Not Just A Bug

by Bringiton6611


That's... Stupidly Convenient

Life must have a problem with me staying conscious sometimes. That tends to happens when you're thrown out of your own world and into a new one against your will. I think.


My eye's hurt, in case you haven't figure that out already. It's also quiet all around me, beside my breathing and such. I find that to be a bit strange, considering what the hell I just found in that cave. Freaking chicken lizard thing.

Speaking of which why the hell did it feel like I got stabbed in the eye ball's right when I looked at it? The answer probably doesn't make since, being a new world and all that I still have little to no clue about most things around here.

Time to find out what happened to all the noise that thing was making. I see three answers: 1) It ran away, unlikely. 2) It's dead, again, unlikely. 3) I'm dead, which wouldn't surprise me that much.

It's hard to open my eyes, with the mixture of the sun and the pain that still lingers in my eyes, but I do manage to open them.

With a groan, I manage to fully open my eyes and look around. I'm still in the woods, so I'm not dead... I think. Wait, I take that back, I'm definitely not dead. If I was dead, the pain wouldn't be noticeable at all.

After staring at the trees like they were stacks of gold, I sit up and turn to the right.

And freeze.

Whatever that thing was, it's not a problem now. Why? Because it's full of holes.

I stand up and approach the beast. Crouching down, I see a few holes in its body, and one on its head.

Wait... these are bullet holes...

I look over to where I last saw Thorax. Only to see a empty spot.

Raising an eyebrow, I approach the spot lacking the bug and crouch down to investigate. There's some green blood here, no doubt it's Thorax's blood. There's only a little of it, so I guess it's from the wounds he already had. Never really bandaged those, didn't have any thing to do so, unless I wanted to use my jacket, which is a hell no. Weird, I thought his wounds stopped bleeding yesterday. He must've done something to open them up again.

Speaking of opened up, it amazing that I haven't ripped out the stitches in my stomach yet. It hurts a lot of the time, but somehow, there still in there. I'll have to check them and the bandage later. I'll do that once were somewhere safe.

Ok, back on topic, besides the blood that is no doubt from Thorax, there are... bullet casings... did Thorax figure out how to shoot?

I slowly turn my head to the entrance of the cave. Thorax probably headed I'm there.

I try to find my rifle, but can't. Strange... I swear it was on me... I'll find it later, it's not like any thing out here knows how to use it.

I peak my head inside and around, only to find nothing. He must be further in.

And true to my thoughts, I find Thorax further in... with my gun sitting right beside him, and my rifle leaning against the wall a few feet away.

"Thorax?"

His head shoots up in my direction."H-hey David."

He seems shaken up. It's not a big mystery why."Did you do that outside?"

"The monster? Y-yeah. That was me."

My eyes fall to the gun next to him. "With that?" I point to the gun, which he nods."How?"

"I saw you do it before... figure it couldn't be that hard."

He seems... out of it.

"Are you ok?"

"I... never killed anything before."

Oh great, he's one of those people.

"You'll get over it." When he didn't respond, my eyes fell on the gun once again."Mind if I have that back?"

I started moving over to the gun before Thorax even had a chance to reply. When I'm right next to him, I pick up the gun and check the chamber.

And feel my heart sink when I see only one bullet has not been fired. I sigh as empty the chamber of the casings of the bullet that have already been fired. Wait, the only way the casings can get out of the chamber, is that the cylinder is removed by pulling a pen out from under the barrel. There were casings outside the cave, so how did Thorax figure that out too?

You know what? Never mind.

As I place the gun back in my waistband, I hear Thorax gasp.

Immediately, I look at him to see what he saw. My confusion grows when I see him looking at me.

"What?"

"Your face..."

I put a hand to my face and I feel something semi-dry. I pull my hand away and look at my hand. And feel my heart stop when I see red on my hand. My eyes are bleeding.

How does that even make sense?

Never mind that, I need to get this stuff off my face.

"I saw some kind of puddle over there." Thorax points to my left.

I turn my head and see what he's talking about. There is a little pond over by the wall of the cave. I can barely see it due to the lack of light.

"Yeah, that'll work."

I move over to the pond and remove my water bottle from my pack and was about to dip it in when I felt something hit my leg. I look down to find a small little pebble at my foot. I kick it back in the water and move to fill my bottle. Only to stop when I fell two somethings hit my leg. I look back and see two pebbles at my foot.

My mind is melting.

To confirm what I think is happening, I pick up one of the pebbles and drop it in the water. I grin when I see two pop out.

I suddenly have an idea. I take out my gun and remove the last bullet I have. I suddenly stop.

Is this a good idea? What if drop this in something happens to the bullet? I might need it.

On the other hand, this could be my saving grace for my ammo.

With a reluctant movement, I drop the bullet in the water.

And almost jump in joy as two pop out.

I'm going to be here awhile. This is stupidly convenient.