Everlasting Beauty (Free Ebook)

Chapter Eighteen

The dark cylinder shaped object's doors suddenly popped open and went up like an old Delorean. It hovered a few feet from the yellow grass.

"Please enter," Rox said. I looked at him perplexed.

"I don't know... I don't..."

"Please sit down. I will accommodate you," Rox said. I walked towards the object and recognized a dark, chocolate seat. I tilted to look back at Rox who waited patiently for me. I sat down and felt my back incline comfortably backwards. I tilted to search for a seatbelt, but I didn't see anything. Rox walked to the other side of the object and sat next to me. Then the doors automatically closed and I felt two purple straps made of lights embrace my chest. The object simply hovered away quickly.

I wondered who or how this strange car was driving through the forest. I could see a beach close to me with red sand and strange yellow creatures that looked like turtles and snakes wriggling and crawling all over the place. The yellow snakes wriggled in the purple water and the large bird like creatures flew and dived into the water to snatch them into their beak like mouths. The trees beside them looked dry with large branches that had huge yellow thorns. As the cylinder car moved forward I saw more trees and noticed another strange bird creature fly towards a tree. The creatures placed their mouth on the tips of the thorns and I noticed that they were swallowing. But swallowing what, I wondered.

"Anabella, do not be afraid. You will see the Kimbruk up front, but they will ignore our hover transport," Rox said.

"What is a Kimbruk?" I asked and Rox pointed with his robotic chin up front. I glanced forward and saw what seemed like a huge stampede. They looked like horses, but when the "hover transport" passed them by I noticed they had huge lion heads, black and white large manes on their heads, a tail with a huge dark ball on its tip, white bodies and they had flat large feet. One of the creatures looked at me and it had blue eyes with cat like red irises. Rox was right, the creature ignored the hover transport.

"Wonderful creatures," I pointed out loud.

"Yes, but they are carnivores. You must never roam around this area without a hover transport. They will eat all sorts of flesh regardless," Rox replied.

"Seriously and they just run around free?" I asked shocked.

"Yes." Rox answered.

"That is the statue of Kruk. Kruk was Prince's Brok's great, great, great, grandfather," Rox said. I glanced at the statue that was two miles away. The statue was amazingly large, bigger than the statue of liberty. It seemed to be an exact replica of Brok's great grandfather with its blue skin and yellow eyes with long dark hair just like Brok, but the clothes the statue wore was very different. The statue wore a short-penciled skirt, sandals and a dark open vest. The jet black hair amazingly ruffled in the purple sky with pink clouds and from where I was I could see birds pass by it. My jaw dropped at the incredible vision of it as we passed by the enormous sandals.

I tilted my head to look at the statue from behind and I still couldn't believe this amazing world. The statue held a strange circle in his hand and I assumed it was some sort of a weapon, but I was unsure.

"What's the statue holding?" I asked.

"A Fruke. It's a musical instrument," Rox replied. I was surprised at that answer. My eyes gazed at the lands again and I saw the Kimbruks run wildly behind us. They roared from time to time and turned left away from where we were headed. Then I looked up front again and a few miles in front of us I could see an imposing infrastructure with large spikes as high as the sky.

"What's that?" I asked pointing at it.

"That is the castle Anabella. Your new home," Rox said. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I was finally here, at the end of my freedom and at the beginning of my harsh reality. I felt my cheeks go hot, my heart thumping and my lungs going tight. I didn't want to cry, but hot tears streamed down my eyes. I didn't want to see the castle with its enormous, black steel like structure, imposing columns and towers or its strange round arches, there were at least more than twenty placed surrounding the castle. Statues were randomly positioned in front of windows and look alike gargoyles were posted on the walls and columns.