Arthur's Saukrels: A Narrative Fiction

“They need a place to stay,” I said to Arthur. Alright, on one condition. If you bring me Otto’s basket we will accept you into our clan.” Rudy replied, “Piece of cake!” What an arrogant piece of trash I thought to myself. A few weeks later they came back with his basket. They knocked on the door. “Hello anyone home,” Rudy said. I came to the door. “What do you want “saumensch” ” I replied. “We’ve brought the gold,” Liesel said. I opened the door and let them in. After a while I got a call from Arthur asking me to come down to the Amper river and bring the little “saukrels” over with me. So I did. At the Amper river, Liesel and Rudy were praised and were brought back to the house. It didn’t take long for Arthur to come up with his next egregious

I looked at Arthur and asked him, “Are you sure about this. Letting these two saukrels go alone together. At least let me go with them.” “No!” said Arthur. They will be fine.” “But-“ I was cut off with an alarm. “Abort! Abort!” Screamed my comrade. I quickly jumped off my tree. “Ahh!” I screamed in agony. I had hit a branch on the way down and was bleeding. I ran towards Arthur and helped him get off. Then we all jumped the fence. Suddenly we heard a scream. “HELP!!!” Liesel screamed. I looked back and saw Rudy struggling to get his pants freed, while a few angry farmers with axes running from a distance towards them could be seen. I looked towards Arthur and he looked back at me and said, “We either risk our lives or we ditch these kids and save ourselves.” I looked at my arm that was now gushing with blood. I thought to myself if only I was not hurt. I needed to somehow cajole Arthur to help them. But then again, Arthur was the leader and would only follow what he would say. Fortunately, Liesel was able to free Rudy from the barbed

After a while, I got impatient and exclaimed, “schweigenIt’s!”. Arthur then replied “We all make mistakes. Now let’s forget about that incident and enjoy ourselves some fresh fruit.” I, on the other hand, was not interested in fruits. I slowly backed off from the others and went outside to take a breather. A few moments later Arthur appeared by my side and said, “They just became a part of us. It’s okay. You also made mis-.” “You don’t understand!”, I cut him off shouting in anger. “What they did to Jack- ugh! I just don’t want anything to happen to anyone else.” I said. “I know how you feel Red. I know exactly how you feel. Red I’m the leader of this team. Whenever anyone gets hurt in any way I suffer the most. Any mission we go on I have to make sure everyone is all right and I have to keep watch over everyone. I don’t take this team as just a team. I take it as my own family. You may have lost only one brother, but I have lost four people being a team leader.” He explained in sadness. “I am sorry,” I said. “It is fine, now let us go back inside and have some