“Huhuhuhhhuh!”

Squaaaarrrgh!

Chschkchschkchschk!

Whunp!

Thud!

Squarrrgggghh!

“Leave me alone already!” I shout back at the Velociraptor menacingly chasing me,

Whunp!

“Agghhh!”

This is the tenth time a god forsaken tree branch has gotten in my way

Almost like then forest is working in the creature’s favor branches and roots seem to be just perfectly whacking me in the face or tripping me over as soon as I gain significant distance away from the predator,

(Shit! I don’t even have any weapons on me!)

“huhhuuhuh!”

Thwap!

Thump!

I trip over another well-placed root once more

(I should have just went up then river or the mountains at least)

“Squuuaaaarrrghh!” the feathery creature cries out mockingly at me

Picking myself up I restart my sprint.

The trees sway eagerly to the dinosaur’s bellows

It makes me feel like they are mocking me as well

…..

“huhuhuhuhuhuhuh!”

(Think,

Think,

Think,

How do I escape this beast?

Should I escape?

I could just let it slaughter me—

—No, what am I thinking right now!?

Focus!)

Whunp!

“Uhngh!”

A branch knocks me in the stomach

Not letting it slow me down, I clench my stomach pushing forward, still deep in thought…

…..

(Wait, what is this I feel, magic?

I can feel it from this entire forest, it feels similar to being on the third ring, Gaia,

Back then I didn’t know how to use it,

But that was because I didn’t have an attribute, the magic theory there requires one to have an attribute in order the magic within their body,

But from the memories I got from Danté, the have a much broader understanding of magic here,

Even though the people here see magic by itself as a waste of time, it has been experimented and confirmed that one could draw magic from nature itself rather relying on their own attribute…)

“Huuuuuuhhhh” I breathe in bringing myself to a halt

(How do I go about this?)

Waving my arms in the air similar to how Lyra would act when she prepared a spell, I attempt to cast something

(Not sure what that something is)

Nothing happens.

Squaaaghhhh!

The Velociraptor menacingly approaches me,

(Come on, feel the magic,)

Sticking my hands into the soil below I—

Frrrrrrrgggggggmmmm!

The soil rumbles about like a carpet me shook,

(I did something!)

Squaaaghhhh!

The dinosaur easily leaps over dirt it’s eyes glowing bright yellow now,

Sqquuuaaaagggggghh!

Bwooooofff!

(Oh, shit)

The beast begins to roar a stream of fire in my direction

(It can use magic too?)

“Huwah!” raising my hands up the dirt rises up as well forming a pseudo wall in front of me meanwhile the dirt I stand on, pushes me up into the tree above..

(New plan, stay above ground,)

…….

“Huwahh!”

I leap to a neighboring tree and then to another and another,

I can still hear the raptor’s feet trailing behind

(I swear why can’t it just leave me alone!)

Sqquuua—

Eck!

Thum.

No sooner had I thought that, the creature’s cries abruptly stop,

I hear the sound of it’s body slumping to the ground

(What was that?)

“This is a Velociraptor, isn’t it?” a indistinguishable voice comes from below

“Yes, I don’t know how it made it all the way here, hunting I have to guess,”

(People, at least two)

“We should hurry to snakeway, to investigate the ship the trees said shot up by the inverse waterfall,” the first voice says

“There maybe people from Tellus roaming around the area as we speak,” the second voice agrees in a somewhat excited tone

(They’re talking about the holy diver, but the trees told them?)

Schh..

The leaves of the tree I’m in shake slightly

(No stay quiet)

Schhhhhk!

“Is someone there!?” the people below notice immediately

Schhhhhk!

(Stay quiet tree!)

Whack!

A tree branch swings up behind knocking me off

“ahhh shi–”

THUDD!

My body hits hard onto a surprising soft patch of soil

(Still hurts like hell though)

“Who are you!” a bright light shines in my face, everything starts to spin

(I must have landed harder than I thought)

“Don’t make me ask again!”

“Errr”

My consciousness beginning to slip

The person yanks me up to face them, the bright light still in my face,

“Kage?....

Kage…..?”

Is the last thing I heard, before falling unconscious.