As we walked down to the river I noticed there was a giant waterfall, the water was a deep bluish-green, as the sound of the falls rushing into the river like loud rain, the trees around seemed to have the most beautiful colour green leaves I have ever seen. As well as all the things that belonged to wildlife.　　Ariel began getting undressed without warning and I awkwardly looked away. She slowly made it into the water as she tested the coolness of it. Ariel let out a vocal sigh as she laid her head back, the water enveloping her body, and the blood flowed with the water as well.The moonlight from above luminated her pale skin and darkened her black hair.She looked just like a painting.　　I sat down with my back still towards her as she laid in the ever-flowing water.　　"I'm not sure what happened, but if you need to talk I'm here," I said softly watching the clouds bleed in the dark sky. 　　I closed my eye's as the breeze touched my face ever so softly, the sound of deep sobbing ca

I shook my head at his jokes as I slid my hand down to the hilt of my blade making sure it's still there and secure, it was.Getting to my feet and stretching the kinks out of my back, I yawned loudly my arms up into the summery breeze. We were almost out of the mountains, it might take three or four more hours before we finally get into the clearing.　　"So if you know where we are going, Where to next?" I asked with my hands on my hips.　　Merlin took out a large tooth, the one from the orc and held it out towards us. I took it as he reached into the pocket of his robe, and brought out the parchment he was writing on before.　　"Powdered Orc tooth was on the list, so now we must go to the elven kingdom to get one leaf from the tree of life," Merlin explained.　　"The tree of life? I thought it was just a myth," Ariel said in awe.　　"So you heard of it then, so I don't have to explain it?" Merlin questioned.　　"Actually, I don't know what it is..." I muttered.　　"The tree of life is a sy

We got closer towards the old rickety fence there was a gate bound with chains, I barely touched the iron bars and the gate opened wide, I looked at the others and shrugged from their overly accusing stares. 　　Walking in, I have noticed everything was falling apart, the stone that held up their homes seem to be decaying and turning into rubble, straw and clay falling away from the roof's as we slowly walked in further taking in our surroundings. It felt like desperation, sadness and despair a smell that was so sickly and sweet with the decay of flesh filled our noses, inside this sad little village. Time seemed to slow down, and just breathing the air made me sick. 　　The air felt thick the deeper we went the more I wanted to leave, wiping the sweat from my brow, I've noticed Aemeon wiping away tears from his eyes as he reminisced what had happened here.　　"Our village was dying, I wanted her to come with me. But she hated me, she had every reason to I couldn't save her mother but I

“I don't believe that, I think your only saying that so I don't worry. " Ariel explained in a huff.　　"So what if I am, at some point everything will be fine so threes no reason to fret over it," I replied.　　"Now Lucas, that may be true but we are here to help you; To follow your lead as to say." Merlin quickly reminded.　　"I get that but-," I got cut short.　　"Merlin is right, how are we supposed to help if you don't tell us the problem?" Aemeon recalled.　　Sighing I let go of Ariel's hand they don't seem to understand..Or maybe its I that don't understand how do I know this isn't some crazy spell like with the mad villagers that lost their sanity, what if I'm still in the village and I lost all sense.We snake through the treants, which I have now learned they can smell fear so we stayed as calm as we could. The small dagger in my belt as a reminder.　　In front of us is a rickety bridge that looks as if could go for miles the only thing holding it in place is a rope and pieces of

We creaked open the large gates as white mist surrounded us where we could see as if everything had been erased onto a blank canvas, nor could we see each other, other then the clasp of our hands together.We took another step and suddenly all the mist had been gone as if it had never been there to begin with.　　"Magic is weird." I noted to myself out loud.Ariel didn't reply, just gasped what she saw before her. I looked where she was gawking at and realized what was before us.If I didn't know better I would have thought there was a fight to the death in the trees.Unfortunately we both knew what truly happened here, the treants finally had their flesh filled meal.The image was nauseating, and this time they have not been swallowed whole. Instead it was a tortured act among the tree-people-eating monsters.One guy, over weight and hair loss, had his eyes wide open, there were no color in his eyes, white and life less.His mouth and chin covered in his own spattered blood.His body