Chapter Two – Dead Forest

“Damn...my head hurts”

I said while getting up, damn what happened? The last thing I remembered was…dying…Why am I still alive? ...Wait am I alive? I pinched the back of my hand to be sure and… it hurts, so I am alive, so where the fuck am I?

Looking up I see that the skies are red as if painted with blood and dead trees covered every direction, no life could be seen in either sides, the cold wind blowed making every hair in my body stand up.

Damn, where am I? Since when the sky is red? Is this Hell? Fuck if I knew it I would ask forgiveness for my crimes before I died… Damn...I killed just the bad guys who committed atrocities against humanity…Why should I end up here? Damn…No regrets, they deserved it. No mourning it…I need to get out before the demons come.

Getting up I dashed through the forest, jumping from branch to branch at a speed faster than I ever could

Why am I faster? Huff. It doesn’t matter… I don’t like this place; I need to go faster, this forest seems too dangerous, my danger 

sense is alerting me.

All of sudden a shadow dashed towards me at an alarming speed, trying to evade it I fell on the ground. Looking where the shadow stopped, I see an abominable creature, It had wrinkled grey skin, elongated fangs that didn’t fit in its mouth, It reached almost two meters high and it had pitch black eyes.

Damn…Am I really in hell? What is that shit, a demon?

Looking around asserting my surroundings, I sighed after confirming that there is no other monster other than this one.

If it’s just one then I can give a go….

The eager monster dashed towards me with opened mouth trying to bite me, I easily side stepped and evaded …Looking at its eyes I stated that it had no intelligence; it just acted with a primal instinct…Hunger.

Taking advantage of its stupidity, I took a little stone near me and threw it aiming at the head; it hit the monster at the forehead….causing the monster to become enraged, dashing towards me faster than before but with extreme dumbness.

I crouched down and waited, just as he was one arm distance from me I kicked its knee making it fall; after it fell I kicked its head multiple times till it lost consciousness.

“It wasn’t as difficult as it seemed”

Looking around I spotted a tree trunk, lifting the trunk over the monster’s head I smashed it till everything that remained was a bloody pie.

“ So what now? In this region there is no way to determine directions…let’s continue in the same way”

After deciding my course, I followed the same direction…jumping from branch to branch, till get tired then resting and then resuming everything again.

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It’s been twenty four days and I encountered ten of those abominable creatures, I had created various pointing sticks to deal with those monster and its quite easy now… but I have to say, it has been the worst days of my life…First of all: I had to eat the meat of those creatures…shit after running for days, I couldn’t stand the hunger anymore so I eaten it…it’s horrible it’s like rotten meat…no rotten meat is better… Second thing: I had to drink my piss, it’s not the first time but it sucks and it has a horrible taste… Third: No civilization seen in twenty four days.

“How big is this forest? I can’t stand this anymore…I will commit suicide, seriously…”

It’s just another boring halt…I need to rest, I have been running for days but I can’t understand, I can run faster and it’s not so tiring as before, I am stronger than before…I don’t know what is happening… if I see any intelligent being I will ask…I thought while munching the piece of meat in my hand.

Finishing my meal, I resumed my boring search for civilization through this dead forest of abominations.

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“Damn…I will find a stone and name it Wilson, and then we will talk all day…”

“Calm down, you don’t need Wilson, he will betray you in the end…better not trust him”

“Damn Michael…You are right, Wilson went away in the final, that betrayer…”

Damn, it’s so lonely that I am doing a little monologue…and it isn’t funny at all, I need to improve my humor sense… What a terrible sense of humor.

A few days later, I stopped yet again, sitting on the ground and taking out my meal…Just when I was beginning to eat I spotted something quite colorful with a mix of blue and red in it. Throwing my lunch away and crunched down almost crying while looking at the little flower.

“After so many days…finally something different, this flower means that I am near a true forest……………………….I hope so”

After seeing the flower tears appeared in my eyes and my spirit came back with full force…I just need to persist….I will get there……Right Wilson?...Damn again…Get out of my head Wilson you are messing with my thoughts, don’t mess with my thoughts Wilson.

The more I walked the more life I saw, the sky was turning bluish and the red slowly disappearing, after some days all the red in the sky was gone, remained just the beautiful blue, the dead vegetation was being replaced by beautiful colors and life, the sun appeared but what freaked me out was the three suns that hovered in the sky and the ten major moons…Damn this planet if I can call this a planet, must be tremendous large, at least tens of times earth’s size.

Walking through the forest, I could see trees that stretched hundreds of meters up, as if touching the skies, as if defying the heavens.

Damn…I need true meat, thinking of it I dashed through the forest searching for food…Finally…I spotted a two meters boar that weighted at least two tons, licking my lips I aimed a pointed stick at its throat, surprisingly the boar dodged and looked at me enraged. Looking at the damn big pig I shouted

“You damn pig…I will eat you, just you wait…I will roast and feast your meat, then I will eat to my heart’s content…Do you know how bad the food is in that God Forsaken place”

The Boar looked at me as if understanding what I said and sprinted with its maximum speed… taking out another pointing stick from my back, I entered in a hoarse instance and pointed the stick towards the Boar, a vicious glint appeared in the Boars eyes and when it was almost hitting me I back flipped and stood on its back, with the stick I pierced its back… when the stick hit it’s fur it broke in two parts, the fur was too hard to penetrate.

‘Damn…It can’t pierce it, I need a plan…its fur is too tough…where should I attack?’

The Boar started to roar and jump trying to get me off his back, I grabbed its hair and didn’t let it go…while trying to develop some plan to kill it, and a brilliant idea appeared in my mind.

Using the two halves of the stick I climbed till it’s head, aimed at its eyes I pushed the sticks, it penetrated easily, blood flew everywhere….the Boar fiercely jumped but I didn’t let go

You are my damn meat…if you think you can ran away from me…you committed a grave mistake, I will never let you go.After five minutes of bleeding the Board finally died, finally... my deserved meat that I worked so hard getting my hands on, after so many days...I think I am gonna cry.

Climbing off the Boar, I started boning it, pulling out the meat and bones, after thirty minutes just the fur was remaining, I kept the fur so that if needed I could make clothes.

Lighting the fire I barbecued the meat…after a few minutes the meat was finished…

“Thanks for the meal…I will always remember you my dear friend Boar, now I need you in my stomach…”