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Chapter 9 - A dark void

The giant monkey came rushing down from the tree to retrieve his hunted prey which is the corpse of the anti ant and dexter who is heavily injured

The monkey fell down the branches near him until he reached the tree's visible root in the ground

The giant monkey looked where dexter and the anti ant are supposed to be located. but all he can see is a giant grass and small trees blocking his way

Getting his food will be harder than the monkey thought it will be,

The monkey started to run. as he wishes that no other beast near him will try to snatch his prey

"What the!?"

Dexter wipe the dust hovering around him especially in his face. covering his line of sight

'Something came crushing down the giant ant,.....right?'

Dexter tried to recollect what happened but on how fast everything happened all he could see is flashes of light

As dexter think of what is happening right now 'maybe another beast found me as a food' is a thought that pass through Dexter's mind

Dexter felt a warm and soft sensation pressing in one of his hands while he's deep in his thought

"....?"

Dexter lifted his arm just to see a piece of flesh stuck in his hand to be specific dexter saw an ear

that made him remember of his own

"There's no way!!"

Dexter shouted when his mind wandered off to what is in his palm

"le..t me check just in case"

He mumbled as he slowly raise his arm and touched the place where his ear is supposed to be at

"...?"

Dexter felt a bizarre sensation in his finger so he immediately withdraw his arm just to see a finger he used to poke his ear covered in blood

"....."

Dexter hands trembled as he felt pain in his ears

"urrk"

"Shit!"

"What the hell it didn't feel like this earlier!"

Dexter shouted cause of the pain that suddenly arose in his ear for a reason even the one experiencing it have no clue

'Is it because of that poke?'

Dexter thought as he remember that he saw blood in his finger when he touch the place where his ear placement is

The dust surrounding him started to disappear but it still didn't completely disperse

Dexter looked where the anti ant is supposed to be and saw a giant stick attach to its head and green blood that can't be unseen is dispersed on the area around him like the fog surrounding him

'If this blood is all over the place.'

Dexter whispered as he look in the branches around the bushes that surround him. and saw the green blood dripping in the stick and black leaves of the bushes

Dexter sees his surrounding which is just a place full of branches. making it look like a normal jungle. if you ignore that the bush around is black and it also becomes completely alienated. as all the bushes near have already been painted by the green blood

'Wait if this blood is everywhere'

Dexter looked in his lower body to see what his expecting

Its cover in green blood but the paint of the green blood stops when it reaches Dexter's chest which doesn't have any muscle or fat cause he is too thin to have one of the two

'Dammit what else happened when that flash of light anyway'

Dexter thought and second later is the sudden trembling of the ground

"Another one!"

Dexter said as he remembered that the ground has already shaken earlier but didn't know the reason behind it

The ground near him started to crack away from the branch and the ant. separating him from the anti ant's corpse

*crack*

*crack*

The sound of the ground slowly spitting apart can be heard in Dexter's remaining ear cause his other one has been covered by a solidified blood clot

The ground slowly descend down

Dexter's body tumble and his arm started to be grease by the dirt in the ground

"ooooooh!"

Dexter groaned as he felt that his body is also splitting apart like the ground when he felt the trembling of his body. he then looks where the ground carrying him is going

Curious dexter looked where the ground is descending just to see a complete darkness

"What the hell!!"

Dexter shouted, cause his body was injured to the point where he can't move a single limb without getting hurt...well dexter can't feel pain anymore maybe because his brain was unable to process the thing happening all over his body

Unable to move all dexter could do is stare in the void that the ground is slowly going

"whoeew"

Dexter breathe heavily as he tried to crawl away he then shouted as he put his arm against the ground

"You thought this would kill me hah!!"

"I'm never going down that easily!!"

Dexter with his hand in the ground tried to crawl but all that happened is his arm slowly give in to tiredness, and the ground sped up its process of descending underground

"huh?"

Dexter said as the ground his stepping in turn to small pebble and mud

With nothing to step a hold into dexter came running down the void with nothing support him when he land at its bottom

"hwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

The monkey who is taking his time moving the branches ahead of him one by one to safely get to the location of his prey suddenly heard a scream

"haaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

It's exactly where his prey is. the anti ant is already dead so the only thing who could scream is the

Human

The monkey jump over and stood in the top of the bushes and looked where his prey is supposed to be and saw the anti ant but not the human

The monkey started to run in the top of the branches until he reached the exact place where his hunted prey is

The monkey didn't even look at the dead anti ant and started to walk past by it so he can see where his human prey is supposed to be

The monkey saw a cliff with its end completely pitch black

The human is a once in a lifetime opportunity for the monkey so he runs sideways to see if he can find another way to enter that pitch-black cliff without jumping where his human prey fall into

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