Part 9

Chris's POV

What do you do in the face of death and danger? Stand strong? Or crumble? Maybe both?

THEN

With a wooden handle and a long blade with teeth, Kira admired the knife in her hand. A sadistic smirk spread across her features as she rolled up the bottom of my hooded sweater, exposing my flat stomach.

Then the pain hit me. Jagged teeth dragged across the sensitive skin from my hip bone towards the area under my navel. Blood was drawn and began to ooze like puss.

"P-p-p-please s-s-stop," I sobbed, scalding tears streaking down my black and blue cheeks. "I-I-It h-hurts."

Erika and Kira shot a glance at each other before cackling with laughter. A stinging slap from Erika caused me to howl and wail even further. The blade paused for a second.

"That's the idea sweetie" sneered Kira, slashing with the knife again causing me to scream in agony.

CJ stirred in at that moment, a playful leer on his facial structures. I glanced at something coming up behind CJ and then the penny dropped. He was not alone.

NOW

A woman stepped forward from behind CJ, her pale skin highlighted by the cold moonlight that peered in through gaps in the rotting wood. Her heeled cowboy boots clicked as she came forward. Red hair tumbled over her shoulders as she leaned towards me, grabbing a hold of my aching jaw.

I trembled as her black orbs glared at me.

"What's the word?" asked CJ.

"Do we kill her now?" queried Kira menacingly to the mysterious newcomer.

My eyes widened with fright. I was gonna die at the hands of demons, alone and scared. The unknown demon smirked at me before returning her attention onto her comrades.

"Not yet," replied the redheaded demon. "The time is not right. Besides you know the code. It's the Boss who must spill this little brat's blood."

The demons sniggered at my horrified expression and without warning the stranger compressed her hand onto my chest. A burning pain travelled throughout my body as if I was being branded by a white hot poker. It would be three years until I would feel that sensation again when I had a run in with some nut job red necks. A pained scream tore out my throat as the pain whizzed around my ribcage. Once the procedure was done after ten minutes, I was surprised I hadn't passed out due to the pain. Then I noticed the stranger had disappeared along with the rest of the demons.

The rope bounded my wrists and ankles to the chair seemed slacker than usual until I realised that the restraints had been slashed by Kira's knife. I wasn't stupid, I knew that it was a lure for me to escape. Could I risk it though? What would any eleven year old kid do in that situation? Abandoning the fact that I could've been caught and punished severely, I wriggled out of the binding and scuttled away. Clutching my seeping wound on my lower abdomen I hoped I would find freedom. This was my great escape. Yet as unfortunate events had the tendency to follow me, I would discover things would only go from bad to worse.

Who was the mysterious demon? What do you think she did to Chris?

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