The First Meet

The students were having a school field trip, they were so excited. While heading to their destination, a girl saw something strange in the woods but not sure what it was. "Lay. Lay!" her friend, Claire, called and she responded with a "Huh?"

"You're spacing out again."

"Ah, sorry. It's just that there's..." She pointed to the direction of the strange thing but paused when it was not there anymore. She got confused and so did her friend. "What?" her friend asked, "Um, it's nothing. Let's go, before we'll get left behind." Lay said then they hurried to their classmates.

While everyone was busy doing something, Lay could not seemed to find peace in her mind and kept thinking about the thing that she saw in the woods earlier. Debating whether it was real or maybe just a figment of her imagination. She was too bothered about it that she did not even notice that Claire was approaching. Claire suddenly shoved her face right in front of Lay saying "What's up?" which got her really startled, resulting to her falling over from her seat, which also made her friend burst out laughing before helping her up.

"Why'd you do that for?" she said, as she slap Claire on the arm.

Claire said "That was so wholesome." as she continued laughing.

Right after that, she then asked "What up with you? You were gazing so far you could see the Mars." And Lay just told her that she was just thinking about some things and emphasized to that it was just some random thoughts because she knew Claire would not leave her alone if she finds out that it's something that's bothering her. Then, they went to join the others.

Everyone had fun doing activities and learning for the day. Then they cleaned up after they had their dinners. Lay, after washing up, went out to see the night sky. While she was walking, something caught her attention again, it was the strange thing she saw earlier. She stared at it intently. But she got startled when an old lady suddenly spoke to her. "It's rare for a will-o'-the-wisp to show itself."

"What did you say it is again, grandma? A will-o'-the-wisp?"

"Hmm. Did you know that following it leads you... to your fate?"

"Fate? What do you mean?"

The old lady looked at her and smiled, and said "Follow it and you'll know what I mean. But be careful, fate can be cruel." With that the old lady left.

Later that night, when everyone was asleep. Lay lied on her bed with eyes wide opened. She kept thinking about what the old lady said, and it bothered her so much that she couldn't fall asleep. So she decided to went out to look for it.

In the woods she kept looking, she shone her phone's flashlight here and there but she couldn't find it. She sighed "What am I even doing...?" She turned around and was about to give up, but then the will-o'-the-wisp showed itself from a distance. Lay slowly went closer to it but in every steps she made the will-o'-the-wisp moves away, it was like it's maintaining the distance between them.

She was hesitant but she made up her mind, "Okay, this is it. No turning back now." She took a deep breath and said "Please, take me to my fate."

Then the will-o'-the-wisp started moving deep into the woods as Lay followed it.

As they get further, Lay was getting chills and she started to get scared because she's not sure where she was anymore and there are strange things started to appear out of nowhere. Then the will-o'-the-wisp stopped, she also stopped. She looked around, and said "Is this it? Don't tell me my destiny is to get lost in the forest." and then went closer to it but it suddenly disappeared, so she panicked. She looked around for it but she couldn't find it anymore.

As Lay kept looking for the will-o'-the-wisp, a huge unknown creature appeared behind her. She heard a growl from behind her, and by the time she looked back, the creature has already raised its claws, ready to attack her. She got terrified, and fell to the ground, then she remembered what the old lady said about fate being cruel. The creature was about to hit her, so she closed her eyes and thought that that must be her fate.

She waited, but nothing happened. So she slowly opened her eyes to see the creature lying on the ground slowly disappearing into glowing particles. She also noticed a white haired guy holding a sword and was approaching her. "Are you... alright?" the guy asked, and Lay just stared at him.

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