Chapter 2 Attacks from strange creatures

Adonis woke up to find himself in an unknown land, he looked around for his sister but couldn't find her anywhere. All he could see were trees, tall and huge trees all around him.

Adonis began calling out his sister's name as he walked in between the woods. He thought to himself about what he had brought upon them.

He regretted that he should have listened to his sister who advised them to turn back and head for home. He shouldn't have let her enter the house of Annapolis. He thought to himself what his mother will do if he returns home without his sister that is If only he knew the way out of the forest which was scarier than the house of Annapolis.

Adonis who thought about what had happened and how he lost his sister was now looking like a man of twenty-five years old. He didn't understand what had completely transformed him from a boy of seventeen to eighteen years into a man.

His height had increased and his muscles looked like that of a karate trainee. Adonis found this very abnormal but then had to accept his faith and body size.

" Maybe it's the strange atmosphere and mystery of this place that has transformed me from a boy to a man" he had thought to himself and decided to forget all about his now vigor body which did nothing but modified his looks.

"Eden where are you?" he shouted out loud as he walked himself in between the clueless trees.

Adonis knew without his sister, his life will be over if he returned home.

"I must continue to search for her, I can not give up," he continued "Mother will kill me if I don't give her an explanation for what happened to Eden" he mumbled to himself after having walked for about twenty-seven minutes and yet did not find the end of the forest.

He had loomed no man nor animal while on the search for his sister and began doubting if he was all alone in such a gigantic forest.

Adonis had begun to wonder if he took the right direction as to his walk no man stood by, not even an animal talk more of a bird.

Adonis walked another three miles and found himself falling into a net trap that took hold of him. He was now hanging in the air, waiting for whoever set such a huge net trap to come free him.

He did not understand what sort of animal was the trap set for, because in his village, the only huge animal they could catch was an antelope.

Other animals didn't dare come near their village because of its great hunters who were very talented and skillful.

Places began getting dark and Adonis made every attempt to free himself but the net was too strong for his muscular strength to repel.

"What is happening, where am I?" he muttered to himself, looking back and forward. Only huge, tall trees were around.

"Is this the land of the dead where they say the people of the village disappeared to? Or am I having a scary dream in a strange and mystical forest?" Now then as he continued to murmur to himself, a creepy sound came from the woods and a huge amount of birds flew away.

That was when he discovered there was a huge amount of birds, he only did not see them because he was focused on the ground.

"Wow, so many birds," he said with emphasis and yet comfortable in the net trap.

"Is anyone there?" he screamed to the annoyance of the birds that flew into the sky.

"Can anyone hear me?" he asked then continued. " If you can hear me, please help me out of this net trap. I've been stuck in here for hours" He attempted again to free himself but it still didn't walk out.

"I've been watching you for over thirty minutes and you did nothing to get loss from the net" An elegant slow but lighter voice than that of his sister ratified through his ears and all he heard were melodies of a beautiful singing.

"And why keep watch of me and do nothing?" Adonis asked trying as much as possible to see the person whose voice he heard with beautiful hymns.

A young beautiful and elegant girl walked out of the woods to his view. She carried a sword of a warrior but yet had the body of a princess.

"Is she a goddess sent to free me?" he murmured but yet she still heard him out loud, because of how quiet and silent the forest was.

"How did you know someone was around?" she asked being the first to break the look he had been taking on her.

"Well, I just smelt it and guest someone was coming, " he continued" You see first the birds dove away and what I expect next is a person to show up"

While he talked the woods began shaking and more and more birds flew towards their direction. " since you're good at smelling things can you also guest what's coming?" she asked as now both Adonis and the girl's eyes were glued to the thick side of the forest where trees were weaving in different directions.

"No I don't but I think it's something very dangerous, something huge and scary" he explained from his viewpoint. It was very clear that nothing could stop whatsoever was coming.

"Okay, I'll leave you to it. goodbye" she continued" Do have a good time freeing yourself " She now was walking away while Adonis was still stuck in the net trap.

"C'mon, you can't just leave me here," he persuaded" What if I get eaten by wild animals or die of starvation?".

" It's alright " she continued "I trust you can get yourself out of there in no time, just have to wait a little while to see what's coming" She walks away into the woods and Adonis screams for her to come back.

"What does she mean by what's coming?" he wondered "Heyyyy....what's coming, ?" he asked but she was already long lost in the woods and couldn't hear him anymore, and even if she did, she wouldn't want shouting in the forest to draw attention from wolfs and other deadly animals.

Adonis remained calm and watched the trees squirming as what so ever was in between the woods was beginning to approach where he was.

" I can't just stay here like this," he said " I've got to find a way out " he added.

Adonis tried once again to break away from the net trap but nothing seemed to be working. The whole trees of his right side were squirming and there came a wolf, a wolf so different from its normal size.

Groaning and mobilizing it flanks on how it was going to gobble on him who remained stuck in the net trap. Its reddish eyes threw their looks on him and the perpetrator wasn't going to escape from those devilish looks.

In as much as the wolf looked very abnormal to Adonis, he wasn't in any way bitter about seeing such because once he had found himself in the forest, he had expected to see a wild animals, not of this kind.

"Please, don't eat me, " he pleaded "I promise I can hunt you better animals good meat" he added but then the wolf paid deaf ears to him.

It scurried and climbed through surrounding trees then dived to catch Adonis who was now scared to die from a wolf.

He hadn't found out the mystery of this forest and where his sister was and yet he was about to be killed by a wolf who would later devour him, feed on his flesh and suck out his blood then lick his bones.

Adonis wasn't ready to die, he hadn't accomplished the things he wanted in life and saw no reason to die so soon. His sister was still missing and his mother was home waiting for them to return.

What would happen to Eden if he dies?

Eden was always scared and couldn't handle things on her own.

Eden who always wanted him to be by her side was so going to miss him and his courageous attitude, the fun he brought, and the adventure he provided when they were out of home...

"ahh--ahh````" He let out a scream closing his eyes as the wolf reached out to gnaw the net which had him trapped in.

To his surprise, nothing of such happened as he waited to feel the pain of being beaten by a wolf. He took the courage to open his eyes as he breathed heavily.

The wolf was on the ground and long dead. Three arrows had kneaded into its chest. Adonis scanned the area for anyone who could have killed the wolf but there weren't signs of anyone.

He tried again to free Loss from the net trap and there came another arrow that shove off the net for him. Adonis fell to the ground and groan in pain.

"ahh ``" he screams holding onto his butts.

"Haha hahaha," the young girl laughed coming from the woods again " You can't even fight a wolf".

"How do you expect me to do that, I was trapped in there" he defended.

"You just don't realize where you are" she enthralled removing the arrows from the wolf's body.

"And where am I?" he asked cleaning his body from dirt that had clambered on his cloth.

"You are in Leopard's territory," she continued " a no-go area for humans" she added cleaning the three arrows.

"Then what are you doing here if it's a forbidden forest?" he inquired watching her put the arrows back into their shells.

"I'm traveling across to Mongolia," she said and then rested a little before she continued "Down to the kingdom of Annapolis to deliver a message to Princess Eden"

"Princess Eden?"

"Yes, Princess Eden, daughter of the great king who rules over Annapolis" she break then continued" I must arrive there before the grant day" she added.

"Grant day! what grant day?" he raised the question.

"Her wedding" she responded turning her back on him.

"When is the wedding?" Adonis asked having raised too many questions and now the girl didn't happen to answer him.

Annoyed she responded harshly "I don't know". She began walking away and Adonis just stood there thinking about the possibility of Princess Eden being her sister who has arrived there as a different person.

He wondered too if he was also a prince of Annapolis and then his thought drove him back to getting home. " Oh no I've got to find this Princess Eden" he murmured and shouted at the young girl who had walked some distance away from him "Wait for me" he began running after her.