"Her name is Christina and she is the key to hell. They have sent her to run as far as she can to bring no trouble to our lands." A wolf began to step forward out of the trees. "Dante you know of this for sure. There could be no mistakes?" "No Raven, there are no mistakes she is the last witch of the Castle's line. She is their prophecy." The wolf was Dante the man who I had met with Dominick. "Christina you have our blessings to pass through, we shall also help you with supplies. We do not wish for trouble and we do not wish for hell on earth either. So we shall provide you with a horse, supplements to eat and drink and also a blanket to sleep on when you need to. Our forest animals and creatures will look after you from a distance as best as we can. There is no way we can interfere because it would only corrupt the army we have built. I am sure there will be other ways we can help. There is no time for thank you, you must take everything we have given you and go the wind blows north a hunter is coming."
I hopped up on my beautiful horse and placed my bags in the holster. "Before I leave please tell me if the hunter catches me what is the conclusion?" Dante came forward in human form again and handed me a home crafted knife "hide this somewhere accessible it's from Dominick, the only outcome if you are caught is to be taken back to the town and killed. Your bloodshed is the key to opening the gate." As he finished answering my question he slapped the horse's rear and I was jolted forward almost flying through the forest.
How would this hunter find me, what is it that they use to track me? If only I knew what they would be using to track me I could possibly create a diversion. Dominick sent me a knife so the hunter must be just human. And I still didn't even know all of the information about myself. I am a witch what are my weaknesses. I started pulling the reins on my horse so that it would slow down.
I had no idea what ways to go or which ways to turn and it seemed like the day didn't want to end but I couldn't handle the bumps on my butt from riding the horse all day. I thought it would have been smarter to stop and rest a bit. If the hunter was close enough to catch me he would have had me by now. I pulled the horse over to a tree by the creek to tie him up. The bag the creatures had provided me contained great quantities for such a small bag. There was bread, a hand crafted cup to drink with that was enough for me to stop looking though. Water is exactly what I wanted. The water felt so nice on my throat, being all choked up made it so dry. …..
"Ivy this is nonsense if I want to go after her I should be able too. How would I going after her allow them to know about are army?" "Dominick I will not argue this any further with you, you cannot go after her why must you continue to get blown up regarding this. That girl could be the end of our world and you want to save her. That is disgusting, we should have killed her when she was here, but I look forward to the war if they catch her." "You do not understand Ivy! I observed her for the weeks she was here, I heard her thoughts and I saw her dreams. She cannot be destroyed she means even more than being the key to hell. She brings life to nature and love. I'm going after her."
"Dominick if you leave these premises after her I will have you hunted down and killed before you even get to her." "Do your worst Ivy." Dominick didn't even give the satisfaction of Ivy having a final word; he took off with the wind following Christina's scent. "Dante, Monique go seek him out and kill him. I want his body brought back to me in pieces." "But Ivy he is one of ours, why can't we just bring him back." "He left us for her kill him!"
Monique, a skilled bowman and also an elf stood five feet tall exactly, had short spiky blond hair and very pale fair skin. Her eyes were crystal clear and her ears were at least half a size longer then her head. Together, Dante and she would have to work to kill Dominick and neither of them were happy about it. Dominick was their own and really wasn't doing anything wrong. Monique however, would never disobey an order she was more hell bound on killing Dominick then Dante was. Dante knew he would be spending the tracking time considering a plan to not kill Dominick. …..
Laying against a large oak tree next to the little creak was relaxing. Relaxing to the point that I knew I would fall asleep anytime so I had to get up. But something strange happened when my hands touched the ground I could hear thuds as if someone was stomping on the ground nearby. I pulled away and then touched with both hands and closed my eyes. Through the darkness of my eye lids a picture formed it was Eric, he was running through the same forest that I had been
Running through.
I tore my horse free from the tree and hopped on kicking my legs off the side to get the horse set off. I left everything behind me the blanket and the food bag Eric would definitely know he is on the right path now. I knew from everything that was going on that obviously the whole town was crazy but hadn't imagined him being that way, and yet instead he is worse, he is a hunter and is hunting me.
Now I was getting furious and started to shout at the top of my lungs "why the hell me, what did I ever do. What mom? Dad? You couldn't have given me some sort of sign or notice that I was as bad as the antichrist?" And at the exact moment I finished my sentence a down poor started and thunder began to rumble. "Great because that is so much more help. Let's go horse pick up the pace." I belted the side of the horse again and we shot off.