*FOREST OF UNKNOWN(1)*

Sluggishly, Lisa strolled down the hall, taking her own sweet time before killing herself. She sighted some portraits and noted that she had arrived at the hall with the portraits. Last time she was here, it was with Lucas.

Man up Lisa, it's no time to think of fools!. She encouraged herself.

Running her hand through a picture that was peculiarly interesting to look at, she admired it's beauty.

It was a rather simple picture of a weird looking landscape which had a golden moon, tall trees and a dark hue. The portrait strangely gave a sense of mystery. She admired the colours that were been wafted to bring out something so serene and mysterious. Next to the portrait was a bare wall and next to that bare wall was another portrait.

It seemed like something was meant to be there, yet it was removed.

Subconsciously, she lifted her hand to run it over the smooth wall curiously. Her sight became black for a second and she pulled her hand back petrified. She was very sure her eyes were open but she couldn't see anything at that time.

Lifting her hand again, she placed it on the wall for a while but nothing happened.

'Wait.'

She noticed an almost invisible writing on the wall.

"Thump, thump my heart beats fast."

"Running down this eery path."

And that was all. Lisa didn't have the faintest idea about what the words meant.

Deciding to leave that later, she turned to continue walking but halted when she saw something that stopped her in her tracks.

'What the what?.'

It was the same creature she had seen when Lucas was with her.

Skeleton face, bony hands and a ragged cloth that didn't exactly touch the floor.

When she was in the human realm, Joana had showed her this creature. The name should be a reaper?.

The reaper moved forward, it's ragged robes gliding across the floor and she backed away from it, trying to rack her brain for any possible solution to get away from it.

For someone who wanted to die, she wasn't really excited now that something wanted to kill her.

"What are you?." She asked as she expertly tried to distance herself from the ragged creature.

"Me a reaper." It responded in a rasp voice, silent as a whisper. It was a wonder how Lisa could hear it.

"I can understand you?" She raised a brow in question. Why wasn't she able to understand it the last time?. Did this have anything to do with Lucas?.

"Yes, master allow you understand me." It spoke it's broken English.

Lisa wondered why she wasn't scared of the creature anymore and was instead curious about it. Perhaps, it's master might be Ezekiel.

"Me take you somewhere." It's raspy like whisper voice snapping her out of her thoughts.

It stretched out one of its hand and Lisa noted the bony hand that had decayed.

Alarm bells kept ringing in the back of her head, warning her that this was probably going to be the worst idea and Lucas would hate it but right now, anything that Lucas hated was what she loved. She was going to do anything to make him angry. She didn't care anymore.

For all she knew he could go to hell!.

What is she saying?. He was already in hell.

Taking a last look at the reaper, she took its hand and both of them disappeared.

'If anything happens to me, blame yourself guardian.' This was her last thought and seconds later, Lucas came. Missing them by a single timeframe.

***

The night breeze blew subtly as the harsh cold engulfed Lisa's body. A far howl was heard throughout the oddly quiet forest and Lisa shivered slightly. She looked up to the sky and noticed the half moon that stood boldly in sight. The surprising thing was that the trees were taller than any she had ever set eyes on.

While she took in the view, the ragged creature stood beside her, looking straight into the far horizon.

Turning to the creature as she used her hands to hug her body because of the chilling wind, she asked"Where are we?."

A cracking sound was heard as the creature turned its head to meet her without moving it's body. The action somewhat creeped her out.

"We are in forest of Unknown." Lisa's eyes widened and she hoped the forest was more peaceful than what the name posed it to be.

"Tell me it's just the name and it has nothing to do with the forest?.'

"I don't know." Lisa stood there shocked by its answer. She didn't know what to make of this situation. Was it literally joking?.

Another bone cracking sound was heard and in the blink of an eye, the reaper appeared in front of her, facing a direction in the forest. "Something is coming." It whispered and took out a long sharp blade that had a curve at the end.

The loud howl that they heard earlier was heard again but this time it was a lot closer. Lisa stiffened as the howl got closer to them.

Soon enough, a large Wolf came in sight. It was thrice the size of any normal wolf Lisa had seen. It barred it wide teeth at them, snarling and growling. It's golden eyes watched them closely as it's grey fur shone in the midnight's light.

Lisa had no idea what THAT was and she wanted to stay as FAR away as possible from whatever it was.

"W-what...is that?" She questioned no one in particular.

"I think that is hellhound." It responded and without another second of delay, the reaper swung it's weapon at the wolf but unfortunately, the wolf easily dodged and struck the reaper with it's paw, sending the poor skeleton flying through the air.

Lisa gulped as she made no effort to move. This was the time where she needed her witch powers but she didn't know a single spell in her mind.

She hadn't even spent a single minute here, yet she was going to die. This must be the fastest record of dying in this forest.

Without wasting time, the wolf jumped on her, sending both of them crashing down heavily. It opened it wide jaws, planning to eat her and Lisa shut her eyes tightly, awaiting her death but not without uttering a word.

"Grey!"