It was a grey wasteland as far as the eye could see, a lifeless desert of ash with the occasional rock of black metals and rotten dead trees. A black dim sun, or moon no one could tell, glided over the empty and desolate space, giving off no heat.

Every living thing here abided by the survival of the fittest. Kill or be killed and all that you know. But despite the harshness of this realm, trudging along was a small boy aimlessly going along. He had pale skin with lots of scratches, bruises and dried blood. dark shoulder-length hair that was messy and unkempt. Grey eyes that seemed lifeless and dead. A short, skinny build, in fact, he was so skinny he looked like he was a starving. Brown rags with a hood that was torn and dirty. But the most disturbing thing about this child was the dark stumpy horns on his head, looking closer you would also notice a dark short furry tail on his behind and the strange markings that could be seen through where the rags were torn.

The child kept walking along seemingly nowhere, for what felt like forever across the scenery that never changed, until finally, he reached what looked to be his goal. It was a cave entrance cut out of the black rock that was about 8ft tall and 12ft wide in an oval shape opening into a big cavern. There were loads of unidentifiable beast skulls on the walls with torches in between glowing a deep red. The scene would be deeply disturbing to a regular person. In the middle of the open carven was a grand bonfire with a strange erenoumuspiec of meat grilling over it, giving off a peculiar smell. But by far the scariest site in the room was the humongous humanoid beast at the back of the room, sleeping on a makeshift bed made out of some sort of hide. He had simple features, a hairless head, plain red skin, 8ft tall, built like a truck, wearing nothing but a loincloth and strange markings in blue, similar to the boy's, that went all over his body including his face and bald head, unlike the boys.

The boy analysed the room quickly, checking it over before making his move. when he stopped looking around and then closed his eyes like he was concentrating trying to remember something. Opening his eyes after a few seconds a strange spark appeared next to him which then grew into a grey wisp of low flame. It floated around happily imitating a small child playing, almost sentiently. Creepy.

Next, the boy put his damaged right hand out like he was trying to grab something not there. But suddenly one of the markings on his right wrist glowed a grey the same as the wisp. The marking had five letters in an unreadable language, shaped into an upside-down pentagon, with the middle of the pentagon having a letter bigger than the rest. Then at the same time as the marking glowed a hatchet started to form in the child's hand. Its handle was covered in black straps all the way up to the head which was a mid-grey with a dark brown decorating the blade in more of the same language in a beautiful pattern. The poll had a short point protruding out in a diamond shape, while the bit was standard but looked incredibly sharp, as though it could slice through bone like butter.

With the weapon in hand the boy walked cautiously over to the giant, going around the fire trying to stay in the shadows trying to be stealthy and kill it easily, you know min effort maxreward.

He readied himself just 5 meters off the beast knowing they have danger sensing skills allowing them to protect themselves from sneak attacks, just like he was about to do. Inhaling deeply, he dashed forward trying to cover the distance as quickly as possible, setting up his wide swing for the exposed neck. He made the 5m in less than a second but apparently, that wasn't quick enough as the giant put his arm to protect his neck. The attack barely pierced his skin creating a shallow cut. Pulling his weapon out quickly the boy pushed himself off the giant, landing on the wall before launching himself off the wall to go on the attack again. This time he hacked at the beast in an X pattern over and over again not allowing the giant a second to breathe. In response, the giant put his arms up in an x blocking the blows and protecting his chest while slowly backing up under the constant attack, as more cuts appeared on his arms. This continued until the boy had pushed the beast into the wall. Creating an opening as the beast stumbled back and put out his arms to balance himself, leaving his neck exposed again. Taking the opportunity the boy slashed almost getting it before one of the giant marks on his palm glowed creating a 5ft club that was a brown changing into a deep red up to the round top.

The new weapons interrupted the blow deflecting the attack, not even leaving a mark in it while throwing the boy back a couple paces.

The boy was then forced onto the defensive as the beast swung from over his head to where the boy just was, only dodging it by centimetres. The attack left a small crater in the ground. This time the giant was the one not giving the boy any time to think as he continuously swung from left to right and right to left, while the boy was doing everything he could to dodge and survive. Finally, the giant swung true as the boy didn't make the dodge and was smashed in the left creating a sickening crunch that left his arm bent in a way it definitely shouldn't be. The blow knocked the boy out of the cave through the entrance, landing in the ash outside. Not giving him any time to recover the giant leapt out following him like a predator chasing his prey.

He followed up with another overhead, but this time another one of his marks going down his left and right arms connecting at his back glowed. After he seemed to get buffer and the mark was glowing as his club came down on the dazed boy.

But suddenly, the strange wisp that had been following the boy around got in between them and as soon as the club made contact with it the giant froze in the motion.

Looking up the boy realised what happened, and not wanting to let the chance go to waste, got up codling his left arm, and biting down on his tongue in pain.

He looked at the giant unsympathetically, with those dead grey eyes of his, as he brought down the axe on his neck in one clean motion leaving a mere stump.

The giant unfroze at the same time and died with a confused expression of what the fuck just happened, as his head rolled on the ground before stopping with his face in the ash.

The boy then headed inside the cave to go eat the meat that was grilling because he felt a little peckish after a good killing. Like most people, I think.

As he went to go take the fruits of his labour he suddenly had a bad feeling. He couldn't put his finger on it but something was off. He looked away fromh his well deserved food behind him as a club came down on him. He nor the wisp reacted in time.

It seems the parent of the child he fought came back after hunting.

Then everything went black, or white, he couldn't tell. He felt like he was sinking? Pulling? The child didn't know what was happening, but wasn't particularly sad. He couldn't feel his body, senses or soul. Very numb.

They only thought he had was well nothing, he didn't really care.

Suddenly the sinking feeling got stronger, then it changed into a strong tugging, then it felt like he was being ripped away by a typhoon. Then he felt like he was getting ripped apart like every atom of his being was pulled apart individually. It was the most pain he ever felt in his life, it felt like it lasted forever until it stopped.

After the storm of sensations he saw two eyes in front of him. Well he assumed they were eyes but they were two flames of pitch-black, he had seen creatures with eyes like that so maybe. Also if they were pitch black how could he see them on the. Oh yeah, I couldn't really tell what the colour of anything here was.

And they just looked at him, boring into him endlessly before he heard a sigh?

Then it was back to nothingness.

This was pretty boring he thought to himself, until it wasn't as after an unknowable amount of time his sense came back to him, everything tuning itself before coming into focus and then he saw some very forgnier things.

"Where the actual fuck am I!"