Virraland: The Descending Lands

Chapter three: Aiming the spear

Reaching Lucas' suburban house in the forest, Delon felt slightly impolite by all the time passed and he did not get a chance to thank Lucas for saving him so he did it while he still can "hey, just want to thank you for saving me at the field"

"My honor, if you need anything, don't be shy to ask", they are finally at the front yard of Lucas' house, breathing fresh air, one sign of victory. "There we are; this is... partially my house".

Lucas was about to enter his house "you may wait here or enter the house, I have something to do and then we will discuss where is our destination to his majesty, you can wait inside if you want".

Lucas offered Delon to wait in the insect-free comfortable house, but Delon decided to stay outside, for he believed that he needed some time alone. He knew there were more people inside, he used those reasons to cover the fact that he needs to investigate a bit more to understand how, what, and where do those people protect themselves from the animals outside, he may also figure out their default state of aggressiveness, will they be the first-to-attack? Or they are under-protective? Lucas went inside expecting Delon to make his final choice and stay outside until Lucas calls him.

Looking at the warm house, Delon noticed that it is made of some Lyfix wood from the first forest he came through and the field. He looked around the house for any unusual clues and found an area of mud with three steps, one is very far away from the other 'what? How? How long is this? Six meters? That is not how fast Lucas runs, I saw him running at the field' thinking to himself. He also found that some of the wood-fungi is damaged a bit, but the damage was in small precise portions in the logs, adding that it was distributed randomly without order 'so, it's either a gun or a bow and arrows, no gunpowder anywhere so it is a bow, well great to know there is a freak or freaks who can run fast and shoot arrows, I'll try to act normal'.

Delon walked up deep into the forest, checking if there are herbs that cure minor injuries. Without a warning, an animal ran straight at him and broke his leg. It looked like a boar. Delon took out his weapon and dug inside the animal's head leaving it as corpse while groaning. Delon could not walk, he could barely stand up 'oh good grief' laying down at the grass he saw a dried golden herb. He took it, trying to stop his leg from bleeding he crawled to the nearest river and used the herb showering his leg with the water-herb solution, not only that it cleaned up the injured place, but also it fixed the broken bone in no time 'what on earth? Well, this will surely do me a lot' he was amazed at first but would like to take advantage of that. He noticed a water container nearby and filled it with more water-herb solution, going back to the house he thought 'this could come in handy, I needed it so bad back at that field, who knows how messed up this journey will be, but I do know that I would do anything that can get me back to earth, can't stay like this, my friends are all broken now who knows what will happen' Delon shed tears thinking that he won't make it out of this wonderlands with people with an old culture, it is no problem, however; his friends are left alone back there and they are most likely suffering from whatever noxious venom they received, his parents might be worried as well.

Rubbing his tears away he felt like someone is watching him, so Delon turned around to see a person with a dark blue-hood covering their face so he could not recognize them, "who is there? Show yourself," the person ran off, 'this must be just me being paranoid, ugh those stupid bugs are gonna make me lose it' he felt disgusted staying outside with uncountable insects so he went inside the suburban house as soon as he reached there, surprisingly he was right about Lucas having a bunkmate or more.

The house was just like any normal earth-human house, there are some pictures on the wall of beautiful colorful patterns and people who were believed to be important, the furniture was large and had a theme of green and cyan colors.