A New Beginning (0)

A NEW BEGINNING
It was a dark and a silent night , when two young riders dressed within black rushed across the Devil `s Field .
Suddenly one of them stopped and glanced at the moonless sky. His horse felt nervous, imitating the feelings of his rider . The other man seized his horse as well and looked at his companion in a curious way.
After a minute or two spent in abnormal silence the first rider cried out as loud as he could : “Run!”
The second man jumped off his horse and rushed to the forest that was waiting some meters ahead.
But then he remembered about the other rider, but when he turned the Devil`s Field was empty. His companion was gone – as well the horses .
The man was seriously scared now, but since he was one of the Royal Solders – fear was not allowed to be shown in public. So he drew his half -iron, half-silver sword and decided to go back to the field, but then he thought: “Alec told me to run...It means I mustn`t return to That place anymore...What should I do?”
Suddenly the cloudy autumn sky turned red and the rider heard some wild animal roaring. This was unacceptable to his brave lionheart and he ran off to the forest – not looking back even once .
He wandered pointlessly many hours – thinking of his friend whom was taken away by some mysterios beast .
“Maybe the Devil really exists?” he whispered anxiously to the trees , but they didn`t give him an answer , they only swayed in the chilly wind.
Finally – there was light ahead, so the rider thanked the Queen and hurried towards an unexpected destination.
He hoped it to be a village or even better – a small city. But all his dreams broke when he suddenly heard this loud wild noise again .
This time he didn`t run off, but still , he tried to stay in the bushes near the shadows of the trees.
Carefully, like a small child discovering the world he moved towards the light. And what he saw took his breath away: there was a village, but it was all burning and the people were sleeping an eternal sleep everywhere he looked. Some of them were seriosly injured, but alive . So he dared to sneek closer and take a better look .
One old man, who was still moving a bit, saw the soldier and waved sadly his hand . The youth climbed slowly over some dead bodies and sat near the injured person.
“What happened?” he asked “Who are these terrifiing creatures?”
The old man pointed one of his fingers to the north . The soldier took a look and saw an old wooden church that wasn`t swallowed by the river of fire yet.
“What`s in there?” he said, but no answer was given . The old man was dead.
The soldier prayed in the name of the Queen and stood up.
Whoever these creatures that destroyed this village were – they are gone now. No other creepy noise followed, so the man decided to pay a visit to the church that was soon covered within furious flames.
The door of the ancient building fell apart when the man came nearer to it.
Somewhat he felt uncomfortable while entering the sacred place.
“ Weird ,” he said quietly “I`ve been to many churches before , but this place...it doesn`t remind me of any stile we`ve studied in the Royal Palace... Very interesting indeed...At first the cursed Devil`s Field and now what? A sanctuary of the Demons?”
And the truth it was, because instead of the holy pictures, only war scenes were waiting for his eyesight.
Enchanted by the scenary, he totally forgot that the village was still burning and so was the old church. Suddenly, a baby`s dreadful cry awakened his mind and a woman `s quiet pray to the Satan echoed in the huge room .
“ Hello ? Is anyone in here ?” asked the soldier in a loud voice “It`s okay to come out now – the demons are all gone!”
“What?” a weak voice from the shadows asked “They are gone? But...oh!”
And a deep cry filled with hopeless despair filled the air.
The man remembered about the fire and said, “I could help you – I`m one of the Royal Soldiers!”
But the woman became even more sad and said, “I am a human myself , just like you, but when I was 7, evil monsters called the ishues came to our city – city La Air it was then as I remember ...”
“ Wait !” interrupted the man, “You mean these “ishues” or what-so-ever aren`t just normal humans ?!”
The woman burst out laughing and her baby cried even louder by now.
“Humans? NORMAL HUMANS?” she shouted nervously, “The ishues are pure demons! Even the prays can`t keep them away! We tried everything we could: starting with building more and more once holy and pure churches like this one was then and finishing with...”
But the woman couldn`t finish her story because one side of the roof had fallen on her. The man was covered in dust and so was the baby that the poor woman had desperately tried to save by throwing it to the man.
The soldier hugged the small child tighter and ran off the burning building.
He didn`t stop before he managed it to the other side of what was called a city once. There his road ended with a dead end – a hill surrounded by a deep valley.
“Well, little one!” he sadly whispered to the baby, “ At least I did everything there was to do...”
The child looked at him and all of sudden stopped its cry.
The soldier tried to smile a bit but it was impossible – too many abnormal events for one evening .
So he sat on the icy ground and looked ahead.
This picture was something that he would definetely remember for the last day of his life: a burning church backgrounded by the dark lonely forest accompanioned by the sunrise – the symbol of the beginning of new life.
By Alice Lacie