And just as the three creatures thought that they were lost in the empty forest, they found an abandoned little house. It had like two bedrooms and one bathroom. Everything on one floor. The house was made out of oak wood and for the roof was used wood from a cherry tree. Basically, the perfect house for a homeless creature to live in. And in this case, for Frighter, Dasher and Lighting.
"Do you guys think that this'll be the perfect former shelter?" Frighter asked. He didn't recieve an answer from the other two creatures.
One other thing about the abandoned little house was that it barely had any actual furniture. There was mostly hay, just thrown around the place. Frighter thought that it'll be a good alternative for beds, sence there were two big piles of hay in the bedrooms. Dasher didn't see any good in this and Lighting, he just wanted to take a break from all of those spells, curses and walking. All three of them needed a break.
Dasher's eyes slowly opened when she felt like someone was missing. That made her almost jump from the hay bed where she was laying, then she realized that her brother was up. Dasher went to check on him, incase he's feeling down or sick.
Lighting was all fine, he was just looking at the empty window. At the forest and it's trees with slowly dying leaves.
"You feeling alright, Lighting?" Dasher asked, in a still worried tone.
The bull-turned-stallion looked at his worried sister, with frowned eyebrows and overall sad expression.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm fine, sis." Lighting was clearly feeling something negative, and Dasher frowned, begging for a proper answer. The bull really had no other choice, but to answer honestly. "Alright! If you really want the truth, then here it is!" Lighting sprinted towards the door and opened it. "I want to run for a bit in the forest all by myself! I just can't stand here anymore."
The earth mare wasn't surprised in any way by the things her brother said. She knew that his wild bull instincts were starting to kick in, which was making him want more freedom and space to move around. So she let him go for an hour.
"Make sure not to get lost, brother!" Dasher informed, but Lighting didn't seem to bother listening, so he kept running around like crazy.
After three hours, Dasher was just about to prepare dinner by placing three small piles of hay, sence both she, her brother and Frighter were able to eat hay, the mare noticed that it's been a little more quiet than before. She went outside to check.
When she stepped outside, she saw that her brother was nowhere to be seen, so she shouted his name, hoping that he'll arrive immediately, but no. Maybe he got somehow lost in the forest, while Dasher wasn't paying much attention to him while he was carelessly running around like crazy.. Whatever the reason was, she had to find her brother.
"Frighter!" Dasher entered the bedroom full of hay, where the little dragon was still laying and napping. "Frighter, wake up! This is serious, Lighting got lost, we need to find him!!"
"Can we... like, go later? 'Cause i don't... want to get up.." Frighter was feeling too sleepy to even speak normally, which quickly got on the mare's nerves. She slammed her hooves onto the ground loudly enough to make the young dragon jump and wake up. "OKAY!! Okay, let's go and find our bull!"
And just like that, Frighter hopped on the mare's back and she galloped at full speed into the forest. Both carefully looked around, hoping to spot Lighting somewhere in the woods.
Meanwhile, two other creatures were trying to hunt, on the other side of the forest, which was close to the small dragon kingdom. These two creatures were a young, chubby cat from Panthera, named Milo Hearthe, and a middle aged dragon, who went by the name Seran Celestine. Both creatures were wearing surprisingly fancy clothes, like any civilized citizen.
Today they were out, to hunt something for Seran's hometown, but.. things weren't going well for them.
"Mr. Hearthe, you promised me that at least this part of the forest is full of life.." Seran said to the cat, "What happened, Hearthe? The animals flew to south?! Or a new animal virus banished them from existence-?!" And just as the dragon was about to finish the sentence, Lighting galloped right infront of the creatures, without noticing their presence.
Milo immediately reacted when he saw the fast galloping bull.
"Here's one!! I told you that there's something alive in this place, and i didn't lie!"
Immediately, both creatures started chasing the running bull. Milo jumped on Seran's back and he flew after the animal. Meanwhile on the other side, where Frighter and Dasher were, they still searched for their cursed stallion. But they didn't see him anywhere. Until they started hearing hoovesteps from somewhere nearby.
Frighter moved his ears around, then said to Dasher, "Over there!"