I Knew I shouldn't have gone off the trail, I thought to myself as I was running full speed through the woods. While I was running, 2 daggers nearly hit me in the back of my head, I quickly ran in the direction of the nearest tree and then I got behind it for cover.
"Was hoping I could avoid a fight on this job", I sighed as I equipped my sword and shield from their sheaths. Man, I hate fighting, why can't every job just be a quick and easy hire.
There was a long pause that seemed to have lasted for an eternity, Then I heard a snap of a twig from the other side of the tree and then I quickly backed away from it just in time, because after I did something swiftly roped around the tree and stabbed the tree I was just behind. The figure was taller than me by a whole Head and armed with multiple throwing knives on its person, Me and the figure had a long pause of just staring at each other, Alright let me see if I can talk my way out of fighting this thing.
"Listen, I don't know why you are after me but let's just talk abo-- oh Shi-," I yelled as I barely managed to get my shield up in time to defend against the Knives the figure threw at me while I was talking. Alright looks like there are no talking to this person, I quickly got my footing and prepared for its next assault. The figure then decided to try and blitz me by going for a forward stab with its dagger, The dagger pierced through my shield and nearly hit my arm due to how far it went through. The figure tried to pull it's dagger out and try to attack me again, but it seems its weapons is stuck in my shield, I took that to my advantage and struck the figure across It's face. The attack landed and I managed to cut its right eye, but the scary thing is that the figure didn't react at all to attack and just went straight back to attacking even due to its right eye being cut. The figure continued its assault by trying to grab me and pull me closer to it, but I managed to back step and this time I swung my sword at him, I managed to hit his left arm this time and the sword went halfway through its arm so he won't be using that for a long time.
"If you swing again, it will be your life man", I said while getting ready for its next assault. The figure lifted its arm and stared at it for a few seconds then looked at me with a smile as it grabbed its wounded arm with its other arm and started ripping It off. I was shocked, scared, and sickened as I was watching it completely rip off its wounded arm without any signs of pain or concern of what it was doing. After it completely ripped off its arm with a gut sickening ripping sound like you would if you had ripped a chicken thigh apart, it then put its bleeding torn off arm against its mouth and licked the blood as if it was cleaning it.
"What the f-," I said but I got interrupted by the figure randomly roaring at the top of its lungs to the sky and charged at me. I thrusted my sword in its chest to stop him from getting to me, my sword went through his right shoulder, but the figure continued charging at me. The figure then swung at me like a wild beast with its hand open, the figure hit me in the shoulder and the impact of his swing managed to send me flying backwards. After I landed on the ground, I grasped my arm in pain of the attack that for somehow felt like getting hit by a truck. I looked back and quickly rolled out of the way of a log that was thrown at me, alright I need to come up with a plan to kill this thing. I got back up, lifted my shield up from the ground and went on the assault. Before I fully picked up my shield, I managed to scoop up some dirt in my shield while I was sifting it up, I quickly flung my shield in the direction of the figure which caused the dirt to come out and hit it in its eye's. That made the figure finally have a reaction which was to go back a little and rub its eyes trying to clear. I then quickly charged at the figure and pulled my sword back as far as I could then proceeded to hit it with a thrust attack through its stomach which should have hit its spinal.
The figure collapsed on its knees while looking down at my hand on the sword that's in its stomach, I then pulled the sword out of the figure. The figure stayed in kneeling position for a little while, then it slowly started to fall on its side unable to keep its balance and fully hit the ground with a soft thud on the forest's grass, then let a long breath with its eyes wide open.
"What type of monster are you," I said to the now corpse on the ground. I put my weapon away in the sheath, the shield on my back, and started walking in the opposite direction of the corpse trying to locate how far I ran away from the town. I began looking around to see if I could find any landmarks and after a minute of searching, I finally found the direction I was running from and started heading there. I began walking back down from the path I came from, after a couple of steps down the path I came to I looked back to have one last look at the body, only to find the body was gone and only a blood stain in its place.
I quickly got my weapons out and stood at the ready while scanning my surroundings while staying prepared for a surprise attack, I suddenly heard a loud growl from the left side of me. I quickly turned towards the direction of the noise only to see nothing there, I continued to the place where the sound was coming from and then I suddenly felt a jolt of pain going through my back. I tried to turn around but before I could the pain in back grew worse while I was somehow lifted off the ground and flipped over, then I was faced to face with something you would usually see in your paralyses sleep. The creature that I was looking was the original figure that I had killed but had somehow mutated into something 10 times scarier than what it originally looked like.
The figure chest was somehow busted open with a large tentacle-like organ coming out of its chest which was holding me in the air. The creature then let out a laugh and started slamming me on the ground repeatedly, over and over again. I tried to soften the blow by using my shield to block the ground but that didn't work (No surprise there), If this continues, I don't think I will survive.
After The figure slammed me to the ground 5 times, The figure then stopped and reeled me in slowly due to it thinking I was dead due to the blood on my head and me playing dead by letting my body go limp. As I was slowly being pulled in by the figure, I slowly reached for sword ready to do a hit and run, after 15 seconds of It pulling me in It finally got me in arms distance away from it. It then started examining up and down to check if I was alive or not, I couldn't see its facial expression, but I could have sworn it sniffed me while it was examining me. After examining me for a minute the beast froze, it then let out a small chuckle and opened its big mouth while slowly bringing me in closer to take a bite out of me.
"Sorry man, but I don't swing that," I said as I pulled my blade out and slashed the figures face which caused it to do a shriek of pain and threw me away to the far right. Man did it throw me far, it felt like almost an eternity before I hit the ground, Like I would have had time to count the coins in my pocket before I finally hit the ground..... Yep, this gonna hurt.
Crack, Thump.
Welp, I finally hit the ground, but not before I managed to hit the biggest tree in the forest first. My left leg was the only part of my body that managed to hit the tree, but the impact still made me spin around like a helicopter blade. I finally landed somehow behind the tree I had just hit and once I hit the ground, I heard a load snap on the bottom of me which made me take a long and hopeful breath in.
"Sweet lord in heaven, please don't let my left be broken," I prayed to the sky. I then looked down and saw that my left leg was perfectly fine which caused me to let out a sigh of relief, I then looked at my other leg in curiosity, only to find out that my right leg is the one that's broken.
"Oh, come on, you weren't even the one who got hit by the tree," I yelled at my leg while grasping it and breathing in pain. I was going to try to get up but then I heard the loudest scream of rage I have ever heard in my life which made me go from calm to panic mode in a microsecond. I sat up straight and started looking for an escape somewhere in this forest. I suddenly spotted a little hiding spot behind me in the tree I just hit, it was a small opening that I could fit in, normally I would try to find a better place to hide that wouldn't leave me backed into a corner but It's not like I have much of a choice.
I crawled to that opening in the tree like my life depended on it (because it did), Once I finally made it to the opening, I put my legs in first to carefully land only to notice my feet didn't reach the bottom. I went a little lower with my stomach on the ground to touch the bottom, but I still couldn't touch the bottom, I went a little lower with my elbows holding me up this time while I was trying to feel for the bottom, but I still could not feel it.
I was going to try to get back up from the hole, but the figure suddenly bolted from the other side of the tree and started looking around for me, I didn't make one peep or move one inch after I saw him in front of me. The figure took a long look around then continued to lift his head up and started smelling his general area, after smelling the sky for a second the figure quickly turned around to were and looked dead at me which showed me just how much that slash damaged it.
The slash somehow fully cut off its bottom jaw along with some of its upper face along with it, welp there's no way I can negotiate now. I then decided to fully jump down the hole but not before I pointed at my bottom jaw just to make fun of the figure.
I braised for the impact of me hitting the ground after I started falling, but after 10 seconds of me falling I suddenly felt powerful wind suddenly blowing against me, the wind is slowing my fall by a lot. I opened my eyes to what was going on and I was relieved, scared, and impressed by the amount of luck I had stumbled upon. I looked around to examine my luck with full eyes as I had somehow stumbled upon a hidden mine, And I can even see people down there still mining, I wonder where this will take.
I continued falling for a about 2 minutes due to the powerful wind slowing down my dissent and I could see that I was falling to a material collection building, probably due to me falling at such extreme speed that the wind caught as a safety measure to keep miners from falling to the death's or rock's falling on the other miners.
I finally made it inside the building and was smoothly going down through one of their shafts, I then quickly fixed my posture and attempted to look as nonthreatening as possible as I finally made it to the bottom with my eyes closed. I then felt myself stuck in a dark shaft, I opened my eyes and found myself in an employee medical shaft that the minors built0 here for their workers just in case any of them were injured during their fall, Lucky me. I then heard the door begin to open and I was relieved and all smiles thinking about how lucky this fall was, once the door opened, I started to get my appreciations in order.
" You have no Idea how thankful I- ahhhhhh-", I screamed at the top of my lungs while trying to get up and Run only for my leg to decide to do a 90% angle in the opposite direction it was supposed to be in and get even more broken, But for some reason I didn't feel it at all, All I did feel was fear of a monster 10x more terrifying than that monster I fought against 15 minutes.
I continued screaming like a little girl for about 15 seconds and covered my head with my arms out of pure fear then the monster grabbed my arm and my body just froze. Then a monster came down on one knee and said one of if not the last things I would ever expect any monster to say out of know were.
"Hey man, do you like noodles," The Monster said. And I was caught so off guard that I let my guard down a little bit and let my out my best Response to that question.
"Huh," I said.