Chapter 14 - 14: Curse of the Fiery Bright Forest

Author's Note: 2 chapters in one

Enjoy and have a Happy New Year!

FYI: I still don't feel so good, so don't expect a chapter tomorrow.

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Three Months Later...

The sun shine brightly in the hot environmental forest called the Fiery Bright Forest. A young girl with long black hair, white jade-like skin and a cute face pouted. She wore a really worn out black hoodie cloak, the hood drawn back, and was b.a.r.e footed.

She opened her little mouth and said:

"Where is that pervert? It's been months and I still haven't spotted him. I know for a fact that he's still within the forest, due to the fact I have left a spirit flame mark, but for the life me I can't seem to pinpoint his location!?" The little girl continued to pout in frustration as she kicked a tiny pebble towards a tree. Which jaw droppingly destroyed it to smithereens, along with three more in it's path, with the pebble stopping at the fourth deeply embedded on it's balk.

If anyone below the Spirit Elder cultivation or people who had no talent in being spirit masters were to witnessed such a scene, they would have immediately bowed down towards her in respect, administration and fear.

The little girl gave a short huff before turning around and decided to return to her 'home' to relax and try to find the pervert once more tomorrow.

"I still didn't return this to you yet..." The girl muttered. Holding tightly on the black cloak, her face cheeks turned a shade pink as she unconsciously let out a small pretty little smile, her thoughts returning to the first per–human she has ever interacted with since...

'Only this time I met a sane one.' Her once childish expression pout turned cold as her black eyes turned a shade bright gold.

The girl could still remember that insane human and his followers she met years ago. Worshipping a supposed bloodthirsty god, if it ever were real, to the point of wanting to sacrifice this forest and it's inhabitants to show their fate and belief for the god.

It was horrible. The girl could still remember the blood and corpses of the spirit beasts scattered all around the forest, staining all the blue silver grasses and trees color into red, not only that, but the malicious and evil energy of those evil spirit masters that had died was so powerful that even after a hundred years had passed that it had made their blood and the spirit beast's blood that had died were 'mark' in the forest. A curse. They had somehow put a curse upon the forest.

They had made all the normal plants and trees and spirit beasts plant types to b.a.r.e the color of the blood that was spilled in the forest.

To the present civilization of humanity, the color red being theme all throughout the forest was normal, they probably didn't notice it or just thought of it as a mutation caused by the 'mysterious' hundred thousand year old spirit, but to her and some others like other hundred thousand years old beasts and old monsters of the human race? This was not natural. The curse might not affect any of the normal animals, vegetation and spirit beasts now but someday it will.

And it will lead to unnatural catastrophes.

This forest is a blight from the natural order of the world. And the girl knew that if she does not get rid of this curse of the forest, the world laws might do something to it to get rid of the stain of the world.

The girl gritted her teeth.

She... She had tried her best. Her everything. Even sacrificing her 'true' form to have the curse upon the forest to be ceased but to no avail, it had only delay the inevitable.

That was the reason she had reincarnated into a human. In fact, it was just mere months ago that she became mortal. Though thankfully, her bloodline of her once spirit beast physiology had remained and the spirit essence she awakened was something she knew of prior with experience of usage.

She can't lose this forest. Not out of obligation or responsibility as the 'lord' of the forest, but for it was her and her late parents' home.

This is where she and her parents grew up in and lived for thousands of years. They were the first inhabitants of this land and it wasn't until she was fifty-thousand years old that other spirit beasts started to live in their land.

This where she lived and this where her parents had died and lay. And there is nothing that will stop her in relieving the pain of the forest.

The girl shook her head and momentarily put those thoughts at the back of her mind and concentrate at the present issue while walking towards her territory.

The first sane human she has encountered.

And the first perverted human she has ever come across.

<FLASHBACK!>

One day she was going around doing her own business, just taking a stroll in the forest n.a.k.e.d after taking a deep in a lake cause what human would be bold enough to wander in the Fiery Bright Forest at night and the spirit beasts around her doesn't care about some human female b.a.r.e body, when she came across two brown furred moose that was going crazy.

Anger filled her eyes for a moment as she thought back to the humans that dare came in her forest to create a mindless slaughter and thought that they came back.

So, without any hesitation, she instantly summoned her spirit essence: Golden Emperor Sky Burning Flame. One of the most rare and powerful flames in all existence which once belonged to her late father. Now passed down to her.

With a burst of golden flames, she arrived at the two brown furred moose territory and was face to back with a black haired boy at the same age as her(physically) happily humming to himself while harvesting the first that she sworn were the property of the brown furred moose.

'Thief!' She thought of the time.

Although angered at the audacity of a human messing with one of her subjects? subordinates? she doesn't what they are to her but even then, when they live in her forest they were under her protection(albeit a loosely based title). She quickly calmed herself and controlling her face to be a cold and emotionless expression. Completely forgetting the fact that she was n.a.k.e.d. She opened her mouth and asked,

"Who are you?"

"Why are you n.a.k.e.d?!"

<END OF FLASHBACK!>

The girl sighed for the tenth time as she plopped down on the floor exhausted and bored.

She was on the human's tail when he mysteriously disappeared from her sight. She didn't know what happen but a flash of light suddenly blinded her for a moment before the human had vanished.

'Should I just give up?' The girl thought in frustration. Before once again shrugging it off. After all, if she wanted to get rid of the curse of the forest, why would she give up so easily?

"Stupid human... Stupid perverted human... Stupid human... Stupid perverted human..." With nothing else to do, the girl decided to just summoned her spirit essence and shaped it into a golden sunflower. Blowing one of the flame petals at a time.

"I'm soooo boooooreeeedddd...." The girl grumbled as she blow another flame petal out.

"I wish something would–" Before she could say anything else, a giant pilar of green suddenly bursed out of the ground several meters away from her location, which had blown her away.

"WHAT THE–?!" The girl hurriedly tried to find her ground but had trouble doing so as continues waved of wind–no, steam blow at her.

'Huh, what is this?!' The girl thought before covering herself with the heavenly flame. As soon as she covered herself she immediately went for cover at the top of a tree.

As she sat top at a tree branch, she stared agape at the scene in front of her.

A towering green light pillar of flames with a width of 10 meters appeared, continuing to bursed out of the ground till it reached the sky. Extreme waves of steam bellowed all around the light pillar. Causing everything around it to be hit by highly heated winds that had cooked an entire tree to charcoal in less than a single breath. Thankfully there wasn't any spirit beasts around as this was her and late parents' territory and as the lord of the forest, she specifically warned all of the spirit beasts in the forest to back off of her favorite spot.

Suddenly, the pillar started to go down in size and lessened in it's firepower. The waves of wind steams gradually calming down. However, the green flames just converged together in a vortex and compacted into a giant flaming ball.

Several moments later, the green flaming ball, burst and out came a green jaded statue of a n.a.k.e.d human boy sitting cross-legged looking calm and yet also in pain.

The girl gasped in surprise, as she knew the green jade-like statue, straining her head she gazed down and had asked quietly in surprisebut sadly it was said out loud.

"Perverted human...?"

Both of the hands of the statue suddenly shattered and clenched into fists, showing two smooth jade like skin, surprising the girl by the act. So much so that she had took a step back, that she unknowingly, hit the back of her head at the tree behind her.

Holding the back of her head in pain. The girl stared back at where the green statue was and moments later witnessed further movement by the sudden turned statue of the human.

Cracks formed further; from his arms, to his c.h.e.s.t area, the ends of his toes, and the scalp of his head. When those cracks appeared all around his body the temperature around him seem to rise and the surrounding vegetation seem to quickly turned to ashes.

The girl further strained her neck and narrowed her eyes, completely unfazed by the sudden rise of heat around her as she had felt much more hotter heat than this, she gazed curiously at the appearance of the boy and his sudden rise of fire-power and wanted to observe.

Suddenly, two green glowing eyes stared back at her causing her to momentarily flinched in surprise.

A sound akin to glass breaking was heard and before the girl could look back she heard a ear piercing scream. Causing her to shield her ears than her eyes.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The girl stared, jaw dropping, in disbelief and embarrassment, not at herself, but for the boy's b.a.r.e n.a.k.e.d and well developed body. As he continued to roar madly at the heavens, like they owed him something, while he spread his legs apart showing his 'sword' with his clenched fists by his waist, making the girl consider shielding her eyes instead.

His shoulder length long black hair with green tips seem to float in the air, somehow defying gravity, and the green flames around him to explode in strength.

The girl blinked and thought to herself,

'What the hell am I seeing?'