The Ghost Forest

Chapter 2: The Warning

They run through the tiny village. Gray and her together. She could feel the pulse and the blood stream in her veins. The closer they went, the higher the scream got. As they went to the creepy forest the scream stopped. A feeling past through her mind, like a bird landing in it's nest. The message made her terrified. Maybe my call will be fulfilled if I enter the forest. Or maybe I'll find someone to guide me in right direction.
"Dad!" A tall, beautiful boy came running towards her and Gray.
He's blond hair fell in his eyes. He wiped it away. But his hair refused to be taken behind the ear, so it fell back in his eyes. The struggle was real. This held on all the time.
"That's my son Logen. Hey, Logen!"
Gray's son came and gave him a big buddy hug. Then he looked at her with big eyes.
"Hey, I remember I've seen you before" he joked with a mysterious voice. Well, since it was irony, he didn't mean it, she thought. But suddenly he went from joke to serious.
"No kidding, where have I seen you? Help me out."
"Eh, I don't really know. I've been living in Ammon my entire life. And I don't remember seeing you there." she said and hope for the best.
It didn't work, his eyes turned dark and his face was suddenly heard and impossible to read.
"Oh well, it must have been there I've seen you." he said with a cold voice and looked away.
His dad saw that he blushed and tried not to cry.
As the conversation turned back to life, they figured out they both had been working in the kitchen on the castle. How funny, she though.
"Man, where have you been?" He asked, 'cause Gray had goen away for a minute and talked to a stranger.
"Come on, and see yourselvs." he said.
So they walked towards the big and depressing forest. It was dark and weird. When they reached the beginning of the forest, they could feel the pressure. They saw a big crowd surrounding the person who had screamed. In the middle of the crowd, sat a frightened women. She told a crazy story. She repeated on, and on that she'd seen Sarah. Who was Sarah? The crowd didn't believe her. "She's dead!" They kept telling her.
She walked through the crowd, and kneeled down to the frightened woman.
"Ma'am, you keep on telling that you have seen this Sarah, who is she?"
"It was her daughter, she died in this forest," one in the crowd said. "She woke up to an empty bed"
"Oh my, I'm so sorry." she said with surprise in her voice.
Logen joined her since Gray, his father, said it was here or home. And he really didn't want to go home right now. As he replied to his father, who could go home when this just happened? Besides, he'd been quite interested in this mysterious Sarah-thing. Just as he looked another way, a little girl in a light, pink dress showed up. Looked like she waved at him.

"May?" he swhispered in her ear, "I think that little girl wants us to fallow her into the woods."
He was right, 'cause she was waving and jumping and really looked like she wanted their attention, and nobody else.
"Come with me!" the little girl whispered when they got close enough to hear her.
They looked skeptical on each other. "Well, what do we have to lose?" She said to Logen.
When they followed this little girl into the dark forest. It felt like the trees watched them with every move they did.
"Don't worry, you'll get over it." the little girl said calm as if she read their mind. They went inside the root of a tree and came to a little underground home. It was actually pretty nice for underground homes. It was worm and light. The furnitures had a cool look, after all she made them herself.
She had no pictures of faces, only nature and really old pictures. They smelled dry dirt and wood in the living room, not surprising.

Suddenly she turned around with serious eyes.
"I'll get quick to my point. I came to warn you" she said.
"If  you really want to know the darkest secret of Darrwell, well, here it is: one full moon, a young women woke up in the middle of the night by a loud scream. She was terrified of course, but still she went out to see what had happened...and there, she saw something" When she said something, she bend forward, her voice was so low that it sounded like she whispered.
"A big hairy beast, with shining white teeth, and a ugly face with scary, read, evil eyes!" She raised her voice in a dramatic way as she raised from the chair and stretched her arms in the air as far as she could reach. The arms of her pink dress showed her wrists. Both Logen and her looked at each other. On her wrists, they could see two scars of bite marks, like if someone tried to escaped with her hands inside it's mouth. After a while standing like that, she sat down again.
It was quiet in the living room. Then they saw that the living room was the only thing in this house. No bed no food, except what she gave them, but herself didn't eat.
"What I'm trying to say, is that the beast comes every full moon and steels people. The people who are "leftovers" are terrified. Someone has to stop it. They don't even dare to go out at night at festivals or anything fun anymore. 'Cause everything they do is at full moon."
"So, you wants us to stop it?" Logen asked as he tried not to shake.
"You are our only hope." she said as she shook her head. "You are the only ones.. Everybody I try to warn just gets scared." her eyes got red, and a tear felt from her cheek to the floor.
"Oh poor girl!" she said after listen without a word to the warning.
"What a minute." Logen said and put his hot cup quick on the table.
"You're Sarah!" He said.
"Oh please!" said the little girl as she jumped out of the chair. "You've got to believe me! It's true that I'm Sarah, but what I've told you about the beast it true as well!"
Logen took a step forward so she couldn't get to Sarah. She was sure he only tried to protect her, but with a ghost, they can fly pass things.
"Logen wait!" She said. "Sarah is not going to attack anyway, so why this? Besides, she has a point, since she can't tell the people, it's up to us."
She smiled insecure to Sarah.
"Come on!" She said to Logen.
"And thank you for everything"

The little girl stood alone in her living room once again. But this time she knew she got a breakthrough. She finally got to tell someone about the danger. And the warning of the mighty beast would now be told and others would be warned. Perhaps they wouldn't end up like her.