Gaby’s+Assyrian+Attack

Run!

“Aaaaaa!!!” I screamed as we are being attacked by Assyrians. “Gaby run faster!” I hear my mom scream at me. I obey her and keep on running for my life.

It all started when my dad decided to move from our old hut to a new and improved hut. My sister and I were happy because our old hut was too small for all of us, but my mom said she had a weird feeling about this. Since my mom always says stuff like that that never happen, we didn’t care and moved still. That was a big mistake.

At the beginning it was the best place to live until the Assyrians came running into our world. They trampled our people and killed my dog, Doodle. At that moment I didn’t care because I was too busy saving my life. All of a sudden I hear my friend Janessa yelling for help. When I turn I see that she has been trapped by a big tree trunk. I run over to help but it is too heavy for me so I left her behind. She gets so mad that she stands up, throwing the tree behind killing three Assyrians. She starts chasing me until she realizes that she is free. (I knew she would do that.) I run back and get their spears. I give one to Janessa and run over to my mom to give her the last of the three spears. We run through our city-state looking for my dad and sister, while Janessa looks for her dad (she is an only child and her mom was killed three years ago by the Assyrians). As we are running I see Janessa from the corner or my eye, she was slowing down. I turn around to see her be captured by two Assyrians. Right then and there, my heart dropped.

I couldn’t believe that she has been captured. I was too surprised that I didn’t notice that I was captured as well. I was dragged to where they were going to take me because I couldn’t even walk. When we were finally there, I woke up and I noticed that I was tied up. I didn’t know where I was until I saw Janessa and she told me everything. While she was telling me that I felt a bit of pain under my knee. When I looked under it I saw there was a dagger in it and I was bleeding a lot. I showed Janessa and she pulled it out so fast that I wasn’t even done showing her it. I told Janessa,” It probably got stuck while they dragged me, but for now we had to find a way to get untied and a way to escape."

We used the dagger to cut the thick rope and all we needed now was to try to move from where we were sitting without the Assyrians seeing us. What we did was that we pretended to be tied up and we moved slowly so they wouldn’t notice. We were far away enough that we could stand up. We were so happy and surprised. Now that we were almost safe we had to find a way out of the cement cage. As I limped to look for an exit or at least a whole, I heard someone calling out to Janessa. When we turned, Janessa and I felt a bit joy and surprise.

Janessa and I were happy because our moms were right there in front of us. I almost forgot about my mom until then, but right now it was more of Janessa’s moment then mine. We all thought that Assyrians had killed her mom, but instead they just captured her and made her a slave. It was too much of a surprise that it brought tears to my eyes. My mom was fine too. They told Janessa’s mom to teach my mom because she was going to be a slave as well. I showed my mom my cut and she did a horrific face that made me look and I understood why.

My cut was now full of dirt and I remember my mom telling me if I ever get a cut, I should wash it or try not to make it dirty (which I didn’t try either) or else it will make it worse. Good thing that Janessa’s mom works there or else they would have had to cut my whole leg off. She cleaned it with this weird liquid that they used to heel the warriors if they got injured. It burned so much at the beginning, but after wards she put this cream-like thing that made it all better. Finally she put a wrap around it and we were ready to leave.

Even though my knee was wrapped and all, I still limped. Janessa’s mom said that she knew where an exit was and to follow her. On our way there my mom saw someone. She said that they looked familiar. I looked and saw my sister, Lilani, she was tied up too so Janessa still had the spear that I gave her. Lilani said,” I was captured when I went to go get water from the stream next to our crops and my dad was captured as well but instead of putting him in there, they killed him." Once again, my heart dropped and so did my moms.

My mommy and I fainted and I had a dream that we were nice and happy far, far away. We were on an island and we were so happy and peaceful. There were no warriors trying to kill us or to trap us. We were sitting on an island watching the sunset, and it was a beautiful site. But it wasn’t just my mom, my sister, our neighbors Cindy and Michel, and it was also Janessa’s complete family. I looked and looked trying to find my dad but he wasn’t anywhere at all. After that site I woke up with a scream.

After I woke up I saw that everybody was staring at us and so were the Assyrians. Once again we were running for our lives. We jumped over people, rocks, and baskets full of medical equipment. We were running so fast that we were able to exit that cement cage and hide around a big rock without being sighted by an Assyrian. The Assyrians ran right past us without looking behind the rock. The war was still going on so we had to look for shelter or a way to hide from anyone who will try to capture us again.

We found a cave but the opening was facing right in front of the Assyrian’s headquarters. We moved on and found a huge empty hut but still it wasn’t safe, we stayed any way. In there we found food and water. Lilani found a bandage for my knee because the one I had on was so muddy from the big rock. While me and Janessa were exploring the big hut looking for another exit in case if someone dangerous came running in, we heard a weeping behind a bed of hay. We both looked at each other and at the same moment we walked over and moved a cube of hay. We backed up with fear at what we saw.

It was a huge shadow with big huge ears and a really fast tail wagging back and forth. And then all we see is a small animal with four legs charge at us. We looked with amazement as a little pup trying to bite Janessa’s knee. Afterwards Janessa and I started laughing so hard that I started snoring like a pig which makes Janessa laugh even more. As I picked up the pup, we heard another weep and this time in a pile of corn. Janessa goes over and moves the corn one by one. At the very bottom another little pup jumps up and tries to scratch Janessa’s nose. She moved right on time. I start laughing at her with my pup in my hand. She goes back and picks it up. I go over and put my pup next to hers and I notice they are twin sisters. I named mine Doodle just like my other Doodle that was killed by the Assyrians. Janessa named hers Coco and we go back to where our moms and Lilani are to show them our new pets.

Lilani was so happy that she volunteered herself to take care of them when Janessa and I were going somewhere. I said,” First we have to find a way to get out of here and to go somewhere else that is safer and possibly not in that area." My mom said,” I have a plan and I found another exit where there is no one that can see us." We followed her and Janessa and I were holding our new pets so they won’t run away. Without telling us her plan, my mom leaded us to a stream. In the distance I could hear spears being thrown and people screaming for help. I felt like I should help but I didn’t want to get hurt or captured again. In the stream there was a small boat. I couldn’t believe that my mom would think that all of us will fit in it, but we had to try.

Janessa, Lilani, and I sat really close. My mom in front leading the boat and in the middle was Janessa’s mom with Doodle and Coco. My mom said, “The stream will push and lead us to safety or our maybe our possible doom." It was a really bumpy ride and we almost crashed about three or four times. Coco almost jumped and Doodle was going to follow but Lilani and Janessa’s mom cached them before they could reach the water. Once the water splashed right behind me and my back got drenched with water. In the distance I could see smoke and I could also smell it to. Then I saw someone jump into the stream.

I showed my mom and she said to try to stop the little boat. We pulled on branches but they just they just snapped off. When we tried to jump off, we were right in front of our neighbors and Janessa’s dad. Janessa’s mom and Janessa jumped with joy and landed in the water. We all started laughing and Coco and Doodle jumped as well. Behind us, Assyrians were also on a boat coming after us. Right away, we jumped out and started running for land. The Assyrians saw us and they started throwing arrows and spears. We dodged all of them but we had to start running again which was hard because we were all wet, but we had to try. We ran back into the war which was a bad thing to do.

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; text-align: left;">There were spears arrows being thrown and in the distance I could see fire balls being launched. After they landed I could hear people yelling and being squashed by the ball and then burned to death. When we were running, a huge rock that was on fire landed right in front of us. Everything around it that was flammable caught fire. It was good and bad at the same time. It was good because then the Assyrians wouldn’t try to get to us. On the other hand, it was bad because we could get burned. But then Janessa’s dad remembered that we were all still wet. He meant that if we were wet we, we wouldn’t get burned because water, somehow, always puts down fire. Then he told us to run through the fire. We all were like what is he thinking. Does he want to kill us? What side is he on? In all of these thoughts we ran through the fire. We ran so easily that we knew he was still on our side.

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; text-align: left;">Now that we were out of the fire we had one less problem, but the Assyrians were still trying to kill us. Once again we were running from Assyrians. I was so tired of running that I started to get really mad. I remembered that Janessa, my mom, and I still had the spears from the Assyrians that Janessa had killed with the tree trunk. I got mine and started charging at the Assyrians with anger. Janessa saw me and started charging too with her spear. Coco and Doodle thought that we were playing and started running with us. Janessa’s dad had weapons in a small bag and he gave us each one. I got another spear. Now that we all had something to defend ourselves with, we all started charging. The Assyrians saw us and fleeted with fear. That was our third victory.

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; text-align: left;">We were running through the war and it was starting to get dark. We knew that we had to get out of there before it was dark completely. So we ran a little bit faster. We ran right past the Assyrians headquarters and we were almost close to safety. We were close but right when we were going to reach safety, a river crossed our path and it was going really fast. It was impossible to cross it by swimming and the war was just getting bigger and bigger. Coco and Doodle ran through the water right away and left us surprised. So now all we needed was my mom, Lilani, Janessa’s mom, Janessa’s dad, Janessa, and our neighbors, Cindy and Michel. That was a lot of people who had to cross the river. That’s when it hit me.

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; text-align: left;">If we all put our hands together we could cross the river because that made us heavy. I told them, "Hey, let’s put our hands together and cross the river." they looked at me like if I was crazy. I still kept on talking, “if we come together it will make us heavy and help us cross the river." finally they understood me and hoping that we wouldn’t flow away, we jumped in. It wasn’t deep and we didn’t float away. When we were half way into the river, the river seemed to get bigger and bigger. Or maybe that was me because I was getting really confused from that water splashed on the rocks and my knee wasn’t helping at all. On the other side of the river the pups were there to congratulate us by licking our faces and by giving us joy.

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; text-align: left;">We got out of the water and we started walking because we didn’t want to hear the death of many people. We ended up on the shore of an island that had the most beautiful sunset. That’s when I realized that my dad wasn’t there and I just blurted into tears and so did Lilani and my mom. Janessa’s mom tried to comfort us but nothing helped the fact that there was a whole in our family.

<span style="display: block; font-family: "Comic Sans MS",cursive; text-align: left;">It has been three years since our escape and we have started our own kingdom on an island. It’s nice and big and there is always a big beautiful sunset to make the day end worth it. Also, there isn’t anyone trying to kill us or capture us which is pretty nice. Even though there was still a whole in our family our life in this island was perfect here.