Entwined Paths ~*~ chap 2 part 4~*~ {pg 13+}

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Chapter Two – Arrivals
Part 4 - end chapter 2
~ Sebastian ~

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Sebastian walked along the long stream through the forest, he couldn’t help but stick to the places un inhabited by people, he had lost almost all his faith in other races and didn’t care to much about trying anymore, He was angry about the way being a vampire had him tagged and he didn’t want to bother with trying to explain that stories are just that and nothing more. Sebastian didn’t find the trip to lonely though, he was use to being alone by now and he found comfort in the creatures of the forest normal people feared, he would happily share his food and anything else he had that the creatures wanted, they never judged him, in the animal world things were black and white, animals would only kill for food or protection and this made Sebastian feel safer than even when he was at home, when his family were there.

The deeper into the forest Sebastian got, the more the creatures would come out around him, however one wolf had followed him from the start off his journey all the way, Sebastian thought that because he fed it, it was following him and he didn’t mind, he knew he could more than look after himself if the need came up but he doubted that very much all the same.
It was after Sebastian had been walking almost three days that the wolf ran in front of him and stopped him from walking “Hey buddy, what’s up?” Sebastian said looking down at the wolf “Would you believe me if I told you?” the wolf said in a young girls voice, Sebastian stumbled back a step and raised his eyebrow “Did you just talk to me?” The wolf sat down “I did yes” she said, Sebastian laughed, “Well, why not” he said still a little un sure “how are you talking?” The wolf looked up at him “I’m A shape changer” she said “My name is Mollie, I gave you the book back in town” she said laying out on her belly now “I think it is terrible what they did back there, to your family, and you” she said “I wish I could have helped but I’m to little and if I was in wolf form they would just do the same thing to me” Sebastian sat on a log behind him “Don’t blame yourself for others actions, and I think no less of you for not helping, you’re a child, and its not your place to try and stop adults no matter how irrational they may be” Mollie sat back up “I wish people were more like you, I’m a wolf, talking to you just normally and your not even fazed by it” Sebastian laughed “if I were to judge you for being a shape shifter it would make me no better than them” he said and pulled a pack of crackers out of his bag and gave them to Mollie “But there your last” Mollie said looking at them “they are my last crackers, I can feed in other ways, you however are a child, killing isn’t the best thing for you, I’d much prefer you to go back to your family and eat easily” Sebastian insisted “and I like to share specially with the person why gave me the push I needed to leave this place” Mollie giggled “I haven’t finished pushing yet Seb, Your not even at the start of your journey, your only on the prelude to it” Sebastian laughed “Prelude, that’s a really big word Mollie” he said “What do you mean though, I’m not at the start yet” Mollie glows and when the glow fades she’s the pretty little girl he had met back in his home town “Well” Mollie said “your journey starts through the rift, it’s a whole new world, a lot like this one, only there are bad things and good things there and all of them are mystic” Mollie gasps “Oh I said to much, Seb I really have to show you to the Rift now, its at the waterfall and that is still a long way away” she said and changed back into her wolf form and started to walk “Come on Seb, we have to leave here now or you’ll never get there” Sebastian stood up and walked at Mollies side “Rift, Journey, what is this all about and how do you know so much?” Mollie sighed “I was born knowing, three times” Sebastian stopped walking “Three times?” “Yes, I was born three times, first I got really sick and I couldn’t get better, the second time I was hurt bad when I fell out of a tree, and this time, I found you” she said “The angel said that I had to much knowledge for my years, but its okay, now I’m a shape shifter I can be a wolf to do things I can not do as a little girl” Sebastian continues walking with Mollie as she starts up again “That sounds like a lot of responsibility for a little girl” Mollie giggles “Well, it would be, if this was my real life, This is just something I’m doing as part of my real life, my real self is someplace else being protected while I’m here, I’m also a lot older then what I seem here” Sebastian smiles “Well, that explains a lot, but I still see you as a little girl even if you are older, its just a feeling I can’t change” Mollie looks at Sebastian “It will never be different for you” she said and smiles “we will have to stop at Giovanni’s place before we get to the rift, I know your don’t need to sleep but while I’m here I do, you’ll like him, he tells really good stories” Sebastian stops walking and waits for Mollie to stop “I can see your getting tired, if you change back to your little girl form I’ll carry you the rest of the way to your friends place” Mollie had changed forms before Sebastian even finished the sentence and he laughed and picked her up “how far?” he asked “Its just over that hill, where the light is glowing from” Mollie said and Yawned.
Sebastian carried Mollie all the way to Giovanni’s place, she had fallen asleep not lung after he started carrying her, When he got to the small log cabin he knocked softly and waited until the old man opened the door “Good evening” Giovanni said with a smile “Come in come in, lay her down someplace comfortable” Sebastian was un easy, he didn’t know this man but Mollie seemed to trust him, so he used that as an indication it was alright “Mollie needed rest, she said to stop here”, Giovanni laughed “Its all very fine, you need rest to no doubt, I’ll make us some drinks, you lay her down there and you can come sit next to her by the fire”. Sebastian sat by the fire and watched it burn away while Giovanni got some drinks “I hope deer blood is fine, the deer, its pure, the dear I got it form died naturally, not by my hand” Giovanni said walking back into the room “um, that’s great, thanks” Sebastian said “How did you know I was a vampire?” Giovanni laughed “I know my own kind, terrible what happened to the others though” Seb damn near fell off his seat “You’re a vampire, I thought I was the last one, in this area at least”, the man chuckled “people believe a lot of things without evidence young Sebastian. It is what we don’t know that makes life surprising, I’ll tell you a story about a rabbit and a squirrel” he said and starts before Sebastian can even make a sound “There was this Rabbit, her name was Penelope, now Penelope had been told her whole life that no one other race of creature was worth even talking to a rabbit, Penelope didn’t understand this but how could so many of her own kind be wrong. Because of this, Penelope grew up snubbing anything that was not a Rabbit. This worked well for her until she became a teenager, this is when the humans came with guns and traps, after a short time all her family and friends besides her had been killed and taken away, leaving poor Penelope all alone with the belief she was the only creature she could be with. Now night after night she would try and fend for herself, keeping her burrow clean, eating the greenery around her, it was okay up until there was no greenery and her borrow had started to collapse. That was the day Penelope gave up and just laid down to die, it was also the day Megin ran down her tree “Excuse me miss” Megin said to her so softly “Are you alright miss?” now Penelope looked at the squirrel and turned her back “My family told me not to like other animals to” Megin said and skipped around Penelope “Its not true, I have friends with every kind of animal, I’ll help you build your home back up, we can be friends” Penelope looked at Megin and smiled “Really” she said and got up, Megin and Penelope have been best of friends ever since that day” Giovanni said “well, its late and you should get some rest before Mollie wakes and wants to leave again, Just remember, what you believe to be and what is could very possibly be two very different things, good luck on your journey” he said then got up and walked into a different room. Sebastian gave a very odd look then went back to watching the fire until Mollie woke up “Morning Seb” she said and gave him a hug “Oh wow, I slept to much, we have to go” she said and jumped up and grabbed Sebastian’s hand and pulled him towards the door “Shouldn’t we thank Giovanni and say goodbye?” Sebastian asked, Mollie giggled “Giovanni wont be here now, he goes out during the day, I’ll thank him for you but we have to go” Mollie said and opened the door “Okay okay” Sebastian laughed then followed happily “The water fall is just on the other side of that hill, if we hurry we should get there soon” Mollie said still dragging Sebastian.

It took them about two hours to get all the way to the other side of this hill “There it is!” Mollie gasped and pointed to the shimmering rift “Wow” Sebastian said looking at it “That’s kinda cool looking” Mollie let go of Sebastian’s hand “You have to go through it now, just walk and go right through” Sebastian looked down at Mollie and the expression on her face made him go strait to the rift without saying a word, he was about to go through but he stopped and turned back “Will I ever see you again?” he asked “I grantee it” Mollie said and changed back to her Wolf form, turned “Good luck” she called then she ran off. Sebastian Watched until Mollie was out of View then took one last deep breath and stepped through. As Sebastian came out on the other side, he took a good look around then smiled “So this is the start” he said….