chapter 5 The hunger

(Note. This is the longest chapter I've made so far hope you enjoy it)

Me:"....Huh I actually really like it" I was generally surprised.

Terra wow its actually pretty good I did not expect that she'd put actual consideration in to it.

"Thanks Echo may I ask why you picked that name"

Echo:[I used all your remaining memories and emotions as away to find a name for you]

She put a lot of thought into it now I feel kind of stupid for naming her Echo because she is like an echo in my mind....well can't change it now guess i should get back to moving.

We continued walking for about 2 hours before i just stopped.

I looked around seeing nothing but forest I could not help but feeling a bit down.

Me:"Sigh"

Honestly I have no idea what I'm doing, I'm stranded in the middle of a forest, surrounded by horrifying creatures, I have an alien voice in my head telling me things, i've lost almost all of my memory and from what remains of it I don't know if I even want it back. What a fucking day if I ever get out of here I'm going to burn this forest to the ground and then I'm going to find the fucker who did this to me and those others and skin him alive.

I can't even get mad because of this (peace of mind) ability I just w-wish..... I don't know it's very possible that with out this ability I would have gone insane by now I would still be sitting in a pool of my own blood just lying there waiting to die.....

Echo:[Hos-Terra are you ok your heart rate is increasing and you have just been standing there for the last few seconds]

Me:"Y-yeah yeah I'm find this is just a lot to take in"

Echo:[Understandable you have been through a lot and it has only been one day]

Me:"Huh never took you for the emotional support type"

Echo:[It is hard for us to understand you because we are very different from your kind but we do understand what it means to be all alone to have no one to talk to. In a way we have never been alone before now that's because We have always had the hive mind to talk with, yet now the hive mind is gone we are alone for the first time in our lives]

[We can also understand your burning need for revenge, we also have an enemy we wish to wipe out]

Me:"I...."

I don't know what to say to that compared to what she's probably going through my day seems like a walk in the park.

I just stood there looking at the ground not knowing what to say.

Echo:[We recommend you seek safer ground it starting to get dark]

Me:"Oh"

I did not realise that as we were talking the sun has started to set and who knows what monstrosities will come out at night.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner? And don't you dare say it's because I didn't ask"

[....] I shook my head in annoyance

Pushing aside our talk for later I quickly started looking around for a safer place then the side of a river. I really did not want to go into the forrest so I picked the only other place that I could go to the tree's.

There were a lot of them but I ran to the biggest one I could see it was at least 7.5 meters tall with large branches that seemed the coil around each other.

Ok how am I going to climb this with out hurting my self...

Echo:[Cough cough claws cough cough]

Me:"Oh"

I slammed my hands in to the trunk of the tree only to be pleasantly surprised as my hands easily pierced it. I then began to climb it my hands and feet making holes in the tree as I went up to the biggest branch, it was about half way up the tree and it was surrounded by leaves so I could use them to hide.

Once I got to it I climbed on top and sat there I would have like to start a fire but I don't know how and I really did not want to go back down there again.

Me:"So what now we wait here until day?"

Echo:[You could take this time to sleep we will wake you up if anything happens]

Me:"I guess you don't need sleep then"

Echo:[Well yes and no we share the same body so while you and the body are a sleep we can keep watch]

Me:"Well I am not that tired.... wait why aren't I tired or hungry even, I know that I have those skills but still"

Echo:[That's because we've been using the last 5 B.P to restore your energy and to keep your hunger in check]

Me:"Ok i understand the energy but why my hunger it's not like I'm going to go Savage on the first thing I see"

[.....]

She did not say a thing for several seconds and now I'm starting to worry.

"Echo is there something you forgot to tell me"

Echo:[Well we don't really know, our race is always hungry for more biomass however we can control ourselves but we don't know how it will effect you] she seemed to be a bit concerned for me

Me:"Again this would have been useful to know before hand"

"Sigh"

"So what are the chances of me becoming so hungry I go on a rampage"

Echo:[About 60% to 40% 60% it has little effect on you 40% you turn in to an animal that kills anything that comes close to you]

Me:"And how long until the biomass you have runs out"

Echo:[A day and a half at most]

Me:"Well shit"

This day just keeps getting better and better I must be the luckyest girl in the world hahaha... I'm actually starting to get used to the constant good news. Sigh I guess I can't do much about it right now I will just have to wait for tomorrow.

"We can't do much right now it will be night in half an hour anyway"

Echo:[Let's just hope nothing else happens]

Me:"Don't say that, now something is going to happen"

"Well any way I'm going to sleep and for God's sake if something happens wake me up"

Echo:[Understood]

=====Echo pov=====

It's been several hours since Terra has gone to sleep we have been hearing strange sounds coming from deeper in the Forrest.

We have started to go through Terra's memorys again she does not seem to mind it. The only memory's she seems to have left are the ones that are filled with emotions, honestly we are surprised she can suppresse her anger even with the skill we have given her.

Her memorys are like shattered glass, it's almost impossible to peace them all together we have been trying to fix them but it's like trying to put together a 10 million piece puzzle and almost a third of the pieces are missing.

[Sigh]

Well we can keep trying for now it only been a day since I've sta-

=====Back to me=====

Echo:[Wak.....]

[Hay...]

[WAKE UP]

Me:"HUH W-WHAT" I opened my eye and started looking around

Echo:[Well look up]

Wait what? What she talking abo-

Me:"Oh h-hi there"

I look up to see a what look to be a spider! I know what your going to say "oh another girl who is scared of spiders" well you would be to if that spider was the size of a dog and had a face that looked almost human, its face was grey like a skull but the rest of it was black with patchs of dark grey, also the fact that it had several large jagged teeth that seem to be placed randomly across its mouth!!

"Echo"

Echo:[Yes]

Me:"What the fuck do I do"

Echo:[We suggest you move now]

Just then the thing out of my nightmares jumped at me, it's horrifying mouth opened ready to take a chunk out of me.

I moved as fast as i could, jumping out of the way it barely missing me just as I started to feel a bit proud of that dodge I realised I wasn't on the branch anymore.

Me:"Shit"

Was all I got out before I hit the ground surprisingly the almost 4meter high fall did not hurt that much.

Echo:[MOVE TO THE SIDE NOW]

I immediately rolled to the left just in time to see that thing hit the ground where I once was. I got up on to my feet and looked at the monstrosity that was in front of me.

Me:"You are one ugly mother fucker" I've always wanted to say that....I think

I guess it did not like the complement because just then it shot a large amount of webbing out of its mouth right at me. I tried to move out of the way but sadly my luck is just too great and the webbing hit my right shoulder then like a grappling hook it started flying towards me.

Me:"Shit shit shit wait"

Ding lightbulb

I grad the webbing with my right hand jumped backwards into a flip the creature did not have time to react and it's back was slammed into the ground. I landed on my feet the web on my shoulder was ripped off i quickly turn around just in time to see it roll over and stand up it's carapace on its back had several small cracks in it.

It look pissed well as pissed as a horrifying spider can look, it immediately launched itself at me I quickly dodged to the side I raised my left hand and slashed it down the creatures side cutting into it's body and ripping off two of it's legs however it managed to stab me in the chest with one of it's legs.

Green and red blood shot every where some of the creature blood covered me, the creature cryed in pain and hit the ground it was just laying there twitching as it's green blood poured out it then suddenly stopped. The hole in my chest started to heal which surprised me I don't remember having a regeneration skill but that can wait for later.

"Is it dead"

Echo:[Yes]

Me:"Oh thank god"

I was about to walk away when I stopped in my tracks a massive amount of pain was coming from my stomach it was as if I were starving to death I then fell to my knees. I could hear echo talking to me although I could not understand her, everything was getting darker I then lost consciousness from the pain.

=====Echo pov=====

[Oh no no no]

Echo frantically tried to figure out how to fix this.

Terra had been attacked by some kind of creature to Echoes surprise she was handling it prity well, until the creature managed to stab her with one of it's legs although she killed it the creature was able to poison her. Echo was able to heal her but it cost the rest of the B.P, Terra had passed out from the pain she felt from the hunger.

Echo needed to help her before Terra lost her mind to the hunger but to stop it she need B.P and she new there was only one way to get it, she just hope Terra would not be to mad about what she had to do.

=====Back to me=====

RIP

RIP

CRUNCH

CRUNCH

RIP

Why am I eating wait what am I eating, it tastes really good.

[EAT MORE NEED TO EAT MORE]

RIP

CRUNCH

[MORE MORE SO HUNGRY]

Okay let's stop I want to know what I'm eating.

[NO EAT MORE]

wait....wah that's not echo, oh come on how many more voices in my head am I going to get.

The voice sounded like a man who had gone feral and completely crazy from hunger.

Ok i'm stopping now

The voice continued to protest but I open my eyes and immediately shut them.

Me:"Echo you there"

Echo:[Yes]

Me:"Please tell me I'm just hallucinating"

Echo:[Sorry we had no other choice it was either this or let you turn into an animal that is driven only by it's hunger]

I open my eyes again only to want to vomit, infrunt of me was the left over remains of the spider thing it was now just a bloody mess on the floor.

Me:"O-ok first why is there another voice now" I ask trying not to vomit at the fact that it actually tasted good

Echo:[Well we sort we would make this in advanced it's basically another personality that's loves eating, we made it because to get out of this forest and Survive we're going to need to eat a lot more things and we thought that you would appreciate the ability to give temporary control over to this new personality so you would not have to be conscious to eat it]

I shivered at the part were she said I might have to eat more of this.

Me:"Did not know you cared so much"

Echo:[we know as much as you know about yourself and from what we've seen so far we believed you probably fight us just so you wouldn't have to eat anything else like this so we thought this would be easier]

Me:"Ok i will just call it hunger for now"

"At least tell me we got something out of this"

Echo:[Would you like me to show you your status]

Me:"Yeah sure"

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Name:Terra

Race: Fallen

Title: The Last Queen of the Fallen

B.P (Biomass Points): 50

Species skills:

(Infested)

(Devourer)

(Evolution)

Lifeform samples:

(Webbing 20 B.P) let's host create spider webs the more higher the lv the stronger the webs

(Poison claws 15 B.P) let's host create poison in it's claws the higher the lv the stronger it will get.

(Poison resistant 12 B.P) makes host resistant to poison the higher lv the better the resistance.

(Vibration sensor 30 B.P) let's host sense the move of creatures with the vibrations they make in the air the higher the lv the easier it will be to sense movement.

Body modifications:

(Increased body strength) lv3 (next lv B.P 12)

(Increased brain function) lv2 (next lv B.P 15)

(Increased sensors) lv1 (next lv B.P 14)

(Claws) lv3 (next lv B.P 10)

(Sharp teeth) lv4 (next lv B.P 8)

Unique evolutionary abilities:

(Pain resistance)

(Peace of mind)

Current follower types: None

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