Chapter I
Andy stood holding his tears as he put his final torch in the snow-infested forests. His mother lay with her eyes frostd from the intense blizzard that struck the forest yesterday. “Kid, ye gotta fill yer mum’s duty”, said his father, who is careless about his childrens. Only spending his day eating and drinking leftover beers.
The fire fought against the wind, a reminiscent of the Fokker Scourge appeared above the ashes. “Hold on, hon. I’m getting some water tonight”, he remembered her last words to him. Five hours she hadn’t come back, and he felt something was wrong. So he venture out into the cold wilderness, where he found his mum floating face down on cold waters. Glancing up a bit, he could see a rough slope where his mum footsteps went into. His mind tells him that she fell and was shocked by the cold so bad that it kills her.
Andy and his brother watch as his mom essences floats into the sky. into the mythical world known as The Sumbra, a heaven for kind and hard-working people like his mum. “Does that mean were never going to see mum again?”, said his brother Jackson. Andy think of words to comfort his brother, “No, Jack. Mum is just……having a vacation in the heavens”. Jackson began to clear a smile in eyes. “That’s cool…….i hope she brings more deer meats”. It’s great to see his brother felt positive in the midst of sorrow.
After the burning ceremony, he and his family walked back to their home. His father becomes more recluse and aggressive towards him. Whenever Jackson was away playing in the garden whenever a little bit of warmth can be sense. His father would hold him to the cabin’s wall. “Your mum died……because of you……and your spoiled way of living”, in each interlude the words gets harsher and his fist clenched harder on his neck. He wants to fight his dad, but his mum always tells him that he always love his childrens, albeit he never shows it. After weeks of being tormented like this, he could hardly believe that
One day, Andy had finished hunting his deers to feed his family, while his father lay near dead on his sofa when he accidentally mix ice water to his sofa. They couldn’t afford to go to the doctor, both logistically and financially. All he could do is lift with all of his strength to the sofa. His muscles nearly rip out of his body and he collapses to the floor for sometimes before regaining consciousness.
“Jackson, don’t go too far, aight. Or ye will encounter wild boars and wolfs”, but his scream fell on deaf ears. Jackson had already sled his way downhill. “Ah, bollocks!”, he said to himself. The hill down south is infested with wild and exotic creatures that can tear a man flesh in minutes. He never been down south, but rumours of wild mechanical bulls leftover from a crop industry ran wild in the snow. Winter came and that crop industry went bankrupt almost instantly.
So he picked up his pace and make his way down south. He wished he can sled his way down south but the branches were suspiciously designed so that only smaller kids like Jackson could fit. A big youth like Andy would’ve sliced his face by the branch. Mom always taught him survival skills since he was a kid, so he knows what to do and not what to do. The air smell of a terrible stench, dead animals must’ve filled this place. So he ought to be more careful
Down at the base, he immedieatly went into the bushes when wolfs hunted two deers at the same time, where its blood sprinkled into his face. “Gosh, i wanna puke right now”, but throwing up now would’ve attracted the more dangerous wild boars, whose nose can smell shit from a mile away. “Alrighty, there Andy, gotta stay calm”. He moves slowly under the branches, along the bushes, to the place where the trees grow so large it nearly block out the sun. Darkness ensued, and Andy have to rely more on noise and smell.
The endless midnight prevented him from telling which time is it. Is it one or two hours. Where did Jack go? He could barely tell. Jack had been lost at least a couple times in the past. But he was always very easy to found. But this time, Jack was nowhere. The snow already started to found a mountain on his snow leather hat, and when he shrug it off, the snow formed a lil’ blizzard that spreads it out.
“Crap, it must’ve been night already”, he could tell from the expanding shadow that appears in the dim twilight forest. He could hear creepy noises of grizzly bears having a all-out fight to the death with the Northern Tiger, which is like Siberian Tiger but is more aggressive and 1,2 times bigger than the Siberian tiger counterpart. He had to move when an incoming bear almost fell on his face. It was disfigured, his eyes had been gouged out by the tiger, and his bowel sliced open, grossly revealing his insides out. Now Andy really wants to puke, he finds a ravine that leads to a waterfall and he threw up with all his glory
Proceed he was, “Where did Jack went?”, its only thirty minutes since Jack sled his way to the hill. But it took like a couple hours for the search operations, and Jack wasn’t found yet. His instinct hides him when a couple of wolf walked in beside him, with noses sniffing on the snow. Glad he was wearing a wolf-perfume to hide him from the snow. There he try to dig the snow, but to his distraught he found no dirt, nor stone. The winter had entered its first decade by now, 60% of all species have went extinct, at least to the newspaper from 7 months ago. Surviving species now have survived by adapting some form of hibernation, animals like dogs and wild winter cats have grown fatter and bulkier than before.
There he was distracted when three wolf ran beside him. Something must’ve gone on down there at the valley. Then a unison of an acapella of howl stringed through the air, tingling his dying ear. He was curious about the wolf’s behaviour. So he went down to the valley, keeping his head down. More wolf came by and they stood in a circular pattern, and there the howl turn into a human cry, there he found Jack, getting ready to be eaten
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