Chapter 2
The sky had turned gray, with the wind blasting a freezing ice flake , and the surrounding were getting shady. Ellica had much prepared for the possible attack of a monster. She decided to take more steps to disclose the mystery behind the taller grasses.
"The thing is getting more strange!" She cleared her throat. Then the arrowpoint following her sight where it goes. She noticed that the movement were calmed down, only the caressing wind blowing the grasses gently.
Ellica moved forward and slowly removed the grass by the arrowstick. But she saw a white thing. She was quickly astonished.
"What is that thing!?" She started thinking what it would be like. "That white thing is something a..."
"A feather!!!?" She exclaimed in realization. "Maybe it's a giant bird monster... nesting her eggs!" She spoke on her mind. Her heart beat starts to beat fast and she seemingly uncomfortable.
She heard a little grunt behind the grass, moaning in pain, and about to catch a breath. "Help." It is a manly voice trying to voice out in his life and death situation.
When she heard that it sound human, and about to die from her thought, she immediately run over the grasses and looked for him. " Where are you?!!" She was disperately searching him. She didn't care about what would come to happen, 'cause she had only thought the life of a man asking for help.
When Ellica saw boldly on her two eyes about the fallen object, she was frightened and felt nervous. She saw a man laid down on the grass wounded with a sword still stabbed him. But it is not just a man that could make her frightened more, it is because, the man she saw was a winged human being. It is like a human bird.
"Whoa!!! Ah a monster!!!" She was prattled, but when a man saw her, he ask her hand to hold him.
"Help me." He had so many blood on his body and other splashed on his wings that turned red. The sword were releasing a magic like a black smoke that caused him to suffer more in pain. He grunted more and his voice were so low.
"What are you?!!!" She asked but her heart were breaking while observing the situation of a man.
"Please." His voice were more lowered.
"Ok.. ok..." She instantly said. 'what am I supposed to do!!' She thought. The only thing she thought on her mind to do first is to remove the sword on his waist. "Ok! Ok!, just hold on!"
She handled the sword to grab it from his body thrusting so deep and very severely. She was shaking and it was so traumatic for her to get the sword in a man's body. "Ow, I can't do this!" She said.
"Please." The man only wish for her to help him, so he held her hand begging for help. "I know you can do this." The man said. His wing's feathers were gradually withered and weakening.
"Don't worry... I...I will." She said, making herself strong but still she is shaking. She hold both with her hand the handle of a sword to grab it as fast as she could.
'I will help you no matter what it might be going through!.' she dignified her self and she pulled the sword. She confidently removed the sword covered by a magical black spell. She felt burning on her hands during the time she hold and grab the sword on his body. The man moaned softly as relieved from the sword.
"My hands..." She pained and she threw the sword away, then she clutches both of her hands. But she more concerned to the man after she removed the sword. She saw the blood running on his waist.
"Don't sleep!" She panic. "Oh no! The blood is still running!"
She tore her dress to have a bondage for his wound to stop the blood. The man still breathing but his consciousness were fading. "Don't die!!" She shouted intentionally to make him still awake.
Being a hunter, medical kit will never be separated from them, so she took her small bag and apply those medicines on his wound, then she bondage the wounded part of his body. The man have the chance to recover if she would help him but in her situation she must leave in the forest to go back home. And she can't bring the man in her father's kingdom since it is a supernatural being.
The man had fell asleep due to the pain, but he is now okay, just his strength were lost due to the power of the spell. She worried if she would leave him alone in the forest, and if she would stay, her father might know that she was skipping in the palace.
'If I would leave him here, no one could protect him from wild animals' she thought. 'I could not bring him near to the people. He have wings.'
Ellica's eyes running to the sleeping man observing from the wings to face. The man's face were perfectly shaped, an angelic, and very masculine. The hair were black and golden with curly form.
She saw how prominent his chest, she believes that he is strong man, especially how the muscles were formed, he was typically a very physically gifted.
'what am I doing?' she snapped, she found herself staring to the man very sticky.
"Wait.. why he have wings?" She asked soundly. She thought he was an angel fell on earth, but she realized that, why he was stabbed? Her mind continued to formulate a deeper questions that she herself could not answer the questions.
"I think my mind will blow away!!!" She said.
The sky were getting darker, the place were surrounded by unknown sounds of creature in the forest. Some noise were made of nature such as the winds, trees, and rivers.
' I decided not to leave him alone in this forest!'.
She made a tiny camp made of woods and large leaves, and grasses. Then a bonfire for their light, and warmth.
' I think it would be enough for one night stay, tomorrow I would return home... Without him.'