*** *Start*
"Erik, Run... Hide." Erik's mother said as she pushed her son away from a falling plank, his father had already been crushed by such beams and his mother herself had been stuck to a fallen beam as she slowly burnt.
"Mom..." Erik said with teary eyes.
"Go hide in a crate in the barn... GO!" His mom screamed as the fire started spreading more and more around the house, the only place that was safe was a Crate in the barn, if the pirate didn't check all places.
Erik obeyed her and hid in a barn.
***
"Yeu peez o' shet dae ecscaep fro meh.(You piece of shit dare escape from me)" Hanzo said as he held Erik in a Neck hold.
'Stop... Stop hitting me please...'
***
The large hunk of a man turned after pitifully looking at the boy. He spit in the ground in disgust as he entered through a door.
***
Hanzo Punched Erik in the Gut and picked the scrawny boy with one hand. He threw the boy into an isolated and dark room.
The child looked at the older man with hateful and teary eyes.
"You dare look at me like that, Don't make me educate you again." Hanzo said as he punched the kid in the face.
'I-I did nothing wrong to you, please d-don't hit me... I wo-Won't ever...'
***
Erik gulped as a large fist came flying at him with neck breaking speeds, Erik tried escaping, clutching the large hands of Hanzo with his skinny arms.
***
A punch landed on his face as blood escaped from Erik's broken nose. Hanzo sent another punch, breaking one of Erik's teeth, He held the face of Erik and slammed the kid into a wall in the alley way, fracturing Erik's skull from the impact, Erik cried out in pain as Hanzo held him once more from the neck and began his assault.
'P-please, I b-Beg you... Stop please... Don't hi.. *Hiccup* Hit me please...'
***
Hanzo picked the kid up and threw him into the floor and hit him with a bottle of booze.
The bottle exploded upon contact, cutting Erik multiple places in the arm and head. The disgusting smell of booze made Erik throw up on the floor.
***
Hanzo picked up a rod from the side of the alley and jammed the rod into Erik's skinny chest in one stab.
'STOP!!'
*** *Nightmare end*
Erik woke up from his nightmare again with a wide grin on his face, His body was sweaty and he was staying into the abyss as he suddenly gasped.
"Please don't hit me, I beg you..." Erik looked around, finding the cold sea breeze shaking the trees In front of him and the campfire illuminating with heat and light, he looked around himself frantically as he realised it was all a nightmare.
"It Is the nightmare again, This is the Thirs time this week..." Eric said to himself as he looked at the campfire producing the sound of wood burning and the air bubbles inside the wood popping.
"After that fight with the boar..." He remembered the fight with the boar a week ago, the nightmares started since that fight. He was almost killed by the boar that day. He put his hands up to his head as he got up and went over to the river.
He looked at the Rover reflecting the bright yellow light of the campfire, his face was covered with sweat and he was Grinning..?
The light of the campfire flickered as his reflection showed his normal face. What was happening to him? What was happening inside Erik's mind?
Why did these memories start to resurface now? The trauma he went through, Erik's death and his abusive uncle.
Sato put a hand into the water, lifting a handful of it before slapping his hands to his face. The cold feeling of water seemed to soothe his mind as the memories seemed to dissipate for the moment and resurface again as he started thinking more and more about Erik's childhood.
Sato sighed as lied down on the ground, looking at the night sky full of stars.
'I wonder what my family back home is doing right now...'