DARK SHADOW by MYSTERY BROWNS

Ximena happily galloped home from school, she's glad she graduated with high grades and will soon be in middle school. She's working towards her dreams of becoming an automobile engineer, she's promised her parents that she's going to invent an imaginary vehicle for them someday and she's working towards that. Ximena arrived home but sighted something strange, there was a BMW car in front of her house with some dangerous looking men holding big guns all on black with black sunglasses. She frowned sensing trouble, she sneaked through a secret tunnel she built in case there's need for emergency escape. Sneaking through that tunnel, she arrived at her room and then taking off her shoes, she tiptoed to the living room keeping herself out of sight, she maintained a low profile as she finally arrived at the sitting room hiding behind the wall. Ximena almost screamed when she saw her parents tied up with their mouth gaged, a man dressed on all black, with a gun in his hands, he was on glasses with a long hair that cascaded his shoulders, there was a scorpion tattoo by the side of his face. He wasn't alone, he was with four other men looking like those men outside with guns too. "You sold my cocaines and ran away boy, but you see, no one runs away from Alejandro, no one, I will use you to send a message to every other criminal that stole from me." Alejandro laughed Ximena watched everything in tears, she wanted to surface but decided against it, she sobbed silently because she didn't want her parents dead. Her parents cried and she could hear her father muffled sound pleading for mercy but the man on black, shot her parents without mercy, he shot her father 15 times and shot her mother 10 times before her very eyes. Ximena cried pressing her palms to her lips to surpress her voice. "Bring me his head, I love to send warnings." Alejandro ordered "no no no.." Ximena cried, she couldn't watch her father beheaded before her very eyes. A dark skinned taller man on a black t-shirt revealing a tattoo of a bird walked towards her father, he was on a mask but she could vividly see the tattoo on his bicep. He pulled out a knife from his waist belt and separated her father's head from his body. "we're done here, hurry up and move it." Alejandro addressed "They have a daughter Boss." Another man on all black with his hair on a bun informed "Find the b***h and bring me her heart, your reward will be 3 times what you are earning now." Alejandro said to the man who nodded Ximena gasped. "We'll go to her school, Massac, you're coming with me." The bun haired man said to the man who removed her father's head. Ximena watched as some of the men left but some remained incase she comes back home. **** Ximena was filled with anger, pain, sadness, revenge.. So many emotions flooded through her as she rushed towards her room, packed up some little stuffs she might need and then pulled out a small card and gun her father gave her, also her family frame in her small bag. Escaping secretly through the tunnel, she rushed to a hairstylist and requested for a low cut,she changed her hair color from black to bronze and then with a x symbol on it. "Will your parents approve of this haircut for a little girl like you?" the lady asked Ximena left the store for the train station, she bought a ticket as her fingers laced the pendant on her neck. Her parents gave it to her on her 5th birthday, suddenly the tears she's been holding for a long time rushed out of her eyes. Ximena bowed her head and cried her laps, she didn't have any idea where to go but she just wants to save her life and escaping is the only way she could do that. images of her parents brutal killing replayed in her mind again and again, this filled her with extreme anger and pain. "Mama, Papa, why? why did you leave me?" she cried. The train arrived at Mexico city international airport. **** A poor girl's heart filled with pain and sorrow, she was lost with nowhere to go, no place to stay and fear of being killed. Ximena's world crumbled when she thought there was hope, her heart was scared and she couldn't feel any other emotion besides pain and anger, she became bloodthirsty for revenge at that moment. Ximena glanced at the church nearby with disappointment written in her eyes. "God? you said you love the little children, you said you will protect my family, but you lied, you were never there for me! you let them kill my family!" she cried again as her little fingers laced the pendant on her neck. "I love you Papa, Mama." Ximena muttered. She took off the Pendant and after taking a deep breath she opened her bag and took out her family's mini picture frame. she gently caressed her mum and dad in the frame and kissed it, she hugged it close to her chest and something fell off. Ximena frowned as she picked up the piece of paper. Something was wrapped up inside, it's a small golden stuff. Ximena glanced at the small piece of paper on her hand and read the contents in it 'Ximena my child, if you ever get to see this later, I'm sorry if this didn't turn out the way we planned, if you're ever in trouble.. use the money in the card and hurry off to Hawaii. Give this to the Man with blue scar on his face, you'll find him at Honolulu.. He's always at the train station... Tell him I sent you.' Ximena read the contents of the later, she swallowed hard knowing fully well that it is her father's writing "I will avenge you Mama and Papa." Hunger for revenge filled her and to her the next thing to do is to find the man with blue scar...