Before entering the forest, Jason decided that he wouldn’t go further than thirty meters from the river. Since There weren’t any bushes blocking the path into the forest, Jason slipped right in. For the first five minutes Jason didn’t find anything to eat. He examined the trees from their roots to the top of their crown to reassure no fruits escaped his line of sight. He didn’t find anything and was starting to notice an ongoing pattern. The forest seemed to be devoid of all life and had an extremely limited number of things to eat. He started to speculate that both chubby and himself were placed in the forest to die.

At this point Jason started thinking that walking around in this foodless forest was a waste of time. Two minutes later he still couldn’t find anything that could be eaten and was about to call it quits. As he turned around in defeat, he saw something white in the corners of his eyes. He quickly traced his eyes back in the direction he saw the white thing. When On further inspection he saw that it was a couple of white mushrooms. They looked similar to the mushrooms he had earlier. What he didn’t notice about the mushrooms was that they had dust on them and it had small red lines running on the sides of them. Without thinking he started pumping his hands in victory. He was now a bread winner and his search wasn’t a pointless endeavor.

Jason calmed down after his excitement started to fade away. He got on his knees to remove the mushrooms from the ground. He gently removed the clutter from around all the mushrooms without disturbing them. Next, he put his hand around the first mushroom and started pulling on it just as gently as he removed the clutter. When the mushroom was pulled out of the ground it had a minimal amount of damage afflicted on it. Jason brought the unearthed mushroom close to his nose to take a whiff of it. The aroma of freshly peeled pineapples hit his noise once again. With the smell he was able to confirm that this was the mushroom from earlier. He knew from this point on he had to be extra careful when he pulled out the mushrooms, he didn’t want to damage the mushrooms at all, if possible. One after the other Jason gently pulled out the rest of the mushrooms.

Done with the task Jason put the mushrooms in his pockets. He then stood up and proceeded to stretch weary body. He moved his body around to hear all the desirable cracks in the right places. With every crack he knew his stretching was getting the job done.

When Jason was done stretching he started walking back to the river. This time he wasn’t lost he knew exactly were to go. While walking Jason had something on his mind. He was debating whether or not he should show Chubby all the mushrooms he found or tell a lie and say he found a few. Both options had their advantages and disadvantages. If he showed Chubby all the mushrooms he found he would be a true team player, but on the other hand he wouldn’t get to eat all mushrooms he wanted. He had no doubt in his mind that he would give chubby some, but how much? After a few minutes of deliberation, he decided on showing chubby all the mushrooms he had. He reasoned that Chubby would do the same for him and that was all the comforted he needed.

The guilt that Jason had started to feel disappeared completely and was able to walk with a straight back. After a few minutes of walking, Jason was able to see the river in front of him. He quickened his pace with a pep in his step. He was excited to show Chubby the fruits of his labor.

When Jason came out the clearing of the forest he saw Chubby sitting peacefully in front of the river. The thought of scaring Chubby crossed his mind for a second. He knew that it would probably lightened the mood and might make both of them relax afterwards. The more he thought about it the more appealing the idea became. That was until he saw just how peaceful and relaxed Chubby seemed. He started thinking that maybe scaring Chubby wasn’t the greatest of ideas. What they needed was to find food, shelter and maybe people to give them directions.

The closer Jason got to Chubby’s position the more correct he felt his decision was. He saw chubby sitting cross legged on the grey stony ground with his left arm resting on his right thigh and his face resting on his right fist. The picture contrasted the upbeat feeling Chubby usually gave off.

“Your back already buddy?”

“Yea I’m back,” Jason answered back.

After answering Chubby, Jason though back to how ridiculous the thought of scarring chubby was. He was more alert to his surrounding then he was.

“Did you find anything?”

“Yea I found a couple of mushrooms.”

“That’s great, I thought you didn’t find anything.”

“I just got lucky.”

“Luck or not you did good buddy.”

“Thanks. I found eight of them, so four for me and four for you.”

Jason took out the eight mushrooms from his pockets to show Chubby. After showing Chubby the mushrooms Jason split them as equally as possible. He of course took the biggest one and gave Chubby the second biggest. It was fairer that way. When Chubby took his mushrooms, he thanked Jason and smelled the sweet scent coming from them.

“Let’s eat them at the same time,” suggested Jason.

“Sure buddy,” Chubby answered back after he was done smelling the mushrooms.

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“On the count of three we take a bite.”

Chubby nodded his head in conformation. After that Both Jason and Chubby positioned their smallest mushroom by their mouths.

“On my count. ONE! TWO! TWO IN A HALF! THREE!”

Chubby almost ate his mushroom when Jason said two in a half, but he stopped himself at the last second. When Jason said three both of them took as big of a bit as possible. On their first bite they didn’t taste anything, so they kept on chewing. On the second bite the taste started to appear. On the third bite the taste punched them in the face. The mushroom tasted similar to freshly puked vomit. They both took an involuntary fourth bite and their faces scrunched up. Their faces resembled someone who ate an extremely sour candy and couldn’t handle it. The taste was so nasty the opened their mouths and spat out the mushrooms. The taste didn’t immediately go away with the mushrooms out their mouths. In a sense it actually became stronger and more disgusting. They started scraping their tongues to get the foul taste out. It wasn’t working and made it worst. Their fingers had the residue from the other mushrooms they had in their hands. By them scraping their tongues the residue had spread all over it. The taste was making them gag. That was when they remembered the river in front of them. They turned around to face each other before they bolted to drink some water.

They started drinking the river water by the mouth full. After they drunk water till they couldn’t drink anymore they stopped. As soon as they stopped drinking the river water they noticed the disgusting taste in their mouths was starting to recede.

“That was one of the most disgusting things I ever ate buddy. Where did you find those mushrooms from?”

“I found it by the roots of a tree plus they looked and smelled like the mushrooms you found earlier.”

“Yea, I know, but why did they taste so bad?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know. Gosh it tasted so bad.”

Jason and Chubby continued to trash talk about how nasty the mushrooms were. They couldn’t figure why the mushrooms were so nasty. The mushrooms looked similar to the mushrooms they had from last night and the aroma they gave off was the same. So why were they so different? That was when the scenes from last night and the scenes from earlier overlapped in Jasons head. He remembered the details from each mushroom and started comparing them. The first batch of mushrooms were spotless without any marks on it. If Jason could remember correctly the second batch of mushrooms weren’t spotless and possibly had a mark.

“Wait, did they?” Jason thought.

Jason scrambled over to the mushrooms on the ground to see if his theory was right. He picked up a mushroom and brought it close to his eyes. The first thing that he noticed was that the mushrooms weren’t spotless they had dust all over them. On closer inspection he started to see the faint red lines running down the side of the mushroom.

“Oh S*** they weren’t the same mushrooms from last night,” said out loud to both himself and Chubby,

While fully understanding he made an unexpected blunder by not identifying the right mushrooms; Thirty seconds had pass since both him and chubby took their first bite of the vomit tasting mushroom. That was when Jason looked over at Chubby to find himself seeing things. He saw Chubbys clothes started turning different colors and length. After a while Chubbys outfit set on a red and black long sleeve striped shirt with a midnight colored black pants. While he was looking at Chubbys right hand he saw it forming a black glove like covering on top of it. After the glove like covering formed his fingernails started to elongate and at the same time turned to metal. When Chubbys metal nails stopped growing they resembled extremely sharp knives. The worst thing happened when he looked at chubbys face. His face resembled a person who had just healed from extreme third-degree burns.

Jason couldn’t believe what his eyes were seeing. He blinked his eyes just in case he was seeing things. After blinking his eyes Jason looked at Chubby again. He found chubbys entire appearance was back to normal without anything out of place. Jason was relieved thinking that his mind was only playing tricks on him. As he relaxed he involuntarily blinked. After blinking he accidentally looked over at Chubby he saw the abomination was back. Jason was staring to freak out he didn’t understand what was going on. Every time he blinked either chubby or the abomination would show up. The eighth time Jason blinked the figure was staring to get close to him. The tenth time he blinked the figure became a little closer. On the twelfth blink the figure was still coming closer. After twelfth time blinking Jason knew if he kept blink the figure would come closer to him. He tried to stop himself from doing so. He was able to control his eye lids for thirty seconds before he blinked and everytime after that the time he was able to keep from blinking was getting shorter and shorter. After Jason blinked the fortieth the figure was close to his face. Jason was scared out his mind.

 “It’s Chubby,” said the figure in a creepy husky voice after Jason blinked the forty second time. Jason was so scared he felt his heart skip a beat and he almost peed on his self.

On the other side of Jason Chubby was going through a hard time to. When thirty seconds had passed since he took his first bite into the nasty mushroom he started seeing things. When he looked at the river the water started turning blood red. Chubby could swear he smelled the stench of blood coming from the river. The smell made his stomach hurt. When Chubby looked away from the river and looked over at Jason he was starting to get scared. Jason’s face was becoming a blob of swollen flesh. When his face couldn’t possibly become any more swollen a yellowing mask started to form on his face. Chubby watched the mask start forming from the left side of Jason face to the right side of Jasons face. The only thing the yellowing mask didn’t cover was Jasons two eyes. Suddenly Chubby saw Jason eyes open and stare right at him, Chubby felt like Jason was staring at his soul. The transformation didn’t stop on Jason face it. His clothes turned pitch black with tearings forming all over them. The last thing Chubby saw happening to Jason was what was forming in his hand. A black metal started growing from a couple inches to a three foot long machete. When the machete was done forming it was being pointed in Chubby direction.

When Chubby seen It happen he wanted to run, but he couldn’t get off the ground. Jason figure slowly stood up and started walking towards him. Chubby was so frightened his mind went blink for a second. He snapped out of his daze to find Jason figure coming closer and closer. He wasn’t able to do anything other than watch. From then on every step Chubby saw Jason take he felt his heart skipping a beat. When Chubby saw Jason take the last step that brought him one feet away from him he thought his heart had stop. Then Jason positioned the sharp looking machete by Chubbys neck. The eyes that was staring at Chubby opened wider and stared exactly into Chubby eyes. Chubby started to hyperventilate. There was no doubt in his mind that he was about to die.