Silver Tail

I’m Zoe Hunt though I wasn’t always a part of the Hunt family. In this stories, you will probably learn more than you need to know about my life. But my adoptive mother seems to think that it would be a good way to get on with the past and live life in the present. So I guess we should start. Welcome to the story of my life it’s a bumpy road that isn’t too pleasant, to begin with.

I was 2 that when my life went to hell all I really remember is being in a marketplace I couldn’t move I mean I was in a small cage as if I was some sort of animal. This market was the type that was illegal the type that everyone would be screwed if someone important found out but of course they never did and that meant poor kids like me ended up in a horrible place. My memory from that day is kind of fuzzy as I did spend most of my time trying to forget it. The only other thing I can remember was a woman talking to the sells man glancing at me I was terrified. Small sobs and whimpers escaping from my mouth as I try not to cry.

That woman later became my owner Mia lase noble women of the town of Demonfalls which I guess suited her very well. She was the most twisted person there she could fall anyone into thinking she was a real demon. And she was the person that was supposed to report any wrongdoing to the royal family. No wonder it has the highest crime rate in all of Hiria. Demonfalls was a place surrounded by dense wood which were tall and cast shadows on the small town. Most of the buildings were built from dark oak and blackwood the place only being lit by a few street light causing the place to look eerie. Though not all the people here were evil and twisted like Mia. This was the place where the poor lived those who either had little money or none at all Hiria is the type of place that looks after everyone. Those in Demonfalls get free meals and even small gifts for the children on their birthdays though I never got anything from Mia. You could think of me as a kind of secret I guess which wasn’t a good thing for me anyway.

Once I was at her mansion things only got worse for me daily abuse and torture leaving me with cuts, bruises and some time broking bones which never really got the treatment they needed. This was what my life was like it wasn’t so bad, to begin with only 1 every few months but as I got older it got worse. I’m only 8 and the abuses is already daily, I’m barely fed spending most of the days in a small dark cell in the basement where there are no windows and no way to tell what time of day or month it is. The only way I can tell when a month has ended is when she comes and takes me to the gathering. Also, know as her and her other sick and twisted friends beating me getting drunk and beating me more. I hate those days and it has felt like weeks since the last one.

At the moment I’m hugging my knees in the corner of my small cell trying to keep my mind of the dark and trying not to think about how close the gathering could be. I’m weak only a few hours ago she abused me and cut my face causing a light cut on my cheekbone the red blood making my freckles that run across my nose and over my cheek bone more noticeable. If someone saw me know I would look dead or at least like a zombie. My creamy blonde hair looking more like dirty blonde from actual dirt it was messy and tangled; my golden eyes had bags under them from lack of sleep. I was wearing a baggy brown T-shirt that had various holes and blood on it with a pair of shorts showing my grazed knees and bruised legs. The door suddenly open and only one thought came to my head the gathering was being held now because I know she wasn’t bring me food.

Mia came over yanking me up by my arm making me stumble slightly. Only then was I able to tell how weak I was and how painful the grazes on my knees felt when I walked or more like being dragged. As I stumbled around trying to hold back tears and resisting the erg to scream in pain not wanting to give her the satisfaction. She drags me towards the hallway going past the kitchen. I notice that no one was sat at the round table they normally get drunk on.

This filled me with relief, then confusion, then worry if it wasn’t because of the gathering and she wasn’t beating me then what could it be? I know that if she was going to abuse me she would have done it by know before we even left the basement. As we enter the hallway I turn my gaze from the floor upward trying to see what could possibly be going on. When I look up I see a young beautiful woman who looked warm and welcoming, having a motherly type aura around her. She wore a long dress, which had white short sleeves with an emerald green middle the bottom half also, being emerald green and a section in the middle being seaweed green. Her long light brown hair was in a ponytail that had a plait spiraling down from the top looping around the rest of the hair as it went it being held in by a dark green bow hair tie, She had turquoise eyes and a silver chain with a blue gemstone around her neck.

Next to her stood one guard wearing the royal uniform which was a green shirt under the silver armor he had two swords on his back. His eyes were dark purple, he also had brown hair slightly darker than the women’s and it was short messy at the top his fringe slightly in his face he wore a silver chain with the same gemstone this one being dark blue. He also looked slightly intimidating but had a warm smile that made me feel safe even when I was being dragged.

Once we were close she let go of my arm pushing me forwards slightly causing my frail, weak, beaten body to fall to the ground landing on my batted knees causing me to whimper slightly from the pain. Mia then said in a proud, respectful voice.

“This is Princess Amanda and her head knight Sir James” I stay quiet looking at them in awe feeling the grazes on my knees reopen and bleed slightly on the wooden floor. This earns me a slight kick from Mia subtle enough so it won’t be noticeable to the guests but hard enough to hurt my already damaged body. I then stutter

“U-Um h-hi” Unsure on what to say.

I could tell by the concerned look on Princess Amanda’s face that she had noticed my condition and what shocked me the most was when she asked to talk to me alone. Mia obviously said yes showing her to her room as James carried her one suitcase behind us Amanda stepped into her room and gestured for me to follow. Which I did not saying a word the whole time my knees still in pain and as I walked the fresh blood dripped down my pale legs. James placed the suitcase in the room and told Princess Amanda that he would stand guard outside which she responded to by nodding he leaves closing the door behind him.

Once closed I collapse to the floor my weak knees no longer being able to support the weight of my body. I lay on the floor too tired to move and feeling slightly bad for my rudeness toward royalty but I could no longer stand my knees still bleeding and the fall didn’t help them. I was half expecting to be yelled at for being rude but instead the Princess just came over to me sat down her dress puffing out as she did. She then picked me up laying me gently on her dress in her lap in a motherly fashion. For the first time in my life, I felt safe and I wasn’t scared of being abused for no reason.

She placed a hand on my left cheek turning my head gently to face her before beginning to ask questions about my condition.

“Why are you so pale?” She asked in a soft, kind, caring tone and I respond in a small scratchy voice.

“She locks me in a small cell in the basement there no windows or light in there,” I tell her the truth it was true that the lack of sunlight made my skin paler than it uses to be. And compared to her tanned skin I was as white as a ghost. She nods proceeding with the next question keeping her comforting tone

“Why are you so skinny?” She says noticing how baggy the top looked on me hiding the fact that my ribs were noticeable.

“She hardly feeds me anything as well as not giving me anything to drink,” I say becoming slightly worried by what I’m saying as this could get me in serious trouble and I wasn’t ready for another beating. She then asked the final question which made me freeze I didn’t know if I should say or not but I could tell from her eyes that she already know the answer.

“Why are you covered in cuts and bruises?” Her voice remade calm though I could tell it was something she never thought she would have to ask an 8-year-old child in one of the noble people’s houses. You see there is a noble man or women in each town in Demonfalls it is Mia these were supposed to work with the royal family and report any wrong doings in the town. They resign in but Mia was probably the worse case here. I take a deep breath then answer the question the stutter returning saying only 3 words.

“S-She a-abuses m-me” tears start to well in my eyes both from fear and relief. That was all the questions she then helps me up and cleans up my knees and the cut on my cheekbone I give her a slight smile.

Then I hear the door open and I hear a bunch of voice chattering downstairs. I know that Mia gathering of friends where here they were a bunch of loners who were outcasts even in Demonfalls. My smile fades as fear once again overtook me I didn’t want to be abused by them and I know it wouldn’t matter if royalty were here. Mia could easily tell the princess not to go down stairs and being a guest Amanda would have to listen. I looked at the princess and she immediately asked me what was wrong I told her and she knows she could do nothing unless she witnessed what had happened even if she was royalty the word of an 8-year-old wouldn’t do much in court even with all my cuts and bruises. I was a child and children did stupid things that would get them hurt well they played outside.

She then handed me a small golden cog-powered spider that had a small camera in as soon as I was downstairs it would crawl of me and hide showing Princess Amanda everything that was happening. There was a knock at the door and Mia’s voice spoke she was asking for me. Princess Amanda opened the door I walked out as we walk down the hall toward the stairs I turn back to look at her and she gives me a weak smile trying to comfort me. If it got too bad she would step in and get James to help, as it would be a bunch of drunken men and women. Once out of sight Mia drags me down the stairs and into the kitchen the spider hopping off and getting into position.

She throws me to the ground causing me to let out a slight whimper as I hit the wooden floor immediately the sick bunch start punching and kicking me before the spider is ready. I let out a few screams of pain when I finally see the spider ready they have already started drinking. As I lay on the hard cold ground unable to move my breathing is hitched and the once clean cuts are now bleeding again.

The bunch then start again starting with a few punches and kits before smashing bottles around me causing bits of broken glass to hit me and make small cuts on my skin. In a few quick moments Mia says in a threatening tone asking what me and the princess talked about of course I don’t say as I hear footsteps rushing down the stairs I feel a sharp pain in my stomach. The next few things happening so fast that they are all hard to process in my beaten, broken state. I let out a high pitched ear shattering scream of pain Princess Amanda and James rush in James get the adults away from me. Cornering them both swords pointed at them none of them daring to move not even Mia who had stabbed me in the stomach with a kitchen knife. The princess lifts me back onto her lap causing me to get blood on her dress. The other guard coming through the door leaving them with the gathering Amanda and James rush me to the hospital near the castle located in Riverfalls.

Riverfalls was the biggest town in Hiria it didn’t have a noble man or women as the royal family could look over it. It had a waterfall which ran into the lake that leads through the huge flower field into the forest looping around all the cheerful colored house most made from yellow stone, smooth white stone or white wood all having dark or light green tile roofs. The lake would surround them linking to a small round pond with a blue leafed tree with a white trunk in a small center island near there was where the hospital was. Know if it was any other occasion I would love to stop and look around as I have never been anywhere but Demonfalls before and this place was way nicer that the gloom I had to grow up in. Once at the hospital, the knife that was still in was removed and I was put to sleep using gas so they could begin.