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Chapter three: the wasteland

Chapter three: the wasteland

I woke up, but this time with a really painful headache.

The first thing I did was look around to know where I was and all I saw was nothing but a wasteland. Craters everywhere in the sand and skeletons from the remains of dead animals.

I looked up to see that it was cloudy, but no signs of rain. The sun was being blocked by the grey clouds so it was quite dim and there were no civilization to be found.

I got up and touched myself, not in a weird way, but just to confirm if I still got the same body.

"It still feels surreal that I'm now inside a kids body.... Well good thing is that I have clothes." It seems that my reincarnation didn't start off has me being a baby.

"But what do I do now?" I still don't know what type of world I'm in.

"It better not be one of those magic infested place." Truth be told I hated those types of things because back when I was still alive my grandchildren would always play with it and don't bother with me. I actually liked the games but it went too far when they asked me money to buy an in-game item.

"Well the best thing to do is at least find someone... Or a safe place."

I started walking in a singular direction, since I was in a different world then everything is different. Meaning I don't know what's general direction from north, south, east and west.

So I kept walking and walking, until I found a weird looking entrance. The entrance looked liked it was from a temple, but almost everything was buried underneath the sand. Looks pretty old and sounds like it's on the verge of collapsing.

I ignored it and decided to continue my journey in finding civilization.

"It would be nice to explore, but I'm not properly ready to go adventuring." Back in my day I used to be a marine, working in near death situations so I'm used to bloodshed. Too bad because I lost a leg and got replaced by a newbie, well I did got time to spend with my family.

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"Now where... Am I?" I've Walked for quite a while, still surprised that I didn't collapsed. I looked around and all I see is sands and more craters, it was quite vast so it reached really far.

"Hmm... Are those vultures?" I looked up and saw some bird like things flying above me in a circular pattern, at first I thought they were harmless, but I thought wrong when one started descending really fast.

"The fuck!!" I quickly dodged by jumping backwards, but I fell midway because of the impact.

Once the dust settled the monster was still on the ground. Black eyes and dark blue feathers. It was bigger then a car and longer then a bus.

"What.. The..." I quickly got up and ran away.

"I've had it with the 'be chased by monsters and be killed' situation."

I started running has fast as I could. I took a glance behind me and saw that all of them were starting to chase me.

"Shit. Shit. Shit!. Shit!!" I started running faster.

I saw that there was a forest nearby and once again I increased my speed, but I was starting to get tired.

Once I was near the border of the forest I slowed down hoping that the birds were gone, so I looked back.

"Kwaaa!!" And with that I got pecked with a huge beak on the stomach.

"What.. The... Fuck..." The other birds started catching up and started to feast on my flesh.

"Ugh crap.. Star..ting.. To.. Loose.." I was loosing consciousness.

"Shoo! Shoo! Nasty ones!. How did they get here?"

'Is that a person? Oh thank god!'

"Hm? What's this?... Oh poor child!"

'What the heck? Deja Vu.... Crap I can't.' And with that I lost consciousness.