It was red.

Everything was red.

Red skies above, the cobblestoned paths beneath, ran streams of dark, red down the hills, bodies splayed everywhere covered in their own red. The screams were horrendous; pure absolute terror.

They never stopped.

The sky stained crimson from a dusky morning dawn was the beginning of an end. A new dawn.

Shadows ran past, screaming and shouting, words that were jumbled and distant, as they ran for their lives, pushing, shoving and tripping the other up. Bodies tripped up next to me, struggling to get back up but the heavy crowd made it difficult...a fatality.

Babbled prayers for the God's I could hear from a woman kneeling, her prayers lost in the terrible din. The sky darkened with large shadows that swooped down and up, their screeches, high-pitched cackles that made my ears hurt further and curl in further.

A body, several bodies, swooped up in the air, people halted to watch, screaming in terror at the predator's that swooped and ducked over the crowd. The voices above fading in and out, people scattering away, arms covering their heads, swatting the air as if it were flies attacking us. The screams grew louder and the shrieks echoed through the air, overlapping the voices of the hundreds of men, women and children running in terror. The sounds of evil cackled viciously, the heavy clopping of approaching evil...

Turning through the crowd, a piercing shriek cut through the air, made my ears ache and blood run cold and through the ashes and dust, I saw something huge and dark thundering towards me.

Panicking, and jumping out of the way, a pebble under my foot wrong and my knees and hands hit the dirtied, bloodied ground hard, dust and ash stinging my nose and eyes.

A sudden shadow loomed over me completely, blocking out all the light. My head snapping up in terror to face the horror I've unleashed and would be my undoing. The eyes, an echo of rage and violence, pierced from behind the red steel, as the sword was raised above me, the horse rearing upwards with a snarl.

I raised my hand in desperation before the cutting silver sliced downwards,

"Please!! NO!!"