A howl that only got stronger every moment while we stood in the weakly flowing river, only making the human more paranoid:
"I can't figure out where we should hide or move to"
He said this as he just floated between the walls, seeing everything engraved on it. It seems that what just happened moments before put both of us into a shock of confusion.
"The world will no longer be kind to you" he repeated this sentence, with a harsh tone.
The howling only got louder and with them, the sounds of steps began to be heard. I don't exactly understand what's going on here, but he already started to stop talking to himself and turned to me:
"I don't want to be here anymore!" He hovered and his bare wings touched the engravings "Run" and it began to glow, and with it, the body began to move against my control, but this time I let him do his thing.
As soon as the howls only roared to them in the distance, the body got on the bank and started running in one direction - forward. The howls that caused the screeching began to sound weaker with each touch of the ground as the body ran to him. It went on and on while I was just trying to navigate things. At any given moment I feel the weight of the body's effort, as if I were the one running. I had this feeling before until I could no longer keep running and ordered to stop. I didn't have the will to run from the river, but that's how it is. As soon as the engravings on the wall stopped shining, I collapsed, trying to catch my breath.
The body and the human did the same
"I think we managed to lose them" he pants hard, like he's been doing this whole run.
I looked around the invisible barrier to see if there was anything strange, not that I knew what the howlers looked like, but I did notice something that resembled a wall of stacked stones, very solid and high.
[Why are we there?]
The human also began to look as he began to rise:
"This is the last thing we should be serious about, especially in the current situation" he began to move towards me and got frustrated with me with his crooked face:
"Do you see this wall? If we go in there, I don't want to know what they will do there" he began to look at the wall again:
"Even though it doesn't look like anything new or strengthened, just look at all of this" he pointed to something green sticking out of the piled stones. Of course, I don't understand what he is talking about:
"Let's go somewhere else" I'm curious to understand what he's talking about, but at the same time I don't want to meet anyone else like him. It is clear that I will listen to him this time as well. I ordered the body to move to the side of the wall and we left the place with every step the body took.
Rustlings were heard from the side of the nearby vegetation and with it, while the sun began to show its time to set, a very huge shadow came out of the vegetation and covered us, in its entirety. A creature much larger than the rat, with many teeth that seem to have been sharpened, piercing eyes. It's definitely a bigger rat than we've encountered before.
"What kind of cliché is this?! Why did it pop up out of nowhere, this thing?!"
Without any warning, the shadow began to strike straight at the body. As with the giant rat, I understand what he's talking about - danger. I commanded the body to dodge the attack. In a movement that seemed to be elegant, he managed to escape from the shadow's jaws, and he was already exposed in the setting sun: his red fur was as shiny as the sun, his long legs, and a face that was hungry for blood. The human was already really scared before he started screaming:
You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
"Get away from him!" And while it was worth it, the creature began to jump in his direction. As big as he looked, I ordered him to duck again, but one of his paws managed to deflect a body hit before he managed to dodge and throw us towards the wall. I felt the pain from the impact that made me fold to the floor of the room. I commanded the body to quickly stand up before the creature began to attack again.
human yelled at me while I was just recovering from the shock caused by the impact:
"Climb the wall!" The creature quickly all look at us. The human hovered straight to the wall and clicked on the inscription "climb" and the body immediately started behaving strangely and advanced to the wall and climbed it while the creature missed us within seconds when it realized when its prey started to climb. He started screaming and also tried to climb the wall, but we were too fast and he just scratched the wall and looked at us. When we reached the top of the wall, the writing stopped glowing and the human approached me:
"Are you okay?"
I was just trying to get up. The pain was real in every attempt to get up, but in the end, I managed to stand on my feet and look through the invisible barrier, to see the creature just trying to climb unsuccessfully and giving up, and with it, it moved away from the place.
"We are very lucky this time too"
[luck?]
On the other side, something else started to be added. This is probably what the Info does and captures the information about the creature:
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Hell Fox:
A predatory creature that is not afraid to expose itself as it hunts the weak. You will be surprised to find out how smart they are.
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"So you want to tell me we're in hell?" He is surprised by what is engraved there while I just look around and see how the sun is setting for him. I started looking at what was on the other side of the wall now that we were on it. What was there was just more piles of stones after them.
But human had something else to say after watching as well:
"As I thought, it's the ruins of a village. No wonder the wall wasn't maintained as I remember" he said as he put his bare wings on the invisible barrier.
"I guess let's get the body rested here. It's pretty safe here"
I look around, and after feeling pain again, I agree with his words, and with him, we have already passed the night that, it is short for us to a new day and in the moments when only the body opened its eyes, we got off the wall and according to the request of the human, we started walking around among what would have happened to them ruins. I didn't care much, except for a slight hunger.
We walked around among all the ruins, but there was nothing that caught his eye:
"Looks like it's been abandoned for a while, a long time even," he said before we continued to make our way through all the piles of stones that were unusually arranged, but I just didn't care about what he was asking of me now.
Moments later, hunger took over and the human asked me to try to look for something to eat:
"And please, no caterpillars, worms, or insects of any kind" he begged me before we moved in a direction away from the ruins, but strange voices began to be heard:
'Did you check that this is the place?'
'I do not know. I was told it was something here.
'Okay, let's just find it quickly'
The voices that, as soon as I understood them, began to move away without understanding where the source came from. The human looked at me:
"Was that talk?!" He is surprised
[I have no idea how I understood what they said. how is it possible?]
I don't think we should stay here much longer. But on the other hand, maybe they have food, if I stay they are like me, maybe instead of looking far, we can try to steal from them instead of something to eat.
[Yuck, I'm not ready to meet anyone else like you]
He lay down in front of me:
"When they meant that the world is not kind anymore, we already experienced firsthand what they meant. After a while, they came across something dangerous"
[Like the giant rat you were afraid of earlier?]
He paused before continuing:
"I know you don't love me, so I'll make this decision: we'll try to look in the fields there for something to eat, which we might not find, or we'll follow the voices, hoping they leave food, without them seeing us. What do you decide?"
[I don't believe you have to let me decide, again. don't play pranks on me this time]
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Name: ----
Title: ----
Species: Raphus cucullatus (Dodo bird)
Age: (3 day old) - Hatchling | (20% growth)
HP: 78% | Stamina: 95% | Karma: 0
Abilities: Tweet | Climb | Run | Universal understanding | Info
Growth option path: Unknows
General information:
It is a moderately flightless bird. They are mostly herbivores that eat fruits, seeds, and roots but are also able to eat and crake mollusks, crustaceans, and fish when the opportunity arises.
Their large and powerful beaks are capable of causing quite a bit of damage and are adapted to the food they eat, but they will more often than not choose to flee rather than fight, even though they have no natural fear.
This is a bird that does not exist in this world and should not exist. There is nothing like her in this world.
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