Reborn- His Scarlett Moon

In life we don’t always get to choose between right and wrong.

Life often throws us such a curve ball that makes us face situations where we have to choose between right and right or wrong and wrong.

I was literally in a situation like that.

I had the option to turn around and run away or keep walking towards doom itself.

The girl took me towards what looked like a godown and left me at the gate.

” Please keep walking straight inside, miss. You will reach your destination! ”

That place was a visible red flag. It was murky. It was stinking. Though I could not tell the smell. When someone living beside a dump yard says that a place stinks, it should not be taken on a light note.

I cautiously stepped forward moving the net mesh with my hands. I kept walking and walking till my right foot slid on something.

It was very dark so I had to strain my eyes.

A crimson streak on the floor.

I bent down with trembling hands. I needed to confirm my fear. I needed to know if it indeed was blood that I had stepped on.

I brought the two fingers that I had touched the floor with, close to my nose.

It indeed was blood. And now I understood what the rotten smell was all around. Decomposing blood and cells.

Somebody or something was dragging over the ground while they bled.

I could have been very much stamping over a murder place.

” You came! ”

His voice came from behind startling me as his hands touched my shoulders.

I screamed but no sound came out of my mouth.

I saw him track my gaze as I kept looking at him , the blood streak on the floor and my bloody fingers.

” Hhhhmmm! Guess you found out about my little secret! ”

He pulled me onto him and squeezed me between his arms. Then he brought his lips very close to my ears,

” It’s a sign that I cannot let you go out of here anymore! You are staying here. ”

He twisted my arms behind me. It hurt. He pulled me closer as he did so.

It hurt more. But it felt good.

At that exact moment a loud gunshot shook me to my very roots. I clutched his collar and hid my face in his chest.

He held me with one hand and pulled out a gun with the other.

Around seven eight men gathered around him.

” They are here again! ”

One of them said,

I saw him smack his lips.

” It’s going to be a feast! Little one, stay here! ”

He threw me over a chair . I think I saw him and his men pounce forward. Was it on all fours?

I might have been too shocked to start seeing things.

Gun shots and other such sounds with sudden intensity brought back weird memories.

A memory in black and white.

It sent me into a frenzy and I would often see the younger version of my father, running for his life with a baby.

I would see men chasing him in the same manner in which he and his men went pouncing. On all fours. Galloping.

I shook my head and tried looking around the place I was in.

There were several disposable bags laying around, waiting for dumping.

There were a few more chairs apart from the one on which I was sitting.

Some broken and smashed some intact and standing.

Then the gun shots went again.

Realization stuck. It was coming from the direction of my entrance.

I had left Sarah there.

My fear was gone. The monochrome vision of the past faded.

I stood up and kicked the chair as I ran.

I heard it land upside down with a thud in the back.

I shoved everything away as I kept running.

” Sarah! Sarah! ”

I started shouting the moment I reached the clearing.

The beautiful place looked like it was just devastated by the tsunami.

” Sarah! ”

My eyes turned to catch the sight of Sarah struggling in his grip. His gun pressed against her throat. And he was shoving.

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All blood. Some had their heads blast open. Some were bleeding from their hips. But they were all dead and were not moving.

” Let go of my friend! ”

I uttered those words very calmly as I maneuvered on my toe around those bodies. All the while maintaining my eye contact with him. I was afraid I might lose control if I blinked.

” Your friend? ”

I could see him loosen his grip.

Sarah didn’t waste a moment ducking from under him and running straight towards me. I could still see the gun pointing towards me but I ran towards her. Hugged her hard and turned myself towards the point where he was aiming.

I heard his footsteps come towards me.

Suddenly a hand grabbed my feet.

” Water… Water… Save me… Save me please! ”

It was one of the ‘bodies’ that were lying around.

He was one who had his guts popping out but apparently he was still breathing.

Before I could react-

Phew! Phew! Phew!

Three bullets were lodged in perfect synchronization in his head.

Blood gushed out like a fountain as his eyes rolled up and he fell with a loud thud, face first.

A few men came running from all around with the same disposable bag that I had seen loaded back at the dark place.

” Clean the mess up! ”

He was wiping his hand in a towel that one of the men was holding.

The rest got busy, chopping the limbs and storing the humans in those plastics.

I never got very affected with gore. But I saw Sarah getting sick. I held her tight. She was almost about to start puking.

I saw him stare at us through the sides of his eye.

I did not have any intention of angering the beast in front of me. So I grabbed Sarah by the arm and went back inside the dark place .