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Chapter 5 - Chapter 5 - Inside the Hollow Tree

She remembered that the teachers in Bolanaire land had already mentioned about that place, she was a new queen and she is a former human being, she became human when she was outside the portal door, and became mannequin again when she was inside Bolanaire land, she replaced Melania. So her knowledge about mannequin are so little, the teachers in the palace telling her all the things in the mannequin land, but its not yet full.

"How did they manage to escape?"

"We do not know!" Said an officer.

"I need to ask the teachers! Why was it so late when I found out that they were escaped? And why did I only destroyed one, even if I destroying the both them?" Misty said, feeling suspicious. She called the three teachers to ask them.

"What is your question dear queen?" The teachers asked as they bowed their heads.

"How did Montecarlo and Gricielda escaped without me knowing?" Misty asked with a frown.

The teachers thought for a moment, but they couldn't answer Misty's question. Because only the former queen knows about the magic leaves of the Bolanaire tree, through that magic leaves they escaped.

"I'm sorry dear queen, we can't answer you, because we don't know how it happened!" They replied,

"What? Why don't you know, what kind of teachers are you?" Misty said angrily.

She looked at the necklace she was wearing, and it did not glow red, meaning the teacher was telling the truth. "What did they do and they escaped? And why did I only destroy one?" Misty asked the teacher.

"I think one of them are still in the area of Bolanaire land, so your necklace shone, so you destroyed it,"

"It was Gricielda, what about Montecarlo, why I can't destroy him?"

"Maybe because his feet touches the land of Albany, your power can't reach there, the power of your necklace was only valid here in Bolanaire land," said the teacher.

"So Montecarlo survived because he stepped his feet to Albany land? Oh, this can't happen!" Misty said angrily.

"There's nothing you can do dear queen, your power won't reach Albany land,"

Said the teacher.

"It shouldn't happen again!" Misty said as she glared at them.

"Keep a close eye on Melania and to the former queen!" Misty ordered to the officers.

Afterwards, Misty prepared a delicious meal.

And while she was eating, the officers and servants were looking at her.

They waiting for its leftovers.

Misty wants to be the only one to eat fresh and freshly cooked food.

After she ate, Misty got up and went to her room.

And when Misty left, the officers went to the table and ate Misty's leftovers.

In her lavished room, Misty walks around in it and thinks.

"Those two escaped me, it can happen again, the teachers don't know what they did why they escaped!" Misty said uneasily. Misty left the room and went to her throne.

She summoned Melania and the former queen.

"What do you need dear queen?" Melania asked as she bowed to her.

"Do you know how Montecarlo and Gricielda escaped?" she asked.

"We didn't know nothing!" the former queen answered for Melania.

Misty looked at her necklace and it didn't glow, meaning the queen was telling the truth.

So it did not shine because the queen ate the mysterious leaf, even if it had no effect already, it would remain that the new queen would not know what they had planned before.

"They haven't returned yet?" Melania asked worriedly.

"They haven't come back yet, but I've already destroyed one of them, the female one!" Said Misty.

Melania was stunned, she knew it was Gricielda.

Misty stared at her with a deep look.

"If you think you can survive like one of them you are wrong! You can't escape here! " Glaring eyes Misty said to Melania.

They were sent back to their room.

They will only be given a few hours to sleep, because the next day they will be going in the mine cave to axe again for gold and diamonds.

When Melania and the former queen were in the room, they were very worried.

"One of them was destroyed, I'm so stunned!" Melania said feeling devastated.

"Don't worry, if one of them got to the Albany land, it safer there,"

"But what about Gricielda? She was destroyed by the queen?"

"Montecarlo will help her, there is also a hollow tree there like here in Bolanaire land, the Albany hollow tree, she may restored her there,"

Melania felt a sighed of relief when the former queen said it.

" Probably, they can't come back here anymore, Misty busted them already, they will be punished by her if they will come back," Melania said feeling unsure.

"Yes, but they can only come back here if they will bring Herardo here, but its hard to find where Herardo is," said the former queen feeling hopeless as she remembered her moments with Herardo.

"But Gricielda told me that no matter what happens she will come back here even without Herardo,"

"We have to wait and see, if Montecarlo put Gricielda in the Albany hollow tree, she will restored like new, they will search for him," the former queen said.

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Meanwhile, as Herardo was over looking at the palace from the tower of Albany land, he felt strange.

He wonders why its color had changed, it not so shining brightly unlike before, it seems to be tinged with sadness.

In the meanwhile, at Albany hollow tree, while the body of Gricielda is lying down. Her conciousness was suddenly back, she was weeping inside the Albany tree, suddenly she tried to move her cracked hands. And little by little she can move it.

She raised her hand, and she saw many cracks in it. She next looked at her feet, and it was almost crushed.

Gricielda could not move because her body was almost destroyed.

"Where am I, what happened to me?" Stunned by her own question, she looked around.

She only sees nothing but the roots and pillars of the hollow tree.

"Am I inside the tree? Where am I?" Stunned question to herself.

She did not know where she was, but what was on her mind was that she might be in the Bolanaire land and she was put there in the tree to be healed. "If I back to normal, the new queen will punish me, she will give me the water of forgetfulness!" She cried.

She could do nothing but wait for her to be formed again. She didn't know yet that she was in Albany land.

Moments later, Herardo returned to the Albany hollow tree.

He peeked first before entering, he saw Gricielda.

Gricielda's eyes was close at the time, so Herardo thought it was a lifeless mannequin. Herardo plans to release Gricielda's body out of the tree, because he didnt know yet that the tree was a healing tree for a ruined mannequin.

And little by little he approached her.

"I need to get this mannequin out," he said to himself.

And he held it to lift it.

And as he lifted it, he was stunned when it suddenly moved.

Herardo was immediately released her and he was backed away.