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I wake up sitting on a chair. The noise is unbearable! What's going on? I look around at my surroundings. Everywhere I look there are people fighting and killing each other! I gasp. The sight is horrible! Why are they fighting? I take in a breath that feels very painful. Hopefully this will end soon. I am so distracted by this fighting that I haven't thought to ask myself why? Why am I sitting on a chair in the middle of a war zone? There's got to be some good reason, but what? Suddenly I see a light. It is the headlight of a tank coming right at me! I have to move but I can't! I am tied to the chair! "This has to be a dream!" I yell. The tank lights dim and the fighting stops, everything seems to be frozen in time, but that's impossible right? Everything goes pitch black. …show more content…
"RUN!" He yells. That's when I notice the plane. I scream and start running for my life. Jason gets out a gun and starts shooting at the plane. Bullets fly into the air. I want to turn back. I really do. Jason could die! I suddenly trip over a huge gun. I look back at Jason. The plane is about to shoot him. I try to pick up the gun. Another war guy helps me and we both lift it together. "Okay shoot when I say to," the war guy says. He surprisingly sounds like a girl. I look at the war guy. He has girl like eyelashes. "Are you a..." I start to say. "Now shoot!" The war guy shouts. I do as I'm told and a huge bullet flies out of the gun. It heads straight towards the plane. Jason starts running towards us. The plane starts fireing missels at Jason. "Jason!" The war guy and I yell. Jason runs towards us and the plane flies away. "That was close," He says, panting. The war guy takes off his hat. It's a girl! "Jason!" she says, hugging him. I am so shocked and angry that he has a girlfriend that I run away. "Piper!" Jason yells, pulling out of the hug and running after
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