Forbidden Forest
By: Kasey and Morgan
The Leaf
In the adventurer to seek out in the forest had become always what I wanted to see as a little child. I always wanted to seek around the forest but mom would never let me. She said that the forest was forbidden because a creature that lived in one of the trees was very dangerous. Now I can and find this so called creature! As I started walking from the house to the bridge in front of the Forbidden Forest, I became startled after the few minutes due to the rushing feelings; mom telling me that it was so forbidden that a lot of people had died there. The legend goes that once you walk on the Forbidden Forest, you doomed your life upon the forest. As I continued walking still startled; trying to calm as I go, beginning to wonder. "Maybe, it's just a myth." As I walked onto the bridge, a large splash coming out of the water, not knowing what it was, I had to go see what happened. I walked over to the edge of the bridge and a fish popped out at me! "AHHH!" I screamed.
Jumping back quickly, as it smiled at me and went back into the lake. I continued following the path from the bridge into the deep scary forest. I see a leaf from one of the trees about to fall off while the wind blowing hard and fast, ripping the leaf right off the tree branch. The leaf coming right at my face as I dodged it, watching it passes my head. I stopped and looked around. Wondering how come that other tree's leaf didn't fall off?
"Hmmm..." I asked myself and went over to inspect the tree. The tree leaf was duck tapped! "How can this be?" I said. Clueless, I looked around again. None of the other trees leafs were tapped off. Still looking around, I felt as if someone was watching me! "Who, what, who's there?!" I asked the Forbidden Forest. No answer. I took out my journal from my backpack I had carryed, just to make sure I didn't need or inspect anything. But for this, I had too. I drew the tree into my journal then I drew the leaf that was tapped onto the tree. I closed my journal, continued walking and the feeling of someone watching me. I wanted to stay on my personal best effort. Making sure no one would attack me, I had my weapon ready. An army swift knife, a foot long "I know this will kill someone if someone attacked me." I said.
Behind one of the trees while I was walking, something jumped at me! A black bob cat came out of the blue with a friend. The black bob cat jumped and attacked me. I was obviously on the ground while the black bob cat was on top of me. While flipping the black bob cat over my shoulders, I realized that the symbol on the bob cats belly is shaped of a devil horn. From my adrenaline pumping, trying to get away, rushing through the forest trees and branches; I finally get to the end of the Forbidden Forest, throwing my lighter from my backpack into the forest. While looking back, the flame shoots up, rising quickly and the smoke was rushing as I breathe heavy. As I turned around, the worlds have changed right in front of me. I’m now in a different world than before.
Once I have turned around, I was in a city. I am on the road while lights coming underneath my feet! I quickly scampered over to the side-walk and continued to walk. I knew I didn’t have a lot of items since the bob cats have attacked me. However, I stopped on the sideway and took out my backpack. In the front pocket, I rushed my hand because I didn’t know it was there before. I unzipped it and there was $300 dollars there! My eyes grew wide hiding it, so none of my bystanders knew I had money. I saw the nearest bartender shop. I walked in, went to the table and sat down. The bartender walked by and stood in front of me. I asked her for a job, where she is working. She went to go ask the boss and came back. She looked at me with very red eyes, full in fact. I was shocked by her eyes and the thing she said to me was “How can you’re kind be here! You’re not allowed here!” She asked one of the guards something, I didn’t quite understand. The guard came running at me and threw me over his shoulders! He then walked outside from the door I used when I walked in. He threw me on the ground and mumbled something. But all I could understand was “Stay out or your de-“I layed there on the ground of the property of the bartender’s shop. I became bleeding from the cheek as I tried to feel it. I was cut, but I didn’t know why or how I was cut. As my blood dripped from my face to the piece of grass, I watched it slowly sinking into the ground while it being on the piece of grass into the ground. From it being sinking into the ground, I stood up and got back onto the sidewalk. It started raining with very dark blue drips. I looked up and started crying. From the rain, my blood and my tears, I was very much in pain.
The Homeless Guy
I saw a homeless guy under this bridge I have come across from walking. I went up to talk to him. He stopped from me talking and stared at me. He slightly turned his head, in a creepy looking way, he stop turning up and then down, he says “Well, well you need a house my dear? Well, let’s come go find one…” Then laughed with a weird tone to it, he suddenly pulled me into a new world with a house, wife, children, job, and some drawings. I didn’t know what the drawings were for, but I looked at them from the kitchen table, anyway. From my backpack, I unzipped the larger part of it and took out my journal. I compared and contrasted them because they looked a lot like mine. I was curious and found out that the old man had died a long time ago. He was hit on the side in his wheel chair by a car. Both people had died and the souls went to the Forbidden Forest, to live their second life. I continued drawing what had happened in my adventure, each scene I have experienced.
The Key
But the drawings had something to do with the worlds I kept falling into, possibly a key to get back home. I figured as such doing research and finding out if it was a possibly; an artist drawing to save her/his life? How? From my research on the computers, books, and the drawings I have now has possession of, I looked through them clearly and the drawings had symbols in them. So, the new page on my journal I have created a map key symbol area to help me grid to what does this stand for? A bird, fox, bob cat, leaf, and the old man. While I was done finishing it, the old man came over to the table and looked at me again. I was shocked but confused at the same time. I thought “Why does this man keep looking at me weird? Why does he always have red-ish and green like eyes?” I stood up and ran out the door from where he stood. I went into the car; I had gotten from the old man, and continued my way to work. My job was to ring people up at the store called “Birdy Forty” Once I got there and got out of the car. I went inside and looked around for where I needed to work. I walked over, placed my bag by my feet, and started to clean my tables and my register. Someone came into the store I had been working at from 9am until now. I thought I knew him but I wasn’t sure. I continued working while the other coworkers were talking and eating. Once the man was ready, he walked over to my line and checked out. While walking out of the store, he dropped something, a notebook. I quickly ran over and picked it up. I raised my hand with the book in it and yelled for the man. But the man was too far ahead. I opened the book and looked inside. It had my understanding of the symbols. Once I was done with work, I quickly walked home and went to sit on the chair by the kitchen table. I opened my journal and found that the bird meant “Find your way to live your life with one letter of the ABC’s. This one is the letter S.” I looked through the book that was earlier dropped and I found the fox symbol, which said. “I was happy but now it has ended. This letter is the letter T.” Looked again and found the rest. “Bob cat… do do doo… Hmm…” I said. “Bob cat is here.” I pointed to the shape and read it to myself. Not believing what I just read. I read it again and it did say what I thought it said. Which read: “You’re going to die in 3 days. This letter is A.” Next animal was the… WAIT; a leaf isn’t an animal. However, from the Forbidden Forest it was the bob cat, Hmm, Just A or another letter? So, I wrote these letters down in my journal: STA_ and continued. “The old man is your own dad. This letter is the letter from the fox.” I looked over from where I began it was a T. I marked it down and became curious. It has to be a word so it must be… Start. But, Start what? There’s more here but I don’t understand … So the old man comes up behind me and whispers in my ear “Start To Die is the code”