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Chapter 19~ Gate Four

The first thing I see when I slowly open my eyes is the gray sky. I'm inside the woods again. I don't know how I got here and it makes me confuse. Everything feels gloomy, I realize I'm lying on the cold grass ground. Cold air welcomes me , my body feels weak, like my blood is draining out of my system. When I turn my head to see my arms, I screamed at the top of my lungs seeing that snails are sucking every inch of my body; my arms, legs and torso. I quickly scrambles up to my feet, wriggling my body to get rid of all the snails sticking into me. I grab a handful of them, pulling the snails out of my skin until all of them are thrown away.

Tears started to fall from my eyes as I walk away from the slimy snails. I don't know what's happening to me again. I hug my arms to stop my body from shaking but I feel wet. Slime are sticking into my skin making me shiver from the cold air. I look around finding a way out but I don't know where to go. This feels like I never knew this woods. But I've known this place since I was a kid, it's just weird right now that I'm not familiar in this part of the woods.

"Hello?!" I call out, hoping that someone might hear me. "Please, help me!" I scream again. But I still got nothing. I started to walk, looking around for something familiar.

It feels like minutes have passed when I'm still walking, that's when I see a person. Walking towards me meters away, it is a woman wearing a white dress so I walk near her so she could help me get out this forest.

"Excuse me?" I ask loud enough for her to hear. The woman suddenly stopped walking, I can now see her but I gasp in horror because she's wearing a white cloth around her face making her look eerily creepy. I also stopped from walking towards her because she becomes frightening when she produced a rusty axe behind her, holding it in front of her where she tilted her head.

My whole body is shaking, she might kill me, and I don't want to die. My feet started to walk backwards, until I turned around and started to run away from her. I screamed in horror when the woman also started running, following me.

I run inside the deep part of the woods, parting some branches and I almost trip from the rocks. I can hear her following me. I just ran far away from her, I don't know if I lost her because she's nowhere to be found now. I'm still running away, I stopped, resting my hand in my knees where I gasp for air. When I look up, I'm shocked seeing an old gate in front of me, taller than the gates I've went before.

That's when a familiar man walks behind the bars, staring at me with a worried face.

"Papa?" I whispered, my lips quivering from the shock. I suddenly walk across him, holding the metal bar where I started to cry and slowly touches his familiar face. "Papa, is that really you?"

It's been a very long time since I last saw him. And it was very tragic. Papa slowly nods his head and held my hands.

"You have to get inside. She's coming for you." He said worriedly. But I frown, I feel like this might be a bad decision. Every time I go inside the gates like this, and when I wake up, something bad happens to me. Or anyone I love to be specific. I don't want to do something that I'll regret.

I shake my head, rejecting my father's order. "I can't, Papa. You're not real." I know that this is just a dream. Papa is dead a long time ago.

Papa frowns, "What are you talking about? She will kill you. I don't want you get hurt, she's almost there." He tugs my hand and then opened the gate wide enough for me to enter.

I shake my head again, "But Papa..."

"You're mama is here."

My eyes widens in surprise. I've missed, her. Even if I know that this might really a dream, at least I can see her again. We both gasp when the woman who was following me screamed, she's still holding her axe and pointing its blade at me.