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'The Common Boy'

The burning man

I walked out of my bed room following the smell of fire, and burning flesh. I followed it to the door, just before I opened the door Beka walked in and said, "hey honey," then she saw that I was standing by the door and asked, "what's wrong," I whispered, "that smell, it smells like burning flesh." Beka gasped and ran to the window. I didn't look at her; I just stared at the door lost in the memory of my past. I heard Beka scream, and that broke me from my trance, I throw the door open, knocking it off its hinges, and saw a horror that I will never forget.

In the middle of the street was a man tide to a stake in the ground that was surrounded by flaming dry grass, and logs, I heard him scream and knew immediately who he was. A sign was in the ground before him that said, 'this is what happens to those that oppose the broke band gang'. I bolted toward the fire, not screaming, just focusing my power of the flames. As I ran I inhaled deeply using my power to take the oxygen from the flames, making them shrink and smolder. I felt the burning of smoke in my lungs and exhaled, pushing all the air back onto the flames completely smothering them.

I was too late the man had already been burned beyond recognition, I took out my belt knife and sliced the rope with one slash, I pulled the man toward my house, but there wasn't enough time, I felt him dying. I slowly set him on the ground and placed my hands on his chest, I forced all my energy into him, healing him; I focused so much power and felt myself draining.

I saw the man falling down a deep well toward an empty blackness, I leapt into it and using my power I went under him and lifted him back toward reality and away from death. He opened his eyes and saw me, and a knight in full silver armor, as one sitting before him pushing power that not even I know I had into him, he felt the burns shrink and diminish, fading into a slight throbbing, which also disappeared, cuts and old aches shrank and vanished as well. He felt no pain, not the slightest itch, but he was hungry and tired. He was confused that I could heal wounds that he had previously been told could never be healed, and he was confused about the volume of my energy.

I felt an explosion of energy and heard a voice say, "You, my grandchild, have used most of the energy that your body contained, you must stop he is fully healed. If you don't stop you will die." I nodded slowly and forced myself to stop healing him, I collapsed next to him and the voice said, "I will give you some of my power so that you will survive but it will hurt you, the power of gods was never meant for humans."

I felt a weightless ness and knew that someone was lifting me into the air, I heard Gary's voice, he said, "My son saw it fit to save your life, so I will allow you to stay at our house until he sees fit to have you removed, you seem to need protection anyway." I heard a ruffling sound and then Fred's voice said, "I will remain until I know the boy is safe." The world faded away and I entered a long dreamless sleep.

I woke 12 days later, I sat up slowly and I felt a pain unlike anything else in the world strike the back of my head then heard a voice say, "This power will cause you pain." I knew instantly that the pain was a result of a god's powers being forced into me. I looked around and saw that I was in my room, I saw Beka asleep in the chair of my desk. I smiled and used magic to put her into my bed, I tucked her in then headed out into the living room.

I heard voices coming from the kitchen I looked in and saw Fred, Gary, George, and Alanna in the kitchen talking quietly with the mage from the other day. George said, "He's been asleep for 12 days and shows no sign of waking, we have to get him out of here before they come for him." The mage said, "I know but we mustn't move him until he wakes so he isn't harmed," Fred said, "Numair is right, but there is only so long that we can wait."

Gary, sighs and says, "we must wait for him to awaken," Alanna said, "We can't wait long, the king was assassinated last night his brother is being given the throne and they will be coming for the boy soon, and that's not even including the gang that's coming after him. We must leave tonight." Beka comes out of my room and ran into the kitchen completely missing me, she looked frantic she said, "Where's David, he wasn't in his bed." Everyone turned their attention to her confused and dumbfounded. Alanna exclaimed, "It's too late, we have to…" I step into the kitchen and said quietly, "I get a new home and now I have to run away like last time?"

They all turn to me and I say, "Well then what are we waiting for let's get going." We got all our bags ready, along with my chest puts them all into a wagon and headed out of the city, toward a future I don't quite want but know is necessary.

Well I revised the end to help lead to all my future chapters for this story, I hope you enjoy, will do ending again as the beginning of the next chapter in more detail, and will explain how they escape and the addition of a few new characters, the princess being one of them, they help her escape with them, I will divulge some of the new 'kings' scheme and the new threats to the hero and his alleys.

Ta Ta for now!