Lucky find

The girls made their way back the way they came. As the others came into view suddenly Silvia could sense something else headed their way.

"Come on! Hurry!" Cried Silvia, and the girls began scrambling quicker towards Lilly and Tim. Suddenly there was a loud growl from behind them. "Here!" Said Tim as he pulled his sword from its sheath and tossed it to Silvia.

Silvia quickly grabbed it by the handle and stood ready Lacey quickly grabbed a large stick off the ground ready to help defend the best she could.

The monster that came lumbering out of the misty fog that had all of a sudden appeared, was a tall beast that walked on two legs of wood almost like small tree trunks and was covered in moss.

Not taking a chance Lacey made the first move and went for its leg, while Silvia drove the sword into its neck and like the ones in the forest it let out a blood curdling scream and fell to the ground, Lacey jumped out of the way as it fell.

"That will never get old." Tim said, they turned to see him half up and leaning on Lilly's neck. Silvia sighed and went to hold him up with an arm around his shoulders.

"We got to find a place to sleep." Lacey said, the mist had gotten thicker and the sun was setting, Silvia nodded. "How are we going to move Tim?" Asked Lacey.

"Let's support him between us." Replied Silvia. "Well let's get started." Said Lacey as she got into position on the other side of Tim. Slowly, they started walking as best they could. Lilly followed along slowly.

The fog continued to thicker as the sun slipped lower in the sky. "We almost can't see anything anymore." Lacey said breathlessly as she repositioned Tim on her shoulders.

"Here, let's set Tim down right here for a minute you can rest and I will scout around and see if I can find somewhere to sleep for the night." Silvia said.

The girls helped Tim sit on a gnarled limb sticking out of the ground. Silvia headed out looking for a place to stay for the night. Lacey sat on the limb beside Tim.

She sighed and watched as the sun sank even lower. "What are we going to do? Don't broken bones take forever to heal?" Asked Lacey.

"There is no way we will be able to climb over until your leg is healed and Lilly won't be able to fly us back over until her wings are healed." She added.

Tim let out a low whistle. "Wow, we are probably going to be stuck here for at least two weeks or more. What are we going to eat?"

"Maybe some snakes or some other small things, I don't have a weapon, Silvia took the sword." She answered.

Tim nodded and they sat for a good while. Before Silvia came out of the mist. "I found a place that should work for tonight." She said, before coming to help Tim support himself on her shoulder, Lacey took another side.

They moved at a good pace for Tim, through the mist. Silvia soon pointed to a dead tree they could faintly see through the fog.

The tree was long dead and had its roots sprouting out of the ground and made a little cave under it. "We can all fit in there?" Tim asked as they came to a stop in front of the tree.

"Yeah. It's bigger than it looks." Silvia answered Tim. She let go of Tim and crawled inside, Lacey helped Tim to his knees and he crawled in too. She looked around again but did not see anything through the mist then looked down at her dress, it was still white.

"Why?" She asked for her dress, but no change of color or feeling, she shivered, then got onto her knees and crawled inside the tree root cave.

It was bigger inside like Silvia had said, the fog was all around them and the moonless night was dark. They all lay a couple of feet apart and fell into a restless sleep.

Lilly lay at the entrance on guard. Lacey awoke the sun right in her eyes, she shielded her vision with her hand, as she sat up hitting her head. "Ouch!" She rubbed her head. Silvia beside her stirred and sat up to hit her head too.

"Ouch!" She rubbed her head, both girls giggled then they crawled out. "We need something to eat." Lacey said as Silvia straightened her clothes. "This place is odd, but we can see what we can find.

There should be stuff to build a fire. I brought my stuff." Silvia said, patting the bag at her waist." The girls went to work gathering dead and dry sticks for a fire.

Lacey snapped a twig of a dead tree when a glint of metal caught her eye. "Huh?!" She went down a small hill and up to a bush.

Sticking out of the bush was a pointed blade that looked a lot like the spears Silvia made, she pulled it out of the dead bush. She held nothing like the spears Silvia had made, this spear was made by a master, she could see the intricate carving on the handle and metal.

She ran her finger over the blade. "Ouch!" She pulled it away and put it in her mouth. The spear was definitely a great weapon. "Just what I needed. But why is it here?" She asked herself. Lacey sighed then picked up the small branches that she had gathered.

And spear in hand headed but to find Silvia. She came back to the dead tree they had slept in that night, Tim sat on the ground, his back against a root, Silvia had started a fire. It burned with three sticks with what looked like crabs on them.

"There you are." Tim said, Lacey smiled and set the branches by the fire, Tim's eyes caught the spear in her hand. "what's that?" He asked, she stood it up and studied it again. "I found it just sitting in a bush." She said Tim chuckled.

"And you just took it." "Yeah. Who knows what's around here!" She said. "There are monsters here like the forest, but we don't know what else is out there." Silvia said, coming up to look the spear over.

"Nice! And you just found it?" She continued. "Yeah" "Cool! You will need it." She pulled out Tim's sword that had been in her belt. And stabbed it into the ground.

To be continued-