The Lone Wolf

“AHHHH, NOOOOOO”. My mothers heart wrenching screams woke me up, making me jump out of bed. I hear things being thrown around the house, smashing on walls and scattering over the floor. I head towards my bedroom door, the lights still out and the rooms in total darkness. Before I can grab the handle, it flings open, hitting me and knocking me to the ground. My head is splitting and I can barely see through my blurred vision from the impact. I try to focus my eyes on the dark figure standing in front of me. I can’t make out who it is. He mumbled something in a deep manly voice before grabbing me by the hair and trailing me out of my room and down the stairs. “STOP”, “let me go, you are hurting me” I scream. I can still hear my mother crying, it sounds like she’s begging for her life. “Who are you” I demanded him to tell me. But he did not answer. I can feel my hair ripping out of my head as he continues to pull me down the hall and into the sitting room. He throws me on the wooden floor with force. I look to my right and can see my mother covered in her own blood. There are two other men, one holding my mother down, and the other beating her. “NOOOO, LEAVE HER ALONE” I yell at them hysterically. “LEAVE HER THE F##K ALONE”. ‘BANG’. The man who had me by the hair punched me in the face, knocking me out. I must’ve been out for a few minutes because when I opened my eyes, I had been dragged outside. I realised that there were lots of these men, easily over a hundred. They are all wearing matching dark clothes, almost as if they were members of a cult. They had my whole village lined up on the street with their hands tied behind their backs. I see my mother. “MUM” I scream. She looks back at me barley able to keep her head up. She looks so beaten I am shocked at the sight of her. One of the men in black is dragging her towards the line of tied up people from my village. I feel huge hands grip my hair again and trail me towards my mother. He throws me down and ties my hands behind my back with rope. All I can hear is screaming and crying. I look around and see people getting battered with fists, metal poles, and other objects. There are even children covered in blood begging for there lives. What is going on I think to myself. What is happening?