Ep: 1 - A Strange Forest

A group of ex-classmates from high school, held a reunion party at a club. Everyone were invited, some came and few not.

"Woah, we have quite a few number of people here, huh?"

" Obviously, it's just the end of a semester, dude. They aren't as free as you."

" Hah, look at him. Do you think I'm always so free?"

"Yup. I have seen you so free, lagging in our clubroom. Hahahaha"

No matter how less the numbers were, the chatters and laughters were coming from all the way.

" Hey, guys! What do you think about a reunion camping trip?"

Everyone were silent for a while and in another second, some excitedly agreed upon it.

" Com'on, guys. It's been soo long we haven't hangout together."

Few more agreed to join. And at next week they departed for the camping trip in a forest.

" If you won't go, I'll be left alone... Please! Pretty please~"

"Uhh... Fine, I'll go!"

At the forest, they met their two guides, a man named Eugene and a woman, Ember. They helped them to set tents and at night they held a bonfire enjoying the tired night with small games and sing songs.

" Oh, hes still so amazing in singing."

"Surprisingly, you're good at playing this."

"You think so?"

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Next day, they have already felt a strangeness of the forest yet as they planned. They headed further in the forest to explore it with the guides.

They wandered around and stopped in middle of the forest, where they found a not-so-big lake and rest around it.

" Wow, this lake is so beautiful, like a shore of ocean."

" Yeah, right. But…"

They didn't like the atmosphere around the lake, which was ominous and creepy. There's sunlight, many plants and trees around. However, it's complete silence, no sound, not even a running squirrel or a chrip of bird.

That place was giving them chills.

But, they were so tired to move another place, so they decided to stay and put their bags around.

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The afternoon felt like evening since the clouds covered the sky, refusing to let the sunlight pass. Soon, after the lunch they fell asleep there.

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When they woke up from a deep sleep, they found some of their friends missing along with the guides. They were nowhere to be found.

Thinking that they must have gone back to their initial point, the camping site. The other walked back to the way they came from.

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Time has passed a lot, they couldn't find neither the way nor the others. Rather, they have lost themselves. They were anxious and panicked.

After wandering around in an unknown and strange forest, they felt hopeless as it seems they were wandering at the same place again and again. Being hopeless and tired, they decided to rest for a while and sat on the ground.

Not so long after, ...they heard some sounds... Sounds of rustling brushes, sounds of footsteps and...voices...

It was coming closer and closer.

As the classmates panicked, they hide in some brushes around. The voices and sounds got very close and abruptly stopped.

The classmates tried to take a look-out, in between the brushes. There were people outside, unusual features with various different hair and eyes colors. As if a uniform, all the people were wearing a royal dark blue clothes with golden lines and artwork. They all have weapons like swords, spear, bows-arrows etc. like a knight.

... Knights?!

The uniform people seemed to finding something. The classmates stayed silent, unaware of the fact that the people were finding them.

One of the boy again tired peeking out and saw a man in uniform standing right in front of him and directly looking at him.

Soon they were caught, and bewildered, they struggled to be free as the people grab them.

" Ahhhhh! Leave me! Let me go!"

" Who the hell are you?! Leave us!"

" Oh— well... Before anything please hear us carefully —!!!"

After a lot of struggles, the classmates freed themselves from their grips and ran away as fast as they could, without hearing anything.

Those unknown uniformed people chased after them. They were so fast that the classmates were having hard time to get away from them. Not to mention their grips were so strong.

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One of the girl picked up a broken branch in her way, was determined to use it. Another boy picked up a branch as well. They noticed each other and gave a nod before swinging it with all their strength.

They end up hitting one of the people but both the branches broke and scattered like a paper got tore in pieces.

Not even a scratch... What the hell—? Superman?!

The classmates were left with opened mouth. But they didn't waste their time admiring— being shocked and ran... attempted to run.

Two of the people came behind the girl and the boy, so fast no one noticed, and caught them.

In another struggle to free, the girl's mind went blank, and she threw a hard punch straight to the person's face, who was trying to hold her back.

The classmates and the other people were speechless...

And more shockingly... That person... fell unconscious... Not only the witnesses, she herself was shocked.

This is not the time to waste!!

The boy and another girl came to drag away her from there, made her come back to her senses.

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They were still running and suddenly something passed away in front of them, like a swift of wind. They all stepped on brakes, anxiously looking around.

They heard the rustling sounds few times, not knowing it was to distract them. Until they realized, They were once again caught.

The girl once again tried her luck and attempted to punch the person behind her.

However, before she could try something. She got pulled back and hit at the vital point at the back of her neck, making her lose consciousness.

She mumbled weakly: " Who... the...hell...?"

And somehow turned to take a look at the person who did it. But her vision has blurred. She saw a figure, looking at her.

Red... black... boy...

Her legs gave out. As she fell and was caught the figure of a boy. Finally, her consciousness gave out as well.

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