The sun hung high above the head, the climate was so dry that the skin aches. In this never ending desert, a person can be seen walking forward, slowly, taking staggering steps.
Akhil was at a loss. At first He had no idea what was happening. He just wanted to help the poor kitten. But out of nowhere he was thrown into this damn desert. He checked his phone to call someone, only to find out there was no signal on his phone. He just stood there with a horrified face, lamenting upon his stupidly rotten luck. But after standing there for over 2 hours, he understood that nothing was coming for his rescue. So he moved forward with a resolve building up, to find out what was happening.
Back to the present.
*Gulp! Gulp! Gulp! Ahh~!*
" haaa…. There goes the last bit of water." said Akhil, looking at the now empty bottle in his hand.
"Now what do I do? The water's finished, how will I survive." he muttered in despair.
Rumble….. Rumble…..
Now his stomach was rumbling too. He doesn't have any food with him. So there's no way he can appease his hunger right now.
In that moment he saw the sand at a distance from his moving. "what's that?"
Upon closer look he found out that the sand was separating, paving a path for something to crawl out of there.
Suddenly, something crawled out from there. It looked like a centipede. But unlike normal centipedes you see everywhere, this one was huge. So huge that it reached the height of more than 10 feets.
Seeing this creature, Akhil's mouth hung open, stunned.
"wh-WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!?" he yelled, unable to remain calm.
In response to his question, the centipede opened its 'mouth' and showed its hundreds of teeth. It dashed towards Akhil making a bizarre creepy sound.
'Ohh shitt!!' Akhil tried to run, seeing that creature coming towards him at a very inhuman speed.
But he failed miserably. The sand made it hard to run. Coupled with his over sized body, made him fall face first on the ground.
He hurriedly tried to get up, but saw the centipede was already in front of him. He brought both of his hands to shield himself, but to no avail. The centipede head butted him so hard that he flew away and landed at a few metres distance.
"AHHH!!!" he never felt so much pain in his entire life, it looks like a couple of his bones were broken.
But the centipede was not finished yet, it crawled to him and caught his left hand in its mouth. It picked him up by his hand and started shaking him like a rag doll. Akhil's entire world was spinning, and an unimaginable pain started building up on the left side of his shoulder.
The centipede threw him again causing him to fly out and land in the distance. His condition was horrible. He was looking baldly hurt. His eyes were hazzy, his left hand immobile and he didn't have any strength to lift up his body. Blood was leaking out of his left shoulder and deep teeth marks were imprinted there.
He just resigned and waited for the inevitable to happen.
But at that moment something caught his eyes. Besides his right hand, a pitch black rod suddenly appeared. He had no idea what was happening, but looking at this rod by his side, an unknown resolve filled him up. He took this rod and somehow pointed it to the centipede, which was already opening its mouth to devour him completely this time.
He never learned any fighting techniques and the body was not even in shape to put up a fight. So he just pointed the rod at the centipede and waited for something to happen.
Miraculously, as the centipede rushed towards him, the rod lengthened itself and pierced the head of the upcoming centipede.
The centipede was killed at an instant.
Akhil was shocked by the development and stared dumbly at the rod in his hand.
"bruh..…"
Akhil somehow managed to pull up his beaten body. And looked at the fallen centipede.
Then something happened, the body of the centipede started to disappear. Leaving a strange ball of light floating on the spot.
He was shocked. But that shock disappeared in an instant. With so much shit happening today, this was nothing.
He curiously moved his hand touching the ball. The ball reacted and suddenly entered his body.
"Whoa!?"
As soon as the ball entered his body, all the pain started to disappear. All of his wounds began to heal. And his hunger and thirst disappeared like it was never there.
Akhil dumbfounded again. " what the hell….."
He suddenly felt rejuvenated. Better than any time he has been, making him elated.
But he couldn't enjoy the moment for long. He noticed the sand moving from four different places altogether. And in an instant four more giant centipedes crawled out from there.
" Ohh shit….."