The Forbidden Forest

Desdemonian Kingdom: The Present Brings Back The Past

When the door closed, it created a echoing sound the heard in the silence of the surrounding. Celyn was shocked at that moment not only because of the sound but because of the darkness that overfilled the entire home. She was been silent for a moment and suddenly asked. "Why there is no light?"

Deimos heard that sweet but frightening voice of Celyn as she asked what happening around. "Ahmmm sorry for that." Deimos uttered while flicker his finger to turn on the lights made by numerous fireflies. As Deimos snapped his fingers, the fireflies awaked and they flew but they could not scaped because of the clear bottle that inprisson them. "Umm..." Celyn sighed as she saw the numbers of fireflies that seemed like a golden strips of lights that become a golden lamp to enlighten the entire home. Celyn was shocked as she saw the whole place by the helped of those fireflies. She looked around and she was amazed as she saw the magnificent place. She thought that the wooden house was just a small one but when she entered it, she was amazed as she realized that it was like a mansion house because it have a golden stairs that beautified by the expensive stones that sparkled every time the lights of the fireflies touched it's surface.

She walked slowly while staring above. There was a huge diamond chandelier with a different shape of the moon that hanged in the middle of that glamorous object. Her eyes were filled by the glittering of those wonderful things that she saw for her very first time as she spent her life in the another dimension of the world.

"Every thing you see is not a dream, you can touch them if you wanted." Deimos said that made Celyn to cut her money for looking for those magnificent things. She bring her eyes down and looked every corner of the house, through the second floor to the place where she was. "Who are you?" Celyn asked as he kept on looking around. From the darkest part of the home, she heard that voice that seemed like coming from the underground because of the slightly rasped voice of a man. She stepped back and focused herself toward the direction of that voice.

After a moment of paused, Celyn did not moved to make sure that every thing was safe. "Vhhooooo!" The sound of the fire came from the chimney. The burning fire came and the shadow of the man was seen who were sitting at the front of the fire kept on reading the book of the witchcraft but it still blank the pages because of the rules of the Halloxian witchcraft user.

"H-hi?" Celyn uttered trembled in speaking because she was frightened to meet someone inside the place that she did not know. "So-sorry for interrupting your busy night, ahmm...can I know this place?" Celyn added placing her both hands on her back while sudden biting her lower lips. Deimos still silent and he moved his finger to turn the kittle to boil water for coffee. "Psssssssssssss!" The sound of the kettle was heard that made Celyn to look back where the sound coming from. She shocked on what she heard and amazed as she saw that there were a small kitchen appeared on her back eventhough she did not see it.

"W-where it came from?" Celyn muttered that only the wind could hear. She saw how the kettle moved because of the boiling water inside it. Her eyes could not believe to what she see even at the Monandria there were also a unbelievable things that happened but the things that she witnessed inside the house could make her mind felt dizzy.

"Do you want coffee or tea?" Deimos asked after the water was boiled. Celyn choked her saliva and said, "ahmm te-tea..." She replied but her voice was trembled because of the things that she witnessed.

"Sit down." Deimos added. Celyn was shocked as she heard that. "B-but there is no chair here." She responded. Deimos smiled and said, " really? And why you are sitting?" Celyn widen her eyes as she found herself sitting in wooden chair and amazingly, she was at the front of the long table with lots of candle standing in the middle of it. "Huhhhhh? How it happened?" Celyn asked widening her eyes as she saw the table at the front of her that she did not see a moment ago. She looked around and she kept on being silent. She stared at the man who sitting backward at the front of the fire. Celyn focused on it and waited for the action that happened again. Her arms were place on the top of her legs and her eyes filled with excitement and fear.

Suddenly, Deimos put down his book on the dusty disk and fixed himself before he face the beautiful young lady named Celyn. Celyn was excitedly looked at Deimos who where slowly standing backward. Deimos stood wearing his black sleeves and he was fiercely looking on the ground while ready himself to make a couple of stepped toward the table. Celyn cold not blinked her eyes because she wanted to see the man behind the black clothes. She wrapped by the coldness of the breeze but her seat was like a fire burning because of the frightening that she felt.

Deimos slowly turned around and face the chilling body of Celyn. He made a couple of stepped toward the table while stooping on the floor. "Who are you?" Deimos said with husking voice. Celyn was shocked as she heard that because she did not know how she was. Instead she responded, she closed her eyes and clenched her fist into hardest and muttered. "What kind of question it is?"

Celyn knows that she forget everything in the past even her named become a hint to her to know it. She opened her left eyes while taunting her lips. "Are you sure you wanted to know my name?" Celyn asked.

"hehehehehe! Of course! That's why I asking that." Deimos said seemed like it have a devil planned because of how he spoke. Celyn was been little hesitated to respond because she did not know how she responded for that situation and for that kind of question. Her knees were shaking as she sat on the wooden chair. Suddenly, Celyn heard another question came from Deimos."I asking you! What is your name?"

Celyn looked down and she felt that her throat was getting dry. She groped the tea cup on the table and immediately get it to drink the tea inside. However, when she groped it,she could not touch anything. She slowly looked up and how surprised she felt as she saw nothing on the table. "Huh? Where is he tea?" She asked while wandering where it goes. She stared at Deimos and she heard something that made her to chill in frightening. "I will give you not only that tea but I will give you too much than that if you will give me your name." Deimos stated while he still stooped on the floor. Celyn bites her lips and worried about herself. She experience that kind of situation but she know that she could not tell a lie at Deimos. Celyn smiled bitterly and said, "ahmmmm...actually I don't know who I am?"

"hihihihi...don't make me fool little young lady, no one can make me fool. I asked you...who are you?" Deimos said that made Celyn shakes in fear. " I am?" Celyn briefly said while taunting her lips and crossing her fingers begging for the helped of someone to encounter that kind of problems that she facing. "I am? Are you kidding me?" Deimos asked.

"My gosh! He is too genius!" Celyn whispered in the air. "Are you playing tricks with me?" Deimos said while walking closer to her. Celyn stared at Deimos seemed like she was frigtening to answer the question of the hallow man. "No-no I'm not." Celyn responded but her face was pale in color. The beat of her heart cold be compared as the beating of the drum and the rhyme that it composed was the fear that she could not denied as she sat at the front of that unknown man.

"If you are not playing any tricks, who are you?" Deimos asked again placing his thin hands with long sharped nails protected by black tips. Celyn saw the hands of that man that enhanced the fear that she felt. She choked the sticky saliva to wet the dry throat that occupied her body. "I am." Celyn briefly said supposing that the man would pronounce her name as Ayem. "Heh! Ayem?" Deimos asked again.

When Celyn heard that words, she felt that there were a thorn that removed on her throat. She sighed deeply, "hystttt thanks." Celyn muttered as she slowly blinked her eyes and touched her chest while creating a deep breath. "Yes! I'm Ayem!" Celyn said creating a named that she supposed to be her name every time there were a people asking her about who she was.

"Ayem? Nice and beautiful name match with your beautiful appearance." Deimos greeted. Celyn slightly smiled and place her both shaking hands under the table. "Where are you from?" Deimos asked that made Celyn to confidently responded not thinking the second question that Deimos could asked again.

"Ohhhh! I came from the land of the magical things, the hope of the East and the home of power and the prince of the dark, the kingdom of Monandria." Celyn said with a bright eyes that twinkled as the lights enlighten it. Deimos billowed his eyebrows and even his face was covered by the hoody sleeves, he know that Celyn telling the truth."really? Who is that dark Prince?" Deimos asked hoping that he could get details from Celyn. "Ahmmmm, very good question hallow man! But as a woman who have integrity, I will never confessed every thing I know from you rather than the home land that I came from. And if you wish, before I tell you about my prince, please tell me who is your Queen and what kind of place it is?" Celyn responded that made Deimos to stop for while asking about. He wanted to use his power to get some details but he promise that he would never hurt the woman that might become their sacrifice for the coming bloody moon. Deimos flicked his pointed finger on his right hand and moved the chair. Celyn witnessed how the wooden chair moved toward the back of Deimos and it seemed like knowing the time the Deimos sat on it.

"How you make it that such special ability?" Celyn asked like a four years old child that so curious for the everything that exist. Deimos flicked his fingers again and two cups of tea were appeared in the middle of the table. Also, there was a toasted chicken that appeared on it that made Celyn to felt some butterfly on her stomach. The aroma of the toasted chicken entered the pointed nose of Celyn. "Snifff...snifff..." Celyn moved her nose and she felt that she wanted to bites some pieces of that fresh flesh. Deimos who stooping on the table place his both hands on the table, silent and seemed like there were a counted every action he did. "Are you starvy?" Deimos asked as he felt that Celyn kept on looking at the toasted chicken that surrounded with fresh fruits. He heard the saliva that flowed down the throat of Celyn and he know how that young lady was very starvy craving for food at the front of them. "Do you want them?" Deimos asked without looking at Celyn.

Celyn was amazed as she suddenly heard that question, and for all question that Deimos told her, that question was the question that she really love to answer without hesitation. Eventhough she felt that Deimos have a ability to know what she felt even her stomach wanted to convey, she did not relucant to answer it very quick. "Ahmmm...yeah! I want the aroma of the toasted chicken. I want to eat that if you give me some permission...I will eat lots of them." Celyn said with a glanced of hope at her eyes because she thought that she almost a weeks or months without eating that kind of food.

Deimos smiled as he heard that kind of answered toward that beautiful woman at the front of him. He know that the only person that kindly answer his question was only those who have a power to protect themselves and the person who were shy to answer was those who sluggish and frightened to face the other person. "Good!" Deimos replied wearing a smile that he gave toward the answer of Celyn. "You may eat as you can." Deimos added opening his palm as permission. But because the center table was far from Celyn, Deimos used his power to bring the roasted chicken near Celyn. "Get it and eat every thing you wanted until you full filled your stomach." Deimos uttered while taking the tea cup to drink the tea inside. Celyn was happily rubbed her hands on her clothes and begun to pick the chicken legs and took it closer to her mouth as he opened it wide.

"Slurp...slurpp..." The sound of every bites that Celyn created made Deimos to look slowly at Celyn. For that moment, Deimos see the beautiful face of Celyn even though she was busy for biting the pieces of the chicken. At the moment that Deimos stared at Celyn, he felt something that closely familiar to him. The royal blood of the Halloxian which running on her veins. Deimos was shocked as he saw that Celyn have a common face that he could not forget even the hundred years passed.

The time that he looked at Celyn was he time that the memories of the past freshly turned back on his mind. Deimos saw something at the tantalizing if Celyn. He would never be wrong guessing Evey details that happened hundred years ago. He was nit too old and every thing still marked on his mind and there were no details that wasted. The eyes of Celyn was same as the eyes of the Princess Luna who he saved from the devil Queen who wanted to be more than powerful than her own child. He freshly identified what happening before as Celyn kept in eating every parts of the chicken and drunk what ever she wanted on the table. She was never ashamed of Deimos started to look at her because her focused was only at the food at the front of her.

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"Deimos!" I command you to hide her to the kingdom that far away from us and left it to the edge of Kerberos river and let her destiny make her alive I don't want that the entire kingdom will know about her I want you to bring this girl away from me before the sun choose to hide." Queen Senophie screamed that echoed at the entire room where Deimos and Senophie where.

Sadly, even Deimos was reluctant to follow his queen, he carry the beautiful baby girl and brought it to the Kerberos river. While he was walking, he saw a two halloxs who were swimming near the place where he need to left the aweful baby. He stared at the eye of the princess and the mark of being a Desdemonian was still there on her chest. He kissed the forehead of the princess and he give the best identity to the child and he named her as Luna as the honor of being a moon princess, the next and the powerful daughter of the moon. " Little princess of the moon, your beauty will be the light on the dark, your eyes shine and look like a starry night, your smile is weight of gold and now, as the honored to the mortal that gives you life and hope I call you Luna as my princess and queen too".Deimos said to Luna. The baby smiled and he left it to the edge of the river and run away. He hid behind the shaggy bushes and he saw the two Hallox coming toward the location where the baby laid on the ground. Deimos used his power to make a ant that could be the key to bite Luna that made her to cry to that echoed all over the forest. " What is that? Is it a baby?" Hydra said. " I will find who it is." she added. Hydra's brother Nix also helped her to find out where the sound came from. Meanwhile, Nix was gratefully looked at the object where the sound came from.

" Hydra come on!,faster! " He said with a smile on his face and as he added Nix kneeled on the ground and spoke again. "There is lovely baby girl that lying here." he added. Hydra ran toward the location of Nix and when she was closer to them, she also saw the baby girl, the eyes of the little angel were glow so that she carry her and brought her on their home. "Nix,prepared immediately...we must to go home earlier,the darkness will come we need to protect this lovely baby girl from cold." They were both happily walked and brought the innocent princess to their home.

From a far place away from the location where the two Hallox happily took the little young girl, Deimos still watching the princess and what happened at her. And when Deimos felt that the two Hallox were good, he took his way back to their kingdom.

Almost an hour of travelling, he reached the palace that he needed to go. As he enter the palace where his highness sitting on her throne, Queen Senophie called him for the news, "Deimos! Did you make my command successfully?" Senophile asked supposing that Deimos followed what she commanded to do.

"Yes your highness, the pri...the...the baby, I left her behind the rocks at the edge of river, your highness, her destiny will save her life." Deimos replied with trembled in his voice because he did not know if Senophie would agreed to what he told. However, Senophile smiled while standing immediately and made a couple of stepped to turned back to her room. "Good Deimos...good!", she added while making her stepped to go back at her room and continued the planned how she might defeat the Prince Severous. Deimos could not sleep that night, he wanted to make sure the situation of his princess, he also wanted to make her safe until it grow as a woman. He quickly get up and ready himself to travel down to the kingdom. Far away, he stopped at the top of the towering dark mountain and he saw entirely how powerful the forbidden forest. But that time, the only thing that Deimos wanted was to see again his princess. When he was near at the home of hallox, the beautiful voice of Hydra was heard that accompanied by the sweet breeze that touched his skin. Hydra's voice was the sweetest voice that he head, every time that she sung a song, it made Luna to fall asleep. Even Deimos was fell in love on the sweet voice of the young Hallox.

Every night, if Deimos have a chance to go out, he visited the home of two hallox to know the situation of Luna, sometimes Hydra and Nix were taking a bath together with Luna on the river and for that way, Deimos know everything about the three even the little details that they did every night and day.

A year passed and Deimos always visited the home of the two hallox, he also witnessed how they helped Luna to walk, to eat and how to play with animals at the field.

One day, the sun shine brightly and the warmed breezed of the surrounding blown on the field. Hydra was on the river bathing at the clear and bluish surface of the Kerberous river. Hydra was busy enough bathing herself on the cold and deep part of the river. However, Nix decide to go back at their home, the day was fine and Luna was happily played with some animals and fireflies that happily lives near the Kerberos rive. Because the butterfly was colorfuka na little fragile, Luna's eyes were caught by that colorful wings and made the little young girl to follow it until she reached the bank of the river. Her smiled were still drawn at her face as she made a couple of stepped before she ran toward the butterfly to catch it up. Unfortunately, Luna accidentally stepped at the slippery surface of the stone on the slope area of the river. She quickly fell on the water and flowed together with the flows of the river. Because Hydra was busy enough, she did not know that Luna was near to drown. Fortunietly, because Deimos always watching every thing about Luna, he quickly swam and saved the life of Luna.