Destiny
No.03 -Kidnap
Nightfall was coming soon. The darkening sky and the graying clouds seemed to reflect the shading mind of Anzu. The once heated breeze of Egyptian summer has cooled. And she felt like numerous ghouls of ancient times attaching themselves to her exhausted body.
Anzu, with her eyes now lacking her usual sparkles like of those blue jewels of Pharaoh's own pyramid, helplessly looked around as the man dragged her out of that horrid shack of Mukantagara's. There were few small cabins built with mud lining up the sandy ground, and he took her to the closest tent from the shack.
...This must be the Cabin I...
There were 4 rooms in total in that small cabin, but no one other than Anzu seemed to be in it.
Anzu crawled into the corner of the room the man pushed her in. She just wanted to avoid any possible physical contact with the terrible people here. Noticing her sensitive behaving, the man laughed out loud as if to mock her.
"Puhahahaha. Just as Mukantagara-sama said earlier, no one is allowed to touch you, little girl."
Anzu did not break her cautious eye contact with the man. She learned from the 'examination' she just had that no one here is safe or trustworthy enough for her to relax. She wrapped her arms around her and waited for him to leave her alone.
The man stopped his laughter and looked down at her.
So young and yet so attractive and beautiful in such distress...
He swallowed hard but he turned his block head towards the doorway with a willful face.
"…no…no," he mumbled silently.
As soon as the man closed the door behind him, she crumsily brought her knees to her warm chest and buried her head between them. She felt a single salty droplet of tear rolling down her pretty little face.
Mom…Dad………… where are you… please help me.
Then as soon as she was done with bitter crying session, she mobbed her wet face with her dirty white skirt piece and bit her dried up lips. She had to regain her normal self. Pretty soon the sun will rise and she might be auctioned as a slave. Once she was sold to a 'master' her chance of running away could decrease.
I can't give up, I have to figure out a way out and find my parents.
Although she wanted to stay in the room until the day breaks and possibly run away when the guard was loose, after imagining a worst kind of scenario she might have to deal with in the ugly future, she had to risk her life and flee as soon as possible.
So she reached out her hands and started to feel the dirt wall of the mud cabin.
If there is a crack in the wall, I might be able to escape by making the crack larger.
The wall was very powdery and dry. And searching for a cracked opening in dark looked quite impossible. However, overcoming the dreadful conditions, Anzu managed to find an opening. Just as some sort of a light source beamed the wall from the outside, she saw a stream of light pouring in through a hole. The hole was big enough for her to stick her hand out.
Delighted she quickly peeped outside to see if it was safe for her to start banging the area around the wall to make the opening larger for her to get out.
That's when she saw him.
He too was peeping the inside of the cabin through the same hole. Surprised, Anzu and the mysterious guy lurked back. Anzu held her breath and tried hard ignore the thundering beating sound of her heart.
The emerald eye peeped the dark room again through the hole.
"Hey, you a prisoner?"
His husky yet smoothing voice quietly echoed the room.
Anzu wanted to answer him back, and yell out "Help me!" because from the words, she figured out that he is not one of those lip-licking monsters of Makantagara. But instead, she kept quiet. She could not believe who was on her side or not.
"Scared? Kukuku…You know…I can save you from this shit hole."
Widened eyes, Anzu could not believe her ears.
"R..Really?"
"Kukuku..Yes."
"But …Why would you do that for me?"
"Not for you. For me."
"Okay. Okay," devastated, "It does not matter. Please just let me out of this place."
"Wait, stick your little hand out."
"?" Strange, but she did what he told her to do. She felt him touch her finger tips lightly.
"..Sweet..Kuku.."
"...?"
"Just checking. Okay, now stay quiet and I will come in."
Anzu nodded crazy and waited for a miracle to happen.
Just then, she heard a man collapse and soon the door opened. He grinned wide and cried out,
"Jack pot."
The torch the stranger brought in was too bright for Anzu to open her eyes. She closed her eyes tight but opened her mouth.
"..Are you…?"
Before Anzu was even able to open her eyes and thank the man for rescuing her, she felt herself getting lifted in the air.
"eh? ..um, Oh. Thank you very much but I can walk by myself."
"Shh,"
She felt him tighten his arms around her.
Anzu was about to say it once more and get out of his holding arms but just then, Anzu heard a piecing scream of men and women around her. She turned her head and saw what was happening in the slave house grounds. There were numerous people, no thieves, stabbing screaming people from their backs, sides, and even their faces also burning the place down. She saw rebellious Makantagara's men fighting back but looking at the numbers and the assassinating skills, the thieves were ahead. Anzu, as a respond to the gory sight, grasped the emerald eyed man's croak.
She felt him shake lightly and heard him…
Giggle?
She, then finally, looked up to see his face.
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At last, we got a new original Yu-Gi-Oh character and not another perverted unhelpful OCs. Oh, you are free to guess who he is, Fufufu… Shouldn't be too hard...you know... Band of thieves.. cough cough!
Anyhow, thank you so much for fine comments and adding the story as your favourites and/or alerting the story. Your comments make me write faster and better for upcoming chapters :)