Arabella's story

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 36865

"I came from a big family. I had seven brothers and six sisters, and we lived in quite a small house next to a huge wood.

When I was five I went out to get water from the well, and I found a bracelet, made of gold. I didn't tell anyone about it because I liked it and if anyone else knew of it they would take it and sell it.

I put it in a special place I knew of in the wood inside a hollow tree, and forgot all about it. When I was twelve I left the little house to pursue my fortune. I returned with moderate riches, and so helped my family in this way.

I continued doing this for four years, and so when I was sixteen I went walking in the woods, going to all the places I used to go. I passed very close to the hollow tree I had hidden the bracelet, and I saw it through the trees. Actually I more felt it than saw it, because it felt so dark, and wrong.

I watched it from a distance, and then I suddenly realised that the ground around the tree was bare. Not a single leaf, for a berth of about four feet. And not a single bird was in the tree, while the other trees were full of them.

I moved slowly towards it, and then I remembered it was here, eleven years ago, that I had hidden the golden bracelet. I remembered exactly where it was, and like an idiot I decided to try and get it back.

When I reached into the tree and my fingers touched the metal, my surroundings disappeared. I mean, disappeared, and my mind was suddenly filled with terrible images. I think I saw pure evil in that moment. Then suddenly I realised I was in an impossible place, full of shadows that moved off the walls.

They kept me there for days, not allowing me to sleep, or eat, or drink. I think I went quite mad then, but in my madness I saw things. I saw the Evil Sheep most of all, watching my every move. I didn't know what the Evil Sheep was, I didn't even know that it was called the Evil Sheep, that was just the name I gave to it. But I saw other things too. I saw the death of my family, the beginning of the human race, and I saw my child, and if I ever have a child, which I must, it will be enough to overthrow the Evil Sheep. But if I don't have a child, there'll be nothing to stop it slowly taking over us all.

I was finally let go from the shadows, into this land. I got back as fast as possible to my family home, but when I got there, I found every one murdered, their bodies still there, flies buzzing around them. Just as I had forseen.

As I began to leave that terrible place, a figure suddenly appeared, coming over the field. It was moving at a normal place, but somehow it was was clearing a lot of ground in a very short time. I tried to escape through a back window, but as I dropped to the ground, this figure was waiting at the bottom, ensnaring me with long arms.

"Your time is almost up." it whispered to me. "Twenty years is all it takes for the King Of Darkness to return" Then it let me go.

I spent the next five years moving all around the world, trying to keep ahead of the things. Then one night I had a dream, staying in some hot country.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed that you would take my innocence, and that my child would be yours. I woke to find myself surrounded by creatures like the one I had met at my family home.

"You know the path." they told me. "You must be kept under control." And so I was forced into this chest you found me in.

It seems like yesterday. Was it?" Arabella said, with frightened eyes. "What year is it now?"

"1298" replied Fred, puzzled. Arabella gasped. "Oh my goodness! I was captured in 1295. I must be twenty four now!"

Fred blinked.

"Soon it'll be twenty years since I found the bracelet. In a year the world will be overcome with darkness, unless you get me pregnant."

"Is this some sort of complicated chat up line?"

"No! It's all true!"

"Well... I suppose we should get married then..."

"You idiot! We don't have time! In fact for the good of the world we should do it right here, right now!"

Fred sighed, resigned to his fate. "OK then..."

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