《The Real Life Manga》


 Chapter 1: A Not So Normal Day In Chiba

    The Real Life Manga: Chapter 1


    "Akio Fujimara!"


    It was my turn, I got up from my desk & walked towards the teacher.


    He was sitting in his old black office chair, right in front of the old blackboard. He looked at me all the way up to his desk. I grabbed my grades & silently went back to my own desk.


    I looked down at the white piece of paper.... I got a C. I''ve never been the best in school, I guess that is part of why I started writing mangas. That is bout'' the only thing i''m good at.


    "Sashi Sugiyama!"


    It was Sashis turn. I instantly noticed her when she got up from her chair.


    Her dark black hair & blue eyes, were impossible not to notice. Her kinda gothic clothing style, was unique to her too. No one else in the school could pull off a black dress with a bit of red, & some long black socks going all the way up to her knees. I guess my clothing style is kinda dark too, now that I think about it. Black jacket, white shirt, & black pants. That is what i always wear. I guess it''s kinda greasy too.


    But Sashis clothing style, fit her personality well, & even though she isn''t anything like me, we are still best friends.


    Sashi grabbed the piece of paper with her name on it & walked back to her desk.


    She just sat there looking at it. Like always i couldn''t exactly tell how she felt. She is impossible to read. I went back to looking out the window & waited for class to end.


    Maybe that is part of why i don''t get that great grades. But hey atleast i can write manga.


    "Rrriiiiinnggg!"


    As soon as the school bell rang, everyone rushed outside. Except for me and Sashi.


    She was still sitting in her seat, with her beautiful black dress.


    "Sashi..? Should we go?"


    "Yeah, coming"


    She got up from her chair & picked up her bag & swung it over the right shoulder.


    When we got outside we said farewell to our fellow classmates & started walking home.


    "So Akio, what manga are you working on now?"


    "You remember the one i told you about a couple months ago, that i said i might not finish?"


    "Yeah..."


    "Well, i finished it. It''s about a guy named Emiru Hashimura, he is inspired by myself, as you might already know by his name. He also kinda looks & acts like me. Black jacket, white shirt & the black pants & shoes."


    Sashi looked at my face with a weird expression, & a little while after silently came out with a "Can you get more selfish?"


    I looked back at her with an angry look on my face. I know she is just joking around, but that still kinda hurt.


    "Anyway! He lives in a world called Aneraz & the rest is something you are gonna have to figure out yourself, when you read the book!"


    "Who says i''m gonna read it?"


    "Whaa!!?" I stopped & looked at her, like some kind of maniac. But she just looked back with her usual face, that looks like she is about to go to sleep.


    "Calm down, jerky face. Haven''t i read all of your other mangas?"


    i looked at her calmly & started walking again.


    We finally reached my house.


    It was a typical Japanese house with 2 floors. It was white & you could see all of my anime collectibles in my window. Sashi hated them, saying i was obsessed with fictional girls with rather large boobs.


    We walked up the steps & entered my room. My bed was on the right, & my shelves with my own & other peoples mangas on the left. In the middle was my window & all of my anime stuff.


    Sashi looked at the stuff in the window & then slowly turned her head towards me. I was sitting in my bed with my laptop, that i wrote all of my manga on.


    I could feel her eyes upon me & slowly moved my eyes up, noticing how she was staring at me.


    "What?" I bursted out.


    "Nothing.... You''re just still obsessed with anime chests that''s all."


    "Will you ever stop saying that?"


    She looked at me with a small smile. "Probably not."


    I logged onto my laptop & opened my mail. I had mail from my publishers, saying something about my new manga has been leaked on the web.


    Stolen from its rightful author, this tale is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.My jaw fell to the ground & i opened it as fast as i could.


    Sashi noticed how i started sweating. "what is wrong?"


    I could barely hear her, i was so afraid that it was already out somewhere on the internet. This is possibly my best manga yet & it''s not finished yet.


    Sashi walked towards me, she couldn''t see my face because it was buried in my black laptop.


    I could hear her high heels getting closer. She sat next to me & i could feel her blue eyes staring at me. I was still sweating.


    "Akio calm down you are sweating like when you run for five meters, & we both know that is a lot."


    I opened the mail & was redirected to a weird website. Sashi still sat next to me, looking at me with her usual sleepy face.


    "ACCESS DENIED"


    "Huh...?"


    I looked at the screen not being able to understand what just happened.


    I closed the website & tried again.


    "ACCESS DENIED"


    Then my laptop shut down.


    "NO! no no no no! Please don''t"


    "Akio... Would you calm down? It''s getting weird"


    "NO! what might possibly have been my breakthrough to becoming world famous, might just have been leaked!"


    "Why is that such a big deal? Just write a new one"


    I slowly turned my head towards her & looked her straight in the eyes. Even though her black hair & blue eyes were traumatising, then i had to remember what had just happened.


    "I can not just write a new one" i said in a very low, sound level.


    "I can never write the same thing twice & if it''s already out, then what is the point?


    I could hear & feel Sashi taking a deep breath & getting up from the bed & getting back into the chair.


    She just sat there looking at me like she was waiting for something.


    "Turn your PC back on and check again" she said.


    "Alright, yeah..."


    I looked back down at the black laptop & pressed the power button.


    "please, please, please,"


    It worked! The laptop started. A sarcastic "you''re welcome" could be heard from Sashis chair.


    I didn''t even look at her or acknowledge what she said.


    The laptop had started but, all of my video games & everything else, was gone. Except for 2 files.


    The one where i was writing my new manga, & one that said.


    "Have a nice journey"


    I opened up the file where i was writing my manga, still sweating like a pig & could still feel Sashi staring at me. Waiting for me to say something.


    I noticed how it didn''t get opened with the usual program i write manga on.


    There was a note in the bottom saying


    "WRITE THE LAST LINE OF YOUR MANGA & DELETE THIS"


    I was shaking, blut slowly moved my hand down on the mouse & deleted the text & wrote down the last line, in what could possibly be my breakthrough as a manga writer.


    Even though i was just a 19 year old boy, it was still very possible to become a famous author.


    "ENTER"


    I had clicked & had finished my new manga masterpiece.


    I slowly looked up at Sashi, still shaking.


    "So... Did it get leaked?"


    "No... i don''t thi..."


    "WHOOSH!"


    A big whole shining bright with white & pink, just opened up in the middle of my floor.


    This is the first time in years i''ve seen Sashi make an expression that doesn''t say ''I''m tired''


    We looked at each other, with our chins stuck to the floor like magnets.


    We were starting to get sucked in.


    "Akio... What the f##k did you just do?" she said surprisingly calm.


    I looked at her with a completely pale face & my chin still stuck to the floor.


    I could barely speak.


    "I.... I don... i don''t know..."


    "But it''s definitely not good because it''s sucking us in!"


    "Do something Akio!"


    We both screamed but no one seemed to be able to hear us, & suddenly everything went black.


    End of chapter 1


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 Chapter 2: Welcome to Aneraz

    The Real Life Manga: Chapter 2


    Everything went black.


    We finally got our eye sight back, and looked at each other unaware of what had just happened.


    I looked over at Sashi. She looked the same. Black hair, shining blue eyes and her black and red dress, was the exact same. I still don''t know what just happened, but we looked the same.


    Sashi then looked back at me, with an overly confused facial expression.


    "Akio... What just happened?"


    "I still don''t know."


    I looked around and this was not my room.


    We were in an open space, with pavestones around us and a fountain in the middle with four angels spitting water in each direction. Around the open space were buildings build right next to each other, they were actually all connected.


    It looked like middle Europe and had a very european feeling to it.


    Nobody walked around the same clothes as Sashi and me, either. It looked like something from the medieval era. But where in the world are we? If we are even still in the same world.


    While looking around, Sashi called my name.


    "Akio?"


    "Yeah what''s up?" I said still being very confused about what happened.


    "In your new manga, you said something about a main city or town called Coptenburg. Right?"


    I looked at Sashi with an even more confused face, having no clue what she was about to say next.


    "Well, Akio... We might just be in your manga, because that old wooden sign there says Welcome to Coptenburg. So great job asswipe, your hacker just got us stuck in your damn manga. "


    My face went even more pale than when i just got sunken into a hole, in the middle of my room.


    "No fucking... way...."


    "Yes fucking way, now find us a way out of here. I''m gonna be at the inn over there, so find me when you know how we get out."


    She turned her back against me and walked towards the inn right across the town square.


    I looked at her all the way to the inn hoping she was joking around and would turn back towards me, but she didn''t.


    I looked around the square again and found a little side street and decided to head down it.


    The road was very small and could barely fit 2 people next to each other.


    When I finally got out on the other side, there were stalls everywhere.


    "Get the finest weapons for the finest price!!"


    "Buy low, get an amazing deal on armour here! Don''t go to Aigils he''ll rip you off!"


    "get your potions here!"


    It all looked very familiar. Could it be, that I was actually inside of my new manga?


    My face was still pale and I was still very confused, but decided to walk down the small long road, with stalls and old wooden houses on both sides, mashed together.


    The houses did actually look like the ones i drew, in my manga.


    Stone foundation, wooden walls and hay on the roof tops.


    It is not anything like Chiba. This place is amazing. Though I still don''t hope I have to spend too much time here.


    A little longer down the road, I found an open building. There were no doors, you could just walk in. So I did. I instantly felt warm, and could hear the drunk travellers from all the way over in the other end of the building. I quickly noticed i had entered an inn. There were lanterns hanging on each wall, and a wooden bar with tall wooden chairs & lots & lots of tables and chairs.


    The story has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.It was called ''The Drunken Yard Inn.'' The exact same name of the inn that my main character from my manga hang out around a lot. The more time I spend in this place, the more I start to think, that i''m actually inside of my new manga. This is unbelievable.


    I went up to the bar and sat on one of the tall stools, looking around the dark inn, only lit up by the lanterns on the walls.


    I thought I might as well ask the bartender, where I actually was, now that i''m here.


    "Bartender!"


    "Yes sir, what can I do for you?" A tall slim guy, with an overly fine moustache & a small amount of hair, turned around.


    "Where.. Where am I?"


    "What do you mean sir? You are in Coptenburg. The biggest town in Aneraz."


    My face went pale.


    So it is true. I am in my new manga, I am inside of the world of Aneraz.


    "Excuse me sir? Are you alright?" The bartender looked worringly at me.


    "Huh...? Yeah, yeah i''m good. But could you tell me something? How do I get out of this ''Aneraz'' world?" His facial expression quickly got even more worrying. His eyes started to open wide and he suddenly started whispering.


    "Do you not know how you got here?"


    "No. I don''t"


    "Could it be that you are the one? Follow me, we have to see the wizard of Coptenburg."


    I raised one of my eyebrows.


    "Why?" I asked him, with a confused look on my face, and my eyebrow still raised.


    "You are the creator. You need to see the wizard."


    "Ehm, alright but one question first. Have you seen a girl walk in here with clothes, looking nothing like the rest of you people?"


    He looked up, thinking for a moment and suddenly bursted out,


    "Ah! Yeah she is sitting over there, by the corner table."


    "Good, she is going with us."


    "Sure sir, sure."


    I went up from the stool and the bartender opened the bar door and walked out the bar, following me through the slightly dark inn, on it''s wooden plank floors.


    "Sashi, you were right, we are in Aneraz and we have to see the wizard. He will know how to get us out. So let''s go, our Aneraz adventure starts here, sleepy face."


    "You gotta be fucking kidding me."


    "Nope, now let''s go!"


    I grabbed Sashis arm and pulled her up from the chair, her eyes opened wide and she spit out her coffee on her way up from the seat. All the way out the inn, I could feel her blue eyes staring at me, from my back and hear her black high heeled boots, on the wooden floor.


    We finally reached the wizards tower, a little outside town.


    Sashi was still staring me in the neck, but I decided to ignore her.


    The wizards tower, is like what you would imagine.


    A tall tower, with a round roof and a pointy thing on the top. It was made of cracked and mossy cobblestone and had a little spiral stairway leading up into the tower entrance.


    I had designed this thing myself, but seeing it in person is something completely different.


    The End of Chapter 2

 Chapter 3: The Beginning of An Adventure

    The Real Life Manga: Chapter 3


    "Well, this is it. The wizard tower of Coptenburg. Just walk up the steps & tell him who you are. I''ll walk back to the inn, come visit me anytime!"


    We waved goodbye to the tall bartender, & his fine moustache, & turned our heads back towards the giant wizard tower. There was a small spiral staircase, made of both big & small stones, leading up to the round edged dark wooden door.


    Me & Sashi walked up the steps & looked at the tower & the surrounding forest.


    We reached the door & knocked. "Knock Knock"


    The door went up & in the other end of the room were an old man, in a long gray coat & some kind of gray wizard top hat. He was standing behind an old desk overrun with old books & some spell pages, it seemed like. There is no doubt, that this is the wizard.


    You can''t even see the walls unless you look straight up, because of all the bookshelves & book towers everywhere. It was a complete mess, but i''m sure this guy keeps track of his stuff.


    Somehow...


    The door behind me & Sashi started squeeking & slowly closed. A warm breeze swiftly went through the room, making it nice & cozy.


    The old wizard turned around & looked at me & Sashi, there is no doubt that this is the wizard from my manga. His name is Rinto Hokoshima, & is 87 years old.


    He had a bunch of wrinkles on his face, & of course the long white beard reaching down to his knees.


    I quickly remembered a special feature I gave this guy. He is wearing no shoes, he is running around barefeet. I''m not sure why I did that, but I guess it was to make him a little unique.


    "You are the creator, Yes?"


    At first I didn''t realise he was talking to me, because I was so overwhelmed, about this place but I quickly noticed & answered him as fast as I could.


    "Eh.. yes! I am. Do you know me?"


    "Yes, and I know why you are here."


    "Really? Can you tell us how to get out?"


    "Yeah. If you want to I can get you out right now."


    Both me & Sashi looked happily at him, both smiling like kids on christmas eve.


    "Really?"


    "Yes, follow me."


    The old wizard went behind one of the many bookshelves & behind it was an old wooden staircase, literally being part of the bookshelf. It was squeeking a lot, really giving it an old feeling. We reached the top & it looked like some kind of laboratory.


    All sorts of machines & scrolls & no windows, being completely isolated & only lit up by all the weird colored substances.


    "Step onto my machine over there in the corner, it''ll get you out."


    Neither me nor Sashi asked any questions & walked towards the wooden machine, with a round open spot & some weird looking thing above our heads. Right next to us was some kind of big glass, holding green liquid. Even though I have designed it, I still have no idea what the hell it actually is.


    The old man walked over on the other side of the machine, behind the green substance & yelled "ready?"


    Me and Sashi looked at each other. "Yeah, send us away!"


    The old man pulled a lever, making the green substance, bubble & making the round thing above our heads make a noice & suddenly the whole machine started shaking.


    BRRRUUUM. CLIIIIING. WOOSH.


    Neeeeewww....


    The machine suddenly stopped


    "..?"


    I looked over at Sashi & she looked just as confused as me.


    "Oh no, the machine must have broken down. Just you wait there, i''ll get what I need, I think I have it laying around here somewhere."


    The old man ran down the stairs, leaving, me & Sashi up here in the isolated room, with all the machines.


    Sashi decided to just sit down & try to fall asleep. I looked over at her, with an annoyed look on my face. "Really, Sashi?"


    "What? Just because we might be stuck here doesn''t mean I can''t take a nap. Now leave me alone & wake me up when the freak gets back."


    She closed her eyes & went to sleep, sitting up against the wall, behind the machine.


    A while after you could hear the old staircase squeeking.


    It was the wizard that came back up. I could see he had a worrying look on his face, even though he looked down into the wooden floor most of the time.


    "I''m afraid i''ve run out of Sapzark Ingots. You know what that is right?"


    I quickly went from ''less happy'', to looking completely fucked.


    "Yeah. I thought so. Well without it, I can''t get you two out of here, & i''ve gotten too old to get it & no one else in this town dares to try, not even the highest levelled people in this world."


    That is right! I completely forgot! People in my manga have levels, & spells. It was like a video game. Maybe I had levels too then & an inventory & spells & skills & everything.


    I reached out with my left hand, saying the magic word. "Menu"


    And surely a white menu popped up, showing my name, weapons & amour slots & an inventory. In the top right, it showed my level too. Sashi probably had it too, but since the damn girl is sleeping, we can''t check. And i''ve learned one thing through the years being of being Sashis best friend, don''t wake her up in the middle of a nap. Even though she told me to wake her up, then I probably shouldn''t.


    Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.I closed my menu & looked at the wizard with a serious face.


    "I''m getting out, I don''t belong here & I wanna get home... I''ll get the Sapzark Ingots, from the dragons nest outside Mashisho."


    "Are you su.." the wizard didn''t even get to finish his sentence, before I had already interrupted him.


    "Yes. I''m sure & Sashi is going too."


    "Well, alright then, if that is what you wanna do. But you can''t go out, looking like that."


    He looked up & down my body & my 21st century clothes.


    He then raised his hand & snapped his fingers. Suddenly a light started sparkling around me & Sashi over in the corner, spinning us around & poof! New medieval clothes.


    "There we go. That shouldn''t draw unnecessary attention."


    "Thanks. I''ll get you your Sapzark Ingots."


    "Well it''s not gonna be easy, & as you already know, this is isn''t gonna happen in just a day. You gotta level up first & get the right gear & everything. But I wish you the best of luck. Both of you."


    "well, there is just one more thing I need, & that is for Sashi to wake the fuck up."


    "Let me." The wizard pushed me aside looking over at sashi & snapping his fingers again. Suddenly Sashi sprang up, from the ground like some kind of car suspension.


    "ARRGH!"


    "Calm down sashi, we are going on an adventure, in our new lives here in Aneraz."


    She raised an eyebrow looking at me like I was some kind of moron.


    "What do you mean our new lives & why am I wearing this old dress?"


    "Well we have to get Sapzark Ingots & you can only get that from the dragons nest, outside of Mashisho, but you have to be at least level 50 for that. And your new medieval dress, is so that we fit in & don''t draw unnecessary attention."


    "Well travellers, I wish you both good luck on your jouney through Aneraz."


    "Thanks!" I smiled at the old wizard, standing there in his barefeet & long white beard.


    "Well, we better get going then. It was nice meeting you old man."


    "Haha you too my friend, you too."


    "Let''s go Sashi," I grabbed her arm pulling her all the way down the squeeking stairs, back down to the old library/office & outside the door.


    I waved goodbye to the wizard, let go of Sashis arm since she was clearly pissed & headed back towards the town. Our adventure starts here.


    To get back to Coptenburg, you have to pass through a tiny forest, with surprisingly tall trees, & a small gravel road with street lanterns. But it was a nice little forest trip, before entering the big town again.


    When we had passed through the forest we reached one of the big gates of Coptenburg & were back at the big town square. We had to get armour to start our adventure. But none of us knew where to get that.


    "Wait!"


    I quickly remembered the long road with all of the stalls, selling all kinds of stuff. But we needed money, we had no money.


    "Never mind, we need money. Any ideas on how to get money?"


    "I don''t know Akio, how about a job?"


    "Yeah but what kind of job, would we get here?"


    "Hmmm" Sashi was thinking about it for a moment while I was looking around the town square, maybe stumbling upon a job. Hopeless but I had to try something.


    "The inn? How about the guy with the moustache at the inn?"


    "Oh yeah, you think he''d let us work there for some time?"


    "Well let''s hope he does."


    We decided to take the back entrance to the inn, so that we could look at sword & armour prices while getting there, so I showed Sashi direction to the long road, that actually seemed to be going all the way around the big town square, but behind the first row of houses.


    It seems like the cheapest swords here was made of simple iron, & cost around 20-35 gold pieces. That shouldn''t be hard to get, but the armour.... That is something completely different. The cheapest chest piece, cost around 100 gold pieces, let''s hope the inn guy pays well.


    We reached the inn & found the tall slim bartender asking if we could work here for some time. He looked around the dark inn, thinking about it for a while & finally saying yes.


    Me & Sashi could sleep in one of the rooms upstairs.


    Right behind the bar was a staircase, that led up to a hallway with about 5 rooms on each side. Not really big rooms, but there was enough space for me & Sashi to sleep, for the next 3 months.


    It was late & we had to start tommorrow already, so we decided to sleep.


    Sashi sat on the edge of her bed, on the right side of the room, looking over at me.


    "What kind of farmers clothes is that? I mean an old dark green long sleeved shirt, ripped brown pants & some nasty looking shoes ahaha!"


    "Look at your dress Sashi, it''s the same color as my shirt & is plain & boring. Go to sleep, we have to get up at around 06:00 tommorrow. Good night."


    "Night Akio."


    End of Chapter 3

 Chapter 4: Level 15

    The Real Life Manga: Chapter 4


    "LEVEL 15 REACHED"


    I pulled the sword out of the back of the ice boar and saw it fade away, then a small white menu window popped up, telling me I got a new in-game message. I had reached level 15.


    I am constantly getting closer to level 50, and closer to getting the Sapzark Ingots. I should probably get to a level higher than 50 when going for the ingots anyway, so still some time till I get there.


    I walked over the open grass field surrounded by a forest, with my sword on my back on my way back to Sashi asking how she was doing on the level part, of this world.


    The field had quite a bunch of hills, so it took a while.


    I reached Sashi who was in the other end of the field, with huge mountains in the back.


    You could barely see the top of them, but you could just exactly see that there was snow on the top.


    Sashi was still farming ice boars, kinda'' ironic, how there is ice boars out here on a grass field. Not sure why I put them there, but now they are there and since I am stuck in my manga, I currently can''t do anything about it.


    "Sashi! What level are you?"


    Sashi pulled her black longsword with gray edges out of the head of a dead boar, while turning her head against me, swinging the now bloody sword over her right shoulder.


    "Just reached level 15... How are you doing?"


    "Good, just got to level 15 too. We should head back to the little village and get the new armour, we have plenty of money now too after all this farming."


    "Yeah we probably should. But let''s make it a little fun. Now that we have some abilities to fuck around with, then how about I race you to the village."


    "Alright Sashi, let''s line up then. Through the forest, alongside the river and then into the village center. On the count of three."


    We lined up on one of the many hills on the green grassfield, full of ice boars. I was trying to make up a strategy on how to get through all of the boars, since that is gonna be the only real obstacle here, unless I end up taking the wrong turn in the forest. But i''m sure I know the right way to go.


    Both me and Sashi stared at each other getting ready to beat each other. The only thing we were gonna win, was the right to brag though, but that is enough for me and Sashi.


    "3...2....1!"


    Both me and Sashi immediately used our "rush" ability and rushed down the hill and down to the open field full of boars. Behind us we were leaving a trail of smoke, from both of our legs and the grass around us was literally moving, when we ran past. The wind in our hair, the amazing feeling of being almost unstoppable is just amazing.


    We reached the forest and me and Sashi were even, right until she looked over at me, with her sketchy smile. I certainly did not like it, since the only thing I could see was her. everything behind her, was just rushing straight past me and I did not get a chance, to even see what I was going past, though I know we are in the forest. Suddenly Sashi started getting closer, constantly switching between looking at me and looking ahead of her.


    Then she pushed me. She banged straight into me, with her shoulder and I completely lost control, stumbling over my own legs falling off the stone road.


    I slammed my left cheek, down onto the stone & rolled off of the road and into a bunch of thick green bushes, right beneath the tall dark green leaved trees, having several severe bruises on my head and a wound on my left cheek with small stones in it.


    I slowly got back on my feet but could still see Sashis smoke trail, because of her speed. I crawled back onto the stone road and decided to take it slow since I had quite the headache now.


    After a small time of walking I got to the intersection, where I of course forgot which way to go. I stood there and scratched my head, looking at the intersection trying to remember which way to go.


    After like 5 minutes I decided to go right. The forest quickly became dark, but I didn''t really notice because of the fall from before. Everything was kinda dark already so I moved on.


    The forest became darker and darker and the bushes turned from green to black and so did the leaves on all of the tall trees surrounding me. I started hearing noices and became worried. I have been in this forest for way too long now, I should be at the village already, but clearly I wasn''t.


    Suddenly I started feeling like the deep forest wasn''t just making noices... It was moving.


    Then suddenly a big creature came jumping out in front of me out of absolutely nowhere.


    It looked like a mix of a mushroom and a tree. Like if those two things had a baby. That was about three times my size....


    If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.The body looked like a tree, it had bark on it and several long branches that i''m pretty sure it can move. It was dark brown like the trees around me but the top of it was quite strange. It had a mushroom head on top, like some kind of hat that was red, with white spots. This thing had to be at least three times my size & i''m 1 meter and 83 centimeters.


    I pulled my light blue sword from my back, getting ready to fight.


    I put my right leg back a bit and prepared my stance waiting for the mushroom tree to make the first move. It looked at me and started screaming, and then I noticed it had some serious teeth, man they are sharp but there was only around 6 of them. This thing was scary.


    The mushroom tree lifted one of it''s branches backwards, getting ready to swing at me.


    The branch came at me from the right. I barely had any time to react but right before it would''ve hit me I rolled backwards, with the branch just exactly missing my face before I rolled backwards.


    I quickly got up on my feet again and waited patiently for the next swing, waiting for the perfect opportunity to strike.


    It swung at me again, this time from the other side. I was expecting it to swing like it did before, so I ran towards one of the many surrounding trees, just being able to feel the wind from the branch coming flying towards me from behind. I got behind the tree and the big branch swung around the tree and I was able to climb up it''s branch, speeding towards it''s big scary face with very few but sharp teeth in it''s mouth. It started screaming, almost blowing me off the branch because of all the wind that came out of it''s mouth, the wind was strong and came straight towards me and it was cold, like it had just eaten a whole meal of ice boars.


    I got close to the face when it swung again, trying desperately to get me off, but I didn''t notice until it was too late.


    I could feel the wind getting pushed towards me almost pushing me off, and looked to the side. One of it''s big branches was coming straight towards me, so I jumped as a survival instinct, not even thinking about abilities or anything. It hit my feet since I jumped too late and spun me around in mid-air, I landed back on the branch and rolled down the side of the big brown branch at high speed.


    I got my shit together and in the last minute I stuck my sword into the side of the branch as fast as I could. There was some kind of fluid coming out of it, it looked like blood but i''m pretty sure these things don''t really bleed like we humans do.


    I climbed onto the sword, being able to pull myself up and then it started freaking out, wiggling with all of the branches screaming randomly, still desperately trying to get me off. I was stuck on the branch not being able to let go without falling off so I decided to climb it, like it was a mountain.


    I pulled my sword backwards with one of my hands, thrusting it into the branch as hard as I could, and slowly climbed the mushroom tree. Everytime the sword went into the branch the blood looking fluid, came out of it''s body.


    When I had reached the neck my whole sword had gone from light blue, to red.


    The mushroom tree was still desperately trying to get me off and decided to start punching itself on the neck, trying to hit me but it didn''t succeed. It was just influencing more and more pain to itself. I climbed the neck like I had climbed the branch, slowly but steadily.


    I reached the head and tried to stand up but quickly regretted it, as I was blown to the side, almost falling off of the big red and white mushroom head because of the mushroom tree moving so aggressively.


    I got back on my feet and climbed to the top of the head, reaching the middle. I tried to stand up again and pulled my sword backwards again with one of my hands, thrusting it as fast and hard as I could, into the head of the mushroom tree.


    My sword was quite far into it''s head and I was holding tight. I couldn''t let go or I would fall off. I was stuck.


    The tree decided to try the punch yourself method again, and this time it succeeded.


    A big branch came flying up, right next to my right shoulder. I looked over at it watching it go all the way up, and fly straight down towards me with the end first. If it had hit me I would''ve become bbq on a spear, I had no other choice but to roll to the side, so I did.


    I swung myself to the left, right before the branch hit me. I rolled all the way down the side of the tree falling straight for the ground at high speed not being able to do anything.


    I closed my eyes and decided to just let it happen and prayed that I didn''t die.


    "BANG!"


    End of Chapter 4.