Inside the cave the child was sitting on the ground being surrounded by the unconscious bodies of the prey.
He sat still and stared blankly on the ground.
Too much had happened in the short span of time.
By now, he was thoroughly exhausted. His eyes were lifeless, mouth was hurting from all that screaming, his throat was too dry even swallowing saliva felt like swallowing thorns.
He just sat there motionlessly, hoping and waiting for this nightmare to end.
But severe exhaustion had numbed his senses, even he himself didn't knew what was he feeling or what was happening.
Stomach ache pulled him out from his fatigued motionlessness. He just realized that he was hungry. He didn't even had had the strength to stand up.
He then noticed the body of the prey near him. Its body was tore open by the other preys during the fight, its insides were gushing out from the body, black shaded blood was still flowing out from its body.
The boy started drooling unconsciously. He started crawling its way towards the dead body. supporting his body with his hands and his legs, slowly he proceeded towards it as if he was being attracted towards it.
When he reached near it, he came back to his senses and jerked open his eyes in realization. He was frightened with his coarse of action. Anxiously, he looked at his palms and his feets, which were wet from the blood.
He sat on that blooded ground, near the corpse. Contemplating whether he should eat it or not. Even if he was having an avertible feeling, he was too hungry to think straight.
For a long time, he just sat there motionlessly, staring at the ceiling of the basement, trying to hold back the hunger and his tears.
But soon, he felt the ground shaking. Tremors were reaching the basement. Sounds of explosions were heard like thunder.
Child remember hearing such sound from when the body of child fox exploded in front of him.
This realization made his heart skip a beat. His body shivered just by imagining it.
The tempo of explosions was increasing. Ceiling of the basement was also falling apart with each tremor.
Child was puzzled and was baffled with this sudden change in scenario.
He looked around him franticly, hoping to find an escape route. He crawled towards the place where the two guard ants stood.
Just when he reached the entrance, the air pressure over his body tremendously increased thus, pinning his whole body down on the ground. There was a sweet fragrance in the air now, which were followed by the gust of wind. But it didn't last too long.
The child was again clueless as for what was happening, but his this question was answered soon.
He got a glimpse of a huge flying majestic ant with a crown. It was lightening fast.
But it left a trail of fragrance on the path it followed.
Child was left mesmerized by the beauty of that creature, and was revitalized just by inhaling that sweet and soothing fragrance.
He tried following after it, but it vanished in front of his eyes. He still followed after the trail of the fragrance. But he felt sharp pain in his left arm and stopped following after it. He just noticed it bleeding. He remember the prey trying to rip off his left arm, when he first came out of his sleep inside the cave. That pain was not easy for a three-year old to handle.
He again heard the exploding sounds and felt tremors underneath his feets. He again looked at the trail, bit his tongue to cope up with the pain and followed after it.
If not for the fragrance, he would have been lost forever inside the cave, the path to outside was that confusing. The child knew that fact and he was delighted inside.
He was also feeling proud inside being guided by the ANT-QUEEN itself. He happily ran towards the cave's exit. He could see the moonlight coming inside the cave. Now he was following the moon's guidance. He ran towards the exit as someone was following him, he ran at his best speed. But he didn't feel fatigue due to the fragrance effects. Unconsciously ignoring all the rumbling and exploding noises he came out of the cave. His eyes were not adjusted to the outside light. He rubbed his eyes and looked in front of him.
The scene in front of him made him loose all his strength, and he fell on his knees. His eyes lost all his hopes for escaping the cave now, and his mouth was left open.
He saw Five to Six hundreds of ANT-like creatures were standing in front of him in formations. Ground was converted into pond filled with Black-blood of ants. Few body parts of the creatures, like mandibles arms and legs were scattered on the ground here and there, but only pieces could be seen.
He then noticed the ANT-QUEEN flying imposingly over its ARMY.
The child was left horror struck and panicked. He was gasping for the air because the atmosphere of that battleground was too tense for him to handle.