"Where am I?" Says Snide as he looks around cracking his neck by rolling his head.
He is 1.8 meters tall, short black hair, long black beard, blue eyes and wearing woolly pyjamas, no shoes. Surrounding him is grey fog and in front of him is a small stone table with 2 wooden chairs. "Might as well go to it, as I see nothing else." thinks Snide.
Snide walks towards the table, he start to hear someone stamping papers. He gets 5 meters away from the table, the stamping stops, the chair that is facing away from Snide slides backwards and a black hooded figure stands up, the figure starts to rotate towards Snide. As the figure rotates, Snide starts to see under the hood, he sees no flesh, only bones.
"Grim Reaper!" thinks Snide.
"How did you get here?" Asks the Grim Reaper with a voice so cold and hatred.
"I do not know, all I remember is going to bed and waking up here, standing up." Says Snide
"Hmmm, that is weird, no one can get here without my permission, but you died at the age of 22, and since I wasn't the one to collect your soul, I don't know who did, so here is what I'm going to do, I will give you 4 options." Says the Grim Reaper.
"Options, err, why?" asks Snide.
"I can't send you back after you die, so here are the options." 4 portals open behind him. "Option 1 is reincarnation, you will be reborn in your world without your memories." points to the first portal, showing earth. "Option 2 is sending your body and soul to a new world." points to the second portal, showing a world with 1 giant island with smaller islands surrounding it. "Option 3 is heaven, you know what to except." points to the third portal, showing white clouds and golden gates. "Option 4 is hell, don't know why I give this option, but I am curious on how humans think. “Grim Reaper said pointing to the fourth portal, as a Succubus flies into view.
"I pick option 2, as I want to see how other worlds that have living beings too." Says Snide.
"Even though I am allowing heaven, not a lot of people have that option. " Says the Grim Reaper.
"No, I would get bored in there, quite fast." Says Snide
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"Ok, go through the portal and you will get there." says the Grim Reaper turning around. Snide puts his foot into the portal, he turns his head towards the Grim Reaper and sees the Grim Reaper taking off a mask.
"That wasn't the Grim Reaper, but another entity" thinks Snide as he is pulled into the portal.
Snide falls out of the portal, he pulls himself up quickly. He looks around where he is. He is standing in front forest with a tall steep mountain behind him.
“There were 4 areas I saw though the portal that has a large forest next to a mountain with a tall steep. 1 on an island, 3 on the mainland, I don't smell sea water, so it means I'm on the main island." Thinks Snide busy looking around more thoroughly.
There is a cave in the mountain, deep enough to stay out of the rain. "Good a shelter for the now being, now where can I get food and water." Thinks Snide picking up a sharp rock and walking into the forest, while he walks, he drags the rock along the trees to leave marks to know how to get back.
Snide walks through the forest, he keeps his ears on high alert for any wildlife noises, so far, he is only hearing birds. He scraps the rock against the trees, he makes sure to rotate the rock to sharpen it into a point. He looks around and sees vines hanging, he walks towards the vines, he makes sure it is not a snake.
he grabs it and pulls hard; it did not budge. he uses the rock to cut it and makes sure it is long enough and starts to roll it up as he did, he notice the vine is very flexible, it gives Snide an idea. he looks around for a strong stick. He finds a long branch with few twigs still attach to it, he snaps off the twigs and makes a small slit with the rock on the end of the stick, he places the rock in the slit then starts to warp the vine around the stick and the stone to keep the stone in place. He takes the vine and cuts on the tip of the spear, ties a knot "good, now I got a weapon to defend myself, but it would be harder to mark my way." Thinks Snide.
He grabs the spear beneath the tip and drags against a nearby tree hard. the tip stays attached. "Good, it didn't fell apart." Thinks Snide while picking up the rest of the vines, putting his arm through and placing it over his shoulder. Snide continue to walk through the forest he comes upon an opening with a pond in the middle.
"Ok water, but it is standing water. I don't see any rivers around it." Thinks Snide looking around the pond, he notices some wildlife drinking. Snide places down the vine and walks back into the forest, bending down and starts to walk slowly towards the wildlife, He creeps closer to them. Snide is behind a bush near the wildlife. Snide starts to breath slowly and readyies the spear. He jumps out and jams the spear into the neck of the nearest animal. While Snide does that, the other wildlife darts away into the forest. Snide pulls the spear out, as he does, the animal falls over and starts to bleed out. Snide picks up the body and throws it over his back. He picks up the spear with his left hand. He starts to walk back to the location he found the pond and picks up the vines with the end of the spear, letting it slide onto his hand. He walks into the forest following his marking. Snide hurries back to the cave, because of the smell of his kill, but has to go slow enough to see the marking on the trees.