A Flower and her Knight Episode 2

THE WOLF CREST The 2nd chapter begins, the next day with Timmy in the market telling his friends about what his father, Matt told him about the Cleansing, and as result, he doesn’t want to eat food anymore. His friends tell him that the Cleansing was created by their Goddess, Hashina as a way to control the population of the world that is to prevent the Earth from becoming overpopulated by removing all the adults from the face of the world after every 30 years and leaving children to continue living on Earth by using their dead parents/ relatives’ corpses as their fertilizers. Timmy is not happy with this information and wants to find a way to communicate with Hashina so that he can ask her to stop the Cleansing from taking place but his friends tell him the only way he can communicate with her is through her daughters the Flower Queens that is Queen Lily or her sister, Raisa the Queen of Roses and another way is to pray to her golden statue which is found on the dusty road. Timmy opts to go with the golden statue because there was no way he could meet and talk with Queen Lily/Raisa because commoners like him are not allowed to speak with the Flower Queens except for Lord Jabal and the royal knights. They suddenly see a beautiful mixed teenage girl called JANEY (15), walking in the market together with 7 sons of the royal knights, and one of the boys with silver hair winks and blows a kiss to Timmy. Feeling awkward with the boy's kiss, Timmy and his friends walk away from Janey and the boys and were heading outside the market when they see a notice on the wall from Lord Jabal that Queen Lily will choose her new knight (from among the 7 sons of the royal knights) on Saturday during the Choosing Ceremony then after that she will go with her knight for her quest to find her Great Animal. Meanwhile in the other neighboring kingdom, Raisa summons her knight, ELI (14) to her bedroom telling him that her roses have told her that her younger sister, Queen Lily is going to choose her knight that Saturday. Hence, she must see Queen Lily and her new knight after the Choosing Ceremony and kill them before the Cleansing had taken place even though Eli is against Raisa’s orders, he obliges her wishes and they kiss. In the evening when Timmy and his friends were returning home after playing soccer, they pass the dusty road and see Hashina and her daughters/Flowers statues on the way and his friends leave him alone each one going home. Timmy stops at the statues, kneels and offers his golden necklace which has a WOLF HEAD CREST on it as a GIFT to Hashina and her daughters. He prays to her asking her not to take his parents during the Cleansing but to take his life instead of them. When he says that he suddenly hears wolves howling near him and he quickly runs away leaving his Wolf Crest at the feet of Hashina. The statue of Hashina opens her eyes and looks down at Timmy’s Wolf Crest, she smiles sadly at his gift but refuses it, the Wolf Crest disappears away from her feet and the statue closed its eyes again. The following day, Lord Jabal walks out of Queen Lily's room and meets with Janey in the corridor. He tells her to prepare the boys for the Choosing Ceremony and Janey tells him she hopes Queen Lily will choose her younger brother to be her knight so as to make their mother and dead father proud. But Lord Jabal tells her it is not easy to be Queen Lily’s knight but he assures her that she might choose him as her knight after all he is her first cousin. Saturday arrives, Timmy wakes up in his chicken coop and sees Jason's bride, FELISTER (15) and her bridesmaids have already arrived at his farm for the wedding ceremony. Timmy becomes Jason’s best man but has a fight with him in front of everybody during the wedding ceremony because he doesn’t want Jason to get married to Felister and promises him he will run away from home if he ever marries her. However, Jason doesn’t listen to him and instead marries Felister and Timmy angrily locks himself in his chicken coop. Later that evening, while sleeping on hay, Timmy hears a GHOST GIRL whispering in his ear to come and see her in her garden and she calls him her PUPPY. Timmy wakes up in horror and runs outside of his chicken coop not believing what he has just heard a few seconds ago, thinking it was just a dream/hallucination. He walks to his house and sees his family celebrating Jason and Felister's wedding and then Matt and Xylina give Jason and his new wife their BLESSING which manifests as a blue flaming TREE in the whole room then after a few seconds the strange tree vanishes from everybody's sight. Timmy having no idea what that tree was and why it manifested in the room, returns inside his chicken coop and sees his Wolf Crest on the hay as if somebody had returned it to him. Disappointed with himself that Hashina didn’t accept his gift, he takes eggs, apples, and milk with him and returns back to the dusty road in the middle of the night to bring more gifts to Hashina. On the way, he hears the ghost girl giggling and walking behind him but when he turns back, there was nobody behind him except for himself. He arrives at Hashina statue and this time he offers the eggs, milk and apples together with the Wolf Crest to Hashina but after placing the Wolf Crest on her feet again. He hears the wolves howling to him again but this time there were 2 shadow wolves with ancient symbols on their black furs dripping with blood behind him. Timmy quickly picks up his Wolf Crest and runs into the nearby forest with the 2 shadow wolves running after him. While chasing him, the two wolves divided themselves simultaneously till they became 12 wolves chasing Timmy into the heart of the forest. Timmy starts hearing invisible girls giggling around him and chanting in an eerie strange language that Timmy doesn’t understand which reminded him of the nightmare he always dreams of his mother and the strange enchanting blue flower. While running, Timmy spots a cave with a gate in the middle of the forest and Timmy runs toward it but couldn’t open the gate. Suddenly, a spear comes out from the gate and impales Timmy in his abdomen with its sharp point. Timmy's blood covers the spear’s sharp point and the gate opens and allows him to enter the cave. Timmy crawls inside the cave and the gate quickly closes by itself before the 12 shadow wolves could enter the cave. With a lot of blood coming out from his abdomen, Timmy sees the wolves changing into 12 naked men and women with golden eyes and they clap and bow to Timmy. One of them an older man moves closer to him, touches his cheek, and murmurs. "Let our Tree continues growing with you, Little Timothy." All the 12 men and women disappear away from Timmy and left him alone and unconscious inside the cave.