My names Asher Palmer. I was 13 when it all started.Hearing all those screams and bombings was a lot for a child to handle.Everyone thought I was just another weak little girl..But now I'll prove all of them wrong.

"Asher, look at me when I'm talking to you,"my mom says strictly.

Rolling my eyes i look up at her.Tall,green eyes,long wavy brown hair.Some say I'm the split image of her.Well,I beg to differ.

"Mom I don't think lecturing me about my homework is gonna help"

I see my mother frown and sigh from the corner of my eye.Once again I Asher Palmer disappointed my mother.Her lips curl up as she was about to say something,but what comes next makes us both freeze.A low screeching sound erupts from outside.The ground shakes from the

impact and then the world stops.Suddenly I feel myself getting pushed to the other side of the kitchen.I don't have any time to see what happened to my mother because everything turns black.While I'm knocked out I dream of an old building with children. From behind it looks as if they are playing ball and laughing.I drag my feet against the tall grass.Once I get close enough the children just stop playing.Backs turned to me I reach out to tap one,but felt as if I didn't belong,like I wasn't meant to be here. I froze as I looked at the boy's face.A scream erupts from my throat,but I was don't dare letting it come out.It's completely burnt.Dark Red lips filled with ashes,bald spots filled with deep burns.The boy's mouth opens as if he's screaming,but he's not.His arm flies up and points at something.I turn around swiftly,coming face to face with a burned skull.I let it out.I scream.

Sweat pouring down from my body covers my face.I look up coughing from ash and realize I'm awake. My mom! I try to get up,but I'm weighed down by wooden planks covering my legs. Ugh not now! Shifting I am able to squirm out. Biting my lip from the pain I crawl out and to what I think is my mom.

"Mom!"I cough out.I see her stir just a bit for me to know she's alive.

I lean over her and inspect her face. Bloody hell! Her blood is everywhere.Wiping the blood away from her face I see her eyes fly open. Green as ever. Holding back a sob I cling to her.

"Mommy don't leave me please!I need you!"

I feel her hand curl up in my now messy tangled hair.

I look up at her.Her lips speaking,but nothing comes out.

Her eyes start closing.Then,the sobs hit.I can't stop them.They come and come till I'm no more.Her hand falls from my head.

"Mom?"

I know she's not here,but I need her.

"Mom please wake up!"

My voice hoarse I keep yelling for her to get up.

Before I can do anything else I feel hands grab onto my arms.

Kicking and screaming I try to get back to my mom.

"Hold still little girl!"

A man? I stop moving and turn my head to look at them.

No..This isn't good. The South Colony soldiers glare at me. They are our enemies,why aren't they killing me?

"Get her to the pods she may do us some good."

I don't remember what happened next.

Screams still erupted from afar.

No one was safe. At least I thought.

Maybe today was my last day.

Or maybe..Today was my beginning.

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