Chapter 8: Aura

Now that I can speak, I can probably talk to people on how to find Neyeo. The problem is, that if I am in human territory than it might be a problem. Judging by Williams friend, Humans here aren’t so friendly to Demons. But who knows with any luck I can find her village quickly. I wonder if it’s okay to take her back to that village. It might be dangerous for her.

“Aura do you like your village.” Aura gives another fierce nod at his question.

“everyone is really nice!! We like monster ya know!! Hmhmh!!”(Aura) The little girl excitedly says nodding her head all the while.

“They like monsters? Haha then maybe I should live there. haha” Mun jokingly says.

“No no!! Mr mimic has to save people, he can’t settle down in one place.” Aura started to frantically tell Mun of his obligations as a hero. Even the cold hearted mun can’t help but want to smile at the little girl’s actions. But if he were to smile it would surely terrify her.

Look at the Aura talking about her village made Mun wonder, why she is over here with a group of strangers with a strange collar around her neck. That is to say that, if Mun does find Neyeo village will Aura be able to return to that friendly place she has known all her life or will she find a ghost town that has been raided by thieves.

“Why are you so far from home Aura” Mun asks to know if it is possible that Neyeo has been destroyed.

The child that only a moment ago was brimming with smiles, now had her head laying low and small little tears began to trickle down her eyes.

“I was kidnapped. My mom and dad were attacked, but dad is suuper strong.” She started to tell her story. Deep down, she has wanted for someone tell this story to. But she has had no one by her side for two whole months. In that short time, she had witnessed things that no child should ever be forced to bear witness to. She wanted to get this off her chest, no she had too.

She tells Mun that the town is definitely safe. The raiders ran away after she was kidnapped. The raiders out a slave collar on her and her friend from the village, who was also taken. They put them in a cage and didn’t feed them very well. She and her friend had no one to talk to but to each other.

The two girls were forced to wear extremely short clothing that barely covered their small bodies, Aura didn’t think much of that, after all cloth was expensive and no one would buy a good set for slaves. But Mun thought differently, he doesn’t have the innocent mind that Aura has, and the moment he heard the short clothing.

“Did they do anything to you Aura.” Mun out two tendrils on her shoulders, Aura was a bit startled about how serious his voice sounded. She nodded. They hit her every time she would cry and every time she would complain about more food. Mun obviously had another idea in mind and was glad that she got away with a simple beating. In Muns mind there worse things in this world then just physical abuse. The wounds that cannot be done with a belt are still deeply imprinted into his mind. Every moment, every second, every hand, Mun remembers it all as if it were just an hour ago. Those memories always permeate the back of his mind. So for he who has felt such abuse, he is glad for Aura.

She continued, her tears fell as she recalled the memories. Despite Muns hatred for humans, children were special, to change the world like hope had wanted he Joined a special force that specially searched for people who abused children. This was Muns job. He knows how to talk to children in such circumstances. So with his knowledge he continuously tells Aura that she doesn’t need to say anymore, but aura continues she wants to tell Mun, she trusts him.

“Do you think we will eat today”(Yeo) Yeos friend asked.

Bshl!! The doors to the dark room they were held in opened up, yells from all around could be heard.

“You fucking bastard!! Do you know who I am!!”(Voice) a man yelled at the top of his lungs. The Slavers made him no mind, just another slaves ramblings after all. Many often screamed of their connections to scare of the slavers, but when all was said and done they were almost always lies, and when someone did come they would swiftly be taken care of.

Today the slavers brought a young girl, around 15. Her hair was ragged and her arms are full of scars. The aura, locked in her cage, could do nothing but shut her eyes at the scene.

“Don’t close your eyes!!”(Girl) The girl screamed at the top of lungs.

“They like it when you look scared!!”(Girl)

“Shut the fuck up!!” A slaver punches the young girl in the stomach and kicks her into the cage.

With that the slavers left.

“Girl.”(Girl) the girl called out to aura.

“You’re a demon right? I can tell by the shape of your eyes.” All though it is not legitimate proof. The eyes of many demons glisten in the darkness.

“Yes” The frightened Aura responded.

“Look at these scars girl” Aura nodded but the other girl was a human how could she know that Aura was nodding.

“these weren’t made by my master.”(girl) Aura looked at the girls deep scars and didn’t understand. If they were not done my her master than who made them?

“I made these. If you are lucky your master won’t touch you if you have these scares. ”(Girl) Aura is to innocent to understand the conversation. Touch? Does that mean her master won’t hit her if she does it herself? Aura is to scared to do it herself she would rather haver her master hit her.

“Other demon girl. You listen too.” She called out to Yeo.

“Scars!!”(Girl) She yelled.

“Only the scars can protect you, only the scars can protect you!!”(Girl)

“its scary at first, but if you don’t have them it’s a lot scarier.” (Girl) The girl began to tremble and held her body close to itself.

“I can’t!! I can’t!! not anymore!! Little girl, don’t be like me!! Be braver be stronger!! I can’t I can’t!! not anymore not anymore!!”

The slavers heard the commotion and open the doors, blinding most of the residents.

“What the hell!! Shut the fuck up!!”(man) The man yelled out. That is when he saw it. The large dagger in the girls hands, she had somehow smuggled it in.

“We got a runner!!”(Man) He yelled as he ran towards the small cage, but it was to late. The girl had already begun to stab herself. 1, 2, 3, 10 times in total, she managed to stab herself.

“Get the healing potions!! Now!!”(Man) Then within one of the cages an old mans voice could be heard laughing at the whole ordeal.

“HAHAHA. That is one lucky bitch. Haha, let her die it wouldn’t be worth saving her anyways. haha”(Old man) His words may have been cruel, but to the dying girl in a pool of her own blood, she couldn’t help but muster a few words in response.

“Thank you.” The old man couldn’t here these words but even so she said them. The old man had been a slave for a good chunk of his life, he knows how to behave he knows what to do not to be hit. What he just said would most likely get him a beating, in fact they may end in his death, he is an old man after all he can’t take much more abuse. Despite that he still spoke out. Soon after some other slaves started to speak out.

“Let her die!! Hahaha, what good is she to you!!??? She is just a bitch you can find another one hahaha!!” Aura didn’t understand some of what was said but she understood some human tongue and knew that those words were cruel, why where these men being so cruel?

There was a reason. The old man and the others who spoke out had in common. There was one thing that tied all of them, they were, are, all fathers. As they yelled those powerful insults some couldn’t help but cry in their small cages.

“After that” Aura continued to cry as she spoke.

“those guys you saw me with bought me. They are with another larger group. I was with them for a couple of days and they took me into the cave. Slaves like me are sometimes used as what I they called a e head start.”(Aura)

Mun wants to hug her, but in his current form he can’t do such a thing. Aura is lucky to not have been bought my one of those people, Mun thought. Instead she was bought by people who wanted to use her as insurance of the encountered a monster to strong from them. In the end they died trying to get her back, A bit of poetic justice, perhaps.

Just as Aura finished her tragic story, her eyes began to shine bright. She runs up closer to Mun.

“Mr. Mimic can you save my friend!!”(Aura) She asks with pleading eyes, hoping that Mun will say yes. Mun listened to her request and began to think about it for several moments before answering.

“I don’t think I am strong enough to save her, and she might have been sold already.” Immediately, Aura’s downtrodden face returned. She understands that not just anyone can break into a slaver camp and save someone, not even her dad can do such a thing.

“Okay”(aura) said as she hung her head a bit low. Mun, of course, wants to help but he can’t, it is to dangerous. But then.

What if I get stronger. If I level up a couple times I might be able to run in and run out, no problem. Those slave collars are pretty easy to break, so why not. I’ll just need to make sure to break it fast enough.

“Okay, I’ll help. Do you know the way back to were she was?” Mun asked, he knows that if she has already been sold, than it will be impossible to find her, but with this small chance it will do.

“Really!!”(Aura) Aura excitedly jumped up and down the stupendous news.

“yes I know the way back, I remember!!”(Aura) She said as she started to skip through the forest, Mun quickly sends a tendril and grabs Aura by the collar.

“ Now now, its dangerous around here, stick close this time.” Aura nodded as Mun gently put her back on solid ground.

“This way! This way!!”(Aura) Even aura knows that if they don’t make it in time it will be difficult to ever find Yeo again.