Chapter: 4 under the mask
Disclaimer: I do not own the Deltora quest series
They all followed Sever down a familiar path. They all moved in silence each person with something different on their mind. One was regretting his choice, one was worried, one was plagued by curiosity, one was thinking nothing, and one was worried.
"Where are you taking us?" Lief ask Sever after he took another side path
"Through the forests of silence" Sever said in the same emotionless voice he always used.
"I knew it you are trying to kill us," Lief screamed
"If you would pay attention for a minute you would know that we are being followed" Sever said without looking back "The forests will provide us some cover"
"I thought I herd something" Said Jasmine looking behind her "who is it?"
"Not who, but what" said Sever "It's a large animal, other than that I don't know"
They made it to the edge of the forest when Jasmine said "split up we will have better chances that way, I will use Kree to signal everyone when it is safe"
They ran off into three directions Lief and Jasmine went one way, the two guards went another, and Sever ran off on his own.
The guards got the worst of luck the "animal" came right at them. They flipped around swords drawn to drive it away; they came face to face with a big green-scaled monster with long teeth and claws.
"Vraal!" one of the guards shouted charging after it sword at the ready he took a swing at, his sword being deflected by one set of claws as the other plunged into his stomach. He fell to the ground lifeless. The other guard tried to attack it from behind only to have its tail plunge through his head. The Vraal ran off to find more prey.
Lief and Jasmine were in a tree when the Vraal came for them. It sniffed around a lit before looking up at them.
"As long as we are in this tree it can't get us," Lief said
The Vraal walled away, then came running back ramming its head into the tree. The tree shook violently, Jasmine was able to hang on to it, but Lief slipped off plummeting to the ground. Luckily the Vraal didn't notice that he had fallen from the tree. The Vraal kept ramming the tree shaking it with each hit. Then it stopped and looked behind it, Jasmine looked up to see Sever walking up to it, she scrambled higher into the tree. The Vraal ran at Sever only to be knocked lazily away. The Vraal tried again but this time on its way toward Sever, he started to change his right arm turned red and spikes grew out of it, a spike grew out of his mask ripping a hole in it reveling his eye and some red skin underneath. Sever grabbed the Vraal by its neck ripping its head off. Sevrence turned back to normal and Jasmine got a glimpse of his face, she gave a gasp not believing what she saw. He walked away not noticing her.
Jasmine and Lief met up with Sever where Kree was circling in the sky.
"Where are the guards?" Lief asked
"Dead, the Vraal got to them" Sever said, who now had a new mask, "we should move on"
"Agreed," said Lief
They all walked heading deeper into the forest. Jasmine was eyeing Sever with only one thing running through her head, 'he looks like me'
Duh duh dun. I don't think anyone is going to figure out who he is. And no his not an Ol.
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