LUSIO And The Hidden Emperor

3. Shock

Lusio opened his eyes. Everything was blured for a while then cleared. It was looking like the same forest bt more old. Beams of sunshine was being poured from every corner of the forest. He has never shown so much glittering sunlight before. Fresh blue sky could be seen through the leaves of trees. His head was bursting inside in pain. The most recent he could remember was that he fell into a well. "where am I?" he asked himself. He was confused. He stood up holding his head tight. "Aahhh... my head. It hurts" he added.

He stepped slowly and found a path. "May b it can take me out of this woods". He kept going along the path. After some steps he saw something that made him jump. "My file. Ohhh I missed you so much." He ran to it and hugged it tight sticking right on his chest. "Now Kerry, let see who wins." He started a sprint and finally got out from the woods. "Hey wait a minute! It does'nt look like Manchester. Does it??!!" he told himself after seeing some beautiful as well as terrible things together.

A huge flat roof of blue sky was maked up with white floating cloud. There a lot of hills were seen bathing in golden sunlight. Green trees made a matrix how long he could see. "This is soooo beautiful. But it cant be Manchester, where i belong to". Terrible thing was he didnt know where had he just arrived.

He saw a small rural road. He started following it. He was looking for a person to ask about this place but could not find a single human for a long while. After taking a long walk he saw an old man. "Heyyy... wait up uncle. Plzzz I need your help..." He shouted. As soon as the old man heared Lusio, he started to walk away. "Heyyyy... why are you going away. Stop there. I need your help." Lusio shouted again and followed him. But the old man started to walk away faster. Lusio realized that the old man was not going to stop. So he followed him quietly keeping a small distance so that the man does'nt hesitate. They came up to a small river bank. That man sat beside the river. Lusio could not see him properly so he climbed a small tree beside the river. He was sitting on a branch and began to observe the man very attentively.

Suddenly the branch broke and he fell into the river. He could swim bt the rate of water flow of the river was very high. He was drowning. He was taken away with the water. Lusio began to yell,"Help me!!!!!... Plzzzzz SOMEBODY HEEELLPPP!!!!". Water was filling up his mouth so he was being unable to shout now. Luckily he saw a piece of tree-branch was flowing near him. He caught that and gave himself a support but he could not resist the motion. Now there a greater trouble was waiting for him. He was clearly listening to the sound of a terrible danger. "AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!" he shrieked out in fear by seeing the waterfall that he was proceeding to. He was consistently heading to the Waterfall. His body was freezed. He was watching his own probable death straight in front of him.

He closed his eyes and let it happen. After a moment he opened his eyes. "Am I in the heaven??" he told himself. "No u stupid fellow. U r alive." reply came from the river bank. He stopped just before the waterfall. He could clearly see deep down the waterfall. It looked like he was stopped by an invisible wall. It was the same old man who replied. He threw a long branch to him. "Hold it Kid. Come up". Lusio came up to the bank with all wet body. He sat under the bright warn sunshine. It comforted him.

"Hey Mr. Old Man..." Lusio called.
"Mr. Argius Steven Ronan." replied old man without looking at Lusio.

-"Ya ya Mr. Ronan, what the hell did just happen? I mean how did I stop? And above all what is this place exactly??"
-"Ohh you can't understand kid. Its a bit complicated. The place is not ready yet beyond the waterfall."
-"What????!!!!! a-a-a-a I just don't get it."
-"Told you already that it's bit complicated."
-"No no... Plzzz tell me. And where are we exactly. It doesn't look like Manchester."
-"IT'S NOT EVEN EARTH KID."

An awkward silence took place between them.

to be continued...