Belly of The Monster

Achilles floated around aimlessly for a while, not knowing what to do. Everything around him was just a pitch-black color, he couldn't even see his own hands.

He wanted to attack the thing or strike its sensitive spots so that it may spit him out. But without any sort of navigation whatsoever he could potentially get crushed by the indohyus' teeth.

'What am I supposed to do? I have around 5 minutes left before this shit lake crumbles like glass!'

While he was still contemplating, he felt the water surrounding him being sucked to a certain direction, dragging him along with it.

'Where am I going?'

Achilles wondered for a moment before a sour, acidic stench invaded his sense of smell, then he heard multiple bubbling sounds coming from in front of him.

He did not take too long to recognize what was the origin of this smell. His mother had once taught him topics regarding human and animal biology after all.

It was the smell of stomach acid, which meant that the place he was being pulled towards was...

'The stomach!'

Achilles tried to swim back against the current but it was much stronger than his feeble body. This made him stop moving since unnecessarily wasting stamina was a dumb move.

'Maybe there will be something that wasn't digested yet there could be a foothold for me.'

Achilles came closer to the stomach section and began hearing a loud sizzling sound like potatoes being fried.

It was at this moment that he was no longer within the water and gravity began to work its wonders.

'...Motherf-'

He started free-falling to where the pool bubbling stomach acid was. Everywhere was still a dark color and the only thing he could sense was steam constantly rising up and touching his face.

If he was lucky then he might fall into somewhere with a foothold, but his dogshit luck would never allow him to have such a clean getaway from damnation.

BOOM! SPLASH!

Achilles fell into the stomach acid like a cannonball, creating a large column of fluid that rose and a small acid rain appeared.

'It hurts! Fuck!'

The burning sensation Achilles was feeling right now was beyond tolerable. His skin felt like a piece of meat that was thrown into hot oil, everything seemed like fire around him.

He had managed to cover his eyes, nose, and mouth completely so he could temporarily delay the inevitable outcome of being blind and his nose melting off entirely.

'I need to get to the colon fast!' He determined his next course of action and used his instinct to swim through the sea of acid.

Each second inside the stomach was nothing but agony and suffering, he could feel his skin slowly being burned off completely, revealing the muscles and tissues underneath.

'Faster damnit!'

After what seemed like hours of swimming he had somehow reached the section where the stomach and colon were connected.

Achilles crawled through the hole with little effort and arrived at the colon's insides. Only when he confirmed that he was no longer in the acid did he dare to open his eyes and breathed raggedly.

His condition was beyond terrible right now, his skin had burned for the most part. Some part of his face had revealed his skull, making him look like some sort of grotesque zombie monster.

Luckily his eyes and other senses remained intact and his soul hadn't yet lost its capability to support his spirit body.

Achilles stood up with wobbling steps after a moment of resting, his mind was extremely chaotic at the moment, so the right side of his body slowly cracked open and was replaced by a bunch of worms.

He sighed a little as the burning sensation was lessened by the worms' replacement. He didn't utter a single word and began walking to this thing's anus.

But before he managed to take a step, a sudden change appeared in his surrounding. It seemed like this entire body...no, the entire Mindscape was shaken by something that was happening.

Achilles smirked a little as the gleam in his red eye shone excitedly:

[It's here.]

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The colon that he was staying inside started showing cracks, it soon spread quicker and wider until...

BOOM!

The indohyus disintegrated into white sparks as Achilles was released back into the water.

'Phew! I will never do this pinnochio shit again swear to gods.'

The joy, as usual, didn't last for long as the grotesque zombie-like dude saw something over the distance. The water was breaking like glasses leaving behind smithereens as the white void threatened to approach.

'...Run.' Achilles immediately flew at the opposite direction without any hesitation.

He knew that the last place the Mindscape gets crumbled would be where the soul was located, so he swam away without hesitation.

'You're not getting me this time white void! Hehehehe!' Achilles laughed crazily in his mind as he dived through the dark water.