King, Ganesh the purohit and the soldiers held their breaths, as the rumbling sound grew louder.
They didn't know what to expect they could barely see through the mist.
"Behind you!" screamed a soldier and swung his sword.
"Aaaaahhhh! it's me you idiot." cried another soldier whose leg was now injured and he fell on the ground.
"Get a hold of yourselves, and stay quiet!" ordered king slowly as he tried to look around.
The rumbling grew really close and as it almost felt something was about to attack them, it went quite.
No one was moving or saying anything.
"Alright! i think it's safe we should head out." said the injured soldier in a loud voice and was walking all normal.
"NO! wait, comeback."said king as grabbed him from shoulder and pulled him back.
"are you out of your mind? we don't know what's out there." said Ganesh in a very worried tone.
"hey wait a minute, your leg was injured a minute ago." said a soldier.
"No it was not." scuffed the soldier
"No! I did strike your leg and you were lying right here." replied the soldier as he pointed to the ground with blood stain.
"Where did your scar go?" said another soldier.
Everybody was now looking at him and slowly stepping away.
"Hey! it's me, you don't remember me.. yeah i got a little wound but I'm fine trust me. huh!" said the soldier as he slowly reached for his sword.
"and besides i-" The king stabbed him in the back and sliced his throat.
Everyone was shocked and didn't know what to say or do.
The soldier's body fell down and turned into the mist and mixed into the surrounding air.
"What the fuck was that!?" screamed a soldier.
"A shape shifter?" suggested another soldier.
"No! it's the atmosphere." said Ganesh as he walked further.
"These are mere illusions, your grace." said Ganesh with a more concerned voice.
"No, we all saw that,he was real, he was right here." said a soldier.
"How come we know that you're not a monster?" said the same soldier as he pointed his sword towards the purohit.
"Your grace! we need to get out of this mist. The soldiers are loosing their mind." Whispered Ganesh as he tried to hide behind the King.
"Quick! Everyone, follow a straight path, stay close to eachother and do not follow any voice or anything you see." ordered king.
"MOVE! NOW!"
Everyone started moving in a hurry looking all around trying to figure out where they were heading.
"Over here father!"
"I need your help."
Everyone stopped in their tracks.
"Its not real my king. He's gone." Ganesh tried to tell king.
The king pushed him back.
He was looking at his son right in front of him, few feets away from.
His son who had been KILLED! was right there.
The king started moving towards him.
"HEADS UP!" screamed a soldier, and a big pillar came crashing down between the soldiers and the king.
The king looked back to check on his soldiers but when he turned it was his wife right in front of him.
"Here my love. Take this Rose I brought for you." she said in such a sweet voice that it was mesmerising.
The king put his hand out to take the rose from his beloved.
As he was about to touch her hands.
Her eyelids blinked horizontally, her teeth started to grow out of her once beautiful smile.
The king froze for a moment and then stepped back.
This being who was once her beautiful wife had now turned into a green vine monster. It's teeth as big as those of a lion. Her limbs turned into vines which spread everywhere.
She grabbed the legs of King and everyone with the vines. The vines were big with thorns on them.
The king chopped one of the vines and freed his leg. He was trying to cut the other leg free and saw another huge pillar coming down at him.
He made out alive just with an inch of his life.
He ran through the vines and got to the creature he struck its tree trunk like body with his giant sword.
It didn't make much difference the creature looked down at the king, wrapped a vine around his neck and lifted him up to its face.
The creature opened his lion like jaws and just as it went to devour the king.
The whole company came jumping out of the most and started striking the creature. The creature started whipping them away with it's vines. The purohit tried to put some sort of spell on the creature but looked clueless and scared.
The king saw the rose in the chest of the creature, in the moment he thought of taking advantage of the distraction his company had provided.
He took a blade out of his suit and stabbed the rose with his left hand.
The rose broke into petals and flew everywhere and a poisonous liquid came through the whole and fell on the king's hand and blade.
The creature turned into glassy object and shattered.
Everybody ran to the kings rescue his blade was completely demolished as acid was thrown upon it.
The glove on the hand of the king had melted and disfigured his hand.
The king writhed in pain. His arm was in the same form as his blade, like acid was thrown upon it
Everybody was trying to help the king by pouring water or using the meds given by the city's 'Vaidya'(doctor).
The mist slowly started to fade away.
The king stood back up undermining his pain. He looked around at the new world.
"This isn't no hell, now is it Ganesh?"
asked king.
"I'm not sure, your grace." who also answered as he was bewildered.
The New world was a huge dead land, no soil no trees just small rocky mountains.
"Where do we go from here?"said a soldier.
"Your grace we have no clue where that creature went and i don't think we have resources to fight what's out there." said another more experienced soldier.
The king stood their with his injured hand thinking of how he had to carry his sons remains.
"We'll head back." said the king.
The all started walking to the portal they came from.
First soldier grabbed the rope and started climbing up.
One by one everyone had made out except for the king, Ganesh and 5 soldiers.
The rumbling began again, and out of know where the three legged beast comes running out and almost crushes Ganesh. The legs just run past them and into the mountains.
The king now furious runs after them.
The soldiers and Ganesh have no choice but to follow him.
They all run for hours to the point they are far from the well portal and completely lost.
"This is not good we shouldn't have followed it." some soldier said.
"No no no no. we can track back. We should go back. Come on everyone." said a very terrified Ganesh.
"We're lost."
"That thing lured us in here."said the king.
The soldiers wanted to tell him that it was he who got lured but they couldn't.
"My king we are with you no matter what." said a soldier.
"But what do we do now." asked a soldier to everyone.
They were all standing in a muddy land surrounded by rocks no birds chirping no happy sounds, just darkness, crooked trees, sounds of creatures that scared them, roars from time to time, Shadows of beasts that made them shiver.

The acid on the kings hand was actually some sort of poison that started spreading to his arm, he choose not to bother anyone with it.

They were now in this land scary and had no idea what to do, this NEW WORLD wasn't going to be anything pleasant.