34 2.11- Akitoshi and Another One Bites the Dust... (1/2)

Akitoshi was wandering aimlessly around the forest after he had awoken and was hoping to find a way out. It was like awakening from a dream and he was walking around a forest where he would chance upon a highway and able to hitch a ride towards civilization as well to the campsite that he was he was putting up with another student apart from his usual peers.

However, the forest that he was walking through didn't show any signs of civilization at all. All he could find beside him was a satchel canvas bag and some useless items. There was a bottle of mineral water where he had taken a swig from it and had about half of its contents left. All he was to do right now was to either chance a stream where he could refill and walk downstream... If he could ever find such a stream in this thick and dense forest.

Halfway through he heard a soft clinking sound, and he stopped in his tracks to locate the sound. It was like as if a piece of rock or something was repeatedly knocked into a piece of metal such the weird collar he was wearing. The clinking sound continued and he quickly turned into the direction of where the sound came from.

After a short while, he reached to where the sound was coming from. The clinking sound of rock against metal was clear when suddenly an electronic voice boomed across the forest. Akitoshi looked up and saw a loudspeaker attached high into one of the tree trunk and was emitting a clear electronic voice that boomed through it.

The voice was welcoming students of Shimizu Higashi High School here and to a variety game show. Akitoshi ignored the irritating electronic voice over the loudspeaker and went ahead to the direction of the clinking sound.

He saw a familiar figure, about 30 meters away, a bright green coloured hair girl was kneeling on the ground and was using a piece of smooth rock to knock on her metal collar. She was kneeling and leaning across a tree trunk as she kept pounding on the metal collar around her neck.

”M... Megumi?!” Akitoshi called out to the familiar figure. She stopped what she was doing and turned around, and yes... It was Megumi alright. She stood up and Akitoshi began to walk towards her while she raised the rock and hit the collar with it.

Suddenly there was a bright blinding white and red flash and the heat that swallows the surrounding between Megumi and Akitoshi. A loud BOOM! sounded afterwards and shook the leaves and trees near Megumi while Akitoshi had barely managed to cover his eyes when the Boom! sounded.

Akitoshi opened up his eyes a crack through his palm that covered his face and found that Megumi was now left standing and HEADLESS!!! Pieces of skull, hair, eyeballs and brain matter were blown apart and scattered all over the forest while the scorched part where the neck of Megumi used to be was spouting blood all over the tree trunks!!!

An announcement over the loudspeakers sounded again and was muffled as Akitoshi was a bit deafened by the explosion. The whole scene that took place in front of him looked so unreal!! The body flailed its arms about before falling with some spasms and then lay still to the ground. The air was filled with thick blood, burning flesh and metal.

Akitoshi bent over on all fours as the pungent stench invaded his nostrils. He heaved and there was nothing left to go. His vomit came out like clam chowder and smelled like acidic Cheetos. Akitoshi blanched in the forest's heat and sank to his bottom, resisting touching his face with his soiled hands.

And he blacked out.