The Invasion - By Matthew

The vegetables began to climb out of the chunky brown dirt, as the sun rose to a stone cold summer morning. Silence has continued to litter the quiet morning of the village.  

The people wore ragged, holed, cream-coloured shirts with a simple dark coloured pants while the rich wore grand tuxedos or beautiful blue blouses.

The villager's crops were scattered around and there was always only just enough food for the villagers to survive through the everlasting war from the rival kingdoms. 

They lived in moldly old houses with only just enough shelter to protect the families from the upcoming winter. In winter the wells would freeze barricading the precious water within, Crops wouldn’t grow they would cower in the dirt till the hard weather would leave and wolves will kill their livestock. They decide to only stock up now. Only to protect them for the hardships to come. The village was surrounded by large hills with a stream nearby.

Ethan was tired during the morning, as he ripped the vegetables out of the farmland awakening the roots only to see their limited time of light, he did this for the sake of his family, other families and for the sake of the village. He pulled out the lettuces with that feeling of his bare mucky feet sludging in the ground.  At the pre-war times his father used to teach him combat moves with swords, bows and teaching him to hunt in case something would happen, before he left to join the war. 

Because men in the village were sent to the war by orders of the king. Anyone who disobeyed were executed or sent to war anyway. Ethan watched the children dragging the carts loaded with food to sell to the military officials within the city that was their only way of collecting valuable money to get other resources like pots, clothes, firewood and meat. ‘’Ethan ‘’! Said his mother ‘’Get more out quickly’’! Ethan groaned as he continued plucking the crop food Why? Ethan thought Why do we have to have a war now I could have my dad playing with me but no I have to pluck these vegetables to just survive!

An unannounced arm of darkness rose within the sky. Hey isn’t it that smoke from  a neighboring village? Ethan thought. People then ran into their houses as an adrenaline of fear spread like the plague. The doors slammed themselves in fear as Ethan watched the smoke continued to spread across the sky. When he heard a sound. A sound of thumping in the distance, the cries and shouting of men, the blood red banners flapping in the the sky. Chills shot high up Ethan’s spine draining the colour of his face. The sound grew higher and soon enough the army was within sight ready to kill, plunder and dominate with it’s almighty strength as they arose and ran towards the cowering village. And Ethan was right in the middle of it.