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Brightness. That was all I could see or at least try to see. I didn't know whether I was dreaming, abducted by aliens, or just dead, but I knew that I could be somewhere new. After about 10 minutes of just waiting, I opened my eyes slowly only to close them immediately. I lifted my arm to block out the sun as best as I could but as I tried, I felt pain through my entire body. I tried to open my eyes again and my eyesight has adjusted to the light and the first thing that I was able to see was tree's everywhere and my entire body was covered in branches and vines. Trying not to freak out as best as possible because one minute I was inside a burning building that was going to collapse on top of me and the next I'm waking up outside and trapped inside a tree. I freed my right arm from some vines but groaned in agony until I was able to feel my surroundings. I felt branches near me, but they were crunching under my weight, I could tell because of this long crunch sound. I needed to get out of this so I panicked like any normal person would and then.

CRUNCH.

I started to fall again and I turned around to see for how long. I turned around and thought 10 seconds maximum until I fall to my second agonizing pain. My heart raced fast and I felt the adrenaline rush through my body while my breathing increased in speed. Looking at what was around me for a few milliseconds was all that I needed. My body reacted as quick as a flash and grabbed a tree branch that was falling next to me and used it to try and make my way up to reach the tree, but then there was one of the crates that was apparently with me in the mysterious building under the CDC started to fall over me and my blood rush started to decrease by the millisecond, making me mortal again.

"OH SHIT!" I screamed as I started to fall again and there was nothing I could do about it. But before I landed on the hard ground, I was able to move to the crate and used it as a protective barrier under me and waited to jump as soon as I had a clear shot at a tree branch. I was nearing the ground and there was no branches near me. So I just jumped and tried to cling onto a tree, but to my dislike, my face hit the tree and when I tried to cling myself to it and I hit a stump of a branch and it hit my stomach. Sending me back and I collided with the ground. I moaned in pain while holding both my face and stomach. Then I opened my eyes to my surroundings and I saw a twinkle in the trees above me and realized what it was. I moved my head to the left as quickly as I could and heard a THUMP. Turning my head around carefully, I saw my ax penetrate the spot my head was a second ago.

"Damn. What is with me and almost dying?" I said while getting up cautiously and slowly. After I got up I cracked my spine and knuckles to get myself loose and I pulled out the ax with ease and looked at my new surroundings. There was trees, bushes, and the basics of a forest. Or is it jungle? Fuck it. I turned my head to be looking at the black crate that nearly killed me, a few feet away from me. I took a deep breath and walked towards the large and mysterious crate.

"Why is the crate black?" I commented while examining it. But as I saw some sort of control panel or key pad and when I pushed a key, the U.S. flag was being waved in a small screen and knew something was wrong.

"Crate number 7 now active. Please insert the code."

I heard it say and was impressed and curious at the same time. Checking the crate to see if there was a code carved on it or a clue. Sadly there was none. Then the number 7 kept on echoing in my head.

"Why does crate 7 sound so familiar?" It was then that my mind remembered all the paper with numbers on it inside the burning building." What was that code?" After wondering for a minute, my legs started to hurt and I decided to sit on top of the crate for a while. "Wait a minute. When I was recording my final will I-." Upon hearing this made me remember everything that occurred before landing in this God forsaken place. But this is not the time for emotions for their might be some way to get back home, for this world could have the technology to send me back. I sat up and pulled the video recorder from the inside of the jacket and pulled out the tape from my pocket. I put play and looked at the background for the paper I was looking for. Since there was smoke everywhere it was hard to look for the paper with the codes. After about an hour later and re-watching the tape multiple times, my eyes found the paper listed codes. It showed only #7 but it was either this or leave with nothing.

*SIGH*"Come in Alex, head in the game. Head in the game." I walked up to the crate and pushed the numbers.

12,22,36,87,60,2...?

"Oh Fuck. What's the last number?" I looked at the tape again and it never showed the last number." "Well. Like our dad once told us 'You can't always live life by playing it safe, sometimes you need to know when to take risks to push ahead.' This is for you dad." I said to the sky and pushed 6. After I did there was beeping noises and I ran for cover behind the tree that I woke up in and waited.

"Code accepted." The crate slowly opened and there was this HISS sound that came out of the crate. "Good luck out here troops and stay safe." That was the last thing that I heard and upon hearing this, I got out of my hiding spot to look at the mysterious crate. I held up my ax and used it to open the crate the rest of the way. What I saw was impressive.

"HOLY SHIT. Military equipment." I said excitedly and dug into the crate and pulled out everything that was inside of it. There was Night Vision goggles, Thermal goggles, a medic kit, a case of flares and 1 flare gun, 5 flash bang's, 5 smoke bombs, 5 tear gas grenades and 4 survival kits.

"These will come useful later on." I looked at the equipment then the crate again and saw a tape inside." What the hell?" I took it out and put it in the video camera and pressed play.

"This is crate #7. This is part of your survival gear that you would need. The crates 1-6 have other necessities that would be needed to live, since you opened this crate that means you have opened the others. Crate #8 has your weapons and ammo, along with other gear. Crate 9 and 10 are for research purposes only. At the bottom of the inside of this crate, there is chargers and a small generator that could be useful for the technology in crate #9. Further instructions are in crate #10. Good luck out there troops."

And that was all. No one was there only their voice. I was confused about this whole thing. After a minute of trying to figure this whole problem, I got a headache just trying to piece it together so I shrugged it off until I had more information, but now I had to survive in this new place. So after gearing everything up in a carry pack ready to go, until I felt something inside my pockets.

"Oh, can't forget to check the things I brought with me." I walked to the crate and closed it to put everything I had on top of the crate. I had my 4G cell phone at 98%, the ax that I brought with me, 2 oxygen tanks(1 is full the other is 70% full), my full suit of firemen armor that had not received any damage other than a few scratches, my digital watch, my wallet with: $200, family pictures, 3 credit cards, and my fire gas mask that had no damage

"Ok. So now that I have everything that would allow me to survive out here, where do I go?" I looked at every direction I could to try and spot civilization or hear any cars, but all I heard was silence. That's when my grandfather's advice kicked in. 'If you are ever in the forest or in the jungle and there is no noise, then you are being stalked or about to be hunted, so run as if the devil is chasing you.' Before I had a chance to react, there was this growl that I heard that made me grip my ax and raised it to my chest to struck any enemies that would dare try to attack or ambush me. I turned around and saw nothing there, but there was a feeling in my gut and that is never wrong. I knew that I'm being watched by someone or something and it's doing a good job to hide itself from my view. The crate itself could provide some shelter or some cover, but it can't be opened from the inside so there was a 100% chance of me suffocating in there. There was only two options that popped into my mind.

1. Stay and fight

2. Run and live

"Go with 2." I said out loud and ran as fast as possible in any direction other than where I was. I ran for 10 minutes and so fast that I didn't feel that hunted feeling anymore until I ran into a tree at full speed and hit my shoulder and fell down a hill to hit my head on a root of an oak tree that was sticking out of the ground.

"Fuck. What was that?" I rubbed myself clean and checked for any bruises or any injuries. Surprisingly there was none. After gathering my composure for a minute I tried to figure out how I just ran faster than I ever did before and I was not as tired or out of breath. Normally 1 lap in a track field would tire me out, but this was weirder than I would anticipate. Looking at the tree that collided with my head I noticed that this tree had some carvings on its trunk. Curiosity got the better of me so I climbed up and saw that the initials where KS+PL FOREVER and it was inside a heart with an arrow through it.

"Whoever these people where, I hope they found happiness." I smiled and brushed my hand over this symbol of love and knew that love is everywhere, even in strange new worlds. I shook my head and cleared my throat to focus back on the mission, but then my stomach growled and I needed food so I was out trying to look for food. Looking around for a while in the forest there was berry bushes that grew wild black berries and I was about to have a bite until something caught my attention. A small black bunny just passed this berry bush and walked over to another berry bush, the only difference was the colors of the berries.

So it would appear that berries are on the menu for tonight. I walked towards the berry bush to pick enough for myself, only to stop when the rabbit's ears perked up. At first I thought he was sensing me, but when his head turned to another direction I knew that he knew something I did not. I pulled out the ax from behind me and readied myself for an attack. The rabbit ran away back to his home and that left me in a field to be attacked at any moment. Rather than wait to be attacked, I ran back to the oak tree to try to find some cover, but as I took a step backwards I hear a SNAP. Then out of a bush was a chicken head.

"Cool. Guess I got berries and some chicken." I didn't want to kill it, but this was survival of the fittest and he was my prey. I walked towards it slowly to avoid detection, but failed miserably as the chicken turned around it didn't cluck like any normal chicken and that's when I saw its tail. It was like some kind of Dragon with the head of a chicken, I wanted to laugh my ass off at this funny looking creature if it wasn't looking at me. I saw that it was eyeing me weirdly and I realized that my legs couldn't move. Looking down I realized that my legs started to turn into stone.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS!?" I yelled out and tried to find a way to get out of this but couldn't. That is until I felt my ax behind me. I pulled it out and I hear a cluck. I looked at the weird chicken looking thing and knew that it had to die and it could probably free me from this curse. Since the chicken could still move around, I had to blind it. So taking a flash bang that I strapped on my shoulder just in case something tried to attack, I threw it in the direction of the chicken and shielded my eyes until I hear a small explosion. Opening my eyes again I saw that the chicken was running everywhere and bumping into things while the transformation to stone has reached my chest. I only had one shot at this and there was a lot at stake. Either I kill it and probably live or fail or it will regain its eyesight and stone other living things. I held that ax in my hands and looked at the target. Taking in a deep breath and visualizing the death of this thing I threw the ax. Time seemed to slow down in that moment as the ax missed by an inch and it hit a rock behind the creature instead.

"SHIT!" I yelled out and knew I was going to be turned to stone. So before I was completely useless, I was able to look like Mr. Tumnus when he was turned to stone and with my last few words I yelled out

"FORGIVE ME THOMAS!" Then I was turned to stone along with everything I was carrying.

I want to apologize for not posting this earlier but I lost the flash drive and had to redo everything. Alexander is stone and what will happen? Tune in next time and see if our escapes this curse or not. Review. A big thanks to LadyShadow92 for the help.