Okay, I have to start making the chapters a little bit longer...
I woke up the next day not to the sun shining happily in my face or something cute, rather to the sickening sweet smell of burning human flesh. Looking down, I found out that the green men had caught on fire and was burning to death, the fire tearing away at them more and more for every second that pass, yet they did not seem to notice, even less mind the probably excruciating pain that the fire must cause.
The abominations, the horrible green, slack-jawed, armless, hairless creatures with hollow eye sockets, just stood next to the burning men, not even turning to look at them.
I felt sick, what the hell was this twisted world I had woken up in?!
A couple of minutes passed, but the abominations did not move. I figured that I never would be able to make my way down the tree, but since the forest was pretty dense, I would probably be able to jump from tree to tree...
I made my way up to the top of my tree and looked out. There were a couple of trees pretty close, so I marked one of them as my target. With my backpack on, I made my way out on a branch stretching to the other tree and prepared myself for a leap of faith...
"Wait a minute, didn't I hurt myself when one of the abominations blew up next to me? I think I did actually..." was what I thought in the air just after I jumped...
The pain, oh god, the pain.
I landed on a branch of the other tree and used my ribcage as brakes, the same thing that got damaged earlier. Somehow I managed to pull myself up on the branch and for a while, I just laid there catching my breath, probably for more than an hour, I don't really know.
When I finally began to calm down, the pain settling and my breathing stabilizing, I took a quick look around and found that I was back at square one, two of the abominations had followed me and now stood under this tree, looking up at me with their disfigured faces.
"Well...fuck."
Figuring that they would follow me from tree to tree, I had to come up with a plan on how to get down instead of continuing from tree to tree like some kind of ape-man, grown up in the jungle around primates...
I searched through my bag and found the slab of meat packed in leaves, some sinews and the stone shard I used as a knife. Other than that was my stone-tipped spear, but that wasn't really useful as there were two of the bastards. This needed some extremely advanced weaponry...
"Eureka!"
Taking the shard and the rest of the sinews, I started drilling a small hole in the end of the spear, tying the sinews together to form a primitive rope and then tying it to the spear, I made a harpoon.
Holding the length of rope in one hand and taking aim with the other, I managed to take out one of them, retrieve the harpoon and then take out the other one.
I tried to find my bearings when I got down, but when I heard a hoarse hissing sound, I just ran as fast as I could in one or another direction away from the abominations.
When I saw that the forest was thinning out, I slowed down and had a look around. Before me lay a vast plain, stretching to the horizon and most likely a bit further.
Not having anything else on my schedule, I started walking.
I started thinking about what I've been doing up until then and found out that I was rather thirsty since I haven't had anything to drink as far as I could remember. I got an idea and when I came across another cow, I took my harpoon and killed it. Then, using my shard, I cut out a piece of its skin and some sinews. The piece of leather became a pretty large waterbag which I tied to my backpack.
Carrying on, I started to wonder what my dream meant, what I had fled from and why I ended up crashing into a beach and losing my memory while at it...
My thought got interrupted by an urge to urinate. Looking around to make sure I was alone, I realized how stupid that must have looked. So without further ado, I emptied my bladder and kept on walking.
Picking up where I left off, I started to think about who I really was, what my name was, if I had a family waiting for me, if I really did send that report to Brown at accounting, where I fled from in such a hurry, if I turned the stove of and so on and so forth.
Being so caught up in my thought, I didn't react to the sun slipping past the horizon and that the night once again had swallowed me. When I did find out, I was relieved that I was out on this flat field because I could see everything coming at me from miles away.
What I didn't see coming was a huge spider digging its way out of the ground and coming after me.
Damn it! Seems like it will be mostly short chapters here...
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