Don't Fall into the Dark
Chapter 1 – A Past Better Forgotten
The bombs dropped as fast as the lifeless bodies fell. Their faces were twisted with pain, fear, sadness, and death as their blood painted the ground an ugly scarlet-grey color. The scene that unfolded in front of six-year-old Marshall Lee but he couldn't move he seemed frozen to the destruction. His mind was screaming as loud as the people who were running past him he was shaking like a lost puppy searching for his mom and his little sister Mar. His eyes wondered desperately for her fearing the worst he faintly herd his name the name that would sin him for the rest of his life…..
He turned his head to the left as his mother's long blonde hair caught his eyes. Her ruby red eyes showed a desperate look as she struggled to reach out to him with Mar clinging onto her leg. He ran as fast as his body allowed him to go and safely stumbled into his mother's arms. Marshall held on to his sister as the three of them ran hand in hand for shelter. Finally reaching a fairly sized building their mother motioned them inside quickly. As the explosions could be heard outside the siblings huddled close to their mom wishing this suffering would end soon. Then as is it was planned death reared its ugly head a bomb had landed a bit too close to the building blowing it up. Marshall had blacked out for a few minutes but had awoken to his mother shield Mar from the flying bricks and wood. He screamed seeing her body slump to the ground. He scrambled up to his feet and pushed and tripped his way over to her and Mar who was crying hard.
Their mom struggled to try and free herself after a few minutes she gave up with Mar crying and her right and Marshall not even looking towards her on her left she breathed deeply for a minute withdrawing her hands to her neck taking off two of her necklaces. Hand each of them their own dog tags with their own names, blood types, and parents' names engraved in them.
"You two protect each other and if you are separated let these bring you back together again... mommy loves you both very much…Marshall…Mar" she managed before the rest of the pile had collapsed over her trapped body.
Mar screamed and started crying again but Marshall reacted, grabbing her hand and running her into a forest on the outskirts of town. After about five minutes of running stumbling and tripped, having branches hit their faces. Finally after he slowed down he tripped and tumbled Mar letting out a loud gasp appeared by his side in a flash
"MARLEE! (what his sister calls him) ARE YOU OKAY?" Mar panicked checking his arms for any major cuts or bruises
"DAMNNIT!" He yelled scaring Mar a bit into jumping back
"m-mommy said w-were not supposed to u-u-use bad words m-marlee" she stuttered
"LOOK AROUND MAR! LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND YOU! OR ARE YOU GOING TO CRY ABOUT THAT TOO? MOM'S NOT HERE SHE'S DEAD JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THAT TOWN!" he yelled at her
She flinched a bit as she took in every word. Looking down she clenched her fist shaking a bit she spoke lightly.
"at least we have each other" her voice broke t the last word making her sound pathetic and sad
"WE COULD HAVE HAD OUR MOM TOO BUT YOU HAD TO STAND BY THE WINDOW TO SEE IF IT WAS OVER SHE SHEILDED YOU AND DIED BECAUSE OFF YOU!" he screamed even louder with his rage raising
"m-marlee i-I'm sorry i-it's my fault it's all my fault" she cried attempting to hug her brother
"DON'T TOUCH ME YOU MURDERER!" he yelled with all his might. He regretted the words right as they came out of his mouth looking up desperately Mar looked straight into his eyes, the ruby red eyes they both got from their mother.
"y-your right m-maybe if I had died back t-there m-mommy would still b-b-be alive im sorry it's a-all my fault" she said sadly smiling at the ground
"Mar wai-" he said trying to stop her
"im sorry Marlee ill leave you alone now good-bye" she turned and ran, ran away from him and farther through the dark forest letting her hair whip through the wind behind her leaving him there to hate himself
"MAR COME BACK IM SORRY!" he said trying to run after her but fell
"im sorry…." He whispered