Personal Narrative: The Monster

Fear, death and helplessness, all these things could be found in the carthage under the threat of a petrifying beast that was named Anysu. It seems almost infeasible that just a few weeks earlier Carthage had been the richest city in the world. All this wealth came to our city thanks to our naval dominance of the mediterranean and our mercantile economy. The markets of our city were filled with a diverse range of luxuries from all around the mediterranean. The monster to bring all this destruction would come to kill only one man, but in his rage would end up ravaging the whole city. Before the monster came I knew little about my family history, other than that i had been abandoned in the streets when I was young and brought up by a local

I went in and walked around the whole first floor being careful not to make any noise, as I came closer and closer to the stairs I noticed a pungent smell. I went up the stairs in fear of what I might see, I have never been able to forget or unsee what I was about view. It was a women, her rib cage was broken exactly like the guards but as she was inside the innards of this unlucky were scattered all over the room, her blood stained the ceiling, the floor and all the walls, she , like the guards, was also marked by the same symbol, which was an x with a circle above it. As I saw the state of the room I could not help but imagine how it had unfolded, I stood in that room for thirty minutes replaying the scene over and over in my head, thinking about how that could have been me or the family that i grew up with. After standing their for that long and realising what could happen to me next, I ran back to my house to remind myself of before the monster. I spent the whole day recollecting my old memories, knowing that the next day may have very well been my

Someone screamed, someone very close, I ran towards it as fast as a man can run, the monster asked the usual question, and finally, there was someone who could answer him. When I arrived where I thought the scream had come from, I saw Alysus leaning over the body of a child marking him with the symbol of an x with a circle above it, the sight filled me with anger. In my rage I blindly swung my sword at him, he dodged it easily, he looked straight at me and said “You are Mathos, aren't you,” I replied “Yes, and I am here to do what my father was unable to do”. As I said this he swung at me and his hand barely missed. I raised my sword and slashed his stomach, Anysus screamed in agony. He tried to kick me with his long legs, but, I was much more nimble than he was and dodged this attack. I started to walk backwards as he tried to corner me. I ran into a wall, there was a window right next to me, someone stuck out a spear and gave it to me through that window and said good luck. I took the spear in hand and through it with all my strength at the beast, the spear hit one of his ribs and i could hear it shatter. He screamed once again this time as loud as the sound of a volcano erupting, with this scream he fell to the ground and became lifeless, at this moment I had slain the beast.
People came out of their homes to see such a huge monster lying on the ground killed by a mere mortal, with this