Seth’s+Assyrian+Attack

Seth Stevens Period 5/6 October 10, 2012 The Assyrian invasion

“I’ll be there in a minuet,” I said to my friends Nolan, Colby, Andy and Marshall. “I need to grab my plow,” I said. I quickly grabbed my plow and ran out the city walls to meet my friends. “Hey guys,” I said. “Hey,” they all said back. We worked in the fields for about an hour until I saw a cloud of dust rising in the distance. It got larger and larger and then I heard yelling and chanting. I dropped my plow and ran into the secret tomb that my friends and I made on the side of the city and my friends followed me in. “What’s wrong,” asked Nolan. “The Assyrians are raiding our city,” I said. “We must go warn the others,” said Colby, so he started for the exit but I stopped him and said, “If we go out there we will get killed,” and he agreed. “But what about our parents and brothers and sisters,” said Andy? “We will get them later,” I said. All of a sudden we heard a loud bang of a battering ram against the city wall and then the crumble of the wall being destroyed. Then we heard the screaming of women and their children. After about a half an hour all was quiet. Suddenly there was a loud THUD!!! And we heard someone say, “Hey there’s some sort of tunnel down here.” I gasped and quickly opened a trap door in the side of the cave and my friends followed me in. My friends and I pushed a big boulder in place of the opening and I heard footsteps right in front of us and someone said, “All clear!” and there was chanting and whooping and then all was quiet. After about 20 minutes I pushed the boulder aside and walked out of the secret cave. The city was completely destroyed and there was people lying dead everywhere some were skinned and some were beheaded. It was the worst thing I had ever seen. All of us looked for our parents but there was no sign of them. We walked over to the remains of the ziggurat and saw the king’s body but his head was missing. We all decided that we would go to the Assyrian head fort, Ninive to look for our parents. We walked around the city and found the stuff we needed for a long journey. After we go the stuff we needed we started on our long journey to save our parents. We followed the chariot tracks until it was too dark to see them. We found a nice spot along the Euphrates River that had a good source of fresh water and there were also lots of berries and fruits. We found a nice place to sleep and we settled down for the night. The next morning I woke up and saw Marshall and Andy picking ripe berries and fruits for the road. Colby and Nolan were still sleeping so Marshall, Andy and I made breakfast and then got Nolan and Colby up and we all ate breakfast. We finished eating and continued our journey to find our parents. We found the Chariot tracks and followed them for the next week days until one day we saw them destroying the city of Hatra we stopped and watched them ride away chanting and whooping. When they were out of sight we went over to Hatra and saw one boy our age come out of a pile of rubble. We asked him what his name was and he said his name was Billy. I introduced myself and so did all of my other friends. “Where are you guys from?” he asked. “Were from Sumer,” I replied. “Do you want to join us on our journey Ninive to find our parents?” asked Marshall. “Yes I will because my parents got captured by the Assyrians and my brother was skinned alive and my sister was beheaded.” “Wow,” said Colby. “That must be horrible.” We spent the rest of the week following the chariot tracks until it was too dark. I woke up and got everyone else up and we skipped breakfast and headed for Ninive. We saw the huge palace off in the distance. We got closer and saw Ninive. We saw the chariots and warriors enter the Assyrian kingdom and then we saw another group of chariots and warriors exit the kingdom and head west toward Israel. All of the guards except for one went inside the kingdom so we snuck around the back of the kingdom and thought up a plan. We walked to the side of the kingdom and I poked my head around the corner and saw the guard. “Ok on the count of three,” I said. “One, two, three!” we all said and we whistled as loud as we could and waited for the guard. He came around the corner and I punched him in the face and knocked him over. We started stomping on his head and he passed out. We dug a hole and buried him. I walked over to the entrance of the kingdom but I ran into another guard and he kicked me and jabbed a spear in my leg. I fell to the ground and stared in horror at my gashed leg. I look up and see the guard standing over me and he pulled out a battering ram and I screamed as the battering ram came smashing down on my face.

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