Maginearia's Magic: Book Two Of The Cursed Series

Chapter 17: Blue ✔️

Eric's pov.

I look at the map in front of me with dismay, we had searched far and wide for an entrance to the Cursed forest for four months, but they seemed to all have been closed "Ugh, we need to get to the Cursed forest, for this plan to work!" I say with anger and frustration, a flash of blue light emits in the room as the Naki disappears and reappears "Stop it, Naki, I don't care that you can teleport from one place to another....." I trail off as I realize what the Naki, was trying to tell me the entire time "Can you teleport to the Cursed forest?" I ask him desperately and he tweets, I'm not sure if that is yes or no, but I'll take it as a yes.

"Lord Yanth! I found a way to the Cursed forest" I yell out making the sleeping man, jerk awake with surprise.

"What?" He says confused, still very much tired.

"I find a way to the Cursed forest, the Naki could take us there the entire time" I say ecstatically, but he looks at me with a blank face.

"You mean you wasted my time and money for four entire months, when the answer was with us literally the entire time!" He says huffing with outrage, he glares at the small white bird "WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY SOMETHING SOONER!" He yells outraged, it gives a scared tweet and scurries to behind me where it teleports away.

"You dumb ass! You just scared our only ticket there, gods knows where! He did try telling us the only way he could after all he can't speak, so he showed us! We were just too stupid to realize what he meant" I snarl at him "Let's go find him" I say and he nods looking upset he couldn't just go back to sleep, I find the Naki and as soon as it spots me it teleports away.

"I see it!" Lord Yanth yells and I race over there in time to see it teleport away again, we run ourselves ragged chasing it all over the manor, it just teleports away as soon as we get anywhere near it.

"Just bloody apologize to him! Clearly he doesn't trust us now!" I roar at Lord Yanth as I hold onto my knees panting.

"Alright I'm sorry! Okay, I apologize for yelling at you, please forgive me" Lord Yanth says out loud hoping the Naki will hear him.

"I don't think he heard you, I think you should say it louder" I say and Lord Yanth glares at me, the Naki appears in front of him, he tilts his head to Lord Yanth and I smother a chuckle as I realize, the Naki expects another apology "Apologize!" I say and Lord Yanth shoots me a dirty look.

He gets on his knees and looks seriously at the Naki "I sincerely apologize for getting mad at you......" He trails off as he doesn't know the Naki's name, I watch as the Naki traces out letters until it forms a single word 'Blue'. "I apologize to you Blue" He says seriously and the Naki nods his head tweeting before teleporting away again.

"What?" I say looking at the spot the Naki used to be with shock, I sincerely thought he would stay and help us.

"I apologized to the overgrown pigeon! What the hell happened, where did it go!" Lord Yanth says and I look at him resigned.

"Do you think it could do with us calling him an it?" I ask and Lord Yanth grimaces, together we yell out apologies "We're sorry for calling you an it, Blue!"

"Please come back and help us please, Blue, we can't do this without you." Lord Yanth says and after a couple hours without a glimpse of him, we head back to the map room to try to figure out a different way to get to the Cursed Forest.

The Naki was sitting there on the table, waiting there patiently for us. "Having you been waiting here the entire time" I say and the Naki tweets innocently, I curl my fist in frustration, smothering down the glare that so desperately wanted to be displayed onto my face.

"Can you please take us to the Cursed forest?" Lord Yanth asks calmly and Blue tweets and teleports away again, Lord Yanth groans and slumps down onto a chair with exasperation "Can we not win with him!" He says with exhaustion, I nod and slump into the chair next to him. Both of us eventually falling asleep, as we had been up for days and were exhausted.

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I wake up and open my eyes but I see nothing, hear nothing except for Lord Yanth soft snores, I scramble around in the dark searching for him and eventually find his large form, "Yanth wake up! Where in the hell are we? Can you see anything!" I say and he wakes up completely startled.

"What! Why can't I see! Where are we!" He says panicked and I sigh, I guess that answers all of my questions.

"I have no idea, I remember falling asleep on the armchairs and then waking up here to blackness." I say calmly and I feel Lord Yanth begin to hyperventilate. "Snap out of it, man!" I say trying to hit him in the face but end up punching the ground instead "F*ck, mother f*cking hell" I swear and I hear branches rustle, it causes me to freeze.

"WHO DARE TRIES TO ENTER MY FOREST WITHOUT MY PERMISSION!" A voice roars and I recognize it as Sune, as the darkness fades to a illusion of what I would imagine hell would look like.

"Eric and Lord Yanth, we're friends to Freya. She needs our help to rescue her from her father, I came up with the plan to use you and the Neits to help save her, please she's been with him for four months and I'm worried he is going to break her soon. No one can tell you how much torture she's probably already gone through" I beg to Sune, hoping desperetly she'll listen.

"Very well" She says ominously and then it all goes black again.