Author: MarieAmethyst
Title: Daughter of the Ancient: Chapter Two
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: violence
Author's Note: An 'old' idea I've had. The Ancient has always intrigued me, so I've decided to expand his background a little more…^_~ A special thanks to Tigergirl and Samantha for reviewing!
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Sunlight streaming through the window woke her the following morning. Ayanna sat up and stretched, filling the tension leaving her as she looked around. Age wasn't next to her, but she didn't think he would be. It looked to be noon. Just then the door opened quietly.
"Good morning," Mia said cheerfully, "How are you feeling?"
"Much better, thank you," Ayanna replied shyly.
"Good. Here," she handed the bundle she had carried in to her.
Ayanna took it and looked down at it. She realized it was clothes. A white silk shirt and light green matching skirt made the outfit, with the necessary undergarments. "They're beautiful. Thank you," she said, smiling.
"Your welcome. You can keep them, since I've outgrown them."
She smiled her thanks.
"If you want, I'll show you where the bathroom is," Mia offered.
Forty minutes later, she walked down the stairs and into the kitchen. Almost at once the conversation around the table stopped. She could feel everyone gaze at her, and the hint of a blush crept up her cheeks.
Sage pulled out a chair, "You can sit here," he offered, sensing her discomfort.
Mia put a plate of food in front of her and she began to eat. The others at the table went back to talking and arguing, and Ayanna was glad to have found these friends.
A week went by, mostly uneventful with only three attacks by the Dynasty. Ayanna spent the time in the house, talking with the others and learning about them, or reading from the books that belonged to Sage. She had become fast friends with Sage, sensing in him a kindred spirit. She spent some time in the woods just thinking, and she was always escorted by someone; but Sage was the one who was by her side the most. It had been decided when they first learned that it was the Dynasty that had attacked her that she wasn't to go anywhere with a Ronin.
But it was slowly driving her crazy from the lack of privacy. So one night when the rest of the house was sleeping, she slipped out the door and ran toward the nearby woods. She felt a moment of guilt, then thought the Dynasty wouldn't dare attack her this close to where the Ronins lived. She was wrong.
No sooner than she stepped a few feet into the woods then four men appeared. Ayanna froze in fear. Two of the men were the ones that attacked before. She could see them smirking or grinning cruelly under their helmets at her. Chains appeared out of nowhere and wrapped themselves around her. She screamed in pain and fear as the chains glowed and she disappeared.