Day 1: A new reality

Hours past and ever since I ran from the men in clockes I have been restless and scared, why did they kill her? Was it even nessisary to do that! She was around my age! only 15! I don't want to see them again ever, what will happen if I do? Will they kill me too? No surely not, I enetered their test grounds there's no reason for me to die I hope. Even though I have this weird energy boost I felt it slowly die down the fast few hours and i'm begining to be hungry too. I strayed off the mountain a bit ago and now I ended up in a forest, the mountain was still in a clear veiw past the trees and it may only take about 10-20 minutes to get there. But right now im hungry i'll look for a cave there after i've found something to munch on. Time started to fly by and everything i've seen was in a distance but didn't look like anything i've seen, one look really glowy and another was like a tree in the shape and size of a person. I feel it's a good idea for me to avoid people as I didn't give off a good impression.

I saw a rabbit just ahead and I began to feel adrenaline throught my entire body and my eyes wouldn't stray from my target, all I have right now are my primal instincts and im going to follow it! Not taking my eyes off the rabbit it flicks its ears up like it's heard me I get ready to pounce for it and then off it goes, but now way was I letting it go! It was the only thing that has looked edible this entire time, I began to run as soon as it did, it was turning behind trees and into bushes but I wasn't ready to give up! So I dived head first in the bushes and it surprising not thick so fell strait though the it. I was falling face first into the dirt so I closed my eyes shut and used my arms to cover my face so I don't injur my eyes. After landing I hear more bushes rattel and instanly think the rabbit was getting away so opened my eye's but what I saw was not what I had expected! Two wooden looking legs were infrount of me and my eyes slowly scaned the rest of what was in frount of me and too my horror it looked like a person carved out of wood! It was stairing right at me with black shiny looking beads for eyes, I was frozen still and could not move. Then out of nowhere it moved it head sideways still looking at me and made a high pitched screech, making me cover my ears and look down. After the screech I quickly got up and moved backwards. "hole cow..... that things can't possibly be alive?!", my eyes didn't move from the direction of that wooden thing at all.

It began to walk forward too and then it swang its arm but it was too far to hit me like I meen way too far then *Creek* that all I heard before something hit me from the side, It was a tree branch! "Ahhh!" I screamed in a high pitch due to the pain and fear. Then as im on the ground I see that thing swing its arm again but this time in a down motion then I looked up and see a really big tree branch comming down towards me, I quickly roll to my side non stop and I feel adrenaline kick into my system and I just bolt up and ran as fast as I could! I didn't even look behind me and all I could hear were screechs and multiple crashes. After running non stop I felt completly drained and then I felt major ache in my arm were the firsttree branch hit me. I'm now walking really slow towards the mountain thinking about what just happened. "That was definitely not something you would find in the woods.... is this truly not Earth but Centria as the man said?" I continued to mutter to myself then I came to a stop when I see this knee high round scaly thing right in frount of me, it's scales look super sharp. I'm now super cautious due to my last encounter, it wasn't moving or doing anything at all then it began to walk forward, did it not see me? That for the best though I turn in a different direction towards the mountain slowly.

The sun has began to set and my belly was grumbling but my mind was replaying that encounter with that wooden thing over and over again. "This isn't Earth and here i'm not the person hated by everyone anymore, that wooden and small prickly proved it aswell as the people I met before. So whats this about primary and seconday abilitys then? Surly I have one right? I mean the stone did glow! Just wow too much information i'll worrie about that later..." as i'm at the mountain terra I believe? I could smell something burning like a fire then off in the distance I see the small smoke on the edge. I make my direction that way cautiously and Along the way I see a path going up and another towards the direction of the fire, I kept that path in mind in case stuff don't go right beacuse I don't want to be in that woods this late at night just in case if those things are more active then. I'm close enough to hear people talking so I begin to crouch down and move silently so that I won't be detected, I get beind this rock and slowly peek my head out to see what time of people are there and to my discust it's that girl from before. The girl siting around the fire is with 3 other people teo males and another female I think. When I'm looking at the dudes I reconise another face! It's the one that told me to leave! Then I just remembered that you could form teams at the beginning before you entered this area, oh damn! Stupid brain! Why were you so fixated on other stuff exept for the that would help you! But then again.... I didn't really give a good first impression I would probably end up alone even if I asked to joing a team.

I begin to peek my head out again and the notice that there was some dead rabbit's right in my arms reach, who did I miss that? The only problem my arm would be visible if I were to try and grab it..... hmmmm, guess im going to have to do a dine and dash! So my plan was to quickly put my arm out to get one of the rabbits then dash towards the path I saw before and see were that gets me! There's no way that there going to give me any food. Okay I can do this yeah! I slowly reach my arm out as low as I can to the ground but it was more than arms reach my head and should was totaly exposed! Then I met eye contact with one of the people sitting around the fire, "What do you think you doing huh!" The rest of the group turn their head to me and then I quickly grabed the rabbit got up and ran as fast as I could! "Don't let her get away! Jake! Follow me!" I ran as towards the direction of the path I saw before but I was low on stanima and they were gaining on me! Just as I start to turn the corner into the path I saw earlier the girl grabed my shirt collar and I get flung backwards and my body slides against the dirt and rocks. I raise my head to see a boy still in the distance running as fast as he could to where we are, how did this girl catch up to my so quickly?! What are they going to do to me? "Oi you there, why did you think it was a good idea to steal from us?" This girl straired me straight in the eye's glaring a bit too, "I was just hungry...","Hungry? So you thought stealing was your only option instead of asking for some?" "N-No! Of course not I just didn't know people who all ready made a team would help so I-I-I" I truly didn't know how to finish that sentence, by now the guy who was in the distance just got too us.

"Who are- Wait! Your that girl groveling girl from before! Tch! And too think I was going to let you off this time". The girl turned her head to the other person and they just nodded in agreement, "Get up now!" As soon as those words were spoken I knew I was in trouble. They directed me to walk in frount of them towards the way I was running too, words were spoken but only to tell me to 'Hurry up' then shove me or they would talk amongst themselfes. It was now pitch black with only the moon as our light source, everything became scarier and my heart has not calmed down in hours. "Oi Jake whats the hold up? we need a light source", " Well I can't exactly use my hand now you know! My secondary power has prevented me from getting burnt, Damn and here I thought your secondary power was ment to befit the primary one not limit it". They spent most of the time talking about getting a light source which is something I wish they would find too. Around 10 minutes passed and they were lucky enough to find a thick dead root sticking out of the side of the mountain. My feet were now in pain due to continously walking everywere and with my arm injured I was not in the best shape, we finnaly made a stop at this cliff but all you see ahead is a mist or cloud scenery when you look down which means it's a death drop. My breathing was really shallow here too, I found it hard to look strait. "G****et her arm and burn off the retreat band so she can't survive the drop", "Why do we need to kill her this way?", " We are nobels if it were said that we killed a helpless girl then we would surly be looked down apon". I was barely standing as they were aproching me, my two sholder's were grabed then the band on my wrist was burned off. All I see were the disucsting faces as I slowly felt myself falling backwards. Am I going to die by falling to my death again? Yeah I am... and just after I found out that I could start a whole knew life, I close my eye's and just let myself feel the wind being pushed on my back and relax.

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