Prologue- Thundering Rain
BANG!
My ears rang as I smelled the ole familiar smell of gun powder in the air.
BANG!
A cry of a fallen soldier yelled in the distance.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
As the air was filled with lead, rain began to fall along the forest floor.
BOOM!
A cannon ball flew past my head and dirt erupted from the ground like a volcano.
BANG!
I watched with trembling eyes as I saw my fellow countrymen fall to their knees as arrows implanted themselves in their chests.
WOOSH!
An arrow whizzed by my head and it imbedded itself on the tree bark behind me.
'This can't be happening...' I thought to myself, 'This can't be happening!'
I felt a hand grip my arm tightly and I clinched my rifle. I was about to turn around and shoot until a girls voice whispered my name.
I turned my head, and my eyes met the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. A lock of her golden hair draped over her face. And even though her dress and face was tattered, she still shined like the sun.
BOOM! CRASH!
The sound of lightning rung in my ears violently, and the rain began to fall down harder, and harder.
The girl closed her eyes and she held me close.
For some reason, I felt like I needed to protect her.
I needed to save her…
I stood up from my crouching position and I rested my arms against the log which I was hiding behind. I took aim with my rifle, and fired.
BANG!
I heard a distant man cry as I saw my bullet hit him in the chest.
The men yelled in an incomprehensible language that I've never heard of.
I retreated behind the log as I attempted to reload my gun.
The sound of crashing thunder once again erupted in my ears and the girl held me tighter, held me closer.
My heart and my thoughts kept racing.
'Why is this girl here? Why is she here!? She doesn't belong here, she shouldn't be here… Why is she here?'
I watched as a young boy rushed towards me, shouting my name. His face was battered, his hair was soaking wet from the rain. He kept on running towards me.
I scooted over to make room for him, shouting out to him. I saw him smile, but that smile was replaced with one of shock as an arrow imbedded itself in his head.
I yelled at the top of my lungs as I held out an arm to reach his limp, lifeless figure. He fell to his knees, and then fell face first onto the water soaked ground.
I turned towards the girl and I grasped her feminine shoulders firmly. I told her to get out of here, and that she should tell her father that 'they' were coming.
The girl shook her head and she looked at me with her sparkling, pleading eyes.
I rejected her request and I told her I would be okay. She stared at me, and lowered her head, knowing the inevitable. Then she did one thing that I thought would never happen in my life.
She placed a hand around my face, her hands soft as cotton, and she kissed me gently on the lips.
She went running, tears streaming from her eyes.
I just stared, as the rain got heavier, and heavier, masking my view as she disappeared within the waters.
In the distance I heard the same incomprehensible language being spoken by the men with arrows, except it was closer this time.
A lot closer…
And as the lightning crashed, blinding the earth for a second, I found myself being confronted by two tall, brawny men; towering over me. And in the middle, was a shorter person but with feminine features. She held a club in one head, and a necklace in the other.
She looked at me, fire burning within her eyes. She opened her mouth, and her voice trembled with loathing.
Then, she raised her club and I watched as it came rapidly towards the side of my head.
BOOM! CRASH!
The sound of lightning and the sobbing of the girl before me was the last thing I heard, before my mind drowned in darkness…