Authors note: Sorry about the very long delay's between chapters. I have
been extremely busy. I have also decided that taking two math classes
wasn't the smartest thing to do (It's not hard, it just gets old). Anyone
out there who's in high school, if a teacher ever offers to stick you in an
advanced class along with normal classes.... tell them "Hell no". Im dead
serious. You end up with loads of homework, a very boring schoolday and not
enough time to do anything... even if it's an easy class.
Anyways, I've had a pretty lousy time for the past few weeks, it seems I can never get out of my bad mood, every time something good happens and Im happy, something, or someone, happens that ruins it again. So i really do apologize with chapter delays, I know it can be a drag to wait so long for them. But, then again, bad moods make for good moody, agnsty chapters... ^_^. ( I dont know if this'll count as an angsty chap... but it's probably the closest I'll ever get)
Oh, and I would really appreciate it if someone would go review one of my besterestest friends fics... It's extremely short so far, and won't take too much time. If you know anything about Resident Evil (Or even if you don't) could you think about checking it out. I believe it has a lot of potential. His pen name is Ghaghoi, and the name of his fic is Resident Evil X. Please if you have the time check it out... Im asking because he's one of my besterest friends.
CHAPTER 3
"and for once... once in my lifetime... I didn't want to let it go..."
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Damien shook his head and looked towards the floor. He couldn't watch anymore... the metallic refrigerators drifting away through space. His head had suddenly developed a migraine. The only thing he could think about was the looks on the three tactician's faces...
The young woman... Waki, was so terrified. Her bright green eyes showed it so plainly, so openly. She was panicked. Bryce, the American man, had tried to hide it, but he too was terrified. He wanted so hard to be brave for his friends, his fellow tacticians, but it still showed amongst his features what he was truly feeling.
But most of all, Damien thought of Kyuusai. The one who had actually come up with a possible way to perhaps save all of earth... His mind... it was amazing. The way that he could think, it was almost unbelievable. But his method... his one true way for salvation... it was impossible now. Trogh had won.
Then, Damien found himself thinking about Kyuusai's expression. Unlike the other two... he didn't seem to be scared. In fact....
"He didn't seem to have any emotion at all..." Damien said out loud.
"Excuse me sir?" One of the random scientists asked, who had just entered the chamber.
"Never mind. Back to work." Damien ordered, shaking off the sudden feeling of guilt for sending the three young tacticians off into space.
Damien sighed as he walked over to a window, gazing out at the sphere of metallic gray below him. Earth, a place that was once known as the green planet.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~
Coldness... that's all there was... was it death? A dream. Something... a figure... someone standing far away. The figures back was towards him... They stood completely still...
The figure, the dark figure of the person... was waiting for something... watching. They were standing on something he had never seen before... The ground... it was dark, and soft... springy even... little "blades" of something... But he supposed it was only dark because everything else was.
What was the figure waiting for? Should he call out to them? He felt like he already knew who it was... But he couldn't tell...
He decided to say something...
And then, just as the figure turned a gust of wind blew... and a brilliant beam of goldish bronze light spread out from the dark horizon... It illuminated everything. The ground on which he stood, it was much lighter than he original had thought... green... small little green blades that blew gently in the breeze.
The light showed a vast ocean of water ahead of him... glistening water forming small, white crested waves....
What was this light? He paused, and looked back at the figure, who had turned completely back around to face him... He now realized that the figure was standing on the edge of a cliff, a high cliff surrounded by the ocean. He also realized who the figure was...
"Waki!" He yelled, stepping forward... but every step he took, she backed up... closer to the edge...
Something was wrong...
"Waki...?" He stared at her, her short dark hair was blowing gently in the breeze, her slim almost fragile figure shiloted against the bright light that was rising behind her.
Something was very wrong... he knew it, he could feel it.
Her eyes... they seemed to glow slightly, and.. was she crying?
"Waki... what's wrong!?" He took another step forward... and once again, she stepped back. He stopped, she was so close to the edge...
He began to panic. What the hell was going on?
"What... what's going on... Where are we...?" He yelled.
"It's Beautiful Kyuusai... It really is. I wish..." She turned back to face the light, "It could have been Earth..." Then...
She stepped off the edge.
"Waki!?" Kyuusai made a mad dash towards the edge of the cliff, falling to his knees and looking down... But she was gone.
Then he was aware of something else...
Heat... ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~
It was hot... very hot.. when Kyuusai's bright orange eyes shifted open. He wanted to move, to scream, but couldn't find even the slightest amount of strength to do so. His eyes shifted left and right, trying to take in everything that was around him...
Then it hit him... Earth, Trogh, cryogenic hibernation... Waki. Where was Waki?
He tried to take in huge gasps of air... he was having a difficult time breathing... it was so... unfamiliar. The air was different than what he was used to... it seemed to contain so much moisture... His eyes blurred as he suddenly got dizzy.
"Where am I?" He breathed, Slowly lifting his hand up to push against the roof of his hibernated chamber... Opening his eyes he focused on it...
It was damaged, the glass had been cracked, and the metal around it was dented... some large material... stone was it? Was lying on top of it... the latch that held the chamber shut was broken.
It was so hot... he had to get out of the chamber... gathering any strength that he could find, which wasn't much, he pushed both weak hands against the roof and slowly pushed up... A wave of hot, moist air rushed in even quicker than before, and beads of sweat slowly trickled down his face... That was something completely new to him. Such heat...
Finally, after what seemed like forever he managed to swing the heavy door all the way open, and weakly sat up. A stronger wave of dizziness hit him, and he almost felt like throwing up. And suddenly dread hit him... Quickly he looked to his left, the direction that the other chambers were attached to his... and the sight horrified him.
Huge stone boulders had crushed the other two chambers... Waki and Bryce... they were inside!
He tried to stand... and eventually with enough effort managed it... stumbling over the edge of his chamber and into one of the boulders...
He pushed... and pushed.. But it was useless, he knew it was useless... they were dead. Waki was dead. Bryce was dead.
Why? What had happened? Why was he alive? He cursed as he fell onto his knee's tears streaming down his pale face. He clenched his hands, knuckles turning white, and tried to pound onto the bolder... but found himself barely able to do so.
He sat there, for a long time just crying. Oblivious to anything that may have been around him. His two best friends were gone... Earth was gone... who knew where he was...
Then dizziness swept over him again... this time even worse than before... It was so damn hot. Slowly he stood, whipping the sweat off his forehead... He couldn't help them... He could come up with a theory that could save an entire planet, but he couldn't save his two best friends...
"Waki... Bryce... Im sorry..." He choked, partially due to the heat, and partially due to the fact that he was still crying. He collapsed once more, his back against some stone... and slowly closed his eyes... The heat and dehydration was eating away at whatever energy he had left. Unconsciousness had almost gripped him when he suddenly felt something brush up against his chest... At first he thought that he had imagined it.
But it came again.
Slowly he opened his eyes, allowing them to readjust to the dim light around him. Weakly he looked down towards where the slight feeling had come from... There, sitting on his chest was the most peculiar creature he had ever seen... Perhaps even the only real creature he had ever seen.
Breathless he stared at it, awed by it. So delicate... so small... two beautiful colored wings... gently flapping up and down slowly... Small patterns etched into them. It had a small thin black body with what looked like six unbelievably thin legs to his slightly blurred vision. So thin that his skin barely felt them... if not for the gentle brush of the small creatures wings he would have never known it was there.
So fragile...
He carefully took a hand to touch the creature, shaking slightly as he did so. Slowly he slightly brushed his finger against the oddly textured but beautifully colored wings... It was so strange to him, he suddenly became startled when the creature suddenly flew away, fluttering elegantly through the air.
He turned his head weakly to follow it, shaking off the dizziness that threatened to take hold again. It fluttered up, and across the room...
It was then that Kyuusai noticed his odd surroundings...
The tactician was in a room, completely made of stone... Huge sections of the ceiling had collapsed inward, blocking what looked like was once a door. The same boulders that had crushed his friends and damaged his own chamber.
Something strange and green was spread out upon the wall... he remembered reading about something like it once... rope like plants that clung to walls, trees etc... vines?
It wasn't light in the room, but dim... he could make out the edges of things, and could see that he was pretty much trapped within the room.
The fragile creature from before suddenly came into view again and he watched it... Slowly it fluttered upward, towards the corner of the room and through a destroyed part of the stone. Through it shone beams of some strange light.
His eyes drifted slowly downwards... the boulders... he could use them to get out! Slowly and weakly he stood, feeling the sweat run down his face. How could there be so much heat?
He made his way over to the boulders... which, oddly enough, had fallen almost perfectly for climbing. Letting out a tired sigh he climbed on top of the first stone, then the second.
After what seemed like forever he was at the top, all he had to do was crawl over to the whole. He looked down at his chamber... his cold prison... then down at Bryce and Waki's.
"I never did get the chance to say goodbye..." He whispered to himself, closing his eyes he turned his head back towards his exit. If what Damien had told him the previous day was right...
'Wait...' Kyuusai thought.
Previous day...? No.... it had to have been much longer than that... how long? How much time had passed? How many years? He shook it off his mind. If what Damien had said was right, then all the other chambers would have changed course and come to this planet...
He crawled slowly over to the whole, and peered out... And for the second time, became completely breathless.
He sat there, for a long time just staring. It wasn't day like he had originally thought... but night. It was so beautiful... a vast ocean of stars spread out across the sky... something he had yearned to see (while not being in a satellite) for as long as he could remember... The white lights, gleaming diamonds among a vast velvet black blanket that had splashes of blue and violet.
And the moons... On earth there had only been one moon, partially destroyed and not visible from the planet itself. On whatever magnificent planet he had come onto now there were multiple. He was able to see 2, though could not tell if it had more or not, crimson in color. Another strange substance could also be seen among the sky. Fluffy gray soft looking objects... He had remembered reading about once or twice as well... Clouds.
"Amazing..." He whispered as he turned his orange eyes downward towards the never ending horizon. One of the moons was located there, huge in all it's magnificence. A sea of green spread out from there, and towards him. Vines hung down from mammoths of non-metal objects he could only assume were tree's.
Trees. Plants. He had never seen something as unusual or incredible. Huge panes... no he remembered that they had been called leaves, huge leaves sprouted lively from the brown substance that must have been wood.
He had to get a closer look. Jumping down he landed weakly and stumbled upon the ground... which brought a whole new feeling of awe. Brown grains of dirt, leaves, sand, twigs ('made of the tree's wood of course' he thought) and some wetness he had never felt before... The ground was wet... Blades of little green plants, grass.
And then the sounds. Hundreds of thousands of unique sounds. Calls, whistles, something that sounded almost as a person breathing, (He guessed it was the wind, for he had never heard wind before) chirps, cries, the dripping sound of water and so much more came to his ears.
He sat there for a long time, just taking it all in, everything he saw, everything he heard. And then... an odd feeling came to him. Not the nauseating feeling that had come and gone in the immense heat, but the feeling of being watched.
He turned, gazing into the darkness of the plants and sounds, the shadows created by what he guessed was the jungle or forest that he was in.
A new sound came to him... a grown.. no, a growl. He turned quicker, looking into another patch of darkness, and staring back at him were two glowing orbs, perfectly round glowing yellowish orbs... eyes. He heard the soft sound of something stepping towards him... different from a human foot sounded.. almost padded. The eyes came closer with each step.
Finally the owner of the eyes came into view. A rather large, magnificent creature. Brownish-black hair, or fur, covered it's body, which consisted of four powerful muscular legs ending in sharp dangerous looking claws. A long curving tail slowly swayed back and forth, gently brushing against the plants around it.
And it's head. It's beautiful yet powerful head. Two alert ears twitching at every little sound, mounted atop the head, above it's glowing eyes. A mouth, or muzzle, of pure muscle with an odd shaped nose at the end, filled with glistening yellowish teeth. It appeared to be a feline of some kind... a cat, much like those that the wealthy owned on earth.
Only much much larger.
It suddenly growled again, but stopped, and Kyuusai witnessed another cat like creature stumble out of the shrubs, this one far smaller. It tumbled past the larger one, meowed once (it wasn't really a meow, but it's the closet thing Kyuusai could describe it as) and dashed off into another bush.
With one more look, a stern look, almost a warning, the larger cat slowly walked off after it. Kyuusai later assumed that the large cat was the small ones mother. He must have stumbled into it's territory.
He stayed completely still, in total awe of what he had witnessed, almost wishing the creature would return so he could gaze upon it again.
But soon the same sick feeling and dizziness came over him and he became aware that he had to get out of the heat. His breathing was harsh due to it, and the strange sticky moister didn't help. He took one last look at his surroundings, sending a final farwell to his lost friends, and began to walk through the seemingly never ending jungle.
It took a few hours, and after sighting many amazing creatures such as insects, small mammals, lizards, and birds, he began to feel as though he may never leave the jungle which he had found himself in. He stumbled, tripping over roots, rocks and sometimes even small animals, wishing for an end.
And finally, he found it. The tree's suddenly came to an end...
He breathed a sigh of relief, and gazed out before him.. only to be shocked once more. Nothing. Nothing but small gaines of sand, huge dunes of it spread out before him. It was odd, how such a lively place, the jungle, could come to such and abrupt stop and fan out into a desolate wasteland.
The sky was beginning to lighten considerably, (A sunrise was another thing he had never experienced fully), and it seemed he was out of luck. He had yet to see another human... so he kept moving.
Something he realized right away was that without the protection of the trees, it had become even more undesirably hot. The air wasn't as moist, but the heat was even more intense than he could ever could have managed.
He went on for as long as he could... how long he didn't know, until he collapsed upon the scorching ground. The sun was over head now, and it had heated the sands to a burning temperature. Breathing in he accidentally sucked in some of the small grains and began to choke.
Eventually managing to get it under control, he turned to look upward at the clear, cerulean sky that held so much beauty.
Once again unconsciousness gripped at him. It called to him, taunted him, and just before it took him he was awakened by the most unnatural sound.
A grinding sound, a an artificial sound. He was then aware of it coming to a stop, and a slamming sound replaced it for an instant. The the sound of footsteps... human footsteps.
"Dear lord it IS a person!" Kyuusai heard someone say. Slowly opening his eyes he witnessed the blurry figure of a man come into view, "Ahhhhh, he isn't dead!"
"What!?" Another male voice caught his ears, "I don't see any kind of transport or anything around here..."
"Hey can you hear me...?" The first voice asked, it was becoming harder to hear the two as they continued to talk, "Hey man..ca... hear me?"
"...Him into... damn jeep... he'll die of heatstroke... we don't... hurry..." The second voice came again.
"Right." The first was almost a whisper as everything stopped.
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I once again apologize for the long wait, and I promise fully it won't happen again. My computer has died twice now, and even if it does again I will find a way to make it so it won't take so long to update.
Hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving.
Oh, and it's a lot harder than I thought to write about someone that hasn't ever seen anything like a tree or animal.....
Anyways, I've had a pretty lousy time for the past few weeks, it seems I can never get out of my bad mood, every time something good happens and Im happy, something, or someone, happens that ruins it again. So i really do apologize with chapter delays, I know it can be a drag to wait so long for them. But, then again, bad moods make for good moody, agnsty chapters... ^_^. ( I dont know if this'll count as an angsty chap... but it's probably the closest I'll ever get)
Oh, and I would really appreciate it if someone would go review one of my besterestest friends fics... It's extremely short so far, and won't take too much time. If you know anything about Resident Evil (Or even if you don't) could you think about checking it out. I believe it has a lot of potential. His pen name is Ghaghoi, and the name of his fic is Resident Evil X. Please if you have the time check it out... Im asking because he's one of my besterest friends.
CHAPTER 3
"and for once... once in my lifetime... I didn't want to let it go..."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Damien shook his head and looked towards the floor. He couldn't watch anymore... the metallic refrigerators drifting away through space. His head had suddenly developed a migraine. The only thing he could think about was the looks on the three tactician's faces...
The young woman... Waki, was so terrified. Her bright green eyes showed it so plainly, so openly. She was panicked. Bryce, the American man, had tried to hide it, but he too was terrified. He wanted so hard to be brave for his friends, his fellow tacticians, but it still showed amongst his features what he was truly feeling.
But most of all, Damien thought of Kyuusai. The one who had actually come up with a possible way to perhaps save all of earth... His mind... it was amazing. The way that he could think, it was almost unbelievable. But his method... his one true way for salvation... it was impossible now. Trogh had won.
Then, Damien found himself thinking about Kyuusai's expression. Unlike the other two... he didn't seem to be scared. In fact....
"He didn't seem to have any emotion at all..." Damien said out loud.
"Excuse me sir?" One of the random scientists asked, who had just entered the chamber.
"Never mind. Back to work." Damien ordered, shaking off the sudden feeling of guilt for sending the three young tacticians off into space.
Damien sighed as he walked over to a window, gazing out at the sphere of metallic gray below him. Earth, a place that was once known as the green planet.
~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~
Coldness... that's all there was... was it death? A dream. Something... a figure... someone standing far away. The figures back was towards him... They stood completely still...
The figure, the dark figure of the person... was waiting for something... watching. They were standing on something he had never seen before... The ground... it was dark, and soft... springy even... little "blades" of something... But he supposed it was only dark because everything else was.
What was the figure waiting for? Should he call out to them? He felt like he already knew who it was... But he couldn't tell...
He decided to say something...
And then, just as the figure turned a gust of wind blew... and a brilliant beam of goldish bronze light spread out from the dark horizon... It illuminated everything. The ground on which he stood, it was much lighter than he original had thought... green... small little green blades that blew gently in the breeze.
The light showed a vast ocean of water ahead of him... glistening water forming small, white crested waves....
What was this light? He paused, and looked back at the figure, who had turned completely back around to face him... He now realized that the figure was standing on the edge of a cliff, a high cliff surrounded by the ocean. He also realized who the figure was...
"Waki!" He yelled, stepping forward... but every step he took, she backed up... closer to the edge...
Something was wrong...
"Waki...?" He stared at her, her short dark hair was blowing gently in the breeze, her slim almost fragile figure shiloted against the bright light that was rising behind her.
Something was very wrong... he knew it, he could feel it.
Her eyes... they seemed to glow slightly, and.. was she crying?
"Waki... what's wrong!?" He took another step forward... and once again, she stepped back. He stopped, she was so close to the edge...
He began to panic. What the hell was going on?
"What... what's going on... Where are we...?" He yelled.
"It's Beautiful Kyuusai... It really is. I wish..." She turned back to face the light, "It could have been Earth..." Then...
She stepped off the edge.
"Waki!?" Kyuusai made a mad dash towards the edge of the cliff, falling to his knees and looking down... But she was gone.
Then he was aware of something else...
Heat... ~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~_~
It was hot... very hot.. when Kyuusai's bright orange eyes shifted open. He wanted to move, to scream, but couldn't find even the slightest amount of strength to do so. His eyes shifted left and right, trying to take in everything that was around him...
Then it hit him... Earth, Trogh, cryogenic hibernation... Waki. Where was Waki?
He tried to take in huge gasps of air... he was having a difficult time breathing... it was so... unfamiliar. The air was different than what he was used to... it seemed to contain so much moisture... His eyes blurred as he suddenly got dizzy.
"Where am I?" He breathed, Slowly lifting his hand up to push against the roof of his hibernated chamber... Opening his eyes he focused on it...
It was damaged, the glass had been cracked, and the metal around it was dented... some large material... stone was it? Was lying on top of it... the latch that held the chamber shut was broken.
It was so hot... he had to get out of the chamber... gathering any strength that he could find, which wasn't much, he pushed both weak hands against the roof and slowly pushed up... A wave of hot, moist air rushed in even quicker than before, and beads of sweat slowly trickled down his face... That was something completely new to him. Such heat...
Finally, after what seemed like forever he managed to swing the heavy door all the way open, and weakly sat up. A stronger wave of dizziness hit him, and he almost felt like throwing up. And suddenly dread hit him... Quickly he looked to his left, the direction that the other chambers were attached to his... and the sight horrified him.
Huge stone boulders had crushed the other two chambers... Waki and Bryce... they were inside!
He tried to stand... and eventually with enough effort managed it... stumbling over the edge of his chamber and into one of the boulders...
He pushed... and pushed.. But it was useless, he knew it was useless... they were dead. Waki was dead. Bryce was dead.
Why? What had happened? Why was he alive? He cursed as he fell onto his knee's tears streaming down his pale face. He clenched his hands, knuckles turning white, and tried to pound onto the bolder... but found himself barely able to do so.
He sat there, for a long time just crying. Oblivious to anything that may have been around him. His two best friends were gone... Earth was gone... who knew where he was...
Then dizziness swept over him again... this time even worse than before... It was so damn hot. Slowly he stood, whipping the sweat off his forehead... He couldn't help them... He could come up with a theory that could save an entire planet, but he couldn't save his two best friends...
"Waki... Bryce... Im sorry..." He choked, partially due to the heat, and partially due to the fact that he was still crying. He collapsed once more, his back against some stone... and slowly closed his eyes... The heat and dehydration was eating away at whatever energy he had left. Unconsciousness had almost gripped him when he suddenly felt something brush up against his chest... At first he thought that he had imagined it.
But it came again.
Slowly he opened his eyes, allowing them to readjust to the dim light around him. Weakly he looked down towards where the slight feeling had come from... There, sitting on his chest was the most peculiar creature he had ever seen... Perhaps even the only real creature he had ever seen.
Breathless he stared at it, awed by it. So delicate... so small... two beautiful colored wings... gently flapping up and down slowly... Small patterns etched into them. It had a small thin black body with what looked like six unbelievably thin legs to his slightly blurred vision. So thin that his skin barely felt them... if not for the gentle brush of the small creatures wings he would have never known it was there.
So fragile...
He carefully took a hand to touch the creature, shaking slightly as he did so. Slowly he slightly brushed his finger against the oddly textured but beautifully colored wings... It was so strange to him, he suddenly became startled when the creature suddenly flew away, fluttering elegantly through the air.
He turned his head weakly to follow it, shaking off the dizziness that threatened to take hold again. It fluttered up, and across the room...
It was then that Kyuusai noticed his odd surroundings...
The tactician was in a room, completely made of stone... Huge sections of the ceiling had collapsed inward, blocking what looked like was once a door. The same boulders that had crushed his friends and damaged his own chamber.
Something strange and green was spread out upon the wall... he remembered reading about something like it once... rope like plants that clung to walls, trees etc... vines?
It wasn't light in the room, but dim... he could make out the edges of things, and could see that he was pretty much trapped within the room.
The fragile creature from before suddenly came into view again and he watched it... Slowly it fluttered upward, towards the corner of the room and through a destroyed part of the stone. Through it shone beams of some strange light.
His eyes drifted slowly downwards... the boulders... he could use them to get out! Slowly and weakly he stood, feeling the sweat run down his face. How could there be so much heat?
He made his way over to the boulders... which, oddly enough, had fallen almost perfectly for climbing. Letting out a tired sigh he climbed on top of the first stone, then the second.
After what seemed like forever he was at the top, all he had to do was crawl over to the whole. He looked down at his chamber... his cold prison... then down at Bryce and Waki's.
"I never did get the chance to say goodbye..." He whispered to himself, closing his eyes he turned his head back towards his exit. If what Damien had told him the previous day was right...
'Wait...' Kyuusai thought.
Previous day...? No.... it had to have been much longer than that... how long? How much time had passed? How many years? He shook it off his mind. If what Damien had said was right, then all the other chambers would have changed course and come to this planet...
He crawled slowly over to the whole, and peered out... And for the second time, became completely breathless.
He sat there, for a long time just staring. It wasn't day like he had originally thought... but night. It was so beautiful... a vast ocean of stars spread out across the sky... something he had yearned to see (while not being in a satellite) for as long as he could remember... The white lights, gleaming diamonds among a vast velvet black blanket that had splashes of blue and violet.
And the moons... On earth there had only been one moon, partially destroyed and not visible from the planet itself. On whatever magnificent planet he had come onto now there were multiple. He was able to see 2, though could not tell if it had more or not, crimson in color. Another strange substance could also be seen among the sky. Fluffy gray soft looking objects... He had remembered reading about once or twice as well... Clouds.
"Amazing..." He whispered as he turned his orange eyes downward towards the never ending horizon. One of the moons was located there, huge in all it's magnificence. A sea of green spread out from there, and towards him. Vines hung down from mammoths of non-metal objects he could only assume were tree's.
Trees. Plants. He had never seen something as unusual or incredible. Huge panes... no he remembered that they had been called leaves, huge leaves sprouted lively from the brown substance that must have been wood.
He had to get a closer look. Jumping down he landed weakly and stumbled upon the ground... which brought a whole new feeling of awe. Brown grains of dirt, leaves, sand, twigs ('made of the tree's wood of course' he thought) and some wetness he had never felt before... The ground was wet... Blades of little green plants, grass.
And then the sounds. Hundreds of thousands of unique sounds. Calls, whistles, something that sounded almost as a person breathing, (He guessed it was the wind, for he had never heard wind before) chirps, cries, the dripping sound of water and so much more came to his ears.
He sat there for a long time, just taking it all in, everything he saw, everything he heard. And then... an odd feeling came to him. Not the nauseating feeling that had come and gone in the immense heat, but the feeling of being watched.
He turned, gazing into the darkness of the plants and sounds, the shadows created by what he guessed was the jungle or forest that he was in.
A new sound came to him... a grown.. no, a growl. He turned quicker, looking into another patch of darkness, and staring back at him were two glowing orbs, perfectly round glowing yellowish orbs... eyes. He heard the soft sound of something stepping towards him... different from a human foot sounded.. almost padded. The eyes came closer with each step.
Finally the owner of the eyes came into view. A rather large, magnificent creature. Brownish-black hair, or fur, covered it's body, which consisted of four powerful muscular legs ending in sharp dangerous looking claws. A long curving tail slowly swayed back and forth, gently brushing against the plants around it.
And it's head. It's beautiful yet powerful head. Two alert ears twitching at every little sound, mounted atop the head, above it's glowing eyes. A mouth, or muzzle, of pure muscle with an odd shaped nose at the end, filled with glistening yellowish teeth. It appeared to be a feline of some kind... a cat, much like those that the wealthy owned on earth.
Only much much larger.
It suddenly growled again, but stopped, and Kyuusai witnessed another cat like creature stumble out of the shrubs, this one far smaller. It tumbled past the larger one, meowed once (it wasn't really a meow, but it's the closet thing Kyuusai could describe it as) and dashed off into another bush.
With one more look, a stern look, almost a warning, the larger cat slowly walked off after it. Kyuusai later assumed that the large cat was the small ones mother. He must have stumbled into it's territory.
He stayed completely still, in total awe of what he had witnessed, almost wishing the creature would return so he could gaze upon it again.
But soon the same sick feeling and dizziness came over him and he became aware that he had to get out of the heat. His breathing was harsh due to it, and the strange sticky moister didn't help. He took one last look at his surroundings, sending a final farwell to his lost friends, and began to walk through the seemingly never ending jungle.
It took a few hours, and after sighting many amazing creatures such as insects, small mammals, lizards, and birds, he began to feel as though he may never leave the jungle which he had found himself in. He stumbled, tripping over roots, rocks and sometimes even small animals, wishing for an end.
And finally, he found it. The tree's suddenly came to an end...
He breathed a sigh of relief, and gazed out before him.. only to be shocked once more. Nothing. Nothing but small gaines of sand, huge dunes of it spread out before him. It was odd, how such a lively place, the jungle, could come to such and abrupt stop and fan out into a desolate wasteland.
The sky was beginning to lighten considerably, (A sunrise was another thing he had never experienced fully), and it seemed he was out of luck. He had yet to see another human... so he kept moving.
Something he realized right away was that without the protection of the trees, it had become even more undesirably hot. The air wasn't as moist, but the heat was even more intense than he could ever could have managed.
He went on for as long as he could... how long he didn't know, until he collapsed upon the scorching ground. The sun was over head now, and it had heated the sands to a burning temperature. Breathing in he accidentally sucked in some of the small grains and began to choke.
Eventually managing to get it under control, he turned to look upward at the clear, cerulean sky that held so much beauty.
Once again unconsciousness gripped at him. It called to him, taunted him, and just before it took him he was awakened by the most unnatural sound.
A grinding sound, a an artificial sound. He was then aware of it coming to a stop, and a slamming sound replaced it for an instant. The the sound of footsteps... human footsteps.
"Dear lord it IS a person!" Kyuusai heard someone say. Slowly opening his eyes he witnessed the blurry figure of a man come into view, "Ahhhhh, he isn't dead!"
"What!?" Another male voice caught his ears, "I don't see any kind of transport or anything around here..."
"Hey can you hear me...?" The first voice asked, it was becoming harder to hear the two as they continued to talk, "Hey man..ca... hear me?"
"...Him into... damn jeep... he'll die of heatstroke... we don't... hurry..." The second voice came again.
"Right." The first was almost a whisper as everything stopped.
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I once again apologize for the long wait, and I promise fully it won't happen again. My computer has died twice now, and even if it does again I will find a way to make it so it won't take so long to update.
Hope everyone had a nice thanksgiving.
Oh, and it's a lot harder than I thought to write about someone that hasn't ever seen anything like a tree or animal.....