Zell is looking at himself again in the mirror, the ten years old of him refuses to let go. It's been a year since he's been here, nothing bad has happened.
"We need to let go, this is not true."
"But we have him here, our father. He's all that we have!"
"But he's dead, he can't go back! You can't stay here, you can't. I know it hurts, but we need to accept the truth. Uncle is waiting for us, brother mahad is fighting for us. And you know what, ten years from now you'll be glad to be alive. I made a friend, he's good and I promise you'll never feel alone again…" Zell tears gradually fell from his eyes, it was unexpected. He didn't expect he would burst into tears knowing an older version of him is not alone anymore. The ten years old of him knows but he denies, he didn't want to be left alone again.
He's been craving for someone, a friend will share a burden. He's so alone, he's so lonely. The ten years old Zell shreds in tears, he can't stop it. He can't…
He wails, he screeches. He also cried when his father died, and he never got a chance to say goodbye because of the curse. He was buried without even seeing his face for a moment, he fought that time but his uncle didn't let him go.
"Let me go, Please I need to see him. I just need to see him, father. I need to see my father, he can't be gone. He promised, he promised!" Mahad beside him hugged him, when the host of the curse died, the curse would immediately find its next host at that time the seal is not locked on that's why it's forbidden to Zell be closer to his father even in 2 centimeters. No wonder he forgets his father's face because he didn't see him for the last time...
His father opened the door as he heard him crying, the curse is really good. Because everything here is so real, but he can't be here. He needs to let him go, as his father approaches him. He hugs him immediately so tight like he didn't want to let him go, Zell read a dozen books about curse and one thing he also learns is how to let him escape the curse trap.
This is not his father, his father already died years ago. This is not his father…
Zell pulled out the knife from his back and then stabbed his father from the back. He closes his eyes, takes all the courage. Tears continuously fell, he looked at his face and he saw his father smile at him.
"I'm sorry, I can't be with you here. I need to go, I need to let you…"
"I know son, I know…"
For the tenth time they walk back and forth, Risk already analyzes the whole area. People will think this is an illusion but it's not, everything here exists.
"We need to cut off the water from the river." He said.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Mahad asks, Risk , look at Zell who's continuously sleeping peacefully laying on the ground.
"We need to get out of here, I think he'll wake up soon." They're time is running out, they need to move now. He scans the stone and touches each of the letters of the sentence, to his surprise it moves suddenly.
Such a stone moves around like the rotation of a whirlwind, the letters of the script move one by one together with the motion of the stone. They combined, and in the middle suddenly something came out and it's a keyhole.
Mahad's eyes widened because of what Risk just did.
"H-How did you do that?" He asks, Risk looks confused and shrugs his shoulders.
"I don't know, I just touched it." He answered.
"What should we do now?"
"We need to find the Key of this…" He said.
"There is no need!" They both turned around when they heard a familiar voice, to their surprise they saw Zell already wake up and look at them. They both take a step and ready themselves.
"Zell?" Mahad asked for assurance.
"Yes, this is me. I will manage to be myself for a meantime, we need to get out of here." Zell walked toward them and pulled out his necklace with a key pendant, as expected. He has the key, it's not surprising since his father has already been here. Zell put the key on the keyhole, he twisted it and seconds later the whole cave shook. Zell transformed into his beast form and then looked at them, they didn't know what to do.
Risk hopped in at Zell's back, he called for mahad and mahad hop in next to him.
"The cave will collapse in any minute." He said, and it's true. Rocks started to fall, as water of the river was covered with the rocks and soil. It stops from flowing to every part of the cave, the massive plants starting to lose its light. A rock fell into them, Zell immediately moved his body and ran to avoid the rocks, he started to jump at every part of the leaves of the plants before it would finally lose it's light and everything would be in darkness.
Because the ground shakes, every butterfly flies.
"Let's jump into the butterflies…" Risk uttured, and Zell growled as his response. They both at the back cold on tight, the butterflies losing its light too but before they finally lose it. Zell already started to jumbs on every butterfly on it's back, the butterflies brought a line as it flew out to the cave. They're taking the stairs using the massive butterflies, as they continue to jump they gradually see the light on the top.
For their last step, they jumped into the hole where the light was coming from.
"Yoooooooooooooooo!" Risk shouted and it echoed to the whole place.
Mahad closed his eyes tightly hoping that they would be able to land properly, the wind blowing trying to make them lose their balance.
Risk chuck Mahad to make him open his eyes.
"We're here." He said, they land properly. From where they are standing they can see the villages from the ground, the whole view, and the lake.
"Wow, we're on top of the mountain?" Mahad uttured, they looked at the temple in front of them. It's huge, if not because of the bog covered around the mountain they can see this temple sitting on the top of the mountain.
The wind whispered, inside the temple it was dark and a second later they heard a sound of footsteps that were made of heels. It's powerful, it sounds like tiktak of the clock you heard when you're counting your time before the execution.
They ready themselves and become alert, waiting for that person to show him or herself.
"Congratulations…" The voice of a female echoed in the whole temple and she chuckled, it was like the chuckles of a devil…
The next thing they saw, a woman who's wearing a black elegant dress standing in front of them with eyes everywhere on her body.
"A- A le le le le le l-ladyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!"
Zell shouted and then next thing they knew. He's asleep again, Risk can't help but to shake his head.
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