Chapter 4: Just Calm Down

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               I put refocused my thoughts. I must have decoded it wrong. I'll try again.

              "Welcome back master."                                                                                                                         Crap.

               I decided that I was just going crazy from everything that was going on to stop myself from...well...going crazy.  I looked over my shoulder at the dead dude. It was dark but there was something next to him. A note.

              "I'm pretty sure I'm done for, so if anyone finds this note, this is for you. Reach into my pocket, there should be a rock. If you mix it in with any liquid it turns into some gooey stuff. I know it sounds really far fetched, but that rock has the power to turn any liquid into this sort of regenerating thing. I should make an example huh? I'll do that later. Just take the rock. It's for your own good." 

                I reached into his pocket and low and behold there was a rock. And boy was it beautiful. It was a ocean blue color that faded into green. It would be easy to spot from a mile away. Who would have thought that something so gorgeous could make something so gross? I wouldn't.  Anyway, I took the stone and went on my way. 

                It took about 30 minutes but I had finally climbed my way out of the cave. I looked up.

                "Does it ever get dark around here?" I wondered. I kept on walking, I seemed to have calmed down a whole lot since I came here. 

***********************************************************************************************                  I was walking for what seemed like an hour and a half when I stumbled upon what seemed like a forest. I didn't think that a place like this could have any signs of life. The trees were red on the outside and had streaks of gray on it. The leaves were also a silvery gray color. If you looked at it for long enough you'd realize how out of place it was since it was very pleasing to look at. I grabbed onto a big tough branch and began pulling on it real hard until it snapped. I took a rock next to it and began carving. I carved it until it became the shape of a sword. 

              You can't blame me. I have nearly died in ways I didn't think were possible before. I've got to have "something" to give me some closure. Next I broke off another branch, some wood off the trunk, and some vines that were a couple feet away. I sharpened the edges of the wood and tied it to the stick with the vine to make an ax. And let me just say I was pretty proud of myself. I used the ax to chop up some wood that I could use to hit later. You know, for practice. I attempted to put the ax and sword on my back but there was something blocking my way. 

               It. Was. My. Backpack. I had completely forgotten I had it on. I took it off and unzipped it. Inside were my text books, supplies, a bunch of empty water bottles I was too lazy to throw away, and my lunch. I wish I would have known about this before I almost died from thirst. In my lunch box there's a water bottle, an apple, 2 sandwiches (because I couldn't decide which one I wanted), a napkin, grapes, some Chester's Flamin' Hot Fries, and a knife. I kept 1 text book, 3 pens, the water bottles, and of course the lunch box but threw everything else out. After that I put my new and improved weapons in my backpack and put it to the side.

              I went back to log I chopped earlier. It was what was left of the tree after I pulled out all it's branches. It was a tree so it was about 2.5 meters tall. I dug a pretty deep hole put the log in it and secured it with dirt so it wouldn't fall over. I took some of the heavier branches I pulled and jammed it into the log. There.

               It finally looked like one of those wooden dummies I used as a kid. (Google it) If I wanted to live in this world I had to start training. Push ups, sit ups, jumping jacks, burpees, suicides, and most importantly hand-to-hand combat. But before I could do anything I saw what looked like the sun. A blue sun.  I must have started walking during dawn. 

              "This is going to screw up my whole sleep schedule." I thought. But that weirdly reminded me o how I hadn't seen anyone since the whole demon issue. Then again, I did fall asleep and wake up in a totally different area. So I shrugged it off. I took out a blank paper from my text book and marked my position. I was planning on taking a look around the surroundings of my "base". I started walking west. I think. I had been walking in the same direction as when I first started so it is what it is. So I basically started walking straight. 

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                 I had been walking for about 30 min when I saw what seemed like a hut.

                 "That's something to mark." I said to myself as I wrote on my map. I walked up to it thinking I could use it as a more secured base when I heard growling. Growling that was far too loud to be my stomach. I went inside. At that point is when I realized how reckless I had become. But it was way to dark to see anything even though it was almost morning at this point. 

                   -Plip-

                  "What was that?" I thought

                   -Plip-

                     There it was again but this time I felt it. It was gooey. Almost like...saliva. I looked up and saw a grin on the monsters face that went ear to ear. But I wasn't going to make the same mistake as I did before. I ran. I ran and didn't look back. All the way until I got "home". It probably wasn't even chasing me for that long. If at all. Right when I got back I wrote about the monster I encountered and the very first one I saw too in my text book. I wondered if I had anything that could help me see but there was no way I was "just carrying a flashlight" in my backpack. But then I remembered. I had a phone. I turned it on. Luckily it didn't crack with how I was handling my backpack. But there was one thing I was very unsure of. How was it still charging?

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