Something new

When Jackson walked into the clearing he noticed that everyone was bunched together inside the cabin. "Something's going on, stay close" Jasmine and Shadow nodded as they kept the same pace as him jogging over to the cabin where they were greeted by Karen.

"The giant fucking bird came back and took David." She said in a panic but Jackson looked at her confused "so why are you so worried do you not think David can handle himself?" He asked getting everyone to look at him dumbfounded.

Karen took a step back "you don't understand" but before she could finish her sentence Jackson stopped her his his hand "but I do understand, David is strong enough to handle himself. Everyone get out, theirs no reason to be hiding." He ordered as everyone started walking out the cabin back to their tents.

"Do you think Davids going to be ok?" Jasmine asked looking around at everyone putting their tents back together. Jackson smiled at her as he leaned closer to her "do you think a disciple of mine could get killed so easily?" Jasmine smiled as she leaned toward him. "Funny" she answered as she kissed him.

Karen walked back over to Jackson to see what they were doing "you know everyone is worried about captan David and you two are over here making out?" She shouted with anger as they stoped, Jackson walked over to her "and?" He asked with a smile getting her to step back.

"What do you mean and? Your so called disciple is probably dead and you don't even care do you?" She asked in a worried tone and as she did a familiar screech was hear making everyone jump into action holding their weapons out.

"No I don't care if he died, it was his choice to save you people." He answered pushing past Karen bumping into her shoulder in the process.

Jackson walked out into the open looking up into the sky as a giant bird landed in the clearing giving Jackson a good look at what it was.

It was a giant 30ft eagle with pitch black feathers and snow white feathers with a wing span of 50ft. Jackson approached the bird slowly seeing it wasn't hostile or at least not yet.

As Jackson approached the eagle as it lowered its wing letting David slide off before it shrieked loudly again flying away. "Hay guys what I miss?" David asked walking over to Jackson who was smiling "nothing much, we have a nice meal getting prepared."

Jasmine caught up with shadow next to her as they stood next to Jackson "what happened to you?" she asked leaning against Jackson's side.

David smiled "just a misunderstanding that's all, apparently people were trying to hunt the eagle but their all dead now." He explained as the group moved over to the fire where the bear was being cooked into a stew.

Everyone seen Davids arrival but nobody wanted to approach him until her got closer to them. Then suddenly everyone was asking him questions as Jackson walked away from everyone toward the lake with Shadow and Jasmine beside him.

"Going for a swim?" Jasmine asked sarcastically but to her surprise Jackson nodded "why?" Jackson turned to her "a swim sounds nice after walking around the woods for hours and besides it gives me a good chance for me to see what's in the water."

His answer surprised Shadow as he growled "monsters live deep in the depths." Jackson and Jasmine turned to him "what kind of monsters?" Jasmine asked as they approached the edge of the water.

Jackson took all his clothes off besides his underwear, as Jasmine watched "the bear would be compared to a pup down there." He said taking a couple steps back as Jackson dived into the water like a seasoned swimmer, swimming straight down.

Jackson could sense small fish swimming around with the plants growing from the walls like vines. Swimming deeper the fish got bigger with the plant life growing to were he was constantly swimming through seaweed.

Until he made it past the wall of plant life to see a whole new world. Instead of vines it was a forest covering the walls with giant alligator like beast swimming around the trees with giant turtles and snakes going after giant fish with razor sharp making homes in the trees, we're they are always being hunted.

Jackson was running out of breath so swam back up to the surface where he seen Jasmine's soaking her legs in the water with Shadow sitting next to her.

Jackson popped his head above the water right in front of Jasmine who was giving him a smile "what you see?" She asked as he removed the water from his face with his hand "a lot, let's just say it's safe to swim on the surface, won't you join me?" He asked with a smile as Jasmine stood up removing her clothes putting it in her inventory as she jumped in, cannon ball style slashing Shadow in the process.

Shadow shook off the water as he growled "do you know how long it takes to dry my fur" Jackson waved his hand toward Shadow drying him off on the spot making him super fluffy in the process.

"I can deal with this" he muttered as he sat back down.

Basically everyone ran over to the lake after hearing Jasmine jump in. "Can we swim to?" Clementine asked already in a swimsuit causing Jackson to wander when she packed such a thing.

"Yes everyone can swim but stay away from me and Jasmine. all the adults should keep a good eye on the children." He announced loud enough for people still at the tents could hear, Jasmine held onto him as he swam into the middle of the lake.

"It seems like your a good swimmer to, what aren't you good at?" Jasmine asked as she let go and started swimming farther away from the group.

Jackson easily kept past with her "swimming is a great body workout." He answered with seriousness making Jasmine laugh "I should have known"

Everyone finally had a chance to relax without thinking about anything else besides having a little fun knowing if anything happened Jackson would act and give orders if needed.

After about a hour of swimming Daphne let everyone know dinner was done and for everyone to get out with Jackson drying everyone off with telekinesis.

The day went by quickly with everyone taking to each other having a good time, but as the sun went down Jackson's serious voice sobered everyone up "everyone get ready were being attacked by a small army." Everyone immediately went for their weapons gearing up as fast as possible following Jackson.

It didn't take long for them to see what they were facing goblins, 3ft green creatures that only wish to steel and reproduce. "are those fucking goblins!" Fred shouted in disbelief making everyone turn to him but Jackson stared forward analyzing a drooling goblin.

[Race:goblin/infected: level 5]

[goblins are a greedy race taking everything they can and now they want everything that's yours quest initiated]

[quest: kill the infected goblin horde: 200 goblins]

[Reward: 3 free stat points for you and all your followers]

Jackson laughed reading the quest making the goblins start screaming and swinging their daggers and clubs as they drooled blood.

"We need a driver for each truck asap, wait for my signal before you start running over these bastards. Everyone with a gun line up and make a firing line, everyone else wait for the reload. David get the kids and elderly in the cabin." Jackson ordered making everyone move into action as the goblin horde charged in.

"I need everyone to focus we have one shot at this and if anyone hesitates or slow down you can get killed or someone else killed." Jackson announced as everyone got into position with 8 people holding rifles and 8 people holding handguns.

Everyone watched as the drooling goblins charged slowly swinging their weapons with bloodlust in their eyes. As they got within 20 feet Jackson announced "fire!" Everyone started shooting everything they had, blowing limbs off the goblins as they fell to the ground by the tens.

As Jackson ran out of ammo he threw his arm up making a circle in the sky "Melee weapons". He announced, Suddenly all the trucks high beams turned on blinding the goblins as they started running over the back line of the goblins as everyone else pulled out melee weapons slaughtering every goblins in site.

Jasmine was one of the biggest menaces on the battle field with her fire element able to kill by the dozen but having to fall back do to lack of energy to continue. While Jackson used his telekinesis to protect everyone and attack at the same time.

It was safe to say the goblins got slaughtered without a casualty on Jackson's side. And the system let everyone know of their victory.

[Congratulations you have defeated the goblin horde 3 stat points earned]

Everyone began cheering hearing the system message. "That was fun wasn't it?" Jasmine said walking up to Jackson who was surveying the battle field. "A little to easy" is all he said as he removed the blood and gore from everyone on the way back to his tent.

Entering his tent he began sharping his knifes but with telekinesis as he leaned against the wall, listening to the sound the blade made scraping on the sharping stone.

It didn't take long for people to start heading toward his tent the first being Fred "hay Jackson can I come in?" Fred asked stand just outside.

"My tent isn't a place I chose for privacy, so yes you can enter." Jackson said putting away his sharpening stone and knifes.

Jackson truly looked like a person who didn't belong to this world. Or at least Fred thought this seeing Jackson effortlessly he moved the knifes and stones into his bag, as he just leaned against the back wall with his arms crossed.

"I wanted to talk to you about the goblins" he said sitting down in front of Jackson making him slide down the wall taking a seat. "Go on" Fred cleared his throat "I think the system changed the world more then we originally thought."

Jackson nodded "yes, did you know every animal has the system to." He added getting Fred's eyes to open wide "really?!" Fred asked as Jackson called out Shadow from his shadow getting Fred to jump up from his sitting position.

"Calm yourself pup I mean you no harm" Shadow said laying next to Jackson "how long have you had the voice in your head Shadow." Jackson asked getting Fred to sit back down listening closely.

"Mm all my life I believe, I don't remember a time without it. why do you asked leader?"

Jackson and Fred were stunned for a second "how old are you?" Fred asked leaning toward Shadow making him lift his head "I do not count how manny moons have passed, pup." He said with anger getting Fred to sigh out of frustration.

"Has it been at least 100 moons?" Jackson asked getting Fred to look at shadow "manny more then that, why do you asked leader" he asked with confusion looking between the stunned Jackson and Fred.

"It's been here the whole time? My brain herts" Fred said looking down with his hands on his head. "It makes sense actually, think about it. The rapid change in animals and the wildlife, the war probably played a major part in it but the system kept making it grow." Jackson explained getting Fred to look back up with his hand on his chin.

"And now we have goblins and probably manny more monsters." Fred said with a sigh getting Jackson's attention "what are you talking about how did you know they were goblins before analyzing them?"

Fred turned to him confused "you don't play video games or watch anime do you?" Fred asked with a chuckle already knowing the answer. "Yah no I prefer the real world, now tell me about these so called monsters" Jackson said not able to hide his smile.

"It's hard to explain we have thousands of different beast and monsters in anime and in games but if these one thing I'm sure of if there's goblins there's going to be hobgoblins." Fred said with a worried tone getting Jackson to laugh a little.

"Come on man stop teasing me and tell me what they are." Jackson said sounding genuinely happy to be talking about monsters. "Alright relax. Hobgoblins are usually giants with massive muscle's having a giant club as their weapon of choice. Fred explained as Jasmine came into the tent with others following her in.

Jasmine entered the tent with Tom, David, Dug, Rick, and Tanya "it's a party now" Jackson said as everyone sat down around him. "I came here to tell you about that the blood from that mutant at the Walmart and the blood from these goblins have manny similarities." Tanya stated bluntly getting everyone attention as she continued.

"The goblins blood might be green but it has a 85% match with the mutants. I also was wondering if I could get a blood sample from that wolf there" she said pointing at shadow who immediately looked at her with confusion.

"how much would you need?" He asked getting everyone to look at him with awe. "just a little" Tanya said unaffected by the talking wolf pulling out a what looked like a empty shot.

Shadow walked over to her laying in front of her letting her stick the needle into his shoulder getting a full vile before putting it into her inventory. "Thank you, that's all I needed to say. I will be getting back to work now." Tanya said getting up leaving without another word.

Jackson sighed "Anyways me and Fred were on the topic of hobgoblins dose anyone have anything to add?" Everyone looked between them confused before David spoke up "so should we be worried about a goblin king or lord?"

Fred put his hand on his chin while everyone tried to disgust what David just asked "that's actually a high chance that's the case, goblins are harmless without a capable leader like we seen today."

"So what your saying is we should be setting up defenses and turning this place into a fortress." Jackson said calmly getting everyone's full attention. "I guess I should share something as well" Jasmine said getting them to turn to her.

"When I was hunting I may have gotten myself almost killed and the system told me I unlocked my inner power." She said demonstrating by lighting her fingers on fire before putting it out immediately.

Everyone seemed to be understanding what Jasmine was saying "so starting tomorrow we will be chopping trees to make a fence and me and Shadow will be sparing with anyone who wants to push their limits." Nobody could believe what they were hearing.

"Your going to let people spare with this big ass wolf?" Rick asked looking over at shadow who was laying next to Jasmine licking his paw.

"People need a push to unlock their ability, if you don't want that strength I'm not going to force anyone but if your not sparing your tree cutting." Jackson explained in a cold tone almost like he didn't want anyone arguing about this topic.

Suddenly a familiar smell entered Jackson's nose he turned to Tom to see that he sparked a blunt hitting hard causing clouds of smoke in the tent. Fred and dug started coughing being caught in the crossfire of the smoke cloud. "I think you guys need to relax every once in a while" Tom said with a big smile passing the blunt as Karen walked in dumbfounded.

"Don't start bitching just take a seat" Rick said getting Karen to scowl at him for a second before walking in setting next to Jasmine and Jackson.

The group kept chitchatting with each other till the fire was getting low making everyone go back to their tents going to bed. The night went by quietly without anything else trying to attack them.

The next morning everyone was eating and talking like usual as Jackson, Jasmine and Shadow were preparing to go on another hunt. That's when Clementine approached them out of breath "can.. I come to" she asked through long breaths.

Jackson just finished packing his bag as he turned to her "of course you can, today I will be teaching You and Jasmine how to hunt property." Jasmine turned to him "what I think I did a great job" he turned to her with a smile "what you did was run into the wood and fight aggressive animals, that's not hunting that's just fighting at that point." He explained as they left the tent walking toward the cabin.

"Alright fair point." Jasmine said as they approached David who was sitting on the step to the cabin. "We're going out on hunt keep everyone training and don't let anyone go swimming."

Jackson left without another word heading toward the forest. "So what are we hunting" Clementine asked as she waved at her friends as they left the campsite.

"That's what's fun about hunting you never know what your going to stumble on." Jackson answered as they walked into the forest Jackson could already sense rabbits and squirrels running away from them.

"I'm going to be cheating on this hunt but I'll teach you two the real way in the process" when he said this he killed a rabbit and two squirrels with his Kunai, flouting the corpses close behind."What your main focus should be on is tracking and listening to your surroundings."

Jasmine and Clementine nodded as they lead the way through the forest to eventually find a rabbit eating off a berry bush. "Since you don't have a bow I should kill it." Jackson said as he lined up his Kunai with the rabbit before Jasmine stoped him "let me try something"

Jackson nodded taking a step back as Jasmine made a gun with her fingers aiming it at the rabbit. Clementine and Jackson watched as Jasmines formed a fire ball on the tip of her finger, releasing it making her arm jerk backwards with her fingernail burning it to her skin.

Jasmine held her finger for a minute or so before it healed looking toward the rabbit which had a small quarter size hole going though its chest. "That one needs some work, that hurt like a mother." Jasmine said leaving the bush, shaking her hand off trying to forget the pain.

Jackson demonstrated how to gut and skin the rabbit as they caught a couple more with Jasmine getting better with her fire bullet skill she made up.

It didn't take long for them to circle back to the camp seeing everyone training or sparing in the open with buckets of water close by for when they take a break.

Jackson approached the camp and everyone stopped what they were doing running over to him.

"Jackson do you think we could go swimming again please?" Ema asked with Zeke not to far behind.

Jackson smiled patting her on their head "I don't see why not, let me get ready and I'll call everyone over" Ema silently cheered to herself as everyone went to there tent getting ready.

"I like how everyone prepared a swimsuit, like what the hell I don't have nothing to swim in" Jasmine complained, throwing all her clothes out her bag.

"I just thought it could be good underwear" Clementine added already being changed before Jackson could even find his clothes. "Alright little lady wait outside while I change." Jackson said closing the tents curtain behind her before changing into a pair of gym shorts while Jasmine kept complaining about not having clothes.

"Don't worry about it just do what you did yesterday, I didn't mind." Jackson said walking toward Jasmine who was still sitting by her bag looking through her clothes. "Yah I bet you did, I guess it's easier then having wet clothes somewhere." She added as Jackson helped her up walking out the tent.

Leaving the tent everyone was staring at Jackson's legs as they waited outside already in swimsuits. "Alright everyone let me and Jasmine have a 10 foot lead then everyone can get in." everyone could already guess why but nobody said anything as Jackson and Jasmine lead the way to the lake.

Approaching the lake Jackson could sense something big lurking underwater near the edge of the lake they were approaching. "It looks like we have a visitor today. wait here for me and you should probably be away from the water I'm going to bring him onto land. Jasmine do your fire bullet thing when you get the chance." Jasmine nodded as Jackson jumped into the water as Jasmine told everyone the situation.

It didn't take long for the big figure to show itself. The 20ft alligator started swimming quickly toward Jackson as he coating himself with telekinesis getting out the water with the alligator jumping into land behind him with its massive mouth wide open trying to eat Jackson whole.

But suddenly a light flashed and the alligator dropped like a puppet with its strings cut laying inches away from Jackson. "Fuck yah that's what I'm talking about" Jackson said coating the alligator with telekinesis as he dragged it toward the cabin as everyone pitched in pushing and dragging it to the cabin.

It didn't take long for them to get back to the water with Jasmine and Jackson getting in first as they swam away from everyone. "Are you sure there's no more?" Jasmine asked looking down as they flouted in the middle of the lake. "I'm sure, how long can you hold your breath?"

Jasmine looked at him confused "around 6 minutes why?" Jackson smiled "theirs a cave not to far down, want to check it out?" Jasmine looked down into that water once more "sure sounds fun but how long can you hold your breath?"

Jackson cracked his neck as he took a couple deep breaths "10 minutes and 17 seconds" Jasmine was shocked for a second before Jackson dived down and she followed after a couple deep breaths.

Not only was Jackson able to hold his breath longer but he able swim much faster. Jackson used telekinesis to make himself lighter or heavier to help him swim.

Seeing Jasmine struggling to keep up, he waited for her and made her wrap her arms around him as he swam just as fast with her attached at his chest.

Jackson locked her arms and legs around Jackson's torso so he was able to move is arm and legs comfortably. Jackson quickly made it to the cave within 3 minutes lifting him and Jasmine out the water.

The cave was something they wouldn't expect to see. The cave had glowing crystals hanging from the ceiling and the grown was the same as outside short ankle high grass. And In the distance was overgrown vines making a wall.

"Are we the first people here?" Jasmine asked turning to Jackson who was reading a old sign made of wood that said.

"Warning dangerous animals beyond the wall of vines you have been warned"

Jasmine read the sign and sighed "I thought we found something nobody else has" she said pouting a little before Jackson dried them off with telekinesis. "Let's take a walk" Jasmine immediately put her bear skin clothes on from her inventory following Jackson.

They soon approached the wall of roots and Jasmine immediately put her handout with her palms toward the wall as a flamethrower like flame left both her hand burning the roots easily.

"That good enough" Jackson said as he made the flames concentrate on making a door with the flames before putting them out. "You know I could have burned the entire wall down right?" She said confidently getting Jackson to chuckle a little as he stepped through the door they made. "That's the point, now we have choke point to fall back to."

Walking past the wall of roots was something truly unexpected. The crystals were the same as before shining brightly on the roof lighting up the entire cave that didn't look like a cave in the siltiest.

The ankle high grass was here, but their where now roots that ran across the ground making the place look like a root forest, and in between the gaps in the roots you could see something darting through them with ease, before disappearing from sight.

"This place is beautiful" Jasmine exclaimed looking around the trying to walk forward before Jackson stoped her. "We can't go, we're already to far away from everyone where I can't sense what's going on. let's go." Jasmine took one more long look back to see a humanoid creature looking at her with glowing red eyes before disappearing from sight.

Jasmine told him about the beast as they approached the waters edge "I guess that sign wasn't just for show. We'll come back later to investigate." Jasmine nodded as she put her clothes into her inventory as she dived into the water.

Jackson followed close behind her admiring the view of Jasmine swimming. It didn't take long before they made it to the surface, to see everyone swimming around having a good time.

"Looks like we rushed back for no reason" Jasmine said swimming closer to Jackson letting him hold her. Jackson smiled as he pulled her closer "you think so?"

Jasmine giggled as they swam around for a while before going back to shore on the opposite side of everyone so Jasmine could get dressed.

On they way back Jackson was able to sense a couple rabbits and squirrels in the woods, so he killed them bringing them back to daphne and Tiffany to cook.

The day went peacefully as it usually did. But like clock work when the sun went down something started approaching the camp.

Jackson could tell what it was, the goblins returned in numbers. "Everyone prepare for a fight!" Jackson announced leaving his tent will all his weapons equipped.

Everyone jumped up getting ready for a fight. Everyone followed close behind as they approached the goblins.

Unlike last time their were bigger goblins in front, Jackson guessed these were the hobgoblins Fred was talking about and Fred confirmed this by telling him they were indeed hobgoblins.

The hobgoblins were 3X the size of the regular goblins and they also were using swords instead of clubs.

Jackson was able to roughly guess their numbers but that was irrelevant because the system started to speak.

[The second stage of the infected goblin horde is approaching kill 200 goblins/ 50 hobgoblins for rare reward]

"Alright everyone today is going to be different, we're not using the trucks this time. everyone get ready for hand to hand combat after the firing squad is finished firing." Jackson announced getting everyone to move into action getting into position.

The horde approached without hesitation, but unlike last time they were running approaching quickly.

Like last time Jackson analyzed the goblins and hobgoblins.

[race: goblin/infected: level 10]

[race: hobgoblin/infected: level 15]

[hobgoblins are a evolved form of the goblins with heightened senses and a greater strength]

Jackson smiled as he announced his next order "I'm going to be taking the frontline don't be scared to shoot through me" he said as he rushed toward the horde.

Everyone looked at Jackson's back in disbelief but it didn't stop them from following orders "fire" Jackson shouted as he stared fighting a hobgoblin.

The group continuously fired their weapons avoiding Jackson as much as possible as Jasmine shot fire bullets into the crowd, Jackson fought 50 hobgoblins at once as the regular goblins ran past him charging at the group.

Jackson didn't want to admit that these hobgoblins were pushing him back slightly, but he was able to kill a few before he dodged attacks and counterattacking when he could.

Jackson was constantly moving as he controlled his Kunai and screwdrivers with telekinesis killing as many hobgoblins as he could.

Jackson wasn't worried in the slightest about everyone else because he knew they could handle the level 10 goblins. But another fact he knew was they wouldn't be able to handle the hobgoblins.

Jackson was able to kill haft of them before suddenly gunshot and fire bullets whizzed past him killing the remaining hobgoblins.

[Congratulations you have killed the second horde reward rare]

[rare reward is great sword]

Suddenly a giant 8ft sword dropped out of thin air in front of Jackson and everyone else startling some.

"Looks like another victory for us" Jackson announced holding the great sword in hand as everyone cheered.

They piled the bodies onto the other pile of goblins that were ash already. burning them to, so the smell wouldn't bother anyone before everyone went back to their tents going to sleep.

(Thank you for reading another chapter I hope you enjoyed)