Enchained

A New Life

" He thought it was hell..... oh how he didn't know that it was just a beginning"

3rd POV:

He opened his eyes in an unfamiliar place that was filled with the children of his age, and both older than him and younger than him.

They all had pale bodies, their bones visible through their rib cages covered in dust and dirt.

He looked around panicked but found no escape route, he was trapped.

His mind registered the events that occurred before he fell unconscious and he fell on the ground clutching his chest and crying his heart out. His parents were murdered and he was kidnapped to this weird place, all alone with nobody to care for him or protect him.

"Hey there fatty, are you new here?" a group of boys approached him. He felt a little anxious but he wanted to talk to someone to know where he was.

"Do you know where I am?" he looked at the group of boys with hopeful eyes.

Instead of an answer, he got a sharp slap on his cheek which made him fall to the ground.

"Don't ask the questions before answering ours", one of the boys spat.

He held his stinging cheeks in his small hands, stunned by their behavior. No one ever did talked to him in loud voice, let alone hurt him.

He missed his parents badly at the moment.

"Oh look at the pig, crying. Do you need your mama to wipe your tears", one of the boys said while kicking him in the stomach.

And before he knew everyone started hitting him with blows, punches, kicks till he was covered in bruises and blood and left him there alone.

But that was just the beginning of his miseries.

He was made to wake up early in the morning and sent to mines to carry heavy sacks of coal on their back. All day he would continue working with other children and at night he would be served with dinner if you could call it that. It consisted of a dry bread and a glass of dirty water but he would seldom get to eat it since the same group of the boys would ruin his dinner by steeping on it and beating him afterward.

His nights were filled with gasps and tears, missing his parents and complaining to God, what did he do to receive this kind of fate?

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Two years passed just like that, being tortured and abused.

He was 20 know but he has a body of an early teenager because of lack of nourishment and proper food.

He came to know during his time there, that it was a camp for potential slaves that were to be sold if someone buys them.

He had heard a lot of stories how some of the salves died, unable to bear the torture of their masters. There were some whose life got better because their owners were kind but that possibility was one in a million. He was already miserable in the camp but the thought of being owned by a cruel owner scared the wits out of him.

His content of not being sold was short lived as he was delivered the news in the morning that he was sold and would be sent to his owner by tonight.

The news brought down chills down his spine.

He kicked, whimpered, tried to struggle against the people dragging him towards the car but he was weak compared to these giants.

All his attempts at resistance failed and now he was being carried to an unknown destination where who knows how many unknown horrors await for him.