4 Cave
I open my eyes. The darkness surround me make me want to switch on the lamp but hey, I am in the cave right now.
What happened from my leaping into the sky until the fight with Gryphon, it is all true. I hope this is a lie but my "bed" (Gryphon) might disagree with me. Nothing could I do to deny it except to accept everything or I will lose my sanity.
I wake up from long slumber sleep. I sit while still observing my body. The bleeding from my shoulders seem already stop. The pain also gone. I try to move my shoulders up and down. Yeah, my shoulders had recovered in great pace.
But the blood had soak badly my jumpsuit. I have got no choice but to remove it. I detach my helmet from my head. It seem my helmet had been cracked with big pattern. I don't feel safe anymore to wear my thin helmet.
I got no other cloth to wear. I feel reluctant to continue wear my damaged jumpsuit. With this amount of blood, even a washing machine can't clean it. I look my surrounding to detect any equipment I can use.
It seems some skeletons wear big armour. Most of them are metal plates. I rise and walk around among those skeletons. I scavenge their former belongings. I know steal from them is unholy act but I can't stand to wear my dirty cloth. I am also don't prefer to stay nude.
First I remove my bag pack. This parachute bag doesn't have any value for me anymore. I need to unload any unnecessary weight to reduce my burden. My eyes catch something interesting for my new clothes.
I got lucky because they have several clothes suitable for me. Although these shirts and pants look like outdated and obsolete in fashion sense but beggar can't be choosers. I can only satisfied with whatever present now.
Now I remove my jumpsuit. Then I choose to wear black shirt and pant that scatter freely on ground. Then I fasten my pant with rope. Hey, what's age did this pant come from? Do you forget to create a belt?
However it feel nice to know that my new attire is made from animal's skin. I can feel the smoothness of this leather. Top quality, I guarantee it.
Do I need to wear the armour too? Urmm, I worry if I found another creature like Gryphon. It is a correct choice to take these armour as an "insurance". I should prioritise my safety.
But these armour seems categorized in heavyweight class. I can't utilise my speed with heavy load. So I can only choose lightweight armour or wear less armour.
After I spend a few minutes to think, I pick a breastplate to wear. I make this judgement after remember the heavy kick from Gryphon can crack open my chest. I choose the most light plate that I can find here.
I feel this bronze breastplate fit perfectly on my body. At least I can survive from deadly kick. I choose to not wear any protection on my arm or leg as it can hinder my agility.
As for weapon, although I don't train in any weapon skill, I choose an axe as I have an experience of using it in last summer camp during mountain hiking. I have confidence to chop big tree with this axe. Don't worry, I train my muscle strong enough to awestruck the women.
I swing my new axe a few times to test its compatibility with me. It seems no problem for an amateur like me. Next I pick a small round shield on the ground. I lift with my left hand.
Now my hands have both offensive and defensive ability to protect me. With this I can cross path this forest to ask some help. I don't have any intention to explore this big cave. The darkness around here not suitable for my eyes to see.
About the Gryphon's corpse, I want to let it rot here. I can't pull it out from cave or dig a grave for him. I am also don't have any utensils to cook the meat here. I wonder if Gryphon is edible to eat.
Well, as long as the meat taste great, I have got no problem to consume any animal but right now I don't feel to have any appetite to weird creature.
Now I walk slowly toward the entrance of cave. I must this cave is really huge. I think this cave is suitable to become secret place for powerful organization. Batman must be glad to able park his jet here.
It took me 10 minutes to exit this cave. I glad this cave is situated only slightly above the ground level, so I can easily descend to the forest area.
I have two objectives for now. First I need food. I think any fruit can satiate my stomach. I don't feel confident to hunt the animal in this unknown forest, so any good fruit is a much better option than try to grill some meat. I don't even any lighter to start the bonfire.
Second I want to find the river. I really need to take a shower. My body probably smell stinky from blood and sweat. Even I will feel disturbed from my own smell. Besides if I follow the river path, the chance to pass this forest is greater.
I continue walking along this dense forest. I still remember the first time I see the trees here but I am still feel peculiar with this atmosphere. I don't feel any familiar with this forest even though I was always exploring some forest during holidays.
You can say this forest is too quiet, like any habitants did not exist here. Even I don't see any bird fly here. Only the warm of sunlight is accompanying me here. I sighed heavily to release my feeling. I pray that dead Gryphon brought me to some big land, not in foreign, exclude island or I am really in a big trouble.
I hang my axe on my side in between my waist and pant. I don't feel any danger lurk around me so I can relax my mind. My left hand still hold the round shield to withstand any sudden charge attack in front of me. Because I don't have any place to hang this shield on my body, so I need to grip it all the time.
I already walk for 30 minutes. These trees are big but sadly there is no any fruit available for me. I think I will enter starvation mode if I fail to eat until tomorrow. So I got no choice except to hunt the prey. But I don't see any shadow of animal here. Hahahaha, is that mean my only choice to eat the leaves like some koala?
When I try to sit on big trunk, I catch some noise. Yeah, this noise is like a melody to me. Everyone should know what this sound mean. There is no other nature that can produce this sound except this thing.
I unintentionally let a smile on my face. I hurry to run over the noise source. I zig zag around the trees as my attention only focused to that noise. Yeah, I am not mistaken.
This is a waterfall. The water continuously fall from around 50 metres from the top. Its blue light crystal of water really tempted me
to enter it. Without waiting anymore, I put down my shield, axe, and breastplate near the tree.
Then I run and jump into the water. Hahaha, finally I found the river. What's more, it is a waterfall as a big bonus for me. I hope this river have some fish to grill.
Then suddenly behind me the water make big splash and the wave push me to the front. I look behind my back and my mind go blank as my eyes see a fish, a very huge fish, more huge than a dolphin, as it jump highly to the sky and swim back into the water.
Urm, do the fish is always this big? I gulped and swim swiftly to the river bank. Oh my god, please le me rest. I don't want to fight the fish especially this gigantic one.