rt115+Difficult+Choices


 * My Worst Choice Yet**

BOOM!

No one knew that this would happen. It’s all my fault. Now just before you’re saying, “What is this dude talking about?”, I’m going to tell you.

It was late at night, and I was sitting with my brother, Lee, and we were playing a little game of a game I made up : Be The Last One and DIE! Cool name right?

“Hey big bro Axel, I beat you! Ha! I took out your gorgon Zeus with my flare blitz dragon!”, Lee said. Geeky game, right?

“How do you beat me every ti-” There was a sudden explosion. I ran outside of my house and saw smoke rising from every direction, and also on almost every house in the village. “Lea, get out. We’re leaving. Don’t pack.” What just happened?

Once Lee got out of the house, we ran down the alleyway on the left of us. I saw people scrambling everywhere. Parents grabbing their kids, people grabbing valuables, and I actually saw a cook that was saying, “Don’t worry Carrotian. We’re leaving right now.” My brother and I just ran straight down the alley before we got into our first impediment. I saw two men in shining, blackish brown armor, charging down the lane, with spears at their hand, and a pistol fully loaded.

“Shoot!” I muttered. Those men were Howard Lee’s men, but in our part, they were called Leosins. Howard was an outlaw. Howard liked to combine old Chinese fighting and fighting with guns. He destroyed villages, just for fun. I live in the Northern side of America and Howard liked to slay villages on the West part of America, taking Native American gold so he can buy more men and kill more for fun. Why would he come here though?

“Big bro!” Lee said. he pointed at the men and they looking straight at me and my brother’s eyes. What would they want with us? Man, having too many questions in my head really hurt. “Axel, we should probably use the West gate to get out of the village.”

“Agreed.” I said. We took a right at the first pathway we saw and ran for our lives down it, dodging people as if we were ninjas. We then stopped at a crossroad. I peered to the left lane, and saw a group of Leosins guarding one part of the gate, but their backs were turned to us as they drank wine and sang silly songs like, “Mary had a Little Lamb.” Weird. I then turned my head and inspected the right lane. So many flames were there, about to almost reach the rooftops. Which way should I pick?

If we went to the left, me and my brother could just sneak past them, but if we got caught, that was the end. If I took the right lane, we could just go and the rooftops and we would be out, but the rooftops looked like they could catch fire any second. It was a difficult choice to make. I then chose the safest way possible for Lee. “We’re going to take the rooftops on the right lane,” I said.

“Right,” Lee answered.

Rooftops. Best way to get around. It’s a faster way of getting to places and not as crowded. Mostly kids around the age of 11, like me, go up there, and kids around the age of 7 go there, just like Lee. Some grown-ups even put stores up on their roofs, thinking that they’ll get some profit off of us kids. They do.

First, I let my brother go up. It takes him about 15 seconds to get up, because he’s really small. You don’t want to challenge him to a race though, or else all you’ll see are of him are his footprints. He went to the nearest house with a window and started to climb. He first put his foot on the bottom ledge of the window, and put his hands on the top ledge. Then, he grabs the roof, jumps up with only his feet, and puts them on the top ledge. After that, all he does is puts his feet on the roof, and voila! All I have to do is jump, put my feet on the top ledge, and then just do a little hop onto the roof. That took about, 2 seconds.

We sprinted on the rooftops, and I felt a mixture of emotions-sad, happy, worried, and some others I can’t really explain. Once we reached the edge of the roofs, I looked behind me to see if they were any Leosins chasing us. I saw something worse. Fire had lit the rooftop on which me and my brother got on, and it was coming towards us as quick as Lee’s run. “Jump!” I said, and I didn’t expect that was the last time I was going to see my brother.

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