Chapter 2
The survivor
Tony woke up a few hours later on a beach but it wasn't the one in Mineral town.
"Where am I?" Tony thought getting up.
"Who am I?" He groaned grabbing his head.
"I can't remember... anything." He thought.
He's clothes were thrashed and he looked around and saw his hat which strangely had survived the storm.
"I think this is mine but I'm not sure." Tony thought and put it on his head.
He saw a drag line on the beach but ignored it and moved further in land. It was raining yet the memoryless Tony was happy for some reason.
"I love the rain." He thought looking up at it.
"It reminds me of something. But what?" Tony thought then shrugged explored the area he was in some more.
The rain came down even harder and the winds started up and got more and more fierce. Tony's joy turned to fear.
"Run!" Commanded a voice and Toy screamed and ran as fast as he could. He ran until he found a cave and dived inside. The hurricane roared loudly behind him and he stopped and panted gasping for air. (He woke up in the eye of the storm.)
"Holy cow." He thought and looked up. He walked into the cave looked around. There was all kinds of ruins inside the cave and saw something flash. He followed it to it's source and found a rusty old sword.
"What is this?" He thought looking at his face in the sword's blade.
Memories flashed before his eyes. He was fighting a monster and killed it with the very sword was holding then the memories stopped.
"Who am I?" Tony thought and carried the sword with him further into cave. Tony explored deeper into the cave and found a statue of the harvest goddess. The statue's hand was shaped like it was holding something. Tony looked at the sword in his hand and he placed it in the statue's hand. It dipped a little and a wall came up. Tony went inside and was in awe at what he saw. There was an orb on an alter and a mighty wind was coming up from it. Tony grabbed the orb and pulled it free. The wind died down and so did the hurricane.
"Pretty." Tony thought looking at the orb and it gave off a bright light. Tony was outside of the cave the orb was gone and he was on the beach again.
"Huh I'm back here." Tony thought looking around again.
He sat on the beach and looked at up at the sky as the rain came lightly down.
"At least the storm is over." Tony thought.
"The storm is far from over." Said a voice.
"Huh?" Tony said and saw a figure in a cloak.
"Hey wait." Tony said getting up and followed the person.
The cloaked figure went up the hill and onto a farm. It had been thrashed by the storm and then the figure disappeared.
"Hey where did it go?" Tony said looking around. Tony looked down and saw a man gasping for breath. He had brown hair and eyes like he did, red gloves a white shirt and blue pants.
"Help me." He begged.
Tony pushed the fallen tree off of the man with difficulty and helped him to his feet.
"You okay?" Tony asked.
"I've been better." The man said.
"Is this your house?" Tony asked.
"Yeah it is help me get inside." The man said.
Tony did as he was told helping him inside.
"Thank you." The man said sitting on his bed.
"No problem. Your farm looks like it's pretty messed up." Tony said.
"Do me a favor and count the animals tell me how many are dead or not." The man said and laid on his bed.
"Got it." Tony said.
He moved some branches away from the barn door and went inside.
"Let's see 1 2 3 4 5 6 animals and 1 2 3 4 are dead." Tony said counting. He went to the chicken coop to see a tree had fallen on it. He looked inside and found an injured hen.
"1 chicken alive the rest are dead." Tony said taking the chicken to the farm house.
The farmer was drinking a potion and he got up.
"Well what's the damage?" The farmer said.
"Your cow is injured but safe and the sheep is fine. The horse and other live stock in the barn are dead and all but this chicken are too." Tony said giving the hen to the farmer.
"Well this royally sucks." The farmer said taking the hen and used some animal medicine on it.
"What's you name?" The farmer asked.
"I don't know I washed up on the beach a few hours ago." Tony said.
"Hmm well I'm Tyler and you're welcome to stay here and help me out on the farm if you like." Tyler said.
"Thanks." Tony said with a smile.
"Oh wait my name is Tony." Tony said.
"Tony huh? I've heard someone talking about a guy called that before." Tyler said.
"Anyway lets get to work." Tyler said giving Tony a pair of gloves just like his.
"Right." Tony said following Tyler outside.
"Okay Tony as you know this was my farm before it got trashed." Tyler said as a disposal truck took his last dead animals away.
"The first thing we need to do is look around for my tools they got scattered during the storm. Ask the neighbors if they have seen them." Tyler said.
Tony did what his new boss told him too. He looked and found a the sickle and ax near the stream. He found the hammer in a pond and the watering can in a tree.
"I found all but the hoe sir." Tony said putting the tools back in their slots in the shed.
"I found the hoe so I think we're good. Next we need to use the hammer and ax to clear the broken trees and rocks that appeared on the farm." Tyler said.
Tony stared chopping the fallen tree as Tyler charged up his hammer and smashed a boulder finishing it off.
"How did you break that with a single blow?" Tony asked.
"It's the harvest goddess's blessing. She rewards hard work with greater power. (This power is from Harvest Moon 64 where if you use your tools enough they get more powerful up to Gold which was the most powerful without taking them to the black smith.)
"Oh I'll get back to work." Tony said.
He worked with Tyler to fix up the farm over the next few days. On day 6 they got their first replacement animal.
"Why did you order a calf?" Tony asked now wearing a full set of farming clothes making him look like the hero farmer from mineral town.
"I didn't it was from the farmer in mineral town. Sent it as a gift when he heard what happen to my farm." Tyler said.
"Mineral town... huh." Tony thought and moved the calf into the barn.
"Hmm what to call you. Tyler said I got to pick so..." Tony thought and started thinking.
"I shall call you... Egg!" Tony said.
The calf licked his face strangely fond of the name.
"Whoa settle down girl." Tony laughed. (It's an inside joke with me and my friends. The first cow I ever got I named Egg for a stupid reason. I liked the name though and added a heart at the end of the name.)
