3rd Person PoV
Just as ZhenZhu fell unconscious, she was suddenly brought into a dark space, something in here made her felt uncomfortable, 'where the hell am I?' She asked after making several rounds walking around the place. 'Flame? old man? Rose? Lily? Xiao Huang, Xiao Lan, Xiao hei? Feng Huang?' She called out to all of them but there was no answer, 'brother? Xiao Xiao? Hua Lan?' Despite the fact she kept on calling there was still no reaction, the darkness surrounding her wasn't dissipating, nothing was seen but she felt a ominous aura surrounding her but she could tell who or where it came from, all she could do was walk ahead not know where she is going or even where she is headed.
'This is tiring!' She moaned whilst she sat down for a rest, 'I though I was exhausted from using up my pure Qi, so why am I brought into this unknown place?' She asked herself whilst thinking back to when she was forcing the dark Qi aura out of Hua Lan, 'could it be that dark qi's doing?' And just then she quickly stood up.
At the far end she sees something, she ran over quickly and as she reached getting a bit out of breath, she looked up and was faced with a large metal cage. It seems there was several pillars in the form of a prison cage surrounding whatever is inside it.
'Is there anyone there?' ZhenZhu shouted out loud however that wasn't a good idea.
Just as she shouted out, in front of her, a big golden stone suddenly appeared but taking a closer looks, the stone was moving with a big black stone in the middle reflecting my image, ZhenZhu reaches out but suddenly the stone moved away, standing up.
And with that she realised what she was about to touch wasn't a stone but a living creature's eye.
Ooops
'Well...well...well... what do we have here?' The creature said, it's shape is of a wolf with shining gold eyes, it has shiny red fur and 9 tails spreading behind her body. She looks like an ancient creature and that made ZhneZhu wonder why such a ancient being would be trapped within this cage with so many dark aura surrounding this place, 'who are you?' ZhenZhu asked.
'Are you asking me?' She laughed, 'I've been trapped here for the past few decades and finally someone comes to see me, but I never expected to have such a pesky little mortal being coming in.' She scoffed looking at ZhenZhu with dissatisfied expression.
'Look, it wasn't me who wants to come in, I just suddenly got here and I don't know how to get out.'
The wolf stared at ZhenZhu and laughed hysterically, 'you... you don't know? .... don't play with me?' She said suddenly turning serious, 'this is the deep unconscious part of your body and your telling me that I'm trapped in this weak and pathetic child who doesn't even know how to get out of her own internal mind' she scoffed getting more and more agitated, the dark aura surrounding her causing her eyes to turn dark and what looks like a beautiful wolf lady a few minutes ago now turned to what seems like a evil creature who was about to rip ZhenZhu's throat out but luckily she was caged.
However what this wolf said left ZhenZhu confused, 'what do you mean, this is my internal mind?' ZhenZhu asked.
The wolf looked down upon ZhenZhu who looked tiny and frail but for some reason delicious as well, 'this is the deep unconscious mind of yours, normally you wouldn't come here but I'm guessing it's this little pesky thing that did this.' She said as she suddenly made the dark Qi appear in front of ZhenZhu, the same one as the one forced out of Hua Lan's body, 'so that is why it disappeared so suddenly!' ZhenZhu said to herself.
'This thing must have got into your body, weakening you even more causing you to come here.' The wolf carried on saying.
Whilst ZhenZhu just nodded, 'so what does it mean when you said your locked up in my internal mind?' ZhenZhu asked.
And that made the wolf really angry, 'if it wasn't because of that woman then I wouldn't be here in the first place.' She said angrily.
ZhenZhu looked at the wolf uncertain of whether to carry on questioning her in her current state but one question that she really want to know is why her?
As the wolf calmed, she looked back at ZhenZhu, 'i was once a well known ruler of the world, the most powerful being but just because those pesky creatures don't listen to my commands, they started to revolt and that woman! That woman sealed me within this 9 pillar array for over centuries, I've seen many changes with life, being sealed life after life, I've never seen the host of the body I was trapped in for the past decade or so until now but who knew I was stuck in a child like you!' She said annoyed.
'What do you mean, sealed for decades?' ZhenZhu asked, 'Well I was the most powerful being, stronger than anyone and everything, they all say I was evil, the being who brings despair, once I was fed up I started crushing the place. Well that was until I was trapped by the dragon and Phoenix couple who thought I was a threat and gave me to the high priest who sealed me inside that woman's body and since then every offspring she has, I would be moved into their internal mind one after another until now I am sealed within you.' The wolf said unhappily.
'Wait, do you mean you were originally from the abandoned forest?' ZhenZhu asked as she thought back to the time when rose and Lily told her about the evil being that brought destruction into the world, 'it couldn't be her right?' She said to herself.
The old looked at me confused, 'Well thinking back, now it has become the abandoned forest.' She said smiling evilly as if happy about her work.
'Your that creature that brought havoc and destruction to this world?' ZhenZhu asked shocked, 'Well if you phrase it that way, it feels like you over exaggerated', 'over exaggerated?' ZhenZhu asked dumbfounded and wondered whether this wolf woman was truly that creature who brought destruction to this world once before.
ZhenZhu then thought back to what the twins said, and remembered that one day the evil will come back and if it is truly her then she would one day roam the world, then what would become of ZhenZhu? Would she become the host of evil? And then be destroyed by the unitor?
Well whichever, ZhenZhu knows that she cannot tell anyone about this, she then looked up at the wolf wanting to know a bit more of what the wolf woman knows, but unexpectedly the wolf was powerful and could tell what ZhenZhu was thinking or feeling, 'you don't need to worry, I won't make you become a host, I'm not that evil.' She said which wasn't believable to ZhenZhu as she has seen the abandoned forest state.
'You don't believe me?' The wolf asked not happy, 'and if you have to say who is evil, it'll be the high priestess, he was the one who brought havoc, if it wasn't for his doing, my parents wouldn't be killed, I was only getting revenge. And just as I was about to succeed, I was sealed in that woman's body never to see light.' She said angrily as the dark aura fumed her surrounding.
Whilst ZhenZhu looked at the wolf with pitiful eyes, but still unsure whether the wolf was speaking the truth and even if it is the truth she doesn't believe that the high priest, the person everyone looks up to is evil, 'I guess you still don't believe me' The wolf sighed, she looked up a tear dropped from her face, 'back then I was just a child who loved my parents and grandfather but one day when we were out, they got attacked by the high priest who said they were evil for protecting me and due to that they died.'
'As for me... a 100 year old 9 tailed wolf that was seen as a bad omen was just a child then and didn't know the world was full of grief and the want of revenge, I then felt this sudden power flowing through me, my mind was blank and all I wanted was to kill that priest. But at the end I was captured and was told by both the dragon and Phoenix that in order to protect me and the world, they then sealed me within that woman.'
'I never knew what they meant, I forever thought that I was a curse to my family and that if I was never to exist, then this... this wouldn't happen to my family.' She said and that made ZhenZhu sad, she who had a similar experience throughout her life understood her and from the looks of it, the wolf's feelings were sincere, she wasn't lying and that made her wonder if what she saw at the temple was all a lie.
'Once I was sealed, both the dragon and Phoenix disappeared and as for the high priest who was believed by all as a almighty being started to pass down the myth that I was evil so that I would be sought out by all and that was when I realised what the dragon and Phoenix meant when they said that the seal was a way to protect me however I hated to stay in this forever darkness.'
ZhenZhu looked at the wolf, 'how do I know you aren't lying?'
The wolf woman smiled, 'you are quite a careful little thing.' , 'yes, what I've said may all be a lie however don't you have a special skill that allows you to detect if I'm lying?' She asked smirking, 'how does she know?' ZhenZhu asked herself amazed but it was true, the system shows no sign that she was lying.
'But anyways I could just show you what happened.' She said as a purple flame flowed out of her hand and coming closer towards ZhenZhu, surrounding her and suddenly a bright light shone and as she reopened her eyes, she sees herself in a beautiful field, one that looks familiar.
'Is this the abandoned forest?'