Note from meh: This is pretty much the rough draft of this story… so; I'll be adding much more details and scenes when this version is finished!
A Little Later That Day:
Jared went into Quinn's room, fully dressed and ready to go pick crops. When he was face to face with Quinn, he got a little nervous at the look Quinn was giving him.
"What?" asked Jared.
"So… how was Asia?" he asked with a wide grin on his face that a father would give his only son.
"Wow… um," Jared started to say, "She's incredible and she likes to draw!"
"Yeah, and she's really good at it, too!" said Quinn.
"You've seen her drawings?"
"Hell yes, Jared. I've known Asia for quite a while!"
Jared's mouth dropped. "How long!"
"About five years." Said Quinn, "She's been quite a good friend to me… too bad she's not older, though."
Jared smiled wickedly, "And why's that?"
"Oh come off it!" said Quinn, "I'm more than twice her age! And besides… she fancies you, you little wanker!"
Jared gasped slightly, "Wha-what do you mean?"
"I mean she fancies you Jared! She really likes you!"
"Shoot…" said Jared, "And I didn't want her to know that I liked her!"
"Ah, you do?"
"Hell yeah!"
Quinn just smiled at his "son" and patted him on the back. He was about ready to take Jared to get Asia and go out into the field to pick the crops when a horrible sound was heard.
"Dragons!" cried someone from an upper level of the stronghold. The alarm sounded around the whole area to tell the adults and children to take cover.
All around, people were running into their beds and pulling the covers over their heads, everyone except Quinn, Creedy and Jared. They were on their way up to the upper level to find Asia to tell her not to go anywhere. On their way up, they bumped into a teenage girl named Lily. Lily smiled at Jared with a slightly evil look in her eyes and Jared just kept running.
"Hey Jared!" she said, sounding older than she really was. Lily always had a crush on Jared.
"Sorry Lil!" said Creedy, "We can't talk now!"
Lily gave Creedy a dirty look when he turned around to keep running. She also saw that Jared was holding Asia's hand as they ran quickly up the stairs, out of the stronghold.
'That whore!' Lily thought, 'I'll get her back when the time is right!'
Lily, then, remembered that the dragons were attacking and ran to take cover.
Quinn, Creedy, Jared and Asia ran to the rescue truck along with three other adults. Jared put on a silver fireproof suit and climbed on top of the truck to control the water gun that helped put out the fires.
"Be careful!" Shouted Asia to Jared. He grabbed her hands to tell her that he had understood her.
'I hope I make it out of here alive.' He thought, 'I need to see Asia again.'
The truck sped towards the wreckage burning brightly that could be seen through the ashy air. The nerves of everyone were going crazy at the sight of the dragon breathing fire on their hard worked crops. All of a sudden 5 people appeared out of the flames and then disappeared behind a fresh wall of them.
"Oh no!" cried Asia, "What should we do, Quinn? What can we do to save them?"
"Beat the flames." Said Quinn quickly.
Jared started drenching the flames with water, making them slightly die down. The truck continued driving into the fire until Jared had cleared an opening for the 5 people to jump in the truck.
As soon as they were in, Creedy slammed on the gas pedal but realized that the truck was stuck in a ditch. He frantically kept slamming the pedal but they didn't move. Suddenly, the dragon swooped down and stood 10 feet from the stopped vehicle.
"Damn it, move!" cried Creedy, still pressing the pedal. The dragon opened its mouth, ready to blow flames all over everyone.
"JARED!" cried Asia at the top of her lungs, desperately wanting to take his place.
The dragon released a huge breath of flames onto the truck, covering Jared and blowing in two of the back windows of the truck. Asia was next to one of the windows and got hit in her eye and her side with the flying glass. She screamed in anguish and fear of the injury. Asia buried her face in her hands and her tears that she cried for Jared mixed with the blood flowing freely from her right eye.
Creedy hit the gas again and finally got the truck moving. It lurched backwards up the hill behind them. The dragon couldn't care less about the people in the truck. All it wanted was the ash from the burnt crop field.
The truck continued to speed up the hill. Creedy, Quinn, and the others looked on at their hard work up in flames. Asia looked on at the dragon that had torched the only boy she had ever loved. The feeling of anxiety swept over her and she didn't know what to do about it. 'Maybe God can help me.' Thought Asia, slowly looking up to the hole in the top of the truck.
"JARED!" she cried with delight.
There sat Jared at the top of the truck with his helmet off, looking into the distance. He heard Asia's yell and looked down to see her coming up to sit with him. When she was all the way up, Asia dove on top of Jared. Her bad eye had stopped bleeding but looked horrible. Jared gazed at it in horror. Asia felt self-doubt sweep over her and quickly turned to hide her injury.
"Asia, you need medicine!" cried Jared, sweeping his ungloved hand over her face to wipe away some of the dirt that would make the cut infected.
"Jared… Jared…" Asia started to say between sobs and shortened breaths, "Don't you see me? I'm… I'm horrible looking."
"Asia… you're beautiful." He said, sincerely.
Asia smiled and looked into Jared's shockingly blue eyes and then was gone…