Author's note: So this isn't really my best work, but I'll keep writing it for those who enjoy! I hope you like it and feel free to give me some feedback! Sorry the chapters are so short.
Tears sting in the back of my eyes and I wrap my hand around a broken tree branch, close my eyes, and swing with all my strength.
I feel the branch connect with the figure. These things are fucking weird. Felix and I have killed god knows how many, but they don't really die. They just disappear for a while then they regenerate.
I open my eyes when I hear Felix gasp for air. He lies on the ground still in pain.
The figures close in closer and closer to me. I stab the closest one with the branch and it staggers back with a hole in its torso and then advances again. Fuck.
In a rage of fear and anger I swing the branch repeatedly at them. Making contact. Out of the corner of my eye I see Felix finally standing up, moments after he collapses.
"FELIX!" I yell turning my attention to him for a second.
As I turn to fight again one of the figures wraps its tentacle around my torso. Pain strikes through my chest and every limb of my body. I see the blue sparks again. What the fuck are they? A horrible burning sensation moves through my veins and hurts as if I were being stabbed by thousands of flaming needles.
I scream in pain. I try to lash at the thing that holds me, but I'm lost in the blue static that clouds my vision.
"Cry!" I hear Felix yell.
The static fades back to black, but the pain still runs through my body. I try to stand, but collapse and everything goes to static.
"Stay with me, Cry!" a voice yells, "Ryan, you can't leave me!"
I try to open my eyes, but the static engulfs me. I want to tell Felix I'm ok, but I can't find my voice.
"RYAN! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME!" he yells again.
Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up.
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I open my eyes and see Felix's face above mine.
He hugs me and sobs, "I thought I lost you."
Tears run from my eyes, "What happened?"
He wipes his tear-streaked face and shakes his head, "I just remember fighting them off."
I sit up trying to remember something besides the static and the blue sparks, but I can't.
"Let's get out of here before they regenerate," Felix says pulling me to my feet.
"Did you get rid of them all?" I ask.
He shakes his head, "It was adrenaline, Cry. I saw you on the ground screaming and spitting up blood and I was just blinded by rage and just started beating them with branches and rocks."
"Thanks," I say holding back tears.
He smiles at me, "I don't remember a lot about before we came here, but I remember that you're my best friend."
We continue to walk along in the silence, "Felix, we should rest here. I think we're safe."
He nods, "Let's try and find food and if we're lucky we can find some water."
We sit down and dig in the ground for worms or beetles or any kind of bugs.
"Here," Felix says handing me two worms.
I down half a worm and can't bring myself to eat the rest. I'm starving, but this is too fucking disgusting. I hand Felix the rest and he forces himself to down it.
"I'll look for more," I say as I begin to pick in the wood of the tree we're resting on.
Of course we have no luck. There isn't another bug on the tree nor is there any puddles or ponds for water.
"Cry, get down," Felix whispers to me.
He pulls me to the ground and behind a tree. "What is it?" I ask.
"I heard something," he replies in a whisper. Is he insane? The things don't make noise.
We stay low and I soon hear footsteps, leaves crunching, and twigs snapping. A man walks in our range of vision. There's another person here?
"Cry, don't," Felix whispers as I stand up.
I move out of the way of the tree and ask the guy, "Do you need help?"