A Tale of a Rainbow-The Magic Rainbow

Chapter 5

Hey guys! MM here! Here's the next chapter! Enjoy!

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Ella flew away, reading the letter;

'Dear Mr. Bear, the snake, my husband, is secretly a human, who once was trapped in the animal kingdom like the girl, except instead of being kind and brave like the human, he is evil and a coward. In order to return to his human form, he must transform another human into a snake to take his place as gatekeeper of the Land. DO NOT TRUST HIM!'- Zoe, wife of the snake.

After reading what was written on the slip of paper, Ella gasped. She was bait! She had to do something! It took a few minutes to decide what to do. Ella calmed down and decided to continue on her quest, in hope that she would succeed and escape from the kingdom as a human. If not, If not, If not, if her plan didn't succeed, she would........ She didn't know. She didn't want to think about the 'if not's'.

She also realised that there must be more than one way to escape! She had asked the dog for a way, not all of the ways! What else could she do? It suddenly hit her! There was another way to leave! She needed to find the serpent's wife, Zoe, the one in the letter! If she betrayed him to the bear, then she might help Ella get rid of the serpent, or help here escape, or to lock him up! She then stood up, and flew towards the swamps. She was planning to circle the swamps a few times, and if she didn't find it, she'd try it on foot. Alas, this was not needed, for the snake's home was indeed the biggest, shiniest, most colourful rock that Ella had ever seen! She knew that it was the one. She landed, then raised her hand to knock. Then she remembered that there weren't any doors on rocks.

"Hello?" she called

"Yesssssss?" Hissed the snake

Ella shuddered at the serpent's familiar words. They sounded just like the serpent's, but kinder somehow. A long, shiny snake glided out from underneath the rock and lifted its tail to indicate that Ella should follow her. Ella had no better plan, so she followed the snake.

"Um.... Zoe? Are you Zoe? Did you write this?" Ella queried, holding up the letter.

" *GASP* No one was meant to read that apart from the Bear! Wherever did you get it from?" gasped the snake, her cool composure deserting her for the first time.

"Never mind that, I need to know how to imprison the serpent, your husband. I'm assuming that by the contents of this letter, you'll help me. He has tried to trap me here as the next keeper for the kingdom, and I'm aware that I could attempt to solve the quest, but I realised that there is another way, too. When I was in the bear's cave, I noticed this" She explained, holding up a tattered book. "This explains the rules of the kingdom. It declares that if the keeper attempts to trap a brave, courageous human, they have done wrong, and if caught and imprisoned, will release the spell on the brave being." She read aloud. 

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-MM