Chapter 11 - Cursed Child (2/2)

The women began to slap me repeatedly in the face. Every time I thought I was going to pass out she would slap me again asking where her children were.

I managed to use the last of my strength to get out a few words.

”In... the... forest,” I said in a weak voice.

The women had stopped holding me at this point and I had fallen to the ground.

”You just left them in there!” She shouted.

The people around started to complain with words of abuse at me.

”How could he be so heartless”

”They'll be left for the beast's if they stay in there”

”their only children”

Had they forgotten that I myself was a child, or the fact that I had red hair just made them forget that. They already thought of me as a monster and not a child. The truth is these humans were worse then the beast they were so afraid of. They were the real monsters.

The women went and grabbed a nearby wooden plank. She started walking towards me again.

I could tell her intentions. This was not good, she was going to hit me with it. Is this how my life ends. I made another promise to myself that if I got a third chance I would have my revenge tenfold.

The women began to swing the wooden plank towards my face. before it could reach, the plank had been cut cleanly in half, making the plank miss. I looked towards the person standing in front of me. I saw a small boy with curly blonde hair. It was Gary.

My vision went to black and I passed out.

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Just a few moments ago Gary had woken up. He couldn't believe his eyes when he saw that he was still alive with his sister next to him. How did he survive the wolf attack. The last thing he remembered was getting hit by it.

He looked up and could see the village had crowded around Ray. He asked his parents who were standing behind him holding him and his sister.

”What's going on how did I get out of the forest?”

”When we came here, Ray was carrying you and Amy, we can't believe he would force you kids go in there,” His mother said.

”He must have been bullying you kids, why didn't you say anything to us Gary” His father agreed.

His parents had already taken what the other villagers had said as truth. In their mind the words they had said made sense.

But Gary knew they were wrong, it was his idea to go into the forest and hunt beasts. The only explanation he had for this situation was that Ray must have saved them.

He saw that Ray was badly injured with the claw marks across his chest, in Gary's head in just confirmed his thought even more. Why was everyone attacking their saviour? Gary quickly moved away from his parents and unsheathed his sword. As the wooden plank was coming down he made a clean cut right in the middle making the plank miss Ray and hit the floor.

”I will not let anyone harm me and my sister's saviour” Gary shouted.