A Tale Of A Lifetime

1.4 (Part Two)

When Devon went back to the place where he had left the Princess, he found the bottom of the large tree to be empty. What shock him the most was that the small opening under the large tree fit for a petite person was gone. It vanished like it was not their to begin with. Only his jade necklace that was glowing with greenlight gave him the assurance that he was indeed on the right tree where he had left the Princess for a short bath to ward off the odor of fresh blood that was clinging on his body.

With a sudden realization, Devon went flustered and scared. In a panic voice, he called her name into the wilderness many times but to no avail. This was the first time he felt how to be truly scared of something and to realize that he was still human with emotions intact.

"Princess... Where are you?" He muttered under his heavy breathing and chaotic mind.

*****

Hillary roamed around her pair of brightly clear eyes to the place she had imagined and created as a writer. The surroundings were like a dream that came true for her. From the fairies that hopped from flowers to flowers, to the collective unfamiliar-looking individuals that were doing labor work, to the houses that were made of plants and various flowers, to the trees that talk, to this wonderfully made realm of fantasy and magic. Everything was magical and enchanting.

At the top from where she was, Hillary could see everything that was happening below her. If she's not mistaken, she was in that pervert man's master bedroom. Remembering the scene from earlier could make her blood boiled and face heated. If not because of a sudden call of luck, she might have been long eaten helplessly by that pervert man.

Left alone in the room, Hillary could wander around freely and unhindered. Looking at this place she had drawn on her mind became somewhat a reality gave her a mixed and incomprehensible feeling.

She sighed deeply as she seated on a chair made of vines and green leaves that was next to a nearby open windowpane made of flower petals.

Thinking back to the original flow of the story, the host should not supposed to be entangled with the people from the forest realm. It was only supposed to happen to the  female lead, adding up another love struck puppy to her harem of admirers that would pledge their life just to protect her.

Is that pervert man the second Prince Rio of the Forest Realm? Only the second Prince was met by the female lead in accordance to the original story...

Hillary thought that though there was two princes in the Forest Realm, she made less exposure of the Crown Prince in the original story flow and put more emphasis on the Second Prince who was both ambitious and scheming. At that time, she really loved the idea of a bad man turning soft and tender just for the sake of love. So without much thought, she centered the story solely to them and discard the Crown Prince as just a background. A minor character and less important in the original plot. But still, held the power and authority of what his position deserved, for in that reason, the Second Prince will continue to strive for more influence against the Crown Prince. In that way, the original plot would develop and climax into another turning point. So without fully realizing, Hillary assumed the identity of the pervert man as the Second Prince Rio no matter how ironic she find him to be from his original character persona.

Hillary continued to watch the happenings from below her just to kill for time. However, a sudden man came into her mind that disturbed her current thoughts.

With a gasped, she said, "Devon..."

She had honestly forgotten him for a while because of that annoying pervert. Knowing that someone might be dead bent on searching for her whereabouts, Hillary could not continue to stay for a moment on this unbelievable place.

*****

"Devon..."

He heard a soft and faint voice that he had long known and accustomed to. That same voice came from the Princess.

When he looked around from the darkness  that covered the forest, Devon found not a single clue. But he knew he heard the Princess and it seemed that the faint voice was not that far.

Devon, once again, stared at that large tree. After a moment of thinking, he went near to the tree and inspected it for he had been suspicious of it every passing minute that he had found no lead of the Princess' whereabouts. His gut feeling told him that this tree had something to do with the Princess' disappearance into vagueness. So when he found the seal of the Forest Realm on that large tree with great difficulty, he encircled it to look for an opening to enter.

His mind will only be at peace once he saw the Princess safe under his watchful eyes.