First Predator Encounter

I didn't have much at my disposal, only some vines that seemed to be growing on the surface of the tree.

Originally I thought that maybe I could use the vines to help myself jump from tree to tree, but I couldn't be certain, and I wasn't in a position to try out things without full certainty.

As I looked down, I kept trying to find a way out, but I found none.

So having completely run out of safe ideas to try out, I decided to scream in the hope of attracting other predators here.

There were bound to be some around; after all, that many animals wouldn't flee just because of one predator; thankfully, chances were that the attracted predators wouldn't be snakes.

This was both the coolest and most terrifying thing about the amazon, as different types of predators were everywhere.

Eventually, I could feel an even more eerie feeling than before.

It seemed that the new predators had arrived, at first I was scared that the new predators might turn out to be snakes as even from up in the tree's I couldn't see them, but the second one of them launched an attack against the snake, I could finally see what was going on.

Apparently, a combination of two Pumas, one jaguar, and a slightly smaller snake than the one under the tree engaged with the giant green snake, and since they were all lone hunters, chances were that an all-out brawl would commence.

Seeing them fight somehow felt even more gruesome than being in the front lines and seeing people around me die; at least the people that died next to me then were given a quick death.

After all, these were predators and would do anything to kill those they saw as a threat. At first, I assumed that the collective attack of almost all of the predators that showed up would easily kill the snake.

I seemed to have underestimated the snake's brute strength, as right after shaking one of the pumas off, it was able to ignore the slight bleeding it shakes rapidly to make the rest of the predators get away before wrapping itself around one of the jaguars and squeezing it to death.

The fight went on for a long time, and although, in the end, the encounter left only one puma and one jaguar alive, they were finally able to get the snake to die from bleeding out. After the two survivors grouped back together, they seemed to finally shift their focus onto me instead of each other as though I was their prize.

I was, of course, alarmed as I had assumed that they would just finish each other off, but not as much as I had been when I had to face the snake.

Thankfully although I had been really focused on the brutal fight down below, I had still been tangling vines to make a very crude but thick rope.

I knew that it was only a matter of time before the Jaguar began to climb up the tree, as the surviving puma had its leg messed up pretty badly by the snake.

Sure enough, almost as soon as I thought it, the relatively healthy jaguar began climbing up the tree I was on. I did have the thought of just kicking it off, but if I lost balance or got grabbed onto, I was dead, not because of the fall but because of the puma still on the ground.

Eventually, I decided that the best course of action would be to try and choke out the jaguar using the rope.

Although the rope wasn't too long, it was still long enough to get the job done. The second the jaguar climbing the tree got close enough, I threw the rope onto its back, only holding on to the two ends. Once I did that, I just proceeded to cross the rope in the front part of the jaguar's neck.

With everything in place, I began closing in the rope and pressing on the jaguar's neck.

It seemed that the jaguar would lose consciousness soon enough, so I just tried to hold onto the tree in order not to fall off. I ended up adding too much pressure on the branch I was standing on, though, because I could hear it begin to crack.

Before the branch could beat me to it, I jumped forward to where the jaguar was.

It was already very low on oxygen, so chances were that it wouldn't be biting me any time soon. As soon as I let go of the rope, the jaguar gasped for air; too bad I had to kick it into a horizontal position to use it as a cushion for my fall.

I was almost not able to get the jaguar in position before we hit the ground, followed by a loud cracking of what I could only assume was the puma's spine. Although it did help cushion the fall, I still felt some of the pain in my legs; still, I couldn't relax yet, as I still had to deal with the puma that stayed back.

Before it could move, I ripped out the lifeless head of the jaguar that had climbed the tree and showed it to the puma in the hopes that it would just back away, as it was already injured.

My actions only seemed to help infuriate the beast, however. It ran towards me as fast as it could, leaving me only able to be able to slide away.

Although I knew that it was risky, there was no way the puma could make a right turn quickly, making me decide to attack.

As soon as I turned around, though, I could see the puma paralyzed in place, so I jumped at it, using the fags of the decapitated head to pierce into its neck, causing it to fall on the ground almost immediately, probably because it's brain was unable to access oxygen.

It took me a while to snap out of my shock as I had done almost everything on instinct. Once I did go back to normal, I decided that it would be best to start going in the direction the puma had come from.

After all, pumas were lone hunters that marked their territory, so chances were that there would be fewer predators the way it came; as for why it had stood paralyzed when I killed it, I just assumed that poison from the snake had gotten to it.