Last time of The Awakening...

Light and company needed to gather some supplies for the trip to the Forbidden Forest, but Flaira had some business with Crystal, so she stayed back. Meanwhile, Aqua, Cooper, and Light gathered the materials for the trip. But suddenly, Gias attacked The City of Hex, and capturing Flaira and Crystal. Will our hero's be able to rescue there friends in time, or will they all meet a terrible fate? Find out now!

Light, Cooper, and Aqua stood there for several minutes, at a lost for words. Finally, Light was the first to speak:
"Alright then, we have three months to track down Gias, find the Hexsword, defeat Gias, and rescue Flaira and Crystal… any idea where the ship could have gone Aqua?"

"No Clue… All we can really do now is continue on our way to retrieve the Hexsword. Luckily, we have the supplies we need, so we can be on our way."

"Alright then, let's go. Aqua, since Flaira was our navigator, you'll be taking over that role. So, lead thee way to the forest." Aqua nodded, and started to head out the castle gates.

"Flaira… I can't believe she's gone…" Cooper whispered, as they went out of the city, and continued down a beaten down road.

" It's alright Cooper, we'll get her back, I promise." Light said, as he put his hand on Cooper's shoulder.

"How can you be so positive Light!? You lost one of your only friends, and she might be dead for all we know!" Cooper yelled, as he pulled away from Light's hand.

"... I know that, but we need to get going along the path, even if it's hard… here, let me give you example: You see the road we're walking along?" Light said.

"Yea? What's so special about it? It's just a beat up road."

"Right, but imagine it as your life. It's not so great, but we're still walking along it, right?"

"Ok… I still don't get what you're saying Light…."
"What I'm trying to say is that you may get beaten up down your lifetime, but you'll never steer off of the road. Your life may be at a terrible point right now, but later on, it will get all better. Just look at the road: It's now all smooth." Light was right; just a minute ago, they were on a very jagged and bumpy road, but now they're on a nice, clear, smooth road.

"... I think I understand now, thanks Light…." Cooper said, as they continued down the smoothed out road.

"Aqua, how far are we to reaching the forest? Are we gonna make it by nightfall, or are we gonna have to camp out for the night?" Cooper asked, as Aqua looked up at the sky, and back down at his map.

"Probably, here, we can make camp in those trees over here." Aqua said, as he grabbed a couple of dirt blocks, and made a staircase up to the leaves on the tree.

"Here, climb up." Light and Cooper were hesitant, but went up the stairs, and into the trees after a bit. After Light had gotten past the first step, he removed the first block so that no zombies could come up at night. After that, Aqua placed dirt blocks around the area they were staying in, so skeletons couldn't shoot at them at night. Light had never noticed until now that the leaves were pretty high off the ground, even spiders couldn't get them from here. Plus, Cooper was in the process of building off on to two other trees, so that they could have there own private trees. Light decided to be helpful as well, and place an extra dirt block on every other block that was surrounding the trees. After a while, they had been able to make a nice, safe place to stay for the night. Luckily, Aqua had brought three beds for them all to sleep in, Flaira had taken the other bed from Aqua before they left. For the final touch, and just before nightfall as well, they had placed torches around the bridges, and bed areas. They all went over to Aqua's corner, where he had placed a furnace down, and was cooking some iron he had.

"I had a little ore before you came, and we talked about this whole mess." Aqua said, as he handed the Iron ore over to Cooper. "You can have the ores, since you're the professional blacksmith here." Cooper placed it in his backpack, and the all sat there for a few moments, saying nothing to each other. All of them looked over to see the sun setting. They all smiled and sighed.

"It's so beautiful… I wish I could always see the sun like that…" Aqua said, as h turned back around. "So, since they night is almost upon us, how about I let you learn a bit more about me, so, I'm eighteen, my father is the general of Hextorria's army, I'm actually the co-commander, so If he had something important to attend, or if he falls in battle, I take over the commander spot. Anyways, I-"

"When did you start dating Crystal?" Cooper blurted out. Of course, Aqua gave him a look that meant: I'm getting to that. So don't interrupt again, GOT IT?

"I started dating her about a year ago, so…. yea. Why Cooper? You interested in my girlfreind? It's a little out of your league i'm afraid, since, well, you're TOO YOUNG." Aqua said, as Cooper lunged at Aqua, but Light was able to grab him in time before they both fell of the tree.

"LET ME AT HIM! I'M GONNA KILL HIM!" Cooper screamed, while he was flailing his arms about, trying to get Light to loosen his grip. Meanwhile, Aqua was sitting across from them, laughing so hear, he was crying, and almost fell off the tree.

After a while, they all calmed down, and Aqua continued on with his story:

"My father as I said, was a part of the Legendary Elements. He was the fourth person to join the group, along with Cooper's father, and Flaira mother. I forget who all joined their group, but it was the same elements, so yea, that's about it. Any questions?"

"Nope."

"None."

"Really? You sure? I thought you would have at least one for each of you…"

"Wait, actually I do have one." Cooper said.

"Really!? What?"

"How come you can stay so calm and cool, AND be able to make smart remarks? It's so… weird."

"Oh, that… I can't really say. It just comes to me naturally, just like you being good at blacksmithing, and Light is always so positive all the time, even in the toughest situations… anyways, it's getting late, we should be heading to bed. " Aqua yawned, as he went to his bed, and Cooper and Light did the same in their corners.

Light and Aqua woke up early that morning, Cooper however, was still asleep. Light woke up that morning, ate a quick piece of beef, and started to tear down his side of the base. After he was about halfway completed, Cooper finally woke up, and did the same. Aqua however, teared down a bit of his side, and made another piece to the stair to the ground, so Light teared down the walls on the his area. After they had torn down the rest of the base, Cooper went down the staircase, and Light tore down the rest of the staircase as he was coming down as well. After Light had finished tearing down the stairs, Aqua looked down at his map, and continued on there way, this time off of the road.

"So, how did we all sleep?" Aqua said, as he took a bite into a apple.

"Fine I guess, I woke up a few times to zombie grunts, and a couple times, I thought they were starting to climb the tree." Light said, as he patted Cooper on the back, to jerk him back awake.

"Huh!? What!? I didn't- oh… I slept fine, just a little tired…" Cooper yawned, as he started dozing off again, with Light occasionally patting his back so he would stay awake.

"Good, because we got a big day today, we should be able to get to the entrance by nightfall, so let's get going!"

Aqua stopped suddenly that Light almost ran into him, but before he could, he looked at what he was looking at. They had made it. There was a reason they called it the Forbidden Forest, there was ominous green mist coming from the woods, the trees had to be at least 50 blocks tall, plus they were all clumped together, and when Light tried to look in to the forest, he couldn't because it was so dense.

"Well, we shouldn't head in today, the sun's about to set, so.. let's set up camp. " Aqua said, as he started to dig underground, Light and Cooper did the same. They were all about three blocks away from each other, so they all dug forward, and they all met in a center point. Cooper placed some torches around them, as Light covered to holes, and dug around them. Surprisingly, the soil around them was just dirt, there was no cobblestone, which made it much easier. After they were done, they set up their beds next to each others, and sat there for a moment, and Aqua finally said:

"Let's get to bed early tonight, we have a big day tomorrow…" Aqua said, as Cooper was already in his bed and asleep. After a bit, Aqua and Light dozed off into sleep as well. They never noticed the person watching them from the woods.

A couple minutes later, somebody came inside of the hole that Aqua, Cooper, and Light were sleeping in. The figure took all of the torches, and placed one in the center of them to get a better look at them.

"Oooooooo! There soooo CUTE!" The figure whispered, as they chanted something, and some more figures came down, duct taped their mouths shut, and put them into sacks. After one of the figures took the torch, they closed the patches of dirt, and ran off into the forest, three boys in bags.

Who are the people that captured Light and company? Where are they taking them? And what ever happened to Flaira and Crystal? Find out Next time on THE AWAKENING!