New Age

Chapter 14-Coming Back To Reality

It's been a few weeks since "that" incident and to be honest nothing's really happened since. I mean yea I get the occasional death glare from Kelly's goons and herself sometimes, but she knows that she can't touch me. I still sometimes wonder what Milinda would have said if scarlet didn't burst her door open. I also wonder about why she hesitated so hard, was it wrong of me to ask? I also don't know that much about Scarlet either. As I lied in my bed and stared at the ceiling I heard a knock at the main dorm door. I heard Scarlet's door open and heard her footsteps go to the door and open it. My door opened.

"Hey Zena!" Scarlet yelled as she entered the room. I sighed "what you want pink hair!?" Scarlet snickered and said back " Milinda wanna show you somethin!" I hopped out of my bed curious. "Wait, what does she wanna show me?" Scarlet shrugged and said "I don't know all she said was she wanted to show you something outside of the school. I mean it is the weekend so it wouldn't hurt to go right?" "I mean you're not wrong" I replied, stating to go to the door. I peeked past scarlet and saw Milinda just waiting outside the door. "Hmm... alright i'll go." Scarlet smirked and said "don't tell me tell her you dingus!" I smiled and laughed then said "Ok! Ok, i'm going!" I saw Milinda awaiting me at the door, it looked like she zoned out or something because she was just staring at the ground. "Hey! I'm here!" I said, clapping in front of her. She snapped out of it and realized I was there. "Oh hey! Didn't think you would actually come!" I smirked and said "Well I did, so let's go!"

On the way we didn't make much conversation. It was just awkward stuff like "so, how's your day?" and a response and that's it. We didn't actually go into the city which I am completely and utterly fine with, there are way too many people. Instead we just went straight into the woods. I don't know what it was but as soon as we entered those woods I felt a sense of deja vu,and not the good kind. I felt something stirring up inside and my heart just started pumping really fast. We kept walking and I think it got worse because it felt like I was going to pass out half way through the trip. Not from tiredness but from an adrenaline rush, I kept going though because I didn't want to worry Milinda. I felt my hands starting to shake a bit longer in to the trip, and by the time we where almost at the end I felt like I was going to changed out of self defense for some reason! "We're here! You can finally-" Milinda's face went from delighted to full on worried parent in a heart beat. "Oh my god Zena are you ok!? You look like your about to pass out!" I shook my head and put on a smile and said "n-no it's fine, I'm... fine-" I collapsed. When I woke up I was propped up against a tree in a medium sized clearing in the woods. I didn't actually get a chance to look around when we first got here. It was a decently sized clearing with the sunlight coming in through the trees, and small toadstools dotted the ground. There where stones around the clearing marking it out so it would be like a little rest spot. Milinda was sitting on a log, zoned out once again, but this time she was bouncing her leg up and down, was picking her nails and had a worried expression on her face. "Hey uh Milinda, I'm up!" I said with a bit of shake to my voice. Milinda looked over and a face of relief showed on her face. "Oh thank god I thought I killed you from exhaustion!" She stood up and said "Now,let me introduce you to this spot properly." she cleared her throat "Ahem! I ,Milinda the pixie, welcome the to the Mystic Clearing!" as she said that the clearing seemed to expand, no wait it WAS expanding! I got up to look around me. I could see large tree houses start to appear in the distance and lakes start to form. By the time it stopped expanding there were multiple villages ,big and small, a huge tree house that spread across multiple tree's connected by many bridges.                                               What did I just get myself into?