Charlie’s+Assyrian+Attack

Charlie Hammel 10/10/12   Period ¾ **__ Assyrians Attack! __**  My name is Charlie, I am eleven years of age and my family and I live in Sumer. My father is a blacksmith. I work out in the fields farming. My family owns three goats. On my free time not working in the fields I help my father make weapons. I occasionally go hunt with the hunters, so I own a bow and two knives. My father brings home arrows for me each day, and I have been saving them for a long hunting trip only the older hunters get to go on where they don’t come home for about four days. I know every little hiding spot and secret passage that our town has because my friends and I ran around the town playing a war game. I have a pretty good shot with a bow and I can throw my knives, but not very well. I had just gotten home from the fields with lots of grain and I stopped by our towns slaughter house and picked up our weekly supply of meat. But my parents weren’t home yet and I think my mother took my brother out on a walk. But, just then I heard the pounding of hundreds of hoof beats in the distance. But then it got closer and the ground started shaking, the noise was almost unbearable. Then I heard some War cries. I started to hear people on the outside of our village screaming and a baby crying. I had only heard stories of bloodthirsty warriors who raid towns and kill for fun. My instincts told me to run but instead I remembered my bow, arrows and knives. I took a sack of bread goat cheese goat meat and some grains/nuts. I quickly found them and took one of the only passages that the warriors hadn’t found that lead out of the city. I dashed for it but then I saw my quick movement had caught the eye of one of the warriors. I knew I had to get out of the town. I remembered the Hunters and knew they were my only hope. They were the only people skilled with weapons and they were out hunting. That means they weren’t there during the raid and I had to reach them to save my family if they were alive. This gave me the strength to take my knife and drive it through his heart and I took off towards the exit. I didn’t want to leave my friends and I knew they would be valuable for me since they were also trained with weapons. I hoped they had found exits and escaped. I was in the thick vegetation now and I ran a few more miles before hearing the noise of footsteps and whispering. I hid as the voices grew nearer. Finally when the voices were really close, I notched an arrow lunged out of the bushes. As soon as I jumped out I was immobilized and brought down hard with the end of a spear. I was on the ground dazed when a hand then reached down to help me up . I then realized it was my group of friends. Ebstone (Weapon: Dagger), Calvin (Weapon: Rocks), Conner (Weapon: Spear), Alex (Weapon: Bow and Arrow), Andres (Weapon: Dagger), and Cole (Weapon: Spear). I then knew we actually had a chance. When they helped me up, I looked around the group of grim looking faces. I told them about our only chance was finding the hunters. They all agreed but just then we heard a distant rumble of horses’ hoofs. Out of nowhere an arrow came whizzing past us and 15 armored men charged at us. One especially large man came lumbering at us with a fierce scowl with a mighty axe bigger than Alex. He swung it around and he flat of the axe hit Cole in the head, and he crumpled. We couldn’t fight them so Conner grabbed Cole and we took off running. We made it to a stream and hid in a small ditch covered by plants. The fierce warriors ran past the spot we were hiding. We knew with the search parties that they would find us sooner or later. I decided we had to start moving to try to find the hunters. When we crept out of our hiding spot an arrow hissed through the air and found its target with a hollow thud. Calvin crumpled on site and I knew he was dead before he touched the ground. A pool of blood surrounded him. I didn’t have any time to think. I grabbed a knife and hurtled it towards the archer. It stuck home as it punctured into his chest, his blood spilling from his body onto the cold earth. The Warriors looked shocked and it gave us just enough time to escape. Hours later we found one of the hunting trails that we expected the hunters to use. Just then Andres found a pile of food that looked like it had been from an old camp and we decided to take some of the food. Andres reached stepped towards the food and all of the sudden the ground from underneath him was gone but we heard him screaming down what seemed like and endless pit for 10 seconds until we heard a splat and the screaming stopped. Horrified we all took a step back digesting what had just happened. We then knew that if we dint get to the hunters quick we might all die. Then we heard the sound of the tracking dogs barking at us and we only had a matter of seconds before they caught up to us. Cole took out his spear and hid behind a tree as the enemies approached. He lunged and fatally wounded a man and struck down another. Conner joined in a smashed a man’s face in. but then Conner was stabbed in the back with a knife and Cole turned around to help but was instantly pierced by and arrow. They both fell and even if they were alive I wouldn’t of been able to save them. Me and Ebstone filled with grief ran as hard as we could away as far as we could the enemies trailing. I then saw smoke and between the bushes I saw the big group of hunters! I tried to yell out to them but my voice wouldn’t work I looked sideways and Ebstone saw the group of Warriors and I was slammed with ripped open with a knife. My guts spilled out onto the floor. My vision got all blurry and Ebstone walked over to me took my supplies kicked me in the face hard with his boot and walked off into the sunset not going for help from the hunters but off into the unknown land and just then I knew with helplessness I was already going to die any minute an I have a heavy feeling Ebstone is going to live a long life…traitor.