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Shattered Mirror

Prologue: A group of men in black hooded cloaks stand in front of a burning house. They surround a family kneeling on the ground and hold them at gunpoint. A father, mother , three small children, a teenaged girl and a teenaged boy. The prisoners had their faces to the ground. One of the men motioned to the others to join him. They conversed for a few minutes and they split of into four groups of three. Three of the groups hold the father, his son and the three children. The other three men grab the woman and girl and began to drag them away. Both mother and daughter screaming and crying as they clawed the ground trying to delay the inevitable rape that was to come. The father struggled trying to break free of his captors to protect his wife and daughter. The men holding him threw him to the ground and began to kick him. Their strikes so brutal they could hear the mans ribs breaking. They turned his head so that he could watch them ravage his wife and daughter. As they finished taking turns with his wife they placed a gun to her head and pulled the trigger. Tears began to flow freely from the man's eyes as his wife's blood erupted from her body. The men tossed her body to the side and moved in on the girl. She reached out toward her father tears in her eyes, "Daddy please. Please Daddy. Help me." one of the men kicked her in the side, "shut the fuck up." The girl curled into the fetal position. Two of the men stood on her arms to keep her from moving. The leader of the men kicked the girl's legs apart and knelt between them. His eyes roamed over her quivering body. A sadistic look crossed his face as he groped the girl's breasts. He brandished a hunting knife and brought it to the girl's face. A look of pure terror became etched on her face as he moved the knife down to her throat. "Move and I'll slit you from ear to ear," his words cut through her with a chill. He took the knife and placed the side of the blade at one of her jaw and drew it across to the other side to illustrate his point. He ripped her pajama top and leered at her. "Nice. Now here comes the fun part." He cut her bra apart with the knife and removed the rest of her clothing. The girl now lay naked before him. He turned to look at the man on the ground, "Daddy your little girl's about to become a woman." The man watched helplessly as the men took turns taking the girl raping and beating her repeatedly. When they were finished she was bloodied, bruised, and violated as the men stole her innocence. The leader took a long look at their handiwork and smiled, "and now the coupe de graue" he cut the girl's wrists and her ankles then he began to carve symbols to her flesh until she was covered in the strange markings. The man then dragged the girl to a tree and proceeded to make a noose he finished and soon the girl was dangling from the tree. The men lined the remaining children side by side and ordered them to turn around. When their backs were turned the men opened fire the bullets ripping into the children's bodies. Finally the men turned to the father, with a smile on his face the leader looked down upon the broken man,"well pops its been fun." He turns to his comrades."Take him out." They opened fire upon the man and as he felt thehot lead pierce his flesh and splinter his boneshis world went black.