Hearing loss

"Honestly dude I don't really want to eat it and I don't know if we can even kill it we got lucky with the armadillo this one seems at full strength and is also pretty much made of steel now." Richard said with a sceptical look on his face.

"Yeah but it wont hurt to try right?" jason was disappointed that Richard didn't want to take chances to try to better themselves.

"It most certainly could hurt quite a bit in fact and your not the tank so you wouldn't know." Richard felt he was being taken for granted after all he was the only one to suffer injury in the post apocalypse.

"If we are really going to eat that crap we need a guinean pig to test it on. Also lets find a weaker creature to kill." richard said in dismay.

"I haven't seen anyone besides carroll and her dad since this started have you who should we test it on?" ....."i don't know dude i just don't want us to end up dead because we tried it." .... "were almost out of food anyway dick what are we supposed to do if we run out eat the wood planks?" richard wanted to slap jason for the condescending tone but was also upset he was right.

"we just have to go on food runs for canned food until spring and we can farm food." richard said in haste trying to put an end to this conversation.

"most of that sh*t it rotten now even cans expire."... "not in 8 months dummie it takes years, sometimes you pretty stupid you know , yoy never think ahead and often disregard facts." Richard was not tired of hearing jason so he started to walk back to home base.

He was almost all the way through the woods to the stream that led him home and spotted an owl like creature. with all black feathers red eyes and blue cracks running through the the layers of feathers.

"That one should be easy enough." Richard thought inwardly. he scanned his target

Shadow scream owl

level 12

attack rate 1

attack power 112

defense 30

speed 10

crafting material :

vocal cord /communication organ

"So whatever part allows it to communicate dang wish i was mor versed in animal physiology.... guess ill just take it all." Richard thought internally beating himself up for not paying more attention in school.

Since he left jason for acting like an a** he would have to kill and harvest this owl himself.

"It only has a attack rate of one so dose that mean it can only attack once per minute?"

"If i sneak up on it then mabey i can catch it off guard." as richard moved forward as quietly. as he could the owl was about 200 feet in front of him. He new the owl probably had great hearing so this was going to be quite difficult but to his surprise he got closer and closer as if the owl didn't notice him.

He was now right behind it with his rebarb held high he brought it down hard but before he could connect the owl turn its head 180 degrees to look directly in his eyes and let out a screech.

"Oh sh*t a trap he set a tra....." but before he could finish the thought his eyes began watering. He wanted to throw up ,his head felt on fire and his body wasn't responding. his ears and eyes then began to bleed.He fell hard onto his back completely paralyzed he wanted to scream for jason but couldn't make a sound. "is this it? did i survive that horrible incident just to be eaten alive by an owl no less. hes smiling the bas**rds smiling" richard felt tremendous fear and wanted to cry tears instead of blood. He heard a voice in his head scream again, this time it was his own.

"Focus!!!"