THE PEARL GHOST FROM THE WILLOW
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" FINALLY SUCCEEDING IN GETTING OVER HIS SHOCK, THE PRINCE BACKED OFF FROM THE EDGE IN FEAR. AS HE LOOKED UP AT THE GHOSTLY FIGURE HE SAW THAT IT HAD COME TO A STANDSTILL. " HAH. DAMN THAT WAS ONE GOOD HALLUCINATION ", HE LAUGHED NERVOUSLY. BUT HIS LAUGH WAS SHORT LIVED AS THE GHOSTLY FIGURE BEGAN BRISK WALKING TOWARDS HIM. THE PRINCE WENT WHITE IN FEAR AS HE SAW IT RUNNING TOWARDS HIM, ( COME NOW YOU CAN'T BLAME HIM TO THINK THAT IT'S RUNNING AT HIM ALTHOUGH IT WAS STILL BRISKLY WALKING TOWARDS HIM. A SCARED MAN'S BRAIN THINKS WAY TOO MUCH NONSENSE.) SO HE SWIFTLY AROUND AND QUICKLY MADE A RUN FOR IT."
" NOW, DEAR READERS. THIS IS EXACTLY THE TIME WHERE THE FORESTS PLAY A MEAN TRICK ON US BY MAKING SURE THAT AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME ITSELF PEOPLE OR MOST PARTICULARLY THE SCARED PERSON FEELS LIKE HE IS CLUELESSLY LOST OR IS COMPLETELY CAUGHT IN A MAZE WHERE EVERY ROUTE AND TREE LOOKS ALIKE."
" NEEDLESS TO SAY THAT OUR PRINCE CHARMING ALSO GOT CAUGHT UP IN THIS. AS HE WAS RUNNING HE LOOKED BACK TO CHECK IF THE GHOSTLY FIGURE WAS STILL ONTO HIM...... YEP. THERE IT IS, JUST CLIMBING ONTO THE LAND. THE PRINCE INCREASED HIS PACE AND WENT ZIG ZAGING BETWEEN TREES TRYING INVAIN TO FIND HIS WAY ONLY TO END UP COMING BACK TO THE SAME SPOT HE STARTED FROM. THEN THERE IT WAS AGAIN, THE SLOW CALLING OF HIS NAME. THE PRINCE SHIVERED AND DARTED HIS EYES ALL AROUND TO TRY AND LOCATE THE GHOSTLY FIGURE AND THAT CALLING VOICE. BUT WHAT A SURPRISE, EVER-SINCE THE FIGURE CAME OUT OF THE TREE THE VOICE HAD GROWN STRONGER. IT WAS CLEARLY AUDIBLE TO HIM BUT FAIRLY SMALL LIKE COMING FROM A LITTLE DISTANCE. "
" HE DREW OUT HIS SWORD FROM ITS HILT AT THE READY TO STRIKE AND CAUTIOUSLY VENTURED FURTHER. THE NIGHT WAS BRIGHT WITH THE MOON SO HE WAS EASILY ABLE TO NAVIGATE HIS WAY WITHOUT BUMPING INTO ANYTHING OR GETTING HIS FOOT STUCK IN A RABBIT HOLE. A LITTLE FURTHER AND HE HEARD IT AGAIN. THIS TIME A LITTLE STRONGER. HE KEPT FOLLOWING THE VOICE AND FINALLY MADE HIS WAY OUT BUT HEY!! WHAT IS THIS? HE CAME BACK TO THE LAKE BUT THIS TIME IT WAS ON THE TREE SIDE. HE WENT UP TO THE TREE AND CAME TO THE EDGE WHEN HE SAW THE WHITE GHOSTLY FIGURE RETURN ON THE OTHER SIDE. "
" THE PRINCE TRIED BACKING OFF THIS TIME BUT FELL HARD ON HIS BACK AS HE HAD TRIPPED OVER A ROOT AND BROKE HIS ANKLE. HIS VISION WAS ALSO GETTING BLURR AGAIN AND ALTHOUGH HE COULDN'T ACCURATELY TELL BUT HE DID NOTICE HIS FINGERS AND TOES HARDENING LIKE BARK OF A TREE AND HIS NAILS GOING BROWN. ANYWAYS WE HAVE MUCH MORE CONCERNS TO BE WORRIED ABOUT THAT 'BARK-ING' NAILS AND FINGERS. THE GHOSTLY FIGURE ONCE AGAIN STEPPED ONTO THE WATER AND TREADED SLOWLY TOWARDS HIM. AS HIS LEG WAS INJURED THE PRINCE COULDN'T DO ANYTHING BUT SQUIRM IN HIS SPOT AND STARE WIDELY TO APPROACHING CERTAIN DOOM. "
" AS AND AS THE WHITE FIGURE CAME NEARER TO HIM HE BEGAN TO NOTICE THAT THIS GHOSTLY FIGURE DIDN'T LOOK DANGEROUS AT ALL BUT KINDA LOOKED TALLER, BROADER, AND MORE DISIPLINED THAN NORMAL HUMAN GHOSTS. WHEN IT FINALLY STEPPED ONTO THE LAND HE NOTICED IT'S LONG FLOWING SNOW HAIR, STRANGE POINTY EARS AND SHARP EYES. IT WAS STARING AT HIS FACE EXPRESSIONLESS FOR A LONG TIME WATCHING HIM IN AMUSEMENT AS HE TRIED INVAIN-LY TO SQUIRM AWAY FROM IT WHEN IT WAS JUST STANDING THERE DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL. AFTER A FEW WHILE IT FINALLY MADE A MOVE FURTHER AND CAME TO HIM WHILE HE DRAGGED HIMSELF TO THE TREE FOR SUPPORT AND HIDE. WHEN IT WAS NEAR ENOUGH IT TILTED IT'S HEAD TO ONE SIDE AND LOOKED AT HIM UP AND DOWN BEFORE IT BEGAN TALKING TO HIM."
Who was this flowing haired strange creature? Did it come to kill the prince for what happened in 'Shiraban'?
Find out in the next episode.
Stay tuned.
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