Captured

(Amelia) 

I jumped up on my bed when I heard a loud howl. The piercing noise woke me up from my sleep and now my heart was beating so fast, I thought that I was about to pass out. 

Mom chose that moment to burst into my room, in a panic state. 

"They found us, I can't believe they found us after I was running for so long. We have to try to find a way out of here hunny, we have to leave!" I was now worried. I didn't understand why Mom was acting like that, nor did I have the time to pack a couple of my things. 

The only thing that I could take with me was my phone and the damn device was about to die. 

"Mom, I'm scared. Who's after us?" I asked as I ran after her. 

"No one for you to worry about, Amelia. Just do as you are told and let's get the hell out of here." Knowing that I wouldn't get an explanation from her, I kept quiet until we made it safely to the jeep. 

"I want you to duck and hold on tight, this will be a bumpy ride." I nodded my head and did as Mom said. The howls kept on getting closer, realizing the imminent danger that we were in, Mom stepped on the gas and started driving as fast as she could. The darkness of the night was proven to be difficult for her to see, but she tried because she wasn't a coward. 

I kept a firm grip plastered on the seat trying to hold on for dear life. The road was a bit bumpy, so I couldn't stay still, no matter how hard I tried. 

I looked up at Mom, trying to figure out the look on her face as she cursed and stepped on the gas even harder. The jeep immediately came to a screeching halt and I plunged forward, hitting my body on the dashboard, resulting in a loud thud. I groaned and started massaging my head, which was starting to hurt immediately.

Mom's curse was still going, but it got quiet too quiet I might add. She took a deep breath and turned to me. 

"I'm sorry if I failed you hunny, I tried. Please remember that I tried…" She didn't get to finish her sentence as she was ripped from the jeep while releasing a blood-curdling scream that made my blood run cold. 

I kept quiet, not knowing what to do as I heard footsteps coming closer. Maybe, this is how I will die, I just hope that it's a quick death. 

The door to my side was ripped off completely and a man I didn't know knelt so that we were face to face. He smiles at me, showing off his dimpled cheeks. At any other time, I had thought that he was handsome, but the dead look in his eyes told me that he was not one to mess with. 

"That bitch mother of yours thought that she could get away, I admit that she evaded us quite well before, but her powers had gotten weak making it easy for us to find you." The man said, making me tremble from fear and question his sanity. Powers? What is he talking about?

"Oh, your mother didn't tell you? Too bad. The king wishes to collect what's his, and I'm here to deliver. Come with me." He smirks once more before dragging me out of the jeep by my hair. 

He was hauling me towards a black SUV and that's when I started to struggle, but the grip on his hair was too painful as he tightened his hold on it. 

"Where is my mother?" I asked, trying my best to locate her, but there was no trace of her. It was like she vanished in thin air. 

"Don't worry your pretty little head about that." He replied in a menacing tone, making me shiver a bit from fright. 

Once he pushed me inside the SUV, he got in and that's when I realized that there was also a driver present, which dimmed my luck just a little. I could have escaped once I was inside, but with the driver here, he immediately locked us in, which hindered any form of escape. Another howl was heard, and I could have sworn that I saw wolves, but I could be wrong.

I sighed, knowing that I was in for yet another bumpy ride. I can't help but wonder what my mother did and why she was associated with these people in the first place. What exactly was she running all these years? 

I would have voiced my questions, but the look that was sent my way scared the crap out of me, so I kept quiet. After all, I was dealing with lunatics here. They believed that my mother has powers, one I don't know where they got that idea from, and two, she would have told me such important information. 

I've never heard of anyone else having powers. My world is filled with mortals so it was not heard of. I scoffed, knowing that I shouldn't waste my time thinking about such pointless things when I'm being taken to god knows where. With my mother nowhere to be done, I wondered if she was alright. During my worrying stage, I found myself shaking my legs, as I always have when I overthink things. Then, it was on to me biting my nails until I felt the satisfaction of having a piece of it inside my mouth. 

It seems as if my kidnapper has had enough already since he started to scream at me.

"Will you stop that? Your overthinking is giving me a damn headache!" I cringed from the sheer sound of his voice, which had gone up a notch just from screaming. 

"If you hadn't taken me, then you wouldn't have anything to worry about," I replied, making the driver laugh a little. 

"It's not funny fucktard, it's not like I have any other choice. I was given an order by the king to retrieve you the easy way or the hard way, I chose the hard way since your slut of a mother kept on disappearing on us." He grunted and narrowed his eyes at me. 

"So shut the fuck up, we have a long journey ahead of us. If you so much as think I'm going to kill you and make sure that your soul ends up in hell where it belongs." Wow, he definitely can talk a lot. I did what he said and kept quiet. No use talking to someone that ignorant. 

As the kidnapper said, it was a long journey. It took almost the entire night to arrive at our destination. I could already tell that it would soon be sunrise from the way the sky tainted its orange, yellow, and red glow. I sighed as I looked out the window of the SUV and started thinking about my mother once more. 

She was so scared that these people had found us that she ran in the early hours of the night. Her escape had been for nothing because they had caught us, and now I was being shipped off to somewhere I had no idea of. 

I would have asked the man who took me, but he had long fallen asleep. I peeked at the driver who had been throwing me glimpses in the rearview mirror and rolled my eyes. There was no way for me to talk to him without waking up the sleeping devil next to me, and I doubted that he would answer my questions since he was on a payroll. 

It's a good thing I wasn't blindfolded, and I was able to take in the scenery as we drove by. As minutes passed by, The sun was already peeking up, letting me know that it was going to be a hot day and an exhausting one since I hadn't slept at all. 

I groaned knowing that I had to travel for so long, something that had never happened before. I had bigger things to think about, though, like what they were going to do to me when we arrived at wherever they were taking me. 

Were they going to keep me as a prisoner? Torture me? God forbid, rape me? I shivered at that thought knowing that there was a possibility that all three questions would be the correct one. 

"We are nearing our destination." The driver said, letting the devil himself wake up from his slumber. 

"That's good. Time to meet your master witch." I glared at him, but he only smirked in return. If it were any other time, I would have told him to wipe the drool from t

he side of his face. But since he took me, I'd use that as a payback.