One day Jade and Luna where on a mission to find a mystical cloth of invisibility and immortality. The king had sent armed guards with them but the recent encounter with raiders had left them vulnerable. After a week of traveling they found a village but this wasn't any normal village. This village was thought to of been seized by the mysterious Willow Forest. The occupants of the village were not too friendly they attacked Jade at the creek when she went to get water. When Luna found out she charged the village demanding her friend back. They denied her request. So Luna went ballistic and summoned her guardian centaur. The centaur came quickly through the woods. To my surprise he wasn't as scary as Luna described him in recent conversations.
She talked about him being a ferocious and devilish creature who will do anything to protect her. The fine line between scary and normal was seen in Luna as well as in the monster. The next few thrilling seconds brought fear in the villagers eyes and they quivered with cowardice.
One second the centaur was in front of the villagers and then the next thing they knew he was attacking them from inside the village.
He was so fast that the villagers had a split second to decide on their attack plan. This crazy but effective plan landed the centaur halfway into the Willow Forest. Luna was shocked at the villagers abilities. They had magic. She didn't expect this and was thrown off her feet to the same place her centaur landed.
At first she was terrified by the noises awakening from the black, gloomy night. Then she thought about Jade. What would they do to Jade now that Luna couldn't reach her. Would they torture her for information about the king? Would they throw her to the alligators? Oh did I forget to mention that the villagers had pet alligators. Well they do and they have to be mutant alligators because they are as big as a whale.
These problems worried Luna and she tried to run out but it was a maze. The Willow Forest is known for being inescapable and sometimes deadly. If you can find a way out you're maybe the luckiest person in the universe. This forest was thought to be spelled by the three evil sisters, witches, hundreds of years ago. They where the most feared witches in the land but when it came to Jade's mother Catherine the witches where powerless.
The thought of the battle between Catherine and the three evil sisters was frightening to the town people because the misses would have to go somewhere. The town people where so terrified by this that they banned the use of magic in the town. This made Jade outcasted by the townspeople. The way this effected Jade shaped her future.
Luna made an attempt to surprise the villagers by escaping the Willow Forest aka the inescapable tree maze. This determination got her almost out then she saw something flying though the sky, it was Jade they threw her in the forest too. Luna headed back to the spot where she landed as quickly as possible to try and find Jade before one of the night creatures got her. When Luna found Jade she was unconscious. It looked like she had been struck in the head. She was flinching every few seconds making it seem like she was waking up. But sadly she didn't wake up for 2 days. The events that happened during the time between that moment and when she woke up nearly destroyed the little hope that Luna had of surviving and escaping the mystical Willow Forest. She went through two incidents of being attacked by creatures of the forest and the creatures had friends who eventually killed Luna's centaur protector. She almost gave up on the thought of getting out then Jade woke up all the sudden.
Jade at first freaked out because it gave her a shrill thought of fear as she gave up on finding a way out too. Till Luna and Jade met the newly lost friends that had previously been sent out for the mystical cloth. They had no hope of surviving the gruesome occurrences that would soon happen.
What would happen if the girls where to escape? The probability of this is never going to happen but the other girls, Alissa and Kylie. Perception gets the best of people. The way the four girls where looking at their surroundings was blocking the real forest from surfacing. The illusions where a part of the three evil witches curse on the people who enter the Willow Forest.
The spell sentences the trespassers to see only illusions of creatures moving when there is truly only one real monster in the forest which is the creature known as Amphisbaena, a two headed serpent.
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Life in the Dreamland
FantasyA land where all the myths live and four girls are fighting their way back home after being stranded in the mystical forest.