5 The First Hunt

"Okay. So giant death bird is a thing and squirrels are as big as I am. I am gonna have to get stronger if I want to keep going. If I am right those crystals I ate are monster cores and give me a permanent strength boost. Well I still need to test it out so I just have to risk it and hunt. I am just bones so I shouldn't be picked as food for that bird." Z states to himself to help organize his thoughts after such a long day.

"I guess I should just get everything gathered up even though its really only a knife." Z states to himself as he gets up and begins going to get everything ready for the hunt. Trying to find some clothes that will not be extremely easy to spot he gets changed. With his knife in his hand he sets out with hours left till the sun rises.

He decides to go slowly not really looking for anything in particular just hopping to not find something giant. So Z progresses out of his neighborhood going towards an area with houses with larger yards and even a park always looking for something. Strangely he ran into nothing for the rest of the night and as the sun rises he starts to get annoyed. Z also noticed how he is not even the least bit tired after spending this entire time awake.

Hours later the noon sun hitting his head Z still slightly annoyed at how there has been nothing but he realizes how little distance he has actually covered since he has been carefully scanning each and every yard he has passed for signs of life while being stealthy. " If I had come here directly I would have maybe taken an hour. Fuck it lets try the park otherwise I'll have to try and find something to leave near my yard. Though that even took a few days to get something to come near so maybe not much is around town." These thoughts going through his mind as annoyance comes and goes in seconds.

Another hour of stealthy travel and Z arrives at the park and to his surprise hears something. It sort of sounds like wood on wood but not quite. It was a different but he decided to approach it slowly trying to hide anywhere he could. It didn't take to long for him to come up on the source of the sound right as a loud yelp is heard and to his surprise a dog looking thing lays dead on the ground surrounded by its fierce killers. Horned rabbits.

"I am seeing things right I have literally killed one of these rabbits before and now there are 5 of them and they killed that dog thing. Well lets do this since I am not gonna find anything else." Z knows that he won't be able to fight five things at once so he decides to try and break up the group. He throws a rock away from him and somehow hits a piece of playground equipment resulting in a nice distracting ping.

All rabbits perk up the ears in high alert and Z just watches as two go to check it out. He then proceeds to throw another rock in another direction and after a minute another two left while the biggest of the bunch stayed eating the dog. So Z decides to ever so carefully come closer to assist this rabbit. Assisting it to the afterlife that is.

Oddly he gets up right behind it and pushes he dagger right into its body with no resistance. The problem was the squeal that this rabbit let out alerting the other 4. They were not to happy and immediately came charging back with enough killing intent even this skeleton felt it. So at least he is getting some practice for all those techniques. Ha.

So the first rabbit that makes it back to Z leaps and charges which he was able to avoid just to feel something hitting him in the back and then he felt something between his ribs as he regains his balance before feeling a kick right in the bum.

Needless to say this did not improve his mood as now he has literally had his ass kicked by a rabbit. So when the next rabbit jumped at him instead of dodging he swung his blade with no regard to anything he read and yet his body moved in a way that let him slice a nice chunk out of its side. Sadly it wasn't fatal and the other three became more aggressive now jumping at him constantly.

Z managed to duck and dodge most of these but still took hits when more than one jumped at him the injured rabbit still attacking regardless of the blood coming out its wound. Z realized fairly quickly he has to start attacking while he is dodging otherwise this will never end. As soon as this dawned on him the injured rabbit jumped at him once again so Z moved out of the way while trying to position his knife and managed to get another wound on it. This time was little more than a scratch but it really seemed to upset all four rabbits. This is when they actually got more aggressive.

"Holy fuck this is hard. Did I just trigger an enrage in some rabbits." Z's gamer side from when he was younger triggering as the rabbits are flinging themselves at him every second possible so he has to double down on dodging. However this time Z is trying to actively hurt the rabbits while he dodges and though this also leads to him getting hurt more chips of bone actually being sent flying off him he does manage to get another hit on the hurt rabbit. This time a fatal hit.

"Yes another dead just three more this should get easier now." is what our silly skeleton thought. Of course as if that being in every story had been signaled with this thought something happened to the rabbits. They went from brown colored fur to a bright red and the barbs on the horns turned into full length spikes. "Well fuck me."

So Z did the one thing the could to maybe help in this situation, he ran straight for the nearest playground. "Horns should be softer than metal, right? Well at least it will reduce the number of directions then can attack from." Though of course Z once again overlooked something as he was running. Rabbits are fast and he is not so much thus one rabbit managed to leap at him hitting him again forcing him to fall forward on the ground. By some miracle he managed to keep a hold of his knife and not get hit in his spine. Also while the spikes dug into his rib they also kept the rabbit from easily pulling them back out so Z used his lack of joints to quickly stab this rabbit as it is kicking his ass to free itself.

Now actually feeling soar and tired he has two rabbits left to fight and a dead rabbit stuck in his ribs. How his bones aren't snapping he doesn't know nor care right now as another rabbit goes to charge at his quiet closer head. Sadly this rabbit in its furry used all its power and Z dropped back down to dodge while lifting the dagger in the air. A clean cut with entrails spraying right over his head is the glorious result followed by a feeling Z was hopping to never feel. Something sharp and pointy was shoved right his rear. Of course as a skeleton its a little different but still these are spiked horns and while it is his waist bone it still hurt to high heaven. This did lead to Z to panic and try and smash the unwelcome intruder with his feet. To his surprise and the rabbits it worked.

Well needless to say this showed Z that logic doesn't appear to be a thing to the planet anymore and he needs to practice a lot more for the future. Also he still very much feel pain just like before.

So he quickly tries to dislodge the rabbits from his body rather painfully before gathering all five corpses. He even quickly checks the dog corpse for a core just in case but sadly no such luck. Though underneath the corpse of the largest rabbit Z found something odd. Its a small leather bag in a pool of the rabbit's blood but not one drop of blood sticks to it. So he carefully picks it up and opens it to find it containing some seeds. After a brief period of confusion Z makes the quick decision to figure it out later as he hears something he was hopping to not, the cry of a very big bird. Thankfully it sounds distant so he quickly but carefully makes his way home with the five rabbits and the seed bag.