt Melissa. They took my mommy, what's going to happen to mommy and daddy?" she cried.
Her young sister Lela came to me and nestled herself in my arms, this was wrong, all of it was wrong. We were alone in a single room; a torch was the only source of light besides the lights that came through the door. I could hear voices on the other side, whispering about us. "We are to be given the word before anything is to happen. Is that understood brother?" one asked.
"It is, we do what must be done, yet keep the one who expects alive," said the other voice.
I could tell Mark's oldest knew what was going to happen, she maybe four, yet she is no stupid. "They are going to hurt mommy and daddy," she whispered to me. "It's because daddy is different"
"Sweetheart, stay with me, I will be sure you get back to them. How do you know your father is different?" I asked of her.
She told me when he came back from work, he would change, and he could fly her around anywhere she wanted to. Telling her she was a princess and he was the pet. "It's how daddy played with us, he would be the dragon and I would be the princess who tamed it"
"Makes sense" I muttered to myself with a smile. She then gave out a little gasp in shock. Her sister did too. "What's wrong?" I asked.
She said nothing as her eyes looked down at her arms, the door swung open and a large man came into the room. "Girls, you are to come with me," he said in a grim tone.
I stood up off the ground and kept the girls behind me. "No, you are not taking them!" I yelled at him.
He forced me off to the side, as he cornered the girls. Jessica stood oddly brave as she glared at the man. She let out a striking hiss to him, that wasn't human. He grew startled and backed away just slightly. But quickly regained himself. He grabbed onto her arm, only to see a smile come across her face. "My daddy gave me something special," she said before she let out another hiss. The large man, the size of my husband Glen… crashed to the ground!
I turned to the girls, and saw their skin slowly begin to change to that of scales, they must have gotten poisons spines to protect themselves. "Girls? Are you ok?" I asked.
They nodded. "Daddy did this to protect us, but… what happened to him?" she asked pointing to the large man. I checked for a pulse… it was weak, yet there.
"You made him sleep sweetheart, come on, let's go before he wakes up!" I took the girls carefully by the hand, I don't know why I wasn't fearful in case they could poison me by accident, but I felt confident enough to not worry of it. We ran through the halls, no doubt this was a castle of some sort, where it is was another problem. The girls began to change into little dragons as we ran; it made them want to run faster. When their wings sprouted they wanted to fly away. Yet I kept hold of them. "Not yet girls, not yet" I would tell them.
We avoided many of the guards and armed men, yet soon they began to surround us. "STOP DEMONS!" came a loud voice; we turned to see three of them blocking our path. Jessica stood before me she raised her right arm as the scales on her grew sharp and pointed. In the blink of an eye, they flew off her arm and into the men, forcing them to pass out like the other.
"Darling, you are more like your father than you know!" I laughed to her.
She gave me a smile. "My mommy says that too" We looked about and just so happened to have found an elevator in this godforsaken place! Quickly we piled in and went to the top floor. "Aunty… we are we going to do at the top floor?"
"You are going to fly away. You will fly to your mommy and daddy. You must do so without me"
Her eyes widened. "NO! We cannot leave you!" shouted her younger sister. "It's not fair!"
"You have to girls, I cannot fly like you can now. Jessica, Lela. You have to." I told them.
Tears welded in their eyes as the elevator stopped, the doors opened to an empty top floor. We rushed down the halls and up the stairs to the rooftop. Yet we weren't alone. Three dozen men stood awaiting us. "Leaving so soon? That's quite rude for young ladies" one spoke aloud.
I looked to the girls; they couldn't take flight here and now… It left me no other choice. I leaned down and whispered. "Get ready to fly" I took hold of their little hands and threw them into the air. I was stunned by my own strength as they went flying high, soon they were doing so on their own and were out of sight. Much to the anger of the men, I stood there with a smile. "You have no idea how pissed my husband is going to be with you men"
Yet the men smiled back at me in return. He walked closer and closer to me, until he looked me dead in the eyes. "You have no idea what we're capable of! Bring our rebel lady down to the lab, let's start the testing,"
Author's note (I changed the names of the Undertaker's daughters out of respect for privacy.)
