Chapter six

Fear was possessing her entire body, she was still looking at the terrifying and dark forest in front of her with lost eyes, she didn't understand why, but she was afraid of entering her

" Move "

One of Robert's men pushed her

" You will regret it, I promise "

She said furiously before moving into the forest, closing her eyes as she took her first steps there

" What is this feeling? "

She said as she wrapped her hands around herself, and looked in front of her with great tension and her heart was beating fast, a great energy that she felt inside her and a distinctive and strong aromatic scent caressing her breath.

" Move fast, this forest is not normal "

Robert said, holding his hand angrily, looking around as if waiting for a monster to come out of the place

"This place is weird"

Astraea said while holding her body, and looking around in fear, she stopped in her place, swearing that she felt the sound of breath in her ear.

"I miss you "

She turned quickly and she was very terrified

"Who are you?? "

She screamed in fear and backed away, but there was no one behind her, she was sure of her feeling, impossible to be delusional, she swears that someone was breathing in her ear

"What is with you?? "

" I… I… there was something in my ear "

The men looked at her angrily, one of them pushed her violently

" Stop lying, move, follow the map"

One of the men said angrily, pushing her while she looked at him with hatred, but she looked back at the paper in her hands

" Sorry honey, you know you're the only one who can crack your father's code, so I brought you "

Robert said, placing his hand on her head

A violent growling sound made everyone turn to the source of the sound, but there was nothing to make sense of it was just a fantasy

"You will regret it "

Astraea said, ignoring the reason for the strange sound, perhaps they are stray wolves, wishing to attack them and really tear them apart.

" Move "

Robert said as he skipped her into the woods, while she held her hand in anger and looked at the paper sadly

" Mom … Dad"

After more than four hours of walking, the scientific expedition stopped and everyone was exhausted

" Sir, let's get some rest "

" It's okay, but send someone to find out the place "

said Robert, glancing at the weary men, before walking up to a tree and sitting on it

He must reach the river of youth, his life is about to end, he needs that river to stay young forever, to become immortal This legend is his only hope

" Edward, can you see something? "

One of the men down said, looking at his friend, who had climbed a giant tree to discover something about the mysterious and misty forest.

"What is it ?? "

Edward, who was on the tree, said, glimpsing a very distant light, slowly approaching him

He narrowed his eyes and looked closely, and in fact that light was approaching, he looked down so that his friends would know, but damned. In blink of an eye, becomes just a skeleton and falls downwards.

" He's too late , what is he doing"

Astraea said as she approached the man who looked at her narrowly, but before he could reply, that corpse fell in front of them.

" Aahhhhh "

Everyone looked at her in astonishment before heading to her to see what happened, but everyone froze in place as soon as they saw that terrifying scene, Edward was really a skeleton

" M…what…what is this? "

" It's death"

Robert said softly, looking at Edward's corpse indifferently

" What do you mean, to God's sake? "

Said one of his men, as he moved to him, grabbed him by his clothes and shook him violently, Robert pushed his hands very slowly

" What? You know this well. I told you that we would face death in the forest, and you agreed to come."

George punched him so hard that he fell back

" Damn you crazy man, when you said we face death, you didn't say we would face non-human creatures "

Robert looked at him crazily before laughing out loud

" What did you expect, for example, that the Fountain of Youth would be protected by humans "

He Got close to him and whisper like a devil

" There is worse than this, so if you want to survive, she's our only way "

He said, pointing to Astraea , whose eyes widened, and she backed off in panic

" Damn you, senile old man, you want us to rely on a child to get us out "

Robert smiled hard

" Yes, she is your card to eternal life and youth"

Everyone looked at her as if she were prey, while Robert approached her while grabbing a lock of her hair

" She my precious treasure "

Astraea stepped back, looking at him with hatred, this bastard is the reason for everything that happened to her

" Let's move "

Robert said as he moved, leaving everyone looking at him nervously

A thick mist was already dominating the woods, the place that Robert's men had chosen to camp was near a lake, so Astraea sat close to it, away from those bastards.

" Mine "

She shivered and quickly turned back, but no one was around

Her eyes widened as she felt someone breathe in her ear, hands wrapping around her body, literally twitching in place.

" Take this "

One of the men said, offering her a cup of hot chocolate, while his eyes devour her, she looked at him lost

" You are too young for what's going on with you "

" I don't need your pity "

She said angrily while holding her hand, trying to ignore him, ignoring the feeling that had been controlling her since the moment she entered this curse.

" Really, but I need your body to cool myself down "

Her eyes widened, and she looked at Robert who was standing behind him in horror

" Just make sure you don't kill her "

Robert said, turning around to leave coldly

Her eyes widened in horror, and she shook her head in denial

She felt the monster approaching her, as she slid backward crawling on her hands

" No, no, please, no "

" We will enjoy, I promise "

That damned said as he approached her trying to remove her clothes, she randomly extended her hand to take a piece of the stone and hit his head, then she started running with tears that stopped

" She's running away "

The damned man, who was attempting to rape her, screamed that the others would run to him

" How did she escape, you motherfucker? "

Robert shouted angrily at him, before he pushed him and quickly followed her while cursing

Their voice reached as they followed her to start running with all her might, all she thought was that she shouldn't die here, she should live, she should live to reveal the truth.

She didn't notice the person standing in front of her, so she hit his hard chest

“ Ah"

She groaned in a faint voice and tried to raise her gaze to that stranger, but all she could see and feel was a quiet smile and a warm kiss on her forehead.

“ I miss you mate"

In the blink of an eye, all the bodies that were chasing her were flying around, heads separated, except for Robert and the man who tried to rape her.

“ Damn, who are you? “

Robert said with great horror as he looked at the man who was standing in front of him carrying Astraea's body

“ I'm your hell "

“ huh "

Robert said stupidly and in one second he was looking at him with devilish eyes, before he felt a strong pressure in the air and fell to the ground, he and his follower were unconscious. He looked at her with love, tenderness, sadness, and regret….

“ Finally, you came back to me”