Now im only 17 and kinda new at writing but i had the sudden urge to write a book and well here it is.
feel free to make or change anything thats wrong and give me some ideas of what u would like to see happen =]
Chapter 1
Our tale begins one morning as a young boy ventures out hunting with his father on his 17th birthday. “Father what’s the matter? Can’t you keep up?” chuckled the boy, “Your getting to old father! Ha-ha” he shouted, panting slightly.
“I may be old Alakai and you may be faster but I have the wisdom!” his father shouted back.
“There is no wisdom needed to run father! I’ll get to the buck long before you!” shouted Alakai with a little laugh as he ran faster and faster jumping and dodging through the tall thick trees.
“What you don’t see is that your about to lose, son!” said his father with a sort of no-it-all grin.
“And whys that!” yelled Alakai having just been confused. As it seemed to be not yet one second after Alakai had answered he hit something with a giant THUD! He awoke with the pain of a thousand drums in his head. Alakai was a strong kid, with fair skin and a slim face. He had coarse, straight, dirty blonde hair and green eyes.
“See boy, I told you that you were going to lose he-he” chuckled his father as stood there staring down at Alakai.
“It feels like I’ve been kicked by a horse, did you catch the buck?” asked Alakai, slowly getting up holding his throbbing head.
“No son, it seems that giant red lump on your forehead must have scared it away” laughed his father.
“Oh ha-ha father, you have jokes don’t you” said Alakai. “Lets just get back home; mother will get worried if we don’t make it in time for breakfast”.
“Right you are son.” His father replied.
So they headed out back towards their farm. On the way, Alakai noticed how the woods were getting smaller and smaller, there were hardly any fine dark brown oak trees anymore, in fact they were the only trees left in his village. The king’s men had chopped the rest and burned them because of failure to pay for land. After a while of walking Alakai had a sort of chill flow down his spine, like a slow but fierce burst of cold wind blew past them and on through the woods brushing the leaves of the giant trees as it went by. Alakai decided to ignore it as he felt it was just a cold front coming down from the hills.
Soon enough they reached the opening of the woods where just beyond the sparkling duck ponds you could see their farm. Alakai was especially excited to get back seeing as he was starving for some food, and maybe also a present from his mother. As he and his father kept getting closer and closer to their cottage, Alakai noticed something strange… there was smoke pouring from the seals and cracks of the door and windows! In a burst of sprint, Alakai started running for the cottage only thinking of his mother’s safety.
“Alakai!! Where are you…?” His father yelled after him, only just realizing the smoke too, he chased after Alakai. “Alakai wait! It’s too dangerous! Let me handle this!” his father bellowed running right past him and into the burning house.
Alakai stood there watching and waiting, hoping that any minute his father and mother would run out of the house safely but as a couple minutes went by no one came out.
“FATHER!!” He screamed…but still no one came out. “MOTHER!!” he yelled again…still nothing. Then, with a sudden burst, his father came rushing out of the house carrying what looked like to be his mother.
Alakai stood there in shock only hoping his mother would be ok. His father placed his mother down on the grass which seemed to be covered in a thick layer of black ash. Alakai watched as his father tried to wake his mother but her eyes did not open, his father slowly stood up keeping his head down as if he had failed. He looked up at Alakai with a look Alakai had never seen before; it was of sadness and forgiveness. All of a sudden his father flinched and with a mere shudder spoke to his son,
“Alakai…run!” he muttered.
“Father… what’s wrong??” Alakai asked his father slowly walking towards him to see if he was alright. “Father! Tell me wha…”. But before he could finish his sentence his father collapsed face first into the black ashy grass leaving Alakai to see a single arrow stuck in his back.
There is a prologue and to get the whole plot of the story just say so and i’ll put that up too =]
also does anyone have a good idea for a name of this book?
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