Nuoveld World, four times larger than Earth, somewhere in the Seven Continents a commonly seen trees as tall as around 100m to 130m length with a diameter of 10m to 13m, branches extends as far as they could reach, thick roots spreads as it firmly dug in deep, leaves of different colors swaying, cracking sound as the wind breeze through the forest.
In the middle the forest, an unconscious Orkling was standing and swaying, like a drunk guy, the Orkling had distinctive dark green skin tone, bulging green muscles, a height at around 180-190cm, bat shaped green ears, unkempt long dark brown hair, lower jaw slightly larger than the upper jaw resulting in his lower rigid yellowish teeth to be expose.
"Ugh!, damn my head feels like its floating, ugh!, and why do I talk like a deaf person." I tried to massage my eyebrows and forehead to releave some pain. " Egh! so bright, Ha!, can feel the warm heat on my face." As I regained my consciousness, I looked around my surroundings.
"Enormous" I muttered, as I stared at the giant trees, thick bushes and long grass, wondering where I am, marveled by these scenes and took a deep breath; it calmed my nerves a bit. I started to think about my current situation" It's not cold, with these lush forests. I'm guessing a normal day and night cycle, "hmm". Although its warm, it's not too hot, that leaves me with the other four continents. I don't hear or smell anything that indactes I am near the coast line, well, I can't be too sure yet. but chances of being in the three-conjured continent are high, and as for where, lets leave that for later." 'Where the hell am I', suddenly I heard something behind my back, as I stared in that direction, the bushes started shaking.
My heart began to race, anxiety and fear slowly took over. Then it shook me. I don't have any weapons, only clothes. I'm even on bare feet. 'For crying out loud, how could things get this bad, I mean, I know they don't care about my well-being, but not giving me something to defend myself, this is just pure ridiculous'. Although only a few seconds had passed since, I just sucked it up and decided to hide behind those thick trees, I slowly moved my legs back, " !!! " Taken by the sudden uncomfortable feeling, I stumbled down, but instead of struggling to get up, I decided to stay still. "why are my legs heavy and sluggish?, that lousy uber did say I need time to fully assimilate."
Since I couldn't use my legs properly, and I had no trouble using my arm, crawling, it is. 'Hoo! ok lokie, lets do this slowly and quietly' I thought as I used my hands to slowly pull my body and using the tall grass for cover, as I crawled towards the nearest tree I occasionally stopped and checked behind me.
After a few struggles I finally reached behind the tree, 'what now?'. Using the tree as cover, I looked around and reached for any large rocks I could reach while making less ruckus as possible. with a few large rocks beside me, I felt a little bit of sence of security. "since I can't fully use my legs I better sit still and avoid attractring its attention what ever that thing is."
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For now, I think I'm safe as long as I don't do anything stupid. I could check my status and class, but I'm afraid I might get too distracted to notice my surroundings. Let's just stay put for a while. Yeah, stay put, 'patience lukie'.
As I sat down, large rocks were in each hand. I began to observe more of the forest, again. I marveled at how tall the trees are. I saw an ant like creature; it's head was larger than my thumb. 'sweet baby jesus, those are big, wa-wa-wait if those ants are already this b-big then, spiders and centipedes could be...ge-get as large as my face or long as my arms'. fuck! I'm getting nervous again. I'm sweating and my heart beat is slowly increasing.
'Deep breath, clear your mind for a bit lokie, stop scaring your self for nothing, just take a deep breath' While I was trying to calm my mind again, a noise could be heard behind the tree I took cover from, thankfully it should not be close to my tree. I seem to hear some digging. like a dog digging on dirt, fast, and panting.
I didn't dare to take a look; it may discover me. 'patience lukie' I remained still, gripping the large rocks, tightly, sweaty palms, knees weak. Some time had passed since the ordeal, lying still in my spot, and dared not to move or make a sound.
I lifted my body, slowly and queitly took a peek, after a carefull reconsicne and focused where the commotion was a while back. Scattered soil, destroyed and scattered long grass, and evidence of digging by the creature.
"looks like something was buried on that hole. who ever covered that hole will defenitly comeback." Since I coundn't find anything that could put me in danger, I began to slowly stand up, using the tree as a pillar of support. I tried to lift my legs to take a step. I immediately felt pain and discomfort.
"Surely they didn't give me a body that couldn't walk right?, shit! what if Orklings really do have trouble walking.... this is bad!" Worried that it may be the case, but decided to keep walking, albeit slowly, as I slowly walked around the tree. I hid earlier, using the tree as support to keep my balance. I kept walking in circles; the roots made it challenging, stumbling from time to time, and everytime I stumbled, I checked my surroundings for any sudden movements.
"Phew!, turns out it's not the case, the pain and discomfort probably due to this assimilation thingy" Some time had passed, after a few hours of walking in circles. I finally got used to walking, not perfect, but at least walking won't be a problem. As for running, its still in progress, as I always end up tripping; I just realized my feet were larger than before. I'm guessing I got taller.
"Its almost sunset, hmm, from what I know keeping my body warm for the night is my top priority then water next is food. I don't know how to make fire out of wood and sure as hell don't know how to use stones to make sparks, hell I dont even know which kind of stone to use. as for water, I don't even know where to find it so it will be up to luck, which I should be worried. As for herbs, roots, berries and fruits I could find in this forest is a big NO NO. I guess I die!"
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