Dreams of fear

The only way to solve a dream of fear is to kill the source of the fear.

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My body is still shaking from that monster, taking a look down at the giant footprint it left that fear only solidifies my desire to stay away from that creature. Taking a look around I see that this branch extends another leading far from the direction it went in. Taking the knife out of my mouth I pierce the tree trunk, getting on my knees I get into a crawling position and make my way towards the other branch while stabbing the knife into the tree to help support myself. Coming to another branch I put my knife back into my mouth again, grabbing the nearest vine I tug on it several times to make sure its secure before using it. After travel from several trees like this I final reach a opening of the forest.

Amazing is my first thought a land untouched by any pollution, look outwards several tall tree sprout like they are trying to pierce the sky. A herd of giant creatures are grazing off the tree spread out across the plane, each one is huge yet a smaller than the "T-rex" that I encountered. Several smaller animal are running in the background of them however I'm too far to make out any details. Looking as far as I could I see a bowl shaped water source on the side of the mountain, Water source found it will take me awhile to get there sadly, looking up in the sky there are barely any clouds left out. Chances are it will not rain anytime soon, my heart starts pumping, since I know ill have to rush to the water source unless I can find another one.

Licking my lips I stare at the planes for several more seconds, then withdraw into the tree branches. Crawling on the trees my muscles are getting worn out ill have to find a more safe place to rest soon. Reaching about mid way to my starting spot i look back at where the "T-rex" was, Hopefully its territory doesn't go to far. Turning around towards a new branch I go over to it vie vine, Grabbing my knife in one hand since I landed I put a X mark on the tree just incase. Putting my knife back into my mouth i began to move towards the base of this branches trunk.

After Reaching the base I notice the birds are no longer making noise rather they are standing up attentively, as if they are trying to listen to something. One of them caws out and takes off the rest follow in its tracks, a myriad of colors spew out from the trees. Thousands of birds flying away leaving nothing but the noise of bugs, however they too slowly go quiet as if trying to hide.

Perking my ears up I start hearing rustling a loud noises coming from the trees, like a swarm thousands of rustle start to happen. Grabbing ahold of the vine I start moving down the tree as fast as I possible can. Not fast enough throwing caution to the wind, I let my grip lose and just slid down the vine, keeping it tight enough where I will be able to catch myself. The vines start producing a burning smell however strangely my hands are just fine, the noise seems to go even crazier at this point its reaching its climax.

Reaching the ground I jump back and dash towards a pair of bushes, Jumping into them I crouch down trying to hide my body from view. Making a small gap from the bush I look up towards the trees and start trying to see what made the noise.

Coming into view is a giant ape or however its much more slim looking rather tall than packed with muscle and fat.

The creatures are making ape like sounds seeming to be talking to each other, Getting glimpse of them as they pass by they seem to be hunting something. Each one of them is holding a primitive spear, they each have fur general everywhere, not enough to be hairy but enough to be a coat.

As they pass by one stops at the tree I came down from and starts sniffing the bark, Letting out a shrilled sound from its throat it uses the vine to jump down. One of the others looks back at it as if making a choice to go or stay, the one on the ground lets out another cry from its throat. The one on the tree makes a choice and uses its vine to jump down next to the other strange ape. Seeing the two sitting there on all fours letting out shrilled cries I can help but get wary, Grabbing my knife I put it into my hand and shuffle around as quiet as I can so that I'll be ready if they come at me.

One of them stands up and slowly walks towards me, my muscles tighten, Blood starts pumping.

Reaching close to my bush it instead walks up towards a fallen log and turns it over, Bugs come gushing out.

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He then turns around and makes a sounds to the other one and goes down on all fours and starts picking bugs up and eating it,

making a disgusting crunching sound in the process. The smell emitting from those bugs is beyond foul, even from here I cant help but gag. Seeing his friend feast on the bugs the other one lets out a grunting sound then looks towards the trees where they rest of his pride went. Letting out a cry he turns around climbs up the tree and leaves his friend behind, Taking a quick glance of his friend leaving he just turns back to his lunch.

As soon as I confirm that they have in fact left and I'm the only one with that ape I grip my knife tighter. Slowly down my breathing, I try to slow down my heart beat remain calm that's the most important part. Rubbing my hand across my sweat covered face I take a runner stance and rush out of the bushes towards the ape. The ape taking by surprise reacts faster than I thought it would, bringing its spear up into a thrusting motion. As the spear was thrusted towards me i used my dagger to parry it, the ape let out a ferocious sounding roar with its terrible hot breath coming out, As it swung its spear back around. Moving my knife I already reached it's front left side I moved my knife towards its leg in attempt to cripple it, while trying to slouch my back down to avoid its spear sweep. However it jumped forward right as I attempted to hit its back kneecap with my knife.

Taking in a deep breath I kept running forward, Feeling the hairs on my back stand up I turn my head side ways to catch a glimpse of it going into a throwing motion. Tightening my muscle I waited for the air around my back to shift and as it did I jumped.

Twisting in the air I seen the spear coming straight at me using my knife to try to redirect it. Such brute strength as I tried to redirected it the momentum pushed me forward barely dodging the spear by a hair breath I flipped back around, landing on my feet. Seeing it pierce the ground in the distance I ran towards it jumping over roots and dodging vines, picking up while I continuing  to run I picked up the speed even more.

Behind me I could hear ape like roars, most likely unhappy with the fact that I attacked it and also got its spear, then ran away from it. Strangely it didn't follow me turning my head several times to glance behind me, After running what seems like a marathon I final stopped. My entire body drenched in sweat my muscles worn out, I had to look for shelter soon or risk collapsing. Licking my dry lips I took a look around looking for some form of shelter, nothing this damn jungle.

Looking up at the sky I seen that the sun was setting, letting out a curse I looked kept moving at a walking pace for twenty more minutes. Coming across a small field of rocks nothing fancy, Looking around shrug my shoulders walking back into the jungle i start collected dead wood. Jumbling a pack over my shoulder i bring several long thick sticks back, grabbing one i put it down and push around the boulder clearing it of all the small rocks, making a bald patch. Gathering up the sticks I put them one by one on the boulder, Sadly they would not stay up going back into the jungle i found a small patch of mud. Shifting my hands into I gathered as much as I could.

After rushing back i put the sticks on the boulder once more and put the mud on the base and surrounded the mud with smaller rocks. Repeating this several times i final had a somewhat decent shelter, Looking at the sky once more i see that it hasn't finished setting yet. Letting out a sigh i got up and moved towards the tree, after collect some more mud i got some tree leafs and smeared the mud onto them and used them to cover up the small gaps between the branches. 

Taking a second i back up and start looking at it, Wood leaned against a tall boulder with leaves covering it. What a piece of shit, ill have to work on it more tomorrow looking at the sky i see its died in a deep red and getting darker. Covering a few more spots i look up again the sky is about to go black even. I crawl into the small opening, putting a big banana leaf in-between that hole after i finished getting in.

The second my body hit the ground i cant help but feel tired, Looking back on today i cant help but be exhausted.

So many things to do, where do i even start? Lets just try to survive for one day at a time.\

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if u see errors in my spelling please tell me.

i have a tad bit of dyslexia that ive been trying to work on.