The Lost Soul

5. The forest

Victoria was wondering throughout the land of Mortem, she did not know where too. all Victoria knew is that she needed to find Thalia. She had newfound information of what a soul looked like as she had found Asukas soul, she approached a forest, full of dead trees, just like all the others. Victoria recognized the forest, it was the forest The Mimic had escaped into and the forest Asuka died in. She continued to walk through the forest, Victoria felt like something or someone, was watching her. Victoria was afraid, she had lost her best friend, her girlfriend, she was no longer in her world, she was in hell. There were many creatures lurking about, suddenly there was a loud croaking sound, like a frog. Victoria looked behind her to see a frog, it looked ordinary, apart from the ear piercing croaking. The frog jumped into a puddle of red water, followed what felt like an earthquake, Victoria attempted to run away. She glanced behind her and saw what looked like a tongue, following her. She stopped, her hair was caught on a tree branch.

"Get out, Get out." She repeated, she was at her hair so it wouldnt be stuck anymore.

When Victoria turned around she saw the same frog from earlier, except it wasnt small, it was bigger than her, the frog was the size of an Elephant, its tongue was longer, it looked like it extended infinitely, Victorias hair was finally loose. She started to run but once she attempted to move it did not work, she looked around to see she was in the air, the frog had wrapped its tongue around her waist, it had picked her up. The giant frog was now  reeling its tongue back in, bringing Victoria with it. She was getting closer to the frogs mouth by each moment, was this how she dies? being eaten my a frog? no. Victoria would not let that happen. She had a pocket knife, it was in her right pocket, she tried to pull it out but the frogs grip was getting tighter, she felt as if she was going to burst in pieces any moment now, the frog shook her around a little bit as it got stuck between two trees due to its size, Victoria was a meter away from the frogs mouth, luckily, she got a grip of the pocket knife. Before she could do anything with it she was thrown inside of the frogs mouth. She was done, she was going to start deteriorating and die though she did not feel sad, angry, happy, she didnt feel anything. The only thing which was going through her head at the time was that she needs to save Thalia. 

Victoria flashed back to a certain moment she had with Thalia...

Suddenly Victoria was inside a movie theatre, preparing to watch a romance movie.

"I hate romance movies, but you knew that already." Said Thalia.

"C'mon just watch it, im sure it'll be good." Victoria replied.

The two walked over to their seats and sat down, Thalia had only come here because she wanted to spend time with Victoria, it was their first date after all. 

The two watched the movie, they were silent throughout most of the movie. They ate their food and were both extremely fixated on the movie, until the kissing scene. The girls looked at each other, they smiled. Victoria blinked, once she opened her eyes she realised she was still about to die in the stomach of a frog, she looked for her sword, it was not near her, Victorias bag had fallen off and was likely near the red pond. 

"Do you still think you can save her? Victoria?" A voice came from behind Victoria, she quickly turned, there was no one. It sounded just like The Soul Eater.

"On the verge of death and all you can think about is poor little Thalia? dont worry, you will reunite with her soon." The voice whispered, Victoria jolted up, filled with anger she grabbed her pocket knife from her pocket and repeatedly stabbed the frogs stomach, with each stab the Soul eater whispered something in her ear, something like "You cant win" or "you will die."

"You're wrong! you are wrong! i will find Thalia, i will find her alive!" Screamed Victoria, the frog was now bouncing around, as she kept stabbing it, The stabbing was not working, it was angerin the frog. Victoria started cutting, she cut a line through the frogs side, she felt the knife reach the other side, she carved a box, once Victoria jumped out of the box she realised the frog had died, due to her stabbing earlier. There was blood everywhere outside, yet next to none inside, she did not have time to think about it. Victoria ran around all over the forest, looking for her bag.  once she started walking she noticed there was millions of Thalias, hiding behind trees, was it the Mimics or was it a hallucination? Victoria could not tell, one of the Thalias launched at Victoria, it missed by a little bit and went flying into a tree, the tree shook. Victoria started running again, she needed to get out of this forest.. and fast. As Victoria ran the Thalias started to follow behind, they were running slowly, not too fast yet not too slow. Victoria spotted her bag in the distance, it was next to a red puddle. Victoria ran faster, her heart was beating extremely fast, she was scared. The Thalias behind her chasing her, they leaped from tree to tree following Victoria, she was now convinced that these werent hallucinations, they were Mimics, why is there so many? Theres no time to think, Victoria saw the exit of the forest and ran, once she got close enough she jumped out of the forest, the Mimics still close behind were refusing to go further. Victoria did not want to think about this and ran as far as she could, she ended up in a field with dead grass, dead flowers and a few dead trees, in the very middle of the field was a scarecrow, was it the next battle Victoria will have to face? We are yet to see.

Victoria drops onto the ground, exhausted. She pulls out her mirror and checks her eye, she had only one quarter of her soul left, Was she about to lose her soul? Is this the end of the road? Victoria started panicking, behind her she heard a faint laugh, an evil laugh, She looked all around her and could not see anything. Victoria approached the nearby Scarecrow, she pulled out her pocket knife and swung it blindly at the Scarecrow, cutting it many times, Victoria kicked the Scarecrow, she did all this out of pure anger, she didnt want to lose to this creature, all she wanted was Thalia, Victoria calms herself down rather quickly and finds a spot nearby to sleep, it was between two dead trees, was most likely going to freeze to death, but she did need sleep. Victoria had not slept in days, anymore and she would not be able to go on, Victoria easily drifted off to sleep, while she was asleep a familiar person or thing, appeared in her dream.. Was it Thalia? Or was it someone evil?

Authors note: Hey! i know this fr probably horrible but i am putting time into this so i appreciate yall for reading!