(A/N: Second Chapter, please remember to review :) )

CHAPTER 2

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Andrea slowly awoke, her eyes were blurry and she felt as if she had been asleep for days. She slowly rose and regained her vision, glancing around at her surroundings. She was in a forest, trees all around her, but she was in a clearing, a small meadow inside the woods. She was lying on the ground on top of some leaves and grass.

It was almost pretty, the tall trees covered in green moss creating a labyrinth under the sun that shined around her. Finally she remembered what had happened, remembering the eyes of the beast. She shivered involuntarily and stood up.

"What are you doing here Mortal?" The sound startled Andrea, she jumped where she stood and yelped. She turned around to see a beautiful girl standing at the edge of the clearing,

She was small and had long dark hair and piercing blue eyes, not the kind of eyes you would see on a human. They were like the eyes of a cat, sharp pupil pointing upward. She wore a knee high dress, that look as if was made from the forest itself.
"Well….? Are you going to answer me or not?" She was clearly annoyed with Andrea's lack of knowledge.

"I um… I am not sure; I stumbled upon a great beast as I entered the forest with red eyes!" Andrea said in an innocent voice. The girl looked at Andrea quizzically, "Why are you talking like that?" the girl asked. Andrea was now confused. "Like What?"

The girls' mouth twitched as if she was going to smile, "Why do you talk as if you lived in the 18th century." The girl sighed. "So what are you doing here Mundane?"
Andrea stood up tall and answered the question. "I am not sure. All I remember was a monster. And he…he… bit me!" Andrea eyes were now on the big bloody gash on her shoulder, she felt a wave of nausea as she turned back to the girl, who still had a bored expression on her face.
"Looks like you've met Eric." Sighed the girl. "I am going to kill that boy when he comes back!" she grumbled. Andrea was still looking at her wound; it was fairly deep, and looked almost like a shark bite but smaller.

"Ah! Look who's up!" came a loud voice somewhere in the trees. The girl still at the edge of the clearing began to yell in a language Andrea didn't understand. Suddenly two men came out of the woods into the clearly, beside there was a wolf, not anything like the beast had been, just a normal wild dog.
The men were young, maybe not even men, more like boys who looked the same age as Andrea. One of them had Black hair that hung in his eyes; Andrea could tell he looked as if he had an Asian orientation. He smiled at the girl, his teeth were white and sharp, but he looked harmless enough. The other boy had blond hair that also hung in his eyes. And his teeth were also pointed. Both the boys were very muscular and good looking, and they both wore no shirts, only sweatpants and bare feet.

"Another Mundie?!" The girl asked the boys, who weren't looking too guilty.
The dark haired one smiled "Come on Katie what kind of threat is she to us?" he was almost laughing. The girl Katie just glared at the both of them.

"Um…Excuse me?" All three of them turned towards Andrea, She was suddenly intimidated by the three pairs of eyes that were on her. The wolf went to lie down behind Katie. "Where am I exactly? And who are you?" Andrea was starting to panic. Katie was the first one to answer.

" You're in the forest, hence the trees. I am Katie, and these two morons are Eric and Zac." Katie pointed a lazy hand towards the two who smiled. She then turned her back to us, walking back into the trees. "This was your idea, you're going to deal with her." called Katie over her shoulder, as she vanished into the green labyrinth. It was silent for a minute as we all watched her go.

"Annoying, evil, pixie." The blonde one Eric seemed to mumble and he turned around to face me again. "So, who are you?" he asked in a blunt voice.
"I'm uh… Princess Andrea." She declared. Zac turned a nervous glance towards Eric, but Eric was still watching Andrea.
" Oh yeah you had to chose the princess." Zac sighed and sat on the ground beside the wolf.
"So I guess we should probably get back to the Oak with her, shouldn't we?" Eric asked Zac, who shrugged his shoulders and stood up with the wolf following.

"Come on…" Said Zac grabbing Andreas arm and pulling her into the forest.

She walked in silence most of the time, stepping over the fallen trees, and swatting away the occasional bugs. She listened as Eric and Zac talked to each other about thing she didn't understand. She heard something about a Seelie court, the Unseelie court, and dark magic and so on. Finally, during a silence between the boys Andrea worked up to gut to ask them a question. "What is Katie?"

The boys were silent for a moment and she thought she heard them mumble something like 'stupid human' under their breath but they answered. "She is a pixie."
"A pixie? Oh really? I love faeries, I love watching peter pan." She said in an excited voice. Both the boys snorted and the wolf beside them growled a little.
"Princess, this is hardly a Fairytale." As they said that, they emerged to the edge of the forest, another clearing, but this one was very, very large.

Andrea couldn't believe her eyes; all the trees were made into huts that resembled a tree house. They're rope bridges attached to every hut high in the air. The trees still blocked the heat and the rays of the sun, but it still glowed through the tree tops. Big boulders where made into more tiny huts going on for miles and miles. If Andrea didn't know any better she would say it resembled…a village. And all around people ran around. Now they weren't normal people, Andrea could tell that some of them resembled Katie the pixie. Some were small and some where incredibly large. She noticed a boy walk by, with black eyes and webbed feet, and another girl with blue hair a wings. This village was something clearly not human.

Andrea walked in amazement following the boys. They were walking towards the biggest tree hut. Eric gave Andrea a boost as she climbed the wooden stairs towards the top of the tree.
Inside the hut was amazing, from the outside it looked fairly small, but the inside looked like a house. The hut was made of one big room in the center as you walked in, but at the sides of the cabin where small rooms, almost bedrooms. The doors to these bedrooms were draped with beads instead of actual wooden doors. The center room had a wood table and a wood framed couch.

" Wow." Andrea said in amazement as the boys walked into the house, dropping down onto the handmade-looking couch.
"This place, it's so magical!" Andrea sighed, the boys snorted again, and she went to join them on the long couch.

"So how am I going to get home?" Andrea asked, now remembering her castle, her mother and father, her commitment.
"You're not going home." Zac said not looking up from the book he grabbed from the table. It took Andrea a second to absorb what he had really said.
"What!?" Andrea cried. She could feel the tears stinging her eyes.
"I said you're not going home." Zac repeated as if he were talking to a 2 year old.

"But...but...Why?!" Andrea demanded her voice cracking.
"Because you are Mortal, and you have seen our world. I bit you, you now have the abilities of the immortal creatures. You cannot go out into the human world when you hold such a power." Eric argued. His face was flushed and his eyes were cold.

"You're the one who bit me!?" Andrea gasped in astonishment. Now she knew the tears where coming, she had to escape their presence before they could fall.
"Where am I staying then?" She demanded trying to sound strong. Eric pointed to one of the many rooms in the hut. She quietly got up from the couch and walked to her room.

The beads brushed against her as she walked through them to the bedroom. The room looked as if it was from Snow White or Peter Pan; the bed was made of wood and sat low to the ground. There was a small dresser that sat diagonal from the bed that was also made of wood, above held a mirror. Andrea slowly walked towards the mirror, taking a good look at her for the first time in a long time.

Her long wavy beautiful blonde hair was now full of dirt and debris from the forest, Her pale face was now covered in dirt, and her face was slightly flushed. Her blue eyes were too bright and her white dress was torn and ruined. Andrea pulled desperately at the leaves knotted in her hair. "Princess, this is hardly a Fairytale." She remembered the words Eric had spoke earlier that day. She would never see her family again, never sleep in her own bed again, and never marry. She now realized the truth in Eric's words.
Poor Princess Andrea was not going to get a happily ever after.

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