Primal games: How i became the greatest caveman

Joji chewed down the last of his fish, the taste of which almost made him forget he was in a video game. He got on his feet, picked up his spear, and continued his walk.

The mist was all gone now, and what lay in front of him was green vegetation, but in the distance, he could see a brown and vast land sprawled across the island.

He heard the screeching of pterodactyls; he looked up and saw them circling overhead. Luckily for him, he was in the forest and there was no way for them to come down here. Chances are they couldn't even see him.

He walked for a while admiring the rare fauna of the environment; the air felt fresh and constantly renewed amongst the trees; he could hear flies buzzing, and he also saw a couple of fly traps to boot. After a long while of walking, he rested on a tree to catch his breath.

As he rested, he could hear something brushing against the grass; he looked around but could not see anything; the place was dim due to the large trees blocking out the sunlight.

Then a fruit fell before him, he picked it up and wondered if it was edible. He looked at it. It wasn't the least bit familiar; it looked like a pear but colored like an apple, and it sinks and faintly shiny silver hairs that were on it stuck to his finger.

Suddenly, he felt the air get hotter, and the sudden rise in temperatures alarmed him. Every hair on his body stood on end and he knew something was close; he looked around, left to right, but saw nothing, then more fruits fell, and it finally occurred to him that he slowly looked up to the tree.

The yellow burning eyes of a serpent stabbed him like daggers made of fear, and a coldness descended on his whole body. It was too large, too large to exit.

A large brown snake seemingly bigger than the tree he rested on. It wrapped itself around it all this time. How long has it been there? He thought. What do I do?

He slowly and calmly reached for his spear, but the snake started hissing; its head looked bigger than Joji's whole body. How do I get out of this? He slowly moved his finger on the grass, all the while keeping his eyes fixed on the serpent. Not a breather, not a break. Joji knew in this world he wasn't going to catch any.

He felt through the grass; the snake moved its head closer, its tongue stuck out and flickered, tossing beads of spit on Joji's face; he gulped. He finally touched his spear, grabbed it, and tightened his grip.

He felt it; any moment now, I'll strike me; I can't let it kill me, no. His only plan was to swing his spear and take off running as fast as he could, he knew the giant snake would catch up to him quickly, so he planned to run in a zigzag pattern, forcing it to twist and turn around the tree.

If he was lucky enough, he could get it caught up in one of the trees, but as the sand pool and the raptor had shown, he was very far from lucky.

Joji could hear his heartbeat. This was going to be the craziest thing he'd ever done. In a flash, he saw the fangs coming at him. His stamina had improved immensely from escaping the sand pool, and so had his speed; he jumped to the side, swinging his green crystal spear.

He didn't see it, but it cut past the fang and through the side of the snake's mouth as it closed its jaws to grab him, but his jump had him out of harm's way. He went into a run immediately, darting off like a bullet as the snake chased after him.

He heard a sharp hiss behind him like the snake was throwing foul words at him, cursing him for escaping. Joji felt the snake so close to him that he couldn't look back. He feared the sight of it would paralyze him, but in fact, its jaws were wide open from its judgment. It was close enough to snatch Joji once and for all.

But Joji darted leftwards, changing his position at a rapid pace; he heard the snake's jaws shut, and the force from it sent a jet of heated air clashing against his back. Ironically, they gave him chills.

The snake changes direction in an instant with flexibility granted for such rapid change of pace and direction. Joji remembered all his encounters with snakes; they'd been a secondary fear of his since watching snake theme B movies as a kid.

There was also the time he killed his friend's pet, which was a python. In his defense, the snake had crawled in bed with him and could itself between its legs; he had dreamt an elf maiden was giving him a good time, but when he woke up, he wondered why he still felt her hand on his crotch.

Slipping off the covers, he jumped off the bed at the sight of the brown, black-spotted python; it did not live much longer after that; he took his friend's wrestling trophy and smashed it head-on with the base of it.

His friends woke up from the commotion and he received a heavy beating from a state wrestling champion. But this was nothing like that, there was no living to fight another day. Shit! He thought I didn't even check my life.

He took another left turn, and the snake followed him; it was hurt on his tail. He took another turn that he hoped would disorient the snake or at least make him a nuisance to it but it kept on with its pursuit.

Joji could see an end to the forest; no, it was a gap, realized; he could hear a thundering turmoil of what sounded like crashing water in the distance.

A waterfall? He thought, again, he had found himself nestled between two dangers; how do I keep ending up in this sorta position? He got an uncanny alarm, an intense feeling of pressure that lit up his senses like a fuse, and he dived to the right, and the snake's head crashed against the earth.

Joji was on his belly, and without taking a look at the snake, he quickly got up and ran off; the snake shook its head and went after him.

He badly wanted to stay away from the gap and the waterfall, but the snake didn't give him a chance; its pressure was immense, and Joji could feel himself slowing down; his stamina was getting to its limit.

The snake had cornered him, unintentionally forcing him to run towards the gap. Joji had no choice; he may have a chance at surviving the waterfall, he thought, but the snake would definitely kill him and slowly too.

To his great surprise and joy, he spotted a bridge, he could avoid the waterfall entirely, but the snake still loomed behind. It threw its entire weight at Joji, propelling itself on the grass like a bullet; Joji felt the fangs close in on him.

In a flash, he was engulfed in the shadow of the monster's jaws. He jumped to the side brushing past the tip of its mouth. He landed behind a tree, and as the snake tried to adjust, it crashed the side of its head, hard against the tree.

Joji looked back at the side of the monster's head as blood poured out his wounds and into its eye, it glistened amongst its shining brown scales.

Its other eye blared with a primal rage that the green flash coldly conveyed; Joji got the message; he was meant to be lunch.

He swung his spear at it, nicking the tip of its snout, then took off running; the tree broke off and fell to the side as the snake gave chase. Joji was almost at the bridge, he glanced back and saw the snake already in his shadow.

He put his last bit of stamina in, the snake it jaws and narrowly missed again as Joji took a turn, ruining in zig zags and having the snake entangle himself in a tree, but it only slid against them, with great friction rocking the trees and losing more than a few scales in the process.

Joji darted for the bridge. The tree had slowed down the snake a bit, and a decent gap had formed between them.

It was a rope bridge, and he swayed as he got on. He felt it creak, and he looked down to see a faint cloud of dust rise from the wood under his leg.

He saw the depth of the river raging down to the waterfall, a different fear shook him and he felt like he couldn't go on any further, but he heard the snake tugging on the tree

He turned back, and his eyes lit up; it worked, he thought; it really worked; I got him tangled. The trees that held the giant snake swayed, crashing against other trees, and Joji knew it wasn't going to last long; the snake hissed and cursed at him. Joji could see down its throat and that was enough reason to get the hell out of there.

He ran across the bridge, and halfway through, he heard the trees break and fall; he turned back and saw the snake ready to propel itself at him as its green eyes flared with rage.