Seth walked over to Gareki coming up close with his arms crossed." I heard what the queen said about you."
Gareki slowly looked up at him a glare in his eyes." You shouldn't believe everything you hear Seth you know what I'm doing and I'm just trying to protect my people, and besides what about you? I heard that you rated out on me. You could have gotten your sister killed doing that. You know Avia was just helping me get this outsider out of here, he's being pursued."
"I don't care, you're both still in the wrong for what you're doing, you're helping this human without knowing his true plans I'd say I'm just being protective —something that you obviously can't be anymore knowing you're helping this outsider even after your father's death—
Gareki punched him in the face swiftly before grabbing a hold of his neck bringing him up close, his fangs clenched together. " Don't bring up my father, you know nothing about what I'm doing. I'm doing this to protect the people I love but what about you? Let's go back to the topic of your sister. She was helping me but since you rated on us she could have been killed tonight you know how my mother is when someone disobeys her rules twice!"
"I know the rules but clearly you don't know Avia like I do. She's gullible she likes to help people but what are you doing now, you're putting her in danger. Letting her help you with this crime you're doing. Once she told me the plan that you agreed to do I couldn't forgive you for putting her in more danger, she's already at risk at getting herself killed. There's no if or maybe about it."
" She wanted to help him!" Gareki yelled throwing aside Seth." Do you honestly think I want to help an outsider after what they've done. It's like I'm speaking to a damn wall, you don't understand what's happening and none of you will even if I explain what's going to happen if we keep this human here, you already know my mother won't believe what I have to say after she's seen what I've done!"
"You two need to stop!" Avia yelled down at them. " I don't care If I die tonight for breaking the rules, I did this to help Yogi, that's it! Gareki's only helping the kingdom, you're misunderstanding everything Seth!"
"Like hell I am." he yelled at her before forcefully grabbing onto Gareki and head butting him. Gareki fell to the ground just as Seth climbed on top of him and aimed a punch at his face, Gareki's head flew to the other side at it's force before he turned back just as Seth aimed another punch towards him but Gareki bit onto his fist, his fangs sinking into his skin making Seth pull away quickly right as Gareki punched him hard in the face.
Yogi watched them in shock as they hissed, biting onto each other's skin, shoving and punching one another like wild animals. He had never seen anything like it. Gareki's eyes lit up intensely as he shoved Seth to the ground ,Seth tried to push against him as Gareki brought his fangs closer to his neck about to end everything but Avia yelled for him to stop. Gareki paused immediately looking shocked at what he was just about to do. Seth shoved him away quickly. Both of them panting as they glared at one another.
Gareki had blood coming from his mouth and nose and a few scratches on his arms but other than that he looked fine despite all the biting they did. Gareki heard the gate open behind him but he didn't register it until Avia told him. He looked down at Seth his breathing still harsh. He shook his head with disgust in his eyes. " You need to tell my mother the truth about what's happening, she won't listen to me, but maybe she'll listen to you considering you didn't break any rules for her to see."
"We'll see." Seth agreed." Just leave."
Gareki felt hate fall over him before he turned and ran out of the entrance of the castle not bothering to look back to see if Yogi was following but Yogi followed anyway, he turned around giving one last look to Avia before nodding a thank you.
She nodded back just as she began to close the gate. Yogi looked down at the dark look on Seth's face right as the gate blocked him from Yogi's view. He could hear the yelling of the guards and Larisa's voice on the other side yelling at the two for information of what happened?
Yogi looked up at the huge snow covered castle in front of him from the brick white bridge he was standing on, the snow covered mountains stood tall around the castle in a large half circle, fog hugged the grounds making it hard to see what was beneath the bridge but from what Yogi could see just from looking over the edge was a large crack in the ice dropping into a dark abyss, he immediately stepped back startled just by looking at it. The castle was a lot more bigger on the outside then what it looked from the in side that was for sure. But relief washed over him. He was finally out but the next step wouldn't be easy he knew that especially with a person like Gareki.
He turned around to where he last saw him running off but he was no longer there. In fact he had disappeared. There was only the ending of the bridge before it left off into the disserted land of fog and snow around him. Yogi looked up at the sky just now noticing it's purple sky, the two moons stood up high above him. Yogi brought his eyes back down looking for any signs of black since that was what Gareki had been wearing.
He walked forward not sure of where he was going as he looked around but as he kept walking he reached the end of the bridge right as he felt a force go right through him pushing him forward harshly he nearly fell over but he caught himself and turned around only to see he was back in that same blue forest from where he had first dropped into this world. What he heard earlier in the throne room Avia had called it the Lumines Forest, short for Luminescent was his guess?
He looked around the sky had changed back to blue but the two moons were still high above him as he began to walk. This place was so strange. Had he really just gone through an invisible wall? He remembered reading about them, they were said to be made by magic in order to protect the territory's of realms that lead from one different place to another in order to keep it hidden. He had definitely stepped through it and now he was back here. Alone. . .looking for Gareki where ever he had gone.
Yogi wasn't surprised. What had just happened had completely made Gareki angry so he definitely wanted to be alone—or he was just trying to abandon me in this forest so I could get killed. Either one would work. Yogi continued walking for a total of five minutes searching cautiously for Gareki. He feared if he called his name then something dangerous and monstrous would come out of hiding so he kept his mouth shut admiring the wild life and vegetation around him as he searched for the teenage boy.
He heard rustling and stopped in his tracks. He slowly looked around bringing out his sword holding it at the ready just in case. The rustle came from behind him and he quickly turned around to where the sound had been. He quickly brought his eyes down where the bush was moving only to see that same blue rabbit—thing— had popped out before running away. He sighed relaxing his tense muscles.
He then heard a hiss behind him and he quickly turned around only to see Gareki hanging upside down from a tree baring his fangs as his blue eyes glared at him angrily.
Yogi stood frozen staring at him as he dropped down from the tree he was hanging off of and landed on his feet before standing up and walking towards him. Yogi backed away as he kept advancing forward not making any move to stop.
"Why are you following me?!" Gareki yelled through grit teeth shoving Yogi backwards.
"W-what?" was all Yogi could say as Gareki pushed against his chest harshly.
"This is all your fault, if you hadn't of come here then none of this would of happened!"
Yogi blinked at him in surprise. "None of this is my fault—"
"Spare me your lies, all of this was linked to you. Face the facts if you hadn't of dropped into this world then I wouldn't have been banished, I hope you're happy with yourself cause you're not going to be for long."
Yogi eyed him slowly, still gripping onto his sword." What is that supposed to mean? You knew from the start that I didn't want any trouble from you or your people. Only thing I asked was for help."
"Well news flash you're a dead man out here, you wouldn't even last a second with or without help." Yogi gave him a steady look." So is that some kind of way of yours telling me that you're going to help me?"
Gareki shoved him again." No! you're a damn outsider why would I help you after everything your people has done to mine?"
Yogi shook his head." That's it. All you people ever talk about is these damn outsiders who are they?!"
A cold breeze passed Yogi as soon as he asked the question. He looked back up into Gareki's slit eyes." Don't act like you don't know, they kill and they steal and you should know that or maybe you don't because you don't know what it's like to lose someone you love." Gareki replied placing a hand on his hip.
Yogi suddenly felt angry at the harsh way Gareki spoke to him. He stood up strait and came up close to his face." I know what it feels like believe me, I've lost both my parents in my own world but I wasn't stupid to let the feeling of hatred consume me like it's done to you. Your people feed off of hatred and those that are innocent around you have no other choice but to deal with it knowing how cold and cruel hearted you are all because of death. It's a horrible disease feeding off of you and everyone else in that place you call a kingdom. Except Avia, you should learn from her."
Yogi hadn't expected all that to come out of his mouth but he definitely wasn't saying sorry or taking it back, it was time they learned the truth rather it be the nice way or the harsh way."You know nothing about me!" Gareki snatched the amulet from around Yogi's neck and jumped up in a tree. Yogi stood stunned for a second before chasing after him." Give me that back, you don't understand how important that is!"
"You don't understand how important my life was before you came here!" Gareki yelled back about to jump to a higher tree but Yogi gripped his tail and pulled him down. Gareki fell to the ground on his back before Yogi snatched back the amulet. He heard a growl erupt from Gareki's throat as he pushing himself up and hit Yogi in the face sending him falling to the floor as well before Gareki quickly crawled on top of him and snatched the amulet back.
He held it up in front of his eyes examining it. His tail flicked slowly behind him in curiosity. "Tell me why this is so important to you? You plan to use it for destruction don't you?"
Yogi opened his eyes quickly taking it back once more. He was about to say something but his mouth hung open by what he saw rising up behind Gareki. Gareki was still on top of him yelling at him but the words he said were unheard by Yogi's ears as he stared a the giant purple frog creeping up behind Gareki.
"G- Gareki?" he muttered. Gareki glared down at him." Who the hell gave you my name?"
"Look behind you!" Yogi yelled finally able to blurt the words out. Gareki turned around only to see the giant slimy tongue heading his way he quickly back flipped out of the way just as Yogi rolled out of the way.
Gareki quickly got to his feet before jumping into a tree for higher ground. He lifted his hand up before snow began to fall from the sky swarming around his palm before forming into a long rode with a long sharp blade on the end of it. Gareki held the glaive in both hands before he jumped up and aimed it at the giant frog.
The frog turned to him and spit out it's tongue right as Gareki cut it off with the blade of his weapon. He landed on the ground in a crouch before ducking backward as the left overs of the frog's tongue tried to grab for him again. He stood up strait before jumping backwards into a tree landing on a branch as the frog tried to swipe at him.
"Great, I don't have time to handle Nether Beasts." Gareki muttered in annoyance bringing his eyes down to where Yogi was. He held the amulet out wards before a bright light came from it's crystal center making the frog back away immediately. Gareki eyed the amulet before bringing his eyes to where the frog was. The frog backed up but stopped once it saw Gareki staring back at it.
Gareki didn't have time to react fast enough as the frog pushed it's heavy weight against the tree he was on. The tree fell over knocking other trees over as well as half of it hung over a rocky cliff of a large water fall. Gareki was about to jump off of it but another tree pushed him over the edge, he quickly made his weapon disappear as he held onto the side of the tree over the long height of water beneath him. It was hard to see what else was down there because of the fog at the bottom.
Gareki held onto a branch for dear life as he tried not to look down, but just then the branch started to snap. He tried to pull himself up but the tree was to big to climb up on and most of the parts he gripped onto broke with a single weight added to it. From his view everything appeared bigger up hear and slightly terrifying he couldn't remember the last time he had been this high up before.
"Gareki?" Yogi called out as he held up the amulet to the frog pushing it back into the forest with it's bright light.
"What?!" Gareki snapped. Yogi saw what the frog had done and he went over towards the fallen tree to help Gareki. He didn't know why but maybe it was because of his good nature." Are you okay?" he peaked down at him standing a few feet away for safe measures.
Gareki growled." Does it look like I'm okay?" He said through clenched fangs. Yogi sighed. "Can you just calm down?"
"How can I calm down when I'm hanging over the edge of a large water fall about to die. You got me into this so you better get me out!"
"I am, considering you'll be owing me after I do this." Yogi said thoughtfully feeling as if he had the upper hand in this situation. Gareki growled in disgust." Like hell I'm doing that."
"Then I guess you fall. . .and die." he pointed out. Gareki clenched his jaw and thought about his offer. He growled lowly." Fine you help me and then I'll help you get to the realm gates."
"Deal," Yogi said walking on the tree further he reached for Gareki and grabbed his freezing cold hand but right as he did the part of the tree Gareki was holding onto snapped completely and they both fell Gareki dragging Yogi with him.
Both of them were to shocked to scream as they fell down the long height. Gareki fell front first as he fell just like Yogi was, the wind whipping at their hair wildly as they stared down at the fog before disappearing inside of it.
Yogi's protective nerves kicked in as he quickly pulled Gareki to his chest and hugged him tightly before switching positions so his back would hit the water first as they both splashed into the water getting lost inside it's strong waves.