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Some things you can never truly prepare yourself for, some things just seem to be nightmares that never grace your dreams until they happen. Then, it seems, everything goes to Hell. You cannot help yourself, you seem to trap yourself in a cage of darkness and pain and no one has the key, you perish within your own walls, a skeleton in the dark. I, Stephen Maturin, know this first hand and this is my story.
I walked silently up the pathway to a house that I owned in Spain. I had been out exploring the land for creatures as I had had much free time on my hands, but that was soon to be taken away because Jack was going to pick me up in just a few days of time. I walked inside and I immediately sensed that someone was in their.
"Hello?" and as though in response I felt someone grab me from behind. The wrapped their arm around my neck, causing me to drop my notebook and pen. I was gasping for air, but that didn't stop me from fighting back. I heard a rather harsh voice utter in French, "Dr. Maturin I presume. I hope you don't mind if I take you for some questioning."
My eyes grew ten times bigger. I had been warned about this. The French knew who I was and what I do for a living. I should have known that they would come after me. Thinking fast, I managed to kick my assailant in a rather sensitive spot and was released. With this new found freedom, I took my chance and ran out the same way I walked in, but didn't get very far as I tripped in my haste. As I lifted myself off the ground, I could here thundering footsteps approaching. I was suddenly flipped over onto my back and saw that my attacker was some what of an ugly brute. The white hot fury that was shining upon his face was evident as he lunged himself towards me.
At the last moment, I managed to roll out of the way and quickly sprang up onto my feet. The ill-looking man landed full force onto the ground and laid there motionless. Thinking I was out of trouble, I approached the limp body before, but this proved to be a mistake.
As I hesitantly staggered towards the man, he jumped up with an ungodly shriek. He picked up a rather large branch that must have fallen from the near-by tree and knowing what would happen if I didn't move, ran. Once, again this proved to be a fatal mistake as I fell once more, but this time I didn't get up. I tried to get up, but was forced back down by a harsh blow. The pain shot throughout my body and I looked up in fear and the man uttered in French, "Dr. Maturin, say good night." With one last blow to my head, I was out.
I awoke to find myself strapped to a wall with chains. My head hurt and my eyes seemed too heavy to open, but I managed to get them completely open to see my surroundings clearly. I heard unearthly shrieks of pain coming from behind a door that seemed to stare at me with a sneer upon its wooden façade. The smell of vomit and stale urine gusted up my nose and I knew that this was surely Hell on earth.
I looked around at the room and found men on the floor that had clearly been thrown to the ground and some that were starved to the point that I could see their bones through their tattered clothing. I could feel the misery seep into my veins and consume my very being.
I felt a weak tug on my pants and looked down at a skeleton of a man staring desperately at me. "Please," he whispered with urgency, "don't let them hurt me. Don't let them take me." The man's dull and dying eyes chilled me to the bone, but before I could make a response, a guard came over and took the man and pushed him, with great force, against the wall. I watched in horror as the man slid down the wall and crumbled onto the ground. The man was surely dead. The guard laughed with malevolence seeming to pour out of him.
He turned to me with a smirk on his face and growled in French, "Don't worry," he looksedover at the dead man, "You'll be joining him soon."
Surely, this was Hell on earth.
