Tortured Lives

Chapter Two: Awakening

For eleven years that body stayed immobile. For eleven years that body stayed silent. For eleven years that body thanks to the large amount of power in it was changed and it grew to fit it all in. Shadow opened a bleary eye and looked around the bedroom she was in. It was her sister’s room as she had remembered it with one exception, no sister. “Kat where are you,” she said, her voice almost a whisper.
“I’m right here Shadower,” came a voice from beyond Shadow’s line of sight. Shadow turned her head slightly to one side and saw her sister standing near the only window in the room, more like the entire house. Katie moved closer to her sister and peered intently into those brown eyes that seemed to lead to a broken and unwanted soul.
“So Shadow you held up your promise that you would take the darkness and embrace it as your own along with the other elements,” Katie said in a hissing whisper.
“Kat I may have only been one but I knew and still know what our father is and what he wants from me,” said Shadow meeting her sister’s golden eyes.
“For years I have watched you from afar, aiding, guiding and controlling your powers to the best of my ability but now it is time for you to train and become the best you can. Just don’t forget that you are still my little sister,” explained Katie.
“But Kat you were only four, I may have been unconscious but I was still aware of everything going on around me,” said Shadow. Katie just smiled down at her and leaned her head against Shadow’s shoulder. Shadow’s eyes glazed over and with out thinking she flipped her sister onto the bed and began to kiss her. Katie wasn’t complaining but she couldn’t let Shadow do what her mind and body were telling her too. She felt something brush against her clit and she pushed Shadow off of her. “Shadow think about what you are doing little one. I want you and I know you want me but let’s wait until the right time ok,” said Katie looking directly into her sister’s eyes.

Shadow looked back at Katie and suddenly realizing what she almost did she wrapped her arms around the older girl and started to purr. Katie leaned down and whispered, “Don’t worry Shadower our time will come soon enough.

It had only been a few weeks but Shadow and Katie became closer than just sisters. Most twins let alone sisters ever become best friends. It was an idea that totally disgusted their father. That is why during those two weeks their father started plotting murder.

It was the day of Shadow’s thirteenth birthday and Cryala along with some of Shadow’s friends and sister planned a small party for her. Shadow’s friend Takieo had the job of keeping Shadow away from the house until that afternoon. It was common knowledge in the group that Takieo had something of a crush on the red dragon anthro but was too chicken to do or say anything about it. The two friends left early in the morning and just spent the time doing whatever thirteen year olds did. When Shadow returned to the house she was bombarded by her friends, mother and sister. Shadow’s mother pulled her aside and gave her the one thing she knew that her daughter would soon need.

“Shadower I never got to thank you for breaking your father’s control over me but then again you were only a one year old. Anyway that dragon pendent now belongs to you along with my powers,” said her mother
“But mom without your power you’ll,” Shadow’s words trailed off and her mother put a hand on her shoulder.
“It’s my time little one and there isn’t anything you can do except accept it. You have so much ahead of you and I have lived my life the best I can,” Cryala by this time was breathing weakly and Shadow pushed her mother to lie down. By the time Cryala’s head hit the pillow her spirit was no more. Shadow felt tears well up inside her but she held them back. It would do her no good to have her father see her weak like that.

Shadow turned and left the room to find her sister and found her sitting away from everyone else under a rather large oak tree.
“Kat I have got to get out of here,” said Shadow breathlessly. Shadow finally looked down at her sister after a few moments of silence and noticed silent tears trailing their way down Katie’s cheeks. Shadow also noticed that her clothe were torn and bloody. Katie also had a strange white fluid all over her. “Kat is everything ok,” Shadow asked bending down and wiping the tears with her sleeve.
“Yeah Shadow everything’s just fine unless you count the fact that our father…” muttered Katie. She finally turned her gaze to her younger sister and Shadow understood. Katie was raped several times before this but never in front of her father’s friends. She stood and Shadow embraced Katie in a quick hug and then Katie asked her what happened.

After Shadow had finished retelling her story Katy was fuming. She took a few steps away from Shadow and then turned.
“Shadow come with me,” she said but before Shadow could take even two steps she was racked by a pain that was almost unbearable. She tried not to cry but she couldn’t help it the attack from her father’s dark power hurt too much.

Katie turned in time to see a furious father and a crying sister. What was more disturbing was that Shadow seemed to be enveloped in an aura of water and dark magic. Shadow was bleeding from head to toe and her blood was starting to pool around her. Shadow’s father was smirking down at the girl beneath him. Wasting no time she reached out to her sister and pulled her into an aura of pure energy to both heal and calm her. Picking her up and cradling her she turned and ran as fast as she could from the place she had called home for years. She wasn’t fast enough to ignore the last thing she would hear from her father, “If you interfere in another one of my murders I will kill you,”