Cherilyn Knight's Point Of View.
"Please Stop!" I said and my staggering, hoarsed voice pleaded the unknown men who were dragging me inhumanely towards the dark and endless hallway, while the creepiness was coursing through my whole body from one end to another end.
Smell of wet dirt is all I could sense, since my eyes were blindfolded tightly by a cloth torn from the hems of my dirty rag dress.
"Shut the fuck up. Will you? I dare you to open your damn jammed mouth and voice out a word again." One of the men who abducted me, threatened.
"P-please, I beg of you. Lemme go. I am a poor girl, who usually ends up sleeping with a hungry stomach every other night. You would not be able to find anything which can benefit you." I said. One could feel that panic was laced in my voice as his red threating eyes frightened me.
But, as long as they could hear my pleads then, there might be a slight chance of them to pity and release me. Since, my kidnapping they treated me terribly so far that was enough to break my hope that these men could have even the slightest tinge of kindness in their heart to release me.
"You never give up don't you, princess?" One of the men said while mocking me with a smirk, looking directly in my eyes. It led me, burning in my own wrath. I did my best to force out my arms from their grasps while screaming my lungs out,"You all, are monsters! How could you be so inhumane. Maltreating and forcing a helpless woman, you think that makes you more of man, you fucking pigs!". They didn't answers me back and started dragging me hurriedly., which compels me to get more nervous and I felt captivating silence surrounding me, my ears and my whole system.
Numb and silence.
"Wh-where a-am I?" I asked, with a feeling of highly strung while my senses alerted to my surroundings and I started gasping violently in their grasps. All of a sudden, one of the gruesome man shoved me to the ground harshly and I landed with my knees crashing on the floor. I could feel that the skin on my knees splits and I cried from the sharp pain coursing through my leg.
"Anna, Here is the new slave. Clean this filthy girl, put her into some use immediately after the cleaning and I hope you will be able to make her understand the rules of the house, crystal clearly." The same man, who had shoved me to the ground ordered strictly to the girl named Anna, I supposed.
"I will, Sir." She whispered back with a strange respect in her voice.
"..and listen, HE will see her first understood?" The other man said at the end.
"Yes, understood Sir." I heard a soft voice voicing out from Anna again, and all of a sudden after a long time, more like a first time, I felt gentle hands on me. It helped me to stand up, in contrast to the harsh treatment I had from the men who abducted me.
"Come on, hurriedly. Be quick. Trust me, you would not like the consequences of pissing them. They are cruel and posses each and every brutal feelings and scary things. They feels pleasure while punishing new slaves barbarously." Anna whispered in my ear with a tinge of worry in her voice and was more than enough for me to get alert.
New slave.
It made the brutish feeling of creepiness crawl through the skin of my whole body upon hearing it. I was there at nowhere, where punishments were more likely to happen than getting fed. I could not help but to cry in silence and It brought the cloth, which was held tight while blindfolding my eyes soaking with the tears which were going to flow across both of my cheeks and getting heavier with each minute from the amount of tears I shed.
I guessed, that's how my already poverty stricken life was going to end.
I hastily stood up even though my knees were burning with sheer pain because of direct hit to the ground. Anna guided me to walk while holding my arms for support and I don't know how but somehow, I could feel that I could trust Anna since, she was the only one of the few person I encountered so far in my beggarly life who was nice and gentle to me in my first meeting with them.
The world, where we all live is a horrendous place to live in but to whom should we complain. None of the choice is left either. There is a blurred line between right and wrong and It seems that line is impossible to be seen. Morals are changed and survival is the primary goal for the people. Nowadays, finding a pure heart seems to be a challenge. Meeting a pure hearted people will take immense effort and longest time of the world because most of them either conceal the goodness in them or they probably can not even survive as they are eventually changed by the harsh reality.
Earth, our planet is now a living hell.
We, both walked a long way before I sensed Anna opened a door. As soon as we were inside the room, Anna carefully untied the blindfold that was held tight around my eyes. It took me awhile to adjust my sight from the blinding white light of the fluorescent lamp. I blinked my eyes not once but twice, in order to adjust around the light of the fluorescent lamp. I noticed that we were inside a huge white room that resembles a clinic due to the smell of the disinfectant alcohol emitting from it. I could already feel sickness in my gut. I turned around and noticed a brunette girl probably the same age as I am, studying me carefully.
"First, we need to clean you and we need to be quick too." Anna asserted.
"About whom, they were talking about?" I asked to her, while looking straight in her eyes for the answers of my endless questions that were not seems to be answered. At least for now.
"The Don. He is waiting for you." Anna informed me.
The Don. The answer left me more puzzled.
"What do they want from me?" Tears sprang in my eyes again. I were not a crybaby I swear, but everything that was happening at that time had frightened me like hell.
Not even a single word voiced out from her as she swiftly moved towards me and tried to remove my clothes without asking for my consent. My eyes enlarged, all of a sudden and hastily I gripped the hem of my dress ceasing Anna from getting to see me naked.
I heard a large sigh from her and she took a step back from me.
"Look, I'm sorry but we need to do this quick. The Don doesn't like to wait and am hundred and one percent sure that you would not like to get punished and especially from him, Would you?" She asks me firmly. Just the mere mention of the word punishment made me tremble badly and forced me to give a weak nod as I let her do her job. The one and only question that was clouding my mind was that who the hell is Don and what the fuck does he want from me?
Without further negotiation, she took away the filthy dress from me, leaving me naked with only my innerwear. She then, gave me a small nudge guiding me towards the shower room. "You only have exact 10 minutes to shower. I would suggest you not to do anything stupid. Whatever you will do, you will be caught at the end. Hence, Its not worth trying. Cameras are everywhere." She warned me with a serious face towards me.
"E-even here?" I squeaked and panicked as well.
"Yes." She answers back with emotionless eyes. My eyes widen as I tried to cover my nude self with my hands looking around the room to find the cameras. I saw, two of them attached on both corners.
"Go on. Time is running." She warned me again, ignoring that fact of me being uncomfortable under the camera. I took a long breath and sauntered towards the shower. After about ten minutes, I finished my shower and as soon as I stepped out of the shower, Anna grabed me a bit impatiently while dragging me towards the stool and told me to take a sit. She grabbed the first aid kit and cleaned the cuts of my knees. It stinged a lot more than I expected. I silently cursed the man who caused this.
"Who is the Don and what does he wants from me?" I asked quitely and with a forced respect in my voice.
My stomach grumbled in pain. The last meal I had was two days ago. Usually, I could manage going out for days without food but at that moment I were feeling drained out because of the events that were happened these past few hours.
"He is the master of this mansion. Everyone calls him with the title The Don, here. Well, his real name is to be known as Christian Achestan, but of course we all could not call him with his name." She answered to my questions which didn't helped me to relax. Not even a bit.
My eyes widened with a pure terror on my face, the moment I heard his real name. My stomach dropped down from fear and all the hopes drained away from me. Just the mere mention of his name, I was totally out of the colors. I was totally screwed.
"C-Christian Achestan?" I croaked his name out harshly.
"Yes. Now, Please wear this dress. It is sort of our uniform here, yours a little bit different to get identify that you're new here." She said and handed me a pale blue dress that ended at just below my knee. The dress was pretty decent and way cleaner than what I used to wear, but still it could not help me with the terror that I were feeling in the pit of my trembling heart.
"Are you done? If then, we should head out. The Don must be waiting out there for us." She asked with all speed. I nodded back in return of an answer.
I followed her with a slight limp as I walked. My knees stinged with every steps I made. The movement caused more stretch on my skin, while opening the wound again as I walked further. Anna halted her steps in a beautifully designed door and I was surprised the moment, it suddenly opened. I thought that it as a just a normal wooden door of a room but it was in fact an elevator. We moved inside and Anna pressed the top floor button. I turned and looked around, the elevator had a wooden door but inside of it was made up of thick fiber glass which allowed us to see the view outside of the mansion as we went up. It was speechlessly wonderful.
I was mesmerized by the beauty of the garden of mansion, which was the view you could see from the elevator. I felt a tap on my shoulder from Anna signalling me that we had already arrived to the top floor. I took a big gulp of air in order to relax my thudding organs yet curious muscles as we walked again straight along the hallway. The floor there was far more extravagant than the one we had been to. Chandeliers were hanging on the hallway with exotic fresh flowers, lined on the sides. We managed to walk till the end of the hallway where a massive black door was located. I, again took a long and deep breath in order to calm my racing nerves. Anna, too took a huge gulps of breath and then, pressed the button on the side.
A soft click was heard from the door, notifying both of us that it was unlock for then. My heart was pounding hard in my chest, feeling anxious to see the infamous Don. He was not unknown for me. Each and every people, from old people to children and from adults to teenagers of the whole country knew about him. I, too had heard a lot about him, both good and bad well precisely more bad than good and specifically known for his cruelty.
He was one of the leaders who run the world. Leaders who couldn't seem to care about the people who were actually suffering, like me.
Tyranny.
That was the best description I could give to the leadership they usually provide to the people and the country. People used to bow down in fear to these leaders, who were in my opinion pathetic and coward shitheads. Money and power that used to come from their name protected them. No one could oppose them. If ever there was, they were all gone now.
Wiped out in the face of this planet. Gone.
I could not fathom the idea the he got me as one of his slaves. He was ruthless and merciless, few of the description that I had heard from the small town I came from. I shuddered from the thought of the many endless things he could possibly do to me. Anna gave me a light push towards the door, specifically towards him. I looked at her with a frightened look but instead of encouraging me, she panicked and mouthed me to 'go'. Tears welled up in my eyes as my trembling hands opened the door.
To be continued....
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