Realm of Galderia

chapter 32- The Dark Creature of the Forest

They walked along the pathway looking at the giant trees and watching the different birds fly over in the bright afternoon sky. Gwen was paying extra close attention to make sure she didn't see that creepy raven. She still remembered how uneasy she felt being near it, as if it were a danger or very bad omen. She saw blue sparrows, a fire wren even a gorgeous purple canary, the rarest bird in all of Galderia.

"Trinity look in the sky above the elder willow tree." Gwen pointed at the dark purple bird no bigger than a wren.

She looked up to see what birds were flying over, sharing in her best friends excitement.

"That is magnificent, I've never seen birds like that in my world." Trinity commented with a joyful grin.

"I've been fascinated by the forest creatures all of my life." Gwen admitted.

"If there half as gorgeous as the birds I can see why."

Gwen began to spout a joyful chuckle of laughter with her good friend.

Then as if from the thin air surrounding them, Gwen became still, motioning to Trinity for complete silence. the two witches didn't move.

"What is it?" Trinity whispered in a panic.

"Hush would you? I need to listen more to figure it out." Gwen commanded.

Trinity nodded with a slightly hurt look upon her child like complexion. She fell silent along with her forest tour guide. Slowly Gwen peered over the thicket surrounding them to see something distrurbing and grotesque. She had to do a double take to make sure she wasn't hallucinating or having a vision. Shaking her head she simply looked at Trinity, who seemed completely lost.

"What is it?" Whispered the confused new witch.

"I don't know you'd ever seen one."

Trinity gave her a look of impatience, flushing her cheeks with annoyance.

"Would you just tell me already?" Trinity snapped and her eyes went a strange blue violet color that impressed Gwen.

"It is a dark being, possibly demonic in nature." She pointed, and Trinity peered over, slightly nervous.

When she peered over she had to slap her hand over her mouth to keep from letting out a blood curdling scream of horror. It looked like something out of a horror movie red eyes dripping fangs pointed ears with a slick reptile looking scales, black as night.

"I told you, didn't I?"

Trinity nodded, clearly in shock at what she had just seen. Gwen muttered something that the other witch didn't understand, a chant of some kind in an old sounding language. Trinity shook her head but almost instantly felt better and able to cope with the situation.

"Thank you, I think I needed that whatever it was you did."

"I can teach you but for now we need to stay still and away from that thing." She pointed over the thicket.

Trinity nodded in agreement and ducked down giving her friend a smile of reassurance. Gwen ducked down with her.

For the longest moment they were unsure as to what to do, they sat there in the forest and just stared at one another.

As if fate liked to see her squirm, suddenly the creature turned and took a whiff smelling something different in the air around him. He slouched over, heading a few feet away to follow the scent. He leaded over a large bush to see two human females hiding behind it.