The Yakamazi Story
5. Setting Off
When morning came things were already happening. I could here the crowds gathering outside. I ran all around my house looking for a weapon. The best thing I could find was a hammer. Which was a bit lame, but I didn't care. I just needed something that could cause real damage. I decided some time ago that a real warrior earns his weapons, and only uses what he has the skill to use. You don't need any skills to swing a hammer. So I felt comfortable with it. I spoke with my mum who said as long as I was happy I could go do what I liked. I don't think she understood what I was going to be doing (she was probably as in the dark as me on this one), but either way I kissed her good bye and said I'd be back soon.
All the town's streets were packed full of men, women and children. This gave me the impression that they were not here to fight. It was common knowledge now though. As I pushed through the crowds I overheard people talking about demons, and so Ben must have been right all along. I met up with Ben in the main square. He had met a pack of men who were willing to arm themselves as best as they could to push back this incoming threat. Unfortunately it was just a small pack though. It was quite disheartening to see what was going on. The people of Unique had fallen back into Leber, and instead of holding there. Everyone from Leber had decided to follow suit and leave their homes to fall back further, bringing them to my Town. Everyone was so scared that they didn't want to fight. They were happy to leave everything they had earned and built to be destroyed for the sake of never having to kill. I didn't feel the same. I spent weeks with my family building the roof for our house. Spent days building the river rope swings and play forts when I was younger. I have many good memories of this place and I wasn't ever expecting to return home one time in the future to see the place all burned to the ground or destroyed. I was the youngest person in this small army, and I was only armed with a hammer, but with that little hammer I would drive all these scaled whatevers back to wherever it is that they came from. Screw everyone else that didn't wanna get involved... we'd do it ourselves... I was pumped... I was up for it... I was getting involved!
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Uploaded: 29th November 2010
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