Tian violently smelled the grass, “Ah… well, what should I do now, I mean I have… a lot… and I mean… a lot…” Multiple fishes jumped out of the hole and landed just right back in.

Tian looked up at the sky, the pond, and the trees. He then began to move his head right and left. For a few minutes, Tian danced in tune to some…thing… that rang inside his head if there even was something.

“Ah!” He jumped back to the ground. “Ooh my god, what the fuck, oh wow, what was I doing.” Tian jumped back up and directly crawled back down to the ground, he smashed his head to the water and then stood up.

“Now… to where… do I… go…?” Tian swam across the pond to the next, not because it was faster, but because his mind just decided so.

He once again squatted down, raised his arms to his head, and began another session. “Wait! I should at least bring a fish!”

***

A few days later, Tian, with the common hole in his chest and a body filled with fish, made his way across the forest until he found another significant change.

“Hm… well, that is… the… forest… but it’s high up!” Tian had spotted a mountain to his left. With his slow walk, he made his way to face the giant wall when the night came.

“I haven’t slept in five days, mainly because of these fishes… but I do want to climb up before I sleep.” And so he did. The mountain was big, it wasn’t a practically giant mountain or an actual mountain, it was just a side cliff from a tall hill.

The cliff ran long to the sides, which was a good sign of something different, “Let’s… go… hmm… left.”. After 2 days of duck walking to the very edge, Tian had found the elevation that led to the top, and so he stopped.

“!” Tian yawned loudly. He tapped his mouth and laid upward down on the ground. His hands crossed his chest; which closed the hole. Then he slept, till the next morning came.

“To continue!” Tian walked across the edge of the cliff. He eyed the beautiful forest from above. Even though it was a hell that was much different than some giant tiger’s stomach, it was still a cage that kept him in.

“You know, I can’t even say I hate you now.” He said to the forest. Its trees were all connected, not even a single one showed the ground from above. It was mystical or maybe it was a stupid thought, “I can see the sky from below, yet I can’t see the ground from above… that is… witchcraft.” He said as a joke.

Tian continued to climb the cliff and looked to his left. “It’s just another group of trees to the ground… if only I really can climb trees.” He said.

He sighed and sighed as he walked. Occasionally his stomach would grumble, but that was an easy fix. Tian had collected the most fish he could from the pile that he had made before and there was only one place he could keep it… inside his body.

“Ah… I can’t stop getting hungry at all.” He reached inside his gaping chest and picked a dead fish out. It had been days since he went away from the pond, without his knowledge, all the fishes had already died.

“Oh… well, I definitely forgot you needed water to live… maybe that’s why the pain in my stomach disappeared after a day.” Tian shoved the thought away and started to eat the fish.

It took another day until he reached the highest point of the cliff. Though he did wonder what the point of doing that was from the start. “Hmm… now why am I here again?” Tian sat down at the edge of the cliff.

He wiggled his feat, placed both his hands on the ground, and jiggled his body around. “With my fat stomach and naked body… this must look so weird from a 3rd form perspective… and I always forget that I’m naked… fuck! I need to find something soon!”

“Oh look, it’s the sunset. Awww… it’s directly in front of me.” He continued to wiggled his feet and jotted around as he watched the sun. Until the moment the sun disappeared from below the trees, Tian stayed and watched, the beautiful sunset of the land.

***

“Ahhh… now I should probably get going. Now do I see anything from here?” Tian finally stood up and stretched his body out in each direction. “Trees, trees, trees, nothing but trees.”

He turned his back and squatted down. Tian entered the forest once again.

After a short while, he picked up a piece of stone and started to talk to it as he slowly walked.

“You know what I learned being immortal?”

“Well, it sucks, but it is amazing.”

“I mean I have a hole in my chest and… you don’t see me dying.”

“Hahaha! Ah… it’s just so funny. There are also fishes inside there.”

“But it does feel a little painful, I mean it is literally dripping blood, but only a little.”

“It does regenerate, but like really slowly… and I mean so slow.”

“Oh and another thing, my memory is so bad now.”

“I mean I hope I don’t have dementia, but it’s hard trying to remember what I have done before.”

“Like, it takes me a few seconds to remember I had been to the pond and someplace before…”

“Oh yeah, the stomach of a… bo- tiger.”

“Well, it does make sense if my memory is worse though.”

“Did you know, that my memory had always been bad ever since I was on… Earth. Yeah, Earth.”

“But it definitely got worse after I was dragged into this.”

“I guess it may have to do with me fearing death.”

“The time I spent inside the stomach is somewhat visible in my mind.”

“But whenever I die, I can never forget that pa- Ah!”

Tian’s body shivered violently from his feet to his head. He fell to the ground and dropped the stone.

“Any-” Tian was once again caught up, his body continued to violently shake as his joints and random parts of his body felt excruciating pain.

“Ahhhh!!” He tried his best to stop his body and stiffened it to a weird position. “Stop… it’s done… just forget about… like you’ve always done…”

…

“Anyway.” Tian got up from the floor and started to walk squat down once again.

“So where was I?”

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“Oh yeah, I also really like that I can’t die.”

“I mean, who doesn’t?”

“If I had some piece of paper and some ink, you know what I would do?”

“I would fucking write for a billion years, 'cause that’s how much I need to practice to at least be decent.”

“Did you know I began writing because of the classic stupid reason of money?”

“But as time went by, I noticed… just like in games… I had no talent in the thing I liked.”

“I… had so~ many plans.”

“When I gained the money from writing, the first thing I would buy is an editing software.”

“Yep, an editing software.”

“I always wanted to play my favorite games and share them with the world!” He raised his hands and looked up to the sky.

“Then after I stream every second of me writing, every second of me playing, I would… well, I don’t care anymore… for me… I had many dreams…”

“Writing was just one that I could do the easiest… it didn’t need any editing, or any money at all… it was a perfect starting ground.”

Tian’s mouth stayed open until his smile turned to a frown.

“But… years later… I lived in a basement… with no job, and I was caught up with my fat stomach and anime bullshit.”

“Dreams… I can’t achieve that with these talents… I need time…”

“I wish I could go back to earth, or maybe I could make a deal with a God.”

“Put me into a white room, or any inescapable space, give me an infinite pen, and an infinite number of paper… then bring me back to earth, after how long he wants…”

“Such a dream is possible… right? Cause I’m now immortal.”

Tian looked down at his hand.

“Oh, ahhahaha! I didn’t even notice the rock was gone!”

“Hahahaha!” He laughed till the sun rose in the sky.

***

“Oh… My… Holy… Mother Fucking God!!!”

A collection of bushes from his right shook. The piece of weirdly shape trunk became bigger and started to run from fear and disturbance.

“It’s a fucking dear! An animal! A living thing!” Tian stood up and chased the deer as he panted.

“Fuck it’s so fast!”

The dear was close to exiting his eyes. Tian tripped from a stem and splatted to the ground. “Shit!” He looked up with his chin down, “I lost it… aww fuck… what was my training for if I just trip from a tree branch?!”

“Hahahah!” Tian flipped to his side and buried himself on the grass. A leaf fell to his eyes and he laughed it off his face.

“Okay! Haha! I… at least know… that there is something in this forest. If I just follow where it went I may find it.” He said, yet he stretched his arms above and laid them down.

“But… you know… after tripping down… by a stupid branch… for some odd reason I can’t stop smiling?” He giggled.

“What the hell.” He smiled and stared at the leaves.

“A dear…”

“I…”

Tian stroked his hair with both hands and slid it to his face. He blew a huge air out and stood up. His hand jabbed the air and pointed straight out. “Onward…! To a group! Of life!”

He ran through the forest and brushed aside his exercise. Tian looked continuously down and up, for a tree branch and uprooted stem from the ground.

A few minutes passed and he spotted a light radiant brown color from a far distant. “Hehehe…” Tian hid behind a tree and peeked a little bit out. “It’s a deer… it’s alone… but it’s a food… that I can’t cook… I mean… what is a cook? Never heard of that, definitely you can’t cook a food, yeah…”

His tongue ran across his lips and he swiftly crossed to a closer tree. One tree after the other, a few minutes in between. I can almost taste it… Tian was only two trees away from the deer.

He watched it closely as it ate the grass beneath its feet. Tian carefully tip toed to the other tree while the deer faced the other side.

Just a little more and his perseverance would bear a delicious fruit. “Ahh! A smoke!” His eyes caught a slight change from the sky. Without his control, he got distracted and yelled aloud.

The deer ran immediately before he could even look down. “Shit…!” Tian fell to the ground and kneeled. “No…” he said with a low tone; insecure of his energetic personality. “I was so close… I’m so easy to distract aren’t I?” He sulked on the ground for two seconds.

“Anyway! Smoke! That means! Fire!” Tian stood up and ran fast. “I only have fish but it’s still better, cooked! Right? I-, uhh- Id- I don’t know.”

Soon the forest opened up to a wide flat area free of trees. Tian’s mouth was left opened as he got closer. But soon his feet became slower and slower as more and more things appeared in his sight.

“Wait… now that I think about it… if there is a smoke… that means there are…” His eyes widened from the realization. “There are people!”

“Oh shit.” He blocked his mouth. “Am I stupid?”

“Who’s voice was that?!” Said a soft but sharp voice.

Tian immediately ran behind a tree and hid. “Oh no… I am stupid, or I’m just accustomed to yelling without anyone listening.” His body stiffened. He gritted his teeth and clutched his fist. Tian forced his back to the tree so much that he might as well be the tree.

“Yeah…” His tension immediately disappeared. “I am not stupid, just some ignorance.” He smiled.

“Whoever you are get out now!”

“Oh shi-t.” His voice cracked and his body once again stiffened. Well, this is a prei...camet…? Oh, predicament!!!