This is a scene from chapter 8 of my story, The Emerald Empire. Hope it's not against the rules to use a scene from one of my stories.
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Seven year old Nate is in his room, staring blankly at the ceiling, rocking back and forth, petting Shadow's fur, whom was just a puppy at the time.
“Nate, how come I've never seen your mother?” asks Shadow.
“M-mother? I...I don't have a mother...” replies Nate, suddenly shaking.
“You don't? What happened to her?”
“Annie and Connie say that Mother was killed by a bad person when I was a baby.” says Nate. Shadow, shocked to hear this, says nothing for a while, leaving the room completely silent except for the tune that plays in Nate's room.
After a minute, Nate suddenly grabs his train, and throws it at his basketball net. “Humans are terrible...they got rid of Mother! But I'm gonna change everything, and Mother will be proud of me. Mother...Mother...MOTHER!!!” he yells, pulling fiercely at his hair.
“I'm sorry, Nate...I didn't know.” apologizes Shadow. “My Mother was killed by a bad person too.”
“Your Mother too?”
“Yes, and it was all my fault...” says Shadow, tears running down his cheeks. “She died protecting me, and I wasn't strong enough to help her.”
Everything starts to black out, then changes into something else, like a dream ending and a new one beginning.
It's a dark, cold, rainy night deep in the forest. Puppy Shadow is running as far as his little legs can take him, being pursued by a strange man. Shadow looks behind him to see how far ahead he is of his pursuer, but crashes into a rock due to not looking where he was going. This lets his pursuer catch him, picking him up by the fur on his back.
“Now I've got you, you damn Familiar!” he throws Shadow against the bark of a tree, making a loud thud sound.
“Ah!” cries Shadow in pain. “Why do humans treat me like this? Is it just because I'm a Familiar?” he says, a tear rolling down his cheek.
The man charges at him to continue his onslaught, but before he could reach him, a much larger wolf Familiar appears seemingly out of nowhere. It stands in front of Shadow, barking fiercely at the man, then, in the blink of an eye, pounces on him, biting and slashing at him with her claws.
“Mother!” says Shadow, running over to his mother's side.
“Shadow, run!” his mother shouts.
“But Mother, I want to help you...”
The man gets back to his feet, his face hideously scratched up and bleeding.“Stupid Familiar, you're so going to pay for this! Attack it!”
In response to the man's command, the ground starts rumbling, as if a massive creature is approaching. Within seconds, a grizzly Familiar is there, and growls loudly at Shadow and his mother.
“Don't hurt my mother!” barks Shadow.
“Sorry, don't have a choice. That's the way it is when a Familiar has a master. You'll have to forgive me for this, kid.” replies the grizzly Familiar, regret clear in his voice.
“Shadow, run! RUN!!!” his mother says, pouncing on the grizzly, doing the best she can to let her son escape.
Shadow is scared out of his mind and well aware of the fact that he isn't strong enough to help his mother fight, so he does what she says, running as fast as he can.
His mother eventually managed to take the grizzly down, despite being way smaller than the large Familiar, then lunges at the man, but he pulls out a rifle.
“You damn Familiar...I'll take care of you myself!” he says, pointing the rifle right at her head.
Shadow, still running in a random direction as fast as he can, can hear shot after shot being fired, and his mother screaming. “Mother?!” he says, turning around, and running back to find her. By the time he got back to her, he found her body lying on the ground, unconscious and bloody.
“No! Mother, you have to get up!” he says, nuzzling his head on her corpse.
“You...you were a fool to come back here!” says the man, pointing the rifle at him. “I wanted to take you alive, but you've made me quite mad.”
Before he can pull the trigger, he gets hit by a blast of fire and ice. The force of the blast is so strong, it knocks him several feet back, against a giant tree. Another man, Sartur, appears, holding a huge, cannon-like rifle, and walks over to Shadow.
“I was saved by a human...?” asks Shadow, shocked by the turn of events.
“You poor thing, I'm so sorry I was too late.” says Sartur. Shadow stares at him, ready to defend himself. “Don't worry, you're safe now, little one. You no longer have a home to go to, so you'll be coming home with me.” chuckles Sartur, picking Shadow up.
“Mother, I'm going to get strong, just like you. Then no one will ever get hurt protecting me again.”
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