"Alana!" I could hear my mother calling out my name, I couldn't see anything.. It was smokey and my eyes burned, "Alana wake up!" She sounded worried and scared, why... Why can't I open them? I felt my body being shaken and then lifted up from the scolding ground I was laying on. "You've got to wake up! Please!" Her plead's got worse as I felt the burning air roll across my cheek, was there a fire? I had a hard time breathing... The sounds of people screaming and crying out for help filled my hearing senses along with the smell of something burning, I could hear my mother panting as she carried my small body through the village. M-mom? I couldn't force myself to say anything, what had happened? Then, I heard it... The bone chilling sound of something really big, and very scary let loose a loud ground shaking roar. I could feel my mother stop moving, it almost felt as if she froze. I tried to force my eyes open again but got a gust of hot air stinging my eyes, making my vision blurry with tears. After the stinging had finally passed I could see clearing, the village- our home.. It was ablaze! Everything, everyone was either set on fire or lying under limp lumber not moving. Shock and terror struck through me, was this real? Am I dreaming?
Before I could answer my own questions the roar shook the ground again as I snap back into reality, hovering over our burning village was a massive dragon, his scales glimmered in the setting sun, it looked like fire almost from the smoke that was being let off from the village, my mother- she stood there, frozen and unable to move out of fear. Her green eyes focused on the monster hovering over what used to be our home, just when the beast turned our way, my mother bolted with me in her arms, her sword attached to her belt; it dangled against her plate leggings, she was a Knight of the nearby Kingdom near our Village. The beast caught sight of us and let lose a bolt of fire, my mother shifted to her right and rolled, holding me tight in her arms as we rolled down the hill. Reaching the bottom of it we barely had time to recover before the ground started to shake again, I had thought it was the dragon roaring; but this was so much worse...
The dragon landed on the ground, atop the hill we had rolled down, his scales really were fire, his eyes burned with golden orbs. The talons scrapped across the scorched ground, tearing the earth up even more, my mother stood before I could control my wobbly knees she unsheathed her sword as it caught a hold of the red light from the burning village, she stood before the dragon no longer showing fear. "Alana, I want you to listen closely to me." She spoke out firmly, almost as if she did not want to show how afraid she really was. I finally stable my knees and look up at her, her eyes were fixed on the dragon before her the beast seemed to have understood what she was about to do. He waited silently for the human's next move. M-mom...? She glanced to me with a smile, not one to comfort me, but a real smile. One I used to wake up and see every morning, one I would see when she was happy.. I did not understand... "I want you to run, far away from here. Don't look back." She spoke softly towards me, tears started to build up when I finally registered what she was about to do. Mom- no you can't! You'll die! the tears went flooding down my cheeks as I spoke, she remained there in front of me, stiff in her pose and smiling. "That is an order young Knight." She said playfully as she turned towards the dragon and held up her sword. Denial ran through my mind, this wasn't happening, this was simply a horrible dream I was having and I would wake up and smell breakfast waiting for me. I would hear the chickens in the backyard and the donkeys whining for their morning feed.
The dragon roared and it forced me out of my thoughts, this really was real, I was going to lose my mother here... Before I had the chance to protest I felt my mother grip my shoulder, she pulled me up and pushed me towards the forest, "I told you to run." She said firmly, the smile had vanished as her blank battle expression reappeared. I shook my head, I wasn't going to run. I'm not leaving you mom! I'll stay and figh- I was cut off with her yelling at me, I lost focus on her voice when I noticed the dragon stirring, he seemed impatient. Everything went silent as the dragon lunged and me and my mother. Everything felt like slow motion, my mother pushed me out of the way as she went to her right, leading the dragon away. I could see her mouth something but I did not know what it was. I turned and was facing the forest, my heart begged me to turn around and help her, but my mind wanted to follow what my mother said. Tears went streaming down my cheek again as I start running into the forest, one last look back as I noticed my mother standing on the hill, her sword by her side as her red hair caught the last ending light from the sky, I love you mom...Be strong.