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The Ancestors: A Short Story

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The Ancestors
I woke up to the sound of footsteps running up and down the stairs. As I walk down to the kitchen I noticed the pots and pans all over the kitchen.

“What happened to the kitchen An Jing Zhi”, yelled my mother(she is the Empress) “did you do this?”

My family was a very odd family they never told me about my ancestors they always said my ancestors were normal but the people in the village said I was strange. I was a tall, 15 year old girl with thick, long, black hair and could understand what everyone else was saying perfectly.

“I came downstairs and everything was like this…. I didn’t touch it I swear”, I said.

Our servants are very nice, but there is one I like specially she is very nice and she tells me that my ancestors …show more content…

My mother told me that all I had to do was believe in myself and everything will be fine. The warriors kept staring at us it got creepy after a while , maybe it was the way I was dressed. And out of nowhere a dragon appeared!

“Mother I can’t kill anybody this is too much for me”, I said

“Don’t worry you’ll be fine, ok trust me and besides you have a dragon on your side they don’t”

3…...2…...1 the war began. Arrows started flying everywhere, but went right passed me, and the dragon was spitting fire everywhere. As I was watching everyone shooting or get shot with an arrow, I saw my mother get hit by an arrow, I ran straight to her.

“An Jing Zhi, you have the chance to save us…...hurry before it’s to….”, My mother stopped breathing.

“Mother, Mother come back”

my mother just disappeared off the ground was she dead? Was she alive? Where did she go? I just felt so much rage grow inside me and I stood up and jumped on the dragon and grabbed a bow and arrow. I started shooting the arrows not knowing where they would go like I was some… crazy …show more content…

Out of nowhere another letter appeared right in front of me and everyone stared.
The letter said: An Jing Zhi, You did it congratulations your family will be healed as soon as you drink the cup of healing water that is placed in front of you.
I looked up and a beautiful glass filled with water fell right in my hand

“Drink”, I heard a whisper

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