A real shame. We somewhat regret letting the bipedal monkeys escape. After all, the one we caught was quite the treat, but the real suprise came to us when we realized these apes can actually communicate!
That alone is enough to classify them in the ''Civilized'' section in our [Bookof Species]. It''s been over 400 floors since we have met a civilized society, and the one we did meet was... unhospitable. Well, those oversized lizards which bragged so much about their power were barely passing, so maybe it''s been even longer...?
It was strange, to say the least, when one of the monkeys suddently charged back at us instead of running away or helping them in their escape. We came to the conclusion that maybe he wanted to stall for time? We''re not very sure, but he did accomplish his task since we ''accidentally'' ended up taking a bite out of him. Fully worth it.
The magic they used was foreign to us in all honesty. We figured they would try to escape, but suddently disappearing like that? Space magic? That would normally take much, much longer and much more mana to utilize, so probably not.
We gave up thinking about it after a while. After all, what''s done is done. The apes can live another day we suppose.
We restart our endless march once again. Sand, sand, sand and more sand. How we wish there were some nice trees or flowers... Hell, even ice would be ok. Or a couple of giant monsters, the weak fodder kind since... you know... food?
We continue to walk around for about another week. We honestly have no idea why we measure time in hours, days and weeks. After all, we don''t even know how long a day truly is. We just... kinda do? Well, let''s just file it under the ''We just kinda know'' sector of our knowledge.
Occasionally though, we do catch glances of those apestrailing us. They''re quite far away and don''t directly follow us, but seem more like following our general direction.
It took us 4 days to realize how they''re managing to actually follow us. Our god damn presence! We tend to forget that smallcreatures often have stealth abilities, poisons and some even have the complete cheat skill [Detect Presence]. It''s quite annoying, since there''s absolutely nothing we can do about it.
Oh well, we''ll manage. Just as we did for god knows how many years. Since our internal clocks tell us that it has been about 8 months since our last stop, my weaker self began to concentrate a portion of our mana in a circle in front of us.
Then, after the very space in front of us seemed to start cracking, we sent a tremendous wave of mana, finally breaking the space in front of us. We then entered said space and spent 40 minutes searching through books, weapons, funny toys, furs, jewels, strange machines and even a floating octopus.
It took us a while, but we did find what we were searching for. The furwe used last time. Unfortunately for us, simply throwing things into our storage is easy, but retreaving them is a different matter.
We left the spacial crack and my weaker self absorbed the mana that was forcing the walls of space open back into ourself, letting said crack regenerate.
After that, my stronger self opens up the giant blanket/fur and wraps it around ourself. We then lay down into the boiling-hot sand, which quickly turns cold after a couple seconds of contact with the fur.
My weaker self crawls into the arms of my stronger self and we wrap the fur fully around ourselves, only letting our heads exposed. We hugour bodies with each other since it''s always nice when we can fully feel so connected to each other. We spend a couple hours like this before sleep overtakes us and we finally fall unconscious.The story has been taken without consent; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
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Two children can be seen running through a ravaged town. Buildings have collapsed, corpses litter the streets and wails of agony can be heard anywhere you go.
One of them trips and breaks one of herlegs, but the boy quickly picks her up in his arms and continues to run.
Their faces can''t really be distinguished, as they seem... hazy. You wouldn''t be able to tell any of their features, their hair seems a strange color that one second could be pink, the next moment it could be grey.
They run for hours, avoiding all sounds of fighting. However, life isn''t so kind as to simply allow you to dodge threats. No, it will send them to you.
As they run, a small goo thing suddently jumpsat them, hitting both of them at the same time. They start screaming and thrashing, but never let go of each other.
Both trashed and spasmed, trying to fight off the intruder. However, they could not win. Their consciousness slowly withered away as their soul was eaten away by the infectious goo.
Luckily, or unluckily, an old man, perhaps in his 50''s rushed to them after hearing their screams. He concentrated all of his mana into them, feeding them power and fighting off the invaders. The old man knew it was pointless, but he tried anyway. However, much to his suprise, the children began to fight back the invader as well, not as two entities, but as one whole.
The man thus spent the next couple of minutes helping the children until they finally won against the invading disease. He was, needless to say, extremely suprised that they actually fought back against the disease. The two children had fallen unconscious by now.
The damage had, however, been already delt. He had seen their eyes turn completely black, just like the rest of the infected. Their nails had also turned dark, and two demonic tails now sprouted from their butts.
They looked like the infected, yet they didn''t have their disgusting, rotting skin and other mutations. He knew they had been saved, but their life had by now completely been destroyed. The man thus picked up the two poor souls and brought them somewhere. Unknown to him at the time, the supposed ''two'' souls had long since been lost. They had merged and fused to fight the infection, thus becoming one perfectly whole soul much stronger then any other.
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We woke up when my weakerself screamed out. We blinked a couple times before realizing it was just a nightmare. We always wonder who those strange beings are and why we dream of them.
We snuggle together for a little bit in order to calm down before we finally relax our nerves. After that, we lay back inside of our little covers and try to fall asleep once again. After all, our clock only says that we only spent a couple of days asleep instead of our usual 2-3 weeks, so why break the habit? It''s not like we don''t have enough time later on to search for those damned stairs.
However, our dreams of dreaming are soon mercilessly crushed by the pleasant smell of bipedal apes. My stronger self casts a glance in the direction of the apes, but can''t see far enough to spot them.
We correct that by casting ]Clavoyance] with our weaker self. An image of a couple of tents about 15 kilometers away from here appears, and we can see several apes sitting around, all of them sweating buckets under the fake, hot sun on the cavern''s roof.
We focus the spell inside of one of the tents and find several apes discussing and shouting amongst each other. We can''t really understand their language, even though we think we learned the language of intelligent apes from the book a long time ago... Maybe it''s somewhat different? We mean, some words we can understand, but definetly not all of them.
We zoom out from that tent and ''look'' around the camp. We find several people running around with buckets of water in their hands, but strangely enough they aren''t drinking it and instead they bring it to other apes wearing strange skin?
We ponder over it for a second until we finally realize that they probably are wearing ''Clothes''! We somewhat forgot some civilized societies stress that showing your bare body is bad because... Why don''t they show their own bodies again? Are they too timid? Pehaps they''re shy? We definetly don''t know...
We still have no idea why some apesbring water to other apesdespite looking thirsty, and sometimes those people even hit them! That''s so stupid...
We break the spell and return to ourselves. Why waste time on stupid apes when we have ourselves to cuddle and sleep to obtain?
We thus cuddle for the next couple hours before we finally fall asleep once again. This time, no nightmares appear fortunately, only blissfull unconsciousness...