Chapter 3: Reawakening

(Tyler's P.O.V.)

I was floating in a blackness that made me feel disconnected from my body, as if I was around my body, but not in it. All I could hear was my heart-beat in my ears, but when I tried to stand up, I felt nothing, and then I slowly felt myself being pulled towards some strange sense. I started to feel again very slowly, I felt my head pounding, my hands felt cold, but burned. And then I felt the dirt underneath my palms. I sucked in a breath of air, and immediately opened my eyes to their fullest, my whole body stung terribly.

But then my pain increased, as I started to cough violently, and I rolled over and closed my eyes to help me focus. I pushed my arm up so that I could get up, and pulled my knees in, and then pushed up. I was holding my head in one hand, and the ground with the other. I had one foot planted flatly on the ground, with my other leg bent underneath me to hold my weight. My head felt like it was spinning, and as I tried to reopen my eyes, my vision was swimming. A sudden rush and a heave emptied my stomachs contents on the ground beneath me. My mouth felt dry, and I looked up and managed to see my canteen 15 feet away, then I had to close my eyes again, it was early morning, and the sun was just starting to shine over the water, creating a harsh reflection into my eyes.

I waited a few minutes, and then stood up to a slight hunch, and stumbled forwards, I only had a small distance to my canteen if I focused. I continued forwards, but tripped over the small sticks that were left behind from my fire from the previous night. I fell harder than I thought was possible, and groaned. I then saw it… my canteen, just inches from my face. I slowly dragged my hand towards it, and undid the cap with my fingers. I slowly sloshed the water around, and took a gulp, I couldn't spit it out, or I would just waste the little of the fresh water that I had, seeing as I was surrounded by ocean.

As I redid the cap, I pulled and pushed myself into a comfortable position, and thought of what happened to me the previous night. It was all fuzzy, but I could make out a few things, and then I felt myself slipping. I hope this will be a good nap, for I'll need it tonight…

I awoke to a spray of mist, it was just as the sun was setting, and I heard a soft scrape somewhere above me. I titled my head back and looked up, but I didn't see anything, only the pink sunshine rolling down the bark… until I saw that the sunshine was actually indeed a snake. I jumped away from the tree bark and stumbled over by gun, effectively taking me down.

"Sorry if I scared you, I was just bringing you some fish. You must be starving." I heard a voice somewhere behind me. As I rolled over and sat up, I saw the snake facing me, a few feet away with a fish on its back. I started to look around for who had said that, "where are you? I know I heard you."

The snake tilted its head at me, like it was confused. I had never seen or heard of a snake acting this way. Then it opened its mouth and spoke, "I'm right here. Are you sure you're Ok?" That had caused me to jump back and stare open mouthed at the snake. I wasn't sure if I hit my head to hard, or if I was dreaming.

"Did you just speak," it just nodded, "but how is that possible, you are a snake, an animal, it's just not possible!"

"I would like it if you didn't refer to me as such filthy and demeaning terms. If you want to see an animal, I suggest you go over to a forest. Now if you don't mind. I'll be going now."

I couldn't believe what I had just heard, but I guess I had struck a nerve, so I had to at least apologize, no matter how weird it seemed for me to talk to a snake. "I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings. It's just where I come from, a snake doesn't talk, it just hisses."

That had caused the snake to stop, it seemed to be thinking, then turned its head slightly to the right and said, "And I haven't seen any creatures like you, I'll alert the guardians of you awakening."

With that, the snake slithered off to go do whatever it was snakes did. I felt a pang in my stomach, and looked down, and saw the fish the snake had dropped off for me. The smell that had drifted over to me had permeated the air around me with a mouthwatering aroma. I had to wipe a dribble of drool away from my mouth because of the smell.

I walked over to it, bent over and picked it up; it was warm, but not too hot to hold. I then carried it over to my makeshift camp and sat down. I tore a small piece off and slowly began to lift it up to my mouth, and stopped when it was below my nose. I sniffed it to be sure I didn't smell any raw fish, for I didn't want to be sick when I didn't know where a toilet was… and I'm sure that my current way wouldn't go over well if the occupants of the tree found out.

I took a slow but cautious bite of the fish flesh, and it tasted great; a meaty flavor that tasted slightly smoked, with an after taste of berries and nuts. I had tried to go with natural flavors in my food one time, and I ended up burning the entire meal. The flavor of the fish was what some would say; divine. I felt like I was being watched with such intensity, that it felt like I was being studied.

I turned around to see two owls watching me from a distance. One was a small owl; it had brownish red feathers, and the other was the cream colored owl I had seen the night before. And the last of the sun light was fading, the rays caught a picture perfect image of several large owls starting to fly down towards me, all wearing those metal sharpened claws, but only 2 had masks on. Those masks were bigger than the ones I had previously seen, and they seemed ornamental with round, but sharpened edges.

As they landed next to me, the lead one, and biggest of the three spoke, "I hope you have enjoyed your meal? My name is King Boron, and I have some questions for you…"

A.N. I hope you all enjoyed, I am updating this with a lot less words than I would have wanted to complete it with. I will no longer be updating so fast, it takes a toll on wanting to write so much… especially in so little time, also when I'm writing two essays for my English class. I would also like to state, I chose the name Airman for Tyler's last name because it was the name of my first…(and so far only) reviewer. So that explains why there is two airman's in my story.

Airman0007: I didn't go into detail about the lightning part for a very good reason, it was like he was being tazed, or shocked with electricity. And yes, I have experience with both those ways, and you don't think of detail, but what it feels like… lol, don't worry, I was inflicting both those to me myself, even though they were accidental. And thanks for being such a great reviewer and supporter.