It will not be easy, but it would be better for me to join as someone who knows a little than nothing. The girls were snoring already. I smiled, they are probably wealthy and have tons of responsibilities but they are still among the youth who deserve pleasure and enough sleep. I don’t know what kind of storm I will face tomorrow, but I promise I will come back alive. I promised myself, Marcus and Laura, and I cannot let them down. My grandmother will be waiting for me, I need to survive here. So I began to study every detail written on the map. This is not just a simple map, Corinthians also wrote additional information on it while she e was probably studying it. There is also information about the gemstones we will be looking for."Eclipse... What time will the eclipse start?" I whispered.I think it's already midnight, but the Eclipse is still not happening. I thought it would happen tonight, it looks like the morning is approaching and the said event is still not happening. Beneat
I have no idea how long was I standing there. But I was startled when someone flicked my forehead."Good Lord!" I shouted when someone grabbed my arm suddenly. My body bumped against a bold chest. My heart throb louder."What the hell are you doing? Let's go!" The Prince growled. Sh*t! I almost had a heart attack because of this prince! He still has the right to be angry when he's the one who startled me! Now look, he's the one who's upset."I'm sorry!" I said getting dragged by the Prince."Wake up. Stop zoning out. We're not here to play." He said clenching my heart. Ouch, that hurts. I'm not even doing anything, what is he getting mad at? Oh, he has high expectations since he lived with the great echelons who barely do wrongs. So now he's getting upset because I got lost in his team and now he has to deal with someone like me who lacks knowledge about the search.He's still holding my arm before he turned around again. I thought he would finally release me but I was surprised when
The booming voices from the outside came thrilling my ears. The Echelons are ringing us so early in the morning."Wake up! Wake up! Rise and find, rise and find!" A bright light hit me in the face. It's not coming from the rays of the sun, it's Nathalia's light! Her hands were aglow again irritating our dear eyes."Get your light away from my face you witch!" Corinthians spat angrily as she tried to push the light away from her face. Nathalia seems to be enjoying as she just chuckled at our reaction specially to Corinthians's annoyance."I'm trying to wake you up, duh? Let's get ready!" Nathalia said, still chuckling as the light from her hands slowly ceased. Corinthians and I could finally breathe and move properly as our vision adjusted to the sudden darkness. I squinted my eyes and roamed around the smokey woodland. I could see nothing but white smokes, the early dusts in the forest.The sun hadn’t risen yet, but we had to hurry with the search because we weren’t the only ones loo
My steps were heavy just as how I stepped from that labyrinth in the palace before. The only difference is that I am in more dangerous reality now, this is life and death. This ain't fairytale and illusion anymore. This is happening. My extrasensory perception remained awake. We made a quick journey to the place I was heading; to the cave I saw last night."Are we still far?" Corinthians asked."We're near." I replied."In your vision, we are near. I can't even see a cave here, it's full of thick bushes and stems." said Nathalia, I didn't respond. I just went straight. The cave came closer and closer to my sight, and the things that shone inside became clearer."Fray is coming!" Greyson's enthusiastic voice boomed. But his forehead immediately wrinkled as the eagle landed on his shoulder."What is it Fray?" The eagle was loud, it was restless."Did you roam around?" Greyson didn't stop asking his pet as if they were the only ones there and they were the only ones who really understoo
My screams rang out and echoed throughout the wilds when I felt like I had drowned in my run. I thought I was going to stumble down but then suddenly I felt myself floating in the air. Simultaneously, with my floating in the air was the fall of the tree beside me. The big bear just ran into the big tree that almost hit me.What the heck?"Oh gosh!" I cried out in pain as I fell to the ground. I turned to the prince who's now looking down at me. I trembled, I tried so hard to prevent my eyes from welling. I felt like I just failed, I felt like I did a very crucial mistake at such early game, and had not because of the Prince, I would have been injured so bad. The Prince saved me once again.Oh ghad! I really need to get myself together. But what can I do? I am fully awake, it's just that, I cannot catch up with their pace this instant. They trained their whole lives for this while I was just brought to be a bait, and here I am now, facing the consequences of being stupid. I know I can
The prince looked down at me until our eyes met. He reacted, "Tss," before letting go of me.Argh! How many times have I fallen this morning? And how many times has the prince been the cause of that as well? The grassy Prince just knocked me down!"We're here, stop dreaming!" the Prince said rudely and walked ahead to follow the Echelons. Because I didn't want to be left behind, I immediately complied. My clothes got dirty right away, and some parts of my clothes got wet. Fortunately, my insides didn't come off somehow despite getting wet, because it would be really difficult. I don't want anyone to think of me rudely.We will climb this ascending forest again. It's tiring, I'm not happy at all. But I could do nothing. Because in the first place, it's me who decided to join as I took the Echelons' and the Prince's decision as an opportunity to be with them despite being a bait."Stupid, can you move faster?" The prince said looking annoyed after looking back at me. I was shocked at th
From my normal vision my eyes went to the upper part of the cave tunnel."A STONE!" I shout. We stopped at once. It’s amethyst, the color is freaking amethyst — incant be mistaken, I know it belongs to the gemstones with high scores."Let's get it!" Nathalia shouted, just as she jumped to pick it up, the ground we were standing on cracked and the rocks in the tunnel fell."The cave is about to collapse we need to get out!" Corinthians shouted."But the stone!""Run fast!"I didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the cave so as not to be trapped inside. Corinthians and Greyson were out, I was about to go out but I turned to Nathalia who was still looking for the gem."Nathalia stop it! Let's go!" I yelled.When she didn’t listen to me, I turned to her and tried to pull her away."Let's go..." I shouted."Let go witch! I can already see the gem!" She shouted.I can see it too. But the rocks kept falling on the entrance of the cave, if we could not get out immediately we would be t
Everything rushed in my mind at the same time. I could not think clearly, all the evil I had done, all the sufferings I had been through, all the pain, was all at once whispering and spinning my brain.And I'm running out of breath.I'm in the middle of thick bushes, trees that are source of oxygen but I'm running out of breath. I held on to a tree to support myself not to fall. I massage my chest to calm and manage my breathing."Let it out." Chrysler said.Chrysler was there. He lend me his hands and helped me to stand up. He cupped my face with his bare hands and wiped my tears away."Shh, look at me. Let it out, don't stop your crying more painfully." He smiled and shook me gently."I — I'm fine," I sobbed."No you are not. Come here, come on," He said and let me rest in his chest. I felt his hands rubbing my hair. "Shhh, It's okay. It's all right. Everything's gonna be fine." He said comforting me.And for the mean time, I spit out half of my pain. It was only halfway there but