Chapter 8: Through the Soldier's Eyes
I remember it just as if it was yesterday. I remember that terrible day. It was my birthday. I turned 16 years old. A solider came to my house for two reasons. I knew one of them but the second I was unprepared for. I woke up bright eyed. I lived my day just as I usually do until he came. He came to my door standing straight, head shaven, and with a gloomy face. He knocked on the door. My mother answered and he gave her a letter. She read the letter then broke into tears. It was my brother. he died in the war. My jaw dropped and the news hit me like a knife to my heart. I couldn't speak. Then this man asked to see me. It was enough to give us word of my brother's death but to tell me I now had to fight in the war. My mother was furious.
"I have already lost a son to this war and now my second son must fight!" she yelled as tears streamed down from her face. After that we did nothing but morn until I left. Before I left my mother told me how proud she was of me then I was sweep away to learn to fight. It didn't seem I got enough training but before I knew it I was headed off to a battle. While I rode my Atlee to where the battle was taking place I though I was in a dream. Everything seemed so unreal. Here I am riding off to a battle to my death under the command of Paige Rellis. They say she is the best and is an ex spy.
When we got to Lata the Battle of Lata began. I was armed with only a sword. The smell of blood filled the air. Many had already fallen, some dead and others lying on the ground screaming for help. I defended myself as well as I could but it wasn't good enough. I heard an arrow fly past my ear and I thought how lucky I was that I missed that but when I turned to see who shot the arrow they had already shot a second that hit me in the arm. I fell to the ground. I just lay there covered in blood, some my own and some not, unsure of what to do. The last I heard of the battle were screams, the clashing of swords, and arrows whizzing through the air then nothing.
I opened my eyes to see a girl's face looking down at me. She had blue eyes, golden hair, and the sunlight surrounded her face. I thought I had died and she was an angel. I soon realized I was not dead and I was not dreaming when I tried to get up and my arm still hurt from where the arrow went in. She told me to lay back down as she wrapped my wound then to get some rest. Alive I thought. I made it through my first battle.
Author's note: Short chapter I know. I'm at a writer's block in the story so I wrote this thing, which just goes more into the first battle. Not my favorite chapter.
I remember it just as if it was yesterday. I remember that terrible day. It was my birthday. I turned 16 years old. A solider came to my house for two reasons. I knew one of them but the second I was unprepared for. I woke up bright eyed. I lived my day just as I usually do until he came. He came to my door standing straight, head shaven, and with a gloomy face. He knocked on the door. My mother answered and he gave her a letter. She read the letter then broke into tears. It was my brother. he died in the war. My jaw dropped and the news hit me like a knife to my heart. I couldn't speak. Then this man asked to see me. It was enough to give us word of my brother's death but to tell me I now had to fight in the war. My mother was furious.
"I have already lost a son to this war and now my second son must fight!" she yelled as tears streamed down from her face. After that we did nothing but morn until I left. Before I left my mother told me how proud she was of me then I was sweep away to learn to fight. It didn't seem I got enough training but before I knew it I was headed off to a battle. While I rode my Atlee to where the battle was taking place I though I was in a dream. Everything seemed so unreal. Here I am riding off to a battle to my death under the command of Paige Rellis. They say she is the best and is an ex spy.
When we got to Lata the Battle of Lata began. I was armed with only a sword. The smell of blood filled the air. Many had already fallen, some dead and others lying on the ground screaming for help. I defended myself as well as I could but it wasn't good enough. I heard an arrow fly past my ear and I thought how lucky I was that I missed that but when I turned to see who shot the arrow they had already shot a second that hit me in the arm. I fell to the ground. I just lay there covered in blood, some my own and some not, unsure of what to do. The last I heard of the battle were screams, the clashing of swords, and arrows whizzing through the air then nothing.
I opened my eyes to see a girl's face looking down at me. She had blue eyes, golden hair, and the sunlight surrounded her face. I thought I had died and she was an angel. I soon realized I was not dead and I was not dreaming when I tried to get up and my arm still hurt from where the arrow went in. She told me to lay back down as she wrapped my wound then to get some rest. Alive I thought. I made it through my first battle.
Author's note: Short chapter I know. I'm at a writer's block in the story so I wrote this thing, which just goes more into the first battle. Not my favorite chapter.