You've been waiting for it! We get to Hear Diana's story.
Diana woke up to the sound of flapping wings, after struggling to open her eyes and keep them open, she looked around to see what had woke her. Sure enough, a large Butterfly with dark spots on it's wings had settled on the branch above her. she took a step forward to touch it when she tripped. Under her feet there was a small white bug, which seemed as surprised as she was.
"so much wildlife..." she muttered to herself.
"now, which way to...home?"
she stopped and took in her surroundings. she was in a very, VERY large forest. She had no Idea which way she came, or which way she needed to go to get home. Now that she thought about it, she couldn't remember where her home was, heck she couldn't remember her home at all. She couldn't remember anything.
She swore that her heart had crawled up her spine and was strangling her. She was on her knees, fighting back tears.
"Calm down Diana, don't Panic," she told herself. "you remember your name, see? you remembered something. Now put on a brave face, you'll find your way home soon enough."
Diana stood up and dusted her dress off. why was she wearing a dress in the woods? she wouldn't have wanted it ruined, it was such a beautiful color of purple...
Focus! she needed to Focus. there were two paths in front of her, one directly forward, one that veered off to the right. choosing by instinct, (and a game of eeny meeny.) she decided to take the path to her right, which started to dip downhill. Being careful of her step she walked over the assorted dead branches and tree roots that were growing in her walking for what seemed like 3 minutes or so, Diana stumbled upon an area filled to the brim with lakes and streams. after taking a break and getting a drink she went to the edge of the river to wash her face. after cleaning off her face, she looked down. she saw a face looking back. It had Black hair, and deep purple eyes, it also had an evenly placed nose, almost perfectly in the center of its face. the girl looking at her was beautiful. she looked back at Diana questioningly.
"Is that me?" she waved her hand over the water, sure enough the face did the same.
"wow..." she looked her reflection for a little longer before a ripple disturbed it.
Looking up, she saw a frog like thing that was looking at her, it was green and yellow, and it moved its arms up and down rhythmically.
"what are you?" she called to the frog.
"Ribbi-Ribbi" did she really expect an answer from this thing?
as she stood up to leave the frog leaped towards her landing in the water in front of her with a splash, coating her with Water. She looked at the frog with a mix of Anger and shock, before just walking away.
After Diana had dried off in the sun, she looked up and continued walking, along the way she saw several oddly colored flowers with numbers in them. the bigger the flower, the bigger the number, they stretched between the numbers one and twenty. she stopped in the middle of the path.
she sensed something watching her, turning around she saw a little bush of pink flowers, and a handful of buds. she turned around and started walking, but stopped again almost immediately. turning around and looking at the bush again out of curiosity, she noticed that there were less flowers and buds now. Not bothering to investigate, Diana noticed that the sun was beginning to set, after hearing several loud noises over the course of the next few minutes, she deduced that they were none too friendly. she decided to take refuge in a little cave nearby, after walking into the cave, Diana started sweating. Before she could ask why a column of fire leaped up before her, scaring her enough to let out a small shriek and fall backwards. after getting up, she layed down in an alcove next to one of the weird fire geysers. and let her exhausted form be taken by a wave of sleep.
when she woke up, it was still dark, but she could hear the sound of something dragging around the corner. after letting her curiosity get the better of her she turned the corner, with the light of the fire geysers, she was able to see an animal track , and others in front of it, but what caught her attention was that each and every track was the same, and that they were in a straight line, she couldn't tell which foot was which. following the trail regardless she entered a large circular room with a large dome of sand in the middle. walking into the area. she could hear the sand sifting around her, taking each step carefully she stood at the top of the hill of sand.
Then the ground beneath her erupted, sending her tumbling down the hill, and in her place, a serpent with the head of a bird was poking out of the sand. After surveying the room it locked eyes with Diana. they stared at each other for a few seconds before the serpent bird opened its beak.
"SKRYYYYYEEEEE!"The thing started flailing around, unsure of what to do, Diana stared,silent and unmoving. as the bird thing slowly became taller and taller. until eventually at the end of the serpent part of its body, there was a malformed Talon, and it matched the prints earlier. The thing took another look at her and hopped towards her.
Run.
it was the only thing she could think to do, she turned and Ran as fast as she could. she avoided the fire geysers and only stopped to turn around once she left the cave. much to her dismay the thing hopped out soon after.
"SKRYYYYEEEE!" The message was clear, the serpent thing wasn't going to let her go in one piece.
every time the thing hopped it landed with a thud, each time she could tell it was getting closer. until it grabbed a hold of her dress and lifted her up. despite her struggling the thing dropped her and hopped on top of her. the sharp end of one of the talons scratched her eyebrow, she could feel blood oozing on her forehead. with another screech the thing started pecking at her face and limbs.
She was screaming and yelling at the top of her lungs, she could feel her arms and legs getting torn up by the things beak, she could see pieces of her dress being ripped off of her body along with chunks of her skin. she just wanted it to end, she was practically begging for it to stop killing her, but the beasts hunger was too great for it to ignore a morsel just wandering into its nest. But this was more than hunger, the beast took more and more off of her. It had gotten a taste for her, and it liked it. It started to savor her, as if she was a delicious piece of meat. Tears were rolling down Diana's cheeks, which made the cuts on her cheeks sting even worse, she felt like she was being torn apart. she couldn't take it any more.
"AIYEEEE" The creature recoiled as if being hit, then it fell over and started flailing about. without question, she got up and tried to run. but once she reached the hill she had climbed down yesterday, she resorted to a kind of limp. after a while she had finally reached the top, she sat down next to the tree she woke up by the last day and looked up, it was late in the morning, she was tired and hungry, and she could barely move. the tears didn't stop falling as she sat there.
"SKRYYYEEE! SKRYEEE!" she stood up with a start, the crimson bird thing had followed her up here, and it wanted more, Diana took off on the path directly in front of the tree, the path she didn't take, before long the ground beneath her became more and more green. the bird seemed to slow down in the brush, using this to her advantage she ran as fast as she could, breaking through the bush and crashing into something. Looking up she saw that it was a person, wearing a space suit for some reason.
The boy in the suit extended a hand to her, before she could take it, she could feel the thumping of the serpent bird behind her, slowly growing louder. Diana tried to get up but she couldn't, she crawled to the other side of the circle shaped area as the bird leaped out of the brush. without a word she tried to escape it, but with a swing of its head, it slammed into her and sent her crashing into the wall. with the sound of bones breaking, she passed out.
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once Diana finished her story she was sobbing, and the cloth she had been given was soaked.
"so that's what happened..." Alph looked at her with sympathetic eyes.
"so you can say you've been here for a day at least?"
"Charlie! now isn't the time! here, i know what'll cheer you up Diana, wait here."
After managing to dry her face, Diana sat in silence until Brittany got back. she had a tray with four containers on it, each with a different color of liquid inside.
"here you go." she handed Diana the container with green liquid in it. "help yourself!"
after Brittany passed out the rest of the containers she instructed Diana on how to open it. after taking a sip, Diana was disappointed.
"sorry, but this doesn't make me feel any better." she said curtly.
"it wasn't supposed to."
as soon as Brittany said it, Charlie's face was all cringed up after drinking his juice, he was banging on the floor with one hand while chanting "sour over and over again.
"That was!" Brittany and Alph started laughing
Diana had to cover her mouth with her hand to keep from laughing, but even so she let out a few chuckles. and it certainly made her feel better about her situation.
