Marco yawned as he woke up the first thing he saw was river leaning over him.

"Ahhhhhhh," Marco yelled scrambling back. As he looked around seeing he was in a forest wearing hoodie favorite jeans and his gray shirt that he knew he was not wearing when he went to bed.

"What the hell is going on" Marco asked.

"Well, my boy to see if you're worthy of dating my daughter, I am going to hunt you for the next week" River spoke giving his mark a small rucksack.

Marco took the bag and saw a river turns away and started counting backwards starting at 1000. Marco took this as his warning and ran.

After about 20 minutes of running Marco found a knocked over tree with a small hole he could fit in he said in and opened the box to see what was inside.

The first he found was a note from Orion it read:

Hey Marco hope you get the chance to read this,

I packed this with things I thought could help as I always do. In this is all things from earth hope they help.

Good luck from Orion.

Inside the bag was a blanket a Swiss army knife 100 ft. of rope (he had no idea how it fit) some army rations a lighter a sling and a watch that had a timer it read 6 days 23 hours and 35 minutes.

The first thing Marco did was find some fresh water as he knew he would need it in a couple of hours. He found a river and flowed it to share, he could see a large hill and went to check it out. When he got there he found a small hole that leads to a cave big enough for him to be comfortable laying down he then saw a nearby bush that was easily pulled out and used to cover the hole now that he had a base it was time to find a way to make it through the week.

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River and Marco had not met up yet but after the last 3 days of hunting River found the remaining supplies from previous pray had been taken such as a sword, rope, a shield a helmet and a map that the prey made during his hunt his guess was that the new prey was using it to get the upper hand smart.

This was the first proof he had found that Marco still was in the forest.

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Marco was returning from fishing when he saw the bush used to hide the hole had been moved Marco had never taken the chance of leaving anything in the hole only thing he had left in there was some rope so Marco turned around to find somewhere to hide out for the next two days.

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Marco was screwed! He was running from River who had found his new campsite, the hollow tree, he first read the note in.

"Come, boy, you did well to last this long but it's too late give up now and I will only take something small like a pinky toe" river said throwing a spear at Marco only just missing.

Marco knew he could never fight river one on one but Marco had seen saw and home alone enough to have a plan he led river threw to trees that crossed over each other losing him for a few seconds but the second river passed through the arch Marco cut a rope.

CRACK

A massive log swung from the treetops blaming into the river. Marco ran over to him and while he was knocked out took his weapons threw them out of reach and tied him up.

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River awoke to the sound of beeping.

"Times up I win," Marco smiled.

"Yes you do boy now if you untie me I'll take you home," River stated as if he had not hunted the boy but was taking him home after babysitting child.

"That's it no congratulations or nothing," Marco complains cutting him free.

"You only won as Orion didn't come as he saw you as worthy if he had come you would-be of last a day after all that was his hiding whole(1)," River said citing a whole to Marcos room.

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I'm baaack

New chapter as always Gamelover 41592 proofread it

1: When Steven was a kid, he would play hide and seek in the forest with River, he dug out that hole during the games.