Children Of Olympus[Vol.1] Amethyst MoonStone

Chapter 7:Forest Of Madness & Memories

When I awake my entire body hurts. It's so dark. I can't see anything, the first thing I can think of is mellow. I get up despite the pain and aching in my body. I need to find my cat. "Mellow, where are you!"

"Meow!" I hear in the distance.

I light a mini fire in the palm of my hand. The entire forest has eyes everywhere trees and vines are intertwined; it's so dark even with the fire. "Mellow!" I yell again walking into the forest. I walk towards her meowing until it stops.

"Mellow!" Nothing, everything was silent, not meow to be heard.

I Sit down exhausted.

"Now I'm lost and I lost my familiar. I put the fire on a dead stick so I don't waste mana. Out of nowhere Rain appears.

"Hey, Looks like you got yourself into a difficult situation." He says like he was just fabricated into existence.

"How the heck! Why Are you here? I thought I escaped you and Carly in the school." I get up in disbelief and pull my sword out of my hostler.

"Well, you see I'm not here. I'm just here because you're thinking about me. Or you could also say ''I'm your hallucination." he says following me as I whack vines and branches with my sword.

"Why would I be thinking about you! You lied to me so did Carly, I trusted you guys and you threw a knife in my back and lied about my parents to me. "

 I continue to whack the vines and branch more aggressively, making it further into the forest. " No need to get mad, after all, if you really wanted me gone you would have made me disappear already. " He says.

this was the entire situation was being manipulated!" DONT WANNA HEAR ONE MORE WORD FROM YOU"  I turn around to see rain look-alike melt into a big waxy monster that lunges at me so far from what I gathered this forest picks things to make you go crazy, things that make you see red, even if this was fake I was seeing red and I did want blood.

 " WHAT THE FUCKING CHRIST-,'' I say falling backward as the sword falls out of my hand and hits the tree a few meters away from me. 

The monster looked like something unrecognizable as Rain, I knew I couldn't be thinking about the stuck-up asshole. I crawl and push myself closer to the sword as the melting wax monster looms and screeches at me and grabs it when I push myself up to face the monster. It's gone. Like it was never there.  I didn't even get a chance to catch my breath when Instead, it's a girl. A little girl that looks a lot like me. she was never there before am I really going crazy? 

" Why are you pointing your sword at me, miss?" the girl says." I-i thought you were a monster... sorry, um.. we're your parents?" I say frantically catching my breath in disbelief.

"What do you mean, my mom isn't here and the dad I don't know where he is," she says innocently.

 "Well, do you know a way out of here? I'm lost and looking for my cat. How long have you been here?" I saw the girl's tattered and worn clothes with her white hair and thorns and cuts on her legs. 

She does not respond to the questions I asked her, only in silence. All of a sudden a woman comes out of the foliage and starts to beat the poor girl all I could remember was the way my mother treated me this way, she even looked like her I couldn't tell if this forest was bring up unwanted memories but I know I couldn't help it, I took out my sword as the girl screamed in agony and pain.

 "Don't you dare hurt one more bone on that girl's body!" I pointed my sword at her neck. 

    I felt no fear. The dark scary abandoned forest faded away into a beautiful meadow with pretty sakura trees. The little girl disappeared as well. She turned into flowers and drifted into the sky. I sat down on a boulder. Tired and my legs were worn out. I don't know how long it's been or how long I was out but I know I need to get to that tower. I know I should be walking but couldn't remember anything but that girl. 

       She was so young and her mother was beating her as mine did those are memories I don't wish to re-visit. She was what may be and that girl's mother harbored so much hate for a little girl. Everything hit me like flashbacks. All I could remember was screaming and pain and bruises. And my mother in my face or should I say, my adoptive mother. Did she even know? Was it easy for them to give me up? That's when I remembered I saw a flash and two women and then it went dark again. 

 I remember Carly speaking "Those are her parents.." 

If I was born how are my parents 2 girls maybe it was wrong? All this resting did was give me more questions than answers.

   I get up and start walking until I find a path. I'm assuming it's the right path because the tower is getting closer. I find a nicer clearing before it gets dark and set up a camp for now. I still don't know where my cat is. 

     Hopefully, I will find her soon... Once I lay down I drifted into a well-needed rest.  I hope that what I'm doing is right but I won't ever really know until it's done but I have a sneaking feeling that instead of being the hero I might become the villain I didn't wanna be. I can't be the villain in the story they never win. I cant become something I feared as a child.