Lost in the past

Chapter 2Episode 1

It was a cold, somewhat windy day, and dark clouds hung over a forest. Florianus woke up in a clearing, still lying on the ground, and slowly opened his eyes. "Where am I?" he mumbled. He grabbed his head, looked around and slowly stood up. "Mom? Dad? Where are you?" he shouted.

Instinctively, he followed the sound of a river. About 50 meters away, a small river flowed through the forest. Florianus went down, washed his face and drank. "Why am I here and where are my parents?" he asked himself when he suddenly heard a branch crack from the forest. "Who's there?" he called out. He heard another rustling sound and took a few steps in the direction of the noise to see what it was. Suddenly he was jumped on by an animal.

"Ahhh... Shit!" he screamed as he fell on his back on the ground. "Get off me, you son of a bitch!" He tried to get away, but it was no use. Then he heard a soft but stern voice: "You idiot, you killed my family and I'm going to kill you for it."

"I didn't kill anyone! What do you mean?" asked Florianus. He opened his eyes and saw a tiger lady with pretty fur and green eyes. "I know what you've done. You will have to die by me killing you on the spot."

"I don't want to die! I want to go home to my parents and forget this day!" Florianus began to cry in fear. "Why are you crying? Be a man," said the tiger lady.

"I'm not who you think I am, I swear! Please, let me go," pleaded Florianus in a sad and frightened voice. "What are you talking about? Don't you know what you've done?"

"No, I don't know why I'm here," he stuttered. "I was at a party with my family, fell down and suddenly ended up here."

The tiger lady thought for a moment. If he was telling the truth, she could take him to the kingdom of anthro beings and have him executed there instead of doing it here herself and being watched.

"And now what? Are you going to let me go?" Florianus asked as he slowly stood up and looked at the tiger. "What's your name anyway?"

"My name is Celestia. I come from the Panthera tigris tribe and the great kingdom of Regnum Animalium. We rule over nature and live in harmony with it by eating animals and returning them to the cycle of nature and honoring them. Anyway, I have a deal for you: I'll take you to my kingdom and we'll help you solve your problem so you can return home."

Celestia thought slyly, not revealing her true intentions to Florianus, but pretending to help. "I'm in and thank you. My name is Florianus and I come from the human kingdom, more precisely from the village of Rusticum Flumen. Which direction do we actually have to go?"

To be continued.