Happy Earth day

Hello everyone, Happy Earth day!

(Picture from wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryad)

I hope that everyone had a happy earth day, and I also hope that your helping pick up the litter and helping wild life.


Love,

Quinley

In the forest chapter two

(Hi just so everyone knows I may not have all of this as one chapter, I may brake it up into shorter chapters)

Chapter two: A battle with trolls

As Elizabeth walked, she thought about what her brother had said. and his gleaming red eyes, which he wasn’t born with. He had only gotten red eyes when…he had gotten a gift from a wizard. It was a little ring. The wizard had told him that it held great power. Her brother had gotten it, and wore it. then after serval days and months his eyes had began to change from blue to red. and he had gotten less friendly and more full of himself. Elizabeth had tried to talk to her younger brother but failed. he had shut her out of his room. Her other sibling didn’t have much luck trying to talk to her brother. He didn’t answer to any of them, and if he did He would threaten them. Elizabeth serval times had peaked underneath the door to see what he was doing. to her surprise he was looking at himself in the mirror. which he didn’t do…before he had that ring he never cared very much were his crown was on his head or where. “Give this peace treaty to the goblins and trolls, they will be very helpful to me” said Elizabeth’s brother. ‘Goblins? Trolls? what on earth is he doing?’ thought Elizabeth.  the door opened the servant ran down the stairs. The door closed, Elizabeth was surprised and scared at the same time. her brother had never liked trolls or goblins. And form a peace treaty? sure peace treates were normally good. but his “peace treaty” more seemed like , “A joining forces” kind of thing. why would he need goblins and trolls they were so rude and impolite. 

“Elizabeth wait…that is a dangerous part of the forest…” said Maple. “It is?” asked Elizabeth. “Y..yes…” said Maple. Elizabeth hadn’t realized how far she had walked. “Besides the troll fort ,this place is also dangerous…no one who has entered has ever returned…or at least one lucky person has” said Maple. A roar echoed through the forest, “It has picked up are smell , run” shouted Maple. “What? Run? from what?” asked Elizabeth. Maple grabbed Elizabeth by the arm they ran as fast as they could. when they had got to safety which was a camp like place. A few hammocks were tied onto trees (with the dryad’s permission of course)  weapons were lead near some trees.  “Can you tell me what that thing was?” asked Elizabeth. Maple gulped , “We don’t say it’s name. but it has hurt many of us…” said Maple. “Anyway I have to…do something with Sebastian” said Maple and left. Elizabeth starred at the fire , didn’t make sense how could a ring turn someone so…mean? she sighed. a boy with wheat colored hair and emerald eyes sat down beside her. “Hi I believe we met each other in the troll fort, I don’t believe I intruded myself. my name is William ” said the boy.  Elizabeth looked up “oh..I am pleased to meet you, I am Elizabeth. Princess Elizabeth” said Elizabeth. “I have heard about princesses being kidnaped by dragons but never trolls” said William. “Interesting I thought it would be more common” said Elizabeth. “Well…dragons really love princesses” said William. “At least I think…I hope not” mumbled William. “Well..I hope no dragon comes into the forest” said Elizabeth. “Me too..I wouldn’t…I mean I bet you wouldn’t want to be caring off by one” said William. After that long night the next morning Elizabeth woke up in a hammock. “Uh…pirates…help” she mumbled in her sleep. The birds chirped over head. Elizabeth opened her eyes. where was she? where were her maids? oh..right she had been kidnaped by the trolls…. “Good morning” said a filmier voice. Elizabeth turned it was Sebastian . “Sebastian?” asked Elizabeth. “Yes?” asked Sebastian. “what are you—“ asked Elizabeth. “Maple convinced me to uhh…say hi to you and show you more of the forest” said Sebastian.  “Wonderful” said Elizabeth, she slid out of the hammock. As Elizabeth and Sebastian walked around the forest , serval elf’s fired arrows over there heads and hit the targets. “hey” said Elizabeth. “You almost hit us!” she said. “Oh sorry” said The archers. Elizabeth smiled and said “It’s alright , but I doubt you want to kill your healer Sebastian”  joked Elizabeth. Sebastian smiled. as they walked Sebastian pointed out parts of the forest. He passed serval trees and told her about his favorite tree. It was a Oak tree. Were  she first met him yesterday. But he only said one thing about it “It is my favorite climbing tree.” Elizabeth was about to ask why he seemed to really like Oak trees. But Sebastian began talking about the somewhat “War” between good and evil in the forest. “Why don’t you make a peace, with the trolls and goblins” asked Elizabeth. “We have tried that it didn’t end well” said Sebastian. “The trolls nearly hurt Maple , who was trying to end it peacefully. That day made the relationship between the trolls and us worse. Maple was expanding what good it would bring th forest if our war between us was over. The truth is if you try to ask a troll for peace then it will not end well. They through a sword a maple luckily since she is quarter dryad it bounced off. But the trolls would not give up there. Maple was disgusted at the trolls behavior , ‘There will be no throwing weapons’ she said. She was explaining that maybe they would help uprooted trees when a troll through a torch at her (I had no idea how they snuck that in) A dryads really only weakness is fire , Maple gasped ‘you can’t do that , that was angst the rules’ she said. luckily I was there for if I wasn’t Maple would have surly died. After she had recovered , she made it clear that the trolls were dangerous enemies , that couldn’t be befriended” said Sebastian. “All the same but I would rather befriend hobbits then trolls”.  ding gong ding dong a bell interrupted the silence , “What’s that?” asked Elizabeth getting back on her feet “That means enemies are attacking, or there is a intruder or—” said Sebastian. “Enemies??? First thing in the morning?” asked Elizabeth. They ran as fast as they could , “Maple, what’s happening?” asked Sebastian. Maple looked up “what do you mean?” asked Maple. “The bell is ringing” said Sebastian. “Sebastian, I know. BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON” shouted Maple over the noise. The belle was raining louder serval of the dryad guards ran to the belle to find a young dryad boy pulling it. “Oh…” he said. “Young boy, this bell is only used for when there is danger” said Maple. “Danger…trolls….goblins..boo” he said. “Right…and this is only used for danger” said Maple picking him up. she turned to everyone “False alert” she said. she looked at the boy “do you know where your parents are?” she asked. “Tree” he said. “Could you be more bisect?” asked Maple. “Maple he may be only 30 or 40…he hasn’t learned many words yet” said Sebastian. “Oh and by the way this is Maple and I’m Sebastian” said Sebastian. “What is your name?” asked Maple. “Asssshhh” said the boy. “I know were that is” said Sebastian. “Sebastian there are at least a million ash trees in the forest!!” said Maple. “Right…” mumbled Sebastian. “Well…if he is young we have to find a small ash tree…” thought Maple. “Hello! Dryads and Elves and Fairies of the forest…does anyone here have a child named Ash. If so please come here immediately” said Maple. “Or as soon as possible”. A hour went by no one claimed that they were the parent of Ash. Meanwhile Maple had st with her head in her hands…it didn’t make much sense. Sure not all dryads had parents…as ash was playing around the trees sh e noticed something she hadn’t before…he was wearing a tag made out of a leaf. Sebastian noticed it too. Ash ran over to Maple. On the leafs there was writing:

Please take care of Ash , he no longer has perants. 

thank you. 

Maple and Sebastian were surprised. “He is a orphan” said maple. “Sebastian you need to take care of him for me” she said. “Hey I thought girls took care of—“ said Sebastian, “Never mind”. Sebastian was now responsible for taking care of a little boy. He had no idea what to do ,  also maple had a reason for doing it . she was busy with the war. She didn’t have enough time to take care of a child anyway. How was he ever going to do this?? He turned Ash was gone. In his place were footprints leading to the trolls fort. Sebastian sighed and fellowed the footprints , into the woods. He was going to at least ask someone who was a good Parent for help when he got back. “Ash…oh Ash” he shouted. He looked around this was a huge forest. Where could that little dryad be. ‘He could be hiding in those pile of leafs’ thought Sebastian the moment his foot touched it the leafs collapsed and Sebastian fell in with them, Everything went black. When he opened his eyes he found himself hanging upside down. from a tree, Serval trolls were discussing what to do with him. Some suggesting something that sounded like throwing porky-pine quills at him, it did not sound fun. Others suggested eating him alive. and a few suggested baking him or squishing him into Jelly. Sebastian started to feel sick maybe it was because he was being hanged upside down from the tree or it was because trolls were talking about horrible things to do to him. Either way he was not having fun, at all. Sebastian tried to undo the rope it did not work. “Let’s eat him, now” he heard a troll say. “Uhh…Don’t eat me…if you eat me you will have no one to give to whoever you work…for..whoever they are” said Sebastian nervously. The trolls laughed “The king said we could eat you..you are very important the person we need is Magle” said the trolls. Sebastian crossed his arms , “What if one of your troll…knight..thinglys gets hurt…Then I can heal them if you would let me go” said Sebastian. “Way have no ..Wound’t guard-trolls” said a troll. “Well…how about a contest, if I lose you eat me (which I can already tell you want to do) and if I win you let me go” said Sebastian. “What kind of contest though” asked the trolls. Sebastian thought for a moment..what was he good at..healing…Archery. Archery! “A archery contest…the rules are: No cheating…don’t kill anyone and just shoot the arrows at the target..Understand?” asked Sebastian. “Do you have any bow or arrows or targets handy?” asked Sebastian. The trolls nodded , they got some bow and arrows that looked to be made out of a thorn bush. and some nasty looking targets. Unfortunately the trolls didn’t untie Sebastian , but he could work with that. First a troll who looked very nasty (I will not describe the nastiness of him) Got out his arrow. and so did Sebastian who had somehow managed to stop his arrows from falling off. Sebastian looked at the target, and when the troll and him let the arrows go..Sebastian’s arrow went right through the trolls arrow and hit the target. The troll Grumbled and the next troll came and then the next and the next Sebastian deafened all of them. then the troll who was said to be the most powerful person stepped up He eyed Sebastian , Sebastian could feel the sweat going down his neck, Which felt odd because he was upside down. “Uhh…Hi” said Sebastian nervously , he didn’t know what to say to the troll. The troll took a arrow out of his quiver “Archers start” shouted a troll in a gruff voice. Sebastian took out his arrow and shot at the target but his arrow was completely knocked out of the air by the warrior troll’s arrow. 

“That was cheating” shouted Sebastian. But the other trolls just looked hungrily at him. They ran off to get the ingredients , Sebastian sighed the troll warrior had not won fair and square. Of course you can not trust trolls. He realized something the trolls had for some reason overlooked his dagger, Ha. Yes he could use it to cut the rope , but there was a problem if he cut the rope he would land head first on the ground. So maybe if swung over to one of the branches of the tree then cut the rope that could possibly work. But he wasn't taking chances , he could be eaten by trolls, or Escape and not get eaten by a troll. or possible hurt himself badly.  he shook the last idea out of his head , At least he was going to try it. If he failed then Good bye world. He sang himself over to one of the branches which worked thankfully. He got out of dagger and began cutting the rope as quickly as he could. The rope fell to the ground , Sebastian grabbed the branch and climbed down and ran as quickly as he could away from the fort. When he was out of seeing distance from the fort he sat down. There was a problem he didn’t know were he was in the troll territory or where it ended. He heard foot steps behind of him quickly Sebastian swung himself into one of the trees. Serval nasty trolls pasted by sniffing the air. Sebastian guessed they were looking for him. The trolls passed not noticing him . He sighed in relief. wherever he was he hoped someone would notice that he was missing. Maple twisted a peace of her blond hair ‘Were is Sebastian?” she thought. She had looked Sebastian was very much. Missing, “Send a search party to find them”  said Maple , suddenly the leafs began to rustle and Ash appeared. “Ash where is Sebastian?” asked Maple. “Trolls” he said. Maple’s face went pale. “Oh no…” she said. and went over to the party of searchers, “Sebastian has been Kidnaped by trolls” she said. Everyone gasped. “I know but you must look for him, far and wide I will come with you, Elizabeth and William take care of Ash for me” said Maple. And left with the search party. As they traveled through the forest Maple got a bad feeling that trolls were watching. She could see gleaming eyes in the bushes and trees. She gulped. Maybe they had eaten Sebastian , if they did then…shook that thought out of her head. She sighed it was to much to handle with monsters watching. Sebastian was still in the tree , he sat there and waited and waited. Maybe no one would notice him , or He would die of starvation . Sebastian suddenly realized he was hungry luckily he was up in a tree with fruit in it. Ripe juicy looking fruit. He grabbed one and took a bite. It tasted terrible. He spat it out, Okay maybe he would die of starvation. 

Maple looked around and called out Sebastian’s name. There was no reply , only the still darkness of the forest. “SEBASTIAN” shouted Maple she shouted as loud as she could. if Sebastian was dead then she would never babysit again!! there wads a still silence then out of the darks of the forest…“I’m here” came a reply. Sebastian sat on the tree on there was a swarm of Trolls around the tree, fortunately the tree was tall but unfortunately the goblins where planning to set it on fire and eat Sebastian. Sebastian on the other hand had been trying to ,make excuses on why they shouldn’t set the tree on fire. But the trolls kept, running around the tree , flawing their torches about. Sebastian to keep the trolls away made a anteing of leafs. Fortunately the leafs fell on the trolls unfortunately  the trolls where carrying torches so a fire of leafs sprang up. Fire…Sebastian gulped he held onto the tree branch. More trolls can around. From the distance Maple could see a light in the forest..it was very unusual , of course. Hardly any light came into this part of the forest unless the trolls where cooking there dinner which I do not want to talk about it is to gruesome…anyway maple fellowed the light maybe…they where cooking Sebastian and she would have time to rescue him, somehow. For instance tell those trolls that , Sebastian had a contagious cold. Maple kicked her horse and fellowed the light as she got there she found that there was a blazing light and more trolls…the trolls had managed to handle the fire somehow….and where trying to cut down the tree, Sebastian was trying as hard as he could to hold on. The truth was the trolls where shaking the tree and singing a song that I will not repeat (Because it was raver rude and not drawing room manor of talking.) Maple brought out one of her arrows , and shoot it at a near by tree, trying to get the trolls attention. (She would apologize to the dryad as soon as she could). The trolls turned around and noticed a little blond haired girl with pointy ears. The trolls took out there “Swords” really pointy jagged thing. And started trying to dwell Maple. Sebastian who was hanging on the branch which was getting very close to the fire , felt as if he was going to loose his grip. Maple was almost being beaten by a big scary ugly looking troll , She let out one word “Help” . when the other searchers heard that word they jumped out weapons ready and battled the other trolls. Sebastian felt his grip loosing d and he fell through the air , suddenly through the air a girl with bright red hair caught him in midair. As the battle was ragging she whispered a quite word in his ear, “Everything's , all right…”. She brushed a peace of brown hair out of his face. Maple was doing much better with the battle she had completely defeated the troll, and deafened serval other trolls. When Sebastian opened his eyes he found himself in a bed..where Maple..William (Valentina.) and Princess Elizabeth . where looking over him . “Are you alright Sebastian?” asked Maple. “Yes….I’m fine..But I almost got eaten by trolls” he answered.