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Early in the morning,they set out for hunting in the forest. Cristoph and Sedina were riding the horses while Saberina at the back, holding Cristoph tight from behind, was riding the horse, admiring the beautiful view of the nature. " What a sunny day, big bro?" Saberina commented. " And a suitable weather for hunting too. " Christoph replied. " Hey Shhh look, there. " Sedina whispered. They all watched a beautiful peacock spreading it's colourful wings and dancing, when a leopard from nowhere about to leap on him, but Sedina who was good at archery drew an arrow to the leopard and hit him, eventually it died. The peacock, was really greatful to her, he bowed to Sedina and told,
Peacock : I am greatful to you, my lady , I am Feline, today, u have saved my life.
Then he took out three feathers and gave it to them and again he spoke up.
Peacock : Keep those feathers with you. It will help. If anyone lost their way in the forest, it send signals to other. Have a nice day, my lady.
Sedina sat on her knees and caressed his feathers with care and accepted his gift and said,
Sedina : Thank you for those feathers Feline.... we really owe you.
Saberina : Well.... I like your dancing.
Sedina looked up to Christoph and requested," can he also come with us? Big bro... pleaseeee.
Christoph gave a smile to his elder sisi. " Yes, he can." Christoph replied.
Feline : That would be a great pleasure your majesty.

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They continued, their journey of hunting, but strange thing was that, there were not a single animals in the forest could be seen. Cristoph and her other sisi were surprised. Sedina asked, "Strange! Something is off in this place.
Christoph : It's really strange, we are walking for half an hour but, there are no animals crossed our way. What's the matter Feline?
Feline sighed, " It's a long story,
Sedina : I can smell mystery, in this forest.
Feline : It's a demon named Kara, every year when, we had any girl child, he would come and pay us a visit, asking, after 18 years of age, the girl child should be leave outside of his cave.All the dwellers of this forest follow this rule but don't know what actually happens to that girls . So the animals had decided to leave this forest and settled to another forest.
Sedina now looked so worried, her pleasant expression had changed to a frowned expression. She told.
Sedina : Big bro, this is the time to show, what we have in us. We should go to the cave. NOW!!!
Saberina was horrified . She told, " Do you know? What are you saying? the demon will eat us up.
Christoph : Sedina you are a brave girl, I am appreciating you for that, but it's not the right time to fight with him. Today we are returning back, but oneday, we will go to that cave and deafeat Kara.
Gradually, the day turned into night, they took the way back home, Sedina was behind from her siblings. She was on the horse with Feline the peacock, when suddenly from her behind someone tried to covered her mouth, Sedina could sense, someone was trying to attack her she immediately jumped up from her horse, and the stranger fell down, Sedina saw a stranger with a cloak was lying on the floor, while the horse ran away but Feline noticed everything he joined her. " Who are you? " Sedina asked the stranger, pointing her sword. The stranger stood up and pulled down the cloak, an old lady was standing with hearty smile, she spoke," You have turned into a pretty lady, and also,
you are brave, I am not surprise, cause you have born for a special purpose.
Feline : Rubina! you?
Sedina : You know her Feline?
Feline : She is a witch, but not the evil one, she is the helpful witch.
Rubina : Yeah, nice to meet you dear, Sedina!
Sedina : WHAAAAT?? you know my name?
But, h... How!
Rubina pulled up her cloak and said, " One day, you will get your answer dear, but you should come with me. It's getting dark." Then she was about to leave, when Sedina held her hand tight.
Sedina: What do you want Rubina? And why did you try to attack me?
Rubina turned to her, she looked at Sedina and smiled a bit. " You don't know dear anything, I have just saved you. I didn't want to hurt you, but only wanted you to take you to my home.
Sedina: Why?
Rubina: You will not believe me dear, so it's useless to explain you. Please come with me.
Rubina again turned back but Sedina asked, " But still. I want to know.
Rubina : You are very stubborn, well... You wanted to know, I am telling you, I have been appointed by your elder sister Princess Lilium. She wanted me to kill you.
Sedina: But why? I am her sister... How could she....
Rubina : Isn't this normal? I know that you are her sister, but apart from that, you have many talents, people give respect to you, your parents love you, the most, they take care of you. All those things made Princess Lilium jealous of you.

Sedina was stunned, she immediately answered, " I don't believe. "
Rubina again pulled up her cloak and said, " The dark clouds on sky has started gathering, we should leave now.
Sedina : But..
Rubina : Shhh!!not a word, come.
In other time she would protest, but that day Sedina obeyed her, she didn't know why, maybe her voice had something that made her obey her.
They followed her, into a dark forest, there were no moon, the dark cloud had covered that moon in the sky. The breeze was blowing steadily, It's dark night, an owl hastily flied over Sedina's head, Sedina startled a bit but she quickly controlled her and continued walking. They were walking, Sedina held Feline in her arm and she was walking beside Rubina the witch or her biological mother!


To Be Continued.....



































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