[The Enchanted Forest] Chapter One

⇢ The Enchanted Forest ⇠

Genres: Fantasy, Romance, Tragedy

-Chapters-

Chapter One – The Beginning of the Folktale

Summary:

Every once in awhile, Nicholas's grandmother would always tell him the same folktale that she'd heard when she was young. It was about a beautiful water spirit that wishes she could experience the feeling of sentiment. After Nicholas's attachment to the legend, he decides to set out and look for the beautiful spirit that lives in the Enchanted Forest. However, Nicholas faces one challenge: his grandmother forbids him to leave home after 6pm.

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"Music expresses for what cannot be said."

Chapter One

The Beginning of the Folktale

Rumours spread around about the beautiful water spirit that appears every night. Men say they've seen a mysterious woman down by the sea in her whitest thin gown with no shoes on. Her golden locks of hair shined as the moon reflected its rays of lights onto her head. As they gazed upon the beautiful water spirit, their hearts raced as their spell walked them close to the sprit. They disappeared after that, and all that was left was their golden walking cane, lying solitary on the cold lonely concrete. A sheet of paper was attached onto the golden cane, with little tiny notes written on it.

Some say they've managed to run away from the mythical creature, trying not to get captured by their unending beauty. Some disappeared out of nowhere, leaving only one thing behind. – A music sheet.

Every music sheet had the same notes, and the same melody. No one knew what it meant, and no one knew who composed it. That was left a mystery, with no evidence to prove it.

News about it spread quickly, and no facts was left with doubt. Adeline, the girl with the thin brown hair that was pinned up in an up-top bun and lime green eyes knew the legend off-by-heart, and hasn't forgotten it since. The title was called, 'Encantados'.

The girl at age eight would always run home before six at night. Knowing her parents would be worried, she didn't disobey her parents' orders. Just after half past five, she ran home with the bag over her shoulders and the violin case in her hand. In her other hand, a paper flapped wildly along with the wind.

As she got home, she showed her parents the paper that was waving along the wind.

"Look ma!" She showed her mother her piece of paper, after dropping her violin case on the ground, leaving a 'Thud' towards the atmosphere.

"Careful with that violin," her mother ran over to her daughter to give her a gentle welcome home hug. Her daughter, Adeline held the paper in front of her mother's face. Her eyes shot wide open, then her disgusted face shown absolutely no happiness towards the paper at all. "What is this?" Her mother raised her eyebrow at Adeline before frowning at her daughter's reply.

"Isn't it great, ma? I'll finally be able to–"Adeline stopped after looking at her mother's face. – The look that showed nothing but disgust and horror. She was cut off by her own mother that she ended up yelling, causing Adeline to cry right in front of her.

"No! You absolutely cannot!"

"But, ma! Why can't I?"

"You mustn't! Never will you ever see this paper again. I forbid you to learn violin from now on."

With the tears still running down Adeline's eyes, her heart pounded with hate, and her hands clenched onto her fitted gown. She ran up the stairs and into her room. Adeline didn't know what she did wrong. She only showed her mother the piece of paper, so why did her mother have to get mad? Adeline couldn't understand it at all.

From there, she cried silently to sleep. Never has she ever hated her mother, and never had she thought she'd have to one day rebel to her. – But it happened. Since then, Adeline had stopped playing the violin, but on occasions, she'd play whenever she was down by her hideout.

Her last words were,

"Encantado."