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Chapter 2 - Unknown Place

Sain finds himself in probably , a cave . It was too dark to see anything , though he could vaguely see bones and skeletons lying around him . His heart was beating so fast that he was not able to comprehend his surrounding area . Soon he sensed a group of creatures approaching , whose eyes were glowing red in color . He was scared to death , he looked around , only to find that the other side was a dead end . In desperation he grabbed something , which he realized were horns . For a split second Sain felt an extremely strong force enveloping his body and saw a terrifying impression . He was shocked for an instant but not a moment to spare , he used the same horns to pierce the wall and reach above the ground level , saving himself from those creatures . However some of them jumped up and managed to tear off some flesh from the back of his leg , injuring his leg . Screaming in pain was okay , but letting go of his hold on the horns would have cost him his life . He noticed a crevasse like opening above the cave. Hoping for escape he climbed the wall using the bones . Provided his slim body , using horns as support and with great difficulty he was able to reach the surface .

Sain was quite injured while climbing and the horns he held seemed weird , especially their sharpness which was able to easily pierce through rocks , however he was thankful to them . Looking around , the spooky landscape gave him chills . Suddenly he noticed a zombie like creature with big nails staring at him . She looked like a corpse of a dead woman with excessive body hair .The closer she came the stronger stench of decay became . The guy didn't even dare to move while she slowly approached him . Terrified , he hid the horns behind him and stared at her. She came close to Sain and started smelling him , she looked at him with wonder . Out of the blue she groped him , she was strong , he couldn't resist .

Thereafter more of them appeared and she turned towards them , seemingly guarding him . The newcomers started screaming at the one standing before him and she screamed in return . After few moments of their chattering , the strongest looking one from the group came forward and threatened her . It seemed as if the latter agreed to whatever they were saying. Now all of them together came near Sain and started smelling him . The poor guy unable to believe things stood there , frozen at the end of his wits with a disgusted face from their unbearable smell .

His mind went completely blank , neither did he knew what to do nor did he dare to move . After smelling him for sometime they started looking at each other and chattered . The horns he was holding slipped out of his and fell down into the crevasse . The sound stopped their chattering , they grabbed and surrounded him . Being helpless before their strength , tears flowed from the boy's eyes .They started tearing off his clothes , exposing his body and in the process scratched him all over with their long and sharp nails. The boy now started screaming and resisting desperately . The strongest one stood in front and made sounds which terrified him to the depths of his core . She toyed with him , together with her companions . Sain struggled like a mad guy trying to scream his lungs out . His body was hurting all over .

A few moments later , the male counterparts of those zombie looking creatures arrived , prompting some of the females to let go of him . However , the strongest one and some others were still going at it . A fight started between the females and the males trying to stop them . The boy was finally free from their clutches , but he noticed some of the male ones approaching him . He could sense their bloodlust and murderous intent so he made a run for his life . Despite being severely injured he ran as fast as he could , the creatures chasing after him . Obviously they were faster than him and were closing the gap pretty fast . While taking a blind turn Sain saw some big rocks and hid behind them .

He started thinking of a way to escape . There's no way he could outrun those creatures in the condition he was in . Furthermore , he had no idea about the landscape and there might have been more of those creatures , whom he might run into . Despair started binding him , he was not being able to figure out a way escape the lingering danger . He started looking around , the only light of hope seemed to be the steep mountain , whose top wasn't even visible . He deduced it impossible for those long nailed apes to climb up the rocky mountain . Although Sain had done some mountain climbing while living in a mountain area in his childhood , he doubted his physical condition and ability as of current to climb the mountain . However he had no choice , so he decided and resolved himself .

He started climbing the mountain . Despite being rocky , making grip and foothold on rough and irregular surface was possible . After hearing some noise he took a look downwards , the stinking creatures had arrived . Just as he had assumed they were incapable of climbing and a smile full of joy appeared on his face . His happiness was short-lived and turned into anguish when they started throwing stones at him . Sain struggled to hold his grip , but somehow managed to reach up to a point where the stones couldn't reach him anymore . His body was hurting and bleeding all over , additionally sweat from his body entered his wounds to give him unbearable pain He couldn't think of anything else but to keep climbing , no matter how much it hurts .

After several hours of climbing his hands and legs were numb , refusing to move an inch . He wanted to give up , he wanted to let go and fall down . He was completely exhausted and his consciousness faded away as he closed his eyes . Frightened that he would fall down , he opened his eyes . He saw surface in darkness of night , ground covered with snow and snow flakes falling like flowers . Unable to move , he slept on the spot.