Felarya's Nightmare

Chapter 2 - Survive at all costs

When he opened his eyes, realized he was in a forest and sat down to observe his surroundings, his head started to ache in excruciating ways, as if a stone was ricocheting inside his mind and he couldn't think straight because the pain dominated his thoughts, but managed to get up and walk under a tree, seek shelter and not stay in the open.

For a few minutes sitting at the foot of a tree, the pain slowly stopped and he regained consciousness and then he started to pay attention around him, he was nervous and very scared, he didn't know what to do and he didn't know where he was but he had to survive, if there were trees, there were branches, so could make a fire to keep warm at night.

But he noticed that he wasn't wearing the clothes he went to sleep in, he was wearing his dark blue overcoat, a long-sleeved blouse and a shirt, jeans and a shoe from his work (boots) and by the way the environment he was in was kinda cold, because I didn't feel any discomfort or heat with that outfit in the middle of the forest. So he continued to wonder about the whole situation, but he couldn't stand there thinking.

So he took some dry twigs to make combustion easier and then he took thicker twigs to have a longer lasting fire, but as he didn't know his surroundings, a fire would draw the attention of anything, but he thought about it after he got all the firewood.

Having obtained the firewood and it was already getting dark, he looked for a tree with a thick trunk, luckily he found one that had a certain hole, but before entering, he took care, hitting the entrances of the hole to scare away anything that was inside it and there was no apparent reaction of nothing, he went in and had to think of some way for the fire not to draw attention, so he dug the ground inside the tree with his own hands, about 20 centimeters deep, but luckily the earth was soft, and then he threw the thicker branches into the hole, and the thinner ones left with him to start the fire, so after 30-40 minutes or so of trying to make a spark, the fire finally appeared!

Putting the thin branch on fire under the thicker ones so that the fire could burn and so he managed to make a fire and to not let the glow of it go out so as not to attract attention, he made a kind of triangular roof on top of the hole with branches and leaves that he picked up inside the tree itself and then settled down and went to sleep.

He woke up and it was dawn, maybe it was 5:30 in the morning and he had to wake up slowly, always taking care of everything. He didn't know what lurked among those trees... But he knew something was watching him, because the sounds of breaking branches always accompanied him and a noise of something large slithering away, but carefully, as if taking precautions, like a snake...

So he cautiously left there and picked up some stones and hit each other, to make a blade (it wasn't the best blade, but that was what he could do at the moment), and so he made 2 blades: A small one that he placed on his heel and tied with a filament of foil in case of emergency and another for cutting things like wood, meat, fruit and etc.

With the two blades ready, he tied the main blade with the larger filament of a larger leaf to a thicker branch, more like a short trunk and a knife/spear type was created and then he went looking for food.

He found a lot of berries and stuff like that, but he didn't eat them out of care so he remembered how humans eat so much and how they know what they can eat, watching animals, that's how the ancestors did it, that's why they eat things that seem to be... strange, like something that comes out of an animal's anus like a chicken's egg for example.

But moving on... Richard observed a chimpanzee-like animal (which shares 98% of our DNA) eating a fruit that was within reach and after he fed, he went there and took as much as he could and then went back to the tree. The fruit looked more like a yellow apple with a pineapple taste and was very juicy, which indicated that it contained a lot of water, which was great because he didn't have any water sources nearby.

But he had to find something that satiated him more, like meat. He had never killed an animal, let alone forced it to eat, but in that situation he had to do that, if he spent days eating those fruits, his stomach needed other proteins and meat was perfect, so he went hunting for some animal that he could be sure it would be safe to eat, so he found a different deer, it had the appearance of a normal deer but was smaller than normal and had an unusual bioluminescence in this species and so he thought it might be a warning that he it was venomous (just like a species of ultra venomous frog that has its vibrantly colored skin warning predators that whoever tries to devour it will have lethal problems) so it avoided and went hunting another animal, but wondered why the hell would a deer have bioluminescence and was lower than normal? It was too confusing to think about at the time and so he continued looking for a hunt and found a wild boar that looked normal.

He took his spear that he made, getting as close as he could (he didn't throw it because he didn't know the reaction speed of the animal, if he would have enough strength to at least neutralize it, that is, many possibilities that would be very risky) and then when he was within 2 meters of the animal, he got up and managed to stick the spear in the middle of the boar, in the stomach, he started screaming and not to draw attention to something, he hit it again inside his brain, killing him instantly.

The service was very dirty and it was not very pleasant to do that, but he managed to get enough meat, at least for a whole day, and he took advantage of it and took some leather. He went back to his tree and roasted the meat, really... A taste of the gods and then the fat and the skin were stripped off from the leather and then left to dry. At least he could survive for a maximum of 1 week alternating between fruit and wild boar meat.

When he went to hunt an animal the next day, he felt a strange and very tempting urge to go in a certain direction in the forest, and without being able to control his body, his legs followed alone with rested steps and as his legs took him he paid attention to the environment so as not to be surprised and he saw that he was arriving in a field and before leaving the forest line he managed to stop his legs, not of his own volition, but from what he saw...

His vision was clear and nothing could be putting that illusion before his eyes... A giant woman with extremely large wings was "resting" in that open part of the forest, as if she were an angel. She was at least 15 meters tall and was wearing armor, which was so "open" that it even looked like an iron bikini. Her presence was so comfortable, so great, that the closer he got, the more intense these feelings were, but because of his past and fear, he managed to break this "illusion" and hid behind a tree, he couldn't trust anything , not even in an angel. And so he watched until a normal sized man, more like a hunter comes out of the middle of the dense forest near the angel as if he had enchanted and then something surprising happen.