The daylight started fading away as I walked deep inside the forest, my legs were losing their patience, even though chill winds were blowing but my armpits were sweating. The sweater I felt bad for stealing was all wet from under my arms and back. I felt a sharp sting on my right foot, I gasped and took a look at it and found a fly resting on my feet, it sucked my blood but in a few seconds I saw it burst, some fresh red blood from it got absorbed by my skin and the rest of the dark blood which might be present in the fly from before splashed on my feet but didn't get absorbed. I was looking at the scene with my eyes wide open, it seemed like a movie to me.
Suddenly I saw some of the bushes in the forest moving, I heard some footsteps following the moving bushes in the woods to my right. I stepped back slowly, the first thought which entered my mind was that it might be some wild animal, my breath hitched as it started coming out on the road, I screamed out loud and then I heard flapping sounds and saw some birds flying in the air from the tree branches they were sitting on before, when I turned my gaze back at the bushes I saw a cute white rabbit coming out of them.
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Maria parked her scooter
in front of Zoe's house, she knocked on her house door then she heard a voice from the speaker," who is it ?", to that, she answered, " This is me, Ms. Fletcher, Maria, I came here to meet Zoe ". Just then the door opened itself. Maria entered and closed the door. " Hello Mr. and Ms. Fletcher", Mariah greeted them like an obedient kid, while they were sitting in the living room. "Hello there ! ", " Hello sweety", Mr. and Ms. Fletcher greeted back respectively. Now Maria turned to the right side and saw the staircase . she climbed upstairs and was just heading to the right side where Zoe's room was but then she saw a room on the left-hand side opened and with cold expressions and rock hard body appeared a guy, his hairs were black long curly hairs falling till the length of his jaw. He was wearing a red sweatshirt and red pants, which explained to Maria that he was a protego. Maria saw his deep eyes and his eye color was red showing that he was really angry. Now that Maria saw his eyes she turned away and was running towards Zoe's room when he called out from behind, " Hey, Kiddo ! ", I ignored him but then again he said, " you ! straight black haired brown kid, who are you, never saw you around ". " First of all I am not a kid, second of all I have a name and lastly I am here to meet Zoe", I turned around and busted rudely as he kept calling me a kid. " Oh sorry! ", he said, without wasting a single second I went to Zoe's room.
" you took long", Zoe complained while laying on the bed and resting her head on her hand. "Sorry ... yeah so tell me all about it ", Maria asked impatiently.
"as I enter the room where my test was taken I saw burnt tiles and a burnt table, I eventually knew that something happened to Hannah, I threatened Oliver Sinskey about telling what I saw, to everyone, which is why he agreed to take me to Hannah. After giving my division test I asked my test conductor, Mr. Oliver about Hannah and then he took me to, what he calls an examination room."
"He kept her in the examination room? "
" yes, even locked her in a glass capsule "
" Did he take her division test? "
" Not sure about that "
" What do you mean, you didn't ask him ?"
" I was so confused, I was not in my right mind, so anyways, he didn't exactly take me to the examination room, he took me to the monitor room, which was attached to the examination room by a glass window, The monitor room had some monitors, maybe collecting data from within her body and some staff members were examining the data. "
" so, what did that Oliver guy say?"
" he said that Hannah has some bizarre blood type and it could destroy the world"
" did you ask for details ?"
" I did but he only said ' I told you enough and now if you tell it to someone else I will make sure to give your brain some electric shocks so that you will forget about this day, I hope I am clear, right Miss Fletcher .'", Zoe imitated Oliver Sinskey.
" And then ?"
" then we shake hands and left for my interview "
" you shook hands with a bad guy ?"
" yeah he forced me too "
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" Kevin ? ", amelia came running from the backside of COD.
" Yes, found something ?"
" I talked to Aroos, one of her senior friends is a member of the hacking room in COD, they can hear our phone conversations "
" Who is Aroos? "
" my friend "
" so they have control over our phones too ? ", he asked losing his patience and his eyes turning red in anger"
" yeah, and they heard your and mum's conversation, they are also heading towards the forest "
"which means they are in danger ?"
" might be ... let's go there for backup, huh ?"
" what do you mean?"
" if they arrest our parents, then at least we will be able to find her"
" wait, wait, wait ", something hit Kevin's mind. " if they can hear my conversations, so same goes with you, they might have heard your and your friend's conversation".
"No, they didn't, Aroos and I didn't have a conversation on call, she met me behind the COD "
" wow! clever huh "
" We don't have much time, it's about to get dark in a couple of hours"
after that, they hopped in the car and drove off toward the forest.
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" Okay, so you are telling me that Oliver's assistant unknowingly helped you in getting that contract "
" yes ! and I helped him in return too "
" and how is that ?"
" well I didn't let Oliver know that his assistant told me that she might be in the forest, or else that guy would be unemployed by now "
" Okay so now, what's the plan? should we go to the forest "
" It's five right now, and soon it will be dark"
" you don't wanna come, okay, but I am going to save her "
" It's not like that Maria"
" Okay! then pack your things ! ", Maria said, while she is standing on Zoe's bed one hand is pointing at the room door and her eyes were glistening purple.
" you seemed quite excited "
" yeah, because it's an adventure"
" hope it's a safe adventure "
Mariah looked down on the bad, seeing Zoe's worried face, and brought her excited hand down as she looked at Zoe with an annoying facial expression now.
Now they started packing their bags. Zoe went towards her cupboard and pull out two bags from the cupboard, she threw one at Maria which Maria caught in her hands, then Zoe went into the kitchen and slowly headed towards the stand where kitchen utensils were. She picked up a knife and ran down the staircase, she stopped on her track when she heard, " Zoe, is that you ? ", " yes mom, I came to get an apple", she lied. Then again she turned around to go to her room, but got startled as she saw her brother, Cedric standing a few inches away, staring at her, " went to fetch an Apple, I see ? but I see no apples here ", " Oh I guess I picked the knife in hurry ", she made an excuse. She ran upstairs when Cedric passed by her before patting her head.
She ran to her room, grabbed a piece of cloth, and wrapped it around the knife.
Maria was checking her list and the bag to ensure if she kept every essential thing in the bag, "compass check, binocular check, the tent check, two blankets check, chocolate check, first aid kid check, plenty of water check, flashlight check and knife ? ", Maria said while looking at Zoe.
" oh here ", she raised the wrapped-up knife which was in her right hand.
" Alright, then Let's go to save our princess !"