LORD OF ZENTH MAGE
CHAPTER :2 MY ANGEL
Harry reappeared with a thud on the ground. He swore loud for his luck with such traveling. Portkey and Floo traveling are bad enough, and here I thought whatever this would be at least kind enough to let me stand for once! He thought bitterly.
After brushing off leaves and dirt from his cloths, he began to survey the environment surrounding him.
He, as he observed, was surrounded by enormous trees and bushes. He looks at the trees surrounding him with wild wonder. The trees were at least 5 feet in diameters. They look ancient, older than Hogwart Castle itself. He thought they looked as old as time it self. The tree barks looked the wrinkles on the oldest man's face. He looked up along the tree trunks. They went up, up, and up till where they seem to touch the clear blue sky. The tree leaves were so thick that even the noon Sun rays had to struggle through them. The small amount of light lit the ground of the forest dimly.
With the help of the dimly lit light, Harry continued to survey around the forest floor. There were thick, wild bushes spread across as far as his eyes could see which is not very far because of the thickness of the forest and the poor lit light.
Harry considered what to next. After a moment of consideration, he began to walk through bushes and enormous tree trunks. He was mildly surprise by the lack of animal sounds. 'Even the forbidden forest is not this dead silent,' he compared. 'Come to think of it. This forest seem to be much, much more dangerous than the forbidden forest where there resided enormous spiders, Centaurs, Gwarp, and many deadly creatures.'
And suddenly, Harry stop dead in his track. Confused, he looked around him carefully. He became more confused when he noticed that he was just a hundred yards from his starting point. There around the where he appeared in circle was a trail, in perfect circle. "Did I do that? I was sure there was nothing of the sort when I first arrived here." He said out loud.
He turned back at the starting point and started towards opposite direction. A moment later, he was back at the same place where he started. His eyes widened in horror and he began to walk in another direction. Again, he was back at the same place where he started off. He began to panic at this point. For quite sometime, he would walk out to different directions, but to no avail. He was always back at the same place no matter how much he tried not to end up at that place. Finally he gave up and slumped down on the ground.
There was a soft giggle from behind him. He whirled around and nearly backed away from what he saw. There, just a hundred yard from him between two large ancient trunks was a creature that he had never seen. It was big, twice the size and height of the African wild elephant he had seen on Dudley's TV. It was white, pure white. Its pure color seemed to eliminate the darkness around it. However, it was not the only sight that made his eyes wide.
On the creature's back was the most stunning sight he had ever seen…well save from the sight of the enormous creature he'd just seen. A girl around his age was standing with a bemused expression on her face. Her sea blue eyes were twinkling brightly under dark, thick eyelashes. Her eyebrows were curve in a perfect position and were at a reasonable high above her eyes. Harry's eyes moved down to her lips and his throat suddenly went dry. Her lips were soft and free from cosmetic. Harry licked his lips unconsciously at the mental image of those soft lips on his. He mentally shrugged the image off and continued to "look" at the girl. She seemed to be 5'6", three inches below him. Her physique was that of slim, but not really thin. The perfect curves and shapes were in the right places.
He heard her speak to him in a language that he could not understand. He shook his head to show he did not understand. She spoke again and Harry wished he could understand her and make a conversation with her. Surprisingly, as soon as the thought crossed his mind, he felt a tingle in the back of his head.
As soon as the tingle left, he caught the last bit of the girl's words. "…… here?"
Harry asked the girl with excitement, "Sorry, what did you say?" He faintly noticed that his lips were moving in unfamiliar movement.
The girl's seemed to be surprised and a relief expression washed over her face. She said with a soft, gentle melodic voice, "Good! Now you are with me. I thought you couldn't speak."
"Hey! I'm not mute, you know. I'm insulted!" Harry replied with an amused tone.
"All right, sorry. I asked you who are you and what are you doing here?" The girl said in what seemed to be apologetic tone. However, her facial expression betrayed her amusement.
"Apology accepted," Harry said grinning, "Now, as for who I am and what I am doing here, I could ask you the same. What about I'll tell mine and you tell yours. Deal?"
"Deal," the girl said immediately, grinning broadly.
"Harry Potter. Nice to meet you," Harry said extending his hand.
"Rupa Rajibnebular. Nice to meet you too," She said eyeing his extended hand with a confuse look.
Harry retreated his hand and blush slightly, "Oh, you do not shake hands then." He shifted his stance into more comfortable position and continued, "I was looking for a nice place for a nice holiday. I don't know why I ended up here. What is this place anyway?"
The girl seemed to consider his answer for a moment. She shook her head slightly as if to rid of her confusion. She spoke in the same soft and gentle voice, "Ok. I am here because the blasted brother of mine chased me around. I was trying to find a good hiding place when I saw you circling around again and again." She finished with a giggle that sent Harry blushing furiously. "This is in the very deepest part of Himalaya. No one outsider had been here for centuries, or at least that's what I heard from the Elders."
Harry's eyes bulged out in horror. He spluttered out, "Yo-you mean I am in Asia?"
The girl looked at him curiously before answering, "You are now in India. Wait…how come you ended up here if you don't know where this place is? And how did you pass our guards without their notice? Where did you come from?"
"Wow…slow down. You're making my head spin. One at a time please. To answer your questions, I don't know how I ended up here. I was hoping to find a nice place when I shifted away. And I didn't see any guard of yours. I came here directly. I'm from Europe, England."
Rupa looked pensive for a moment and looked at him deep in the eyes. "I could not sense any faulty of ill intention from you. If you even try think of something bad, Nia here would be happy to make your bones into smaller pieces." She finished looking down at the creature meaningfully.
Harry gulped down at the thought of a big creature, or elephant- look-alike, crushing its massive leg on him. "Thanks for your kind warning. I will remember that." He said sarcastically.
Rupa laugh softly at his expression, "Don't worry. Nia is not that bad. Aren't you Nia?" She bent down and bent the creature on the head.
The creature let out a loud cry that sounds like lion roaring and nodded its head vigorously.
Harry looked at the creature in amazement. He couldn't contain his curiosity in him any more and shot it to the girl, "Your crea…I mean..Nia understand you?"
"Of course she does! But I warn you don't try to touch or talk to her, she can do real nasty things." She replied proudly for her pet, head held high and perfect chest raised.
"O…K…" Harry said slowly, eyeing the creature cautiously. And suddenly he remembered something and asked the girl, "Hey, do you know why I was..um..going around in the same place?"
Rupa giggled, "Oh you want to know why you are making circles?" She controlled her shaking body from giggle and straightened her face to a serious expression. She looked up and down Harry as if judging him. Finally, she connected her soft blue eyes with Harry's green eyes and spoke, "You see the bushes around you?" At his nod, she continued. "They are not there for no reason. They are placed in a particular structure. It is an ancient kind of maze called Rajz. Once you got inside them, you will never be able to get out of the maze unless someone who controls the maze released you."
Harry's eyes widen, "You mean I will be stuck in here forever? Oh no…"
"Yes," She said seriously.
"Oh no…so much for a holiday," Harry groaned loudly.
Rupa broke in to a fit of laughter. Harry looked at her as if she were insane. "What? This is not funny." Harry said, hurt and anger dripping in his voice.
Rupa began to slow down her laughter into giggles, "It's just that your face looked priceless! I should scare you more sometimes." She finished her giggles and straightened her body, "don't worry, you're safe with me. I can get you out of here."
Harry let out a breath of relief. Suddenly, his body became rigid and turned to his right abruptly. A sharp, pointed object was whizzing towards him in high speed from between the ancient tree branches. Harry held out his had toward the object and it hit an invisible barrier without a sound and shattered in to a thousand pieces. The pieces suspended in midair as if waiting for command. Harry flicked his wrist and the pieces flew towards the trees at twice the speed it had come.
"NOO!" Rupa shouted frantically. Harry immediately waved his hand toward the flying objects. The objects suddenly changed direction and shot through the nearby not-so-lucky ancient tree trunk and hit deep into the one behind it.
"RAJIG! COME OUT THIS INSTANT!" Rupa yelled on top of her lungs.
A black blur flew out of the tree leaves towards Rupa's creature. It landed smoothly besides Rupa. Harry could see it was a boy, dressed in black with golden trimmed. Rupa took hold of the boy's ear by the tip and said in a dangerous voice, "What were you thinking, you stupid git! Apologize now!"
The boy yelped in pain and screwed his face. He turned to Harry and whispered in a deep voice, "I'm sorry to attack you. I thought you were going to harm my sister. I'm sorry"
Rupa released the boy's air and said to Harry, "I'm sorry for what my brother did. And thanks for not killing him."
Harry waved her off and asked, "So, this is your brother who chased you around?" Harry turned to the boy and said in a cheerful voice, "Hey, my name is Harry Potter. Why is your sister running away from you? Can you teach me whatever it is?"
The boy began to relax from Harry's tone and grinned ear to ear, "Rajig Rajibnebular. Rupa is my twin sister." His grinned became broader and looked at Rupa mischievously, "I was just giving herr…"
Rajig couldn't finish what he was saying and gulped down nervously. Confused, Harry looking at the direction where Rajig was looking and he too gulped down unconsciously.
Rupa's eyes were glistering dangerously, giving away her message easily. She spoke in a low, dangerous voice, "If you continue that I will do something that you will wish loosing your voice for a week is sweet."
Rajig paled, "Ooo.kk, I promised I won't say anything."
"Good! Now you are learning something," Rupa said, smiling sweetly at her brother. She turned to Harry was looking at the both of them curiously, and blushed furiously.
Harry asked her curiously, "What was all that about and what did he do to make you loss his voice?"
A/N: There you go again! Tell me what you think. I will be updating once in every three days. Thanks.
