Ch.2 - The Harvest
Kurt awoke with the feeling of the world pressing down on him as he stared at his collection of small photos that showed other placed far away off world like a bleach with a whale jumping out of the water or mountain view of a forest during a sun set, after rowing over and falling out of bed he notated the walls and ceiling made creaking sounds. "Fuck, it's that time of year again" he grunted, as he remembered once every year the planets gravity increases heavily but he could grow up in heavy gravity so he was still able to move around but it took Kurt a few minutes to gain his bearings. As soon he gained his bearings put on his pack and cloak then holstered his daggers then he walked out of his room. The hallways were in ruin the beams hinged out of the ceiling; panels had fallen to the ground, and every step creaked. It took him twice as long to reach AI core room, because he had to avoid the weaker hallways. When he finally reached the AI core room he had to pray open the doors so he could enter. Kurt walked over to the projector, "Are you holding up alright?" Kurt asked the AI's then waited for a responds, "Yes were good" Daemon answered from the speakers without projecting his avatar, Kurt stared at were the avatar should be "is something wrong, you're not appearing on the projector." "The increase gravity is affecting the equipment and we can use our avatars." Jade replied. "Will you be alright while I'm out collecting the plants?" Kurt asked as he repositioned his pack. Daemon only replied "yes" "alright then, I'm off." Kurt told them as he hooded his head and walked out of the room.
After two hours of walking through the endless forest, picking leaves, stems and digging up roots. As he was walking through the forest he could feel his gut instinct tell him some one was watching him, he slowly turn around, he found nothing awaiting him. "That's odd, normally there something there." He thought to himself, as he continues his search for the herbs and roots. he began thinking of what he needed, he still needed 10 yellow bush, 5 more C2-J6, 14 E-83 and 20 more yellow berry, then he had to get the roots. After he finished going over what he needed he noticed a yellow berry bash, it looked like bashes in the pictures he saw of earth but the berries were yellow and had a sour taste with a sweet after affect. As he was harvesting the plant he felt an attack coming from behind him, he dove to the left, draw his daggers and saw a large creature that had the shape of a bear with a wolf head and thick hardened skin acting as armor all over it body. Kurt was shaken as he remembered fight one of these beasts, back then he had the element of surprise, but the beast was to strange and his dagger couldn't cut through its armored skin, and he barely got out alive. Kurt quickly jumped back and climbed the nearest tree. After he reached a high tree branch he looked down to find the predator was clawing its way up the tree. In terror that such a large animal was climbing the tree. Kurt quickly started jumped across from tree to tree trying to lose the predator, which had given up on the tree but had been chasing him from the bottom of the trees.
Kurt had been trying so hard to loss the beast that he had not kept track of his surroundings, has he kept his paste as he took a quick cheek of his surrounding to realize he was only a few feet from a cliff slide and somehow had been running along the side of it for some time. Kurt was about to stop and to see if the beast had stopped but he could hear the beast smashing through the branches close enough the ground. Kurt continued to jump from branch to branch trying to loose the creature; as it leaped up trying to grab his leg but came short as Kurt grabbed a tree limb and pulled himself up, he stopped for a moment to catch his breath and check on the beat down bellow to find that it was breathing heavily. Seeing that the creature was nearing it limit Kurt began to leap from braches again when a loud boom filled the air like an underground cavern collapsing, the trees shook violently thronging him out of the tree. Kurt hit the ground hard with pain surging through his body he forced him self up on to his feet to face the creature, only to find it had run away as if something was chasing it. He was reveled to see the creature leave and used the chance to take in a deep breath, but as he began to breathe in, he notes the sky had darkened. As Kurt lifted himself up and began checking him self for injures, but as he began he heard another load boom, followed by a rumble in the ground, he quickly turn around drawing both daggers ready to fight but what he found he could have never been ready for.
Sorry for it being short but I wrote this one in the middle of class one day in school
