6 Chapter 6 - New PED (1/2)

Pain. There was nothing but pain.

(EVOLUTION COMPLETE.)

Something was licking his fingers.Everything burned.Rolling his head to the side, he opened his eyes to slits, and saw a small, six-legged lizard standing near his hand.It licked its lips, then, still watching his face, leaned down to bite his finger.The sun glinted off the silver and green stripes that covered its body as it's tiny needle teeth drew closer to his flesh.

”No,” he wheezed sharply.

It jumped a foot into the air, and scampered off.

Groaning softly, he rolled to his side, and tried to sit up.His left shoulder ached and his insides felt like they were filled with molten lead.A noise to his right, snapped him wide awake.It was the crunch of bones breaking.Turning his head, he saw a large four-legged dinosaur.Surely that's what it was.It had the elephant skin, the thick muscular legs, and the giant head filled with teeth.Sure, it was a bright purple with neon green stripes, but it just wanted to be fashionable.

Sliding slowly towards the opening behind him, where the snake had come from, he tried not to draw its attention.He watched it pick up the snake by the tail, and turn to leave.Swallowing, he heard a rustle behind him, from inside the hallow.A trio of smaller snakes slithered out, gazing at him curiously, and he froze.

Had the evolution with the snake material given him immunity to poison?He couldn't remember, it was all a haze.Back home, the baby snakes could kill a lot faster because they couldn't control how much venom they delivered in a bite.These things were bone white, and would have been terrifying without the prior experience with their parent.

After several minutes passed, and he still didn't move, they slithered off, leaving the burrow to him.Breathing hard, Dustin began to climb into the cavity between the fallen trees.Every movement hurt, and he wasn't sure why.Had something burrowed into him while he was out?

The back of the space was filled with leaf litter, so after resting a few minutes, he began scooping it out, and cleaning up the space.If it started raining, it would flood, so he had to figure out a way to waterproof it, and it would need a door.Hitting the soft dirt, he added a floor to his list.There would be plenty of time for all of that in the next year.The piled debris blocked any thing that tried to look in, from seeing him.For the first time he felt safe.

His eyes began to droop.Sleep would be good.

-Dreaming:

-”I'm so glad that bitch is gone!She was great in bed, but other than her ass, she didn't have much going for her.”He was talking to another guy on his phone.His girl was gone, having just broken up with him because she didn't want to have kids.She hadn't been the first.

-”She can rot in hell.I'll find some other chick to have kids with.”

-The guy on the phone didn't understand why he wanted kids.There were so many broads out there to bang, why settle down?

-”You know me, man, I've always wanted kids.I'm not going to be one of those baby daddy men.I want me a woman and a house full of kids.”

-He turned, suddenly in the living room by the fire, his phone gone.That bitch was back, screaming at him about what a loser he was.A paper appeared in his hand, that showed the confirmation of the abortion she had just gone and done.His hand started shaking.

”No.” He didn't want to relive it.But the dream went on.

-”You are such a dick!No one's going to settle down for you!You can't even keep a job!”Her words stung, because it was true.He couldn't keep a job.They all sucked.The things they all wanted him to do, he didn't want to do.