Chapter 2: first taste of adventure

No way how is this possible? I ask myself, at first i was thinking i was summoned to a different world like most of the fantasy novel I've read so far, but looking in front of me i can tell that this is still earth, just very different from what i can remember.

Just yesterday morning i was enjoying my coffee and some freshly baked pandesal (local bread) along with some scrambled egg for breakfast, just yesterday the only problem i have is how long i have to wait before the next issue of the novel i'm reading will be released.. And now...

As i scan the new world in front of me, i was thinking maybe, is this somehow still earth? It look very different but there's also similarity like those things in front of me.

Coz in the far distance i can vaguely see of what looks like a commercial building, although it looks abandoned for who know how long, like the city has been swallowed up by nature,

and although there quite a distance between me and the abandoned city, but bcoz its still quite dark and can only see the silhouette of the buildings but for some reason i know it's been abandoned.

through the help of the moonlight i earnestly scanned the horizon for any sign of human presence, i was hoping i can spot some campfire somewhere in the forest or in the far distance abandoned city, i can't tell what city it was coz of the distance and it's still somewhat dark, but i can tell or more accurately my instinct is telling me that it's a city from my earth, for some reason i have no doubt about it.

I stayed in that position while scanning the area for a long time until finally i decided to wait for day break before i ventured forth into the forest.

There's a huge forest separating me and the old city, and i think i need to prepare for a long and bone breaking task ahead of me,

so i went back to my room to check my closet for any clothes i can still use and put them all in my backpack i also sweep across my room for any things i can use, was hoping i can find a lighter, and even though i don't smoke i vaguely remember of having a lighter somewhere here.

And in the study table's drawer and sure enough. I found it, i test it and to my delight it's still working, i also found my swiss knife and some other things like cutter and some duct tape after putting everything i was able to salvage in my backpack, there's also the baseball bat I've bought for no apparent reason in the right corner of my room after picking the bat, i sit on the corner of my room thinking and planning of what to do next when i leave this place...

Minutes pass and it feels like hours has gone by, without any working clock its very hard to tell just how long I've been sitting and waiting, my mind is looking for any logical explanation to all this things but just can't find any answer, just how long am i can survive in this new world?

I got no food, i have no water just what i'm i going to do? i ask myself.

I kept looking around my room looking for thing to ease my mind as the same time to try divert my mind to all this depressing thoughts, and just like that i fell asleep, probably bcoz my mind is tired of all the things happening one after another...

Thug! I snap awake and realize the bat I'm holding fell over, i adjusting my eyes to the bright light that's coming from the window, so its morning already? i stood up stretching my body and slowly walking to the door opening it slowly then confirming that there nothing outside the hallway i walk directly to the stairs leading outside.

As soon as walk outside i was once again dumbfounded of the view in front of me, if last night view is already unbelievable now even more so, trees bigger the the buildings birds that look like dragons flying in the distant forest,

And so much forest as far as my eyes can see, i saw animals in the distance I've never seen before, is this rally earth? but those building in the distance is clearly building from earth, no doubt about it, but but how was all this come to be? I'm i somehow been teleported into future? coz other than that i saw no other explanation...

No i i hope not. Im not the last human on earth right? Hahhaha that's crazy there's no way that's possible,,,, r..right? I ask myself.

What rotten luck. Did i do some bad things in my previous life or something? And now i'm being punished of it now, darn it!!

Finally done pitying myself and after thinking of all the worst case scenario, i finally went back to reality.

Ssiiigggghhhh after taking a very long and deep sigh, i finally convince myself to find the truth..

Who knows maybe in this new world i can finally meet the girl of my dreams a very pretty elven girl, hahaha thats right this is a fantasy world where every bookworm who love fantasy genre can only dream about, but here am i living in that very dream right now, so whats there to be depressed about, hahaha i gave a hearty laugh patting my chest and who knows maybe there's magic in this world after all i can clearly saw some dragon like creature flying in the distance, if there's dragon there's definitely a magic trying to convince myself, and the same time cheering myself up.

Grrrrrrrrr darn I'm hungry i haven't eaten anything since yesterday, ok i need to write all the things i need to do in order, the most important first...

First... food and drinks.

Second... find the pretty elves.

Third... learn magic.

Fourth ... Look for human survivor like me or any human settlement.

Fifth... Do not die.

You may be asking why looking for pretty elves is more important than my survival?

Well its simple i'm weak and there's loooots of monster here so if I'm going to die anyways i might as well see some pretty elves first before i die right?... I'm so smart, darn it patting myself on the chest cough cough.. Ahem well anyways for now that's my priority, ill add more later as i go along.

Alright time to go........ Hmmmmmm????

Darn how do i get down from here?

If you're wondering why I'm asking that question is because i was on top of some stiff rocky mountain from some stupid reason my apartment is in the top of this all rock mountain,

darn it.

going down from here is going to be a pain in the ass, well no pain no gain, as they say.

and so i started the bone breaking, and positively lethal trek down the mountain, at first it's quite hard i have to double check, triple check all the foothold and making sure my feet is super secure before going to the next foothold,

luckily there's plenty to use as foot hold and plenty of protruding rock to firmly hold into, and b'coz i was an indoor type of person i have 100% no experience when it come to mountain climbing so my descent down the mountain in really slow, and although the mountain is tall most of it you can walk down so the actual mountain climbing is relatively short for a professional climber ill probably only take him a few mins of so, and as for me who has no experience whatsoever it took me an hour or so to finish my way down....

Going down the rest of the mountain is quite easy and on the way down the mountain I've found some berries that i think is safe to eat, well it look exactly like berries except the taste is a little salty, which i enjoy just the same of course, i would have prefer a sweet berries but for a hungry man, taste is a luxury, as long as it's not poisonous i'll eat it,

eating the berries relieves some of my hunger of-course I'm still hungry but at least my stomach has stop growling, unlike before that every ten second or so it hear it growling, and it just add to the hunger i felt, as i was going down the mountain on the way to the forest i saw a very familiar tree that brings big smile on my face... Is that what i think it is? As soon as that question ring into my mind i was already running toward it...

Ohhhh nice hahaha what luck i stood in front of the tree that will help me greatly resolve my number One priority, food and drinks, i stood in front of the tree we call coconut tree, and looking up i saw a dozen or so fruits in it, now how can i get those fruits to the ground?

luckily this coconut tree is not very tall in fact it's quite short, back home i've seen a coconut tree as tall as 3 story building but this particular tree is only one story tall, so even though i'm not what you call athletic person but for coconut tree this short, it'll be no problem, i think.

Hahaha yeah no problem! I assure myself, and besides when i was a kid i use to climb a coconut tree for fun.....

What you think i'm lying?

Hahaha of-course its a lie why would i climbed tree for fun when there's plenty of things to do like playing computer games and ah..... Hmmm play computer games?.... Hahaha

Sigh yeah i admit it all i do is play computer games when i was a kid but who doesn't right?

I think most of the kids my generation are addicted to computer games is that wrong? Maybe but do i regret it? Hell no! i enjoyed it why would i regret something i enjoy.

Well anyways back to the coconut tree, nothing will happen if i only keep on staring at it! Well here goes nothing! I said to myself, to my surprise i got the coconut fruit quite easy climbing the tree getting the fruit and going down only takes a minute or two, no effort at all in fact it take much longer to open the fruit.

but after some bashing and a lot of cursing, i finally succeeded, whew finally, hmmm the coconut juice taste a little different than i remember, hmmm i didn't remember it being this sweet. Well i still enjoyed the juice nevertheless. Time to move on.

After collecting several bottle of coconut juice in the empty plastic bottle of water that littered my room i proceed to continue my way to the forest and into the abandoned city, i refuse to believe that i was the only human left in this world.

Finally after several hours of walking and admiring the scenery i finally arrive at the edge of the forest but i didn't go in right away.

why?

Well the forest looks old very old and menacing and although i didn't saw any monster or scary animal just the aura of the forest alone is enough to send all my body hairs tingling, so i stand there contemplating on whether i proceed or not.

Darn it I've come all the way here why am i hesitating, i said to myself, so i took some deep breath and went inside the ominous forest, there's better not be any monster in here please!

I said it like a pleading prayer..

the inside of the forest is quite dark b'coz of the towering trees that blocked the sunlight and only a handful of sunlight manage to pierce inside the forest and that makes it both beautiful and scary at the same time..