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Chapter 7 - 7. Survival- Part two

"SUZUMEEEE!!!!! WAKE UPP!!!!!! DANGERRRRR!!!" cried Shikito running towards her. Suzume, who was sleeping peacefully, got furious and slapped Shikito, "WHAT HAPPNENED?!?! WHY ARE YOU BARKING LIKE A DOG AGAIN?!?!"

Shikito screamed back, "RUN!!! TRIBES ARE APPROACHING, THEY'LL EAT US..... CANNIBALS!!!! ARGHHHAAHAHAAA". Suzume stared at Shikito..."T-That's some kind of a sick joke!!!" 

Right then, a wooden spear landed right next to unconscious Yuuma, slitting his shoulder... "YAHAHAHAAH!!!!! What the fuck!?!!?!?", cried Suzume as she started running, but returns back and pulls Yuuma by his legs and carries him... "Don't you think you should help, Shikito?!" Shikito, looking towards Suzume, "Aaahhh yesss!!" He grabs Yuuma's arms and both Suzume and Shikito carry him while running away... 

Chants turn into screams... Shadows in the fog are now visible humans, wearing ornaments made of animal bones, naked, running towards them... The screams of the tribes echoed, ""KRAA'THEN! KRAA'THEN!! UL-NAAK VA SERRI KHAI!!!" 

"WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?!? Shall i ask them???" joked Shikito, while running... "DO YOU THINK IT'S THE RIGHT TIME TO JOKE?!!!?! WE ARE BEING HUNTED" cried Suzume, tears streaming down her face.

A spear landed right next to Shikito's feet, slitting it. "ARGHAHAHAA THEY ARE SHOOTING SPEARS AGAIN!!!!" screamed Suzume... 

They ran into deeper into the forest, their feet tore through the brittle leaves, each crunch echoing like a warning through the dark forest. 

Shikito noticed the pebbles and rocks lying scattered in the area covered with dry leaves, and smirked. "Suzume, keep Yuuma under a tree, and throw rocks at them!!! Till then.... I'll find some flint stones and set this place on fire.... Thanks to the dry leaves..." instructs Shikito. Suzume nodded. 

As instructed, she finds some big stones and started to throw them at the cannibal tribes. The first stone hit a tribe right at his forehead, fracturing his skull and killing him instantly. The second stone hit at the leg of another tribe and he fell down. From the other side, Shikito started to throw stones too, while searching for flint stones... 

In retaliation, the tribes started to shoot spears and other weapons at them... A burning spear pierced through Suzume's right thigh. She screamed in pain... But she didn't stop throwing rocks at them...

 "SUZUME!!! CAREFUL!!!" screamed Shikito. "ARGHHH WHERE THE FUCK ARE THESE FLINT STONES!?!?!!" 

Suzume, sobbing in pain, picked a big rock, heavier than her itself, and threw it directly at the head of the Serrakha, the master spearperson. He effortlessly dodged the rock... Suzume had fainted in pain, the hot spear still stuck to her thigh, erupting out steam from the open wound, painting the whole leg red... 

Shikito ran towards Suzume, still throwing stones with high adrenaline.... As Shikito approached her, an injured tribe angrily threw a fire torch she was holding at Shikito, hitting his chest and setting him on fire... He screamed...

Suzume lay collapsed, spear burning her leg, Shikito on fire and screaming, while Yuuma, bitten and unconscious, drifted helplessly under the shadows of the Serrakha, whose bone-adorned silhouette loomed like death incarnate.

And for a single, horrifying heartbeat, the forest fell still… just enough for them to realize.... Tonight, there would be no mercy.

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