The Gatekeeper - Chapter 9 Tell If Im Able

The Sky grew to a purple haze mixed in with orange revealing one of the moons, the red trees that grew in this forest grew a darker shade looking like blood. The black grass seemed to glow a light green color barely perceptible.

“That seems to be Dunkel moon.” Mund says to me while pointing at the moon, his face looks tired and his ears still has stains of blood that seem to have dried.

“You still have blood on you ears.” I point at his ears, he quickly pulls up his shirt from the base and wiped both of his ears. He turns back to me giggle oddly as he looks at the grass as if he’s hypnotized .

“Is it me or are this black weed grasses glowing?” He said while he knelt down to to uproot some of the grass.

“No not really, probably just you, maybe your even going blind.” I tell him while laughing his face crinkles in slight anger as he face me.

“I gonna take this, and show my mom.” He says to me as he lifts the bundle of grass shaking off the dirt.

“Do you have anything to put in?” I ask him as I see that he’s holding the grass in his hands.

“No I don’t.” He says shaking his head.

“Here you can have this pouch.” I tell him as I give him a small pouch made of rough fabric. He takes the pouch and puts the the grass in it. He ties the pouch on his pants and thanks me. After that we walk for about five minuets and the trees look like they never change as if we are in a loop. I get the feeling that something wrong tensing up, fearing the possibility of any more surprising anomalies like the fractured dimension. ‘Upsilon scan the forest.’ I tell my construct.

‘The parameter of the Scarlet Forest is safe save for the dwindling life form 50 meters ahead of you’ Upsilons cold voice answers in my head.

‘Is the life form safe?” I ask him

‘The life form is safe.’ he answers swiftly

‘What kind of life form is it’ I ask him, a cold rush of energy rushes to my head as data of the life form appears before me.

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Race: Human Male

Age: Approximated (9-10)

Magic alignment: No magic detected

Magic attainment level: Basic

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“Mund wanna race?” I ask Mund who’s busy studying the the black grass, he looks up to me putting the grass away.

“Sure, but how do we get back to the camp?” he asks me scratching his head. I point forward to the location Upsilon told me.

“Se ya later sucker!” Mund screams waving his hand while running, I follow him hoping he’ll find the boy. We run for about a minute before I see Mund running back to me. He’s breathing hard and wheezing looking like he was about to pass out his face a medium for fear.

“A body.” He tells me shaking my shoulders “It’s…dead.” his words come out broken

“Where?” I muster a worried face. He drags my hand as he runs to the body. The boys body underneath a dead tree with pitch black barks. Blood trails from the black bark to the boy who’s lying on the ground. Mund lets go of my hand and kneels where the body is. He slowly turns the body to its back, where we a wound on his stomach.