Chapter 1 – Past Burnt To Ashes
It was a bright day today. The birds were singing loudly and happily, unaware of the horrors that happened that very night. While they all were asleep, the knights of the Dark Lord galloped past the little town that was Merr. It had been a true hell as the small peasant town was an inferno of flames, dancing through the streets and destroying everything it crossed.
The next day, the people who had been able to leave their burning house and pass the dark knights had fled into the forest. The town had completely burned down by now and mere ashes and chunks of wood was all that was left of Merr. People lost sons, daughters, siblings and even parents.
Of the sixty people who had been living in the small town, twenty survived. Chaines, a little girl who's face and attitude, cheerful as always, was as vivid as her bright red hair, looked up at the survivors, whom she all knew, but didn't care about just then. The ten-year-old just wanted her parents.
Yet as hard as she searched through the crowd, her mother's face and bright hair were not amongst those of the survivors. She tried hard to remember what had happened that night, but most of it was a blur.
Flames licking at the walls of her home, her father screaming at her and her mother to get help. A man on a horse grabbing her by the throat and her mother screaming and begging for the man to leave her daughter alone. The cold chill of the blade of a sword and the hard, cold ground as she was thrown aside like a ragdoll.
But as she tried to remember more, tears lit up her amber eyes. Her parents were gone, lost to her and they wouldn't come back anytime soon. But she wouldn't cry. She wouldn't cry as she looked up once more and walked through the one street of her former hometown, now a burnt ruin. Kneeling down and picking up a hand full of ashes, Chaines looked at it for a moment, before walking on, letting the ashes slip through her fingers, like at that moment, she let go of herself and her past. Nothing and no one would get in her way of getting revenge for her parents.
It had been that day that she had stopped caring for anything. She would avenge her parents' death, sevenfold. Someone had to pay..