Animals scurry, and whisper around the forest. It was a small, soft breeze that slowly swept the forest. Even though the forest normally had such infinite weather, the breeze had a readiness to it. As though something was about to happen, many of the deer who felt this way gathered around the pond. They where filled with wonder and simple fun, as they trotted around the shore of the pond.

Many of the deer sat still and enjoyed the breeze as others drank water and enjoyed the excitement. Emiva sat on the bridge observing the deer that frolicked far away. She was very uneasy, unlike the others. Vessel saw her and her weary look and walked silently towards her. His strange appearance caught Emivas’ eye immediately.

“Vessel, it’s you,” Emiva shifted her head.

“Indeed,” Vessel kept his head down staring at the ground with great concern.

“Well, I’m not sure of you’re the most affable person to talk to. But, in any case, have you happened to feel the wind blowing in the forest today? Isn’t it strange? It’s like something is warning me telling me to go? Like some hidden existence inside me,” Emiva cocked her head.

“Your scruples are nothing but concerns for the weather. Not for today, or the others,” Vessel sat beside her. His fur was thick and warm against Emivas’ thin fur. Sadly, her thick coat wasn’t coming in. So the wind was quit unpleasant on her skin.

“Are you sure Vessel? I mean don’t you have feelings like this too,” she sighed.

“You’ve had a lot on your mind since your friend…well you understand. You must rest, and you must stop worrying,” Vessel said solicitously. “The twin gods protect and guard this forest from any unnatural being, or any other things. The only thing that is accepted to enter our forest is the animals and the wind.”

“Yes, but if the gods can make a crack good enough for the wind and the animals to come through wouldn’t that also leave room for enemies?”

“Impossible, the gods are intelligent and watch over us all the time. Why would they abandon us and let something get in?”

The conversation ended as such and they were silently watching the deer enjoy the warm weather. Then a salt stench came. It smelled foul and she could almost taste it in her mouth. The wind blew hard, and then the perfect water that laid so still some seconds ago had aroused. The water spun and it formed into a tornado. Or as some call it a water spout! The deer who frolicked so carelessly and free where swept up by it’s strength. Vessel and Emiva stood to there feet; Emiva, and Vessels’ friends where being sucked up by the waterspouts strength.

“No,” Emiva screamed she ran around the side of the lake. She felt her strength slip and she felt her feet lift. She kicked her feet and she could here the screams of her name from Vessel. She was lifting further, and further from the ground and soon she was hovering over the lake drawing closer to the waterspout. But then, when it only seemed like it had just begun the air stopped. Soon the water spout sunk into the water leaving a whirl pool effect.

Emiva dropped to the ground and hit it with a slash and thud. Vessel ran to her side and stared at the whirl pool. Soon the whirl pool slowed down, and the lake was back at peace. And there friends where gone.

Emiva stared up at him with tears in her eyes “Cracks are always big enough to fit evil.”

Vessel stared at her, his heart wrenched in somewhat guilt. Cracks should never be made, but bettered repaired.

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Quad hit the ground hard almost on his head. His body ached, and he felt confused; his sense where all out of whack, and he could barley focus. He could sense his other comrades beside him. He swirled his head around only to hear a sharp squeak. His red antlers had whacked Taliene. “Oh, sorry,” Quad turned back around only to slap her straight in the face again.

Her mask pointed straight up to the air, Quads antlers must have swooshed it back when his antlers whacked her so hard. “You know Quad, having big antlers like that is a gift and a curse in so many ways,” she flopped her mask down back on her face with the jerk of her head.

Jen walked up to the crowd limping a little and stared at them. His black eye sockets burrowed deep into the deer’s heart. “Where are we,” He asked.

They looked around, in utter shock, they had arrived to a place where the dirt was practically invisible and had a bluish brown color. Srila tapped the ground hard and looked around in pure dismay “Are we where I think we are,” she frowned.

“Yeah, where Anzel always travels to…But somehow it’s different. I can still see the sun, and sky? It’s different, it’s colder, and the ground is almost like glass,” Rutylus stepped in.

“Yeah…,” Wind howler coughed trying to rid the dirt in his mouth.

Then everyone heard a snicker, and there eyes fallowed to a strange creature. Its eyes big and black, it had four fingers on the front and hind legs, it had a dirty smile, and it had sharp pointed ears, and small horns on its head, a tail and wings flicked perennially. It stared directly at Mazy, with great interest. “You all are going to die,” its head flipped around till it was horizontal.

“Dreadful beast how did you get here,” Mazy stomped her hoof.

“ I live here,” He flipped his head to the left.

“Then why do you say we die? There is no harm here,” Quad cocked his head.

The creature giggled “Ignorant creatures! You do not know where you are? The place where you think you are at is not here…Oh no, you’ve come to a land most foul!”

“What’s it called, “Mazy drew closer.

“You are in a land with no name,” He scratched his hand.

“No wonder why we didn’t go through the deermuda triangle,” Perplex lowered her head.

“Oh, that thing! Tis’ a star in the sky! It comes out soon I suppose,” the creature laughed.

“But it looks like the morning here,” Jen roared.

“Oh it is much darker here darker all day long!!! Two hours or twenty minutes of day light,” the creature laughed again. “By the way my name is Kapper.”

“Um, Kapper…We need to get back home through the triangle,” Wind howler cocked his head.

“Impossible, the star is but a star. Can’t be done,” Kapper flared his wings.

“But we must leave,” Wind howler cried.

“Wait. We came here in the water maybe we can get out from the water,” Srila thought. “Kapper where’s the nearest water?”

“The ocean is eastward form here. But you’ll make it there by night fall. Which is bad time to go into the ocean…Actually it’s always bad to go into the ocean,” Kapper whispered.

Mazy looked at the deer “We have no choice…”

As the deer ran off into the distance hoof beats beating in unity Kappers’ voice shouted “Beware the Megalodon! Teeth that are sharp and a mount the size of the moon!”

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I hate putting up long Ch. up here....
I hate making you guys read so much...But I wanted to include it all in one
chapter.

Story name..Still kinda a work in Progress