Billy’s+Assyrian+Attack

Billy Maxwell

Period 3/4

10/10/12

RUN!

Here is my story of being raided by Assyrians. It was a nice sunny day with a little wind; I had just started harvesting my dad’s crops. After an hour I started running home, I forgot I had to help my mom with dinner; I got there and ran to the second floor. I look off in the distance and see dust tornados stirring up. I look a little closer, I see it is the Assyrians coming, I shout to everybody that the Assyrians are coming, I started grabbing foods we could survive if it was a really bad tragedy. Everybody starts screaming and runs for cover. I Tried to find all my friends and family members to warn them that the Assyrians are coming but I only found a couple. This really hurt me because I wanted all my friends and family members to survive because I loved them and it would suck to die. My friends I found names were Seth, Charlie, Alex, Ebstone, Hailey, Cole. All the family members I found were my mom, cousin, uncle, dad, brother. I ran for my brother and tried to save him because the Assyrians were getting close. I start to hear the chariots wheels bouncing over the rocks. They come into camp screaming, they charge and kill 5 people right off the bat. They charge my brother, I run over and kill the two people that grabbed him. I killed one of them by taking out my knife and stabbing him in the neck, then I killed the other one by jumping on him and making him suffer by stabbing him in the gut, punching him, then snapping his neck. The Assyrians jump off the chariots and starts killing everybody, I see two of the men killing my dad and brother, I see my brothers blood gushing, I ran to see if I could save him by putting a strand of wrap on it, I get over there and I see that I can, I grab wrap out of my pouch and wrap his arm with it, then I carried him everywhere I went. I start to look at my dad and see them shoot him with an arrow that killed him instantly then they started cutting of his limbs one by one. I start balling as I see this, I start trying to find my mom, I finally saw see her hiding under a table in a building, I started charging at her to be with her, on my way there a Assyrian shot an arrow and it grazes my arm. I finally reach her and told her we should move somewhere else, we had moved to a little area under the stairs were it would be hard to find us. I see a little shadow move behind a crate, it looked like my uncle but I didn’t want to chance it. I see my friend seth, Assyrians enter the room; seth comes charging in and kilss them with a bow and arrow he took from another Assyrian then he runs under a house to a secret cave, i never saw him come back up, two more guards enter the room and become enraged when when they see the dead bodies, I cover my mom’s mouth so she would be quit. They started searching harder and harder, they thought there was no one in there so they started to light it on fire, the only thing i thought of was that we were dead for sure, me and my mom start running, I see her trip and fall, she had been hit with something, I see Assyrians start charging her and she yells “run Billy run”, it was hard but it was what she wanted so I did it. As I was running I turn around and see her getting taking as a slave. I finally found a good spot to hide after running 4 miles; I walked to a nearby river and I started drinking it as though I was about to die from dehydration. After a week of very little food I decided to go back and see if they had left and if there was any food left in the rubbage of the raid. After getting there it looked like they were gone until I went into a room and saw slaves working on rebuilding the homes, I looked again and saw my mom was there. I looked around to see if there were any guards, the cost was clear so I charged for my mom, as I got to her I asked her “Is there any chance to escape?” “Yeah, I just can’t get this thing off.” My mom said. I took out my pocket knife and started cutting it off. I got it off But write as we walk around the corner, there are guards. We turned and started sprinting, they turned the corner and saw us, two of them threw spears and hit me and my mom, I looked at her and saw it hit her back and it went threw her heart then out her chest. I looked down and saw my guts spilling out, “come on mom, we got to escape”, I said, but it was a clean shot, there was no chance of either one of us moving on, and it was a slow but painful death. I was starting to go unconscious when I turned my head and saw them skinning my mom. Right before I passed out I see my uncle come charging in and beat up the two guys that were, he tried to see if my mom was alve but she wasn’t. He tried to carry me and right before he set me down In safety i passed out. I WAS DEAD!!! The End