Chapter 1
There was a house in a village, and in there lived a kid. The village is called “Huangbo Village”, and the kid was one of the Ro family, his name was ‘Rollo’. The house was not a rich, good house with all kinds of treasure, marble floors, but it was not a poor, hot, dirty poor straw house with no furniture either, it was a Ro house, a lovely house. Rollo lived with his grandpa, and he was a person who didn’t like the outdoors, he was warm, but he was boring, and never wanted to risk anything, but from the other side of his family, he has inherited the momentarily braveness and ferocity.
“Grandpa, today I am going outside.” Rollo said, “Today I will try to be more brave.” his grandpa smiled, “You can say that, but you know, staying home is nice, I like to stay at home, if your mother hadn't mixed with those strange riskful folk, you might have been normal.” He said, and I felt like my heart was stabbed, I didn't like to hear about my parents, bad memories flooded me. “Alright, if you want to, you can, but just be careful, ok? Remember, the Bull’s Head Mountain is the limit.” so I took a deep breath like a swimmer would do before a competition, and started the swim. I looked for my friends, but they were not in their homes. “Where are they?”
Finally, I found them, on the outskirts of Bull’s Head Mountain. I suddenly became horrified, because that mountain was the ghost mountain to our family, I would never set foot there. “Y…you know I am scared to go there!” they just laughed, as a small dog came up barking behind him. Rollo yelped as the pomeranian came up, and he ran. Rollo forgot everything he was supposed to follow, the rules, grandpa’s scary stories, he just RAN AS FAST AS HE POSSIBLY COULD, right into the Bull’s Head Mountain. At some point, he saw a flower-gate, which didn’t lead anywhere except past the mountain, so Rollo got through. A burst of energy rippled as he got through, though, but he kept running, yet one of the beams of energy hit him, and he passed out. Help, I-he started dreaming, he dreamed of a witch, a purple one, weird, but then she raised her hand, causing fire to burn in the beautiful woods behind her, and a giant Taotie with a giant mouth rose, to start devouring the world.
When Rollo woke he saw a purple face in front of him, and he remembered his dream! Rollo gasped, struggling, but he was trapped in the air, “Oh, little yellow monkey, don’t you dare use your stingy stick to hurt me again, like a long time ago, or else we kills it, yes, we kills it, kills it now! No, no kills it, it is innocent, no threat, no, are you stupid? You should kills it, its stops us! No, we let it go, its weak!” It walked away, muttering, “Kind, kills it, yes, but…” Rollo stood still, Looking at what she’s doing, and after a while of her talking to herself, she walked to him, “Come on, little boy, granny will take you to help! Granny is good, Grandma is bad, Granny care for you.” He bolted out of that horrible place, crying and screaming, Rollo didn’t want to have anything to play good witch bad witch with, and whether he should fight for himself against a horrifying witch or just let it be and run, He didn’t even have time to think about it. Rollo felt like after he was on the mountain, he kept running away from things. Then in front of him Rollo saw a cliff, the edges were carved sharp and the whole thing was like a crack in the floor blocking Hell and all the horrors of the world that had ever been mustered. He yelled and ran away from the cliff to see the witch, and horrified, Rollo ran the other way, too scared to think properly, everything was happening too fast! He forgot about the cliff behind him, and fell while he realized it was a skin that he had learned from the mythological stories, but how is it here?
I finally calmed down, and everything seemed slow. He turned to face the side of the cliff, reaching, reaching like if Rollo’s arm was long enough, he could touch the brink of life, and take it back, while the darkness below was happy to embrace him. Rollo was terrified, screamed, kept screaming, but he reached harder, I want to live….LET…..ME….SURVIVE!!!
Nothing happened, and Rollo tried again, “GET ME BACK!!!!”
A burst of blue power hit Rollo, and he was lifted up into the sky, and then slowly onto the land. He sat there at first, gasping, then he closed his eyes, breathed, and slowly opened them. Rollo was stunned to see a golden deer looking at him smiling, and he thought it was a female deer, a doe. A golden freaking doe. Maybe it was the one from Rollo’s great grandfather’s adventure stories? He would be surprised to find out. But to tell the truth, Rollo was afraid of the deer, he was freaked out by the idea of animals speaking! He didn’t know why, Rollo just felt frightened by the whole freaking idea. So he closed his eyes and coiled into a ball shape, but then he realized the golden deer was nudging Rollo.
“Wake up, dummy, we got work to do, quick! I helped you from Grandma, but she’ll be back soon, run!” It heaved Rollo on its back and Looked at it closely for the first time, and saw the magnificent shining antlers, which seemed like magic to him. Such things shouldn’t have existed, and shouldn’t have been seen by him! Why was it him who had to be here, with every tree crawling with betrayal, every step closer or less towards death? Yet this was a burden Rollo can’t reject, if he was right, his dream was real, very real, and the Taotie will destroy this beautiful mountain soon if he was not to help, yet he was still completely terrified of the entire thing, if the witch is already making Rollo crazily horrified, how can he expect himself to withstand the son of the great Long? But as he was sitting on the golden deer’s back, Rollo was comfortable, and fell asleep.
When he woke again, it was night, and a warm blanket of leaves was on Rollo to keep him warm. Rollo saw the golden deer standing over him, and was not surprised to find himself still in the forest. He wanted to climb up the tree to see if there was any ending to this forest, and if Rollo could escape. He has been gone, what, 2 days? He patted the golden deer testing her, and as she woke he ran away, scared that she might suddenly jump on him or something. But the deer was not angry or something, so Rollo was not afraid like to the nine headed snake or the witch, the deer actually looked kind, and made his heart warm, her eyes were of a deep golden color, shining with small bursts of lightning, it looked a god of some kind, so he tentatively stepped out of the tree, and confronted the golden deer. “Who are you?” he asked, “Were you the golden deer who helped my great grandfather defeat a Taotie a long time ago? But you should be dead, you died in his story!”
The golden deer snorted, “I am the great immortal deer! I can never die, I was reborn!” and she looked at the sky, “I had helped defeat the Taotie a lot of times, from your early descendants, every time Tiangou had eaten the moon 100 times, Taotie will rise from the ground and I need to help your descentes again.” then she looked down at the ground, “I always died, but even immortality has a limit now, I am only alive for people who know me and believe me, yet those are getting fewer and fewer, which means I am weaker and now I am no longer immortal. This time we can’t just put the monster back to sleep, we must kill it.” she narrowed her eyes, “You are not like the other Ro family people, you look terrified.” she sighed, and beside her two paths opened to lead to either her or the sudden flower portal that the trees formed, the path to the golden deer was red, while the path leading to the portal was green, “You can choose either saving this dimension, or you can be terrified and run away back to your safe little world, and have the guilt on you for all your life, and the great monster can break to your dimension, Grandma can the path to saving us will be in vain, horrors with meet you, you can get really damaged - you might die, but you will receive more soul, ability to defeat armies, fame, love, access to our dimension with magic to help you even if we suffered, because you suffered for us.”
