Kane swept his eyes across his surrounding environment, unfamiliar scenery filling his vision. He was surrounded by many tall trees with an unknown name. The trees were about eight-fold higher than a normal person's height with huge green crown.
In the deep forest, a young man sat on the ground. He seemed like about 14 years old with a young and tender face. His face was full of dedicate, his sharp eyes could tell that he was not the kind of person with a weak personality, but now his face was filled with a puzzling look.
" Where am I? " Kane muttered to himself. He was wondering his current location, the only thing he knew, he was inside a deep jungle.
" What the hell had happened to me? Just now I was still in the public library near my home, I'm searching for some fantasy stories I'm interested in. But all of a sudden, I felt my mind went in trance and… Oh, my head! I can't remember anything had happened to me, " Kane couldn't help feeling headache on his head as he tried hard to recall back his memories in the library. What brought him here, he had no ideas about this.
He tried harder to regain his lost memories, he knew something must have happened to him when the time he was in the library.
" Minutes ago, I was searching some interesting books on the bookshelves, kept searching for a long time. I walked to the dark corner of the library and found a book with a weird and medieval-looked cover, then I… I… THE BOOK! " Kane had an inspiration of having some ideas about what was going on to him. He suddenly appeared in this strange place when the time he opened the mysterious book.
He looked around, searching for something in a hurry as if he had lost some of his precious belongings. " Where is the book? The reason why I'm here must be related to the weird book, I must find it out. Only the book can tell me the answer I'm looking for. "
What Kane thought was right. The book released some kind soul-attracting magic to draw Kane's attention. Kane was attracted by the book, walked near and grab it out from the bookshelf. It then teleported him here. The purpose of the book teleported Kane was still a far way for him to find it out.
At the moment of his searching, a group of three creatures was closing to him. He had yet to notice it as he focused on searching the book only, and the other reason was, he was someone who lived in a modern era and away from the jungle, his instinct towards danger was poor.
After minutes, he found nothing. He gave up, helplessly sat on the ground and shook his head. He was not sure what he going to do, he took a deep breath and revealed a heavy sigh as if he wanted to exhale all his frustrating emotions out of his mind.
" What should I do? I don't know where am I, even don't know the direction in the jungle. How can I get out of this jungle and get some help from the locals? " He took a look in all directions, wondered what the direction should he head to get out of the jungle. He had no experience to deal with this situation, the only thing he knew, there was no one would help him if he was just sitting here and cried for help.
" Guess I have no choice but choose a direction randomly and keep walking with that direction. It depends on my luck and fate is decided by God. I hope I can find some people to help me. " He stood up, swept the dust on his clothes. He decided to go with the chosen direction, he faintly believed that his luck would be good today.
He walked in a certain direction. The group of creatures got closer to him in silence, but he didn't notice them yet. With the wild instinct of those creatures, they could felt Kane was a weak prey for them, could be hunt down easily. Yet, they still paid high alert on him, hiding in the brushes between trees and waited for his opening.
This was the law of jungle, even powerful beast such as a lion would stay at high alert while hunting a weak deer. The lion would probably walk near to the deer at first without the deer found its presence, then hunt down the deer with all its strength in a quick moment. Thus, those creatures were waiting for good timing to hunt Kane down.
All of a sudden, Kane sensed the ground trembling. From his feeling, he could tell that some heavy feet stepped forcefully on the ground, he wondered the source of ground trembling in his heart. He raised head and turned to his right side, the quick figure made his shock. His heartbeat almost stopped to the point he couldn't even breath.
A monkey-like green creature was dashing towards him. It had a slim body but great and powerful arm muscles. It showed an ugly face and raised a stone hammer carried on his back with the intention of giving Kane a heavy hit on his head.
" What?! " Kane couldn't react to his current condition. He could tell that it would probably be fatal if he was hit by the huge hammer as the creature possessed the strength he had no way to compete with. He could even felt the intense pressure created by the stone hammer, this made him stunning and almost blank minded.
" Move, hurry! Please move, my legs, I beg you, you are going to die! " Kane kept screaming within his heart, telling his body to move as the hammer was about to hit on him, he didn't want to die as he was still young. But he couldn't move his body, even one of his fingers, the only thing he could do was waiting for his death.
" No way! I end up like this, I cannot accept this! " Kane roared fiercely with anger in his heart. Would his life end up like this way? He kept asking himself. He did not allow his life to end up like this way but could do nothing, he almost lost all his hope.
" This is not my end! "
" This is not my end! "
" Not my end… "
Kane closed his eyes and frowned his eyebrows tightly, kept screaming to himself with a strong desire to survive.
…
Biu!
Kane heard a sound of something being pierced through.
" Huh? Nothing had happened to me? "
Kane didn't hit by the creature and scattered into bloodshed as he thought before, he was well in a whole piece. After a while, he heard a sound of heavyweight falling on the ground. " That must be the God had heard my voice and saved me. Thanks, God. "
He slowly opened his eyes, the green creatures lay on the ground. He took a close look on it, its neck was being pierced by a sharp arrow. He understood he was saved by someone, not the God he thought had heard his voice and saved him.
" Protect the people there. " A shout could be heard by him from behind. Later, he saw a group of soldiers with armor and sword approaching him, two archer followed at the back of the group.
Two soldiers who ran in the front dashed towards the creatures, gave them a huge angle slay. The creatures jumped a far step from their current location to dodge the attack of the soldier, they then ran away and hid behind trees.
" Hey, little brats. Get out from there and fight with me, you don't have the gut? " One of the soldiers tried to insult the creatures hiding behind the trees. This type of creature was high in agility, possessed huge strength and moderate human intelligent. The creatures knew how to craft simple weapons like using stone, wood, and threads to create a stone hammer. Due to their high agility, they are skilled at using the environment to hide and made a long fight with their enemies.
They were Hammer Gorilla.
" Be careful and deal with them quickly. " An order was given to the soldier. From that voice of giving the order, Kane could tell that the voice had belonged to a female. From her tone, he could also tell that the female was the leader of the group. He turned his eyes to the direction of the voice, a figure with a beautiful curve fell in his vision. She was in the middle of the group and gave orders to her soldiers.
Kane looked at all of them, he thought within his heart, " There are two creatures out there, 7 soldiers with armor and 2 archer are fighting with them. It seems like I am being saved in time. " Kane released a sigh, now he was saved and protected, his breath started returning to a normal rate.
At this time, Kane had a clear look on the creatures now, they had approximate height half of normal human, but the size was huge. They carried a huge stone hammer on their bending back, they are looked like a monkey with long and powerful arms.
Upon the time Kane felt relax from the highly-alerted mind, he suddenly felt the ground trembling vigorously, far more the previous Hammer Gorilla could complete, as if a giant creature was approaching here.
From the highly-alerted expression of the soldier, he knew something horrible would fall on their heads soon enough.
Pong! Pong!
Heavy and powerful steps stomped on the ground. The sound echoed louder and the ground became more trembling, a huge creature was shown in front of their eyes. The body of the huge creature was three-fold larger than Kane, it was not a normal Hammer Gorilla he faced before, it was a little too huge.
The unexpected appearance of the huge creature made the soldier stay in high alert, signals of danger kept sounded in their head. Some of the younger soldiers even showed fear on their faces. The Hammer Gorilla King roared loudly and fiercely, its rough roar made Kane feel unpleasant and caused sharp pain in his ears. Kane closed his ears with hands, the pain was unbearable to him. After a moment, more of the green creatures showed themselves and surrounded their enemies.
"Five… Six… Seven… Oh no! There are 10 more appear here with a beast king, Hammer Gorilla King. We had no chance to win against them, they are too many along with a king of the forest! " A soldier spoke loudly out with fear.
" Stay with your spirit, my soldier! Be calm and prepare yourselves! " The female leader shouted to her soldier and tried to convince them. Although the condition was worse to them, they must stay in high spirit and prepare themselves for battle. Frankly speaking, the female leader was clear in her mind that the fight must be difficult for them.
An archer walked to the side of the female leader, spoke to his leader with a small voice but could be heard by Kane. " Leader, there are no ways we can win this battle. The only path for us is to retreat from here, with all our force focus in a direction, we can make an opening for us to escape. But… but the plan will only be a success if we abandon the commoner. "
The commoner he mentioned was Kane. What he said was right, Kane was commoner with a weak body and would probably slow down their speed of retreating. If they were just surrounded by a group of normal Hammer Gorilla, they could surely escape easily and protect Kane at the same time. But now, the condition is far worse as the forest king was targeting on them.
After hearing his words, a bitter smile shown on his face, " Today is really not my lucky day. I am going to my doom! "