Once upon a time there was this mischievous little kid only named as Luke. He was known around the town of Errandale as a trickster and a bully. No one knew who his parents were, he was often seen running around town in the same clothes he had on the week before. Nobody ever paid attention to him, he would usually bully the little children were playing outside. All the time he seemed to get away with whatever mischievous little thing he was doing. All his tricks seemed harmless until one fateful day.
The Day of The Fire
Luke was wandering around one fateful Autumn day when he came across what he thought was an abandoned farmhouse at the edge of town. Now, Luke had seen this farm house a couple of times and he was always intrigued by how tall a fire would be if the building somehow caught on fire. Now unbeknownst to everyone in town Luke loved playing with fire because he was a pyromaniac. That same Autumn day Luke was walking by the farm house he decided that night he would set it on fire. He waited until the sun went down then went with his little lighter and stared to gather some dead leaves. He stacked the leaves and dry twigs he had gathered outside the barn door at both ends. When he though the coast was clear he proceeded to light the brush, he had collected on fire. As the fire started to engulf the building he suddenly heard screaming and coughing from inside the barn. He started to panicky because he though that no one was inside and that it was just abandoned. Without thinking Luke made his way to the side of the barn and as he was trying to find a way in he saw that there was a couple of rotten boards. He ran over to them and started to kick them out and eventually they broke. He crawled through as fast as he could and when he was inside he saw that a family of four had been living there. He rushed up to the father and told him that he had a way they could escape. Luke led the family through the boards and out to safety.
As the family started to hug one another the father asked Luke, “Where is your family son?”
Luke couldn’t reply because he was a mute, but he started to right out in the dirt that he was an orphan and his family had been burned to death by an evil with. The old man thanks him profusely and give him a long hug after learning what had happened to his family. He then proceeded to ask Luke if he would like to live with them for the rest of his life and Luke’s eyes teared up. No one had ever been nice to him and people had always treated him with disgust. He finally found somewhere he belong and from that day forward, Luke acted like a model citizen and never caused any more trouble.
Barn of Fire. (NA)
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Authors: I took this story from The House of Fire. I changed a considerable amount. I wanted this story to be way different than what was shown in the original. I didn’t want anyone to die and I wanted to give the main character a sad backstory that explained why he was the way he was. In the original story the people inside the house that caught fire and I wanted Luke to be able to save them in this one. It gives his character a kind of redeeming quality that was missing. I know Luke never tells them he set the fire, I wanted to leave that up into interpretation for the reader to decide if he ever told them.
Bibliography: Gibbs, Laura. The House of Fire. The House of Fire
