"AUGH!" A pained yell escapes my throat before I clutch my left eye and start sprinting in the opposite direction.
My mind is going through a frenzy as I try to get away from the assaulter, my legs struggle to find footing amidst the roots of the damp, foggy forest as I try to deal with the absence of my sense of direction. My breathing comes in pained gasps, gradually constricting my chest to the point of agony.
All this confusion comes to a stop as I find myself somehow standing at the edge of a chasm so deep and wide I can't see either the bottom or the other side.
I look around frantically for a way around this new predicament, but I realize that I am trapped.
I turn around to find myself looking at the creature that was chasing me. In my shock to see it so close I stumble backwards, barely catching myself from plummeting into the pit.
The creature is impossible to see clearly through the fog, but it is obvious that it walks on two legs and is clearly not human.
The creature lifts two green hands and puts them out in a battle stance, then lunges at me! with reflexes I didn't know I had, I barely dodge a dodge a fatal blow from a mysterious green blade attached to the creature's forearms.
But in dodging the blade my foot slips over the edge of the precipice and I fall into the inky blackness, but not before the creature slices at me landing a glancing blow on my chest and I gasp in pain before plummeting to my death…
Why?… why am I not dead yet? My mind asks the question that should have been obvious. I feel myself still falling but, there is nothing to confirm whether it's true or not. there is only the blackness that surrounds me. I grit my teeth, expecting to hit the rocks at the bottom at any second… but I don't, I feel myself come to a stop but I am suspended in space. Confused, I try to look around but there is nothing to see, only darkness. Something is wrong, but I can't figure it out. I should be dead already! I try to move, but something is constricting my movements.
All of a sudden, I start plummeting again! I try to make sense of the things that are happening to me, but I realize that I can't even remember how I got here.
I start to see light at the bottom of the pit. Wait… light? I finally come to the conclusion that I am going crazy. I fall through the light and feel myself crash into a lot of branches and tumble through the canopy, then I crash head-first into a huge root before everything goes black.
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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: The Shards of Fate