Colors of death
We look and see a boy, his age looks to be 7 or so, he runs in a small field, seems he is playing with a stick he found, wielding it as a sword he slashes playfully imagining 101 scenarios from hero tales to simply wielding a real blade.
The boy approaches a tree, in said tree we find "a strange brown ...blob?" The boy thinks, he doesn't remember seeing such a thing before, it doesn't look that different from the tree but he does see flying bugs around it, the boy knows these bugs, he had been stug before while picking up a flower, so this is the place these things live?
He wields his stick, and points it at the hive, he remembers these evil things and plans on defeating them, if he can break that thing surely they will leave and not sting anyone else, besides he is curious to see what is inside too.
He can't quite reach it but it's fine, he takes a few steps back, he will just have to throw his weapon and it will be even better than hitting the hive, why? Because the bugs won't even know it was him who did it! So if they do get angry they won't come after him, with this he readies his blade and throws it with a slash! And then-
Crack!
Right on target, he did it, he defeated the evil insects, as the hive falls he looks to see what is inside.. he will figure it out and then together with his victory will be able to tell it all to his mom-
Boom!
The hive exploded, the angry hornets flied all over the place looking for a target, the lone boy stood no chance as the hive of hundreds of hornets flew in ..he tried to run ..he tried to hide or struggle but couldn't as they stung him, they entered his mouth, nose and ears stinging him from the inside with no mercy, the boy screamed and cried but he could do nothing, in Truth however he can be considered lucky because if the hornets had been of a more dangerous species he wouldn't have survived, in fact if it wasn't for the help of a passerby adult that covered for him with a blanket and attracted the hornets attention that would have definitely been his end, such is a way a life could have a ended ...a life that was mine.
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Yellow and Black, in nature they are basically a way to scream "Don't mess with me" colors that predators avoid at all costs, to the point that insects disguise themselves those colors to escape being eaten, they are colors of warning! To those who might attack, Colors of danger! To those who think they can make them prey ..but to me? Those are colors of death.
"Ahhh!!"
Yep.. that's my scream alright, why scream you ask? Oh for nothing important, just you know? I am being chased by a dozen flying insects of DEATH!
The loud sounds of the buzzing death are heard behind me. Cutting through the air they come with a Bzzzz!!
Get the hell away from me! Bees! ..actually probably wasps or hornets? Who cares! These flying terrors don't leave me alone!!! ...huh? Why don't I fight them? Are you insane!? Look at those things! I mean sure they are probably not that tough but I would 100% would get stung! So no way in hell will I do it!
They keep on chasing me, why do they keep chasing me!? I can feel other monsters here and there so why focus on me!? ...well I kinda know why, you know the clothes I am wearing yeah? When I picked them I thought they had a weird feeling and turning on [magic sense] confirmed it but I had no idea of knowing why that was.. well I do now.
Using [magic sense] I can sense the magicules of the hornets ..which feel awfully familiar to the ones in this cloak, crap!
Whoever used this cloak before me killed one of those ...and probably died doing it and while I do appreciate the sacrifice for the greater good of exterminating those things.. you're putting your problems on me! I didn't kill those things but now they think I do and they're going after me!!!
Looking back I see them, these things are horrifying ..my body shivers just looking and the horrific noises get louder and louder, why did this have to be my first enemy? Why couldn't It have been something easier??? ..I mean this is the great Forest of Jura ..so I guess it makes sense it would be insane but.. but..! It's a low blow world! Like.. I was okay with even a giant snake or spider but not this!
The worst part is maybe I would actually fight if I actually had some moves.. i don't! I mean I do have an idea but.. I look behind to the them approaching ..ok no screw it all!
I take out my sword and slash! From it a gash in space appeared and they momentarily stopped ...Before rocks fly out Hitting one in the eye! Hah! Take that! ...how did I do that? Uh.. well I had to put the rocks there so I was sure I could bring them out, to be honest I didn't expect the speed of them to be so high ...then again I was literally forcing them out with everything I had, I feel like I am a little bit away from learning to make a pocket dimension ..but that's for later!
The hornets are confused it's the perfect time to attack! ..Not! Hell no am I dealing with those things, I'm running away!
Then I run and run and don't look back, after a while I'm sure I've lost them it's when I start slowing down I hear-
Bzzzz
A Hornet.. a single one yes the one that got hit in the eye, seems it's more pissed on the others and kept coming after me! Stop chasing me! I did nothing to you! ...besides the eye thing but that was justified, it's all your fault ugly.. danm Bee Movie reject!
The hornet's abdomen opens, it proceeded to shoot a weird orange liquid my direction! I was looking back So i see it coming and thanks to thought acceleration I have enough time to decide to evade it before it hits ..but it still splashes into my arm!
"Ah!?"
It hurts!!! ...not that much but it definitely stings! The surprise was actually worse than the pain itself but.. what if it's poison? What if I am poisoned!? I can't! I.. this damn hornet.. why is it still chasing me!? If it had just left none of this would have happened! I could go on my way ..and you could crawl back to the hell you came from!
This annoying thing keeps getting closer and closer as I become more mad than scared.
"..why ..why do you insist on chasing me!?"
BZZZ!!!
"Just leave me alone!"
It shoots me again! This time I dodge it completely and pissed off I turn and Shout extending my hands towards it shouting
"STOP CHASING ME!!!"
Just then the unexpected happened, the hornet actually stopped, not if it's on will or anything, it more so looks like it's literally stuck in the air? I'm not sure what happened that was not my plan.. if you could call it a plan ...I mean i was just too angry and frustrated with being chased for so long, I was just going to stop tell it to stop and if it didn't stop I guess swing wildly with my eyes closed? ..yeah I know it's kinda pathetic.
Bzz.zz.!
I can see it there struggling mid-air, it's disgusting absolutely repulsive even, I shiver a little while looking at those disgusting eyes, it's obviously immobilised but how? To be honest I have an idea.
"...this is [Spacial Dominion] isn't it?"
I feel like I am grabbing the hornet mid air ..it's disgusting to think about but it seems to be what's happening, which means.. I should be able to kill it! I don't need to be sacred anymore!
I take out my sword but.. I don't approach i, i try to but I still get shivers.
"You're.. immobilized, you can't hurt me! I don't need to be scared!"
My grip on my sword tightens as I take a step forward.
"It's not like you can do much against me anyway.. I am.. strong now! I am stronger than you!"
I raise my sword.. but before I can do anything the hornet struggles more making it move it's disgusting body ..I shiver taking a step back.
"...why ...why am I.. still scared!?"
BZZZ!!
"AH.. urg ...shut up!!!"
The struggling hornet tries to charge at me with its stinger and fails, I on instinct slice at full strength.. cutting the insect in half as it's disgusting insides fly open all over the ground and my hands, I flinch from that stepping back.
"...I.."
..I killed it, it wasn't even hard in fact ..it was easy, I could have defeated it and the others earlier too couldn't I? ..yes I could.. i-I can! I am stronger and I did beat this one after all, look at it! It's.. dead and I am safe now.. I know I am! so.. so why..
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I keep looking down at its disgusting corpse.. for a few moments I feel like I can't to anything but stare at the corpse.
...why am I still scared?
..I turn and run ..I don't care anymore! I need to get away from this thing! I feel tears wanting to fall but I resist ..I am not crying from this! I am not! I refuse!
I ran and kept running until the sun started to fall, I slowly stop and look around, I am completely alone now and it's almost night.
...I am alone in a forest at night ...great, I am alone, dirty, hurt and still scared from that thing while in the middle of the most dangerous forest in the world..
"...why ..why did this happen to me?"
Dying wasn't enough no I got to suffer in another world too! The very first enemy had to be.. those dammed things.
"I.. I am so done with this!"
I stomp hard on the ground ..it even makes a small hole, I look at my feet and see what I have done, I am losing control this isn't good, I then look at my hands ..I was too shook to notice before but while running I felt it, the acid on my hands ..they are burned, it stings!
"..I.. need to calm down ..do something about this..!"
I look around for a minute and see a small water puddle, I quickly move to it and shove my hands in ...oh that was a mistake.
"Argh!?"
I recoil back as the acid spreads more, my two hands burned to my wrists, I can only stare at it for a moment breathing heavily before-
"Gah..gah.. Arrgghh!!"
And I screamed, in rage annoyance, frustration and much more.. my aura flares free violently as I can't be bothered to control it anymore! why!? Why did-
"Why do I have to go through this!?"
Why!? It wasn't.. supposed to be hard!
"..he had an easy time"
He didn't have any difficulty starting out ..in fact it all went so smoothly I.. thought it would be the same for me, yet here I am alone, scared.. scarred and without any means to heal myself!
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I feel myself growing bitter ..why do I have to have dificulty in this? Why do I suffer? Why do I burn?
"...I hate this, why do only I.. ..only I.."
"..only?" I think, only I suffer? ...no I am not the only one that suffers am I? I remember the goblin village ..just in the few days I stayed there I saw death, during the hunts two if the adults died to bring us food ...a common occurrence unfortunately, "a shame" I thought yet.. it didn't hit me then, but now I see it.. this is real life and I am ...pathetic.
"...I am.. such an idiot"
That I am, "only I suffer"? Get a hold of yourself.. this place.. it's your reality now not some game! This world doesn't own you anything! In fact you should be grateful to even live in it in the first place.. You know that! You're not the protagonist of this world.. that should have been obvious.. yet here are you assuming everything will go your way perfectly without a single struggle like an entitled brat! You know what worlds like this do you entitled idiots! You watched the animes.. you read the books! ...sure they aren't real but you can still learn a lesson through it ...or better I am here on a world I thought was fake, so what's stopping them from being real? And if they are.. so are their struggles..
In her first day in another world, White fought for her life and had to resort to cannibalism to survive ...Even worse Subaru literally died horrifically multiple times, and here I am ...a loving family, a great body and skills full of potential ..yet as soon as I see a single difficulty I say.. such a selfish thing??
"..how can I possibly say only I suffer..?"
I don't even need to look outside this world, the very clothes I am wearing are from people who were killed, "my situation is different" no it isn't.. the other otherworlders too were taken from their homes to this place and many were slaved even! And yet.. I get burned and have the audacity to say that?
...I clenched my fists in anger at myself, it's.. like what happened with mom again, at the first sign of affection I folded ...and now at the first dificulty i did the same, at least with mom she was understanding and kind, she accepted me so I didn't get mad but.. I could see even she was surprised I just said it, but this time.. it's all my fault that's the truth.
"..I am weak"
That's what I am, not phiscally or magically or spiritually ...I am just weak willed, that's my problem, no one had it easy ...even Rimuru spent months in that cave alone with only great sage to talk to, yet at the first difficulty I put myself on a pedestal.
I look down on my burning stinging hands, it hurts a lot but.. it's bearable, no worse than when I got stung by a jellyfish .. just on a bigger area, sure I know that you shouldn't ignore your pain because others have it worse but.. to break down like that? No.. no I won't accept being this way.
"...I need to change ..this world isn't mine ..it won't baby me, I can't.. take it for granted"
I can't take anything for granted! ..I can't just expect to win by hardly trying, I need to do what I can.. take risks and actually fight even.. even if it's terrifying.. this is my life now, I have to stop holding back use everything I have, I should have realized it earlier before.. saying those things.
"...I am sorry"
..who am I apologizing to? ..I am not sure, maybe to the world themselves.
"...I will do it, I will.. actually live ..treat this seriously, I promise"
And to do that..
[Spacial Dominion] [Soul manipulation]
...I will need to use them, like I said before stop holding back and expecting things to work out, or else this will happen again, I will just break down again and cry, In other words I need to stop being a little bitch!
"Pff.. ah.."
I sigh hard.. finally feeling my frustration weaken a bit ...I feel different, is this character development!? ..nah it's not that easy but I am motivated that's for sure and now I can finally..!-
"Oh I forgot it's night.."
....and I have no fire yet.
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that's what you get for talking to yourself like a schizo.
"...You're insulting yourself"
I know aren't I funny? Who doesn't like self deprecation?
A small smile forms in my face despite the difficult situation.. I am finally feeling a bit better.
"..ok, ok! I need to get things done!"
I grab a few sticks .. thankfully there is still a tiny bit of light left, I bring them together and start rubbing them together, nowadays it's harder to find someone that doesn't have an idea of how to make a fire than someone that does ...and with my super strength and speed a fire is easily made, I put rocks around it to stop the spreading and call it a day.
"I wonder if this makes me a scout? ...the hell am I saying I have no idea what the qualifications are.."
If anything I am a low rank camper, heh I few better now.. but what I said is true, I have to stop being scared of my own skills and actually take risks if I want to not just succeed but live! ..and I have a perfect way to test it.
"..and open"
I make a small space hole, it's way easier now that I actually know how to do it, I don't even need to slash it!
"And in you go"
I put rocks into it, and close it ..then I open it again.
"And back you come.. is that the right expression?"
While I was confused the rocks came out fine, it's a complete success.
"..pocket dimension creation ..I can feel it's not a very big space inside it yet but.. it's very useful"
Now I don't need backpacks anymore which is good.. I want to test more but it's fully dark.
"..I can't really sleep here can I?"
This place is dangerous even with my aura I still think some monsters could come through.. fine I guess I won't sleep, it's not like I ever got tired anyway, yeah even the other days when I was just a baby I never actually got tired, I just decided it was time to sleep, so i got a huge stamina meter apparently.
Anyway if I can't sleep I suppose I will just train all night.. I won't let what happened today happen again!
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Morning arrives, i didn't sleep at all, I practiced different things the whole night.. what you ask? Hehehe.. you're will see later, for now.. I am little bit tired, not much or anything but I am starting to feel slightly tired, not that it matters it's time to leave.
"..good morning forest"
I say while getting up.. and then reignite the campfire, why you ask? To put it in the pocket dimension ...why you ask? Well I learned something interesting yesterday.. the pocket dimension has two states ..the moving and the stopped, they are exactly what you think, they're moving one is the normal one and the stopped is basically stopped time, in other words it will come out just like I left it, soon I storing it for later ..how did I learn that? By throwing flaming sticks into the the pocket dimension and throwing them out ..I almost burned everything.
I start going, walking alone through the forest.. it might be starting to get to me, I mean yeah I can spend a lot of time without seeing people ...but doing the same thing in a hostile environment is different, also literally nothing is happening I basically have been walking the whole day, practicing some stuff and I saw nothing yet, no monsters or anything.. maybe it's because of my aura? I don't know but it makes me tense ..I wonder how Rimuru dealt with it,.Great sage wasn't exactly the most talkative at the time either-
"Oh.."
I am feeling it.. I am getting closer, I hurry my step and just like I thought there it is.. a huge cave in the distance, a cave that houses a dragon.
"...and there's also that"
I feel small presences not too far away ...no doubt the goblins from the main goblin village, I started to feel a bit excited even if I can't visit them ..I mean I am literally in tempest now ... just before it is built.
I bring my aura back to the minimum.. I don't want to spook them and attract attention, I could go there to sleep the night but I don't want to somehow change cannon via a butterfly effect, I already have to be super careful with becoming friends with Veldora without changing anything in the main history.. so I pass by the goblin village undetected.
As I approach the cave its almost night again.. I look around and see smaller caves around the main one ...well cave is an understatement there is only one of them that actually resembles a cave and It Like the single of single room.
"..a room huh?"
I enter and look around.. nothing of interest but that's perfect.. I take my sword and go towards the trees.. I should be strong enough to do this right?
"..go.. down!"
I slash at max strength.. cutting them tree though with dificulty..
"Ah.. ok.. now.."
...I drag the log, it's Heavey but.. I can take it.. I bring it to the entrance and seal myself away in it ...well mostly it's not a perfect door but I can put some rocks here and there and..
"..it looks shitty but it works"
Taking out the campfire from the pocket dimension I relax myself on the hard uncomfortable ground and eat a small piece of meat, the food the goblins gave me is not much, thankfully I have a lot of energy but.. I don't know how long it will last.. if things continue this way ..I might have to pull a White, I shiver.
"E-ew.. hopefully not"
I'm not picky with food but eating monsters? yeah no please no..
"...the end of another day ...tomorrow I go in"
Today I rest, tomorrow ...well we enter the place were everything started ..for Rimuru that is.
"..goodnight"
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I wake up in the morning, the hard stone wasn't exactly nice to sleep in.. I swear when I get a bed I'll bring it everywhere in the pocket dimension.
"...morning cave, and nothing ate me alive.. good"
I was still a little bit scared sleeping here but seems everything turned out all right.
I tear down the makeshift door ...it's more like a cave in style blockade.. wait isn't that just a blockade then? Nevermind.. going outside now everything seems fine too, I stretch a bit and start going.. one thing I really like about this new body of mine is how athletic it is, I barely did anything and it already is like this! ..though maybe [Prodigy sense] helped with that.
I approach the cave entrance.. a huge metal door blocks the way ...it's also locked but I can take care of that in a single-
Bzzz!!!
Of course.. of course it wouldn't be this easy.
I turn to see ..they are back, seems they finally caught up to me, I guess they never actually gave up after all.. but when I was desperate I ran so much they must have lost track.. but by staying still two nights in a row I guess they found me?
They approach, some ready to shoot their disgusting acid..
I shiver looking at their disgusting faces, I feel fear ...but unlike last time I feel a bit of rage, these things.are the reason I humiliated myself like that.. the reason I acted I'm such a horrible and embarrassing way to realize my mistakes, In the end that was for the best for my growth even, some I might even say I should be thankful.. I know some other stories might have made the protagonists say that they are little bit thankful.. but hell no! I despise these things and now with what they taught me, what they made me learn.
My grip on my sword tightens, my still burned hands no longer hurt as I point the sword towards the insects and a purple aura comes from my body and fills my blade.
I am-!
"-So going to murder all of you!"
...it's Round two time!