The Eye of Edelle

Chapter 2: Savior

Alice and Ruben landed on the grounds of a forest. Alice stood up and examined her surroundings while Ruben flew around. She searched for her father's map in the bag but she couldn't find it. It must've flew away when she jumped in to the teleportation portal. Usually, when you use a teleportation potion, you think of a place that you want to go and you shatter the potion on a hard surface and get in to a portal. It will guarantee to get you there, unless you didn't thought of a specific place like, Alice did. It would take you somewhere random and now, she doesn't know where she was.

Alice was starting to lose hope. Her father died, somebody tried to take her away, and then she was lost. Ruben flew to low branch and looked at Alice. She looked back at him, and suddenly, tears streamed down to her face. The shock of her father, her only family, dead, hit her hard.

"Ruben... he's gone... Papa's gone..." she sobbed. She removed her eyepatch that had moisten from her tears. She wiped away her tears and she thought that she still had Ruben to keep her company. Ruben then flew to Henry's belongings and rummaged in his bag. A piece of paper was in Ruben's beak.

"What's that Ruben?" Alice asked, but as soon when she got close to Ruben, he flew away. Far away in to the sky. "Wait! Ruben! Where are you going?!" Ruben could not be seen because of the distance that he flew.

"Ruben... don't leave me here alone..." Alice looked around once more to her surroundings. She had never been in a forest alone. She always ventured in forest with her father and Ruben. It's night time so it's hard to see. Alice rummaged in her father's bag and took an oil lamp. She lit it and could see a bit better. But she was still lost and don't know where she was.

Alice then decided that she would explore around the forest by day time. She ate some berries and cooked meat from their supplies and set up camp. She couldn't sleep because she was alone in the forest, knowing what dangers that might pounce at her. "Come on, Alice." She said to herself. "A veteran from war trained you to keep yourself safe. There is nothing to be afraid of. You have your bow near you at all times." She mustered up her courage and eventually fell asleep.

As the night got deeper creatures became too active. The shuffling of leaves and the rustle of bushes kept waking up Alice. Suddenly, she heard a twig snap. She stood up to her feet and took her bow. She could hear growling.

"A wolf" she whispered. After a few moments, five wolves with a black in one eye and red on the other, came out from the shadows. Alice was alarmed, she never faced this many on her own. She readied her arrow on her bow, when one of them on her right pounced and she shot it on the head. Another one pounced in front but she rolled to the left and shot it down, too. But Alice rolled to the wrong direction and got too near to the remaining wolves. One of them was ready to bite so she drew her dagger from her thigh pocket and stabbed the nearest one on the throat. A wolf bit her wrist and it made her let go on her dagger. The other wolf then pinned her to the ground and growled at her face. The wolf had incredible strength for some reason, she couldn't shake it off of her. It looked as if it was ready to eat her face away.

"Am I going to die here...?" She said in her mind. Her heart was racing and she was waiting for the wolf to attack her. "Somebody, please save me." She screamed in her mind. Suddenly, her crystal necklace emitted a blinding light and the wolf took off of her and got blinded. The other wolf got blinded too, and didn't expect to be stabbed by a long pole axe.

A man came in to rescue Alice. He swung his pole axe at the wolf away from Alice and then skewered the wolf. All of the wolves were dead.

The man sighed, "Well, that was close." He said. He used his foot to remove the lifeless wolf from his long pole axe. "Erm... I guess I'll have to clean this up later." He examined his bloody pole axe, then he turned to Alice. She looked at him warily she feared that he could be one those men who ambushed them. She looked at his clothing and they seemed normal and his black, messy hair wasn't covered in a hood. Alice quickly took out her eyepatch and put it on before her savior could see her better. He held out a hand to help her get up.