Elemental Beast of the Forest (2)

When she looks around she can't help herself but to keep her eyes open as if she doesn't want to miss every single part of the place. It was indeed a fascinating and magical sight, she can't even imagine for her entire life that this kind of place existed. As if she was inside a fairytale setting. A field filled with beautiful flowers of every kind and color aside from the fact that their natural fragrance was surrounding the whole place that makes it more fascinating. There were also butterflies that were glowing of different colors flying around.

The playful colors of the skies from orange to red, added a magical feel to such scenery.

"Well, you need to wake up Vivian. This place where an elemental beast lives, don't expect to be normal." Vivian said while she was still looking around as she was still enjoying the scenery, until her gaze landed on the ancient stone table that was in the middle of the field. She stopped a few seconds to look at it then she started to walk again but for now she made sure that it was carefully towards the tablet, in which she needed to be careful not to step on any flowers.

"So this is it, " Then she looked everywhere. "Why it looks a bit weird because it seems like I don't see any magical beast here. Is he somewhere else? Or am I in the wrong place again?"

Vivian returned her gaze to the Stone Tablet. It was around eight feet taller. There were also different symbols written to it from the top to the bottom. As if a part of a very important and detailed history was written on it.

But Vivian couldn't understand the symbols on the stone tablet.

Ding.

[Congratulations! You found one of twelve fragments of the ancient constellations.]

"This!" Vivian was surprised to see a different reaction of the system. Then her eyes narrowed with the following notice of the system.

[Analysis of the Ancient Constellation Language would now begin.]

After a few minutes.

[Analysis complete.]

[Records of the Analysis will now be transferred to the Host's Memories.]

Vivian stepped back as memories flashed in her mind. Memories that definitely didn't belong to her. It was followed by terrible pain. As the memories started to flash on her head she could feel her head cracking down.

*

" Everything was completely a mess in my life. I have lived my life alone in the darkness. I don't know how I came here, nor was I even born here. When my consciousness came to be, only darkness came to my sight. Is this my karma or was it just part of my destiny? What is the purpose of being here where all I can see is darkness? There were a lot of questions that kept lingering in my head."

"I don't know how long I have stayed at such a place. Until I finally heard something. Something different, something magical that I can;t even explain what it made me feel inside of my body. It was a strange feeling at first, since I don't know other sounds other than silence."

"However, that strange feeling of sound was sweet and serene as if it was calling unto me. No, it was indeed calling me."

"With nothing to do in this endless darkness, I followed that sound, the sound that made me feel safe. I don't know how much time had passed, but I kept following that sound. From that moment, another feeling started to surge inside me."

" I know to myself that If I found that sound, I might be able to see other things other than darkness. It was really called me and no one knows what I really truly feel inside when I hear it but only me, only myself."

"And as I keep following those sounds. It gives me a feeling of accomplishment because after all of those things I was right."

"I indeed see something different and that difference will definitely change my life completely."

"I saw a light. Finally, throughout my life I've been waiting this to happen to me. Lighting a single puddle of water among the eternal darkness. The frequency here was healing, serene and calm that really brings so much hope within me. And from that moment, I saw myself for the first time in the puddle of water. I don't know how I came to know what a reflection is, or what a puddle of water means. But I just know and I didn't care that much either."

"For the first time I saw something different. I saw myself. What I really look like. I have ten limbs. And I have a beautiful red color."

"While I am amazed of my own self, a voice called out. Strangely, even though it was the first time I heard a language spoken to me, I can completly understand it and it really makes me feel happy."

"A crab? Why is it showing me a crab?"

"His voice was not pleased at all. And I could understand that it was mixed with rudeness. I don't know why he was calling me a crab. But maybe if he said that, that was what my real identity was."

"Thinking that, I was a bit overjoyed knowing that I have an identity."

"He was a bit rude, but he was the first friend I made, and the interesting part here is I was his first friend as well."

*

[Records of the Constellation Cancer have been passed to the host.]

[The hosts have collected 1/12 fragments of the ancient constellation.]

[If the host collects all the fragments, the truth of the world would be revealed to the host.]

Vivian suddenly fell on the ground as the memories that were playing in her head were finally over.

" Ahh!" She can't help herself but to groan out loud due to the unexpected pain that she was feeling.

Gasp. She touched her chest, and tried to catch her breath. The pain in her head was subsiding.

"Ahhhh" however another painful sensation hit her that made the groan much louder. She touched her left shoulder and tore the sleeves. This time her eyes widened, when some symbol was carved there.

A symbol of a crab. Or more like the constellation of Cancer. " Wait what the…What is the meaning of this?" She gritted her teeth as she endured the pain. She took deep breaths as she tried to scrub away the symbol. However, whatever she does, it couldn't be removed.

"Ancient Constellations? Fragments?" She tried to crack her memories to see if there was anything related to the game. However, there was no such thing. These stone tablets that were described in the game, were simply a landmark either to important places or the elemental beasts territories. Not even the heroine nor any other characters also knew about the meaning of these ancient languages.

"Wait there is one… But the game didn't mention it since the game was focused more on the romance and growth of the heroine and saving everyone from the Midnight Allures."

Vivian stood up. 'First, the system talks about the destruction of the world.'

'And now the next thing is something about the truth of the world.' Vivian looked at the sky that was already dark. 'Just what in the world did you bring me here for, whoever you are? But…'

She clenched her fist to her chest. 'Why do I feel sad, seeing that memory? Is that connected to my journey here?'

"A human? How did you get here?"

Just before Vivian could delve more at the sudden events that happened to her, a menacing voice resounded behind her.

The elemental beast that she aimed to see was right behind her. However, the beast was not alone.