The Role of Mages

Everything Changes

Chapter 3

I ran farther and farther away from the house as the man chases me.

" What do you want?!" I ask.

" To kill you." he says.

" Why? What did I do?!" 

" Why do you think you deserve to know that?" he asks, getting closer to me.
I start to panic as he gets closer to me as we run.

" Gotta think fast. What can I do get he to slow down?!" I think to myself. I see a brick on the side as I run closer and closer to it. At this point, the man is about two feet away from me.

" I only have two seconds to do what I'm going to do. Make them count." I think to myself.

" Just give-" he begins to say, all in two or three seconds, as I grab the brick and smash it against his head.

" It actually broke to pieces?!" I ask myself as the brick crumbled into pieces as it crashed into his head. He falls down as blood started to stream out of the side of his head.

" D-did I-I-I-I-" I shutter.

" Nope." he says, pulls out a gun and shoots me at my side. I step back and bite my lower lip as I hissed in pain and wrap an arm around my side.

" You better start going back to running." he says as he slowly gets back up. I run.

" Where is he?!" I ask.

" How should I know?!" Zero says.

" We turn our back for two minutes and this happens?! This is way I hate this trip!" Aster growled.

" Shut up!" We shout at Aster as we run through the forest.

Zero eyes widen and looks to his right.

" What's wrong?!" Achned asks.

" I smell blood.. And it's the kid's..." he says.

" Is that why I heard a gunshot earlier?" I ask.

" Probably." Zero opens his wings and flies off the ground.

I run into an empty alley and hide behind a dumpster.

" It hurts..." I hiss as I keep my arm wrapped around my side, my wound dying my arm crimson with blood. 

" I can't...run...anymore...but.. I need...to hide... before he.... finds me again........ I need a weapon...to defend my...self....but what can I use...that...will...be...effective....? " I think to myself and as I take deep breaths and try to calm down. I look around, only to find nothing.

" I'm going to die," tears start to stream down my face, " I'm going to die...tonight...and if it isn't him then it'll be this wound to finish me off." I start to cry. I hear footsteps. 

" I found blood." Aster says. 

" Are we to late?" Achned sniffs around the area.

" Over here!" he points to where he smells more blood.

My breathing starts to falter as the footsteps get closer. I feel a hand grabmy hair and pull my limb body up. The man held me by my hair and smiled, sadistically. 

" Goodbye." he says as he leaves a slash mark on me from my right shoulder down to the left side of my stomach. 

And that was it. My life had ended. And I haven't done anything wrong. Was my entire existence my crime? And I have all these questions, that will be left unanswered as I fall down on the floor, dead.
Or that's what I thought would happen. Instead something else happened.