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Chapter 19: Wrathwood
The tunnel was creepy and dark. Each step I tooked it gave me chills down my spine. I tooked a deep breath and exhaled deeply, then nose detected something. It smell like something died in here. It remind me of that disgusting boggan helmet I had to wear to sneak in here. Every was creepy, dark and as always, dead.
" Nod" Ronin whispered. I tried to hear for any signs of him, but nothing. Is was quite. Ronin exhaled deeply, in pain. The silence broke me. He wasn't here. That meant that he was out there, waiting his death. My eyes started to get watery at the thought. A tear fell down my face, I wipe it. If I wanted to save Nod I needed to be strong, but sometimes that doesn't work when you're in love. Then the times we had together started playing in my head. It was like been stab with a knife. My eyes started to get watery. Two tears fell down my face, I wipe them. I tooked a deep breath and exhaled deeply. Ronin noticed and turn to looked at me. Even in the dark I could see his face, destroyed. Ronin looked at me in the eye.
" Don't worry, we will get him. The good way or the bad way." Ronin said. His voice was broken and sad, but also with little courage. I nodded. Ronin nodded, turned and kept walking. I followed kept walking in silence. After a couple of moments I started to see some kind of light. Ronin noticed and kept walking toward the light. Then the light started to shine really bright and then we could see clearly. We were outside of a dark hallway.
" Come on" Ronin said. He turned left and I followed him. There was this big hole the size of a doorway. Ronin walked toward it and looked from the sides of the doorway, I did the same. My eyes widen at the sight. It was the same big kind of plaza place, with the bridges and everything, but it was full and full of boggans. There were boggans in every part of the big plaza. It was like a Broadway show. It was full house, literally. I looked down and saw the big hole that Finn was talking about, it was the size as this place. My stomachs turn at the sight of this. Nod would be dropped to this hole, if we don't save him. I started to look for him. I looked up and saw a rope aboves us. I follow the rope with my eyes and I saw a figure tied to it. I looked closer and gasped.
" Nod" I gasped. Ronin looked at me and followed what my eyes were looking at. His eyes widen, and so did mine. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Nod was daggling above the hole. His wrists were tied from ropes that were in the rocks. One was above us, but the other one was way too far. I tried to look closer at Nod. I could see his face, full of failure and sadness. I wanted to run to him. Wanted to kiss him and hug him and tell him that I love him and that I didn't want to lose him. To tell him to have faith, and also to give him some kind of sign that we were here. I tried waving my arms, but some hands stopped me.
" What are you doing?"Ronin asked, confused and a little angry.
" Trying to give Nod some kind of sign to tell him were here" I said. Ronin shoke his head.
" You can't do that. Theres hundreds of boggans here. One of them could have see you." Ronin said. I sighed. How are we going to save him without him knowing were here? I wanted to wave my arms again, but I needed to follow Ronin's orders.
" Alright. Sorry Ronin." I said. I felt a little embarrassed, but then I was brought back to reality by a familiar voice.
" Welcome everybody to my dear ceremony." Mandrake said. My eyes widen. It was Mandrake. I couldn't believe it, I mean I believed Nod, but seen him was shocking. He was standing in some pillar beside Nod. Odd, that pillar wasn't even there. Maybe Mandrake made it, since he is now stronger and powerful. " I believe many of you came for our special presentation" Mandrake grinned. He turned to look at Nod and put one hand on his face, doing that thing they do to the kids when they find then so cute. " This leafmen, was the one that tooked my chance of destroying the forest. Now we are going to destroy him, so he could feel my pain" Mandrake snarled. I gasped. Ronin looked at me, I thought it was a warning, but it was the face that was broken. He tooked a deep breath and then turn serious. Wow, he hides his emotions fast, I think. I turned to look at Nod. Mandrake grinned at Nod and let go of his face.
" You'll never get away with this. They'll come and you will fall once again, like your son." Nod groaned. Mandrake looked at Nod, sad and furious. The other boggans gasped. Mandrake approach Nod and hit him really hard on the gut. I gasped and covered my eyes with my hands. It was like I could feel what he was feeling. Nod looked really bad and painful. Mandrake looked at him and then grinned.
" My dear leafmen, like I said: ' No leafmen will get in here…alive' " Mandrake laughed. All the boggans started laughing. I wanted to come out and tell him that they're were wrong, but that will be the stupidest idea ever. I looked at Nod, even though I couldn't not see his face real clearly, I could see that he looked defeated. I couldn't wait for Ronin to act. To make a move or something. I looked at Ronin and he looked at me. He gave me a look that I knew perfectly what it meant. It's show time. But how?
"Ronin, how are we going to get him out of there with Mandrake and hundreds of boggans here?" I asked. I really wanted to know how Ronin will actually come up with this, because it looks impossible for me. Ronin looked at me and grinned.
" With a distraction, of course" Ronin said. Why didn't I think of that? I looked at Ronin. What kind of distraction? It looks like he read my mind, because he smiled and looked at the roof, or what was the roof. I tried to look at what he was looking. It was a leafmen. Then Ronin started doing stuff with his hand. It was the signal, but it was different. Maybe was the do-a-distraction signal. The leafmen nodded and started doing the same, but to another direction. It went for a few seconds, then some boggan come running to the big plaza.
" Leafmen… There's leafmen out there." The boggan said. Every boggan screamed and cursed. Nod's face light up. Mandrake grinned.
" Kill them all. I don't want any prisoners." Mandrake said. He jumped down and disappeared. Then every boggan screamed and went outside to fight. I gasped. I hope no leafmen dies. Ronin put his hand on my shoulder.
" Don't worry, nobody has died, even with Mandrake back. The boggans might look scary and aggressive, well they are, but there weak. Come on we got to get Nod to see us" Ronin said. Finally. It was about time. Ronin tooked a dead branch from the floor and throw it. It passed Nod right on the face, but he didn't saw it. He was really depressed. Man, I wanted so badly to hug him. Ronin groan.
" Of all the time he couldn't have paid attention" Ronin mumbled. I smiled a little. He tooked another branch and throw it, but this time it hit Nod in the head. I looked at Ronin. He shrugged.
" What? That's what I always do to make him pay attention" Ronin grinned. I rolled my eyes. Nod looked at Ronin, his face light up. Then he got a glimpse of me, his whole face light up. Surprised. I smiled at him. He smiled, my favorite smile. That was like a slap in the face. I really did missed that smile. I blushed a little. Then Ronin tooked one arrow and show it to Nod. Nod looked a little shocked.
" Really?" Nod mouthed. What is he talking about?
" Really" Ronin mouthed back. What are they talking about? Nod looked at Ronin and nodded. Ronin tooked his bow and put the arrow on it. What's he doing? I started to get nervous. I looked at Nod. He looked a little worried. What was Ronin going to do? Ronin pointed his arrow at Nod. I looked at him. Was he crazy? But before I could say anything, he let the arrow go. I gasped. I looked at the arrow fly and then Nod tooked it in his left hand. I looked at Nod, shocked. How? What? Huh? This was really advanced stuff. Nod started cutting the rope on his left hand. After a few seconds, Nod cut the rope, but he started to swing toward us. Nod looked shocked, but he tooked the arrow and cut the rope on his right hand. Ronin and I tooked a few steps backwards. Then Nod came fly toward us and landed on the floor in front of us. He groaned. Then he looked at us, but mostly me.
" M.K." Nod said, happy and relieved.
" Nod" I said, happy and relieved too. He got up and went running toward me, so did I. We bump into each other, we hugged each other tightly. Like there was no tomorrow. Then we looked at each other and without hesitating… we kissed. We kissed like there was no tomorrow. Like this was our only chance. I mean, I knew we both thought that we weren't going to see each other again. HE put his arms around me and holds me tight. I had my arms around his neck. We were so happy that we saw each other again, that we didn't even hesitate. We let go of each other and looked at each other. We both smiled and put our foreheads together. Nod put a hand on my face.
" I-I thought I wasn't going to see you again, or anybody" Nod said. I smiled.
" Me too" I said. He smiled too. We started giggling. Then we were brought back to reality by a scream.
" The boooy. He is gonee. Aaaaaggghhhh" Mandrake screamed. We were noticed.
