The Prey

The Stranger

I felt my body violently jolt and I opened my eyes and seen the ground and what seemed to be trees below me then I looked up and seen a parachute deployed and the first thought In my head was "what hell was going on?" Then I started to get close to the ground and I brace for impact and I covered my head with my arms, tucked my legs chest, and closed my eyes felt tree limbs smacking my arms and legs felt another painful jolt of my body and looked up to see my parachute stuck on the tree branches. Then I looked down to see that I was close to the ground so I tried to detach myself and I managed to do so and I hit the ground. When I got up I looked around and it looked like I wasn't close to home. Then I looked back at the parachute I noticed there was a bag or something attached to it and so went to go and get it. Jumped and managed get the bag down and I opened it up and seen there and a hatchet, machete, and a MRE. Then I remember the gauntlet and looked down at my wrist and seen that it was still this got me to start asking question like what the hell I'm this doing here and the hell I'm at and why is this thing on my arm still. I look around and seen a opening in the jungle and so i put everything back in the bag and zipped it back up and went to the opening. When I got there I seen a open plain area but that was main thing I was looking at my eye were in the sky and seen that there were some plants close that I didn't recognize and the first thing I said out loud was "Toto I don't think we are in Kansas anymore." So I thought my best option was to go back in the jungle and try to make a little shelter for myself for the night so I did it were I land at and try and get that parachute unstuck so I could use for some sort of covering. So I went back to my parachute and I got it down and that the fabric seemed to be like it was made out wool or something like instead of a the nylon parachute that I'm use to seeing but inorged this for the most part and I used it to as a roof (look at the image up top for reference" and used my hatchet to cut up branches for some fire wood and started to think of the the basic survival stuff from when dad ways alive and I started talking to my self "ok it three days without water, three weeks with out food and the three hours without shelter if extreme conditions" then I heard what sounded like grunting noises so me not wanting to die climbed up a descent way up but enough to still see the ground and when the the grunts got close I could tell that there was about 4 of them and seen a what seen was creepy. There was at least four of them like I guess but they were some sort of canine but they had lizard like skin and had tusks we're jutting out of it face and back. "What the hell is that" I said as quietly as possible and those things started sniffing around my little camp as I was trying to hid I heard the gauntlet existent two blades and this surprise me but I stayed quiet to not get any attention drawn to me then I seen a bolt of light past through one of them and hit the tree I was in but it and spatter against the wall and I seen the other canines get hostile and confused were that came from and I seen similar bolts of light go through the other canines until they were died. Then looked at were the bolts of lights came from and seen a some what invisible figure started to revile itself and it admittedly looked like the thing that I shot at two years ago and seen to not noticed me and came close to the dead creatures and examine it freshly killed prey. And I got a good look at of it had dark or black clothes on and had a some sort of futuristic looking gun in it hands but then my arms gave out making me fall out of the tree and to the hard ground and I started to panic and I tried to get my hatchet but unfortunately the thing managed to kick out of the why and pointed it weapon at me. I admittedly put my hands in the air and the thing removed it mask to revile a dark colored man with a broad looking face that some scaring on his face and he bent down looked me dead in the eye and spoke to me in a low , quiet,and raspy voice "hello there stranger looks like you need a place to stay at" I swallowed a gulp of fear and responded to him in my quietest voice "is it better than my shelter" he nodded his head yes and so I responded to "ok I could use a place to stay but can I have get my stuff first" he nodded his head yes and I grabbed my things and I started to fallow him.