Temple Terror

After going uphill for a while, I was suddenly held by my upper arms and lifted off the ground.

"What is going on? Let me down!" I screamed. I flung a random kick and managed to hit someone. As soon as I escaped and touched the ground, I started running into the direction I was facing; but unfortunately, I was caught again very soon. This time, instead of lifting me up, they forced me to lay down still on a soup of snow and wet dirt. My my wrists were held tightly and put together on my back.

While one of the men -probably the stronger one, Mr. Ulvi- was holding me on the ground, the other one was busy with something else. I was hearing sounds that most likely belongs to wooden objects.

I tried my chances again, and tried to fling a kick upwards. I ended up hitting nothing. Learning from my reckless attempt, the vicious man pressed on my legs with one of his own. I had no room to move now.

I screamed as loudly as I could. There was nothing else I could think of. But this time, no one seemed to mind my screaming.

When the man finally got off my back, a heavy, thick wooden stick was lowered on my body. They held my hands again and tied them on my back. The rope (or whatever) they were using was hurting me, probably abrading and cutting through my skin slowly.

"Curse you!" I yelled. "You will never be forgiven! I won't forgive you, and neither will your false spirits or the stupid temple!"

"Shh." said The Old Man, and that was it.

I was put into an upright position with the stick lifting me up. My feet couldn't reach the ground.

"I hope the entire village collapses on you! Crazy, blood-thirsty creatures!" I kept screaming.

And finally, my legs were tied together, although not too tightly. I wasn't going to be able to run anyway.

I was hearing some sounds in front of me. Things were being thrown around, mostly wood again.

"DOCTOR! DOCTOR!"

"Doctor said that he will meet you in hell, little-." Mr. Ulvi said.

"Ulvi!" The Old Man angrily warned him.

"Sorry." said Mr. Ulvi.

They continued throwing stuff around.

I gave up trying to shout and began trying to get rid of the ties around my wrists and ankles. I moved around as much as I could, and forced my hands outwards with all my power. But I could only do this for a very short time, because my hands started hurting really badly as I forced them on the rough, harmful material.

Something happened that made my heart skip a few beats. A fire was ignited just in front of me!

I was in panic. My thoughts were frozen solid in an instant. The only thing inside me was pure, unaltered, simple fear. Truly the purest form of it!

Fortunately, it didn't take me very long to recover from the shock.

Since the ties on my ankles were relatively loose, I tried getting rid of them this time. But just like my previous attempt, it was useless. I could move my feets around a bit, but that was it. I couldn't get my feet through the loops to escape.

After I began losing all my strenght, I focused on my surroundings again and noticed something. There were no sounds anymore. I couldn't figure out where the two men was.

"DOCTOR!" I screamed. No one was there to say something to me, or simply cough or grunt.

I was left alone. The sharp cold on my back and the frightening heat ahead were the only things there was.

If I were to escape, now was the best time. The only time.

I tried throwing myself to the sides in a hope to disturb the stick's balance and fall sideways onto the ground. This way, maybe I could drag myself on the ground and travel away. I wouldn't know where to go, but did it really matter that much? Anything would be better than staying here.

I began falling, not sideways but forwards, directly onto the fire! This... This thing was intended to go that way!

"Curse all of you!" I shouted.

Just before I hit the ground, a strong wind came out of nowhere, with a large mass of snow flying from one side to another. The incredible heat quickly disappeared, and I landed on the soft, thick layer of snow. It still hurt a lot, but the outcome was more than a thousand times better than my expectations.

This was too good to be sheer luck. It was almost like something was protecting me. I thought that, yet I didn't think of it too much.

The stick on my back was broken apart, and I was free. Some rope was stuck around my left wrist, but at least it wasn't tied to anything anymore.

The first thing I did was getting back on my feet and removing the sack on my head, letting me see things with my own eyes.

There was something wrong - I was only seeing through my left eye. I, fearfully, brought my hand to my right eye. There was blood coming out of it. Not long after, it started hurting.

"Curse! Be cursed! Your village shall burn to ashes!" There was no way for me to calm down anymore.

I looked around with my healthy eye. There were stone columns around me, with walls filling the space in between. The lower half of these walls were stone, the upper half were wooden. But some of the walls were incomplete, and there was no roof. Snow was getting inside.

On the complete part of the walls, there were lots of colorful stones of various sizes. They were beautiful, yet beauty was the last thing I would see or care about right now.

"Your temple is as ugly as you are." I said. "No wonder dad didn't ever bring me here."

Looking outside of the building, and further ahead, I could see Yuvakaya village at the lowest part of the slope. The other way was leading to the top of the neighboring mountain.

"I hope you all die in this very temple of yours!"

I didn't stay there for long. I got away from the site and ran in a random direction. My eye was hurting, my hands were hurting, and my legs were hurting; but I managed to go far away before I was defeated by the nature and fell on the snow.

I was feeling sleepy in the cold, and I had no power left to resist.

But in the distance, I could see a few silhouettes. Some people were running towards me. I lifted my head for a last time.

"Doctor?"

A man in white and red clothes were leading a team of soldiers this way.

I dropped my head and closed my eyes.