The Children Army

So my August NANO idea got trashed and replaced with a new one. It's set in the same world as my July NANO and the original characters are a lot older. It sort of works through a lot of time jumps. It starts with the main character Zephyr as a small child getting stolen from his home and works up to him getting rescued and adopted by Seven and Rumor from the original story I wrote last month. They have a huge personality change by the time Zephyr hits 16. I blame it on the fact they raised a broken child. It forces you to grow up.

A forewarning to anyone who reads this excerpt from the first part of the story, It's A LOT darker then what I normally write. It doesn't go into descriptive details however. I'm trying my hand at writing a darker story, I'll probably fail.

   They were screaming. My Mother and Father both right before my very eyes. I was only 3 or 4 at time but I could remember the event clear as day. I probably remembered it better then most adults did. It was tragic, or at least it was to me. My Mother begged for mercy as a man ripped into her in the most primitive of ways. My Father had to watch. Every time he tried to close his eyes or struggle the captors would strike until he couldn’t stand any longer and then force him back up from his knee’s.