32 Chapter 27 - Malignan (1/2)
Medusa tightens her paw a little, then glance back at her mother.
”...” she is doing a mental battle in her head; she is debating whether she should save her or die with them.
On one hand, they are her parents, a child should never turn their back against their parent. However, on the other hand, her parents never loved her in the first place. Why would she sacrifice herself for this broken family? After she has done all the thing she should as a child, the parents might just be an ungrateful asshole and start blaming her for ruining their lives.
”Crawl faster! You stupid b*tch!” The guy that is watching over her yells.
Medusa has act quick now, or else she will be on so much trouble!
She takes a second look at his hand then glance back at her mother one last time; the bites her lip to wake herself up from her save her parents' dream.
She opens her paw and the Matchbox then takes out one match and lights it. Unfortunately, it didn't go off for the first time. Moreover, the match rips into two pieces and totally lost its functionality.
That is like a warning for her that, once she did this she can never go back. It's a point of no return once she really chooses to do so.
”For freedom!” She takes out a second Match and likes it up, then throw it on the wheatgrass bed that she had spent over a decade sleeping on it.
Then she throws the whole Matchbox that is full of matches into the flaming bed. She didn't notice that on the other side of the Matchbox, there's a hand-drawn picture of an ugly woman with a head full of snakes! But she is too focused on the flaming bed, she did not notice the strange picture on the box. After she threw the box into the fire, the flame immediately boosted up a lot more! Before it was a small flame that is dancing around the bed, with a few blows, it will get extinguish; if the flame before was a child dancing, then the flame after Medusa adds the Matchbox is a grown man fighting!
Powerful, terrific, and hot. The fire is like bacteria inside a human's body without any antibiotics; spread rapidly. Her parents and the guys still didn't realize that they are about to get burned alive.
She then walks toward the fire and pick up some of the wheatgrasses and place it all around her room. Since the whole house is made out of woods, except the hallways, that's is a aftermath of mining by her ancestors. She places the wheatgrass on different spots in her room, trying not to miss a single spot. She is trying to add fuel to the fire, and the wooden floor in her room is without a doubt the best choice.
With Medusa's help on spreading the wheatgrass onto the wooden floor, the flame soon rises upon the floor. Due to the huge fire that is burning inside Medusa's room, a large amount of smoke starting to come out.
Medusa covers up her mouth and nose to prevent the smoke getting into her body; she quickly runs to the bathroom and jumps into the toilet.
This toilet is not like the modern time's toilet. It's just a simple hole in the middle of a wood plank. Underneath the plank, there's a big tube, it's used for collecting the waste from this family. Therefore, the smell is horrible. Months of human waste sitting inside one tube. Fortunately, this tube is full with liquid waste, so when Medusa jumps into the tube, no matter how big the fire is, it can't get to her because she submerges into a tube a liquid.
Her father still doesn't have any idea what is going on inside Medusa's room; just sitting in the living room, waiting for his death to come.
”What's that smell?” The guys smell the smokes that are coming out of Medusa's room. Since Medusa's mother is too afraid to pick up her head to look around, so she didn't take the guy's word seriously, she thought that the guy is just making another excuse to humiliate her.
The guy hears no response, he then picks up his foot in anger and kicks her heavily on her butt. However, this time she did not trip over herself because she knows that this guy is going to humiliate her after she didn't reply to what he had said earlier.