Chapter 2
I woke to the gentle sounds of wildlife. Birds singing, insects chirping, and the waves rolling against the sand. I sat up slowly, adjusting my glasses on my face. "I wonder how I managed to keep them on my face…" I said aloud, needing to hear my voice since I was alone. "I hope Mr. Burns somehow managed to stay aboard the boat." I stood slowly, stretching out my aching muscles.
After taking care of my bathroom needs, I hefted my bamboo spear and headed into shallow water. I waited patiently for several minutes, until I spotted a fish swimming near. Eagerly I stabbed at it but missed, sending the fish swimming away. I kept at this for what seemed like hours. By this time, my stomach was growling so badly. I was in an extremely bad mood, the sun had risen half-way up the sky and was making me sweat, even though I was in the cold water. "Oh, damn this!" I hissed, flinging the spear towards the beach. "I found clam shells on the sand, so there's probably some live ones in the water nearby…" I said, then began diving into the water, checking rocks near the beach. I finally managed to find some clams and began pulling them off. After I had pulled enough, I surfaced and swam to dry land. I started another fire, since the one I'd made last night had died out, and cooked the clams.
Once I'd finished and was mostly dry, I pulled my pack onto my back and retrieved my spear before I headed to the thorn patch I'd found before. I made my way through it as carefully as I could, but once I'd made it through, I realized my clothes were ruined. They were ripped and torn in many places. "Dang it!" I hissed, then began exploring this new area. It looked like a jungle, there were bunches of vines and plenty of new trees and plants to see. I cut some of the vines down, coiling them and stuffing them into my pack. I also found rumberries, long beans, bananas, banana leaves, and cucumbers which all went into my backpack. It was getting dark by that time, so I settled down and made a fire and ate a few bananas and cucumbers before curling up near the warmth.
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I couldn't have been asleep more than a couple hours when the rain woke me up. I shot into a sitting position, letting out a moan of irritation. I managed to pull myself up and over to a large boulder that was near me using it as some form of cover from the rain. I curled up with my knees up to my chest and my arms wrapped around them, and managed to fall back asleep. But I was woken up not long after by the thunder. There was no way I could go back to sleep after that, so I sat in the dark, wet and cold and tired. Thinking back on my life and wishing I could be with Monty right now.
The rain finally stopped when the sun began to rise. I managed what seemed like a couple hours of sleep before my growling stomach woke me up. I ate some more bananas then set out to search the rest of the area. As I was moving around a few bushes, I stumbled over something, I was wearing sandals and I hurt my toe. Cursing, I reached down and picked whatever it was and was going to throw it when something on it caught my eye. I looked closer at what I'd tripped over, I realized it was a stone slab of some kind with a strange drawing on it. I shrugged slightly and slipped it into my backpack. I moved on and found a skeleton of a human body. I shivered and vowed then and there that I was going to find Monty and get off this island and back to civilization.
I searched the entire area and found a path along two cliff sides that lead to a large clearing with a shipwreck, several banana and coconut trees and a waterfall which ran into a small pond and out to the sea. I searched the downed boat and found another piece of stone with the same type of writing on it as the other one. I also found some more drift wood, which I was getting low on, so I gathered it and put it into my backpack before making a fire and trying my hand at making some clothing out of the materials I had. I managed to make a shirt out of banana leaves and vines with a matching pair of shorts. I made a belt out of a vine, tying it around my waist to hold the shorts up, which were a little bit too bit. The shirt was a bit too small, my stomach showed slightly. The clothes felt strange to wear, but my other ones were too torn up to do me any good.
I tried my hand at spear fishing again, and after several hours, I actually managed to catch a fish. I was so excited about my accomplishment that I cheered so loudly, that I scared all the other fish away. I prepared my fish, then I stuck it on a stick and leaned it into the fire to cook. While it was doing that, I searched more around the area and managed to find some raspberries and cherries which I ate right off the bush. When my fish was done, I ate it hungrily and chased it down with the milk from a coconut. One thing about being on a deserted island was there was no short supply of coconut trees around! I curled up near the fire and fell into a peaceful sleep.
Tbc
So? How'd you like it? Not much interesting stuff going on, but we'll get there! XD