Morning came and the sun rose from the ground.

As usual, the soldiers pounded door to door, waking all of us to remind everyone of the labor we all have to go through everyday.

Of course I've gotten used to this lifestyle.

I put on some clothes, ate my breakfast and I headed out to the workfield.

I couldn't find Fred, he usually waits for me and we’d always go together, talking about the things we talk about until we reach the work site. But this time, I couldn't find him.

Maybe he's still asleep? I thought to myself.

I've been with Fred my whole life, he does occasionally oversleep from time to time. So I took a detour and went towards his house, which was empty.

This is weird.

Where is he?...Maybe he left early. I thought again, not thinking much of it.

As I walked towards the worksite, behind everyone else, Fred's mother approached me asking me of Fred's whereabouts.

Now this is serious.

I searched through the crowd, looking for fred. Still no signs of him, could it be he is still upset about our little argument the other day?

I finally concluded that he might have gone somewhere to cool off his head after our fight yesterday.

I did shut down his dream of living another life, a better yet dangerous life. I decided it would be best if I left him alone for the time being.

2 hours later, as I paved the road right beside a dozen more slaves under the scorching sun, I noticed a little commotion from a distance.

And there I spot Fred making a big commotion, right in front of a few soldiers.

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I don't know what he's doing, but it sure as hell captured everyone's attention.

Everyone is feeling confused, scared, and other emotions even I can't describe, even I'm confused. What is Friedrich doing? What is he up to? I thought to myself, I was nervous my stomach was boiling and my heart was racing, my hands began to shake and sweat ran down my chin.

All of a sudden, Fred stabs the soldier right through his ribs.

“EVERYONE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!” He shouted. It was so loud it felt like it echoed across the world.

As everyone else began to scramble running to escape for their lives, I finally understood what Friedrich had done.

He created a commotion big enough to distract the men in charge so that everyone could have a chance of escaping.

I ran too, And as I did I heard my mother calling my name so we could both leave.

But I didn't run to her, I ran towards fred.

I needed to stop Fred and beg for forgiveness, I know the consequences, he's gonna get everyone killed.

When I reached Fred, he had already killed four other soldiers.

I found him while he was there, provoking the other soldiers while he was severely injured. I immediately tackled Fred and I raised my hands in front of the soldiers, asking them to forgive my friend.

Just then, he entered the space.

A man of average height and build, he had blond hair; side part in style, and long roman nose, brown eyes, and pointy ears.

This man was Captain Horo. He is in charge of this district and oversaw our little project.

He had this arrogant, chilling grin on his face as he bent over to me and Fred who were both in the ground.

“Look what you've done you brats” I said, as he punched me so hard in the face everything went black.

Minutes later, I had my consciousness back, I blinked many times, confused. I hear screams, and numerous people pleading with their lives. I woke up to see that my people were all there on their knees, crying and begging.

I see from a distance, Captain Horo beating the hell out of a kid. a kid….

My heart fell, my mind went blank and I started begging for him to stop. I watched as captain horo beat the living shit out of Friedrich.

He was wearing a brass gauntlet, he repeatedly beat Friedrich, whose face was so disfigured I couldn't even tell if it was him anymore.

I screamed so loud the other soldiers laughed at me.

I pleaded to them to stop, my tears flooded the ground as I watched captain horo mercilessly beat Friedrich to death.

He stopped, as he left a lifeless Friedrich, dragged him to a ditch where the others were sent after executing them, and pushed him off with his foot. He looked at me, and slowly made his way towards me.

“Wanna know why I'm gonna spare you today?” He asked.

“Why?” I responded, not to his question but to his actions.

Clearly he thought I meant his question.

“Well, you were actually brave enough to stop that brat from further harm” he told me.

“I see that you fear us, you fear our cause” he added.

“And that's good, which is why I'll let you live today” he added again.

He grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and turned me around to show me another gruesome sight.

His men were holding a woman; my mother.

She was severely injured, clearly they beat her up too. I couldn't bear myself to see it, I started to cry and I begged captain horo to spare her too.

“Please…. She's got nothing to do with any of this” I begged him.

“You can't do this, please! Show mercy” I added more.

He looked back and grinned.

“Too bad” he replied as he sheathed his sword ready to strike my mother.

“WAIT-”

I heard a short scream of agony, before it went quiet. Then I saw my mother’s head.

Captain horo decapitated my mother.

I screamed.

The soldiers around started laughing, mocking me, as I screamed in pain, I was helpless.

Captain horo ordered his men to finish up, I too, watched my people get slaughtered by these evil men.

At this point, I felt blank, I felt nothing. The soldiers began to surround me, as they began to raise their fists, they started beating me up.

They took everything.

I was consumed by anger, but I couldn't do anything about it.

This needs to change, this is so cruel.