Darkness at Dawn

Chapter 4

No Mercy

Don't move, don't breathe, and don't react. This is not happening. One moment she was living a normal, fun teenage life, and the next she being held captive by this hunter. This man was planning something, something dangerous, and she was the game he was playing at.

The man called Scabior continued to hold onto her long sleeved top, he seemed to be quite aggressive at the moment. Only, Sabrina didn't take notice to her kidnapper's forceful grab. Her only focus for the time being was where she was.

"Where am I?" She whispered to herself under shaky breath. Her head was still a bit loopy, and her stomach still queasy from the mysterious event that had just occurred. This obviously wasn't the same place she had been standing ten seconds ago. It was a completely different forest! The trees were thicker, the snow was heavier on the ground, not to mention the temperature had to be at least 10 degrees cooler.

"I'm dreaming, I'm dreaming." Sabrina began to repeat to herself, her voice barely audible in complete disbelief. She rubbed her eyes in an attempt to wake up from her inescapable dream, only this dream just so happened to be her reality. How the hell did she freaking get here!

Scabior let out a small chuckle as he pulled her closer into him.

"Now luv, I'm afraid this ain't any innocent dream of your's. If anythin' you'll be experiencin' my nightmare…and your goin' to like it."

"Where are my friends?" She yelled at him, ignoring his last comment.

"Hush, luv." He placed his index finger to her parted lips. "Would it kill ya to open yer eyes? They right there." He moved his finger from her lips to the ground behind her.

Sabrina turned her face, she wasn't able to turn it too far, because of Scabior's grip, but she saw enough. Her greatest friends in the whole entire world were lying on the forest floor, tied back-to-back.

Kendal-Lynn, Tori, and Jessa laid there motionless, unconscious, and cold.

Tears began to blind Sabrina, she turned her head back toward Scabior. "Wake up my friends!" She screamed at him.

"Luv, wha' the 'ell did I say about keepin' it quiet? Besides, I don' know why ya still want them 'round. The only good of that lot is for…well, you'll find out soon enough."

"Please!" She spoke again, raising her voice a couple decibels higher than usual.

"Shut it!" he spoke aggressively back. His voice alone was enough to keep Sabrina quiet for the moment, she didn't want to find too much trouble with this guy.

He swiftly took the stick out of this jacket pocket once more.

"No, no, don't!" Whenever he brought this…whatever out, something bad had always happened.

He glared at her with those piercing blue eyes.

She spoke to him again, this time trying to keep her voice a little bit down. "What do you want from me? Why are you doing this?" More tears began to flood her innocent face, "What did I ever do to you!"

"More than you know, luv."

"What?"

"Listen, do ya wan' your friends to be conscious again or what?"

Sabrina nodded her head. She just wanted to make sure that her friends would be ok.

"But…your friends might be better off unconscious, than fully awake, luv."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Scabior let that horrible grin glide across his dirty face. He walked with a sort of swagger toward her best friends. "Filthy Muggles." He whispered underneath his voice.

There was that word again, Muggle was it? God, what does that mean?

With the wave of the stick, Kendal-Lynn, Tori, and Jessa slowly but surely awoke from their unconscious slumber.

"You guys! Are you ok?" Sabrina yelled to them from the hands of Scabior.

Her best friends didn't say much as they took in their surroundings.

"You guys!" She continued to yell.

Finally, one of her friends raised her voice. "Sabrina…what is going on?" Jessa said silently as she continued to look around.

"It was him, it was him." Sabrina began to say, "He did all of this, he…"

"Oh, oh oh, now is that true my love?" Scabior interrupted her.

"YES! IT IS!" Kendal-Lynn now fully aware of what was going on.

"Well, I never asked you, now did I girly?"

"Stop it!" Sabrina yelled at him, "Just stop it!"

"What do you want with Sabrina, what do you want with us?" Kendal-Lynn shouted.

"Let us go!" Jessa yelled

"HELP!" Tori cried.

Scabior defiantly looked as if he had enough of this shouting. "Merlin, will you bitches bloody shut up!"

With another wave of the stick, Tori, Kendal-Lynn, and Jessa lost their voices. They were frantically, trying to move around, trying to shout, but with no luck.

"What…did…you do?" Sabrina whispered to him in sheer disbelief.

Scabior let out a sigh. "Well, you are now involved with this, so I guess I better tell ya some things."

"Involved, involved? I never wanted to be involved! What the heck makes you think that? I don't want to-to be involved!" Tears were coming down her face, and she couldn't help it.

"You think I don't have better things to be doin'? You think that I really wan' to work with filthy, dirty blood like yourself?"

"I-I don't have dirty blood!"

"Well, in the eyes of every pure-blood witch an' wizard, ya are filth."

Witch? Wizard? Pure-blood? Is this what this guy is?

"Are you trying to tell me that…"

"You guess right, luv. I'm a wizard, that so 'ard to believe?"

Sabrina stared at the ground; she didn't want to believe this. Everything is supposed to be normal! There is supposed to be no such thing as magic. Witches, wizards, it can't be true. Yet, there was living, breathing evidence of magic right in front of her.

"If I'm filth, then why even bother with me?" she asked this quietly

"Like I said before, you 'ave something that I need."

"I want answers!"

"You'll get them, when I get mine. Now let's get a move on." He drug Sabrina along with him, he said something about taking her to "his camp," so that's where she figured she would be taken to.

"Walk!" He shouted at her friends.

Obviously, her friends didn't obey a word he just said.

"I ain't tied your feet together, now get the f'ck off the ground 'n walk!" He continued to yell at the silenced girls.

Her best friends looked petrified, absolutely petrified, but they continued to sit there, confused and scared.

Scabior muttered a strange word under his breath,

"Imperio." As he said this, her friends stood up and began walking very clumsily behind her and Scabior. They all began to walk deeper into the cold, unknown forest.

Sabrina was quite uncomfortable walking, the man behind her kept on shoving her around. Though he looked as if he enjoyed flinging her around every once in a while.

This cannot be happening! This man is doing…magic! There is absolutely no logical or sane way around this.

Scabior stopped mid track, and pulled her roughly as he whispered something into her ear.

"You are not to say any word, understood. 'Less you wan' no voice like yer friends there, luv."

She wasn't going to like all of his threats that he kept on giving her. This man was terrible, from his red streak down to his black boots. Yet, there was some mystery to him(besides being a…wizard).

When Sabrina looked in front of her, she saw a glowing light, which was probably from a nearby fire. She would kill to be back at her camp, warming up her cold fingers by the fire, eating s'mores, and chatting with her best friends. Sadly, the sign of this campfire meant danger, which is not a very welcoming thing especially when she was around this guy.

As they continued to get closer to the growing light of the fire, she was able to hear voices, loud voices, voices of men. She didn't want to get any closer to the dangerous voices, she tried her very best to stop herself from walking, but Scabior kept pushing her along.

"No, no, no, please. Please!" She tried to plead with him, as for she didn't want to go anywhere near his camp. She turned her head around to her friends; they reminded her as zombies, walking along with no balance. Stupid Scabior!

The camp was now in full view. There were around 5 tents set up and scattered around the campfire. The tents didn't look like Sabrina's and her friends. Instead, they looked as if they were big pieces of white cloth, in the shape of a triangle. There was one small table set up, that seemed to hold pots and pans of food.

The thing that really scared her though, were the men sitting around the campfire. Most were tall, and muscular like Scabior, others were thin, and they all had dirty complexions. The men looked as if they were in their 20's or 30's. They were dressed in what looked like normal, but filthy, clothes. Some had jackets, others coats, but what interested Sabrina the most was they all wore a red band around their left arm. Scabior wore this, she wasn't sure if the red bands were just a trend for…wizards, a fashion statement, or for some sort of gang. She didn't know why they frightened her, they just did. Maybe if they cleaned themselves up a bit, some might not look half bad.

"Ran into a bloody Muggle, t'day." One of the men continued his conversation with the others. "Min'stry on'y 'ave me two sickles fer tha' filth. Not even a Galleon fer 'im. Swear, them Muggle's 'r bett'r off 'ead if ye ask me. Luck'ly the Mudbloods 'r still worth somethin'"

"Heard that the dark lord is gonna pass a law saying if you see a Muggle or Mudblood ya can either kill it, or let it be yer slave." Said a shorter man with black around his eyes.

"'Sides, if ya do run into them trash, better it be a lady, if ya know wha' I mean." Another said.

The group chuckled, except for one boy who looked as if he was in his early 20's. He was obviously the youngest of the group.

"Wha's wrong Hunter, don' like the women?"

More of them laughed

"I just think it'z wrong to turn in evr'y Muggle ya see. Some 're inn'cent." Said the young boy with jet black hair and pale skin.

"They ain't be innocent wh'n ya tell 'em 'bout us maigic folk."

"Bu' then when you turn them in ta the Min'stry, 'ez just a death sentence fer them…" The boy named Hunter spoke.

"An' more money fer us! I swear to bloody Merlin, Hunter, ya 'r the worst Snatcher eva. Don't know why Scabior bothers to keep ya 'round."

"I 'eard my name." Scabior walked towards the men, and they all stopped talking. Scabior was a pretty intimidating man. The men's silence didn't last long when they spotted Sabrina, and her friends being drug along by Scabior.

The men started making cat calls, and a bunch of inappropriate gestures to them.

"Scabior found us some girls! Better hurry lads, 'fore Greyback comes back 'n decides to eat 'em all." Another ignorant man said.

Scabior had a daring look on his face, "Found the lot on their way to Godric's Hallow, already confiscated their wands, bunch 'o 'alf bloods." He was lying, why was Scabior lying to the group about them. She had no clue who the hell Godric Hallow was…was it a person? Anyway, he was lying through his teeth, and she wanted to scream out that he was lying, but Scabior said to keep her mouth shut, so she wasn't going to argue right now. "But this one," he gestured to Sabrina, "stays with me." He looked into her eyes, and she was more than petrified. "But…the others you can 'ave…"

"NO!" Sabrina screamed at him.

"Oh-ho, feisty lil' 'on ya got there. She look fimil'r to ya?" One of the men added, talking to another guy.

Scabior gave her a strained look, "Wha' was that, luv?"

"I said no! Those are my friends, and-and, you aren't allowed." Her voice was shaking. She couldn't believe that she actually had the guts to stand up to Scabior.

The rest of the men thought it was comical that Sabrina was standing up to their boss.

"Say that 'gain, luv." He was being sarcastic, and his attitude was annoying to her, but Sabrina was absolutely determined to do everything in her limited power to keep her friends and herself safe.

"I said, don't touch them." Sabrina was proud of herself for her brave choice of words. She kept her eyes locked on Scabior's, she needed to sound as intimidating as possible. This man was not going to harm them! "You perverted bastard!" She shouted out of anger to him. Oh crap, I did not just say that, she thought to herself.

A lot of the men let out "Oo's" and snickers from Sabrina's brave move.

Sabrina hoped that Scabior wouldn't do anything too terrible from her statement. Only Scabior would have his way, he would not be disrespected, especially from what he called "filth."

Scabior tuned angry, she could see it in his eyes. Very quickly, Sabrina felt shortness of breath as a very strong hand wrapped itself around her small throat.

"I said do wateva' you wan' with the rest of the girls!" He yelled at his men, "An' make sure none of you's bother me righ' now, I be dealin' with the queen of bloody backtalk righ' 'ere, righ' now!"

Sabrina was now in a panic attack, the men around her moved quickly to her best friends. No, no, no! She tried to scream, tried to retaliate, tried to get him to stop chocking her, but it was all useless.

Scabior made a move with the stick, which was a…wand?

Tori, Kendal-Lynn, and Jessa were screaming again to the top of their lungs. Their voices were back, and their screams and cries were the most frightening of all.

"I wan' to make sure that you 'ear your friends get punished fer your backtalk, luv." His grip was getting tighter around her neck, he was showing no mercy, she was going to choke to death!

The other men were no doubt violating her friends, she didn't want to know what exactly was happening to them, but from the shouting, wooing, and screaming, this was not going well. She wouldn't be able to save them no matter what attempts she made.

Scabior let go of Sabrina's neck, finally letting her breathe again. He wrapped his arms around her waist, lifting her off the ground, and drug her off into largest tent.

A/N: Ooo, what's going to happen!

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