Chapter Two

The rays of the shone directly and almost blinded Alirea's sapphire blue colored eyes, and she had blinked her eyes several times before managing to stand up and look around where she was.

Her injured shoulder was already healed, and she could feel energetic and strong as if she had eaten a very healthy breakfast.

There where tall green trees around her, and then she remembered. 'Oh the forest!' she remembered how her parents were murdered cold bloodedly in the war yesterday.

And she checked the ground and saw her sister lying in the ground with her eyes closed, Alirea could see her sister's back, the arrow was still inside her back with black clothed blood all around it.

Seeing the arrow inside Akira's back hurts Alirea so badly, the poisonous object would just keep on spreading the virus inside her body, and Alirea ought to remove the it from her back.

Tears fell off her eyes when she bent to remove the arrow, her sister would have probably shouted if she was awake and was in such pain, but since she was asleep, she wouldn't feel the pain.

After removing the arrow from Akira back, Alirea dug the ground and buried it inside.

She was going to look for a cure in any kingdom, or villages nearby. But her dress was badly torn and wet, even her hair was tangled and her beautiful white skin was pale.

How was she supposed to move on with such a bad dress and appearance.

However, she remembered something very special that would help her, and that was her magic. It had been very useful to her, and even when she was still living happily in the palace, she always used her mysterious but sweet ice magic, and despite her parents warning, she just couldn't resist.

She use to make beautiful dresses with her magic, she designs a lot of dresses and veils for herself, she added beautiful pearls to it in order to make it look flashy.

Alirea hid under the shade of an extremely large tree, she wanted to look around to ensure that nobody was watching but she remembered that she was in the forest. 'Oh whatever'

And with the wave of her wrist, blue sparkly light surrounded her body and she was already wearing a turquoise colored gown and yellow veil. The veil covered half of her face, this would prevent people from recognizing her.

There is apparently no magic to help her carry her sister, so she was just going to carry her sister herself.

And walked gently from the forest.

Waters dropped from each leaves of the trees in the forest, while the yellow sun was smiling warmly at them.

After walking a few meters from the forest, Alirea caught the scent of something, and she turned back to look there.

"Wow" It was the most beautiful place she had ever saw, there were beautiful flowers, trees with fresh fruits,and what caught her attention the most was the apple tree which was at the other end of the garden, Alirea stomach churned and her mouth watered, she instantly motioned to get one of those red apples that shone like rubies, but quickly remembered and she stopped herself. 'This was a forest right?' She wondered, how could they be a garden all of a sudden? Nah never mind, she was going to taste one of those apples, and even if she was going to die, she would die with a happy stomach.

Alirea walked inside the garden and was mesmerized by the beauty of the place.

There was a small shiny lake there and even two white swans swam on top of it.

The strange garden was much more beautiful than the one they had back home. And she instantly laid her sister under a short but fat tree, the ground of the garden was covered in green grasses so there was obviously no insects that was going to sting her sister.

As she walked near the apple tree, she saw a shiny object that gleamed in the sun like gold.

'What is that?' She thought.

The curios princess was determined to see what it was but she would see it after she had eaten one of these delicious apples. And she strike a part of the tree with a long ice with sharp edge, and an apple fell from the tree and dropped in her hand.

Then she left the apple tree, to see the shiny object, but alas it was a sword.

"A sword!?" She spoke aloud, "This is strange"

But she picked up the sword and looked at it's edges, it was a new sword.

'Nah, I'm going to keep it, I need something for protection anyway' She also took the sword with her and continued to eat her apple.

She wanted to roam the garden and see if there was a place that she could stay.

She found a small beautiful tree house, the tree house was not so big, but it was enough for both of them, there where nothing much big inside it, a small table, with two glass cups and a small chair made out of woods. She opened the table, and she saw a paper inside it, she took the paper and opened the first page, it was nothing but a painting of a bottle with blue lid, with an inscription in which she read as. «The red potion could cure all virus »

The red potion? Alirea remembered something like that, her mother used to tell her something about it. The red potion is a very rare drug made out of rare fruits, and it only belonged to the people of carish.

Does it mean that she can find the potion to cure her sister, to prevent her from dying? she was highly determined to.

She went out of the tree house to where her sister was and carried her inside. Then perhaps her sister would be safe here till she return.

But the problem was, who owns this place, and the tree house? she can't leave her sister here without been sure of who owns it?

She decided to get up and look around, the place and perhaps get more apples.

Alirea loved the scent of beautiful white flowers, the place looked like paradise that colorful birds flew around along with shiny blue and silver colored butterflies.

Alirea smiled forgetting all her pains and she looked cheerful once again.

The sky was blue, and the flowers added color to the scene, a big rainbow was there as well. And she walked from each flower to flower to inhale their beautiful scent.

She had spent almost two hours smiling and jumping in the garden, not until she heard a horse neighed and she came back to her senses.

She was running as fast as she could back to the tree house and looked very nervous, she was asking herself one question.

"Who owns that horse? Who is that?

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