Somewhere, in an unknown forest where trees are taller than many skyscrapers, a handsome, good-looking boy wearing a black leather jacket was standing with a lost look on his face.
The boy was, of course, Astrick... He was about to pick up the mask when he suddenly felt his head spinning before his vision changed into this weird forest, he didn't know what in the world was happening but he was sure that the mask was responsible for it since he had that weird feeling about it.
Observing his surroundings Astrick couldn't notice anything unusual, which was unusual in itself as what a person expects from a forest is to see wild animals, snakes and many other things...
But this one... This one had no kind of life other than plants and trees...
After double-checking his surroundings for one more time, Astrick decided to look around to see if there was anything that could help him find his way out of this weird place...
Even though being suddenly thrown into nowhere, Astrick felt oddly calm as if he knew this place was of no threat to him, but he didn't want unexpected stuff to happen so he raised his guard as he reached for his sword to mark his way around the forest in case he got lost...
But that's when he realized, his sword was nowhere to be found...
This made Astrick finally panic a little as it was already bad enough being thrown in the middle of nowhere all out of a sudden but being thrown in the middle of nowhere with no weapons...
Leaving a long tired sigh, Astrick dragged his feet heading to no place in particular, he picked up a random rock using it to mark trees in case he got lost.
Moving throughout the forest Astrick has a strange feeling about the place, it was way too quiet here even when animals weren't living in this forest for some reason.
After what he assumed to be a few hours, Astrick was finally able to see something new and different to what he was catching sight of for the past few hours.
In the sky above him which he can barely catch a glimpse of as the trees weren't allowing him to get that much sight of it, a black crow was cawing while it seemed to be heading somewhere...
Astrick didn't want to be alone again without any lead of some sort, so he decided to follow the black crow wherever it was heading.
But even after hours of moving the crow had no sign of stopping for one second, it didn't even take any rest and kept moving through the forest as if it had endless stamina...
That made Astrick realize that this wasn't a normal crow, as even he who is in the demonic rank is starting to feel a bit tired...
Just as Astrick was thinking that following the crow was a waste of time he started hearing the sounds of a waterfall as he noticed the black crow heading down towards the ground, Astrick felt happy and for some reason he didn't know, he felt... Excited?
Getting towards a seemingly open area where the crow was landing, Astrick took a deep breath preparing himself for any unexpected situations that might happen, he wasn't sure what scene he will be met with but he promised himself that he'll try his best to retain his composer in any situation...
Walking through the trees to where the crow was landing, Astrick saw it entering a big dark cave... The cave was completely dark as not a single bit of light seemed to be shining on it.
Seeing the crow enter the cave Astrick thought to himself with a sarcastic smile on his face walking towards the cave's entrance.
'Big dark cave where I can't see sh*t, I wonder what could go wrong...'
Walking through the cave's entrance a wave of wind blew by flapping his hair over his eyes and blocking his vision a little...
Using his hand to get it away from his eyes, Astrick walked forward barely without falling on his face, realizing he was unable to see anything in this weird cave and his sense of sight was useless in here, he closed his eyes attempting to raise his other enhanced senses of a demonic ranked human and use them to understand his surroundings.
Moving through the cave's crooked floor, Astrick almost fell on sharp stones that were sticking out of the floor multiple times, and though they wouldn't kill him, they'd still hurt him pretty badly.
After a few minutes of walking around the cave, he finally found some sort of an empty lighted area, or so he thought as the area wasn't empty at all...
As soon as his foot touched the area's floor hundreds of small eyes turned towards him, there were so many of them that Astrick was sure he couldn't count them even if he had an entire hour to do so...
The eyes belonged to animals like crows, moths, owls, there were even black cats as well as bats all smushed together in the same area...
After a moment of staring into each other like they could see each other's souls, the animals seemed to go crazy as they all jumped towards Astrick drowning him in their huge numbers...
Unable to move a single muscle and being pushed all over the place Astrick's mind was trying its best to find a way out of this but no matter how hard it tried to find a solution, it was incapable of discovering any...
And as he was trying his best to get a bit of control over his body he started feeling dizzy and his ability of thinking was getting slower and slower as his vision started to get foggy...
'Breath... I'm running out of breath... I need oxygen... '
Those were Astrick's last thoughts before his vision went back to the forest outside...
*Cough*cough
Coughing a couple of times as he was trying to catch his breath back, this terrible experience will probably be stuck in his memory for a long time...
But even though he got sent back out to the forest, Astrick knew that this was somewhere he still haven't found yet as he could see something unusual in the distance...
A few meters away in the middle of the forest, there was a small wooden house...
Astrick felt the same as when he was about to enter that shop like something was calling him inside...
Whether he should listen to the invitation or not was still unknown...
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