As they opened the door they saw a magnificent array of colors, a
beautiful blue cobblestone path going farther then the eye can see, huge green hills
full of flowers of every color with thousands of different butterflies flying around
all the flowers. In the beautiful blue sky, with just the perfect amount of clouds
and sunshine, were hundreds of birds flying and making tonnes of different
patterns. The smell was a perfect match of Buttercups and freshly cut grass. This
smell makes you think of all the good times in your life and forget all the bad
times. "Wow!" exclaimed Lyndsey after about 5 minutes of just savoring the
moment, even though everyone else was still liking it. "This is an awesome place."
she finished. "Yeah why would you not want to be here, is the challenge resisting
rolling in the fields?" Said Damian as he started walking to the fields, at this Carl
finally came to his senses and shouted "DAMIAN, NO!" He ran up to him and
pulled him back. "What was that for?" asked Damian agitated. "I think that is the
challenge, to stay away from the fields, like the rule king said; thy shall not stray
off the path givingth to thé." answered Carl. "Oh yeah." stated William himself
finally coming back to reality. "What does that mean?" asked Damian. "Simply it
means, stay on the path." answered Carl. "Okie-dokie." Said Damian giving
thumbs up. "Well let's go." called Carl to the rest of the group, they all nodded
and they started walking towards Carl and Damian then down the blue path
through the grand hills. After about an hour and a half of walking they saw a
forest, a fairly big forest, the bark of the trees was almost black and the leaves
were very dark green, just looking at it put fear and dread into your heart. They all
walked up closer to it and to their despair found that the path went straight through
the forest. As they reach the entrance, Yeliah asked "What is this place?" "How
should we know?" William asked her. "We will never know, but we do know we
have to go through it, because of the first rule." stated Frances very wisely. At this
comment, there was a little flash and a podium appeared in a big explosion of blue
sparkles that disappeared when they hit the ground. "I wonder what that is." asked
Carl, of course referring to the podium. "Well go check it out." said Damian while
pushing him towards it. "Ok, ok fine." said Carl escaping Damian's push and
walked up to it, when he right in front of it a whole bunch of Monotype Corsiva
inscriptions carved into the wood, with the help of blue sparkles. Carl read this out
loud, here is what it said;
The Dreadful Forest
This is the Dreadful Forest, created only to strike dread and fear into the citizens
of Univista and to destroy the province of The Grand Hills. Inside you will find
terrible creatures, such as the dreaded ankle-slicers, along with fear and sorrow. I
do hope you all make it out alright.
Tips: Stick together, don't fight each other, and step on the ankle-slicers to stop
the blade. Deepest Sympathy; Queen Celestial
They all just stood there in shock when Carl finished, when everyone
started talking, it was like they al repeated one word from the definition that was
just read. Lyndsey started with "Dreadful." then William "destroy!" Frances then
said "terrible." Then Damian stated "slicers." Then Yeliah "horrid" then finally
"blade" said Matt. "Deepest Sympathy!" shouted out William. "Hey, you already
got your turn." said Damian while hitting him in the arm. "Ouch, well I saw
another word that needed to be said and there was no one else." said William
rubbing his arm. "Maybe Carl wanted to say one to." shouted Damian while
pointing at Carl. "Well, Carl had already read the whole thing, so I thought he had
already USED UP HIS TURN!" shouted back William. "SO DID YOU!"
shouted Damian and punched him in the stomach. "Oh, YOU'RE DEAD!"
William said running head first into Damian. He then went to hit him in the face,
but Damian ducked and kicked him. That's when Yeliah Frances and Lyndsey
broke into a cheer "Rip, Rip, Yee, Kick him in the knee, Rip, Rip, Sass, kick him
in the….. other knee!" they keep repeating that cheer. Then Damian tackled
William causing both of them to go near the edge, then William hit Damian in the
head, causing both of them, just before Damian hit the grass, Carl jumped out and
grabbed him by the hand and pulled him up. The he started shouting at Damian
and William. "What was that, over a stupid turn, we were warned, that if fought,
we would lose! As you just saw Damian almost fell on the grass, then he would
have been killed! Anybody fights again, when and if we get out of this game you
ARE KICKED OUT OF THE GROUP!" he finished, everyone was silent. He
went and hid behind a tree and though no one in the group saw this, he silently
cried, because of what he just did and
because he was scared of what he might
have to do in the
future.
After 5 minutes or so, Carl wiped
his eyes and got up, he came out from
behind the tree, and everyone was now sitting on the path waiting for him. He said
"Well, let's go, we've camped enough." So everyone got up. "Be prepared." stated
Carl right before they walked in. "For whatever is in there." They all nodded and
he started walking in when all of a sudden…
The group all ran up to Carl and scrunched into a tiny crowd. They keep
turning their heads and bodies' looking behind themselves to make sure nothing
was coming, Damian and Yeliah were in the middle, so they looked up. As they
keep going, they started to hear what sounded like scissors opening and closing
very fast. "Does anyone else hear that?" asked Carl to the group following him.
"YA" "YES" "YA" "YUP" they all said to him. Then this tiny thing came from
above them like a helicopter, it was purple, and it looked exactly like a hershy kiss
but about 7x bigger. It had tiny purple legs and feet but no arms and hands. On its
face, which was the whole front of him, was made up by just eyes, a mouth, and
one slit for a nose. On top of its pointy head were the things allowing him to fly
like a helicopter, there were blades on his head, which were the producers of the
scissor noise. As he landed the blades stopped, he started making the cutest little
sound, like he was talking backwards with a very high pitch. "Oh how cute."
stated Yeliah going to pet it, but Carl pulled her back and said "No don't, do you
not realize what this is, it's an ankle-slicer." Yeliah asked "Why would you say
that?" "Because it is as tall as your ankle and it has big blades for slicing things on
it." answered Carl. Just then the ankle-slicer started screaming, the forest was
filled with the sound of thousands of blades and hundreds of little ankle-slicers
were coming towards them. All of them coming in like helicopters, when they got
close enough, they all started to land, they still had their blades going round and
round. While they all just stood there with their hearts in their hearts in their
throats, the creatures were walking up to them, but very slowly like a wedding
procession. Once they all were finally back to reality they all looked at Carl
expecting a plan or at least some recognition that the creatures weren't the only
thing alive. When he saw them all looking at him, he himself came back to reality
and remembered the podium information the Queen gave them. "Step on their
heads!" called out Carl to the group. "What, are you crazy, why would we do
that?" asked Matt looking at Carl like he had a octopus on his head. "Because, the
podium with the description of the forest on it said; step on the ankle-slicers' head
to stop the blade." stated Carl. "Oh, yeah" remembered Frances. They all started
running up to the slicers and stepping on their heads, which did working when you
did, it would squeeze up and poof in a little cloud of purple smoke. Even though
sometimes they were able to step on the slicers just in time, they would also not,
the group member would either be busy with another slicer or the slicer would
dodge the foot. When it did it would cut you, down by the foot or would jump or
fly up and get you somewhere else. When it did, it would make the worst sound,
like a person pulling a sword out of the scabbard and the sound of a paper cut,
along with this sound you would hear the member being attacked screaming in
pain. The more and more they stepped on, the more came, The group, after about 7
minutes were about to give up, when a huge screech ran through the whole forest,
all the slicers looked around worried and then they all started to fly away, when
they were all gone, the screech sounded again, the group just stood there for a
second, but just said "Run!" So they all started running down the path, the screech
was now repeating faster and with every step they took it got louder. As they keep
running it got darker, the trees got closer together, and the sky was seen less and
less because of the increasing amount if leaves. They all thought that they would
make it out, but then they got to a part of the forest that the trees went around in a
big circle blocking the other side of the path, in this circled area there was one tree
that wasn't like the rest, blocking the group I mean, on the right side of the path
but still on it. If they were not already in bad enough shape already, they could
barely breathe, because the air was very dense, and dry. They all looked around
for a way out, when they heard the screech very loud and the ground starting
shaking as if something was coming towards them, there hearts in there throats
again, they all looked at the path behind them because that's where the noise was
coming from. They all then heard something breaking through the trees, then they
heard it running towards them, it was huge. When the beast came into view they
saw the oddest creature you would ever see. It had the head of raven, but as you
went down the 7 foot neck, the feathers turned into scales
and the neck got
skinnier. It had the body of an ostrich and the
legs of a raptor. On its head it had
the oddest shaped horns, but inside its mouth it had the fangs of a cobra. Its eyes
were blood red, just one look into them and you lose all joy and happiness. As it
came down the path towards them, Carl shouted out "Stick together!" but by the
time he did, Lyndsey, Frances, Yeliah and William had already ran to the blocking
trees trying to find a way to escape. Carl and Damian were the only ones left to
fight the creature, which was a surprise because Damian usually was not the
bravest kitten in the litter. The creature stopped when he saw the two boys,
because it reminded him of the two boys he fought 40 years earlier, he
remembered how he lost and why he lost. The creature let out a giant roar and he
grew a tail with spikes at the end of it. It started running towards them again, when
it got close enough it swung its tail at them, Carl jumped in the air to dodge it but
Damian ducked, neither of them were hit.
The creature then was really mad, so he let out a huge ball of green fire from
its mouth, straight up, it went through the leaves right through the leaves, as it
went through it made that crackling sound that a fire makes. Once the ball of fire
was gone the sun came in, but not like normal, but really slow, with spirals of
sparkles within it, and a second spiral of sunshine rapping around the original
spotlight of sunshine. It was like this part of the forest never had sunshine before.
The whole place warmed up, the air became more welcoming to your lungs and
the whole environment was more cheerful. The creature was then screeching in
fear. The sunshine went directly on the black tree in the middle of the place they
all were. The whole top of it disappeared, the stump was the only thing left, the
stump turned into a beautiful tan stump which was perfectly smooth, directly in
the middle of the top of the stump, out of a explosion of yellow sparkles appeared
a sword from bottom to top, it was stuck right in the stump. Fortuitously the stump
was on the path, Damian ran over and pulled it out, when he did all the sparkles in
the spot light of sunshine surrounded his body for a moment, and then soaked into
him. He then did a triple spin jump, landing in fighting stance, with yellow
glowing eyes. He then ran about halfway up the path towards the creature, then
jumped towards it doing a quadruple flip stopping right in front of the creature and
with one slice, which seemed to have all the power and brightness of the sun,
Damian cut off it's head and moments later the whole body exploded in a green
syrupy-liquid. Damian luckily was still in the sky so wasn't hit by it, and the rest
of the group was to far, even Carl. Damian then landed and shouted "Got out of
the way!" Then he started running towards the blocking trees, everyone moved.
He then again only ran halfway and jumped, but he didn't land, he just hit one of
the trees with the sword, he pulled it out and just started destroying the trees. In
about 2 minutes all of them were gone. "Let's go!" called Damian. Everyone just
looked at him in awe, the first person to move was Yeliah, who ran up to him,
grabbed him and kissed him on the lips. When she pulled away Damian looked in
surprise and said "Yeliah Mar-?" "Shh" Yeliah stopped him "Just call me,
Yeliah." and he responded "ok" then they both kissed again. "I hate to break this
up, but we've been camping to long and who knows what still in here, so let's go."
stated Carl. The whole group agreed, they left that area, congratulating Damian.
Even though they didn't it only 55 meters away was the end of the dreadful forest.
