*huff, huff...

Everything is so dark...

I'm scared.

Mom... Dad... Older brother...

H...hel...elp me!

I don't want to die, i don't.

They're catching up, I can't rest my legs, must keep going.

I thought to myself as my left arm gets warmer and colder at the same time, my consciousness is leaving me but I can't stop running now knowing what is there, chasing me.

Blood still flows from my wounds. The pain is what is keeping me from fainting.

Sounds of branches yells at me telling me they grow closer as it breaks from the foot of my assailants, their howls and growls sounds as though they are mocking me.

As I breathe through my burning lungs I fell.

I hear wet sounds coming right infront of me mixed with growling and then a whimper.

Two hell hounds are fighting over something, fangs dug deep to what ever it was.

"No..."

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I forced myself up after realizing what it was and continue running as more footsteps comes from behind.

The pain in my arm felt different and my body got lighter, how much farther must I run through this forest of darkness to find refuge.

'someone... Anyone... Please... S-save me!!'

[WARNING! Due to status effect: Bleed. Hp is now under 10%]

A cold mechanical voice anounced.

I don't want to die!!!

I want to live!!!

I run and run for all I'm worth not caring for the new scratches and cuts from low branches and twigs.

I don't want to die like this!!! Not to be food for those hell hounds. Not as miserable as I am now.

I still need to avenge them.

[ACTIONS CONFIRMED, WILL CONFIRMED. New skill earned: Will to Live]

"Come..."

Huh? I thought I heard a voice after the mechanical one.

"Come"

I changed directions, now following the voice. I kept going until I reached a clearing, the moon lights up the darkness with a yellow eerily glow as it looked like a smile.

"You shall be my child and I your mother."

I see her, a woman standing just ahead of me, covered in pitch black robes.

"I will save you, but you shall be my child and I your mother."

She offered, hands spread as if to embrace me.

I didn't even need to think of it, I wanted to survive and here is someone offering her help.

"Yes!" I managed to scream as I continue to run.

Her lips twisted to a horrific grin, eyes squinted in amusement. The sight nearly made me stop but I didn't feel frightened of her visage.

"Jump unto your mothers arms." She said.

I did as I was told, just in time as a hell hound have come out of the forest.

I jumped towards the figure as I reach my lone arm out to reach her.

I did what I was told and yet why?

A sense of weightlessness Assailed my body.

I passed through her body. my eyes widened, an Illusion? I thought as the speeding scene of the sea of trees under me grows closer.

When I twist my body to look up I see a hell hound looking down on me from the top of a cliff.

Ahh... I'm so stupid. 

I fell, to the darkest forest in the world but I had no way of knowing it at the time.