LIFEFORMS (Fiction/fantasy) Chapter One

...Without any warning the darkness fell upon the once calm minds of the Sentries. They turned and marched back into the Ubelliom Kingdom and massacred what was left of their home. The streets were lined with the blood and flesh of loved ones, broken children and once the bloodshed was over, the sentries turned on themselves and Ubelliom the great kingdom fell.

•CHAPTER ONE

       Heart beats plastered themselves into the silence of the night as

I ran faster than ever closer to my home, unsure of what was In pursuit of me, unsure of what awaited me, yet I ran. 

Homebound yet homeless, all that was home remained in the ash and 

screams behind my heels as I kept running; voices and hands 

reaching out to us survivors to rescue them fell on deafened ears, 

sealed shut by fear and hopelessness.

 I wondered if by morning all this would have been but a dream. It just had to be. I opened my eyes and coughed as reality truly dawned on me, there she was, smothering away, ashed pieces of what used to be our home pressed down on her spine, a hand outstretched, all that let me know she was still alive was her weak breaths in lengths that only ticked away till her departure.

'Agatha...' 

No response, from her so i crawled closer and closer to her. 

'Agatha...baby...' 

She smiled up at me, yanked her opal neck-piece at me as the building bunt into a blaze, i could read her lips...

'R-U-N my angel...I love' the silence hit me, i had lost her!

'Agatha!!?'

The tears cascaded deeply down my spine, i watched her and our unborn child burn, and like a nobody, i could do nothing but pick the pendant and run as the cavalry was not too far off anymore.