I picked a random direction and began to walk. Was that smart? No, probably not. In fact, I'm sure many people would consider it incredibly stupid to just start walking in a random direction after ending up in a forest somewhere. No map, no compass, nothing but the clothes I'm wearing. It's not like anyone would be coming for me though. Staying still and waiting for help isn't an option when nobody even knows you're gone, let alone where you've gone.
As I walked, I used my 'sight' to look around. It would take some getting used to, being able to perceive everything around me all at the same time. Though perhaps not too much getting used to, my footing already felt surer in this forest than it had ever been while hiking with my eyes intact.
I felt as something whizzed towards my head and shifted my weight, leaning to the right. Perhaps a little farther than I needed to, but better leaning too far than smacked in the head. A blob flew through the space my head had occupied, landing on a tree ahead of me. I heard a lot of clicking and hissing, as it turned towards me.
"Oh what the fuck!?" It was a spider the size of my freaking head! Where the hell did I end up, the amazon rain forest? I shuddered slightly, "Ugh, I hate spiders." Well to be honest, it was more about their webs. The feeling of spiderwebs just makes my skin crawl.
The spider gave a louder hiss at me, bringing up its legs in what I'm almost certain could've been a rude gesture before suddenly scuttling off. I focused on it, relaxing slightly when it looked.. Seemed like it wasn't going to be coming back.
"Well, I'm not in Kansas anymore." I joked to myself, despite having never been to Kansas in my life. "Hopefully there's not too many other surprises in this forest."
I continued walking, trying to ignore an odd niggling sensation started creeping up in the back of my head. "It's just my mind playing tricks on me." I told myself, though the odd feeling persisted. I stopped and 'looked' around anyways, scanning my surroundings intently but not finding anything really unusual at the moment. Wherever I'd ended up, it's definitely not somewhere people generally go. There's no foot trails or anything indicating frequent passage... Wait, what was that?
I stopped in another small clearing as a bush rustled nearby, but there was no breeze and I couldn't sense any of the wildlife in that bush. In fact, everything seemed a little too quiet.. If my mind's not playing tricks on me, that bush has some kind of.. energy?
I turned, more out of habit since I don't have eyes now, scrutinizing the odd bush about ten feet away behind other assorted shrubbery. Then it began moving towards me and I realized it wasn't just oddly shaped.. It was shaped like a wolf. "What exactly are you..?" I wondered, 'staring' at the wolf. It would probably look to most people like I was squinting, but I'd rather keep what's left of my eyes closed if there's no point to having them open.
It lunged for me and I sidestepped, before ducking as another one flew overhead. "Evil spirits?" I asked aloud, looking at the two wolves. Now that I was paying more attention, the wood and plant matter seemed dead, dying, or rotting, giving them an awful stench. The eyes burned a bright green with energy of some kind and it drooled a thick amber sap from its jaws. There was some sort of sickly sweet underlying scent as well, though I couldn't recognize it. "Well you'll need to try harder than that." I smirked as they growled at me.
Why am I smirking? Why does this situation seem so amusing.. Shouldn't I be afraid for my life? Out here, away from civilization, facing down creatures that could be straight from someone's nightmares, without anyone so much able to vouch that I'd existed, let alone hear my dying screams..
I laughed with sudden elation, "No. No, I won't be dying here today. I want to have fun, I want to truly live for once, and I won't let you rotting mutts get in the way of that." I sped forward with speed I hadn't known before today, landing a kick on one of the wolves and blowing it into splinters to scatter into the underbrush. The other leapt away and I 'watched' as green energy from the one I'd hit swirled, pulling together the pieces of its broken form and ripping smaller pieces of plant matter from the nearby flora. "Well that's not fair." I frowned slightly as the last of the twigs fell into place, a Fel green light overtaking the empty place where its eyes should've been once more.
I chuckled, "Come on, neither of us has eyes here, should we really be fighting?" I asked jokingly. "After all.. You won't win, even if I don't have a handle on these powers like the real Shimazaki." My expression hardened slightly and I took a ready stance, just in time to dodge a third wolf lunging at my shoulder from behind. "You know, I really hate it when people gang up on me.. Even if you aren't really people, just mindless things." I can't call them animals, can I? Carnivorous plants? I dodged as one of the three jumped for my head, pivoting to the side and lashing out with a fist, blowing its own head to bits. The other two lunged for my legs simultaneously while the limp body of the first flew past me and crashed into a tree, breaking apart further. I dodged them both by jumping into the air, aiming a double stomp at both of their heads. I jumped back after, watching as the plant matter went limp like puppets with their strings cut. The green energy swirled around each of them, the first moving much more slowly to rebuild than the other two.
"So your forms have at least one of the same weaknesses as flesh-and-blood wolves would, and you have a harder time building yourself up over and over, huh?" I mused, putting a hand in my pocket and bringing the other up to cup my chin, "Interesting."
I watched as the two wolves finished building back up, though the first was only half-finished. I brought up the hand from my chin and studied it curiously, "You know, I have these powers so I have to wonder.." One of them ran at me, possibly thinking that I was vulnerable for taking my 'eyes' off of it. I brought my hand up to that wolf and envisioned grabbing it and lifting the wolf into the air, and to my mild surprise it worked. "Huh, so telekinesis does work." It began to struggle in the air, so I tightened my 'grip' on the wolf... Accidentally crushing it, reducing it to little more than sawdust and mush. "Well fuck, I really don't have much in the way of 'finesse' in my regular telekinesis huh?" Calling this telekinesis my own came much easier than it should've, almost like I've lived with it my whole life. In fact, calling these powers mine just feels right like nothing else ever has.
I raised my brows in surprise as I 'saw' the green energy attempting to leave the wooden construct I'd just destroyed, but unable to get out of my grip. "Wow, so I can even grab energy like that?" I wanted to bring it closer, but I couldn't stand the smell. I let go, allowing the wrecked mass of plant matter to fall to the ground, but also allowing the green mass of energy to quickly try and fly away. "Oh no you don't." I captured it and brought it in close, ignoring the other two wolves growling at me. Seems that they learned from this one's mistake, just because I don't seem to be paying attention to you doesn't mean I'm not aware of you.
The two other wolves backed into the underbrush and began circling the small clearing, still well within my range of detection. This energy reeked of malice and entropy, even to my extremely inexperienced 'eyes', but it didn't really seem any more intelligent than an actual wolf. It didn't even seem like an evil spirit from the anime. It had an almost sweet 'smell' to my senses, but it wasn't like I could eat it.. Could I?
Glancing around, as if someone would see me, I compressed the energy into a small ball about the size of a gumball and sniffed it a little more before sticking my tongue out and licking it. "You've gotta be kidding me, this actually tastes like sugar." You know, they were going to eat me.. Oh, and they're obviously not sapient, so... I let a feral grin appear on my face as I popped the energy into my mouth, consuming it with no regrets and feeling a burst of energy fill me. "The predators become prey." I chuckled to myself, feeling as the other two wolves quickly turned to flee after witnessing my consumption of their partner's essence. I quickly grabbed ahold of them before they could, however, ripping them out of the underbrush as they whined almost like a domesticated hound. "Oh, not used to something that can eat you back are you?" My grin may have dipped a little towards the deranged side as I said that, enjoying the fear these 'animals' suddenly had. The fear of something that could truly hurt them, kill them even, rather than just their constructs.
I quickly tore apart the wooden constructs with my telekinetic grip and consumed their energy as well, giving a content sigh. "You know.. I think I'm going to enjoy myself here. Things are looking up." I said to myself with a truly satisfied smile. I shoved my hands into my pockets and began walking off with my head turned as if to watch the sky, enjoying the warm feeling I'd get whenever a ray of sunlight managed to pierce the canopy to shine on my face.