Chapter 157 - 157.The real story of her past

''Kendra. Kendra... wake up. Quickly! This is the time we can escape. If we don't do it now we won't survive until tomorrow. '' Small voice could be heard from the blurry world.

Kendra slowly opened eyes and saw a small face of a little girl trying to wake her up. ''Fast, we need to leave now.  They are preoccupied now with the big game. Please gather strength an let's go.''

Kendra stood up and started walking with wobbly legs behind her. They crawled behind their backs slowly as their back was filled with cold sweat in fear of someone seeing them.

''Here. Quickly. I finally found a way to open it. You need to go first as I need to close it properly. Go fast.'' The little girl pushed Kendra into as it seems water drainage. But then stale air hit her face.

She dry retched but as she had nothing in her stomach for a while nothing came out. not even bile...

She slowly crawled forward. The deafening silence made her crazy. They promised that they won't speak until they are not completely safe. She pushed herself to crawl further inside. 

Darkness was around her. Not even one sliver of light could be seen. Like a blind person, she crawled between unidentified objects. Her nose has long before stopped functioning. It was filled with unknown dust and she couldn't smell anything. 

She heaved as the heavy air entered her lungs but still she crawled deeper and deeper into darkness. There was nothing there. When she felt tired she slept. She urinated just like that sprawled forward. She coudlnt even turn her body in that tight drainage. She could only go forward.

Few times she tried to whisper but her mouth was so dry that not even one sound came out. Now she was not just blind, she was mute as well. She just hoped that the little girl was following her. If she could just touch her and show her that she is still there, with her... alive.

But she pushed herself to go on...

Kendra felt her strength leaving and her will to survive to leave her small soul. Her breaths became heavier and she slowly fainted. A tiny gush of fresh air floated around her face. 

Her lungs slowly swallowed greedily fresh air as her body started moving. Even tho she felt extremely dizzy but wish to survive just a bit longer kept her pushing further. 

As she went further more and more fresh air could be felt. Now even little wind floated towards her. Sounds of waves and birds could be heard as well. To her, these sounds felt like sounds of heaven.

Soon warmth hit her face but her eyes were still closed. She just coudlnt open them. Like turtle bit by bit, she went forward and slipped outside. 

Suddenly screams could be heard as someone yelled. ''Quickly the chidl still is alive, call an ambulance. Quickly!''

She wanted to slip again into comfortable unconsciousness, but the girl that saved her was not there. She whispered. ''Tthe child behind me, save the child behind me, I beg of you...''

The peopel started screaming around about the other child. They used lamps to lighten up teh darkness in that place, but nothing they could find. Someone shook her a bit and urgently spoke. 

''The child. There is no child. Speak, where can we find it.'' Sirenes could be heard from far away. ''Speak. When the police come this place will be probably closed for a long time, where is the other child.''

''Sir, not only one. Many, there are many there. Follow the pipe. On the end, will you will find them. Please go save them, hurry please...'' The little strength that was left in her escaped and she fell in blissful emptiness.

No fear. No hunger. No pain. No death...

Slowly small sound again started appearing, disturbing her soul's sleep. -No, let me be here. In this dark place, I feel safe and comfortable. Don't send me back to that world of pain and anguish.-

But no one could hear her voiceless pleads. No one could hear her soul screaming to let her stay there.

She was again in the real world. Pulled in without wish to be here. -Why just why I have to be here.-

Her eyes slowly opened and the young woman smiled at her. She could see that the room was white but comfortable. The peopel didn't speak, just smiled at her. 

She stared at them like a wounded animal, ready or to escape or to fight until death. But they didn't do anything to threaten her. They would bring the food that she ate in haste as her eyes darted in surroundings.

Window, there is a window. And the blue sky. She wanted to go and see outside but her body was so heavy. She coudlnt move not even one bit. Did they tie her up like those people?

Her eyes darted down and saw that her body was free. But why can't she move?

She scrunched eyebrows and moved one hand. And the other as well. Well she used them before, they work, but why the legs were so heavy. So heavy...

She laid back and stared at the piece of blue sky through the window. But what hit her was not teh blue sky, it was little bird that tried to make a nest in the corner near the window.

She would bring all kinds of straws and twigs, trying to intervene them together, but gusts of wind would blow them away. But that little bird didn't give up. It came, again and again, fearlessly, stubborn, with the goal to make her home, right there.

One of teh nurses wanted to go to teh window but the young doctor stopped her. ''Let her watch and learn. She needs this transit to the real world after everything she went through. That little bird is like her. Fighting for even small bits of life. Wanting to build a new home. What is wrong with that?''

The main nurse nodded. ''This girl will come out of the bed when the birds get chicks and fly out. She will send them away. so this little bird needs to succeed.''

So the bird came again and again. After a while, the birdhouse started adding up. The size became bigger and bigger and then she made it into a small house, completely covered with dry stalks and grass. Now even strong wind could do nothing to the bird. 

Soon one more bird joined in, chirping and singing now anD then. Kendra felt her strength coming back bit by bit. Her legs she could slowly feel them again. Doctors still smiled at her and patted sometimes her head. The nurses would occasionally kiss her forehead and pat her cheeks, but would not say one thing.

One day she could see many small heads peeking at her from a small house. She smiled at one jumped out of the house and came on the window and knocked with a beak on it. The sound scared it so the bird hopped back into the safety of the little house.

His actions brought a little chuckle out her mouth and smile spread over the whole face. Nurses looked from the window in the hallway and had to agree that this child was just so cute when it smiled. 

Few days later all teh birdies started running by the window preparing their wings to fly. The moment tehy started flapping their wings Kendra knew that they were ready to go. She slowly put down her feet on the ground and with wobbly feet went to the window. 

As she got closer the birds started preparing to fly off. One of the big birds flew around them and as it seems gave them instruction, while the other stood there and poked their wings. It seems he wanted to make sure that their wings will work.

She arrived at the window and concentrated on the birdies. Now she already knew the difference between them She could recognize each one of them. She pressed her little face on the window to look at them and one by one jumped into dept and opened their wings to fly.

The last one was actually the one that came out of the house first. It seemed he was nervous and scared.

Kendra slowly opened the window and put her hand out. ''Come here little bird.''

The little bird looked at her for a moment and then hopped into her hand fearlessly. ''Why are you so scared. Your family is waiting for you. Just open your wings and join them. When you have time visit me... mhm?''

The little bird seemed to understand her words jumped bit around her hand and snuggled for a moment inside. Then it stood up to spread its wings a couple of times and jumped off her hand.

Her heart stopped for a second as she saw the little bird falling down but soon it opened its wings and started flying around just like its parents and siblings.

It flew further and further away and as her eyes followed it flight she realized that the world outside is beautiful. the green trees and mountains from one side, the blue see sparkled on the other side.

She closed her eyes and felt the same feeling like at that time... The little girl's face came in front of her eye and her heart started hurting badly. She started dry heaving as she fell on the floor and lost consciousness.

She woke up again. it was night and her room was quiet. She didn't like it, the silence. She looked around and saw the nurse button and pressed lightly.

Slowly the door opened and that young nurse came in and looked at her with a smile. Kendra smiled back and opened her mouth under the stunned eyes of the little nurse. ''I don't wish to be alone now. can't you stay a little bit with me?''

''No problem, just let me tell the main nurse where I am. I don't want her to look for me. If you want I will stay with you the whole night. '' When she saw Kendra smiling at her and nodding she stormed out the room and run to the nurse's office.

'''Why are you running? Something happened?'' The main nurse was actually a nice person but the main rule in hospital, no running except in an emergency.

''That child spoke. She doesn't nat to be alone. Can I stay with her all night?'' 

''No problem. Only in a real emergency, we will call you out, but looking at quiet night, I do not think we will need you so badly. I can handle the rest of your work. Just be with that child. But slowly, slowly and carefully. '' The head nurse accepted her request and sends her with small nagging to the room.

She entered the room and that day actually changed her life. 

The main doctor saw that the girl accepted the nurse in her room and set new rules for both of them. She learned new things she used later on in her long practice as a doctor of psychology. She was the only real friend that the girl had in her life. 

Later, much later they told her the truth. Whole truth. She lost her memories about that place, the only thing she remembered was that pair of eyes and a comforting smile that girl gave her as she pushed her to enter that escape route.

It seems at that time when they send her to the hands of that monster he already had a ring of other monsters with him. They would do so many atrocities against children, but couldn't do anything to her. As she was officially his child and social services visited his house from time to time. 

But one day he came with the announcement that he got a new job and they will leave for a new town. He never actually treated her neither good or bad, he was just feeding her and dressing her and never got close to her. But the whole time she felt deep fear from him. 

How they found out about her first part of life was obvious. He spoke of it with a crazy smile on his face. When she saw a reportage of his testimony, she felt nothing. Luckily she never regained the memories, but fear of that man was so deep in her that she could never really get in deep relationship with anyone.

Even after they just used her, she never hated them, she just felt emptiness.

The group of people was going so wild trough whole country. They stole children, experimented on them and then torture them to death. Her adoptive father was a scientist and a sadist. He would use their bodies to make tinctures based on old medical scripts he found somewhere. 

But the problem was not even he. The problem laid mostly on his associates that used the scared children for their perverted fantasies when he was not around. As children always screamed he never noticed it.

But one day one of his coworkers noticed Kendra in his house and kidnapped her. With his satanic laugh, he brought her to see what her adoptive father did to other children. She puked and fainted many times but he would just wake her up and continue.

Soon her adoptive father came as well and saw her there in hands of that man. He didn't say anything as he stuffed the child in one of the cages and heaved her to the sealing.

No matter how much she pleaded and cried he just continued to do his experiments. He left after a long time the laboratory and the associates crowded under the cage and poked her with sticks. Then they lowered the cage and when they wanted to get her they got punished.

She jumped out and saw two scalpels on nearby table and when they caught her, she sliced their hands, their faces and their bodies with it until they bled to death. 

Her face and body was covered with blood, so scary that the coworkers that rushed to help those two doctors got scared. ''Open the cages.'' They feared that she would attack them as well so they started opening hundreds of cages containing all sorts of children.

Luckily most of them still had some strength and started attacking the few men in the laboratory. Then they found on their bloody bodies keys and opened the outside doors and run out.

Most of them successfully escaped but Kendra saw many children still in cages, wringing in pain so she and group of other children started getting them out and trying to help them escape this bloody place.

Unfortunately, group of people barged in and caught them. Her adoptive father saw the mess and ordered an immediate transfer to a new place. The children were stuffed in big trucks and driven to the new location and since then new torture started every day. 

Only Kendra was bound like a dog and had chains on her hands, feet and neck. After a while, she stopped eating as she coudlnt see the atrocities that were going on in that place and started to wither. 

They felt that she was no more treat and just gave her less food and water to keep her just enough alive to survive. With time they released the other children as well and let them sleep together but would occasionally drag some of them an then drop their bloody body back. Kendra would then use that little bit of water to give them and try to care for them.

Before she left the little girl heard that police actions got stronger and that they were under the visor of their investigations. They planned to get rid of everyone. So one by one the children were taken away and never brought back.

No matter how much Kendra fought for each one of those children to stop them they would just kick her until she was unconscious and then drag the child away under her teary eyes.

On the end, just the two of them were left. What Kendra didn't know was that they left the two of them last and told her adoptive father that they already killed her and buried her somewhere, so he didn't know her fate until later.

The little girl was already dying, she could feel that, so she did all to save Kendra and stuff her into that drainage. Soon after Kendra went in she closed that place and pushed heavy closet over the entrance.

When those men came and didn't see Kendra their rage was released on the little girl that shortly after that died from their torture. 

After those saviors of hers found her and tracked back the waterway they found inside mountain huge old bomb shelter. Inside they found all evidence of their wrongdoings and the story about an only child that survived hit the world.

Later on, she got new identity but kept her first name. 

With time some time a bits of her memories came back, but those from that time never. But the stories of those men was enough for her to know that it was good she never remembered.

Many families offered her to adopt her, but she denied them all after that time. She worked hard for the rest of her life always remembering two important things, the girl's eyes and her courage to help her and that bird's determination to build that nest, her chicks and then the small birds resolve to jump and start a new life.

Her eyes opened as her dream disappeared. She now has a new life, new resolve and people that loved her.

She opened her window and jumped on her cloud to fly higher and higher into the sky. This time she will punish them all. She has the possibility to become even stronger. Feeling the need to protect this save heaven gave her strength and resolve to get a new goal.

Become stronger than deities and Gods and become one...