Chapter Three •Greg and Chloe•

It took a couple of minutes before greg could regain his consciousness. As he sat up, he scratched his eyes and noticed he wasn't in the old garage, rather outside a weird forest. He managed to get up to have a better view of where he was. He was shocked to discover the sky was rather different than the one he grew to know. The Trees were really odd looking and the grasses were rather more spiky than normal weeds. "where am i?" He whispered, totally askew. Then the bush about a few meters from him began ruffling. startled, he asked "who's there?". He then noticed the feminine figure rising amongst the bushes. "where the hell am i?" she asked, dusting her clothes while staring upwards. "chloe?" Greg called, in mild confusion. "Greg? Holy Christ. what have you done? where is this?" she asked as she noticed greg. "i honestly do not know. its weird 'cause this doesn't look like Earth" He replied, bending over to scoop some soil. it was really cold and eigengrau colored. "It surely isn't Earth" He finally said, pouring the soil back to the ground. "Maybe we check the area" he added. "What?! we don't even know where we are talk less of know where we're going to" chloe interjected, putting her hands on her waist. "if we don't leave here, we won't know where this is" greg said, picking up his little bag "at least, this followed us" he added, raising the bag midway. "oh boy. lets go then" chloe finally agreed, walking closer to greg.

They walked for about an hour before greg caught sight of a little house. it looked really old and it was thatched. The weird part was that the Thatch looked newly placed but there was no sign of anyone except the ponies few meters away from the house. "Oh my goodness. my eyes have got to be decieving me!" Chloe exclaimed "Its Unicorns!" she added, staring totally at the creatures. She wanted to move towards it but greg held her hand. The feeling of holding her sent shivers down his spine but he maintained stability. "What do you wanna do?" He asked, looking at her. she turned back at him, looking back, straight into his deep blue eyes and replied "i wanna touch them, probably take a picture"

"we don't know how they got there neither do we know who resides in that cottage. we can't go there. at least, for Now"

"Why? 'cause you're the boss of me?" she said, chuckling.

"No, not that. I don't want to lose you just yet" Greg answered, letting go off her before he crouched again. The statement came as a shock to chloe but she did her best acting normal. No one ever made her feel so special especially not from a guy she just started talking to. "Alright then" she finally said, crouching close to greg. Her mind was in thought about the words which made her looked at him a couple of times. Greg noticed her stare but he didn't budge as he kept staring at the cottage.

"Someone's coming out" Greg spoke out, breaking the semi - romantic moment. she moved her gaze towards the cottage, amazed by the green, long eared figure that came out of the cottage . it looked quite tall but rough, long haired, had huge canines, really muscular and thick leg calfs. "That's one large monster" chloe said, almost in a whisper. The unknown creature walked towards the unicorns and brought one out of the pack. He then stooped, and milked the unicorn. "They drink Their milk??" Chloe said again. greg was getting a little bit fed up by her always talking but he kept mute, watching the creature do it's thing.

Suddenly, the creature stood upright and then started sniffing the air loudly. Greg froze immediately. it was quite dark as it was almost dawn making it hard for chloe to see what the creature was doing. As the creature looked straight at the side where they hid, Greg pulled Chloe up and started running. she followed suit, not knowing why he was running. it wasn't until she started hearing the loud thuds behind her which seemed to be running steps did she get to know what was actually happening. The creature was after them. "Come on! Run faster!" Greg shouted, noticing the space between him and Chloe. He had to slow down and grab her left hand.The Creature Finally caught up to them, then finally grabbed chloe by the waist to which chloe screamed in terror. Greg, who was holding Chloe's hand, fell to the floor. He quickly got up, trying to fight back but the creature was faster.It then Hit greg on the face, making him dizzy. As he laid on the floor, he looked up once more as Chloe's voice faded just before he gave in to abstract unconsciousness

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Almost about two hours, Greg finally woke up. "Oh Boy. Damn" He said, rubbing his head. "Chloe? Chloe?" He called out before he remembered what had happened. He took her, He thought, getting up really fast than normal. he picked his bag, dusted it and crossed it around his shoulder. He started walking towards the place be found the cottage, he saw Chloe's shoe. He picked it up, stared at it for a while and kept going. walking quite slowly, he rubbed his chin, still feeling the pain of the painful blow the creature had given him.

finally, he got there. still hiding between bushes, he stared at the cottage to which the unicorns weren't outside anymore. The fat door of the cottage, which was left ajar, seemed to have been broken from the upper hinge. He slowly crept out of the bush and started tiptoeing towards the back of the cottage, making sure no a single step he made had no sound. Just before he got to the back, he saw a horned viper, which was rather longer than the one he had seen in the science fair last three years. "Holy molly?!" He shrieked in a low voice. the snake, raising its head in a defensive pattern, had a mouthful of venom in its fangs which dripped as it opened its mouth. Greg then took a little rod beside him and almost as the snake made a charge towards him, he hit it with the rod which had some barbs around it. He then continued hitting the viper until he was assured it was dead. "Bloody Things everywhere" He whispered, in deep annoyance.

Dropping the rod in utter silence, He continued walking towards the back of the building. The windows of the cottage were high from the ground and the only way to look thru was climbing the rough walls of the cottage. Just as he reached the window, He peeped through and saw two others of the same creature he had seen before just that One was significantly a female and the other, a kid. "They shouldn't be hard to fight" he thought, satisfied that the height of the baby creature was a little shorter than him. He then charged from the window at the kid, to which they both rolled over and over. Gaining upper hand, he gave the creature a punch which, he did with all his might. the creature staggered back and greg at quick pace, hearing the footsteps of the mother, jumped at the back lf the little creature, crossing a large thorn he picked on the ground, over the neck of the creature. "Sückthea mëdichbeth?!" the larger creature cried out, kneeling before Greg. "Speak english!" Greg yelled, breathing heavily but satisfied by the triumph he had gained. "Crückti mëdubïatän, sacthümächh" She said, still crouched before him.noticing they weren't of the same language, He brought out Chloe's shoe from his Little bag then waved it at her. "Where is she?" He asked. She then pointed outside, then pointed forward. "Süth" She replied, bowing again. He simply accepted that, that should mean South. He let go of the little creature, moving towards the door then took an axe he saw at the door side.

outside, there was one unicorn tied to a bamboo which was buried deep into the soil. He managed to cut the animal loose and climbing on it, he used the quite long hair of the unicorn as its reins.