A Small Hope

Chapter 1 – Slaves…

We have been slaves for 12 years now, enslaved in our own town. I was a boy of 22 years old, I was 10 years old when the slaughter happened, Dances With Balrog’s betrayed his own people to stay alive. Everybody here in the camp has lost hope and not 1 of us even dares try to restart the old prophecy of the 4 jobs.

Archer, Thief, Warrior and magician. Those are the 4 forgotten jobs, now there is only death and slaves My mother had told me one day when I was younger.

That comment stayed with me through my life and it stills haunts me today. The enemy from what I’ve heard has taken over Ellinia, Kerning City and our beloved Perion. No news has reached us about our far away ally, Henesys. A horn blew, I was so surprised I jumped and hit my head on the bunk above me. I rubbed it as everybody in my cabin got out of bed and got dressed.

Our cabin consisted of 6 beds, 2 girls and 4 boys. 6:00 AM everyday a horn would blow and we would have to get up and get ready for the day ahead of us. I swung my feet out of bed and put my jeans on. I jumped on my bed and looked around for my T-shirt. I heard giggling behind me. The 2 girls were looking at each other mischievously.

“Where did you put my shirt?” I asked them.

“nowhere” the one on the right said smiling. There was always something in her eye that I liked. The other one laughed, “Can’t get it!” she said taking it from behind her back.

“Oh come on Jennie!” I cried as she ran around the cabin waving it in the air. The door swung open and 2 soldiers stepped in.

Jennie immediately stopped. “What’s going on here?” One of them said. Jennie hid in her bed. I puffed up my chest. “It wa—” I was cutoff by Alyssa who said

“It was my fault” I looked back surprisingly. “I stole his shirt and he wanted it back” The guard looked at me to her.

“Alright come with us” He said to Alyssa.

“Where are you taking her?!” I shouted.

“Another cabin” they answered not looking at me.

“No! You can’t” I protested. I jumped on the one that was talking and ran him to the ground. Timothy, Jacob and Sean all followed me. Sean and Jacob jumped onto the other guard while me and Timothy attacked the 1st guard. Jennie grabbed Alyssa’s arm and ran to the back of the room.

There was a mad flurry of arms and legs until finally I got hold of a spear. I heard Alyssa scream, I forgot about her and lunged with it. The man I was on went limp and the spear stuck in him. Sean followed and killed the other guard. We all got off examining our success we did.

“Are you guys alright?!” Alyssa whispered walking up to us. “Yeah I think…” I said. She hugged me “That was so brave! Thank you for standing up for me” I blushed.

“Hey you!” A voice said. A guard walked into the room and stared blankly at the 2 dead bodies. “Oh my…” he said. He turned on his heel and ran to the head cabin a little ways away. “We got to get out of here” I said grabbing Alyssa’s hand. “Not so fast!” A guard said stepping into the room.

“It’s the king…” Alyssa whispered into my ear. I gulped.

“You 6 are under arrest”

A Small Hope will continue. . .To Death

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