The Shade of Revenge

Once upon a time lived a widow and her sixteen year old daughter, Tina deep in the forest on a small piece of land. The widow and her daughter were removed from development. The only sound they would hear was rain thunder, and the sound of wild animals. At times the forest was as silent as a vacuum, that one could hear a mosquito or a fly from a mile away and as dark as a curse. It was not too long ago after the widow was recovering from the death and moaning of her husband. Several mornings and nights went by. It was during summer midnight Tina was catching fresh air as usual close to a flatten hill where she always sat and listen to her thoughts all night long.

 That night luck had unburdened her, she was caught up in the moment as death and as mute as she was. Three man possessed by temptation and driven by evil visions were having a chat and smoking a bit of weed in the forest, and sharing past stories of how they had raped and tortured their victims, but they lived on the edges of the forest. Peter was the youngest of them all, well known as the hunter. Pole and Thomson were the same age. I remember very well, said peter, “I watched her walk from the saloon towards the end of light into the darkness, I then followed her and grasp her from the back, I then knocked her out and tired her up. She remained unconscious for several minutes, I dragged her deep into the forest. Raping her felt like I was writing a script”.

 “You are the man, no wonder they call you the hunter”, said pole with his hands rubbing his shoulder. Thomson stood up quietly and evacuated his presence, he walked at about 50 meters north in the same direction Tina was stationed, when Thomson turned all he could see was a white reflection in a nearby distance. In the blink of an eye Thomson turned back to inform his peers on what he had just saw. After informing his peers, they all marched in same the direction leading them to Tina. They surrounded her, with Peter in front of her, Pole on the side and Thomson behind her. Tina had no way out, instead she stood still with shock and vibrations all over her body. They moved slowly in a motion engulfing her.

 Tina was at a disadvantage, the man power was just too much for a 16 year old girl to accommodate. Two of them would hold her down while the third one does best out of his profession as they gave each other turns. The pain became greater and more intense and painful for Tina to absorb. The only sound that came out from her was the “mmmm mmhh”, because she was mute ever since birth. As the pain increased the Mhmmmmh sound started fading away, Mhmmmmh” ‘Mmh ‘Mh’ till her final breath. They raped and sodomized her extremely and left her for dead and departed from the crime scene. Hours went by the widow felt asleep, but she had a feeling something was not right but she ignored her thoughts. She slept and woke up but still no signs of Tina, her worrying levels where now enhancing from core to an extended level.

 She collected pieces of courage and decided to go looking for her, but it was pointless as it was very dark and yelling out her name will make no difference hence she could not find her. The widow walked home desperately and slept unwillingly. The next morning she woke up very early in search of her precious daughter just to find her lying in a pool of blood with her clothes toned apart. She could not believe her sight, she felt on her knees and pulled her daughters head next to her chest. Her smile become bitter it was as if sympathy had walked pass by her during birth. “I will avenge your death, I will not rest until I pill of the skin and castrate whoever is responsible for your death, I promise you” she said, with an angry tone!

 The Rapist thought they were doing the right thing, but what they did not know was that they were inviting trouble into their lives, and not so long after they become celebrities of torture and vegans. Days after days the widow had been patient, she could no longer wait to avenge her daughter’s death as time was not on her side. She was one of the bravest daughters of her father during the late 90s. The widow’s father was a hunter and he had trained his daughters’ to grow up like man and to stand firm on their own feet’s during times of sadness and emotional drought. She was equipped with all techniques of a hunter, few believed in the law of nature, but many preferred to enforce law and order themselves when the law enforcement institution were in effective.

 Tina’s mothers was a modern lady, who believed in the modern theory known as “Eye for an Eye” if you kill your neighbor’s cattle by mistake, your neighbor kills your cattle too, than the matter is considered even. The Rapists’ thought it was the end of everything and they will live to tell their stories to others who shared the same dreams, but there were wrong as more was still to come. Every action has consequences, and what the widow had planned was vigorous, no man would survive the pain. Months after the incident took place, the widow carried out an investigation method known as “Offender Profiling” were she traced the residential location and their daily activities of the rapists’. The pain she had endured prepared her for good, her vision was curved within the angles of vengeance. Her dreams were re-designed, there was nothing to live for, but there was something to fight for.