In a dark place where anyone could barely see anything, a body drained of dried blood was left in there. It was Sophie.
Sophie's wounds were slowly healing, the blood was vanishing from her body and after 30 minutes Sophie opened her eyes again to see the world. She first observed the area that where was she, she stood up and tried to find a way out instantly. She was locked in four walls she saw her hands and dress, it didn't look like something happened to her or she has been dead before, there were no stains of blood, no scars of a bite. She yelled for help, a boy from behind said: "There's no one, don't scream". "Who are you?" Said Sophie immediately turning around. "I guess.. the boy you were searching for!? And yeah my name is Ryan." Replied the boy. "What you?.. you're a.. M-- MONST-- MONSTER? why have you kept me here? Where am I?". The boy smiled and said: "Relax! Yes I'm still alive, you can see that. And I haven't kept you here, you yourself came here". Sophie didn't understand anything. She asked: "wait, how am I still alive when the snake killed me and.. and I don't have any wound on my face?". "Now that's the great thing about it, you died 15 days before and now you are reliving your life because you are not a human now" said Ryan. Her expressions showed it all that she she was very scared. She asked: "15 days? How can I live my life again, I can't understand. So you are a monster why don't you kill me?". Ryan laughed and said: " Oh! Because I only kill humans and animals". Sophie still didn't understand anything she tried to find the way out she asked him to tell any way out. "Well I have lived here over 30 years and there was no way out, I was waiting for you to get me out. If you go out then I'll be free too. And now you will ask me again what's that I'm already telling because it is not possible to go out from the cave until you find another person like you. Now you are here because I compelled your mind to come here when you were dead, you came here. Now I can go out because the spell has been read on me that I can't go out but if you go out, you can break the spell because no one has spelled on you and then I'll be free. The spell is the reason any human can't enter in this cave and I can't escape" said Ryan. "You killed me by a snake? You knew that I have the ability to relive my life? You did this so that I can break the spell? Wow! That's great. Cruel!" asked Sophie. "yes, i did this so that I can be able to go out but I didn't make the snake to kill you. After you died, I learnt that you are a Human monster so I compelled you to come here and it was beneficial for you otherwise humans would have burried you in the grave and after 15 days when you would
raise again you couldn't have gone out of the grave. I saved you life" replied Ryan. Sophie thought for a moment and asked that won't he kill humans out there when he'll be free. Ryan told her that's the thing: "because I have been hungry since 30 years. I lived 5 years outside even when I was not a human but then your forefathers saw me that I'm a monster and they locked me in this cave and locked the spell, no one was like me until you". "I just want to live with my family, I want to see my family please tell me how to go outside" said Sophie wiping her tears. "No no no! You can't do it because you'll crave to bite them, lets make a deal- we will go out and destroy this world so that no one can lock us again (including your family)" said Ryan passing his hand towards her to make a deal. Sophie said: "I won't let you kill this world because this is my family how can I kill my famiy?!". Ryan said that then he himself will kill this world because he had to survive. Sophie thought for a while she finally decided she will not break the spell which means she would stay there in the cave because she wanted to protect everyone. Sophie asked again: "outside in the tomb, there's some kind of liquid spread over the ground it smells so bad. Do you know about it?". He replied: "the men living in this area 40 years ago did this, so that any human doesn't come". Sophie said: "So How did I come here?". Ryan replied: why are you so stupid? When you were dead which means that you became a monster. It only affects humans when I compelled you to enter this tomb and come here, you were a monster still now". Sophie told him that she came here once before when she was a human. Ryan didn't understand anything about it, he didn't ask her further about it. 5 hours passed just like this. Sophie saw the ring was not in her finger she tried to find it in the cave but it was a bit dark. She was missing her sister Lindy. She didn't stop crying just for a moment. Sophie asked him if he knows something about the crow chasing her before. Ryan said: Was it chasing you too? HaHa! You stupid, it was trying to protect you, because the crow knew that you have the ability to be a monster. It was trying to tell you not to come here because the snake would bite you. it was trying to make you frighten away so that you keep a distance from here (woods)". Sophie said: " how do you know all this? I saw it dead here in the tomb". Ryan told her that the crows used to chase him to keep away. the snake would have killed it. While, Lindy and Elena were still searching for the monster. Lindy was going to her grandparents. Her grandfather hugged Lindy, he was crying because he loved Sophie and Lindy alot. Lindy asked him about the boy from the Black Falls family. Her grandfather saw him in a way because he was thinking why is Lindy asking. Lindy told him: "it's umm.. a lesson in our book. Do you know anything about it?". "Listen Lin, there's a great history behind it. My greatgrand Father used to tell me about this history. He used to believe that the boy is still alive and is a monster, there is a secret of it that our ancestors locked him in a cave "The Cave Of Black Falls". It was built by the boy's Family, they used to hide their belongings like Golds in the cave but then they died but their son became a Monster so our ancestors who then came here, locked him because he was killing people. I have never went in the tomb but do you know you can go in the tomb". Lindy knew it that she can go in the tomb because of the ring but she acted like she didn't know anything. Her grandfather told him everything, he also mentioned that she can't go in the cave because of the spell. Lindy understood why she couldn't go. The other day, Lindy told Elena everything and asked her to go with her. They both went in woods. Elena wore Sophie's ring which she kept with herself and Lindy had one. Sophie heared some sounds of whispering she ran to the door, she heared her sister's voice. Ryan told Sophie: "do not knock because you should not tell her about what you are, obviously she will ask". She became upset and walked back. Ryan asked her: "how can your sister come when there's this vervain". Sophie didn't know it. Her sister called her name. She said: "Sophie? Are you alright? Come out you monster! (the boy)".
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*After Chapter 7 of "In The Dark Woods" the story continues on "The Land Of Trouble". If I would update it would be there*