Soul Lovers

Enchanted Forest of the Nymphs.

Outside the Bounty collector's shop most bounty hunters in the city gathered along with Dante as few of them pinned down the run away prisoners.

"Hehehe. where do you think you are running off to!" one said putting his leg on one of the escapee then he looked to his right. "See here guys. Let's gather them up together and sell these so called runaways back to the Bounty collector!" he licked his mouth and whispered: "I can't wait to see his bewildered look on his fat face when he sees what we caught and have to pay double for his runaway collections. This will be fun."

Gage with the two Royal Guards in red capes walked up to Dante without giving any thought of what was around them or who.

“Hey, Dante any leads?” Gage asked, reaching for Dante, “Huh?” looking at the huge hole.

Dante turned with his eyes dilated just as he scanned Gage and the red caped royal guards then he blinked.

“How come you're here without blending in with the bounty hunters in the city?!” he fumed, Gage narrowed his eyes.

“I don’t get it. What do you mean?” Gage interrogated, Dante sighed then came closer to Gage.

“See what you have done, they noticed we aren’t from here, your armour and the Royal Guards armour really stood out. Now all eyes are on us.” He whispered.

For Dante dressed as one of them before he came to the scene. Dressed in raggy, smelly clothing with a stinky black headband wore on his forehead having a slightly stained grey spot at the center.

“Hmm?” Gage took a glimpse at his surroundings then noticed what Dante warned him about. It was true every beings in their eyes were irritated while staring at them including the bounty hunter putting his leg on top of an escapee, Dante took a step further away from them.

“I don’t know you. Why are you even here?” he said as he tried to isolate himself from Gage not to cause any trouble for himself, one of the royal guards widened his mouth.

“But sir, you are Dante the Divine Humane of Movement. How could you possibly forget about us, Sir.” He said not perceiving what was going on, Dante slammed his hand on the stinky black headband on his forehead,

“Gosh… it irks me teaming up with them.” He revealed,

“Hmmm. Finally.” the bounty hunter putting his leg on the escapee crowed in their midst. “The Divine Humane are here, I’m sure you also with that iconic armour is also a divine humane. This is the most luckiest day in the city of bounty hunters, Don’t you know how much you all cost summing it up together?” he said as he licked his lips along with glares and smirks from every bounty hunters surrounding every corner waiting to capture them as their own or sell them off.

“Not here again.” Dante sighed. Because earlier he fought off some bounty hunters before stealing one of their clothes to wear.

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Few seconds later, Dante was sitting on piles of the bounty hunters as they were all unconscious.

“Could you tell me again. How much did I cost?” He stared down at Gage, “Gosh… why do you take things too serious?”

Below the ground where Gage stood was desolated completely as many of the bounty hunters were shivering and the one putting his leg on the escapee was crying on the ground thinking what kind of monsters are the Divine Humanes.

Meanwhile the Royal Guards in red capes were starting to think why they'd followed two Divine Humanes in the first place, it seems to them it was useless being their guards. Suddenly, Sheik along a glowing arm broke through the ground beneath. The glowing green-fist arm continually grew larger taking Sheik far above the sky level separating the clouds from its position. This time, he was on the fist laying unconscious until the glowing fist vanishes as Sheik dropped dead from the sky back to the ground, slamming on a building edge afar and falls on the ground leaving a crater and a scorching smoke emitting from his body.

Dante with Gage observed everything that had happened including the concerned royal guards in red capes.

Dante sighed.

“Should we worry about that?” he asked then looked at Gage below to his amazement Gage eyes were wide opened for he was shocked to the core after seeing Peirce through the hole down to the underground lab standing upright with his skinny arm hanging in mid air, he saw Peirce's eyes and body glowing green then seeing a semblance shadow behind him in the form of a giant which suppressed to normal.

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Somewhere between the seas and the forest—The region which looks more like a border separating the water and the forest Nymphs with a extremely towering tree floating in the middle with its large roots visible for the eyes to see but descended deep into the sea that scintillates with brief flashes of various colored light and also few yellow gleams of lights surrounds the trees radiating also on the sea in a globe-like.

King Randall was holding Luna’s sister as she was half dead with out her armour on was soaked with blood and huge wounds all over her body,

“Telling her will be the first thing to do when going back, I promise. Priscilla.” Randall said in a sad way for he knew one of the Divine Humanes was at death door, then Luna’s sister gave up her ghost with a smile at that moment a huge green light shined up to the sky from a distant.

... Let’s go back to few days ago before this unanticipated scene happened during the time Randall and the hefty woman known as Luna’s big sister— her real name, Priscilla were transported to the enchanted forest of the Forest Nymphs Kingdom by Oshoshi along with Dryad.

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Into the Enchanted forest. Looking up. These areas consist of tanned, greeny trees under the shades of glowing humongous mushrooms— Yeah, the glowing mushrooms were far larger than the huge trees there. It is a place where you could see every existence of mystical creatures but they were all tamed upon the Forest Nymphs domination. Somehow they were no were to be seen only glowing worms of various colors gliding through the air slowly and gently in an orderly manner as though they were migrating from the towering glowing mushrooms to another under the filled freckles stars of all sizes.

Under their feet as they went in the enchanted forest further—known as— The second half of the plain. Twigs and grasses covered the whole area revealing nothing but met with deafening silence. Randall stood still with a closed eyes and sniffed in the atmosphere as much as he could, the gently wind blew on him whispering it’s enchanting melody to his ears.

“This brings back memories.” He sighed, then he looked at Oshoshi and Dryad. “How come I didn’t see any of my favorite diamond tusk-shell snails or the Forest Nymphs themselves?” he asked due to the fact the forest was never this silent and virtueless. He’d knew the enchanted forest was always full of mystical creatures and the Nymphs in the midst only to hunt or tame them—he once came here before meeting Wren’s mother for he was an adventurer in his youthful days.

Oshoshi and Dryad stopped also but things felt strange all of a sudden, the hefty woman squinted her eyes towards them then went in front of the King in a way to protect him from any ambush while holding unconscious Kontar and Orchid in her arms, Oshoshi gently turned still levitating Isabella’s scorched body and her huge sword with green leaves. Then he slowly put them down.

“This is as far as you can go my humble King.”

“What do you mean by that?” the hefty woman asked, Dryad sighed and turned also.

“It’s because… “ suddenly, an elderly paled skinned woman appeared dressed in clothing of a brown patterned butterfly wings wore upon her head down to her feet right at their middle while holding a long thick wooden rod with an seaweed colored orb floating in between it’s top fingery head.

“Because this is the safest place you can be inside the Forest Nymphs Kingdom but sadly very soon all will be in chaos.” The elderly woman said, Randall bobbed then turned his head from the view of the hefty woman—she was too tall for the King to see his front.

“Granny Chan is that you?” he asked, delighted to see his one time old friend from the Forest Nymphs Kingdom in her butterfly outfit. Granny Chan wobbly walked in front of the hefty woman then touched her body to her armoured chest.

She gently tap it thrice.

“Wow… Randall my son. How do you become this big and tall… ? And your chest area felt a little bit bigger than normal… “ she said, slowly for she was blind.

“Actually I’m… “

“The gift I gave you. Hope it suits you well. Oh my. Unfortunately, I can’t remember when I gave it to you. I’m getting too old to remember. Including my neshing age has been forgotten by me.” She said using one of her finger to scratch below her jawline.

How long has she been living? The hefty woman soliloquized in curiosity.

Randall then, held his cape behind him to his side and smirked.

Granny Mimosa Chan was the mother of the first descendants of the Forest Nymphs, surprisingly she hasn’t died yet. Many of the Nymphs believed she is one among the beings who were called the immortals, throughout the extent of time, she was believed to have been living during the war between the Divine and the Destroyer—the Beast in the bottomless hole—since she kept records of every information she experienced and wrote everything in a book to the Beast Kingdom decades of years ago. And about the cape… it was in fact, decocted from the skin of the beast in the bottomless hole before the Divine sealed it to the ground which nobody knew how it did happened including Randall.

“Now I see,” she said, “you must be Priscilla the daughter of Minerva and your Father… “

“Hey Granny! Who are you? Are you some kind of a Seer? We Aurorae don’t have Fathers. This—”

“Alright. Alright. I hear you, daughter.” She slowly turned her body to Dryad and Oshoshi. “I’m delighted you both came back safe and sound. Dryad, your Father and the Queen is worried sick about you.”

Dryad straightened his body. “I’m so sorry, godmother Mimosa! I went to them to say what I… felt, ma’am.”

“It’s okay." She nodded then faced Oshoshi. "Oshoshi, I perceived your love for her hasn’t change a bit. I’m sorry she took the wrong path to live her life. I should have taken her under my wings before that old hag Kontar took her as her tutelage.”

Oshoshi glanced at Isabella mangled, scorched body with a slightly clenched teeth.

“No godmother, that was the choice she chose over me.”

“Alright. Thank you for understanding.” The elderly woman said then turned and stretched her hands to Kontar and Orchid. Vines from the ground gently wrapped them as the hefty woman first startled but let go of them as the vines wrapped around both Kontar and Orchid slowly went into the ground. “It is best we take them back to where they belong.”

This saying means Kontar and Orchid were once imprisoned but after their released they worked together recruiting Isabella also, to kill the Princess of the Humane Kingdom and the Prince of the Forest Nymphs Kingdom for not liking the way things was between the Nymphs Kingdom in which they fail to do so earlier.

Randall walked to the elderly woman as the wind gently blew in the opposite direction swaying the capes that were in the midstroke.

“So Granny Chan. Where is the King? I still need to see him.”