Chapter 6: Chapter 6 – Chunks
'Fuck that!' Kyle thought as he immediately turned around and booked it.
Kyle ran as fast as he could.
Then, he heard a lot of rustling coming from his back, and he could tell that something big was rapidly approaching.
He immediately jumped to the right.
BANG!
Kyle saw the gigantic head of the turtle hitting a tree, making it vibrate.
Surprisingly, the tree didn't get damaged at all, and it completely stopped the massive head.
'What the fuck?!' Kyle thought. 'That's one hard tree! Thing acts more like metal than wood!'
'Also, what the fuck even is this?!'
Kyle noticed that the turtle's actual body hadn't moved.
Instead, its head extended out of its shell for almost ten meters!
'Is that a turtle or a snake?! Why is its neck that long?!'
The turtle head quickly recovered and turned to face Kyle.
Then, it rapidly extended towards him.
Kyle knew that the turtle would be ready for another dodge, and his mind quickly tried to come up with a solution.
'Tree! Gotta monkey!'
Kyle charged towards the closest tree.
The head was far faster than Kyle, and it reached him almost immediately.
While he was just preparing to jump up the tree, he was already surrounded by the big head.
'Fuck fantasy land!' Kyle thought as the jaws closed.
BANG!
And yet, Kyle didn't feel anything.
The jaws had definitely been closed with a lot of force, but for some reason, they stopped just short of his body.
At that moment, Kyle took note of the tree he was leaning on.
The tip of the jaw was also trying to crush the tree, but it didn't have enough power!
Kyle was stuck between the half-clamped jaw.
'Tree!' he thought before slipping out of the jaw through the left side, which was currently facing upward.
BANG!
The turtle pulled its head back a bit and closed its jaw fully, but Kyle just barely managed to jump out of it.
For just an instant, time seemed to stand still.
The turtle's left eye and Kyle were looking at each other as he kneeled on the side of the turtle's head.
Rage and panic filled Kyle's mind.
"Go fuck yourself!" Kyle shouted as he rammed the metal rod into its massive eye.
The metal rod went deep into the eye, and the head pulled back in pain.
Kyle lost his footing and fell onto his ass before clambering to stand up again.
The turtle shook its head, and Kyle quickly started to run again.
'So what if it's injured?!' he shouted at nobody in his mind. 'I ain't killing that! Look at that thing!'
After running for a couple of meters, Kyle looked back.
His back shuddered as he saw the turtle's other eye focusing on him as it approached again.
'How long is your fucking neck?!'
The turtle's other eye was directly facing him to keep better track of him as it kept approaching.
Kyle was trying to find a way out of this current predicament.
'I'm not going to throw my fucking weapon! It will probably just spin too much and not do any damage to the eye! I'm also not approaching that thing again!'
Then, he remembered something.
Kyle threw something at the eye and jumped to the side.
An instant later, the crushed hamster corpse hit the turtle's other eye and exploded into blood, covering the entire eye!
BANG!
The jaws clamped shut again, but they had missed Kyle just barely since he had evaded towards the side of the freshly blinded eye.
The turtle had angled its jaw to the side so that it could keep better track of Kyle, which was the only reason why Kyle was still alive right now.
However...
BANG!
The side of the turtle's head hit Kyle like a truck, and he was pushed back with it.
The sharp scales destroyed a big chunk of his clothing, and his skin also opened in several places.
At that moment, Kyle's instincts took over again, and he found another opportunity.
He immediately rammed the metal rod into the eyelid that covered the blood-soaked eye.
BANG!
The metal rod pierced the eyelid without any issues and dug into the eye beneath.
Immediately, the head pulled away from Kyle, and he rolled a couple of times due to the force.
Kyle did his best to keep track of the head while this was going on.
He could see the head chaotically moving back, hitting a bunch of trees on its way.
Within two seconds, the head vanished behind the trees.
The entire time, the turtle hadn't given off any kind of sound.
'Aren't monsters supposed to shout in pain or something?' was the only thing Kyle could think in his shocked state.
Several seconds passed.
Nothing happened.
Finally, Kyle fell on his ass in relief.
'It's gone!' he thought as the fear, terror, relief, and exhilaration of the near-death experience assaulted him.
Kyle had never felt such an intense cocktail of emotions in his life.
After a while, Kyle slowly stood up.
"Ah, fuck!" he shouted as he felt a searing pain in his torso.
He looked down and saw the damage the head had done to him by ramming him.
When Kyle saw the intense bleeding on his chest, his heart nearly stopped.
That looked bad!
Real bad!
'That's a lot of blood,' he thought in shock.
Kyle had no idea what to do about that.
He didn't have any equipment with him, and there was no water that he could use to wash his wounds.
'Am I supposed to wrap my damaged and dirty clothes around it? How are you even supposed to bandage an entire fucking torso?!'
An image of a cartoon character wrapped in bandages popped into Kyle's mind without consent.
'I don't have bandages!'
'Also, I'm really hungry.'
Kyle blinked a couple of times in surprise.
'Why am I thinking about fucking food right now?! I'm bleeding out!'
'But I'm also really hungry.'
For some reason, Kyle's eyes were drawn to the metal rod in his right hand.
Bloody chunks were all over it.
'I really wanna suck on that in a strictly straight manner.'
Kyle's instincts were screaming at him to eat the chunks.
It was like they were shouting at him that these chunks were necessary for his survival.
'It's a bit disgusting,' Kyle thought as he looked at the red rod.
'But...'
Kyle moved the metal rod to his nose and took a sniff.
'Doesn't smell like anything.'
'Fuck it! I have the Predator's Being, right?'
'Down the hatch!'
Kyle bit off one of the chunks and chewed it.
He blinked a couple of times in surprise.
'Tastes weird,' he thought as he kept chewing. 'Doesn't taste bad, but it also doesn't taste good. Feels familiar...'
'Ah, right! That's like drinking a caffeinated drink! You can have the same brand in front of you, and despite the taste being basically the same, you can definitely tell which one has caffeine and which one doesn't!'
Kyle felt like he was becoming more alert, and the near-death experience didn't feel nearly as bad anymore.
He swallowed the chunk and immediately ate another one.
'Brah, is this how it feels to take cocaine or meth?!' Kyle thought as his body was filled with energy.
He started to bob up and down as he couldn't keep his energy contained any longer.
Even the pain in his torso was gone.
Kyle accidentally brushed his torso, and his hand got covered in blood.
That was when he realized that he was still injured, but when he looked down, he noticed that no new blood was coming out of his torso anymore.
He tore his shirt apart and cleaned his torso before throwing his shirt at the foot of a nearby tree.
"Huh," Kyle commented as he saw the closed wounds.
They looked like they were a week old.
Then, he looked at the metal rod, which had been licked clean.
Finally, he looked in the general direction of the turtle.
'I'm not seriously considering this, right?'