Forbidden Flames (on hold)

Chapter 2

She gathered the strength that was left in her and tried to open her eyes. Her head was bursting with pain which made her unable to open her eyes.

She put her hand on her head, and out of nowhere, she heard someone yelling "She's awake, she's awake." She slowly opened her eyes. She was stunned seeing the scene in front of her. "What am I doing here?" she asked them confused.

Lucia looked around and found herself in a small wooden house, lying on the bed which was also made of some kind of wood. She looked around and analyzed that everything here was made of strange wood.

"Don't worry milady, you'll get to know this later. We are not here to harm you. You are safe here. Take rest." A lady who's in her late 30s tried to relax her and spell a magical word that made Lucia sleep instantly.

After sleeping for straight 8 hours, she stood up and ran outside. Seeing the view outside, she froze, standing at the door. She immediately understood that it was not her place.

People were riding on horses, no cars, and all the houses were made of wood and were made with the same designs. People were wearing different types of clothes which she had never seen before in her lifetime.

Birds, animals, and even insects, she was seeing them for the first time in her lifetime. She was examining everything when that lady, she met before, pulled her inside the house.

"Where am I?" The first question came from Lucia's mouth. "Sit lady, I'll tell you." She made Lucia sit on the sofa and said "I know you are shocked seeing everything but this is not your world. This is our world which is linked with yours by that tree that made you come here. I know it's hard to believe but Don't go outside without my permission."

"Is this real?" "Of course it is real. You might not know that only five people can come here in a hundred years." "What, who are those four?" That lady smiled and said, "You are first." Lucia was again shocked.

"What? Can I go back?" "There is no way you can go back." "I have to live here?" "Yes, you have to live here." Lucia nodded understanding everything and lay down on the sofa.

She thought in her head "Now, I am going to live here. No one loves me there but what about Gammy, I know that witch will take care of Gammy. She only has a problem with me. Now I am going to live my new life. I am here because my destiny took me here. Let's see what happens".

"Woah Mom, she's beautiful." A young boy said looking at Lucia. "Yes, she is." that lady said. "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself. I am Emily, you can call me Emy if you want because we are family now. He is like your brother, Paul." She said pointing at that boy and he smiled.

"Hello, my name is Paul, I am 13". "I am Lucia, Nice to meet you my younger brother." Lucia smiled at him. She was delighted to meet them.

Lucia wanted to ask her ample questions but she didn't dare to ask.

Emily said to Lucia "You can ask anything you want."

"Really?" Lucia asked and Emy nodded.

"Who else lives here?" Lucia asked Emily staring into her eyes. "We are five members now, my husband Jack, my daughter, Millie who is the same age as you, Paul, me, and you now," Emily answered sweetly as her mother used to be.

"Do you know magic? Because you made me sleep yesterday with those magic words."

"Yes Lucia, only a few people are blessed with magic. This is the magic world." "Your whole family has magic?"

"Yes, our whole family has magic. We came from a family of witches." Lucia nodded and she hoped that it was not a dream and that if it was a dream, she didn't want to wake up.

Emily made something to eat for Lucia. It was the exact fruit that she ate in the jungle from that tree.

At night, Emily's husband and her daughter came home from work and Lucia was surprised to see Millie because she thought she had seen her before.

She met her and thought about it. She shrugged off that thought and went to sleep after having dinner. Emily provided Lucia with a room next to Millie.

At midnight, Lucia didn't feel comfortable so she woke up drank a whole glass of water, and again went to sleep.

when she woke up, she saw a man whose aura was pitch black, sitting at the top of the hill which was covered with golden grass.

A cold wind was blowing. Lucia was standing far from that man, his back facing him. She started taking her steps close to that man.

She finally went close to him, she was about to place her hand on that man's shoulder when suddenly she saw a silver-colored sword coming her way.

Her eyes widened when that sword passed through her stomach and that silver sword was now turned red by his blood.

She looked in the direction where that man, who was covered by a black shadow from head to toe, was sitting but he was nowhere to be seen.

Lucia looked around but now that place started burning and turned into ashes.

Lucia screamed and opened her eyes. She saw that she was still in her room and Millie was sitting beside her. Lucia was now covered with sweat.

"Had a nightmare, Lucia?" Millie asked Lucia and Lucia nodded. "It is okay, yesterday, everything was not normal to you. That's why you had a nightmare. Now you are fine."

She caressed her hair and gave her a two-piece dress which had a top of bright yellow color and a long skirt of brown color to wear. "Wear this and get ready. I will show you around today." Millie said and left.

Millie took Lucia with her and showed her shops, houses, and also that jungle. Millie showed Lucia the way from where she appeared here.

Millie told her "Lucia, Mom found you here in an unconscious state and took you with her." "Who planted that tree there Millie?" Lucia asked her while having a walk and collecting wood in the jungle.

"It's a long story. Thousands of years ago, a storm appeared here and passed through. It was as wide as the biggest mountain in your world. That storm raged for many years. By the time it stopped, everything was ruined but one thing was there which was never here before and that was a tree. People started worshiping it as a God because they thought that God sent that tree here and gave it the name of the 'Holy tree'. While collecting wood from the jungle, someone found that it was linked with your world." Millie explained to her.

"It's hard to imagine that things like that could ever happen," Lucia responded. "Once a man came here from your world, he married a woman who belonged to here and settled with her. His tenth generation is running today." she smiled.

"Really?" "Do you wanna know which is his tenth generation?" Millie asked her. "Who?" Lucia questioned her. "Us" Millie replied.