Ruhi's pov:
"Megha, where the hell you are?" I screamed in my mind. I'm walking through this thickly dense forest along with this irritating 'Mr.walk'! I don't know how much distance we covered, all I know is, we didn't stop for a while to have some rest! I'm really tired and every single joints in my body is paining. I looked Aslan.

"Walk fast, it's getting dark!" He said.
Is he a human? I mean no human being can walk like this without taking any rest.

"So, you are not human,am I right?" I asked.

"WHAT?"That was almost a shout from him.
Okay, I agree my question didn't make any sense. But, you can't blame me, cause we are wandering through the forest for hours,I mean more than one hour!Two is greater than one right? So,it is more than one hour!In this case, leg cramps are common for a human being.

"I mean we are walking through this jungle for almost two hours.Don't you feel like resting for a while?" I said with my quickly made puppy eyes.

"It's a jungle! That's why I asked you to walk fast. We have to get out of the woods, before it gets dark. He said and moved a little faster.

Is he a human? I'm pretty sure that, instead of flesh and bones his legs are made of something else!
After traveling little more distance, I collapsed to the ground. I'm done!

"What happened?" Aslan asked?
Hey boy, are you kidding? You really don't know,what happened?!

" I'm thirty!" I said.

" Can you walk a little bit? I can hear the sound of water, which means, the river is not too far from us." He said.

" Aslan please,we can sit here for a while." I pleaded. I'm really tired. If I have enough strength, instead of pleading, I'll tie his hands somewhere and take my own time to have some rest .

"Ruhi, I know you are tired. But it's not safe here. that's why I keep asking you to walk." Aslan said softly.
But, 'walk'! That word is hard one for me. I wonder, why he saved me from that 'muscular pack'! Earlier,he saved me from that giant and now he's trying to kill me with this non-stop walking. what's the difference? I looked away from him and pretended like I'm not listening. Actually I'm not in the mood! After some minutes I turned only to see him walking away from me. What an idiot!

"Hey, where are you going?" I shouted. This Mr. Walk is irritating me.

"To somewhere safe? I'm not a hard-hearted man to see the sight of a tiger attacking a monkey!" He said with a smirk.
How dare he? I stood up and followed him. Because, my body has no enough energy to start a fight with an alien!

We didn't took much time to reach the river bank. Aslan was right!
I quenched my thirst by having some water from it.
"Can we rest now?"I asked again. As I expected,the answer was no.

"C'mon Ruhi, it's getting dark."the voice came from behind. Is he a tape deck or something? I turned back,but, there was no trace of him! Where's he? I can see a big pit in that spot? How come, Aslan became a pit so suddenly?

"Help" a voice came from the pit. I looked into it and there he is!

"Do you want to walk through the underground also?" I asked him controlling my laugh.

"No time for joke. Pull me up!" He yelled back.

"You should promise me something!" I gave a smirk.

"What promise?"he asked.

"Promise me that we will sit here and take some rest." I said.

"I 'm not going to promise things that will never happen." he bitten his teeth and said those words. Yeah, I know he's really mad at me.

" Well, stay there. Let me have some rest and after that I'll pull you up." I said dramatically shaking my shoulders.

"Ok fine,I promise." He shouted.

"Aslan?" a voice came from behind.who was that?
I saw Megha and Ajaz standing behind me.Thank god! They are here.
I hugged Megha tightly.

"Oh Ruhi,I need my bones!" Megha didn't waste any opportunity to tease me.I gave a small punch to her right arm.

"Help!" Aslan shouted from the pit. Oh god! I forgot about him for a moment.

"Aslan , what he's doing there?" Ajaz panicked.

" Nothing to worry, he fell into a pit!" I said.

"Then, why don't you pull him up?" Ajaz shouted.

"Yes, I was going do so. But you guys interrupted!" I smiled and in return, Megha rolled her eyes.
Ajaz moved towards the magic lamp which was lying next to the pit. What a good friend! Insted of saving his friend he go for the lamp! Ajaz picked it up only to drop it down!

"What happened?" Megha asked.

" It's hot!"Ajaz said. His hand was slightly burned to red.

"No way, all the time, Aslan was holding this lamp.How come the lamp get heated so suddenly?" I said.

"If so, check it up by yourself!" Ajaz kicked the lamp towards me with his leg.
I picked it up.

" What's wrong with you?" I raised an eyebrow and looked at him.
Is this forest having any kind of curse like, handsome men will behave strangely, the moment they stepped into this place? Or are these boys are like this by birth?

Ajaz came to me without believing what I said. He took the lamp from me.
"Trust me guys, it's hot the moment I picked it up. That's why I dropped it!" Ajaz said with a shock.

"Maybe you are a king,but I don't care. Don't play jokes." I yelled this time.

" I'm not joking."Ajaz tried his best to be a 'Mr. Honest'. But, I'm done with this game.

"Are you trying to say that, this is a magical forest, which can make the lamp hot all of a sudden?" I shouted back.

"It's not the forest, it's ...." Ajaz left the sentence incomplete. But, I'm not in the mood to leave him so easily.

"It's... what?" I'm not ready to give up.

" It's nothing" I successfully irretated Ajaz.
Oh know, this guy is so annoying. I'm damn sure, these two boys are hiding something from us. Why can't they spit it out? What's the big deal? Does he know, who I am? Hold on, Who am I to him? A complete stranger! We just met on the train!
So it's not the forest,not he nor Aslan who was acting strange. It was me, who was acting strange.oh god! What's wrong with me?
It's better to give up!

" Ajaz, the lid was missing." Megha pointed to the lamp and said.
We noticed that the cap of the lamp was gone.

"Where's the lid?" Ajaz asked.

"I don't know. Aslan hold the lamp in the entire journey." I said.

Ajaz moved towards the pit. When he came near to it he dropped the lamp. I tried to pick it up for Ajaz, but it's become hot. what's happening?

Ajaz moved swiftly and came back with a wooden log. He pointed it to Aslan and yelled.
"Jaffer, where's my Aslan?"

Hey guys, I'm really sorry🙏. I promised you that 'no more delays'. But things, never goes like as we planned😑. Sorry for the delay😔. And yes,this chapter is long. I hope it's not boring. Kindly give your votes if you love the story line.
I'll try to update next chapter ASAP✌️.