Trees made of mushrooms were lightening the gloom of the soulless night magical forest. The last star left in the universe was on the top of the sky full of sorrow. However, that wasn't the only thing lightening the night; the aimlessly flying fireflies were existent around us.
Paikek and I stepped through the giant leaves of the mushroom trees as I held my phone in my hands, seeing the blue point getting closer to us on the map.
Paikek and I walked for meters, and eventually, we reached the entrance of a giant maze made of tall bushes. The walls of the maze were ten times taller than me.
"Who do you think we'll find inside this place?" I asked Paikek when I noticed that my phone displayed the blue dot's location inside the maze.
"Right! I don't know. It looks like a place for Seanyung. Our smartly likes mazes." Paikek narrowed his eyes as he opined.
"Makes sense." I nodded and we entered the maze.
Inside the maze was darker than outside because it doesn't have any mushroom trees to light it up. We turned to random directions towards the blue dot. From left to right, we tried every way, trying to reach our friend.
"Are we lost?" I turned my face to Paikek, after realising that the path we took didn't reach anywhere.
"I think I'll fly and look from above." Paikek suggested.
"Why we didn't think about that before?" I laughed and he smiled back.
Paikek tilted his head back and opened his arms as the angelic wings appeared and grew gradually from his back. He widened his wings and thrust upward to the sky, above the walls of the maze.
"What do you see from up there?" I shouted to him from where I stood in the maze. However, he looked like he was still searching.
"It's so dark I can't see anything." Paikek shouted from above.
I sighed and checked back my phone, noticing that the blue dot was no longer existed. The part of the map where we were at, was blank.
"Paikek, come here!" I called Paikek as soon as I saw the abnormality on the map.
"I am here." Paikek came down to the ground.
"Something is off. The blue dot just disappeared." I showed him the part of the map which went blank.
"Right. Maybe it's because you lost connection. We are in forest so it's usual." His eyes widened when he checked the map.
Suddenly, a weird creature came outside from the maze's wall. It looked like an extremely thin wolf with a bat face and its body was covered by black liquid.
"What's that?" I hid Paikek's back when I saw the monster walking.
"I never saw anything like this before. But Karu, I'll protect you." Paikek opened his wings against the creature, keeping me safe behind him.
The creature advanced onto Paikek, but he pushed it back with the back of his wing causing the monster to screech.The monster screeched again, and lots of other creatures with a slim body and a wolf's face began coming out from the walls. There were many of them surrounding us.
The creatures jumped onto us and Paikek struck them by his wings one by one, pushing them away.
"You can't keep doing it. We must find another way!" I suggested as I hid behind Paikek while the monsters attacked him.
"Karu I am the strongest magician in our group. I am fine." Paikek smiled at me as he kept striking the creatures with his angelic wings.
One of the monsters grabbed Paikek's wing, and it began biting it. Consequently, the other creatures jumped onto him, punching and biting his wings.
Paikek fell onto his knees as a black liquid came from the scars on his wings. He looked like he was in pain and I regretted that I couldn't help him. But it wasn't late.
"Get away from him!" I pointed my wand towards one of the creatures, creating a magic wave which pushed it away.
I kept shooting magic waves to keep the wolf-headed weird monsters away from Paikek. However, they kept attacking back and it became exhausting.
The creatures caught my legs and dragged me down to the ground as they started biting me. Each of their bites was so painful, I felt like torture.
Unexpectedly, a wave of water came from the entrance of the maze corridor. The wave was as strong as a storm and it carried all the monsters around us away.
Paikek and I looked at the point where the water wave came from, seeing Bomyu. He had his wand in his hand, releasing small tsunami's to push the creatures.
"Am I late?" Bomyu's mouth curled up slightly.
"Bomyu!! I was expecting to see Seangyung!" Paikek's teeth shone brightly when he smiled with the joy of seeing Bomyu again.
"I miss you both." Bomyu ran and hugged me and Paikek.
We walked out of the maze under the shine of the last star left in the sky.
"Let's find Seanyung now!! I am so excited to be all together again." Paikek beamed as three of us walked in the magical forest.
"Me too! I miss our pyjama parties." Bomyu recalled the great days we had.
"Let's see where Seanyung is." I checked the map on my phone, trying to find the last blue point.
"Before that, can we eat something? I am hungry." Paikek pleaded, lifting his eyebrows.
"Yeah, I am hungry too." Bomyu agreed with Paikek.
At first, I sighed as a reaction, because I wanted to find Seanyung as soon as possible, but...
"Fine. It's a nice idea." I accepted as I didn't eat anything all day.
We walked out of the magical forest in the freezing night. I couldn't take my hands off my pockets as I was shivering. Eventually, we found an old bus stop on the road outside the forest.
While waited there for a bus, the things that Mrs Kimiko told me came to my mind; and her assumption that the person who stole the star book is one of my friends.
Firstly, stared at Bomyu's eyes, he looked thoughtful but he had an innocent look. Then, I turned my eyes onto Paikek as we waited for the bus. He had the most innocent look I had ever seen.
"Guys, I have a serious question. I am confused, so I have to ask." I put in.
"Yeah, you can ask." Paikek smiled and Bomyu said "Sure, you can." at the same time.
"Okay. What happened the day you disappeared? I mean the day I came to the apartment and found nothing but blood on the walls."