☬ Ashley's Pov ☬

I really didn’t know what Silitha had done to me, I found my self in the dark. I couldn’t see anything. I was walking around aimlessly. Fear had engulfed every cell of my body as time was passing by. I felt alone. My legs were trembling from panicking.

Suddenly I thought, I saw light. I wasn’t sure if I was hallucinating. I ran toward the direction of light. When I reached there, I found a path. It was surrounded by big trees. There was something dark about this path, but it was also alluring to me. It was pulling me. So, I started to walk. As I walked in to this black forest, I started to regret my choice.

Everything was covered with moss in here. I could smell the musky scent of earth. The deeper I went, the atmosphere was getting damp, wet and cold from dry and hot. Occasionally dead leaves were crunching under my feets. Light was peeking through the trees, it wasn’t enough brighten up to see clearly. I shivered from the crispiness of the air that was covering everything like a blanket. Somehow, my eyes adjusted to see through this pitch black. I really had no idea how long I was walking.

A low rustling sound caught my attention. I halted my walk, goosebumps erupted my whole skin, indicating I wasn’t alone like I thought I was. I looked around, I couldn’t see anything. My breath turned rapid as my heart rate increased within my rib cage from fear. I started to walk again. I couldn’t shake off the feeling that someone was watching me, following my every movement. I felt like a prey when a predator watch its prey quietly, ready to attack any time.

A branch snapping somewhere from behind me. Fear gripped my heart in an icy cage. Another branch snapped behind me. The sound of footsteps were coming closer behind me. It was a good time to run, right? I took off running in a vicious sprint. Whatever was behind me, they also increased
their speed. I ran full speed into the dense trees of the forest. I didn’t stop for rest or air as I ran down the dirt path.

I had no doubt that the feeling creeping down my spine was death. But the sound of footsteps, they were a lot of faster than me. Eventually I had to stop running. I couldn’t help it. Air from my lungs just left me, I couldn’t breath properly. I just needed a minute- just a minute to regain my breathing. Then I could ran faster. I took a large gulp of air. I was panting. But luck had just left me, I didn’t get the minute, I desperately needed.

I looked behind me, I saw three sets of glowing
red eyes were watching and chasing me. I tried to push my self faster as they came closer to me. I could hear growls behind me. My knees started to wobble and pain shoot through my body. I was getting tired and exhausted from running. My visions started to blur. My hands were running through my hair furiously as I was frantically looking for hiding spots, any kind of hiding spot. But I couldn’t find any.

'How could they find any hiding spot in the movies? Damn it!' I thought angrily.

Like I said luck had left. Why?! My right feet slipped and I stumbled  forward to the path. I fell with a loud thump on the ground. I groaned, rolled my self on my back and tried to get up. There were few cuts on my hand and knees. My clothes had teared off some places, blood was soaking it. I could taste the metallic flavour of blood, there was a big cut inside of mouth.

"Damn it! Now what?!" I yelled out in frustration and fear. I closed my eyes.

When I opened my eyes, I saw those creatures came closer and stood in front me. They started to circle around me.

This creatures, I hadn’t seen or I knew exist in my whole life. Their face were kinda wolfish but large. The skin was leathery and sticky instead of fur. I could see their bones underneath the skin. Their limbs were skiny and long. They had larger and sharper claws. But most terrifying was their eyes and size of their body. They were huge and bigger than me. I was only half of their size. They started to come closer after they had finished circling around me. I started to drag my self backward. My heart was pounding viciously and I could feel the pain from my wounds. I was going to die.

"N-nice do-doggy. Why...why d-don’t you go...go to you-your demon-n mama? Silitha is...is your mama, right?!" I asked. My heart beats were ringing in my ears.

They just gave dark growls which shook me to my core. Then they opend their mouth. I really didn’t know what to think about their mouth. I meant should I feel shocked or stared at it in astonishment. Their mouth dived in five directions like a startfish and it was full of teeths! Some sticky stuff was flowing from their mouths. It was disgusting.

With another ferocious growls they jumped on me, I braced my self for upcoming attack, waiting for the pain when they would tear me apart. I screamed, closed my eyes and held up my hands in front of me. They attacked me, tearing apart my flesh from bones. I was screaming from the pain. My visions started to white, I felt my life was slowly fading way from me. This was my life, that's how I died and I found my self surrounded by darkness.

The End....

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[Kidding, guys!...Ashley wasn’t dead. I just wanted to have fun...Lol. Let's get back to the story, shall we?! ;) ]

The agonizing pain of death and the attack, I had braced for my self, it never came. I waited for inevitable tearing of flesh those teeths would rip from my body. I was trembling from the terrified fear. I was sweaty. My clothes were clinging to my body. I was desperately trying to control my breathing.

Suddenly the atmosphere around me had changed. It turned into hot. But not too much. A gentle and cool wind was passing, it soothed me a little. I could smell some sweet fragrances. Light shined brightly onto my closed eyelids. But I didn’t dare to open my eyes. I laid on the ground. After couple of minutes later, I opend my eyes. I looked around my surroundings.

I was in a field. There were flowers everywhere. But one thing caught my attention, my breath hitched from it. I saw a beautiful white house which was oddly familiar to my old house. The intense pain, I was feeling, it had gone. I looked down to my self. I had worn new clothes. There was no blood.

I got up from the ground, started to walk towards the house. When I reached, every little things were similar to my house. I was feeling like a child again before that incident. I thought that I would see my parents again. I ran to the porch and stood in front of the house. I took a deep breath and opened it. When I opened the door, I stood there. I saw a familiar figure, she was feeding a four year girl in the living room and singing to her. My breath caught in my throat again. I couldn’t believe my eyes.

'The-there! M- my mom is standing there with Aurora. Maybe Silitha wasn’t that bad.' I thought happily to my self. I hadn’t felt this happiness in past years. A huge smile was spreading on my face.

"Mom! Aurora! I have come. I have missed you so much. Where is dad?!"
I asked and ran toward them. But mom didn’t look at me. I waved at her, she didn’t spare any glance toward me.

"Mom. Look at me. Why are ignoring me?!" I asked her and trying to grab her attention. Tears were forming in my eyes, a strangled sound escaped from my mouth. My heart was breaking. I couldn’t breath properly. My mom was standing there, she wouldn’t even look at me! Why?!

I heard the door was opened and closed behind me. I looked behind, tears were running on my cheeks. I saw a little girl came running who was none other than me. My father was right behind her.

"What?! What's happening?! Why don’t you look at me?! Can you hear me, dad?!" I asked my father and ran toward him. He didn’t look at me. He and mini me went straight to my mother. They were laughing at little Ashley, she was trying to feed her baby sister. The scene was eerily similar to me. Then it clicked. It was a memory.

'This is it! This is the day, they will die!
Ca-can I save the-them?!'

Someone pounded at the door violently. They had come. They were here. I saw little Ashley was trembling, she took short gasping breaths, clutching mom's clothes with her dear life. Tears had started to flow freely from her eyes.

Dad went to see who was knocking like this. When he came back, he looked so pale like he saw a ghost.

Another knock on the door snapped out him from shocking.
He started to panic and ran toward my mom. He said something to her and she nodded with determination on her eyes. Like she knew it would happen, she was preparing her self for this. Then she turned toward her daughter and said something. Little Ashley shook her, she wouldn’t do it. But mom ordered her. I remembered every little word she had said to me.

"Go to your room, sweetheart. No matter what don’t open your room's door. Mom and dad will come to you after finishing everything. " she said tears with her eyes.

Then I saw dad came in front of her.

"Don't be afraid, baby girl. Everything will be alright. Now tell me who's my big brave girl?" he said. He tried desperately control his voice from breaking.

"Me. I am your big brave girl." she said with a watery smile.

They hugged each other tightly. But this moment didn’t stay any longer because of their pounding at the door. The door started to crack down.

"Ashley go to your room. Lock yourself. Don't come out no matter what happened." Mom said.

"But what about Aurora?" little Ashley asked in a soft voice.

My mom looked at my sister and then looked at her.

"Don't worry about us. We will be fine, pudding. Just remember we love you with all of our heart." Then my parents kissed her forehead.

I saw little Ashley ran towards her room, she didn’t look behind her. I was standing there frozen. I was paralyzed, I couldn’t move my self. I saw everything changed around me rapidly. It was so blur to catch everything. I couldn’t understand anything properly.

Suddenly the whole house was on fire.
I saw everything started to burn, it made me snapped out from my trance. I started to look for getting out from here. But I couldn’t find any exist. My heart was pounding viciously in my chest. I started to panic when I didn’t find any door. Black smoke surrounded every corner, it was choking me. I sat on the ground from lacking of oxyzen. Then everything had stopped.

"Ashley, look what have you done?! This is all your fault!" My mom hissed at me. Her voice was dripping with venom. 

I looked up at her from ground. I saw my father was standing beside her while carrying my baby sister. Their eyes were hollow. They had worn menacing grin. They were disgusted about something and it was me, they hated me.

"Yes, Ashley. This is all your fault. Look around you, we're dead because of you. You are worthless! You can't do anything properly," He sneered at me.

"Yeah. Look at you, crying like a baby,"
My mom said in a mocking tune.

Their words had pierced through my heart. I took short gasping breaths as I started to sob.

'Yeah. They are right! I am the reason for their death. I can't do anything. I am worthless.' I started to sob pathetically.

"I didn’t mean to do anything. I didn’t mean to...I lo-love you, guys." I whimpered out this words.

"You think we will believe everything you say, Ashley. You are a selfish girl. You only think about your self. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t go to your room how much we said to you. You could save your sister. But you didn't. Now you are telling us this so you can escape." She snarled into my face.

"We're going to burn you, little bitch. So, that you can know what we were feeling then,"He said venomously.

After saying that they came toward me with torches in their hands. They threw the torches on me, I bursted into flames. My skin started to burn, I felt I was melting from it. The pain was so much, I cried out pathetically and screamed from the intense pain.
I couldn’t breath. It was choking me. I reached for air so that I could breath. I couldn’t breath. Black dots formed in front of my eyes. This was supposed to feel when anyone died, I was slowly losing my self.

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I woke up screaming. I took a large amount of air to regular my breathing. I couldn’t understand where was I. I was tied up with something. I started to squirm and scream, I was desperately trying to free my self. I started to sob, I was panting. Everything was very over whelming for me. My visions were blur, I blinked repeatedly to see. Eventually I was starting to relax. But the burning and intense pain, I endured from Silitha had come to me.
I started to sob harder when I remembered what they said to me.

"Good morning, sunshine...You have awake from sleep. Did you get a good sleep, huh?!" Silitha said enthusiastically.

I glared at her. She just gave me smug smile.

"You must have a good dream. No? Awwh. Should I say nightmare, Ashley?" She asked and smirked at me. I looked away from her. She was telling me something, I didn’t hear any word.

I saw where I was. I was in a big room. Candlelights illuminated the whole room. A big chandler was above me. I was laying on a stone bed, my wrists and my legs were chained. I looked around. There was a big circle in the middle of this room. There was a star in it and also some odd looking signs. I saw some big and small bowls in front of it. I couldn't see what things were in those bowls. There was a satanic vibe in every where. Sam was tied up in a same way. He was still asleep.

"Do you like the place where you are going to die?" she asked me. I didn’t say anthing, I just stared at her. She took my slience as agreement. She came toward me with such a speed, it was blurred.

"Let us begin the ritual. Bring me that knife, Andariel," She ordered that creature. It brought a huge fucking knife. It was pointy and shiny. Some words were carved on the out lines of knife. It gave her and she brought it to me.

"Let start the party," After saying that she started to dive that knife into left side of my chest where my heart was. She couldn’t dug it. Because someone interupped and said something behind from us.

"What the fuck do you think you’re doing, demon bitch? Leave her alone," He said in a dangerous voice.

Another voice speak after him, it was a female voice.

"Leave her alone. You won't find any peace in hell if you touch her. I am going to tear you apart, and I will find you in the depth of hell. You can't hide from me, you bitch. LEAVE HER ALONE!" She growled in the end of her speech.

My mind went blank, not from the thought of saving, but from those voices. I knew these voices very well.

A/N : How was it? I know this chapter is large. I didn’t realize it. 😑...

So, who are they? Who are going to save Ashley? Any ideas? Tell me what do you think?

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