Journey to hell

The boy in the ashes

Chapter 1

Jonithin

It's been six years since that dreadful moment. It was scary how fast six years went by when you're racing time.

"I need to find a camp" I muttered to himself. But with sweat pouring of my body like I just got out of a spring, I need to sit for a minute to catch my breath. I had been running from the hell hounds from Nautya 4 miles back southeast. When I realised where I had stopped I had look around. I was in a gully roughly the width of a small town but stretching for a half mile, a creak flowed down the right side of the gully and went into the serpents lake, I was standing on the tree line that circled the entire field but not one tree, old nor young grew inside the forest wall.

"How interesting this is" I said as I stepped into the field

"Yet how familiar".

As I was walking down to Serpents Lake when saw a town on the beach side but something looked off, it was all burnt down except for a small spot on the right, then it all came back.

There had been a dreadful battle there; we tried to stop the hell hounds and the Knights of Death from taking the village to the underworld and damning every one for all eternity. The battle was long and hard fought but we had won the battle. When we were searching for any and all survivors is when it happen, the King of Death, Master of all thoughts who have passed on, the Grim Reaper! He rose from the ground to a staggering 20 feet tall, he wore a black hood as dark as twilight with no moon, his skull was a dirty Wight with fiery red eyes as if hell has touched him, and his bone scythe. With one swift swoop of his scythe he stroked Jessica in the heart and then she disappeared as if she was not there in the first place, in this small moment I raced at him and swung my great sword but only managed to cut a piece of his clock before he disappeared in a fiery explosion, every building spontaneously combusted into fire and then I fell to the ground unconscious from exhaustion.

When I reached the town it was the same as before but it looked as if someone has moved into a ashes filled house. In the space there were two small lime green eyes staring back at me. To small to be an adults eyes but to big to be an infants. The teen flew out of the hole and tried to slit my neck but he was far to slow and Jonithin easily moved out of the way in time, when the kid hit the ground with a thud he noticed the kid was a boy. "Nice try but keep your arms open next time to catch your enemy and then slit there throat" I said. The boy roles onto his back and said "Why have you come to my home?" "I was just passing by, how old are you?" I said. The boy wouldn't say anything." We'll I better find a place to sleep, if you see any hell hounds be Shure to slow them down for me" I said as I look at where I came from. When the boy looked over and back, then he ran behind me, the boy was just over half my height so about 4'6". I laughed and then said "I will protect you if you find me a place to stay?"

Hulin the biggest moon was full while his little sister Juliann was only a half moon this night. The boy found me a bed that was half burnt but still usable. I build a fire and was putting more wood on when the boy finally said "15, I'm 15 and my name is Adam, after the first man that made this town, my town." "Well it's not safe here any more so in the morning I will tell you how to get to Nautya from here." Adam and I said nothing more that night.

In the morning Adam was nowhere to be seen, "We'll he's better of with out me" I said quietly to myself.

It was near noon when I took a break and had some stale bread I found in Adams camp. There was a snap of a twig, I flew up and pulled out his sword so fast that a leaf wipped in the air. Adam comes out of the bush where he was hiding. "I thought that you where back at the town" I said. Adam said "I followed you" with a guilty tone in his voice."Well can you fight?" Adam said "Of course I can!" "Then hit me!" Adam ran at me, I dogged his attack but he held his arm out and grabbed me like I told him, he tried to tackle me but I got a hole of his shoulder and swung him back to where he came from. Adam came back with a forceful attack and moved me back a inch "Nice hit but hit lower to knock me of balance" I said. Adam fell to the ground panting after 5 minutes of fighting me. "Got some skill for your age but still have a lot to learn."I said. "Then teach me and I will help you hunt and make shelter and fight, I can hold my own with food and I don't take much room in a bed" Adam pleaded. "Fine but if you get killed it's not on me now we must go to the shipping docks on the other side of widows point, it's a 6 day run so we will make camp here for the night."