"Ugh...where...am I?" Jimmy stood up in the middle of a field, feeling a little groggy. He looked around and noticed another figure lying in the distance. This figure looked vaguely familiar, but he couldn't quite put his finger on who it was. It was when he got closer did he realize who it was, and he walked towards him as fast as he could in his distorted state.
"George! George, wake up! George!" He yelled as he shook his friend awake.
"What!? Jim! Why are you in my roo-...where are we?" George asked as he tried standing up, feeling a little dizzy himself.
"I have no idea. I just woke up a minute ago myself." Jimmy looked around and took notice of his surroundings. The sun was shining, the grass in the field was green, and there were several trees around in the distance. There seemed to be a river flowing nearby. All seemed normal aside from one patch of trees that looked to have darker bark and leaves on them. It was giving off a mysterious feeling from it. He also noticed the patch of grass they were in was slightly burnt and black in some parts, forming a circle.
"I guess we should start walking, find out where we are." George said as he began to walk after a few minutes of waiting to see if anyone would find them. He was still a little dizzy and tripped and his knee dug into the grass, leaving an indent in the ground. Jimmy helped him up and they began walking. The both of them decided to walk along the river, in case they needed water and possibly fish to eat. After about a half hour of walking, they decided to take a break and think of a plan of how to find someone to tell them where they were.
"This is weird." Jimmy said as they sat down. He began to inspect the ground where they were sitting and noticed something.
"George! Come here, look at this!" Jimmy yelled as George was poking his finger in the water to see how it was.
"What? What's wrong?" George said as he came towards him.
"Isn't this where your knee dig into the ground before?" Jimmy was pointing to a spot in the ground with an indent, just like the one George left earlier when he tripped.
"Did we just...walk in a circle?! We were walking for half an hour and all we did was get back here! Augh!" George was clearly a little frustrated at this turn of events. He noticed Jimmy was staring in the direction of the forest, the same forest with darkened trees.
"What are you looking at Jim? Do you see something?" George asked looking towards the forest too, straining his eyes and adjusting his glasses trying to see if anything was there.
"No, I just think we should go through the forest." Jim said, not looking away from the dark trees that seemed to be staring back.
"Why there? Doesn't it seem a little...dark to you? There's a bunch of ways to go anyway. We just can't follow that river again." George said as he started to turn around looking for another path to take. He noticed all directions lead to mountains that seemed close by. The only path that had no mountains at the end it would seem, was the forest.
"Look, there's no other way I can think of. You got any ideas?" Jim asked knowing the answer already.
"Well, I guess you're right. Only way to go is in that forest. What do you think is in there anyway?" George asked. He realized at that moment that he hadn't seen a single fish in the water the whole time they were walking.
"I don't know. I haven't heard any noises. No birds chirping, no animals calling. Nothing. It's so weird." Jimmy said as George stood next to him and they stared into the forest together. Just like he said, no animals, no sounds, no signs of life besides the plants.
"Do you think it's possible we're somewhere with only plants and no animals?" George asked
"No, the plants would need Carbon Dioxide to live, which requires an animal. And we're breathing so there's Oxygen in the air which means they're going through the cycle of photosynthesis and-"
"OK I get it! No need to go all scientist on me." George said cutting Jimmy off.
"Oh, haha, sorry." Jim said as they both laughed at the incident.
"I guess we should start walking, any idea when it's gonna get dark?" George asked noticing the sun didn't seem to move at all.
"I don't know which way is north so I can't find out. The sun still hasn't moved has it?" Jim asked George who now had a bewildered look on his face.
"So you noticed it too?" George asked.
"Yep, the shadows haven't moved since we got here. Therefore, the sun isn't moving. I have no idea why but I would love to know where we are. It's some place that doesn't rotate, but if that's the case..." Jim trailed off thinking.
"Wouldn't it always be hot here then? Wait, it's not hot though. In fact, it's perfect weather." George said taking notice of the temperature.
"Do you think there's a chance that we're...dead?" George asked getting a little nervous now.
"No, if we were dead I don't think we would be together. We haven't seen anyone else. We should get walking now." Jimmy said as he began to walk towards the forest with George right next to him.
After what felt like an hour or two to them, they finally decided to take a small break while in the forest.
"George, have you heard or seen any signs of life since we came in here?" Jim asked getting a little unsettled as he sat on a large tree root sticking out of the ground.
"No, I haven't. Wait, what's that?" George asked as he pointed to what looked like a white stick sticking out of a bush. They began to walk closer and Jimmy, being the closer one to the bush, pulled the object out of the bush. It was a bone, no meat was left on it, as though it were licked clean.
"Oh God!" They both yelled out as he dropped the bone to the ground.
"OK, I guess something else lives here. And it must have died off. Do you think it was another person who came here like us?" George asked as he stared at the bone.
"I don't think so, it's too small to be a human leg. What's this?" Jim asked as he picked up a piece of fur from where the bone was found. It appeared to be lion fur, but it was red, and there were patches of yellow fur on the ground near it. But what lion has yellow and red fur? And why wasn't it mixed if it was from one animal? Something was very wrong here.
"George," Jimmy said as he turned around looking towards him. "We're not alone in this forest."