Daughter of Evil
Chapter 12:Discovered Past
Jen sobbed heavily, memories flooding through her brain, a headache pounding into her head. Brother, father, events, other family, pain..
"MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP! GOD, JUST MAKE IT STOP!" she screamed, holding her head. Christine jumped up and ran to her side.
"Jen, Jen what happened? What's wrong?" Raven suddenly appeared at the door.
"What is going on in here?!?!" she said.
"I don't know, something's wrong with Jen!" Christine said above Jen's screams. Suddenly the screams ceased. Raven and Christine knelt beside her.
"Jen, what happened?" Raven asked calmly. Random papers around the room burst in to flame. Startled, Christine quickly created little streams of water to put the flames out.
"Memories..all of them..flooding into my brain..I can't handle it.." she muttered, her eyes wide. Christine rubbed her back.
"Can you talk about it?" Jen nodded slowly.
"I was just remembering how my brother hated me..and how he killed our parents..how trashed our planet was..ugggh God.." she groaned, leaning her head forward to meet her knees.
"Oh dear...what happened?" Christine asked, concern filling her eyes. (Quite literally, when you think about it) Jen took a deep, shuddering breath.
"Well..."
It was a cold November morning on the planet Tanirka. Jen was laying in her bed with blood like tears streaming down her face. The tears her people cried were reminders of their ancestors, a curse. On the other hand, all Tanirkians had a special power on which you had to go on a type of "Quest" to discover.She had discovered fire.She wished it was permitted that she could use her power on her brother. Her brother had, yet again, been verbally and physically abusing her. She stared at the bruise on her arm and a watery red tear drop hit it. Wiping it away, she walked around her room. Everyone on Tanirka lived in the Earth equivalent of a mansion, though on her planet it was called a "Living Quarters #1" instead of "House". The number represented how "rich" you were, 1 being the best and 4 being dirt poor.
"JEN!!!!!" Her mothers voice sliced through the atmosphere. Jen turned around quickly and wiped her tears, running as fast as she could up two flights of stairs to her parent's room.
"MOM! DAD! WHERE ARE YOU?!" she cried. Confused and afraid, she looked around. She gasped suddenly as she saw her brother's silhouette, a knife raised above her, on the wall in front of her. She screamed and rolled out of the way. The knife slashed the back of her hand, and she cried out in pain.
"Caleb, what are you doing?!?!" she screamed. She heard a loud, whimpering moan from down the hall. Her eyes wide and fearful, his eyes cold and malicious. They stared before Jen screamed and blew a fireball at him. He dodged and she ran by, searching frantically for the source of the noise. She saw hand laying out of a room. Stunned, she ran into the room. She closed and locked the door. She turned a light on, and suddenly felt like she was going to be sick. Her father's body lay in front of her, deep, gory gashes along his chest, even some organs visible. His eyes were wide in shock, blood doused his whole body. Gasping and shaking, she stood up and immediately fell back to her knees. She whimpered and crawled against the back wall of the room, which turned out to be a closet. Her body touched something wet and warm. A woman's voice moaned.
"Jen.." it murmured.
"Oh, my God.." she whimpered. Blood red tears streamed from her eyes. "God don't do this to me..tell me this isn't happening.." She touched her mother's mangled cheek softly. Her face was cut, her stomach torn into, and she was missing part of one leg. Jen sobbed heavily.
"I love you..Jennifer.." her mom whispered. She coughed violently and blood oozed from her stomach and throat, which Jen just relized was sliced open viciously. Jen, gasping for air and shaking violently, stood up and threw open the door. She was greeted by her brother, holding the bloody knife.
"Jennifer," he said, smiling madly. Jen whimpered and her hands glowed with fire.
"W-why.." she whimpered. "Why did you do this..why Caleb?" He laughed.
"Well my dearest sister, it's quite simple..our parents are IDIOTS..they have no right to live.." He laughed again. Though she was afraid, she couldn't help but feel rage welling up inside of her.
"How could you?" she whispered. She was shaking now, not in fear, but rage. "HOW COULD YOU CALEB!?!!" she screamed. She ran at him, catching him off guard, throwing fireball after fireball into his body. Unfortunately, his quest had granted him the power of water, and he put her flames out easily. Infuriated, Jen punched him in the face, ran to her room, and locked the door. Sobbing hysterically, she grabbed a bag and threw some objects into it, threw open her window, and jumped into the bushes below. She cried in pain when her arm twisted the wrong way. Suddenly remembering she had packed the amulet her mother had given her, she took it out and put it around her neck. It glowed and her arm healed. Sighing in relief, she realized her brother was after her. She heard her door burst open, and she ran as fast as she could to the docks....
Christine and even Raven stared at her, horrified. Tears were streaming down Christine's face and Raven just sat in horrified shock.
"Jen..I'm so sorry.." Christine said, hugging her.
"Heh, that's not all, friends.."
As she reached the dock, she fell to her knees. One of the boat managers came up to her.
"Little one, why do you cry?" he asked her. Jen spilled her story upon him. He stared in shock and called another dockhand over. He muttered to him quietly, and the younger dockhand ran off to call the Security Forces. The man agreed to give Jen a boat so she could get away. She rowed until she came to the Tanirkian-Earth portal (this took a few days and little food). She had heard rumors of how Tanirkians in desperate need of assistance could come to this portal and be automatically transported to Earth, because, supposedly, Earthlings were better off than Tanirkians. Taking a deep breath, she rowed through the portal. She remembered smacking into the water...then darkness.
"And now..Caleb is after me.." she whispered.
"Don't worry, Jen. We'll protect y-AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Christine suddenly fell off the bed, her shoulder bleeding, an arrow protruding from the shoulder.
"How can you protect someone when you can't even protect yourself?" a male voice said.
A/N: Ahh another update..I had fun writing this chapter..I thought of Jen's past off the top of my head..I hope you like!!!!!