Mystical Blue Creature || ❌

•Chapter 3 ||The Twilight Sky||•

// Previously... //

𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙨, 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙬. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙟𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙩𝙝, 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧, 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙...

~Continued~

You start to think that your journey is over, just then a glint of light hit your eyes. Your vision clears just as long enough to see the source of the light:

The Sunset.

The twilight sky reflects off the forest you just traversed, its beauty has been amplified with the setting sun, you are overwhelmed, not by fear, but the familiar feeling from earlier, an unknown sense of nostalgia. Suddenly, although faint, you can hear voices echo in the distance again...

Although faint, you hear the whispers. You can't tell if they're telling you to stop or keep going. It doesn't matter. You close your eyes and focus on your heart beat, blocking out all noise. Your heart beat slowly fading.

"Wake up. This isn't your ending" a voice said.

You wake up only to see that mystical blue creature surrounding you with its blue aura. The aura lifted you up the ground. All your wounds have vanished. The pain is no longer there. You feel your strength coming back. The aura begins to fade, as well as the creature. Your feet touch the ground. Feeling lightheaded, you sit down.

Thank You.

You got up and spotted your items. The dragon spots you, hurling it's fire at you. You dodge towards your shield and run for it. The dragon hurls more fire at you but you blocked it. There's not much of your shield left, one more hit and it'll fall apart. Your sword is next. The dragon has been keeping it. You pick up the bones of fallen soldiers and throw it at it, trying to aggravate it. It does and charges towards you. You dodge it and run towards your sword, grabbing it, facing your foe. It hurls more fire, blocking with your shield again, it breaks. Using its claws, it swoops in for a kill but you dodge it and grab it. You climb up to its neck. It's trying to shake you off but you hang tight. Now at its neck, you strike. It falls away from the tower. That's when you jump, rolling on the top. You lie there, hearing a loud crash from the dragon. You smile and raise your hand to the now dark blue sky and bright moon. Light surrounds you and the tower. A bright white light. Exhausted, you close your eyes, falling asleep. You awake in the morning light. Your vision is blurred. All you can see is colors of yellow, blue, purple, and pink. You rub your eyes, seeing clearly now. You are back in the Magical Forest. You see the tower in the distance. Was it all a dream? 

You check yourself. Your shield is gone, your hands are covered in ash, and you sort of ache. You did it. A sense of pride and accomplishment runs through you. You get up looking around for your blue friend. But you don't spot him. You feel sad. Suddenly you see some blue light. You go towards it with a sense of hope. It leaves a trail. You pass through places you've been before but you just now notice them. You find the river and the boat. You sail to the lake with the waterfall. Still following the trail, you get off and head towards the waterfall. The blue trail goes right through the waterfall. You go around to find another way. You do. Behind the waterfall is a cave. The deeper you go, the more dark it gets. But you see a faint blue light. You run towards it. You see it, the blue creature. It jumps into your arms for an embrace. You walk out with your new friend in your arms. You sit beside the lake, watching it turn into the twilight sky, the moonlit tower still rising above the trees.

As you enter the lush forest, you see mysterious colours of different trees and animals, but you keep your focus on the blue creature as it fastens it's pace, then it guides you to a crystalline river, you stop for a moment appreciating the crystal clear river and somehow you have a familiar feeling that you have been here, and the blue creature makes a sound calling you to a raft that is made of vines and barks of the tree but it's somehow glittering, you get on the raft and it takes you down and you see more plants and trees glittering with colors of all kind, winged animals and strange animals too, then suddenly the raft stops and you look around and you see the tower, still far away, the blue creature hops out of the raft and walks on another trail. Curious, you follow the blue creature once again, your mind completely off the tower but instead wondering where the blue creature will take you...

You're in the forest. Your destination is up ahead, the tower. But you decide to make a quick stop and look around. Everything around you is so beautiful and magical. It's almost unbelievable you pinch yourself. You spot something in the distance. A small creature, glowing in a mystical, deep blue. It's looking at you. After a moment it runs back to the forest but stops at the tree line and looks back at you. It wants you to follow it. You do. It takes you on a journey through the seemingly endless forest...

The coloured brambles snag on you, but you barely pay them any mind as you're determinedly following the creature. Bright hues of blue, yellow, purple, and pink surround you in their majesty. The blue creature looks back multiple times to make sure that you're still following, and you are. Your quest for the tower forgotten as you chase after the creature, a sense of familiarity tingling at you. The yellows glow around you, the yellows and orange surround you in brilliance, the purples bring everything into focus as you lose yourself in the rhythm of the forest. The blue creature starts going faster and faster, and you hasten to meet its pace. Other winged creatures flit past your sight, but you only have eyes for the blue creature, the familiarity in its eyes invading your mind by the second. Sprinting now, you make your way through the forest, the tower a distant memory as you leave your sword and shield behind, moving quicker and quicker trying to keep pace with the blue creature, paying no mind to the whispers urging you to stop. 

The blue creature stops by a large, still lake. The sun reflecting off its soft ripples, glistening in the heat from the cerulean sky. The creature drinks. You follow it, and the water is crisp and cold. You look up, and the creature has moved to the other side of the lake, and you begin chasing it through the forest once more. You recognize these hills. You recognize the trees, the plants, the animal dens scattered around the ditches and molehills.

You see the tower, your original goal, and you realize what the creature has done. It has brought you to your destination, through a journey between nature's greats and the staggering beauty of taking a moment to realize what is around you. The creature sprints off into the forest, breaking your thoughts. You head to the tower, to finish what you started...

~To be continued~