Fifteen Journey - Chapter 10

Rick slowly opened his eyes. His head was really hurting him. He was lying on the soil with some trees near and a mountain far away from him. He knew that forest: it was the game’s official place. ‘Where to go now?’
He stand up and dusted his clothes. Now ways of life could be seen in that insecure wood. Rick hold tightly Thynia and decided to adventure in the deep vegetation.
When thinking there wasn’t life in a ray of kilometres, he heard something. It was running away from Rick, ‘That thing must be scared…’ and decided to follow it. It ran really fast. The dense vegetation was hurting Rick with its thorns. Still, the little creature could lead him to civilization. At least, that was what he hoped to…
The distance was getting smaller. The creature was right away him…
In front of him…
Trapped…
Rick managed to catch the creature. It was shaking with fear. It was a little light brown dog. It seemed it was born some hours ago by his size.
“Oh are you lost? Here have this…”
Rick gave the small puppy some of his dinner. Food was another problem because Rick would not be able to survive.
“I’ve eaten it all?!!!” Rick was surprised with the rapidity he had eaten all his dinner!
“Nooo, I don’t have nothing to eat!”
Rick was hopeless but the puppy seemed to have some kind of solution…
“Where are you going?”
Rick followed the puppy. The woods were almost finishing…
“What is this THIS?!!!”
A huge village was raised in front of him. What was that doing there? Isn’t this the games’ woods? As for the puppy, it had disappeared.
Rick entered in the village.
“Hey, kid, are you a player?” a middle age grow-up asked Rick.
“Yeah, I’m number seven…”
“Come on in” the adult said inviting Rick into a bar “I guess you need some explanations…”
Rick entered. For his surprise, many old ones were waiting and smiling at him, others were disturbed with something.
“Have a seat.” Rick automatically did it. “I suppose you have a lot of questions to do…”
He had in fact…
“First, we are here as helpers to avoid you from dying from starvation and also to help you if you are hurt or something. We can also inform you if another player is nearby or not. In conclusion, we are every candidates’ assistance.”
Rick could not speak. Those people were risking their lives to save the players’ ones. For his astonishment, they were all laughing and smiling at each other. It seemed that the world was perfect. And Rick felt comfortable as he never thought we would…

“No, why me?”
Kane was sat in his desk trying to do his work. He had been hired in about 2 months and could not disappoint his boss. Still, we had been working for about 6 hours in his design project and wanted to pause.
“Forget the work, I want fun!”
He got out of his rented room and decided to check out how the players were doing. He just hoped Dick and his cousin were ok…
The stage was still there. The crowd was checking if their candidate was doing well, so it was difficult to Kane to see something. Somehow, Kane reached the dynamic map and analysed it.
Dick was ok, he was moving to a helper village and no enemies could be seen around him.
Kane was almost stepping to get to his room again, when he remembered Rick.
“No…”
Number 3 was approaching Rick’s dot really fast…

Next Chapter:
Rick’s first battle is about to begin, against Number 3. What is 3’s art? Will Rick be able to defeat him? Stay tuned for more Fifteen Journey!

Author’s Note:
This is, probably, my last chapter before going on holiday. Please comment as a Christmas gift!