The Glassy Sky

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Forest of Ardent

After a few minutes of walking down the stairs, we noticed that the forest looks unnatural. The trunk of the trees is black as night, while the leaves of the tree, the bushes and the vines are all white as snow. The flowers are colorful but not known in our world, some are big and some are small. And the soil is greyish in color. "This place gives me the chills." Toby said. "Right." Hunter replied. As we wander along the forest, a greyish fog starts to appeared and as we walk along, it gets thicker and the air gets denser, till we can't see each other. "Everybody, stay close to me." I said. But no one answers back. It freaked me out to find that there's no one behind me all this time. Where are they? What happened to them? I asked myself. They were just behind me until that fog showed up. So I ran back as fast as I can, to find that they're not here anymore. "Hello!" I shouted. But no one answered my call. "This isn't funny guys!" I said. "Where on earth are you?" Moments later, I saw a man with brown skin, four feet of height and looks like he's from a tribe or something because he's only wearing a loin cloth and he has a spear and has tribal tattoo's all over his body. Then as the fog dissipates a bit, an entire army of men showed up. I grabbed my sword, and told them, "I don't want to hurt you."

"Why are you here?" The man wearing a Hawaiian like Tiki mask said while pointing his spear to my head. I ignited my sword, and said, "I'm warning you. I don't want to hurt you, but if you insist then I'll do it." One of them threw his spear aiming towards my head and I cower in fear for It caught me off-guard. Then the sword suddenly created a force field that burned the spear and burned everything in its path within an instant. Then an old man stepped in and halt everyone, lowering down their spears. "Why do you have that sword?" The old man asked.

"It was entrusted to me. Why?"

"You don't know the history of that sword do you, child?"

"No, I don't. It was handed to me, so I don't know much about it."

"The golden trinket of the sword from the top of its grip, was made by us gnomes. So the fire that it creates, comes from our ability to generate fire at will." He placed his hands

"So you made this?"

"Indeed, my grandfather made the trinket for him to make the sword stronger. Because of Samael's desire to create a weapon stronger than most seraphs he collaborated with us because he's intrigued by our ability to generate fire at will and jealous of his sister Uriel who can create fire at will since he's the holy seraph of fire. And with his ability to create things out of light, we created a sword so powerful that it burns everything to cinder within seconds combined with his bright light creating a blue flame so unique to most angels."

"I see, but what does it have to do with me?"

"Are you an ally of Samael?"

"I don't know, but it was entrusted to me for the meantime to defeat a certain demon lurking on the dream world. By the way, do you know an alternative way for us to go back to the dream world?"

"Unfortunately, the only way in and out of this world is through the giant pink crystal guarded by fairies on the City of Gaia."

"How do I go there?"

"You need to come with us we can guide you out of this forest." And suddenly I saw them with Sam, Hunter and Toby where they're tied down on a pole with a cloth on their mouth so they can't talk while we're on our way to their lair. It enraged me and blue flame spurts out on my entire body even though the sword is on the scabbard as the flames gets stronger the gnomes get more frightened. "Un-tie my them, now!" I said.

"We're sorry, we don't know that you're with them."

"Un-tie them, now!" I shouted, then trees and bushes on my edges burned. "I'll burn all of you if you don't release them."