The elements of school

Chapter 18 the forest of eedlie

Alice grabbed her satchel with her pondweed and other ingredients. She needed her wand so raced back up the stairs and into her room Lia was asleep. Again.
She looked upon Lia for what well could be the last time. She put a blanket over her and shed a tear. It rolled down her cheek and hit the floor. She picked up her broom and left a note it read:

"Dear Lia
By the time you well read this I'll probably be dead, I've gone to rescue Aya as I'm certain I know where she is. Mrs Woolton has her, somewhere in the forest I'll get Aya back to you, just remember don't forget me
Love from Alice"

Alice's hand was shaking the whole time and the ink was only about readable though the paper was wet through from her tears. Alice picked up her broom smashed the window in the front of the dorm and flew off towards the forest of eedlie.

The forest of eedlie was something children would sing off of you went in the chances you come back from that place is as likely as destroying energy. It was next to the lake of souls but Alice was going there as it was banned for any students to go there purely due to the danger. But it dawned on Alice it was the ideal place to hide Aya. Only the teachers could go to the forest of eedlie.

Alice landed on the wet marshy grass as the sun as the sun turned a beautiful shade of purple. 'Gorgeous' she thought. She marched into the forest holding onto we satchel proudly. The floor in the forest was like tar, it was sticky and the atmosphere was sweaty and humid. It was almost as it the forest was breathing with coffee breath.

Alice's leg shook violently beneath her as she took her first steps deep into the forest. She could hear shrieks and howls from creatures but something immediately made her realised she was in right place. She walked into the forest and on the floor just underneath a little moss and mud was Aya's hair tie. Alice knew she was were she was supposed to be, exactly where she was supposed to be.

She had little time to think before she heard the stomps of a creature she knew to well. It was from the night that the others had gone to find her soul. She was never there as such, just there in spirit and soul, anything but physically. She hid in a whole underneath a tree, the danger was imminent. She held her breath, her lungs hurting and her throat ticking as if 100 feathers were floating up and down inside her throat. The creature walked pass not stopping. Alice saw the creature.

It was like tree, but it was filled with purple oil. It's veins were filled with the purple oil. Alice watched it go away a few paces before she crawled out from behind the tree. It was long gone.

Alice held her broom and flew through the rest of the forest not daring to look around her, she never knew who was lurking. Finally she reached a cave, a cave she knew all to well. It was the cave she'd seen in her visions.

Meanwhile, morning had dawned and Lia had found the note. The first person she went to see was the headmaster, she'd knocked on everyone's doors on the way down, waking them. She ran into his office not even stopping by his secretary Miss Hole first. She smashed the note down on his table.

"Lia Woodlington what do I owe this, interruption?"

"Sir it's Alice she thinks she knows where Aya is, and-and who's responsible. She's in danger"

"Why does she think this?"

"Does it matter! Sorry sir but we have to go find her!"

"Yes of course, assemble the society"

"What? Lia said astonished

"Lia, do you think I don't know about your little society"

"Well yes, what does it matter? We can talk later" Lia said dismissing it

Within the hour the headmaster had found Mr Shroom, the society and most worryingly Miss Woolton.

"Where to Lia?" Harry asked concerned

"The forest of eedlie" Lia gulped