MUHASAR

MAY BE SCARY FOR CHILDREN UNDER 10- JUST A PRECAUTION! 

Some Info: 

Characters:

  Mein Yu (A.K.A Myi) pronounced : my-en  You. 14 year old girl.

Mia: Mein Yu's sister. 11 year old girl.

Dan: Mien Yu's father. 

Mala Lu: Mien Yu and Mia's mother.

There are more characters in the story.

Muhasar means trapped in arabic. There is a reason Talafa left. I decided to name the characters oriental or not too popular names because Muhasar is a land secluded from others.

I sat on my bed. I was scared- no- terrified. The sirens still rang through my bedroom, like a echo. I grabbed a bunch of blankets and dragged them towards my bed. I breathed out, slowly, and I could see my breath. That was all I could see. It was so dark. And it seemed to get darker and darker. I could hear the wind rustling. And my heart beating. I could hear everything. My parents. They were scared. For me and Mia, my sister.

Earlier that day, the alert sirens had been turned on. Then men dressed in black suits walked towards my sister and I. He was holding a small machine in his hand. He walked swiftly and upright. He pushed me down with force and continued walking. I wasn't harmed, but terrified. He continued walking and grabbed a young woman. I called for the city officials standing at the gate. The walked to me and asked, "Is their a disturbance?" I replied,"Yes! Those men are, umm.. being disruptive!" The officials looked at the men, then at me, then at each other. Then they grabbed me by the arm and walked me to their office. They told me I would be staying with them until the curfew. They placed me in a room full of books and nothing else. The books were empty. All they said was, "You will keep this a secret." Then the men took me home.

Now I sat in my cold room. It was freezing. I didn't even have a lamp. I stepped out of bed and walked into the hall. It was just as cold. I put on a coat and ran out the door. I can't do this. I can't do this. It's against the resavs.... I thought. The resavs where all the rules the citizens of Muhasar had to obey.

CHAPTER 2

I walked out of my house and felt the soft sand under my feet. It wasn't sticky and stuck to your feet, it was soft and fluffy. We only had two types of weather in Muhasar. The only two that existed. Rain and fair weather. It had not rained in four months.

However, my mind wasn't on the texture of the ground. Or the coolness of the night against my skin. Or the way the moonlight shone down on the single pond in Muhasar. I was more focused on the resavs. In my head, I slowly recited them.

1. Look up to your elders.

2. Never disobey the Hökmdar, Iewschte , or Controladores.

3. Never pass the Wall of Serendipity without official permission.

4. You must accept any punishment at any time.

5. Never leave your settlement after curfew (9:00 P.M.)

All children were required by law to learn these. I remembered my friend Malatama , although we called her Mollie. She couldn't learn the resavs by heart, so the Hökmdar took her for a day. I remember racing with all my might, believing every sprint and step I took was a second more of pain Mollie would endure. I turned corners and ran through markets and schools. I simply ran through the small lake in the middle of town. I dashed into the building where the Hökmdar, Iewschte , and Controladores took their prisoners. I signaled for the teenage woman sitting at a desk managing papers with the custom Muhasar hand signal. A flick of the wrist and snap of the finger.
The woman immediately looked up to reveal her work-tag. Her tag read:

                    Lilliac Yostwood. Desk Assistant. Probation.

I smiled in a 'I'm in a rush, please move this along' kind of way. I rushed threw my explanation.  " I'm here to see Moll- Malatama Kandora. She's being p-pu-punished." 

I swear I saw sympathy in the woman's eyes. Workers in the punishment department weren't allowed to show emotion when working. They could be sent to Yahama, a high security prison standing just outside of Muhasar, for doing that. 

" Room 14, High Level Punishment for Educational Slack," the young woman said.

My eyes stung with tears. High Level Punishment? For my best-friend? "Hi-hi-h-i-HIGH LEVEL PUNISHMENT?!" My words came out louder than intended. I remember smacking a hand to my mouth and apologizing. I whispered, "W-w-wh-why?" I disguised my command for her to answer as a question. I didn't want her squeling to the Controladores about me disrespecting my 'elders.;' 

"Can't help you there," the woman said stiffly. I shuffled to room 14. I opended the door. What I saw was horrendous. Mollie, sitting on the floor, head in her hands; crying.

"Mollie!" I screamed. I dropped to the floor next to her. She had marks on her. Some were bleading. Some weren't. Her Punisher ha left a note saying she was good the return to her Settlement for the rest of the day. I helped her to her parents and cried the tears that had been following me, but didn't dare to come out until now.

I snapped back to reality, remembering I was standing in the cold, dry air in the middle of the night. I slung my bag over my shoulder and ran. I didn't know where I was going. All I knew was that I couldn't go pass the Wall of Serendipity. I stopped about a mile and a half away, in the middle of an empty market. I sat down on a large tree stump and drank some juice. Gosh, it's cold, I thought. Wrapping my blanket around me, I shivered and writhed in the cold. For fear, for pain, for lonliness, I thought, moking the real reason I ran away from my Settlement. I shook the negetive thooughts out of my head. For family, for friends, for hope, I thought. These are the reasons why I ran away.Hopefully.

Chapter 3

"Come! I command you. COME! Stupid girl." These words repeated themselves througout my dreams. SMASH. Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain near the top of my leg. I shot up from my sleep.

My eyes widened in terror. My eyes rolled back into my head, trying to process what was happening. Two Controladores were standing in front of me. They grabbed my arms with their sleek, black gloves. I knew I would be doomed if I didn't retalliate.

"NO!" I screamed. It came out rather suddenly. One Controladore grabbed my arm and twisted it. My mouth opened to scream, but nothing came out. The other Controladore grabbed me by my other arm and tied them together. 

Together, they shoved me towards the Punishment facility. My eyes nearly popped out of my head. What would my punishment be? High, Low, Probation, Death, Imprisonment, Forced-Work? I didn't know, and soon I fell unconscious in the middle of the street, just as daylight broke.

Chapter 4

Light..... No; A darkness..... A room... A man... Cracking noises, Screams and yelps of pain... Many things came to my attention while I was unconscious. Around 4:45 A.M I was awake in a cave. 

Strange, I thought , They didn't bring me to the Punishment chamber. I soon stood up and walked around my 'enclosurerr.' I noticed that about an half an inch of water had collected at the bottom of the cave.