Ryoko's Life by Amber Riel (book suggestions TXT) 📖

she was only a child, she knew what they were talking about. She heard them mention her Uncle Ash and Aunt Chealsey. They had been so kind to her and they were teaching Zelda how to treat others with respect and kindness. Russel and Leo shouldn't have been planning to do anything to tear that little family apart.
“You're going tomorrow?” Leo asked.
“Of course.... A good bounty hunter does the job the first chance they get.” Russel looked up at the sky. “Two more stars will be placed in the sky tomorrow night.... Two more people, we don't need.” He took a breath. “I'm going to go.... Your mother hates it when I get home late.”


Ryoko placed her clothes in a suitcase that she had set on top of her bed. The thing that would pop into her head was running away. She made up her mind. She already knew what she was going to do after she snuck out of the house. It was after 10 o'clock at night. Both of her parents were sleeping, prefect time to escape.


Olivia was trying to go to bed, but her father's voice filled the house.
Bobby was furious and Olivia could hear her mother crying. Tears filled the little girl's eyes. She heard boots stomping around over to her bed room door. She rolled over on the uncomfortable, spring mattress that laid on the ground.


A man with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes was standing outside of his daughter's bed room door. He was flaming hot with anger. “OLIVIA!!!” he yelled.
“Bobby,” Cassandra said, crying in pain. “She's sleeping. Please, let her sleep?”
“OLIVIA!!!” Bobby yelled again. He ignored his wife's question. “OLIVIA!!!” After the third time, Olivia hadn't come out of her room, he went to kick the door.
“Bobby, please? She's sleeping.... And you're drunk.”
Bobby was an abusive man. He was ten times worst when he was done drinking. Cassandra feared him no matter what. He kicked the door open and found Olivia facing the wall. He was going to wake her, but for some reason decided not to. He grabbed the door nob, walked out of the room, and closed the door. He walked toward his room.


Olivia sighed in relief. Tears still traveled down her cheek. She wanted to escape from the torture. Escape from the pain. Escape from the abuse. She wanted to be a normal child. The freedom of being a normal child was in her heart and it was a wish that she had.


Magma was asleep in her room, when the door opened. A five-year-old prince walked in and walked over to her bed. The little boy was her little brother and he shook her to wake her up. “Magma,” the boy whispered, “wake up....”
Magma didn't want to wake up. He did that to her every night and she was annoyed by it.
“Magma.... Please wake up?”
Magma rolled over. She tried to ignore him but he didn't stop.
“Please, Magma?”
Finally, Magma gave in. She rolled back over to face her baby brother.  “What do you want, Will?”
“Those monsters that you told me about are back.... I need you to get rid of them for me.”
Magma rolled her eyes. She wanted to go back to bed, while her brother wanted her to get rid of fake monsters.
“Magma.... They're going to eat me.”
“I don't care if they eat you.... Now go to bed.”
“Magma....” Will started crying. “They're going to eat me....”
“Who cares.... Go to bed.”
“But....”
“Fine.... Sleep on my floor.... I'll deal with them tomorrow.”
Will wiped his eyes. “Really?” he asked.
“Yea.”
“Okay.”
Magma rolled back over as Will left the room to go get his blanket and pillow. 'Til Death Do Us Part

Ryoko walked into the woods. She was kind of worn out from walking all night. She decided to stop where she was, placed her suitcase on the ground, and laid down. Her eyes closed and she finally went to sleep.


Ash sat in the chair in the living room, thinking. It was the day. He was hoping this day would never come, but it was here. He knew what was going to happen. He wanted to get Zelda out of the house before Russel showed up. He didn't even want Chealsey in the house, but she didn't want to leave his side. It was the last thing that she wanted to do.
Chealsey walked into the living room. Tears filled her eyes. She walked over to Ash and hugged him. “I'm going to be here with you,” she told him.
“I know, but I really wish you would leave.... Go some where's safe with Zelda.... I don't want anything to happen to you....”
“I know.” Chealsey took one of Ash's hands and held it in her hand. She didn't want to leave her husband's side.


Five hours had passed by. It was 10 o'clock in the morning. Ash was outside and he heard a car driving toward the house. Even though, he couldn't see the car he knew who it was. He ran into the house in fear.


Chealsey dragged Zelda downstairs and hid her in a hole behind the couch. Tears fell out of her eyes and climbed down her cheek. She didn't want to but she had to. It was to protect Zelda no matter what.
“Mommy, what's wrong?” Zelda asked, crying.
“Zelda, I want you to stay here.... Don't move and try to stay quiet.” Chealsey moved away from the couch as Ash walked into the room, holding a sliver sword which looked like a light saver from Star Wars but with a blade. “What's that for?”
Ash looked at his dear wife and he kind of bowed his head. “I'm not going down without a fight.... I'm going to defend you.... My lovely wife.... I'll protect you no matter what.... But I'm not promising anything.... My father's more stronger and more powerful than me.... I fear the worst, Chealsey....”
“I know and I understand.... I won't blame you....”
Someone started knocking on the door. Ash turned to face it. He knew who it was and was ready to fight. “It's time.”


Zelda was so afraid. She heard someone kicking at the door. As she looked out to see what was going on, she noticed the hinges on the door were breaking. The next thing she knew the door wasn't attached to the hinges anymore and Russel had busted in. She never had seen her grandfather so angry. It really scared the child.


Russel had his sword out. He was ready to kill. The rage had shown on his face as he seen the sword in Ash's hands. “You think you can stop me?”
“No.... But I'm going to try.”
Chealsey backed against the wall. She was afraid of what was going to happen.
Russel noticed Chealsey and an idea popped into his head. He knew how Ash loved her very much and would do anything to protect her. He slowly started to circle around Ash. He didn't bother to turn away from Ash.
Ash kept his eyes on Russel. He moved slowly, waiting for Russel to attack, but once Russel was close to Chealsey, his father did something that he wasn't expecting.
Russel kept his eyes locked onto Ash as he grabbed Chealsey's arm, pulled her forcefully over to him and placed his free arm around her, kind of hugging her as he held the sword up to her neck. “I want you to think about this.... If you attack.... Then your beautiful wife is dead.... But I might be nice and let her live if you put the sword down....”
“DON'T DO IT, ASH!” Chealsey cried. “Let him kill me....”
“What's it going to be?”
Ash grew angry. He didn't want to fight his father and he wanted Chealsey to live, but he had to do something. “Let her go.... This is between you and me, dad. She didn't do anything.”
“Oh but she did.... She turned you against me and your brother.... She turned you on your own family.”
“No.... Ash....”
Ash couldn't help it. He was so angry that he went to attack Russel.
Russel moved out of the way, still holding onto Chealsey. “OOPS! You didn't listen.... Now say good bye to your darling, little wife.”
Before Ash could get back up and do anything, Russel took his sword and slit Chealsey's throat. Blood fell to the floor. Russel dropped the dead body as if it were a doll.
Ash grew angrier with Russel, but he was also mad at himself. He let his wife die. How could he? He tried to protect her but failed. Now his sweet, little wife was gone.
Russel shook his head, looking at Chealsey's lifeless body. “What a shame? You should of listened.... Then maybe she would have been alive long enough to watch me kill you, but I had to kill her first.... Well, either way I still win.” He looked over at Ash. “It's your turn.”
Ash didn't care anymore. He wanted to stop Russel before he could do anything else to other innocent people. People who didn't deserve to suffer the same fate. He went to attack Russel but his father blocked the attack.
“So you want to fight?”
They started sword fighting. They blocked each others' attacks until Ash's sword went flying into the wall, leaving him defenseless. Russel smiled as he grabbed Ash's neck.


Zelda looked out and seen her mother's body just lying there dead. She noticed that Russel was holding her father up in the air.


“You should of known better, than to fight me,” Russel told Ash. The anger was growing back into his voice.

 

Zelda watched as Russel took his sword and sliced Ash open from his left arm bringing the sword down to the right side of Ash's waist.  She held her mouth close with her hand.  It was so horrible and tramatizing for a child as young as Zelda to watch.

 

Russel threw the body next to Chealsey's. He knew that now he had to look for Zelda and bring her to Leo, but he decided to go get Leo first.


Zelda watched as Russel left the house and waited before rushing over to the bodies.


Ryoko watched as Russel climbed into the car. “Oh no.... I'm too late,” she told herself. “He already got to them.... Wait.... He didn't have Zelda with.... I hope she's okay.”


Zelda walked over to the bodies of her parents. She knew that they were dead but still tried to wake them up. “Mommy.... Daddy.... Come on.... Please get up?” she asked, crying. She heard someone walking into the house and seen her father's gun. She rushed over and picked it up. Even though, she was only five, she knew how to hold it and held it toward the door. If Russel came back in, she was going to shoot him. To her surprise, it was Ryoko, but she still held the gun up anyways.
Ryoko