Survival of the fittest

The sweat begins to pour down the side of your head as you your weapon into the large item beside you. Although these are just chores for a farmer, you've never done anything harder than digging through the hay for the horses.

John! Time to eat!" You hear a familiar voice shout and you turn around to see your sister. She has black hair just like you and your mother but she has her dads eyes. She is still fairly young but old enough to go to town by herself.

"Coming!" You shout as you wipe your head with your sleeve and stick your rake into the hay before heading back to your house.

Once you enter, you see your mum, sister and dad sat around the small wooden table with the food on the table.

"Sit down boy. We're about to pray" commands your dad and you do as he says not wanting to anger him.

After the prayer was done, you all begin to eat and chat. Your sister and dad are talking about who she is going to marry whilst you and your mum are talking about the food.

"So... what are you planning on doing?" Asks your dad as he begins sipping his ale which dribbles down his beard.

"I... I'm planning on joining the army... sir..." you say and everything falls under silence.

"Jeff..." says your mum knowing he's going to get angry. She is suddenly silenced by the way he smacked his glass onto the table nearly breaking the glass.

"You really are a stupid child..." he says with a hint of disappointment in his voice but mainly anger.

"I don't understand what you have against the army. You were once a soldier..." you say before you feel the stinging pain of your dads palm on the side of your face causing your head to turn.

You aren't able to turn your head afraid of what your dad might do next. You suddenly begin hearing the booming voice of your dad shouting at the top of his lungs at you but you are unable to hear what he is saying due to the high pitch that has clouded your ears.

He suddenly falls into silence as the gate opens. He stands and limps towards the window. Pure fear struck his eyes.

"Hide the kids..." he says and your mother wastes no time. She takes you both to the barn and closes the gate giving you both one last kiss before running back to the house.

You begin to peep through the crack in the wall and watch as 4 large orcs begin walking to the house. You then watch as your dad limps towards them and begins talking to them. Within a matter of seconds, you watch as a large blade exits through his chest followed by blood and the soon dropping of your fathers body.

The orcs then spit on his corpse before entering the house and ravishing your mother. You watch as they surround her and aggressively strip her followed by themselves. You are unable to watch this leading to the tears that begin streaming down your face.

"W... what's wrong..." says your sister who is now also scared. You grab her and pull her in for a long hug which she is surprised by.

More time had passed than you thought. You hear grunting and loud footsteps approach the barn enterence. Without wasting time, you grab the rake and hide next to the enterence.

In the flash of an eye, you watch as the orc enters the barn but is quickly silenced by the rake that has impaled his side. You show no remorse as you move it around causing him to scream out in pain and fall onto his knees.

"Come here." You say as you help your sister o top of a horse and you sit behind her. "Hya!" You shout and the horse takes off.

You make sure to not go towards your fatheres body to keep her from seeing what had happened. You don't look back and simply ride away from the orcs.