Leaping to the side Mia avoided getting crunched, a tree trunk taking her place as she continued, not looking back as she heard the crunching of wood in powerful jaws.
She had messed up and was now desperately running away.
At first, she had wanted to go to the lake she saw before loading, was simple enough with Ami knowing the way with the assistance of the log map, and with it on the way to where she was going anyways it worked out, she’d get water and if she was lucky, food. She wasn’t the greatest fan of fish but….
‘hn, not important…’ she shook the thoughts of fish out of her head, kicking off a tree into the air as a serpentine plant like creature rushed maw first into the tree, ripping it from its foundation and coiling around the trunk, eight pairs of legs clawing at the bark as the entire 30 meter long body coiled around and crushed it.
The creature, once done tearing the tree to shreds, perked up, its serpentine head locking onto Mia and screeching, its mouth separating into 5 prehensile appendages.
Mia booked it, continuing her mad dash to the lake. “?!” she dashed to the side, ducking behind a tree then having to kick off it once the creature wrapped around the trunk, Mia ending up on a branch she quickly leaped off from, going from branch to branch, desperate to keep going.
This thing, Mia assumed, was the one thing she had forgotten about the after math of those mushrooms.
Her missing legs.
She dropped from the treetops just as the creature dashed overhead, the branch and the upper part of the tree gone soon after. She continued running on the ground, watching the beast as it coiled around and navigated the treetops above her.
Seeing this beast up close and not drugged, she wondered how she even got away from it the first time, well… minus her legs, but with how fast it was it was nothing short of a miracle. The only reason she was able to get out of its way was because it-
Mia dove forward, as the creature smashed, headfirst, into the ground where she had stood previously “It keeps diving straight…” Mia spoke softly, unamused and very annoyed this thing would not give up on chasing her.
And to make matters worse…
She extended her hands forward, blasting two beams of ice at the creature as it swiveled in the ground and continued to do so, clawing at the dirt to dig itself out.
…it was seemingly not affected by her ice magic, vexing Mia further as she continued her run.
The icing on the cake? She saved right before this thing started chasing her.
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Once again dodging behind a tree Mia spoke, ignoring the crash and destroyed forest of this things rampage “Ami, how much longer?” she asked with a hint of desperation, she still had not eaten anything and to add to her worry her status had updated.
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Name: Mia
Status: Starving
Age: 8
LVL: 15
Points: 0
HP: 1008/1100 MP: 1842/2400
Str: 101
Con: 110
Dex: 350
Int: 350
Mnd: 240
Lck: 1
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‘Starving...’ She was losing health at a steady rate, how much and how fast? Who knows she was a bit busy at the moment running for her life to pay attention to how fast she was losing it, but the increasing pain she got while running gave her a pretty god guess doing all this while starving was not a good idea.
[Not too long. Just keep moving forward.]
“Great.” She shook her head, and continued on, dodging and weaving between the trees in what felt like a never-ending period of time.
Eventually she got lulled into an emotionless and soulless pattern, one that had an endless trail of deforestation in their wake, dodging, weaving, leaping, and jumping. The pattern never changed, the creature in all its might never did anything but use their brute force in head long charges. In the back of Mia’s bored mind, it made her angry, angry it was so simple, and angry she could not take advantage of it.
But that was firmly shoved back into the depths of her mind, less she makes a mistake and have to start this numbing process over, but she need not need to wait much longer, as she finally broke out of the tree line and was greeted with her destination.
A vast lake spread out in front of her, a welcome change from the forest she had been stuck in for…how ever long that was.
She took a deep breath, savoring the moment and taking it all in, before she hit the ground ducking, as the beast flew over her and with a great splash, landed in the lake. “Haaah….” She sighed, the tension leaving her as she watched the creature thrash around in the lake.
“to be sure…” She saved, then took in her surroundings. She wasn’t out of trouble yet, that thing was still there a bit of ways offshore, but either it did not like water or couldn’t swim it was currently just thrashing around. Past it she could see the opposite side of the lake and the forest that continued from there, to her right was just a shoreline, and to her left was the sa-
“No wait…” She squinted her eyes, making out some sort of structure on the shore some ways away. “Well better tha-“ A high pitch squeal cut her off, followed by a rushing sound. Mia turned towards the previously thrashing beast as her point of view started to fall, she saw the beast, its five appendaged mouth wide open.
‘What just…’ Were Mia’s last thoughts before feeling herself hit the ground and waking up in a dark void.
“….” She glanced around, confused for only a moment before the repressed anger welled up inside of her and released “ARRRAARRGH!!!!!” She slammed both of her fists into the ground, that thing had other means to attack this ENTIRE time but was just…TOYING with her!
She brought up the load panel, slamming her fist into it and appearing on the shore. She faced the beast, raising her open palms and launching chunks of ice at it as it thrashed about in the water. The beast paid no mind to it, her chunks that previously could dent armor were nothing but pebbles to the creature.
This pissed her off more, her anger rising she formed two ice daggers in each hand then charged, diving into the water…
And then swiftly finding herself back inside the black void, having drowned.
“…”
“…. huh.” Mia sat there in the void, looking around listlessly.
She sat there, the load notification popping up every now and then, but she would simply close it. Hours passed until eventually she spoke…
“That hurt.”
She bluntly stated.