Chapter 38

Second person's POV

'Why the hell am I brought out from the window , just for grabbing this random cloth from the ground?!?'
Rhys questioned as he flew strong gushes of wind flew into his deary face. It did not took him long when his feet met with the yellow foliage covered ground.

'Wait yellow grass?'
Rhys had his knees bent down to pick up a yellow leaf that was laid on the ground. The yellow was an amber yellow , the stem of it was dark brown. There was also white small sprinkles on the leaf's structure. His dark blue eyes scanned on the ground to find honey colour fruits on the ground. They shaped like cloud-berries but also with the white sprinkles features on it. 

Rhys then looked up to the trees to find the eggplant , jam and grape colour leaves , which was attached to the plum colour branch. He then watched a grape colour leaf falling on the ground which only brought to a huge gush of wind with the fallen ones , sending them free flying in the pink skies.

The moment Rhys watched this very much amusing scenario , he just realised , the cloth in his hand had vanished. And this case , the only message that was sent in his head was the fact he was lost , in this unknown island with the unknown challenges.

"Ah great.... Guess I'll walk it out until I found Beast , judging by my luck..."
Rhys muttered before he felt pairs of pink eyes staring at him. He swiftly turned his head towards the first and only bubblegum pink bush , to find pink puppies with huge sparkling rosewood eyes walking out from the bush. There was at least 6 of them , each and every one had a white triangle shaped mark on their pink fur forehead.

"Oh , you little spirits startled me there."
Rhys said with a tone of relief. The group of adorableness approached towards the bent down Rhys , with their small baby pink toe beans on his pants and shoes. Rhys had one held in his arms , where a strong scent of strawberry was sensed by his nose. Being slightly annoyed by the overly strong scented , he dropped the pup down on the ground as he decided to look for Beast immediately before she leave him on this island.

Yet as he walks , the group of pup followed him with their small baby paws. Rhys looked at them dumbfounded. He then have one feet stepped out , which to find the pups did the exact same thing he did. Right when he bent down to tell the pup to leave him alone , something huge landed right behind him , making the pups immediate moved back into their little hideout , also sending shivers and fear to the ice magic demon's spine.

Rhys slowly turned his head to the spirit he was currently encountered , to find a huge white coloured fur spirit staring at his dark blue eyes with its dark green eyes. White sharp teeth was shown outside his black lips. Black stripes was found on the fur of his chin , forehead and each of its four feet. Goat similar shaped ears were found flopping on its head. 

By immediate actions , Rhys blasted a ice wall to block himself away from the animal while attempting to run away from it. Yet , it doesn't stop the spirit as it used its mouse like tail to smash open the ice wall , sending the demon flying , landing right in front of the pups' hideout.

Rhys lift up his head to find the animal approached towards him , as he grunted in pain , trying to stand in his ground.

Rhys's POV

"Oh my god , I didn't mean it , are you alright there?"
I shocked by the sudden voice. I looked up to the spirit which sent me fears down my spine , then looked around to see whoever that was talking to me.

"Hey. Up here , horned guy."
I looked up to find the spirit smiling at me cheerfully. 

"Have I startled you there?"
He suddenly spoke with his sharp teeth then revealed as I screamed of fear and so is he. Yet instead of me hiding away , it was the spirit who ran into a cave to take cover. I blinked my eyes , being absolute questioned by the spirit's actions , who was legit 5 feet taller than me. I stood up , walking towards the cave who soon met some purple fruits that rolled out from the cave.

"C-Can you help me to give the fruits to the Stargies?"
Star...gies? He mean like the baby small spirits? I held the fruits in my hand , with my hand tracing on the weird shaped design of the fruit , walking towards the hideout and passed it to them. 

The Stargies looked out , looking at the fruits before dashing out , munching on with very small bites. It was then when I realised the change of colour of their fur. Their fur slowly faded to periwinkle purple and their white tattoo remained the same while their eyes became boysenberry purple.

After feeding the pup , a pup jumped on my lap , licking my face for appreciation , when I smelled strong scented of elderberries instead of the one earlier. This was sure a interesting characteristic of this spirit. And especially as their name was Star-gies , wonder if their related to the galaxies or something related to the outer space...

"Their fur changes , based on the fruits they eat. The fact they're called such was because their eyes was similar to the stars in the Milky Way and most fruits they ate were either purple, pink or light blue."

I turned to the cave while the Star-gy jumped out from my grip , running back to their hideout.
'Such great knowledge I could learn from him... Wonder if I could learn more...' I thought to myself before walking into the cave where I was face-to-face with those green eyes and stared at my reflection.

"Why won't you go and feed the Star-gies , if you know so much of them?"
"W-Well , you see , I'm a Gruff and my kind wasn't really the best of times. I could be... quite gentle and kind while it was meant to be violent."

Gruff?
Like that Gruff?
That Gruff that was had the legend of being the beast of the woods and grew to be more violence by age and died with their rock hard bones left to only become horrifying ruins?
That Gruff who was told in urban legends in Daemos where parents told children to sleep in earlier , or else they'll be cursed by it?

Damn this world of fantasy I was in-

But this Gruff I see here was gentle and kind. It was clear that they're the total soft action being , like Pierce , or legit was the same , just complete different species. I walked closer to him , which he involuntarily moved backwards. Watched him in such fear , a scene flashed into my head.

"______?!? _______!!! Where are you?!"
I found myself in the female's body , that for some reason was curled up like a small ball , in a corner of the room. Her hands was covering her ears , seemingly avoiding some noises. 

"There *Breath* There you are.."
We looked up to find the man stood in front of us , dressed in a white long sleeves shirt with a blue coat which was find around his waist and black pants and dark brown boots. 

"____ , why did you just ran out? What had gone into you?"
"I-It's just... I- The spirit...."

By her stuttered of words , the man chuckled , before claimed , 

"Are you scared?"

"I-I'm not!"
"Admit it , Lavender. You were scared of it. How are you even called as The Goddess of Fauna?"
"I was still KIV okay?! And you don't have to make it such obvious that I'm weak!!"

Her said with our hands waved in mid air. They soon landed to the sides before wrapped around the folded knees.

"F-Forget about it , I won't be a goddess , especially being a proud daughter of the family..."
The body said sorrowfully while the head hid between her knees. I sighed by the easily give up attitude of this person's before I felt something was reached out towards us.

"Hey , are you scared?"
"Thought you asked , Frosty..."
"I did , but there was an additional information for you."

The head was lifted up to find his hand reached out. 

"This time , I'm here with you."
"Y-You're not going to laugh at me... Are you?"
"No , people learn from mistakes and I would love to learn from you~"
He said while lifting us up from the ground , rubbing small circles on our hand before I witnessed his calming smile.

"Try it one more time , for me?"


I shook my head , have my eyes blinked by the scene. Another one , about that girl and that man... Why in the world I would be in related to some other person's relationship in the first place??

Anyways , I turned back to Gruff who was still hiding in his hideout but with his eyes turned away from me. I looked out of the skies to find it was in a darker shade of pink. It was when realization of the day was becoming darker hits in. I turned to Gruff as he was the only spirit around who talks and read minds. He must know the way out of this place , or perhaps even know whose Beast....

"Hey , are you scared Gruff?..."
"What?"
Gruff's green eyes shined as they narrowed and jumped towards me with huge paces , before roaring in a fierce yet soft tone. I felt the wind roared across my hair , yet I stood strong on my ground. 

"I-It's not like I'm weak in spirit , I was just- , " Before Gruff could finish his sentence , roars echoed the skies and before I had the chance to observe the situation , I was dragged into the cave with the help of Gruff's tail.

"G-Gruff! What was going on?!"
"I-I'm sorry..."

What?

I looked up to him before my eyes widened on what I saw. A pair of black horns crack opened from his head while a pair of green transparent wings with the 5 black fingers and humerus bones revealed. His teeth appeared to be sharper than before. His eyes narrowed as I felt anger and blood in his eyes.

"G-Gruff? Are you-!"
As I asked for concern , he roared in my face , louder and fiercer than ever. I looked at him in fear before watched his sharp teeth shined in his mouth and charged towards me.

This is it....

I'm sorry Oscar....

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