Every hair on my body stood up at the sa ti as I threw all caution out of the window and began running even quicker.
'I don't want to die' My eyes began to soak up tears once again as I ran at my fastest, jumping over the enormous tree roots and avoiding all the mud in the way that could have probably swallowed whole and fossilized for the future archeologists to find .
'Wait… That system thing said that I was traveling through ti… It said Earth was only around 4.2 billion years old… Earth is 4.5 billion years old… Did I just get sent back to the carboniferous? Wait no, it should be the Triassic. Right? GODDAMNIT! I should have revised!' I felt like all the knowledge I had gained from my geology and geography classes were failing .
*ROAR*
*SCREECH*
*ROAR*
Countless and continuous roars rang out through the forest yet again, causing shudders to go down my very being. Yet, even after feeling so much pressure...Even after fearing for my life at every step, I swallowed down my fear and ran. Ran like hell itself was right behind , waiting to devour into its deepest depths and burn for my every sin.
*ROAR*
To my dismay, even after everything I had done to run away, I watched as a maw got closer and closer to from the corner of my eye.
The maw was humongous while the sheer power, that I for so reason could feel now, radiated from it like heat radiating off the surface of the sun.
My instincts kicked in almost imdiately, causing to do sothing I would have never thought I would be able to do in a million years.
In a split second that it took the maw to reach , I spun on my heel and perford a roundhouse kick, hitting the creature in its eye.
Even though I didn't think it would have done anything, I was still surprised to see that it did not even receive a scratch.
I did not waste another second because while it might have not flinched, my kick did surprise it to the point where it did not attack straight away after failing its first attack.
Without knowing what had co over , I felt like millions of years of muscle mory hit at the sa ti, and while I might have not had the physique to perform everything that I was about to do, it was still beyond my capabilities of anything I could have imagined a human to do.
*Swooosh*
Before I knew it, I had already pierced the giant hippo's eye with two fingers sticking straight into them without a single hint of hesitation.
*ROAR*
The hippo's roar shot through the forest and could be heard by almost all the creatures that lived in the forest within a 5-mile radius,
I chose to not waste another second a quickly jumped away from the hippo before sprinting in the other direction of where I had co from and where most of the roars had originated from.
For the next 10 minutes, I ran with my life hanging from an untethered thread.
I could not count the number of close calls I had, from the maws of large lizard-like monsters snapping their maws shut an inch away from my head, to almost landing incorrectly and falling back into the deep mud that would have killed within minutes, if not even less than that.
'Survive!' Was the only word that rang out within my mind. I could think of nothing else as my brain worked on overdrive to find the best way to get out of the situation without dying, let alone losing a limb or two.
As if a light bulb went off above my head, I felt like my mind had beco clear and my instincts told exactly what to do.
In the sa instance, my eyes flashed with more determination than I had ever felt in my entire life.
'Survive!'
Looking around, I ignored the constant noise from behind and looked forwards. Imdiately, I could spot at least 4 different animals getting ready to ambush , yet that was not what had caught my eye.
'SURVIVE!'
Within the split second between seeing the vine and moving, I felt as if my whole body began to move on its own again, finding the best way to survive without having to do anything on my own
I knelt and shot through the forest at a speed I did not think was humanely possible, yet due to my adrenaline, I could not feel the pain of my muscles working to their limits as my heart rate rose to be sky-high.
'Sur-'
I halted my steps for a single second, allowing to completely avoid the huge maw from biting my body into halves.
'-VIVE!'
My hand blurred as I moved it away due to all the hairs on that arm rising at the sa ti as a shiver that went down my spine.
In the sa millisecond, I watched as sothing swooshed past before crashing into the huge dragonfly that was right on my trail.
'I will not die!' Tears began to well up, but they quickly dried up.
Looking forwards, I could finally see the vine from up close.
Luckily, the vine didn't have any spike but even if it did, I would have been forced to use it anyway.
Jumping off one of the enormous roots that I was running on, I grabbed hold of the large vine and swung myself across a lake that I did not know the existence of.
I planned to simply swing to cover more ground, but instead, it seed like I was fortunate enough to have a lake under , sothing I doubted that any dinosaur or animal would ever choose to go through, or that was what I thought anyway.
*SCREECH*
A screech rang out from behind , causing my skin to crawl in both fear and confusion.
Looking back, I could not help but exclaim the obvious.
"THEY CAN FLY!" I exclaid, having, completely forgotten about their main ability of flight.
Panic finally started to set in as I slowly swung across the lake, and even though the speed was technically faster than I had been moving before, due to the lack of trees the flying oversized dragonflies and bugs had a much easier ti moving, therefore allowing them to also increase their speeds.
'Please! God! God, I beg you!' I cried inwardly. To , this was the end of my life. The life that I had preserved through the sacrifices of my family and friends. What were the chances that I would be the final human and the last human to perish? Luck... I had been saved purely due to luck, but who knows if I would have been the best choice. The system could have chosen a billion people better than , yet now that it had chosen , I only served to fail every human that had died to the hands of those elves.
I had nowhere to run, I had nowhere to hide...
I was powerless.
*SPLASH*
*SNAP*
As I watched my life flash before my eyes, I heard a loud snap alongside the splashing of water echoing from behind , causing to look back with hope and fervor lingering in my eyes for one last ti.
"Oh my god..." I muttered under my breath, unable to believe my luck.
From what I could see, a large number of huge frogs had co forth from around the lake, snapping their tongues toward the insects that had been flying toward .
At the sa ti, the insects were unable to run away, being instantly swallowed whole by the long maw of a crocodile, yet unlike normal crocodiles, this one ran with the sa the of being overly huge.
After a few more seconds passed, I found my feet landing on solid ground once more.
'I survived' I thought while panting.
"I SURVI-" I almost exclaid out loud in joy, but I quickly covered my mouth and looked around, hoping that there wasn't an animal or beast nearby.
'I survived! How? I was so dead! How did I do it? Is this fate?! Is this good karma? Did I do sothing good in my last life for this to happen?' Tears of joy started to pour out of my eyes while low muffled sobs could be heard if one were to listen hard enough.
The forest, however, was no longer silent. Instead, it was bustling with noise.
After taking a breather, sothing finally hit .
'Wait... Gaint toads? None of this makes sense. Even the centipede and those insects are way too big to be normal. This is supposed to be the Triassic, right? I know the oxygen levels in the atmosphere are high and all, but still. There is no way anything should be that big, especially toads!'
After pondering for a bit, I finally dropped the thought as I had sothing much more important to think about.
Right now I was stuck in the middle of nowhere and I had been given a mission.
'Survive for one week, huh... If the beasts of the forest don't kill , dehydration, hypothermia, or malnutrition will kill first. Plus, there might be so ancient diseases in this place that could probably kill in less than 24 hours.' I sighed in exasperation before rubbing the bridge of my nose with a complicated glint within my eyes.
'I guess I'll just call this goal sothing like "Mission Impossible" hahaha' I laughed in self-mockery at the situation I had been dropped into, not knowing that this sa laugh would beco the sole thing I would lean on for the next few adventures as I struggled to keep my sanity in check.
But eventually, my dreaded laughter had turned into the loud and wretched wails of a boy who was now in pain... A pain that very few would have experienced. The pain of complete isolation with nothing to look forward to, and no hope in sight.
This was too much for any human to take, and it would at least ti a few days to get used to.
Despite being surrounded by greenery and different beasts, it felt like I was stranded alone in the middle of the infinite cosmos, in a ship that was slowly losing oxygen as the freezing cold of space seeped into the ship, slowly but surely killing , making the very ship I had to put my hopes of survival on, my very grave.
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