Short Story: The Eternal Life

The Eternal Life

I saw a thin bony silhouette cast up against the brightly lit arena, and the cell door grated open. A guard entered grasping a rifle.

“Come. I must lead you to Her.”

I got to my feet. An aching pain shot up my leg. I cocked my head.

“Is that all the English you know?” I scowled.

He tilted his head. “Come” he said. “She is waiting.”

My eyes flashed wildly. I watched as he removed a long thick bladed samurai sword.

“Don’t make me kill you” he warned.

“If you do, then you shall die yourself for I have heard the sorceresses sentence she has wrote. She wishes rather than me die, she wants me cast to eternal life. She will turn me immortal and switch my body with a cat! So you won’t dare to…” I trailed off as he broke in.

“Come now. Or I shall bring Her to you. I’ve cut out all this mister nice guy business.”

I dropped to the floor. “Go ahead, make my day!”

He approached and heaved me to my feet.

I kicked his knees out, and grabbed his gun, spun behind him and strangled him with it. “Boy’s shouldn’t play men’s games” I said lifting his body onto the bed and switching clothes with him.

I pulled the bed sheets up and over his head to disguise who it was.

I took his gun and walked out of the cell shutting the door behind me and locking it.

I strafed down the wall concealed by the shadows. I had been waiting for this opportunity and now it had come I was going to make use of it. I ran through the shadows and narrowly avoided walking straight into a cupboard!

I left the shadows and approached a door leading outside. I went into the garden and crawled through the hedgerow. I out walked all the guards. Then I found a car with a driver revving it up. I climbed into the back and hid under a sheet.

I heard some gates open and the car drove out.

I lifted the sheet to see countryside. After about ten years of living in a prison cell, I saw countryside. I was free I thought as I clambered out into the field but I was wrong. So wrong…

Little did I know, this was more deadly that this. Much more.

I scurried through the high rimmed grass. A mine was visible in the floor. I clambered to my feet and yelled “FREEDOM!”

A gunshot echoed through the still air as the gates opened. A band of footed infantry emerged heading in my direction. I had climbed into a solid battle field!

A mine blew and a cavalry soldier was thrown off his horse and blew up. Not very nice.

An explosion blew and I was automatically blown to smithereens.