9 Chapter 9: Impending Doom (1/2)
Sleeping soundly a top a tree Jack was in the middle of a sweet dream snuggling against his bladed club Clyde.
It was a peaceful quiet night until dawn set and seven loud but distinct horns rang out from across the Dark Forest.
Jack: ”Giii GIii!” / ”Eat Poop!”
( ”Intended meaning: ”Holy Shit!” )
Startled by the sudden sudden awakening his body and mind were jolted back into consciousness without warning.
Causing him to spring up and lose balance falling off the tree hitting the ground with a loud thud.
Getting back up on his feet he rubbed his head and wiped the sand from his eyesgrumbling incoherent profanities under his breathe in a tired tone.
Jack: (” It's too fucking early to deal with this kind of shit. ”)
With long yawn Jack picked up his weapon did some warm ups to wake himself up from his sleepy state of mind but as soon as he did,
He immediately noticed something was different about him today.
His body hadn't changed in any physical way, but he had a gut feeling that something skin deep about him did.
He could feel it somehow, but couldn't quite put his finger on it or determine what exactly about him made him feel this way.
His thoughts on the matter were set aside when he noticed something peculiar in the sky.
In the early morning sky behind the tall trees of the Dark Forest he could see a dense pillar made up of black smoke forming in the direction of the Goblin Cave.
He looked around to where he heard the other horns and found that there were six other smoke black pillars being formed making a total of seven in all.
Each one was quite some distance away from each other scattered across the Dark Forest.
The more Jack focused on one, the more he noticed there peculiarity.
The way they moved and formed a smoke pillar wasn't the way smoke should move on its own.
The movements were complex and coordinated twisting amongst each other like living creatures.
I rubbed my eyes to make sure I wasn't just seeing things wrong.
But it only made things worse for me as the movements became more strange and hypnotic.
It was like watching thousands of black snakes coil around each other surrounded in a layer of dense black fog to form the pillars that reached the sky.
I felt attracted to it somehow like they were beckoning me to come over.
It was like the black smoke was triggering an instinct inside of my Goblin Brain with its alluring but strange.appearance to come over.
Without me even noticing it, I was already subconsciously walking over to the closest one with my eyes glued to the sky.
My mouth was left hung open as drool started to leak out I dragged Clyde though the floor paying nothing in my path any attention.
Even letting the bugs and what scarce rabbits I stumbled upon go by me despite my growing hunger.
This feeling….
I forced myself out of it by giving myself a few tight slaps across my face.
(*Smack!)(*Smack!)
Leaving red hand print's on my mustard yellow cheeks I began to violently shake my head to snap out if its hypnotic trance completely.
Jack: (” Gee I sure hope I didn't miss the party. ”)