Fire Sky

Acrylic

by Grace
Grade 9
Avalon School

Teacher: Ms. Gaunt

Fire

It was red everywhere outside. Every direction you looked, all you saw was the color red; sky, reflected light, houses, businesses, and trees. A fourteen-year-old girl named Ella sat next to her bedroom window. She lived in a little village in a little house. Her view was the sad, dying, red village. She wondered when the fire would be over. Her village had meant so much to her. The fire was spreading quickly and eating up anything in its way. In two days she would be moving to her aunt’s house, trying to escape the red nightmare. She had already lost her home, and her father was killed.

The next day Ella decided to go out and walk around, to see what is going to be destroyed for one last time. As she walked down an old street she found that the forest was now on fire. What else could go wrong? Her whole world had been taken away from her. A tear ran down her face. She remembered it all so clearly. She and her father were making forts and playing “hide and seek” in the old streets of Corbant Falls. Then she heard something. She turned to face the noise. The noise was coming from a crew of firefighters. They had their hoses in their hands, spraying the old buildings with water.

”Will you stop the fire from spreading to the forest?” yelled Ella.

All the firefighter said was “maybe”, but Ella knew that look in his eyes. Ella felt defeated from the strength of the big fire.

Two years later, Ella came back to see her little village. She was now sixteen, and even though she was more mature she started to cry. The firefighters were her heroes; they had stopped the fire from going any further. When you looked around you could see the damage, but there was her old house. Ella told herself that one day she will come back to live in the little village, in the little house. She would rebuild her life in the house, do her bit to try to repair the community. Ella would show the fire that they could grow back and be healthy; the opposite of defeated.

by Alexandria
Grade 7
École Avalon Lendrum School

Teacher: Mrs. Butlin