Rescued
Chapter One
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It's been several hours since they dumped me outside the city. I was tired of waiting for them, tired of hiding, tired of being scared. I knew that with each minute the chances of them coming back out with her got slimmer and slimmer. It was incredibly hard to know what was going on and not being able to help… Not being able to save the person you love most.
I had to be real quiet, hiding behind bushy clusters of trees. Not far from here was a camp of leper gnomes. They were camped out here as guards, in case anyone tries to get in or out of the city. I wanted to kill them, blow them up with dynamite, or learn some offensive magic skill that would let me fight them. I couldn't. I was too young and therefore useless and no more than easy bait, as my rescuers have told me. Wearing shiny armour and fancy weapons they killed everyone in their way and rescued as many of us as they could. I was one of the lucky ones. My mother - I don't know. She were taken somewhere by the troggs and I haven't seen her for days. They killed my dad last week, and slaughtered half of my race, my friends included. After we got out, everyone ran where they could, most of other escapees talking about heading to Ironforge, our neighbouring city of Dwarves. That is where we will head as soon as my mom gets out. I asked my rescuers to go back in and try to find her. I wanted to come with, but they wouldn't let me.
I was getting hungry, but I was too afraid to go look for anything to eat. I sat down and leaned against the trunk of the pine tree under which I was hiding. From here I could see the entrance to the city clearly. There was no movement; it looked like everything was dead. Before the trogg invasion, there were always Gnomes outside, now there were only lepers. Diseased, twisted, and mutated gnomes who wandered outside the city walls. Irradiation of the city crazed their minds and now they don't recognize their own families. They think that everyone is a trogg. And it isn't like troggs are the smartest creatures. They were just strong. They took us by surprise and they took us with brute force. They ate, ripped apart, and poisoned my family and friends. I hated them my whole being, and I wanted to kill them all. When I was just a prisoner I knew it was almost impossible, but now that I'm free, I will destroy them...
I woke up from a light shove. I was slouched over, and freezing. It started snowing again. I opened my eyes, and saw blue gaze of one of my rescuers. She was leaning over, looking at me, checking if I was alright. The moment our eyes met, I knew it. She was dead. They were too late. I remembered her name- Cai, reached out and grabbed my hand. I let her. I was in shock. I wanted to scream at her, but no sounds came out. I couldn't breathe - I felt like an empty shell. My mind was racing. It was unfair; it was their fault. No, it was the troggs. Why couldn't my mom save herself? I wanted to cry, but my eyes were dry. I felt something warm being placed in my palm. I didn't look to see what it was. I kept looking in Cai's eyes, full of sympathy and pain, trying to find myself, trying to find strength to speak. "Sorry…" was all that she said before she was gone.