Blooming Darkness

Ruby was walking slowly trough the forest. It was full moon amd the whole place looked creepy and shadowy. The fox was cold, but she had to continue, she had no other chanse...

Ruby's home was overtaked by phantoms who now used it for their new hive. She tried to find shelter, but the animals stayed hidden in their dens. No one was going to help a dirty, poor fox walking around Jamaa and searching for food. No one but the Alphas. That's why she wwent into the forest. She was searching for the Alphas and she had heard their home was in that direction.

Ruby felt she couldn't walk anymore, she was hoing to die. She suddenlly saw a shadow quickly flashing trough the forest.

"Wh...who's there?"she asked. But the black wolf was gone.

ust when her hope aas all gone, she saw a small house in front of her. It was an inn. Ruby went inside.

The inn was very small but warm and cozy. There were two rooms - the main ine and a bedroom. In the main room the were few sturdy tables, a fireplace, a lemonade stand and some couches and chairs. There was a female seal in folk clothes who was the innkeper

"Excuse me... Do you have a room gor me... I'm sorry, I don't have any gems..." Ruby said.

"No problem, dear, I will give you shelter, no need of gems." the woman smiled. This ws the first ever jammer that Ruby saw to don't want any gems. It was suspicous.

The innkeeper gave Ruby a nice room,it had white walls, a princess bed with s pillow and a vanity with mirror, but there were no windows. Ruby puted down her fox hat and sword and returned to the main room. There the seal made dinner. It was a fried chicken and a pice of cake. After eating it, Ruby returned to her room and quickly fell asleep.

Ruby woke up in the room. It was pretty dark and she sensed it was night. She standed up and saw she wasn't at the inn. This was a castle den. and she was in its underground floor.

"How did I end up here? I was in a small house inn." she whispered. The furniture was the same as in the house, but black and there was a cell with phantoms under the staircase. She ran to the door. She decided to ask the innkeeper where's the WC, but instead the door, there was a a jail screen-looking-thing. Ruby grabbed her sword and broke the gate. She ran up the stairs, frightened.

"Mrs. ...uhm, Inkeeper!" Ruby shouted while running trough the castle. The front gare was also locke, which meaned there was no exit. Ruby went to the 2nd floor, hoping to find the seal.

Suddenlly, while running, a shadow flashed.

This time Ruby was totally scared. She threw her sword in hopes to bleed the mysterious attacker, but it fell near a wall. She took it and saw a stain of black liquid similar to blood on the wall. She made few steps backward when she was grabbed by a giant chomper-similar-plant, attempting to eat her whole.

"Aaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!" she cried, trying to save herself. She used her sword to cut one of the plant's long tennacles and it left her. Suddenly, she was pulled by something big and black.

"What do we have here?" this was the black arctic wolf Ruby saw flashing in the forest and in the castle. His red eyes looked at her. "A little fox who seems to be very brave."

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Ruby cried. "Why are you doing this?"

"I want to rule all Jamaa. I created this plant to pollute the land and smooch life out of its inhabitats. I was the inkeeper who briught you here. And now its time for you to DIE."

He then swallowed Ruby whole. All that left from her was her shadow.

From this day her soul wanders around Jamaa and sometimes go back to her old home. So if you see a suspicous shadow in a Small House Den, quickly run away.

Created by Elise the white swan