Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 14
Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 14
Apollo woke up to silence, the forest around him of no human noises made him a little anxious. Birds were chirping and wind was rustling leaves, combined together with the imperfect outdoors terrain it created a rugged serenity. He sat for a little bit then thought to himself (Time to get started) and began his training. He went for a run, letting the wind fly past him he sensed a new freedom that he had not experienced before. He ran through the trees and decided to climb one up to the top, overviewing a whole landscape he said ,"I will make this my home". Returning, he started doing calisthenics to strengthen himself. Somehow his training felt more passionate than ever while he thought (Well, if I don't know what Cias is doing then I have to train as hard as I can in this time away from him). Training as well as practicing his sword movements and martial arts by himself led to faster improvements. Seeing, sensing and feeling only himself was actually what led to this further enlightened state of being awakened inside of him. He sensed his own failures and began to adjust his movements because of it.
Going out for food early this morning, he was looking for a few food items to keep himself satiated while he makes his main shelter. He caught 2 bunnies, 3 squirrels, 2 fish and foraged for some berries. He put them in his backpack and started to get the foundations of his main shelter over and done with. Four trees were cut down with his combat shovel and it was about 2 by 2 meters big. But he was starting to get exhausted so he made his meal, created some water for himself to drink and mozied off the sleep.
Then like clockwork, time passed by, and each day that elapsed he was getting smarter, stronger and more accustomed to life in the forest, about at the 1 month mark he finished his shelter of logs, leaves and moss. His shelter had a fireplace, a bed, food prep station, and etc. . He lived with even more comfort than he had had in his entire life, something he created and built up from the ground was keeping him safe and that made his confidence skyrocket. The things he did fulfilled something missing in his heart, a need to have created something all of his own.
The stronger he grew, the further up the food chain he became. Because of that, bigger animals would begin to reach his radar to hunt. A whole lot of species existed in this forest, mutations happened in between them and that meant there were many differing levels of strength. For example, there is a regular wolf, a wolfbear and a wolfman. The differences were like light and day for each level, a regular wolf was strong but a wolfbear could maul it in one strike and a wolfman could do the same to a wolfbear. The interesting thing about wolfmen is that they had the intelligence and looks of a human and could grow just as fast with their advanced knowledge. Only a few humanoid animals existed in this forest and they usually governed over their respective species as a guardian of sorts.
He reached the point where hunting wolves was the new normal, and in this forest it was eat or be eaten. Apollo was walking back from his hunt when he heard whimpering and the roaring of a bear. Confused, he ran towards the noise at half the speed of sound, and he found a battered, bruised and broken raccoon on its last legs. A bear was smacking it around and Apollo did not like what he saw. Full of courage he ran out in front of the raccoon and cast Art: Recovery on the poor animal. Apollo said with a scowl on his face ,"What do you think you're doing, bastard" in which the bear answered with a "ROOOOOOARRRRR". Apollo put a smirk on his face as he brought out his bokken ,"Let's put this new power I got on a test drive" he then paused for a few moments adjusting into his sword stance, his sword out in front of him vertically, he put his feet at a 45. Apollo released the stance for a quick second to taunt the humongous predator in front of him ,"Bring it" he said with absolute confidence while his palm was facing upwards, pointing at the beast, flicking his fingers back and forth.