Plaything of Fate

I was just walking home from school while browsing on my phone, lurking around SWTOR community looking if there will be new events soon.

*Sound of running and heavy breathing among heavy rain*

And then when i decide to find out about the release schedule for next season of Bad Batch, Boba Fett and Mandolorian it's start raining, so i start running trying to find shelter

"Fuck-"

*Sound of branch snapping and heavy stomps*

When suddenly a storm started, it's felt like the world is ending, with each lightning strike the earth shaking, the rain start pouring harde it's starting to hurt my body, the wind start become more frantic making it hard to take steps before it hit me so hard

"Aghh!*

Because of the heavy rains and the dark sky making it harder to look, i can't see where i'm going... Hell i don't even know where i should go, i slipped on the wet mud and started rolling on the ground, frantically trying to stand up and resume running for my life

I don't know where am i, or how i get here. In fact right now it doesn't even matter at all.

Not when in a single moment, my life can be over with single swipe of that thing's hand.

Yes, that thing... The first time i noticed i was somewhere else, i just stood there wondering why suddenly i'm in a massive forest. When i said massive forest, i mean the trees and plants are massive, those that you see in Jurassic Park or Will Smith's movies and those prehistoric times.

What i know from books, movies and fiction, one of the factor that can happen is because higher oxygen content than carbon in the atmosphere.

Maybe that explains why most the thing around me are a lot bigger than what i know, hell that even explain why it's so hard to breathe and my body is alot heavier, maybe it's affecting the gravity too

"Fuck... I'm getting dizzy" i put my right hand on the tree to try balancing myself while i'm trying to catch my breath from the dizziness and burning feeling on my lungs.

Is this what Oxygen poisoning felt like? My leg keep trembling making it harder to stand up.

"I- it hurt *cough*" i start coughing hard and fell to my knees, and this rain doesn't help at all.

Suddenly i stop breathing, no, not stop breathing because of i can't but because i hold my breath. You may wondering why i do that? Or some even wonder if i did that to make take less oxygen to my system.

No, i hold my breath because not far from behind me, i can hear a heavy breathing, not from humans. Because this breathing is loud that it reverberating in the whole area, it's a breathing from something big.

Slowly i turn my head trying to look at what make that sound and there it is, one of the biggest creature i have ever seen and i'm sure this thing isn't an animal.

It's size is a bit bigger than an adult elephant, with two pair of front legs, one pair is much more massive than it's back legs and the other pair have claw-like structure with sharp long spikes that line it's structure, extremely similar like mantis.

It's sunken yellowish cat like eyes looking at me hungrily, it's mouth filled with sharp long teeth with four massive fangs.

We both looking at each other for a while, one frozen from fear another looking at its prey ready to tear it apart. Somehow i find the strength to stand up and immediate running as fast as i could.

The moment i start running, i heard massive road behind me that overlap the sound of the rain.

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"Come on... Come on!!"

I start to stand up after i finish rolling in the mud, i keep screaming at myself to run as fast as i could. The moment i start running again, somehow i felt like something telling me to duck but i just did it out of instinct, and the moment that happen a massive hand swiped above me taking big chunks of woods.

From that move alone almost make me fall over again just from the force of the movement alone. If the burning feeling in my chest isn't enough to tell me this isn't a dream, then that moment surely the cherry on top.

'Oh god! Anyone out there, anything that can hear me, please help me!!' i'm extremely scared that i start praying to anything out there that will listen, i'm only a normal highschool boy not even reach adulthood yet but why is this happening to me. I never ask for anything like this, infact i'm pretty satisfied with my life no matter how dull it is, at least i can enjoy small things like watching funny shorts, reading meme, playing games and reading books.

'Why is this happening to me!?'

At that moment thunder rumbling in the sky, and it cast a shadow right in front of me casting a big shadow, it's seems that thing decised to end it's hunt and jump at me with all four front limbs ready to strike me into pulp and i know i will die at this very moment, never to see my family and friends again, never to try all the smallest things in life that make you enjoy life bit more, and never finish education and find jobs to make my family proud of me.

But here it is again, somehow i felt something 'speaking' to me to jump to my right, where i will fall rolling down of the hill to the unknown.

With choice of pummeled to death or rolling down a hill with 50/50 chance of death or broken bones, tears start pouring out of my eyes, unwilling to accept death just like that i jumpt to the side.

I start rolling downhill while i can still massive impact from above and an angry roar, the moment i starting to rejoice i just avoid getting pummeled to death, the pain start.