Survival of the fittest - 2
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A.N: This chapter is filled with info dump and some time skips
Also I use Grammarly on this one hopefully it's a lot better than previous one, although I need to change phone since I can't find it in play store on my main phone
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It has been some time now since I've been here, maybe it has been 3 years ago that I have my first hunt.
I remember that day very well, how I struggled to skin it, how I struggled to make a fire pit, and how bland and yet how delicious it is for me cause I know I can survive on my no matter how hard it is.
I remember I cried while eating it, the realization I will never taste my mom's cooking again, never have a yelling match with my father again thinking that I know more than him yet here I am realizing that I know so little about life and struggle.
Never fighting with my big brother at one moment and then having fun together the next day, never playing and making fun of my little sister and threatening the boys that will be in her life.
But at least I can stand back up and make up my mind to focus on survival, no matter what it takes. So I start scavenging, gatherings everything that I can use.
The next few days I keep hunting in the morning until the sky started getting darker, sure not every time on my hunts that I succeeded like my first day of hunting, but at least it make me learn more and more about what to do and not, how to make my step lighter what to bring and not.
On my 15th day, I encountered a giant Kelbi which I failed to give a fatal blow, and instead of running away like I first thought, it turn around and keep attacking me, trying to impale me with its giant horn. That day was the second time I struggled with life and death from an attack.
Yet that same day I noticed something, my injuries heal faster, sure not to the point of having regeneration powers like some characters, but it takes only a few days to heal a gash on my arm.
'I was wondering if it was just my imagination that I am stronger and have more stamina, I'm in a running club and parkour community before that's why I know my limit very well'
It's funny how I got transported against my will and yet I gain something from it, sure it's not like those golden fingers I read in fanfictions and novels but at least I got something which I'm sure it's from that lake underground.
I learn many things since then, from creating stuff, sewing, cooking, looking for traces, making traps, and more.
On the 34th day, I start exploring deeper and deeper into the surrounding forests, I start gathering all kinds of plants, fruits, and nuts to see if any of them can be used as spices or not.
I try to find if they have some particular smells that maybe I smelled before, wrap some of them on the meats, use some for cooking, boiled them in water.
I start drawing and making notes in my notebook of what plants are working, their tastes, and their smells.
Some of them even have some weird effects that make me see stuff and all that.
I have my fair of fights with creatures around here, gathered scars from each hunt and expedition, and found some body of water after following some weird blue monkeys. I even found a lot of crashed spaceships there along with corpses.
But right now, here I am on a branch of a tree, wearing jet-black leather armor with a jet-black coat with hoodie, red sash, metal vambrace and glove, and metal greave that I take from the soldiers' corpses. Overall I looked like someone came from Assassin's Creed or someone trying to cosplay as Connor. I try to use armor but I find it's slowing me down when I try to freerun in the forest.
I have a small axe or Tomahawk on my right, a few throwing knives on my left that are coated with narcotics, jagged knives that would make sure to bite into the flesh that connected with a rope on the end, and a spear.
Honestly, most of my equipment and tools are inspired by that game.
So what am I doing here? I was waiting for my prey, I have been hunting this thing for days now. I have watched its habits, again and again, what its favorite food is, and where is the nest.
A few times I have a close call with this thing, but now I remembered everything about it. So here I am waiting patiently while looking at the bait down there, an adult Kelbi freshly hunted.
I keep crouching here patiently and calmly while focusing my ear to hear everything around me.
'here it is' the moment, I heard heavy steps, I crouch lower while holding my spear tightly and sure enough, that thing came from between the trees, the same bastard which hunt me down when I came to this place.
'this bastard is confident enough that nothing will challenge him and doesn't even look around to find anything suspicious' the thing keeps walking leisurely without a care since it is the apex predator in this place.
'come on...' as it's coming closer and closer, I readying myself to jump it while watching it calmly. If it was me from 3 years ago, I'm sure I would start panicking and doubting the plan, but not the me that is now.
As that thing starts feasting and as I planned that my position would be right above its back, I immediately start running along the branch while holding my spear tightly before I jump toward that thing while holding my spear right above my head with both hands.
But that thing immediately lookup, and sure enough, its instinct is great as that thing immediately tries to dodge.
So instead of stabbing its head, I stab it straight on the shoulder, the bastard roared so loudly as it moves around violently I immediately pull out one of my throwing knives and stab it right at this bastard before I got thrown off to the ground.
As I finished rolling, I immediately stand up and take off my Tomahawk from my waist and get ready for plan B.
'No matter, I know it wouldn't be that easy' after all, all according to my calculations
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CHANGE OF POV
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It recognized its self as the strongest.
It is the apex predators, the ruler of this place and nothing- NOTHING dare to challenge it
When it came, other weak things will run away immediately. When weak things is preying on another weak things, they immediately run away leaving behind its prey, for everything is rightfully owned by itself.
For it is unique, one of it's kind on this place. But if there's one thing that it despite is those black metal two-legs with their light spawning box and if it not because of those two yellow eyes two-legs with light stick and their weird feelings, it will slaughter all of those black two legs.
But that furless yellow eyed do something to this great one without even touching it while the long fur one only watch, although it wonder why it's fur only on the head.
They tied this one with those steel before they put it into the flying box before all the shaking start and it find itself on the ground once again. So it start slaughter all of those black metal two-legs.
But all that is memories from distant past, along with when the sky turn to red, for the first time on that day this great one run away to hide, when those flying box start coming down from the skies, where those feathered two-legs fighting against the white metal two-legs.
At that time all it need to do was wait, and the weak feathered's female and cubs start running to the forest and it have great feast. At least until the skies filled with those small flying box before every thing turn red and fire rise high.
After that, it never seen those two-legs again no matter where it go, except that time when it see one of those two-legs, a young one yet it run fast.
*Sniff*
Right when it is thinking to hunt something as it walk around it's territory, it smelled blood
As it walk toward where smells came from, sure enough it see the source, one of those little weak things and yet have the sweetest taste, it's favorite.
It's look like what killed left it behind, sure enough terrified of this great one, when it see the body it can't help but wonder what weak thing killed this thing since there's a deep hole on it's body.
No matter, that weak thing know it's place. But somehow it's taste a little bit… Different?
Suddenly, it feel something from above, as it turn to look what it is, it's instinct scream at it to dodge before it feel it…
PAIN!!
As it look what caused it, which weak thing challenge it
"Yo asshole… Remember me?"
It can't understand what it say but it know this thing challenge this great one
It recognized this one, anger filled it's body as the two-legs that once runaway from this great one now dare to challenge it.
"You still look ugly as before huh… No matter, it's time for the hunter become the hunted"
"ROAAAARRRRR!!!!"