• "Hopeless!" A small girl with light blonde pigtails yelled as loudly as she could, sobbing innocently. She was behind several light grey bars with two other children, scared for their lives.
    She tossed down a red pocket knife and the echo of the sound pounded through her ears.
    "What are we going to do Maya?" One of the other children asked.
    The small girl turned and watched her eyes, shaking her head.
    "I... I don't know... They'll be coming for us at any second." Her voice cracked and she began crying harder. The only boy in there stood, grabbed her hand and sat her next to him. He ran his hand down the back of her head and sighed miserably.
    The other girl stood and sat next to both of them and began to cry horribly.
    "What did we do wrong?" She asked and the boy watched her.
    "Marissa...calm down..." He tried, but she became unsteady and more upset.
    All three children were right around the same age, about ten.
    Soft footsteps came from the end of the hall and all three children stiffened and listened closely. The footsteps became louder and louder, and soon, they stopped. They all waited and huddled closely together.
    A loud scraping noise startled all three of them and when the small girl peeked out from behind the bars, she could a man sitting in a chair, sharpening a large black axe in some kind of machine.
    "They're going to kill us Jay, they are!" Marissa cried into the boy's arms.
    I grabbed my pocket knife off the ground and went to the small window by the grey bench Jay and Marissa were sitting on.
    "Do you guys have anything to cut a bar with? This knife is a piece of junk..."
    Jay searched the ground quietly and picked up a shard of glass.
    "That might actually work." Maya took the glass from him and removed her blade, replacing it with the glass, and began cutting at the bars.
    The noise stopped and she began to cut quicker.
    "Alright, let's get them." A deep voice came from not far away.
    More footsteps...
    "Maya! Get down!" Jay grabbed the back of her shirt and pulled her down onto the ground as soon as they arrived. Unfortunately, she dropped her only weapon out the window.
    "Hello children," The man said, "Ready?"
    He put them in a line of shackles and dragged them out here.
    Marissa was first in line and she couldn't stop crying.
    They lay her onto the stone bed and the man grabbed the overly large ax.
    Tears fell off her small cheeks and she screamed loudly.
    The man readied the ax on his shoulder, rolling it before resting the ax on it,
    then began to bring it down as soon as Jay ran forward and shoved Marissa off the table, putting his head in the way so it not only cut off the shackles, it removed his head.
    Marissa was crying terribly and she ran to Maya, and they began to run down the hallway. The man, angry he hadn't been able to finish his job, began chasing after them.
    They cut a corner and exited through the door.
    After hiding in a couple of bushes, Maya held Marissa in her arms, both of them crying. Maya prayed that, that man wouldn't find them.
    They sat there and as the sky turned dark, stood up and began their long journey home. Maya couldn't stop thinking about poor Jay.
    His life and her love for him were gone, completely gone.

    Chapter 2 will be coming soon!