Kiernan+Assyrian+Narrative

THE ASSYRIAN ATTACK

I awaken bright early in the morning to a peaceful day. Well, what I thought was a peaceful day until the attack happened. I was just beginning to do my chores when I heard the horn, the horn that signaled that the Assyrians were about to attack. Right away I sprinted to my house and got my parents up. They told me to get a jug of water and they did too along with some food and then we went out the other exit of our city. On our way out I could see the Assyrians marching out to battle and everybody was screaming. We found a cave up on the hill about a mile away from the city but I felt bad leaving everybody else in the city. But I had to remember one thing, family comes first.

“Mom, will our city be okay,” I asked.

“I don’t know” she answered.

That afternoon we watched our warriors meet the Assyrians in battle but as I watched, I realized the Assyrians were way better in number and weapons and I knew our city would probably come to an end. As I saw our guys fall one by one I noticed the river was turning red from all the blood of the warriors. All of the sudden I saw something really strange, the king was out in the battle field! Right after I noticed him, I saw them slice his head off as a trophy and all his guts and insides were slowly oozing out of him. I couldn’t watch any longer so I ran in the cave and waited for my dad to come back with some fire wood.

In the time I waited, I made some games to play with my mom and dad so I can take my mine off what is happening. During that time, I felt a little calm and I got so into it that I forgot what was happening to our city. When my dad finally came back with the wood, we started the fire right away and decided to see what happened to our city the next day. That night for dinner we had some salted meat and vegetables which after the day we had were very tasty. We didn’t talk too much and it was very hard for me to fall asleep. I kept thinking the Assyrians would find us and kill us.

The next morning after we ate breakfast, we looked if there was anybody outside and crawled in the tall grass to the city so nobody would see us. When we got to the city, dead bodies and blood was everywhere. We slowly walked around and it looked like they took most of our supplies and treasures. When I finally went in my friend’s house, I saw something very terrifying, he was lying on the ground and it looked like he had been shot in the throat and stabbed in the heart. I ran out to my parents because I was so scared.

“Mom, Dad, I’m scared, all my friends are dead and I think we are the only ones that survived.” I said in a worried voice.

“Don’t worry, we will be fine, we will just have to find a permanent place to live where we can plant some food and access water to drink,” she said.

After a week, we finally found the perfect place we were looking for and it was far away from Assyrians. It was a nice little cave with good farming land and it was right next to the river of Tigris. A few years later after we got settled in, we were spying on a group of soldiers and heard that the Assyrians were killed by the army of Nebuchadnezzar II.

A few days later I couldn’t believe my own eyes, an Assyrian warrior that ran away in battle and just had found us! Even though he was not armed I was very scared. The Assyrian asked where we were and my dad answered. The Assyrian looked surprised when we said that and he also asked how long we have lived here. After a while of talking he asked if he could live with us and agreed to do his share of work. He also apologized about what his kind did to our people in the past but we forgave him because we know that it is really hard for him right now since his city just fell. After a while we were all great friends until the day that the hyenas attacked. Everybody except me died and I had to learn to fend for myself.

The weeks went by slowly but I in my skills in farming, hunting, and tools. I was hoping that I would find a family to take me in soon so I could stop worrying about evil animals attacking me. Suddenly outside my cave I heard the rustling of the bushes and all of the sudden three hunters were at the entrance of my cave. They tied me up and then took me to their city, Babylon. After a long talk they decided if a family wanted me I could live, if nobody wanted me, I would be killed. When they asked the village if anybody wanted me I was so relieved when somebody took me in. Well now I am glad to be a Babylonian but I still miss my old village and my family.