Disclaimer: I do not own Terraria or any companies associated with it. Nor am I making any profit from this story. I am merely making a poorly written story based on it purely for my own amusement.
Warnings: Cursing, Suggestive Themes.
Summary: Waking up on a beach with no memory of who he is, Anthony sets out on an adventure, one he will be hard pressed to survive.
Chapter 2: The Slime
He was in a large clearing, leaning up against a tree completely exhausted. He'd been wandering around for hours, the sun was beginning its descent, and he was starving. All this combined left him quite immobile. He saw a few rabbits running around during his journey, but now he was too tired to even think about catching one, even if he had the means of cooking it.
What he was thinking about though were the four mushrooms near the base of the tree he was leaning against. They were orange with red spots, and had a white stalk. He had no idea if they were poisonous or not, but he was so hungry it was beginning to not matter. It's not like there's a 5-star resturant on the other side forest, is there? Not that it mattered, he could barely move.
Deciding that it didn't matter, either the mushrooms would kill him or starvation would, he decided to take the leap and eat one.
It was rather tasteless, a bit dry and chewy, but altogether not bad. He quickly downed the other three. Slowly, his strength returned to him. An hour after he ate the mushrooms he was feeling like a new man, ready to take on the world.
He looked around the clearing, since he practically fell against the tree the moment he entered the clearing, he didn't bother to look around before. About 50ft he saw more of the mushrooms, around a rock that was in the middle of the clearing, about 7 mushrooms in total. He walked over to the mushrooms, slung off his backpack, and began stuffing them in. After he had 2 mushrooms in his pack, he heard a loud rustling behind him. Normally he would ignore it, but the only signs of life he'd seen so far were the rabbits, and that noise sounded like something a lot bigger than a rabbit.
Deciding to investigate, he pulled the sword off the holster on his pack, deciding to leave the pack itself there, and started inching towards the bush the noise probably came from. Not even 10ft from his pack he heard something hit the rock behind him with a wet smack. He whipped around, sword in hand, to see what what made that noise, and what he saw surprised him to say the least.
It was some sort of green blob, about 2ft high, and just sat there on the rock wobbling. It started to shrink on itself, trembling violently, as if it was condensing on itself. Suddenly the blob expanded itself back to its normal size, launching itself at him in the process. Anthony, still stunned by its appearance, was hit suddenly in the chest, knocking him back a couple of feet, his sword flew out his hand from the impact, landing near his pack, though he manged to keep his balance. The blob bounced off of him and landed halfway between himself and the rock.
'That hurt!', thought Anthony, he surely had a large bruise from that hit, and he also felt a searing pain in his right side. 'Probably a cracked rib', he thought.
The blob tensed and flew at him with surprising speed again. Anthony dove out of the way, dodging, and landing on his side. Unfortunately for him, it was his right side. Pain shot through Anthony's body. He tried to get up, making it to his knees, when he was stuck once again, this time in his upper back. He tumbled forward, his face hitting the ground hard and with a sickening crack. He looked up and saw his pack about 8ft away, with his sword inches away from it. Anthony, ignoring the searing pain in his side and nose, he crawled desperately towards his fallen sword. Merely a foot away, he was struck again, this time in his left side. The force of the blow knocked the breath out of him and caused him to roll away from his sword a few feet, finally settling on his back.
His entire body hurt, he couldn't move, his vision was blurred and he'd given up hope of living. He stared at the green blob blankly, which was a few feet away, waiting for the finishing blow. It launched itself high into the air, no doubt intending to land on his head and crush it.
Time seemed to slow, 'So this is the end huh? Crushed by a giant testicle, joy.' He thought morbidly. Suddenly, at the apex of its jump, and arrow pierced completely through the blob's body. That strike caused it to burst apart, showering Anthony with some kind of slimy liquid.
"Ya know, I normally don't fight, but watching you get your ass kicked by the weakest monster in Terraria was just so pitiful, that it was hurting my pride. I had to step in for both our sakes." said a mans voice. Feeling surprisingly safe again, he slowly lost conciseness.
"Out again?" the man sighed wearily as he buried his face in his hands. "I really have my work cut out for me with this kid."
Authors Note: So what did you think about the slime fight/beating? It's a fucking slime, I needed to try and make a fight with it exciting somehow. Slimes are supposed to be dangerous to new players, and this was my way of doing it.
If you've played Terraria, you know who that man is, though I'm trying to make this realistic, so calling him by his NPC name is a bit weird, I'll be giving them my own names.
Next chapter will be spent fleshing out Anthony's and the Man's character, along with his name, so I have no action planned. I honestly didn't have the slime in here when I was planning this chapter out. I promise the next action scene will be a 'fight' and not a 'complete ass kicking'.
I do plan on introducing OC/'s, but when and who I haven't decided it yet. I normally don't let reviewers decide my story, but when it come's to OC's in this story there is so much I can do that I can't decide on a single one, so I'm open to suggestions.
I got the inspiration for this from Elagune, who is a member of the Terraria online forums. He made a comic based on Terraria. And its completely awesome. Link to his comics are in my profile, so please check it out and bask in his awesome.
Please review! This is the first story I've EVER done so I need some feedback on how I'm doing. I plan on future fictions and I'd like to keep errors and bad writing to a minimum.
