Chapter 2
The warm hugs and morning kisses laid upon my eyes as I awoke the next morning. I sat up and rubbed my eyes and stretched.
"Wait-" I started looking at the shackles. Moving my wrist freely I sat up quickly. I was free. Right when I was about to make a dash for it the door opened. It was one of the guards coming to wake me up.
"You're already awake I see, the boss is sleeping but he wanted you up early. Go shower, I'll get your towels." he demanded walking out of the room. I went over and locked the door and headed into the bathroom. Stripping off my clothes I could see I was used while I was asleep. The bite marks where fresh and I could feel other men's bodily fluids run down my legs. I was certainly uncomfortable. I hoped in the shower and screamed as the hot water touched my skin, the sensation was like salt being rubbed on a fresh wound. I cried and fell to the floor, as soon as I did the door opened. It was the man from before with my towels. He started stripping himself of his clothes and with all my strength I sat up.
"I didn't think I would let you go in alone did you sugar?" he claimed as he stepped in with me. He positioned my face in front of his member. I relentlessly started sucking as he leaned back pleasurably. After a few minutes I made my choice, I wasn't going to take this anymore and so. I bit down hard. REALLY hard. The man yelled and pulled back falling down to the bathroom floor. I stood up quickly and bashed his face in with my foot. I dried myself off quickly and put my clothes on running out to escape. Leaving my cabin I ran into my "employer".
"And where do you think you're going young miss." He stated. The guard came out of my room with a bloody face furious like a bull. I tried escaping but in the end got punched in the face for my actions. I blacked out.
I awoke again with None standing over me. "We have much work to do Key, something is happening and we must prepare for it." I looked around, the sky was crying, angels screamed from the heavens as flashes of gold struck the ground. I stood up dusting myself off and looked at None.
"None what's happening?" I asked cowering in fear. "Someone is trying to stop us Key, I can sense it. Look there," None pointed at a red star in the sky, "Astronous is telling me an intruder has come into this world." I looked up and back to None.
"Who's Astronous?!" I demanded. None didn't answer but instead took my hand and shifted us into a different galaxy from the one we were in. Looking around, the sky was calm, peach clouds drifted in the soft wind. Nymphs soared the sky above us, it was different from before. The ocean was no longer below us, but instead their was cool mildewed grass. I bent down to feel it the softness of the plant, how I've longed for this feel. None stood there and watched as I did, then turning away.
We walked for hours, days, I couldn't tell. Time wasn't exactly an easy thing to keep track of in this world. None was silent to himself and refused to talk. Who was Astronous, and how does he know me. I wanted answers to questions that wouldn't be answered, at the time being, it was hopeless. Finally after walking for so long we stopped in a forest. Light reflected off the crystal leafs of the trees and illuminated the forest. It was out of a storybook, oh how enchanting it was.
"None, where are we?" I asked. None looked at me and smiled softy, "We've arrived at the forest of tears, each leaf represents someones grief and torment within their lives. When a leaf falls the persons torment is over," None explained. I wanted to pluck each leaf off the tree but evidently I didn't know what would happen if I did. None and I spent the remainder of the day in the forest eventually falling asleep.
Coming to my senses I was chained up back in my room to my bed post, my head was throbbing from the punch I have received. Looking around I peered out the window to see the vast sea. The cool blue waves splashed on the sides of the boat rocking the room back and forth,
back, and forth.
I grew sick eventually and puked next to myself, I wanted to cry but I knew it wouldn't help. I sighed and tried to scoot away from my own stomach fluids. My stomach was rumbling loader than jack hammer on cement, the thought of food was such torment. Any desire that I wanted for myself was such torment. Everything was torment. I thought about the Forest of Tears and wondered if I had my own leaf, what would happen if I plucked it. None explained how when the leaf falls the persons torment ends, if I was to pluck my own leaf, would my torment end? I thought about my past until I reached the point of when I couldn't remember no more.
The sky was pink with the rising sun and I sat on the beach watching the tides clash with each other in a loud roaring battle. Those were simple times when it was just my family and I. I was sixteen years old at that time, when the sea battled itself, the sky was a rose blooming in the sun, and I was an ordinary girl. How I got here sadly is all a blur, all I remember is his face. Green eyed, brunette colored hair, and peach pink skin, that was him, the man I fell in love with. When I first met him I thought he was perfect, we hugged, we loved, and we kissed. We we're together for almost two years and that's when it happened. His actions turned from passionate to aggressive, his worlds more cruel than those of a hard life. The rest however, is a blur. Coming back to my senses it was already mid-day, and the ocean was calm. Looking around my sheets were cleaned from my puke and a loaf of bread and water was on my bed side. I reached over and scarfed down the whole loaf, the dryness in my throat was nothing compared to what I felt in my stomach. My stomach was finally full for the first time in days, all my energy however was still gone. I spent the remainder of the day sleeping.
Upon waking up, None was beside me meditating. I rubbed my eyes and stretched, the forest looked dimmer than I last remembered. I shook None to get his attention.
"None whats going on, why is the forest gloomier than before?" I asked. None grabbed my hand the world flashed again, it was brighter than before. The scorching light burned my skin, I was burning from the outside in. Opening my eyes once more None and I were in a different area, I immediately moved away from None.
"None whats going on!? You're not answering any of my questions anymore and I'm worried about where we're going!" I exhaled out of my lungs. None sighed and turned away.
"Astronous is my apprentice, I've only trained him to sense danger and disturbances in the world. I can communicate with him telepathically, its why we've been shifting a lot. Something is not right Key, both him and I can sense it." None explained. I looked around to see lifeless ships alone on the barren desert sand. No matter of life could be seen for miles. Upon looking up to the sky, ships of all shapes and sizes battled barbarically however they were not alone. The red star from before was closer and brighter than ever. There wasn't much time left, None and I needed answers, I needed answers.
Days felt like months and nothing had changed. The red star remained the same, the ships fought with all their might. None looked the same, I looked the same, and I felt the same, no more would I stand this.
"I wont have this anymore None! I'm going back for a while, I need to clear my head." I claimed. None had no opposition to what I had said and let me go. I lied down and cleared my head.
Waking up again in my room upon the boat I looked around, the sun was rising. I've been at sea for 2 weeks. I'm malnourished, pale, and to weak to sit up. I try my best to move, my joints were like rocks clashing together, it just wouldn't work. I doubted him I thought. I doubted None. I hadn't known where I was going anymore, or what I was seeking, it all didn't seem to matter. The shipped however had stopped. I feebly looked around glancing at the frost on my window as cold salt fell from the sky. Slowly I rise from my bed to sit up, I can hardly move anymore on my own anymore. After finally shuffling out of my bed one of the body guards walked in.
"It's time doll face." he stated. Walking over he lashed onto my arm and pulled me into the bathroom, I was given a cold shower and new clothes. Walking out of the boat I glanced around and stared at the sun for the first time in weeks. The air was cold in my lungs but felt fresh in my body. We had landed in the port of Dikson, Russia. The snow on my skin felt so much like the cold sweat from my face back in the cellar I was kept in. I was soon dragged around by two of the guards and loaded into a car, from there I was driven out into the cold mountains of Dzhugdhur east of Siberia. Upon arriving I was checked into an underground sex exchange, otherwise known as a prostitution ring. There my name was no longer Yeea, but Maryanne, or for short Mary. There I worked pleasuring men for 18 hours a day only payed with food and a room of my own. Eight months had past and no dream from my subconscious had appeared, no None, and no more Key. I was losing hope in who I really was.