37 Lost In Wilderness 3

It was the same pain. The suffocating feeling. The kind of pain, that demands to be felt.

The third petal is turning silver.

[Why?] She asked. She killed four people today and the 10 people she killed before was enough for one year. Why? Why it is still turning silver? What did I do? Is it because I protected someone?

The man finds the girl's attack has weakened. Even her steady feet staggered a bit.

The sky is already darkening. The thick fog surrounding Li Wei and the man. Both battered with bruises.

Li Wei felt that her whole body is aching. But what hurts more, is her heart. It's too hard to breathe.

Taking this advantage, the man stabs Li Wei. His sword sinks into her chest. She looked at him with a smile on her face.

"Ugh." The man groaned as he felt pain in his chest. There, he finds Li Wei's sword that stabs him. He looked at her red eyes with disbelief.

Li Wei pulled herself to get away from the sword. Not feeling any stab pain in the slightest. If she didn't dodge a bit, she would have been dead. The sword almost hit her pain heart.

The man lied on the ground breathing heavily. Without any word, she takes the spatial ring in his hand before walking away. Disappearing in the thick fog.

The man didn't expect the girl to take his spatial ring. He thought if the girl leaves, he will take the pills to heal his wound, but now it won't happen. He will die today, in this mountain called Lost in Wilderness.

A silhouette of a girl walking in the thick fog stumbled. She was tired, and she can't breathe properly. The wound on her chest bleeds tremendously, forming a flower in her dress.

She sat up and lean her body to a sturdy tree.

"Li Wei..." Someone called her. And that voice was all to familiar.

"Come here, Li Wei." It spoke again. Another woman's silhouette appeared in the fog.

She was about to answer that voice when another voice chimes in.

"I'm sorry, Mother."

Li Wei's eyes widened. She looked at the two familiar silhouette. It was hers and the Queen.

"What did you do?! Why did you not obey me?! Why did you not kill them!? I told you to kill them and not spared them. You disappoint me!"

"Mother, they are pitiful. They did nothing wrong."

"Silence! I will cage you in! You deserves it! A beast like you deserves to be cage! Think what wrong did you do inside the cage. Seeing your face makes me sick!"

"Mother! It's too dark here! I can't see anything!"

"Mother, I don't want to be cage! I want to see the light! Mother! Please let me go! I promise, I'll obey you! I'll do anything you want! Just let me out of here!"

Li Wei remembered this scene. She was only 10 years old at that time when she failed her mission. To slaughter everyone in the neighboring country. She was sent to wage war. Sent in the front lines to guide the whole army. Kill everyone, that was the Queen said. But she can't. The people already surrendered. The old, the young, every woman and men looked at her with fear. Her red eyes and white haired reflecting in their eyes. She was a monster. A rampaging beast they saw in the midst of the battlefield.

"Remember, Li Wei. If you disappoint me again, this rose in my hand will be you. Beautiful but easy to crumbled." The Queen said, clenching the petals in her hands.

"I will give you a gift. You must take control of it." The Queen put her index finger in Li Wei's forehead.

She can't control it. But there was something more. Li Wei felt something was controlling her every move. She fought it in her all strength and Li Wei succeeded.

And yet again, when she was 12 years old. She was again inside the cage. She did nothing wrong yet she was inside.

"Young princess. Young miss." The 12 years old Li Wei heard her maid whisper. The teary-eyed face of Meimei and Feng An reflected in her eyes. Both looks so pitiful, so thin and looked dirty.

"Young miss, listen to us. We will make you get out of her soon." The 16 year old Feng An said.

"Why is mother like that? In the past, she doted on me. But why? Right now, she looks at me like I'm the most disgusting thing in the world...?"

"Young miss, young miss, please don't cry. Our time is so little here. We just sneak in. We're here because we can't take this anymore. The Queen... The Queen isn't your mother..."

"The Queen isn't my mother." The 12 year old Li Wei muttered. Disbelief rising in her heart.

"The Queen is here, young miss. We better go." Meimei and Feng An immediately slip out using the window.

"Mother..." Li Wei called the Queen when she saw her entered. Her majestic appearance and Queenly aura really made others bow down to her.

"How are you my little beast? Let's get things a little exciting shall we?" The Queen said, holding a crystal clear ball that has one red rose floating inside glowing beautifully.

"Mother, what is that?"

"Little thing, you dared to try to act against my back..." The Queen said in spite. "Li Wei, for betraying me, I will make you suffer! With this rose in my hand, this would determine how long you will live!"

The Queen roared in anger. Murmuring words that the little girl cannot understand but soon enough, Li Wei's very being change for the second time. Her black long hair change to white and her warm golden eyes turns bloodthirsty red.

The Queen hand the crystal ball to Li Wei and hug her. She then whispered to her ears, "Kill... Kill everyone here inside..."

That night... A royal blood bath happened...

When the army entered the ballroom. Countless bodies littered on the jade floor. Only the Queen and the Princess was standing there. What made these stoic men stupefied was the Princess...Her bloodied clothes are soaking. When she notice the army, Li Wei throw the lifeless bodies out of her hands and looked at them.

The General almost cried. He remembered what the Princess said to him after winning the war in the neighbouring country, she said "General, I don't want to be like that anymore...I don't want to transform as that kind of person. I can't control myself. The Queen did something to me, General."

But now, what the General is seeing, was what Princess don't want to appear. The bloodthirsty beast that was feared by them.

In an instant, Li Wei kneeled in the bloody floor. She already turned back to herself, her eyes brimming with tears as she looked at the lying person next to her.

"Uncle, what did I do?"

"Wei'er, live well. Be happy."

"Uncle, I'm sorry, I killed you."

Li Wei's uncle looked at her pitifully and shook her head before turning his sight to the Queen until his last breath.

The voices faded, the silhouettes disappeared. The surrounding turns quiet.

The people who were resting in their tents, heard the laughed of a mad woman that made their skin crawl.