The Land of Tales: The Darkwoods

Magical Freedom

Emily was happy as she released that she is finally free, but did she really want to be free in a magical world?

As she looked outside the window her smile slowly begins to fade, her face turns pale and she slowly turns tawords the guardian.

He could read from her expression that something was wrong so he quickly rushed to the window to see what scared her asking "what is it?", he looked out for a while then he started to laugh. "Oh! You can't be serious!" He said.
She asked "am I not supposed to be frightened from that beast?".
He pats her head and said "it's just a wolf..." as he walked away laughing.
This truly shows how much Emily has missed out as she only heard about animals from story's and tales.

A few seconds later as Emily walks around the living room, the guardian yells out "Emily could you please come over here?!"
She was startled at first but then she quality made her way back to the study room where the guardian stayed.

"What is it" Emily asked.

"We appear to have a guest" he answered.
"Follow me, is a bit dangerous leaving you here alone. You remember that wolf we saw earlier? Well it seems like it was not an ordinary wolf nor that it's alone."

This scared Emily, making her think of all the horror story's that her brother used to say at night to scare her.

Emily follows the guardian into a narrow hallway with moving portraits.
They seem so real, they talk and have their own personality.

As they walk past the paintings, most portraits had a shocked expression on their faces.

"Ew what is THAT?!". one of them says
"How discussing, so ugly looking" other portraits said looking at Emily as she walks passed.

Emily trys her best to ignore and follow the guardian quietly. Suddenly the guardian stops and yells out "ENOUGH!!!, honestly so anoying..." as he marched off.

They finally reach a door at the end of the hallway, it was a wonderful seating area.
Suddenly the guardian turns around and steps closer to Emily and leans forward. "Stay here and keep your voice low, I don't want my guests knowing your here" he whispered.
She nods and whispers back "I understand".

He backs off and walks to a curtain at the back of the room, it appears to be a walk through to another room.

(Guardian's POV):

Ohhhh, I really hope she stays quite.
I wonder who it is.

"Welcome" he said as he did and elegant bow as a sign of greeting.
However as he lifted is head up he recodniszed the lady who stud next to the wolf.

Oh great what is she doing here....
"How can I help you... Eva?" He said with a more irritated tone.

"Oh, why so mean? I was only snooping around " She said in a wicked way.

He stared at her quietly waiting for her to get to the point.

"Alright, I will get straight to it then? Honestly no sense of humour..... I need you to come resolve a... situation back in Magic Capital..." She said.

"What is the situation?" He asked.

She started laughing historically and said "law 5-80 has been broken".

"I see.... I will get it sorted as soon as I can... but Eva.... I must ask... why did you bring the wolf?" He asked.

"Oh" She said as she looked over at the wolf "protection of course" She said laughing.

"That's not funny.... why did you bring the damn wolf?" He insisted.

"Ehh... so grumpy... I just bought him because he has a debt to pay me and I wanted a personal slave" She said so calmly.

"Sure... that's a believable lie at least..." he said "don't make your self at home... go back to the magic land... get out of the portal at once" he said as he walks back to the room where Emily stays.

"Soo mean..." She said as she stomps out the door with her wolf.

Emily looked at the guardian clueless "what is it?" She asked.

He let's out a long sigh "it's nothing... but we have no time to wast, let us hurry back and get this over with"

(Emily's POV):
Hmmm... I wonder what his problem? What is going on? Why won't he say anything? Ehhh he dragged me across that long hallway and brought me to a room and now he doesn't want to explain anything.... honestly...

They both walk back across the hallway but this time it seems different.

"Hmm wasn't there paintings?" Emily asked.

As she looked around the hallway with a rather curious look. "They are all mirrors now!" She yelled out.

"Could you keep your voice down. yes I know they are now mirrors but there is no reason to get so existed now" the guardian said.
He kept walking down the hallway I'm a fast past... he seems to be in a hurry.

A book shows up from the shadows in the rooms. He picks it up as keeps walking and opens the book to a specific page that revealed law 5-80 he keeps reading as he keeps walking. Almost running.

"Oh dear..." he said in a tragic tone. "We can't wast time we need to heat to the magic forest at once" he said as they finally reach the end of the hallway and he rushes to the door way.

Everything happens so fast he quickly turns around and looks at Emily straight in the eye. "If anyone ask you are a human with debt tawords me do you understand?"

He asked "is it safe?" She asked with a concerned look.

"He looks down and then looks back at her "nothing it safe in a place like this... what do you say?".

She nods "alright let's do this" She said.

And so now it's alright time to live.