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Chapter 3 - Closer call

"Well, he and I were climbing a tree, the breaches connected to the point I couldn't see up, but we finally found a space to climb up. We then saw smoke, so yea," said John as he felt a cool breeze.

"Then how didn't you make it here first," asked John clone in confusion.

"Well, while we were heading here we heard an old man screaming. So we tried to check it out; unfortunately, we found nothing there," John says as it begins to grow cold.

Seconds past of dead silence as it feels that now even the wind has a voice.

"So was it wise to lie that we don't remember anything about our past to that man?" Six asked,

"I believe it was; after all, we don't know him," John replies as they sit around the campfire. They then began to feel even colder than before. As John is about to speak, a strong gust of wind blows out the fire.

"Damn, the fire went out. I'll go get branches the lite it back up." said the six-finger clone. The clone begins to get up; as he does so, the three-arm clone say's

"Don't move," as he points to the tree branches.

They all glanced up to observe that the leaves proceeded to rustle beyond them. They slowly get up to stare at the thirty-foot tall trees as they continue to hear rustling. In a matter of seconds, a long dark purple, deformed arm appears to throw a small gap that's two feet wide in the connected branches. Then, they begin to hear the crackling of bone as a tall humanoid figure comes out of the hole.

They all look at the purplish fifteen-foot humanoid figure, with purple spikes coming out of its body. The creature begins to walk on all four. As it slowly walks toward the campfire. The four-arm clone, the one furthest from the campfire, takes a step to the right. As the four-arm clone off, John slowly walks towards the burnt fire. He hears the sound of a twig breaking under his feet. With the creature's incredible speed, it reaps of his legs as he falls to the grown.

They all looked in confusion and how the creature got his clone leg. "What the fuck just happened? Where's my leg," Three asked himself as he looked behind him to see the creature feasting on it.

"What just happened." John thought to himself.

The four-arm clone turns to see the creature's black eyes. As the clone sits there on able to move might be because it's the leg that was reaped of or might be because of its presence, but the one thing the clone knew was death would come if he tried to run.

"What the hell do we do. Running is not an option; we will just get caught and die. Do we fight? No, that's also isn't an option cause of its great strength." said Three

"Shit, we got to get out of here? We need Someone stronger." Six thought to himself. Then, a man popped up in his head, Pone.

All he had to do was get him here, but how does he do that when he doesn't even know where he is? How long will it even take for him to get here? All of his worries and fears in John's head exploded. Like a Dam that just burst open. He was unable to control it. The creature walks up towards him with each step; the air around him feels thinker and thicker until he feels like he's on top of a mountain. He feels the heat coming from the creatures' deformed nostrils.

It began to shake his head in a rapid motion until it suddenly stopped. It opens its mouth to reveal his sharp dagger-like teeth, with flesh and goo dripping down its mouth. His jaw slowly starts crackling. Bones-breaking fills the empty forest with continuous cracks. He then stands in both legs to reveal his jaw to be 2 feet long.

The creature then screams so loud that the whole forest and its animals hear it. John and his clone drop down to their knees. Unable to move, he covers his ears from the loud screech of the monster. Then John and his clone then began to scream, trying to drown out the creature's high pitch, but it was to no avail. As John cannot move, he feels his arms getting weak and begins to see two of the terrifying monster. His screaming continues for what feels like an eternity. Finally John able to get up, quickly falls back down in pain. He looked at the creature as it then stops.

As all the clones lie there, helpless to do anything, the monster's jaws break back into places as he gets on top of the three armed clones. Then, as the purplish slimly drops from its mouth, it begins to eat at the clone as his arm gets reaped apart. "I got to get out of here, or I'm going to die," John says to himself as he slowly gets up. When he finally gets on his feet, John begins to feel like he is carrying a mountain on his back; unable to take a step, John stands there motionless.

Unable to move, the clone yells in pain as the monster slowly makes his way down to his bones. The closer he begins to get to his bone, the louder the clone begins to scream. Finally, as the creature reached his bone, the monster then began to eat throughout his arm. As John looks straight ahead of him, he makes a motion of running with his hands to his six-finger clone.

Both of their bodies began to grow bigger until there seven feet tall. Then, their body begins to feel lighter as John signals to Six that they will split up as he put up three fingers, two, one, and zero, as they both launch into different directions. Before John knows, he feels the creature's heat down his body as he peers over his shoulder to see the monster's teeth inching towards his neck.