The Spy of Araza

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22 Years Ago in Yoonan

It was the time of dusk, a troupe of white cavalry has reached the border of Yoonan and Blue Forest. The commander orders to halt, as they can't enter the forbidden land.

"What if she has gone to the Blue Forest ?", a knight from the troupe asks.

The commander tightens his jaw, considering that possibility. They are done, if they can't get the traitor, dead or alive!

"There she is....!!!!", a knight suddenly shouts pointing in a certain direction.

The woman is running towards the forest but before she enters, a shower of poisonous arrows pierce her body, shredding the flesh, spilling a pool of blood. Using her last scruple of strength, she does trespass the border and disappear into the blue forest. The commander throws his hands in the air, in fury. He then turns to his troupe and instructs them to keep this incident a secret, from the King. The severely injured woman fell on the ground as soon as she enters the forest, her body is dehydrated, her throat is dry and skin has started cracking, the poison has started to spread in her veins. She understands that she will not survive, still it's a relief that her identity has not been exposed. She just hopes her friend to save her child from the wrath of land and water. In this dense woods, in the dusk she cannot see anything but she can sense that something is approaching to her, may be some wild animal. She loosens up, she is going to die anyway, the lady does not want to struggle anymore, she has no strength left to do so. The animal comes close to her, really close; by the sound of its foot steps, she can guess that the size of the animal is huge. It soon starts sniffing around her neck, she is waiting to be bitten but the beast moves away and asks,

"What are you ? I thought you are a human but you don't smell like them"

The woman gets scared, what on the earth is it?, she thinks. Then somehow suppressing her pain,she answers to the beast, "I am a mermaid"

"A mermaid?? not doubt, you smell like sea" , the beast says.

"Aaaahhh...", she groans in pain, she knows that the end is near.

"I can see, you are dying", the beast snickers.

"If you are going to kill me, do it now. Damn it is painful !!", the lady begs to the beast.

"I can save you but on one condition", the beast offers.

"What condition?"

"You have to serve the Dark Lord", the beast says, flapping its giant wings.

"You have to serve the Dark Lord", the beast says, flapping its giant wings

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Araza, Present Day

"Not every creature, that has two legs, has to be a human", Merona says reluctantly, turning a page of the book of magic.

"So she was not a human?", the impatient water princess asks, with her arms crossed.

"Humans can't survive in water princess, you too know that", Merona replies in an irritated voice.

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