Chapter One

Chapter One: ORIGIN

Something horrible happened fourteen years ago, it happened to my family.The Fritz family massacred every member of my family in cold blood.

FOURTEEN YEARS BACK

*Thanksgiving*

All the members of my family had come together in unity to celebrate thanksgiving at my  house, I played with her little brother and cousins while the elders chatted, it was a happy day for my entire family until the doorbell rang, my little brother ran for the door, he opened it and the next sound got everyone on their knees whimpering, a gunshot.

*My brother went to open the door, the gun shot…was he…shot?*

A dozen men entered our house, all armed kicking my uncles and aunts. I looked to the door and saw my brother’s body covered in blood and his eyes open, he wasn’t moving

*no, don’t die on me, hang in there, you can’t die*

An entire family entered our house, they had the same face, same devilish smile adults and children alike. There was no soul in that family. They took their sits on our chairs and started drinking our wine. The bad man looked around face to face looking for a particular person, my father. He first saw my mother and attended to her by standing on her

“how do you feel that weight of my power? The entire Kajiyashiki family should feel me”

“(cough) the only thing I feel is the weight of your fat filled gut!”

*kicks*

“you don’t dare talk to me like that!”

He looked to the other side and saw me, he left my mother and came for me

“leave my daughter alone!”

My mother tried to protect me but one of the armed men hit her head with a gun, she fell and went unconscious. He squatted infront of me and smiled at me. I was shivering in fear and pain when he grapped my neck and started choking me, he lifted me up by my neck

“I have your daughter in my hands, you definitely don’t want me to kill her so come on out let’s talk bisuness.”

The man was choking me for about a minute before my father showed up

“leave her alone! You don’t have to involve anyone else in this matter”

I turned and saw my father, my vision was already blur and my head spinning due to lack of blood flow to my head, I wanted to yell but where was the voice to yell i wanted to bite the man’s hand but how could my fragile teeth reach there? He threw me to the door where I met my brother’s body, white, cold almost stiff and his blue eyes had turned grey. I closed his eyes and held him but then another gun was shot, my father was shot.

The family walked out leaving the armed men inside. They shot everyone last member of my family except me hiding behind the cover of my brother’s body. After they left, I ran to my father

“(shift) papa, papa”

“(struggling with breath) Raven where’s your school bag?”

I went upstairs and grabbed my bag and ran down

“Papa, it’s here”

“Those papers I gave you yesterday, are they still in your bag?”

Fire started flaming into our house, the bastards set our house on fire to ensure that not a single one of us survived to expose their dirty deed

“is that…fire? Raven, take your bag and run, get out of his place, this town, run as fast as your legs can carry you. You are the last member of this family with hope to live, run!” 

I wanted to ask what was going on, I wanted to know why that family came to our house and did that evil to us, if we owed them or took something away from them that we didn’t or couldn’t give back but also had to save myself for every member of my family, my mother woke up in the smoke and I ran to her

“mama! mama!”

“smoke? Is our house buring? (coughs) everyone? Raven if you can move run away, go through the kitchen door and leave!”

“Mama! I don’t want to leave you here, you’re still alive!”

My mother held my hand and looked into my eyes with tears in our eyes

“I don’t want you to end like this, I can’t move, I’m paralyzed and even without this fire I think I’ll die, my head is heavy. Please, Raven leave this place and run”

I stood up and looked every member of my family lying dead or helpless waiting for the fire to consume them, I looked at my brother, the fire had already consumed him and was spreading. I bent down and made my mother a promise

“I promise you mother, I will end that family, not a single one of them will survive in the future”

The words that came out of my mouth weren’t that of a twelve years old lady, they were filled with hate and anger and revenge. I managed to run out through the kitchen door, all of the maids and my nanny had been killed as well. I carried my backpack and ran, ran and ran and ran, I hust kept running with tears in my eyes, I didn’t know where I was running to, I didn’t have a single family left to run to, I didn’t know if there was still someone out there whom I could trust my life too but I didn’t want to take that risk. For two days I was on the road until I got to this place, dirty, hungry and tired, homeless, orphaned and friendless. For the first week I fed on left over I found in trashes, I didn’t even care what it tasted like or if I forgot to take out the “pure proteins” from the disgusting meal. I spent my time protecting the documents in my bag without knowing what they were for. One day, I ran into a boy gang, they were five of them in an alley were they lived, at first they wanted bully me but one of them saw through my dirt

“Wait, aren’t you the girl from that perfume advert?”

“what perfume advert?”

“Don’t lie to me, xxx perfume”

“yes, it’s me”

They boys showed a sign of shock because they knew I was from a prominent family to the neighbouring town and they wanted to know why and how I ended up like that. They thought I seemed nice and took me in, taught me the street, the good, the bad and the ugly and now after all thoses years, I’m finally ready to go back home and break some necks.

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