Surviving Against the Odds

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I jolt upright, it takes exactly half a second to see I am not in Calgary, nor in my shimmering box, oh no. I am in a lush green forest with trees as tall as buildings but like nothing I have ever seen before. The tree bark is a royal purple, the leaves a baby blue color. On what I am going to assume was a ship given the situation, I was in shock I think. Now I'm just pissed off. As I am looking around I see what looks to be my backpack a few feet from where I am now sitting. Getting up I head over to it, it seems almost everything I had inside is going and replaced with a silver disk, a small knife and I think food bars? I open a few other areas and find my first aid kit is still in my bag, the paracord, flashlight, water bottle (my metal Yeti one) and pocket knife which is bigger then the butter knife the jelly fish gave me.

I touch the silver disk and what I can only describe as a hologram video starts.

"Human female, as I told you, you will have 48 earth hours as a head start after that the hunt will start. Food rations have been left in your bag we also left your water with you. The hunt will last 3 days, try to stay alive until the hunt starts." When I get out of here I am going to kick that jelly d**k, I swear.

Picking up my bag I slowly start to walk, I need to get an idea of what I'm dealing with here, what is here and how to freaken survive this. The farther I go the ground goes from dirt to this mossy feeling veggitaion. I keep walking even as the sun starts to get lower, I know I need to find some where to sleep. I haven't seen any animals yet though I swear some of the plants follow me when I walk by. I find a tree with big thick branches, I don't know why but I feel staying on the ground would be a bad idea at night. I slowly start to climb and when I'm about 15 feet high I find this huge branch that I can comfortably lay on my belly and sleep. I make myself comfortable, eat one of the "food bars and watch the sun completely go down. The forest comes alive, the moss? its bioluminescent and you can see every foot print clearly and it seems most if not all the animals here are nocturnal. These cute little bunny looking things come out of the low bushes, the seem to be the size of a catwith 4 ears and pink glowing fur. As I'm watching this small one wanders close to the plants I swear where following me, in a blink of and eye and this horrible squeal noise the rabbits gone, the plants are carnivorous. I am so glad I didn’t get close to it. the rest of the glowing rabbits are gone. I lay there for hours before finally drifting off to sleep.

The sun is up when I wake the next day, tears in my eyes as the dream still lingers, of my son and animals at home, never knowing what happened. I shake the dream, I need to focus. Back on the ground I stay far from the plants, I walk for hours on the moss, different directions, zig zagging, I've heard water in the distance a few times. I make my way towards it, finding a river and rocky shore, the water isn't blue but a pink color. I head upstream, if nothing else I'll need to find dinner eventually and upstream is a good start.

The rocks also mean nothing can follow the glowing footprints. After several hours I come to a waterfall with caves, I take my flashlight out and slowly walk to a smaller one, it will be a tight fit for me but it will be harder for whoever is hunting me to follow. After making dire there isn't anything living in the cave I make my way in slowly, its bigger inside then the entrance led me to believe. I keep doing deeper and deeper, eventually I see light. There is a back exit it seems.

After being in the dark caves for awhile the light is blinding, when my vision clears I see a rocky area, the trees diffrent. Suddenly I hear a growling wail, I don't think, something inside me has me run to the noise not away from it. Running over the rocks and through the trees I come to a sudden stop. The death plants have one of the 6 legs of this huge black cat looking animal wrapped in barbed vines and dragging it towards the under bush. The cat is losing ground no matter how hard it fights, without much thought I rush forward, grabbing my knife out of my pocket as I go. I grab the vine with one hand, the barbs slicing my hand open and start cutting with the other hand. Both me and the cat are being dragged closer to our deaths, I won't give up though. We are nearly out of time when finally I cut through it black sticky crap spilling out and sizzling on the ground. Great plants that bleed a corrosive substance, I think to myself. I scramble away from the plants of death and get my first aid kit. The cat is making this deep weeping kind of growl. I'm pretty sure I should be scared but I'm not. No.. Hurt. I hear in my head.

I yelp and jump, looking around trying to figure out what just happened and where that voice came from. I see no one, hear nothing but the cat, the cat who's leg is bleeding blue, I choose to ignorethe weird voicefor now. Its okay pretty kitty, I'm not going to hurt you, I'm going to try and help you Okey, don't be scared, thats it pretty kitty, I say to the cat as I make sure all the vines and barbs are off its leg, then I wrap it to stop the bleeding. As I work I keep talking to it, keeping my voice gentle. I sit back once I'm done only then noticing I am still bleeding and I have blue blood all over my hands. I take my time cleaning my hand, making sure all the barbs are gone. Suddenly the world tilts on its side and I know nothing more.