scary problem with my zte force please help

OK so I have a rooted zte force (aroura in other countreys) and I was getting the insufficient storage error while trying to install an app I have room for 20 of so I looked around and found out it had to do with the cache so I shut down my phone the right way by holding the power button and selecting shut down, it shut down just fine I'm shutting it down so I can boot into recovery to clear the system cache (for those of you who don't know the ZTE force comes stock with clockwork mod recovery pre installed) *note I have had a problem getting my phone to start up before but it was just being stubborn as far as I can tell, but I tryed to boot into recovery by holding volume up and power the led flashed once then stayed solid and wouldent do anything so I took the battery out plugged it in put the battery back in then waited until it vibrated so I could unplug it but when it showed the boot logo I saw 3 soft lines going down the right side of the screen about a millimeter apart one red one blue and one green and the Android logo looked like an old TV in the movies with the lines going through it and they were moving downward but they strange thing is it went through the custom boot animation I installed perfectly and when I unlocked my phone it was 100% DEAD it was almost half full when I turned it off and I went through my settings to make sure and it said 0% charging (AC) and its working fine because I'm posting this from my ZTE force and its been on the charger the whole time and its charging normally PLEASE HELP ME!
August, 22, 2015