fighting in the forest

Date: 12/18/2016

By biscuit

The first thing I remember was being at school on Halloween, in a teacher's office. I was watching a video on YouTube, and I looked up and saw that the whiteboard had some Cthulian language written on it. I left the room before people could come see me, and as I was walking down the dark corridor I saw a train outside. I was on the train then, trying to stop it because it was going too fast. But the girl who built the train, a young Indian girl, wouldn't let me. I think I fell off the train at one point, and I ended up in a forest, as someone else. I was a fighter, and I had a partner who I can't quite remember. I might be mixing her up with someone else, though. I had to fight a strange monster thing with my bokuto, and it took a while, but I killed it and its friends. I eventually ran into a circular clearing in the middle of a bamboo thicket, where two people were sitting around a campfire. One was a guy who I can't remember much about, and the other was a girl totally decked out in a Victorian-era dress made of peacock feathers. She had a parasol and a broom-looking thing made with them, too. They let me stay with them, and realized that I knew absolutely nothing about the world. I didn't know about the monsters, or the types of fighters, or anything. But they didn't have time to explain, and we were off. There was a much bigger clearing now, and the peacock feather girl left her broom under some tree branches so it wouldn't float away. It looked like she could still fly without it, though, and she went to go do recon. I was with the guy for a moment, and some of his friends showed up. He had to go, but as he left, he said that he had felt my aura, and was amazed at how much damage I could soak up. The people who replaced him were one other girl and two guys. One of them was as big as a car, and had super huge hair. I was curious about the skills the first guy had been telling me about, and the huge man told me his skill was nullifying all damage unless it was a critical hit. The girl looked like a ninja, and I didn't get the chance to talk to her. I asked the other guy, who looked like Todoroki, how skills worked, and he told me something about increased activity in quadrants of the brain, and then listed a bunch of names that I can't remember. Then a bunch more monsters attacked us. They were all different, but all capable of speech and rational thought. They seemed to realize this, but they also wanted to kill and eat us, so we had to fight back. They also had a strict honor code, and they would only ever fight one-on-one. The first one I faced was a very short old man with an incredibly bulbous head, who had super leathery skin. I beat him with my bokuto, and that took a while. Stabbing someone with a wooden sword is difficult. When he was down, I could see inside his body and saw that his organs were still functioning, so I killed him better. The next guy looked like a hedgehog man, and he had a glass knife that was tied to his hand with wound-up bandages. I don't know where my bokuto went, but I fought him with a scalpel. It must have been dull, because I was only giving him papercuts, even though I was striking all the right areas. I asked him for a truce, so he could teach me how to fight with a knife, but I woke up before he gave his answer. I fought a lot more monsters than I can properly remember, but I always used either bokuto or scalpel.