27 (Side story: Mallory II) How's life?
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POV Emyrs
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Forward into the future
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After last night's hard celebration for the emergence of our new team, we decided to take today off.
In the morning, I combed Alice's silky soft hair into perfection before heading for a hearty breakfast meal with her. The rest of the members hasn't woken up yet. Even the morning bird, Sarah, was in deep slumber.
In the afternoon there was only free time, at first I wanted to spend some time shopping with the team members. However, most of them hasn't even woken up yet!
Sitting beside Alice, a thought suddenly flash past me. Mallory. I haven't checked on him in since I threw him here. I wonder how has he been doing? Using [(godly) satelite] a window popped up in front of me, I search for Mallory's name. The view of the screen suddenly redirected to a leafy forest, a man is sitting in a grass hut eating a badly charred chunk of meat. Messy hair and muddy face, the man looked like an forest native straight out of a national geographic film.
Emyrs: (A wicked smile creeped up his face) How's life now?
I needed time to control my atrocious words from spilling any further. Afterall, I'm not an evil person. Yet. I sighed for a moment before continuing but I pleasantly sweet sound resounded my head.
Alice: (curiously peeked her head above Emyrs' shoulder) Who's that?
Emyrs: (startled) Who's what?
Alice: (pointing towards the Emyrs' screen while tilting her head) That guy. Who?
Emys: You can see the screen... I mean him?
Alice: Yeah, why? I always see you with that rectangle box in front of you; I didn't say anything because no one said anything.
That's weird, it shouldn't be visible to anyone, not even those with rare or special eyes. Other than me, others shouldn't even have a clue that it existed. What a minute... Is it because Alice is bound to me?
Lost in endless thoughts...
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POV narrator
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Meanwhile
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Alice: (attempt to grab the screen, fascinated) It can be moved? I wonder what can I do with this?
Alice pulled the screen in front of her and started to fiddle with it. She reached out to grab Mallory who was still eating peacefully. Unfortunately for her, nothing happens. This did not swayed Alice's curiosity. She persisted ultimately.
Her efforts were not in vain as Mallory was flicked out of his worn down hut and came tumbling down a hill just like how Alice imagined it.
The sudden cry of agony snapped Emyrs out of his thought. In front of him the screen was gone; it seemed it had teleported in front of Alice.
Emyrs: What did you do to him...
Alice: (paused for a moment) I don't know. I imagined him flying out of his house and rolling down a hill, then it suddenly happened.
Emyrs: No, I'm talking about why you did that?!
Alice: (shook her head, timidly) No idea, just don't like him. (Grabbed Emyrs' shirt and looked at him slowly) Did I do something bad? Are you going to hate on me? (her ears flopped down and her eyes teared up just like that)
Emyrs: (patted her head, with a tender smile) There is no way I would hate on you.
Alice: (A turn of mood) Yay!
Emyrs: (Kept on patting Alice) Right, right.
{When you are happy and joyful, negative emotions becomes just like evaporated water. Shelved and gone. It is the moment the greatest memories are created.(^^)}
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POV Emyrs
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Checking back to Mallory...
He is crawling back with great effort. Just how hard did Alice flicked him? I can't have him broken or else he won't be able to survive.
As an apology, I guess I'll just give him some potions to recover his broken bones.
A lone potion stood like a column in front of Mallory's grass hut.
That should do it. Now then...
Looking at my baseball size cubicle box at my hand. Many ideas flowed through my mind. I wonder what should I do?
Right, a warning sign should always come first. How about the classic thunder? Yeah, that should do it.
(The sky lost its colors, the once white fluffy cloud turned black and begins to clump together. Growling thunder could be heard as Mallory turn to make his first view of the misty clouds)
Mallory: I have seem more unusual things these days.
Oh, no, no. Things are just getting started.
Go! Spidey! {anyone excited for spiderman's Far From Home?}
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POV Mallory
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This place... A harsh mysterious environment with invisible enemies, let down your guard and you will lose yourself. So much so that you lose the track of time.
How long have I been here? 3 days? one week? one month?
Time passed inch by inch. The miserable times won't end. Each passing day corrupts my heart, my inner demon grew stronger.
The mighty imagination of pure fantasy made a nasty turn.
From the sky, an eight legged freak ascended down.
6 meters tall and 10 meters wide. Thousands blades of black fur covered its body with a pair of sinister jet black fangs protruding from its mouth. It had machine like legs and 4 demonic pairs of eyes.
His striking eyes and mine met. Terror had taken ahold of me, filling my hollow eyes. I was petrified.
I... Never would I have ever thought that an arthropod could grow into such a colossal size.
The monster slowly moved towards me bit by bit, step by step. It seems like it was playing with me. Toying with me.
An assuming toy I am, ha-
Oh god...
You wouldn't understand me, understand my life. Damn, me. Things always get in the way of my life. It never flows, it never will. Just why, just why won't you let me be free?
click, click...
Oh yeah, I forgot there is another much larger problem right in front of me. This bastard is grinding his fangs in front of me. Dammit, damn it all!
If it get close to me, it would pounce and grab ahold of me. Then its fangs would dig into my flesh and rip my tendons apart. Blood would spew like madness.
I need to get out of here now!
Move legs, move! Move you coward!
20 meters... 10 meters... 5 meters... 3 meters...
There! Finally now ru-
Ahahah!
Hook like talon pierce through my kidney pinning me down like a nail. My face slammed against the forest floor. I was rendered immobile. It tapped its fangs on my back. I could clearly feel its slimy mucus seeping into my blood, acidifying me from the inside.
My body was numbed completely from all this pain. The point of struggling wasn't even worth it anymore. Just let it be... It's all over anyway... At least I'll have a painless death.
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I'm still alive? I could still feel the numbness flowing through my body. Why did it not kill me? (Tries to move) I'm still pinned down... So it just decided that I would have a gruesome death eh? Even the grim reaper wouldn't want me. I have no where, no place, no future. I'm just a walking corpse.
I can sense that it is starting to move... It's going to be a pain one. I could feel the talon on its leg trying to remove of my skin. A sharp pain. Although not an unbearable one, just left me out on the the cold. I could feel the cold wind that battered my skin.
It was colder than usual. The numbness made it hard to feel, but I'm pretty sure my skin was ripped off from my back... Damn, that bastard has a barbes on its talons. Looks like I'll die from blood lost before it could get to me.
... (falls unconscious)
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Mallory's status (very high for a level 2, as expected from a transported, they do have special abilities and status advantage. The only problem is that they starts of with nothing and dies off pretty easily, especially without experience in combat and knowledge about this world.)
Status
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Name: Mallory
Title: [The unfortunate one][transported]
Race: human {I think earthing would be better XD}
Level: 2
Health: 80/400 (very high health, as expected from someone who just can't die.)
Mana: 20
Attack: 12
M.Attack: 3
Defense: 20 (really unusual to find someone with defence higher than their attacks combine.)
M.Defense: 10
Agility: 5
Luck: -999,999,999,999
Equipment
[none]
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