"Shittttttt!!!!! I wasn't prepared for this!!!" Natsu thought as he entered into the swamp.
As he was heading towards the Moltopus, Natsu thought, "How in the world would I fight something I can't see"
"How would I know if it's far or close to me, or when it's throwing brutal attacks to me, or when it lunches deadly attacks"
Suddenly Natsu felt something hit him as the Moltopus used one of its tentacles to do so.
Although the tentacles was pushing Natsu away, unfortunately for him, the rope still continued pulling him causing the force to intensify, making Natsu to be in more pain as he slides on the tentacles, and continued heading towards the edges of the rope.
"How in the world I'm I going to fight this thing!!!" Natsu screamed in his head.
"Damn it, I'm in serious pains, plus I don't think I'll last here for long, because I'm almost out of breath"
"I wasn't prepared for this, and the worst part was that I didn't hold my breath well enough, so I'm already suffocating, which means I'll soon die if I don't breathe" Natsu thought as he continued heading towards the Moltopus, while sliding on its tentacles.
The Moltopus felt something moving on its tentacles, so it used another of its tentacles to hit Natsu, which looked like it was clapping but with Natsu in-between.
"Shit, this hurts! But no matter what, I can't cough or open my mouth. If I do, I'll swallow this mud, which would make it more hard to breathe"
"Although I won't lie, I feel like exploding right about now" Natsu thought as the Moltopus clapped him.
The worst part of all this was that, Natsu continued moving even when it clapped him.
"Damn, I feel as if I'm been torn apart, what now!" Natsu thought in a sober tone.
The Moltopus opened its tentacles and noticed that Natsu continued moving.
Natsu finally got to the original length of the rope, which made him to stop.
"I've stopped moving, does this mean that the rope is back to it's original size" Natsu thought.
"This is great! But there's a problem, how in the world would I fight something I can't see" Natsu thought as he became excited and later became depressed again by the situation.
Natsu didn't know what to do since all his senses won't function in this situation, which means that he was in a total disadvantage.
"I can't see, feel or hear. I can't even breathe! Plus, it's hard to move in this swamp. The only way of surviving is if I go to the surface, but how?" Natsu thought.
While he was thinking, the Moltopus got close to him and then hit him sidewards.
It grabbed on to him and threw him downwards as it then went around him and hit him away using its tentacles.
As it was throwing Natsu around, Natsu brought his blade closer to himself, as he was wrapping the rope around his waist side, while pulling his blade.
The Moltopus noticed Natsu movement as it then held both sides of the rope in one tentacle, as it dived down and threw Natsu towards the bottom as it pulled Natsu towards itself and punched him using his tentacles.
As the Moltopus pulled Natsu and punched him, Natsu didn't move as he looked lifeless, and as he was just staying put in a lying down position, he began to think, "This hurts, it hurts so bad, I feel like I'm about to blow up from the inside out. Plus, I'm already out of breath, what should I do now?"
The Moltopus then circled around him and swallowed him.
As it swallowed him, Natsu rolled on its tongue and entered into his throat.
As he was entering into its throat, he stabbed its throat to stop his fall as he coughed out blood and then took a deep breath in.
But unlucky for Natsu, as he stabbed its throat, the Moltopus opened its mouth as more mud entered into it, and swallowed him.
As the mud entered into its mouth, Natsu pulled out his blade as he then entered deeper into his throat.
He took a deep breath as he loosed the rope from his waist and threw both sides of the rope towards its throat as the blades stabbed its throat.
Natsu held tight to the rope as the mud poured on him and tried pushing him into its throat.
Once the whole mud has gone through its throat, the Moltopus still felt discomfort and swallowed another batch of mud which didn't still push Natsu into its throat.
The Moltopus became uncomfortable so it swimmed to the top of the swamp and went towards the ground and began to cough.
It continued coughing and then tried to vomit.
As Natsu was inside, he felt the flow of air trying to push him out, but still decided to hold tight to the rope.
When Natsu noticed something was coming up, he opened his eyes and saw a black kind of liquid heading towards him, so he rotated himself which pulled out the rope as he faced upward, which made the liquid bring him out.
The Moltopus vomited Natsu and still continued coughing since it still felt discomfort in its throat.
When Natsu came out, he rolled on the ground as the blackish liquid covered him.
He tried standing up but fell as he thought, "My body hurts, but if I don't stand up I'll die"
As he was thinking, he mustered the strength to get on his feet, as he took a deep breath in and began to breathe heavily.
He turned and saw the Moltopus coughing so he began to run pass it.
He went in a sidewards direction, which means he didn't run towards the Moltopus or away from it but sidewards.
As he was running he saw a very large tree so he decided to climb it.
Natsu ran towards the tree and looked up, as he brought out his knife and began to stab the tree trying to climb it, since the tree had branches only at its top.
As Natsu climbed the tree and got to the top of it, he could see a large area of the forest, but the sight wasn't pleasant as he thought, "This forest is way too dark and scary, plus it's too dangerous, I don't think that the examiners would be this cruel to let us go through this, which can only mean one thing"
"I'm no longer in the examination centre! So does that mean that I have to go over the waterfall if I want to go to the examination centre, but how would I reach the top of the waterfall?" he wondered.
Natsu then saw another tree as tall as the one he was on, but the only problem was that he would have to go pass the Moltopus to get to the other tree.
"This is going to be a problem, how in the world would I get to the other tree without fighting that beast" Natsu thought.
"Well there's no time to think of it, I should just start going" Natsu said as he stabbed the tree with his blade and shouted "Stretch" as he jumped down and started jumping from trees to trees, heading to the other tall tree he saw.
He didn't purely go straight since he was trying to avoid the Moltopus, and when he finally reached the other tree, he tried climbing it.
Natsu knew that it was going to be hard to climb the tree with one knife, so he went to the side of the tree and wrapped the rope around himself and the tree, as he used the rope to support himself and climb it.
Once he reached the top, he sat on a branch and stabbed the tree, he then said "Return" which made the rope to break some branches and formed a straight line in the air.
"Harden" Natsu said as he began climbing the rope to get to the middle, and once he thought he arrived, he then said, "Elongate" which made the rope to drop him slowly to the ground.
Once Natsu got to the ground he said "Stretch" as he began to run through the forest, not long after he noticed that it was hard for it to move, so he faced the waterfall and held the rope as he shouted, "ROS" and jumped which made the rope to shoot him into the air.
Natsu had already broken all the things that was going to obstruct him from flying smoothly into the air.
Natsu flew so fast that as the rope pulled out from the tree, it caused it to break.
He was very high up in the air, so he could see the forest beside the waterfall.
He saw dust in different parts of the forest.
"I knew it, there's no way they could put that kind of place for contestants to fight" Natsu thought.
Natsu then threw his blade towards the place as he shouted, "Stretch" but surprisingly the blade stopped on the air as he saw a crack.
"There's a force field" Natsu said as he thought, "That won't stop me! ROS!!!" Natsu shouted as he flew towards the force field and broke it.
Natsu kicked the blade inside, and due to the force of his impact, he broke the force field entering into the forest.
As Natsu entered, he began throwing his blades and swung on the trees.
"Something just broke into our force field" a man on uniform said.
A woman with pink long hair, nice body structure and wore a purple gown that hogged her body then said "Keep an eye on everything! If anything suspicious happens, let me know immediately. And make sure the field is fully covered and operational, got it!"
"Yes sir" the man on uniform said.
Meanwhile
Natsu was moving very fast as he swung through the trees. He then saw a giant monkey beast that looked exactly like the ones he fought when they were in stage 1 of the exam.
"I see, so all those beast we fought are under them, well I don't have much time, I have to defeat this beast and bring it back to the exit before I fail this exam" Natsu thought.
The beast was swinging from branches to branches but Natsu was at its back. He then said "S" as he threw both of his blades to different trees and shouted, "ROS!!!" Making him fly towards the monkey kicking it at its back, throwing it towards the ground.
The monkey crashed into the ground and then raised its head up to see what hit it.
But as Natsu hit it, he threw his blade to another tree and swung away from its sight.
The beast saw a shadow like object pass through the trees as it moved back a little because of fear.