Chapter 4: Chapter 3 : Not Again [Second Trial :1]
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"You must be kidding me," I said while looking around me after I woke up.
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I remember very clearly that when I closed my eyes and fell asleep, I was in my room, but why the hell did I wake up immediately, especially in the middle of nowhere like this?
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I look around me, well it's just a vast steppe plain, all grass, and the sun is up high, right now and I can feel it. It's so hot, like being scorched alive in the desert, besides that I also see a river in the distance maybe around 800 Meters from me, not want to be dead of being scorched and dried alive, I approach the river in hope to take cover.
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I walked to the river, and even though it was only 800 meters, it felt like I was walking around the earth barefoot and in my pajamas. After around 10 minutes of walking, I finally reached the bank river. Luckily after looking around for a while while walk alongside the river, there is a small tree, so I walked up to it to take cover.
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Around 30 minutes after I lay near the tree, I began to wondering while also relaxing myself.
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"Why am I here? Am I dreaming again ?" I asked myself in my mind. Is this some strange dream, like yesterday? but why again?
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And then I remember that in one of the manga that i were reading, they said that when we are in our dream, we can force ourselves to wake up, by pinching ourselves inside the dream, so I try to pinch my cheeks, but.
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"Ouch ouch ouch, that's hurt." Well that is totally a lie i think
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When I pinch myself, instead of wake up, I feel pain, but how come I feel pain?, isn't this a dream? in disbelief of what just happened, instead of a pinch, I try to punch myself now.
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*Bonk*
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"Great, now I have a blue spot on my face." I said to myself while rub my cheeks that i just punch myself.
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Now I'm confused about what to do. I'm just lying around, wondering what should i do. Then I close my eyes trying to keep calm and think that i will woke up sooner, but I still can't stop my dream, and not long after that, feel about to gave up, I decide to pray while close my eyes.
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"Oh God, is this a trial for me?, what must I do here? please, guide me, I need your help"
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Just a second after I pray, I feel something beneath me. It's like the earth is shaking. Is this an earthquake? In panic, I get up immediately.
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I never experienced an earthquake before, so I just stood there waiting for the earthquake to stop, but suddenly.
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"Why are you still there? get going immediately."
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I hear a voice. It's so familiar. I know this voice before, but I forgot where I heard it. It sounds like a gentle deep male voice, i totally know where i hear him before but where?.
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I try to get in contact with the person who was just talking to me, i look around me but theres no one near me, and then I try talk to the mysterious person while looking at the sky "Who are you? What is going on here ?" I talk loudly with panic voice to him.
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He replied to me, almost immediately "It doesn't matter who I am, get your ass up and go on your right side, quickly, we don't have much time now."
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What is he talking about in the middle of an earthquake? Then I just reply to him with a silly tone "My right side? But there is nothing but grass here."
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Before I finish my sentence, I look at my right side and the grass plain on my right side. Before, it was a forest, a thick rain forest.
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In shock at what I just saw, while my jaw dropping I said, "Huh??? what just happen" Then the mysterious voice yelled at me. "Stop talking nonsense, you need to get out of there now!" he said to me almost looks annoyed.
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With that mysterious man's voice telling me to move, I now remember where I heard this voice before. It was the same voice that saved me from getting out from that nightmare room with the red crimson door in my last dream. Knowing that voice was helping me in my previous dream, I decided to follow what he was saying for now.
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So I just jog on my way to the forest, and the earthquake still has not ended yet. Now I'm in the forest, only moving forward to where that voice is telling me to, but sometimes I stumble on my foot, hitting a stone, and then there is one time I falling because I tripped on a tree root.
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Long story short, after around 6 hours later, and I still jogging in the forest, and the earthquake is still not stopping, and to tell you something, I saw so many strange things in this forest, which is very unlikely back in my home, and also in real world that i know.
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First, the trees, all the trees in this forest are goddamn tall as hell, the trees back at my home environment, the tallest only around 20 meters, but these trees, all of them are around 100 meters, its similar like a 5 Floor Building tall, because the tree is too tall, and thick, even the sunlight can't reach me, and that's why it's a bit dark at the forest even when the sun is up high noon now.
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Second, the plants, these plants are very out of place in a normal world. I know there is a carnivorous plant, but what makes the difference is the size. The bug-eater plant here is around 10 times larger than the normal one, and also, there is a singing plant, too. It's so freaky that sometimes it make me chill.
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One time, I saw a very huge butterfly coming towards me. It was very beautiful. The pattern on both of the wings was so amusing and unique—it's like a batik pattern back in my place. Then, after that, it landed near one of the carnivorous plants. At this point, not more than three seconds later, that plant, the carnivorous plant, gulped it entirely, leaving only some parts of the wing. Now that's what my teacher told me about the food chain or rule of the jungle.
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"This is so wrong," I reacted after witnessing that gruesome sight while a bit scared.
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Third, there is no sign of any other animal so far beside the butterfly after I jogging in the forest after all this time, iI am pretty sure every forest has an animal in it, even if it's only small animals, like, Lizards, and so the wild animals, like tigers, lions, deer, etc.
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Fourth, every around 30 minutes, I pass a tree that is likely to befall or has a sign of a big trace of claw on it. Strangely, it's always on the track I take. When I try to take a bit left or right while I jog in hope that i can avoid to see the thing that leave that claw mark on the trees, I still saw it. I don't know what is scratching that tree, but oh boy, I pretty sure don't want to meet it.
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Fifth, the goddamn earthquake from before is not stopping yet its so nonsense.
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So I started to bored from jogging in this jungle, aimless and clueless about what was going to happen next.
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I shout at the forest on top of my lung because I'm bored and annoyed "OH MY GOD when is this going to end, I already jogging around some kilos, but there is no end to this forest and this earthquake too, it never stops."
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"Geez, hang in there, we almost reach the end of this forest." The mysterious voice replied calmly to my ranting right to my ears.
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So I just follow what he said and, continue to jog, but then, I suddenly hear something, something very terrifying that made me think that this is gonna go wrong, very goddamn wrong.
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"ROOOAAAAAAARGGHHHHHHHHHHHH"
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A roar is being shouted from far away behind me. After I hear that, i stopped my step because ot it and all my nerves were tingling hard so is my gut feelings respond with one thing, it's telling me that I'm in a dangerous, very dangerous situation.
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