2 The Beast and the Hero (1/2)

The people in my village always said that your life flashes before your eyes when you are standing before the maw of death. Old Jtok swear by it, and he was a ex-adventurer although nobody ever seem to ask what rank he was.It's only fair since Old Jtok spent his time teaching those of age basic fighting skills to prepare them for the outside world.

I think I'm getting off the point here.Anyway, what they say about your life flashes before your eye when you about to die is actually a bunch of bogus Nomuk's dung, you don't get to relive your life. Your body freeze up and your mind go almost completely blank due to the fear gripping at you. At least that's what it felt like to me as I was standing there hold a Paku fruit with a Giant Wumpas staring down at me like it's looking at a delicious morsel.

My body tensed up, my tail frozen, my fur feel like needles and all I could hear was the sound of my own heart beat. My clothes feel constricting like a Toktok was curling up and squeezing my life away.

It was so loud and soft and terribly suffocating.I can't even feel my ear, and my face feel like it could fall off any second like it wasn't my face that I was wearing. I felt small and tiny and like there were these massive giant walls closing in on me, ready to snuff me out of existence.

Looking at the beast, all I could utter was a tiny voice saying...

”uwaaa....”

My arms shake and shivered and as the beast growl ready to lunge at its meal, I instinctively cover my head with my left arm and cried.

”Hiiii....”

All the sudden, before my very eyes, something flew out from nowhere and hit the beast right on its nose and explode with a whitish powder. The beast immediately cowered and coughing and sneezing, with snot and tears flying everywhere.

Then a shadow rushed past and stood before me and the beast, the shadow wore a blue cloak and immediately drawn his sword.

It was an adventurer that I occasionally seen visiting my village from time to time. Facing the beast with a sword in hand, the human adventurer said;

”mixing onions and peppers and wheat flour together and using them as a tear gas bomb.....the result isn't that bad....but shame...there's goes my dinner.”

The terrible Wumpas was crying and drowning in its own tears and snot.The adventurer then disappear and reappear behind the beast and struck his blade into the Wumpas back, piercing its heart.