[Jake]

In the entrance of the forest with the shine of the morning sun, the small black hole slowly sucks everything in its path.

"This is the dungeon you were talking about?" Jake asks redhead girl.

Redhead sits down on the bench. "Haven't I already shown you what it looks like?"

Smirking at her. "Yeah, but we normal people don't deal with black holes or monsters on our daily basis." Jake puts his backpack on the ground and shuffles through it.

Drinking red wine from her fancy glass and her legs crossed she asks him. "What are you doing?"

"Looking through my stuff."

"You don't have to do that, because this mission will only require you to deal with ten rats." She drinks all the wine left in the glass, then stands up. "You are the chosen hero of this world after all, you have more power then any other human."

He looks up at the leaves on the trees and thinks to himself. 'Hero, never thought I would become one. Thought I would become a doctor like my parents wanted, but a couple of days ago they were killed by monsters. I don't want anyone else to go through that, so that's why I will save this world—'

"Are you fantasizing about some wired things again?" 

"What are you talking about?" Jake takes out a combat knife from his bag. "I'm having my hero dialogue. You can't just cut me off mid sentence." He says while annoyed.

"..." She slides her left hand through her face. "Yeah, yeah." She points her finger to his knife. "You know that weapon won't work. Only magic weapons will work on monsters from the dungeon."

Jake raises his right brow. "Huh?"

"Yeah, I should have told you about that." She smiles nervously.

"It took me like forever to get this though."

She shrugs. "Then again, what do I know, you are the hero after all." From her right pocket she gives Jake a red stone. "But in case of it not working use the sword inside."

He smiles at her with satisfaction about the new item. "You know you could have given this to me before, so I wouldn't have taken a backpack with me."

"Yeah, well shit happens." Her right hand pointing strait to the black hole. "Now go, kill the ten rats, to come one step closer saving this world."

"Yes!" He nods and takes his first steps inside the dungeon.

Darkness envelops the vision, in the moss walls there are small blue crystals that make it more visible to see the surroundings. The ground is a little moist with grass. Screeches can be heard further in.

Jake takes a sword out from the crystal. The sword looks a little worn out, but it should be able to cut rats. 'Wonder if I will be the rat master, slayer of rats, the great ratter—' He shakes his head. 'Right now I need to focus on the mission.' Every step he takes makes a squishy sound. 'Why is my nose so itchy?' He sneezes. 'Oops.'

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Three rats run in a triangular position right towards Jake. 

He swings his sword in a wide angle from left to right, he kills one of them, some of the blood gets into the right side rats eyes, it starts screeching loudly. Jake raises the sword up, but when he swings the hit gets interrupted by the ceiling. The rat to the left of him bites his left arm. He shoves the rat to the wall still biting his arm and stabs it. The final rat still screeching, gets stabbed in the head.

"That was though." He puts his hand on his back, his eyes widened. "I forgot my bag." The black holes still there, he thinks. 'Should I go back, my left hand hasn't stopped bleeding.' He shrugs. 'I should be able to do this before I bleed out.'

Deeper in the blue crystals are more brighter, because the moss and the grass does not seem to not have grown this far, and has been replaced by hard stone. 

'I can hear water.'

Turning the corner he sees a pond.

'Oh, wow.'

There are five rats around the pond.

'What should I do now?' He draws a bad rat drawing in his mind. 'They seem to be too busy with drinking to notice me. I should be able to sneak attack them.' 

Jake jumps out of hiding and stabs the rat in the middle to death. The four rats left screech. Two rats on his left side jump at him. He stabs one of them in the air, but the other bites deep into his left leg.

'The rat is still stuck in my sword, it doesn't want to come off.'

On the right side both rats bite the right leg. 

"Argh!"

He hits the left rat with the sword handle, took off the rat on the sword, then slashed both rats on the right side, with their bodies flying to the other side of the room. Final rat goes for another jump attack, but he catches it with his left hand, and stabs it to the chest.

He falls to the ground. 'I've lost to much blood, I don't know how much more I can take. Need to find the last two.' 

As if his wish got granted, two rats come out, they are the size of a bus. One of the rats is pink and the other one is gray like the other rats, but is a little bigger in the stomach. Both screech louder then a soccer mom.

He gets up from the pool of blood. "Come on then!"

The pink one rushes at him. He points the tip of his sword towards it, but the rat jumps over him and slashes with its right claw Jakes back. 

"Argh!" He falls to the ground. 

Gray rat starts walking towards him.

'Have to get out of here!' He crawls to the pond. 

The gray rat is next to him and opens its mouth.

"What the-?" He starts glowing, and all the wounds on his body heal. "..." He looks at the water on the pond. "This pond heals wounds."

He stabs the gray rats upper mouth, a lot of blood comes out of its head, and it falls to the ground. He runs at the pink rat, and cuts its left leg off. The rats leg grows back, and goes for a jump attack, successfully getting him under its claw. His entire body feels like it's being crushed. He stabs its chest, but it regenerates back to normal, but he won't give up and stabs it multiple times. The stabs are successful, rat falls dead to the ground. He crawls out from the rat, and goes to the pond.

"I'm alive." He stands up. "I'm alive!"

As soon as he got out of the black hole it disappeared.

"Good job, you did it." Redhead claps.

"Yeah. When's the next one?"

"Well, I don't know how the black holes think. I'll call you when we need help with the next one."

"Alright, see you."