-April 7-
Uuaaaaght. I try to realize what is happening…3 DAYS?! I look at the teacher astonished
<3 days?!?! Why?>
I wear the special school uniform they gave us and go outside.
Nare looks at the teacher as she sets foot outside. I still can’t see what is happening, but there’s a strong smell, different from the one of a city.
Mmmh? MMMMH??? My eyes widen. The school wasn’t a school anymore, it looked more like a jungle. Creepers on the walls everywhere, giant trees, exotic flowers and everything you could find in a jungle.
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It should be easy to annihilate it…now that I think about it, death is something really fast, huh, if I were in its shoes, what would I thought? Awakening in a planet where everyone is your enemy, I would feel lonely. I think it is just taking shelter from us, but its shelter can kill us…what do I do? I don’t want to be killed, nor I want to kill that poor Nibor…
Nare shakes me
Okay, don’t panic, don’t waver, don’t think, just go in and kill that thing. She’s so serious about it, I admire this girl.>
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I keep walking around like an idiot, I don’t find a way that takes me to the Nibor. Aaaah what do I do? Why am I incompetent when it comes to these kind of things. Generally I would give up, but I can’t, not now, not again. People could die because I was lazy, I can’t let this happen. AH! Right, I have a Pax now, it will be surely of help!
If you looked at me in that moment, I had dead fish eyes…I lost it. I start running and screaming out loud
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Ah! A goddess, a goddess stood infant of me. So bright!
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We stare at each other for some seconds
Nare and I enter into the school from the back door. It’s a complete mess. Windows corroded by something, the floor covered of roots, giant flowers and…drool? Is it the Nibor’s drool? Guess we will find it out soon.
This is like a maze, an endless maze. We keep bumping into blind alleys and coming back from where we came. Aaah I want to cry, do breakfast and my mom’s warm hug. That’s right! What about my mom? I haven’t come back home for 3 days, I miss her and my little sister, and they must miss me! Where’s the family when you need it?
I stumble on a root and almost fall. I stumble again, again, again and again
Where did she go? gulp I start sweating.
I’m lost. Even my Pax is scared, I can feel it.
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Isn’t it getting darker? Everything look…dead now…what’s happening? It’s creepier than before. I feel like a child who lost his pastels, I don’t know what to do. And I’ve got the impression that something is observing and following me…I hope it is Nare
I wonder how many hours have passed since I got into the jungle, but I’m sleepy, so I will light a fire and try to sleep. I search for some dry leaves and twigs. I put aside another pile of twigs in case the fire died. I light the fire and sleep.
Crack...I open my eyes and I find myself 500m from the school, in the air. Am I fllying? The sky feels so close, I want to touch it, just like my dad, he once touched it, maybe more than one time, it was his job after all. I will come to you dad!
<...Dad?!>
I couldn't help crying. The forgotten voice I remembered, the voice of my father
Yes, this is all a dream. The Nibor is probably making me see things that don't exist anymore, but I don't care, even if I died! My father is here, I won't let him leave me alone again, not this time
I slowly open my teary eyes. Aaah what's this smell, it makes me wanna sleep again, but I can't, my father told me I have to save my friend. But I'm seriously flying now...
<...IN THE MOUTH OF A MONSTER! AAAAAAAH>
I'm falling and I'm gonna be eaten alive by a giant carnivorous plant. The mouth closes, but I'm already in the stomach of the plant. Where did this monster come from? Has the Nibor created this thing? Above all...what is this sticky liquid, I better get out of here, but how. That's right, the Pax!
I look around me, everywhere, but it is nowhere to be found. Am I alone? Is it angry because I left it behind and it left me alone? I didn't do it on purpose, I'm still not habituated to it!
...
I start feeling sick. What's happening? It is like something wants to come out from my body...I vomite blood. Blood blood blood, a lot of blood. Do I have internal bleeding?...No wait...! The blood changes shape, it transforms into my Pax.
The lianas of the Pax lengthen till the stomach lining and starts eating it
GUOOOOOOOH the plant roars. I'm scared, not of the plant but of the Pax, I mean, it won't do anything to me, but I wouldn't like to be the plant in this moment, getting eaten from the inside. This sounds painful.
Now, let's start looking for Nare! I'm sure she is already fighting against the Nibor, I hope she is not having problems with the invader, and it's her first battle for her as well after all.
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