1 Bren

"Ha!..."

Bren lowers his body as a red eagle drops down on him creating a gash across his neck. Blood spurt out of it leaving him in unbearable pain.

"What the fuck is happening?" He thought as he slid down towards a tree branch and hides his body between the roots.

Placing his hand on his neck he lets out a muffled grunt.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Where did this dangerous bird come from?" He quickly tore a lace from his pants to gently press it against the wound on his neck.

The last thing he remembers was how he was in an accident with a truck and then he opened his eyes and found himself fighting with this creature.

Looking at his chest, he found that there was a gaping hole on it and meat has been eaten out.

When he opened his eyes in this place, he saw the red eagle feeding on his chest and after that, he somehow startled the bird and finally, it attacked his neck.

"Ah... this bird." Moving his head up he could still see the bird circling the tree. It's sharp sanguine eyes looking at him like he was already dead.

"Where am I?" He looked around to survey his surroundings and finds out that he has never seen this place before in his life. It was a jungle and trees... "Why are they so tall?"

His eyes couldn't believe what he was looking at. 'How did I end up here after that accident?' many questions were going through his mind and his chest was in great pain he couldn't even seem to breathe properly.

He was just a normal college guy and he didn't even have a girlfriend. "Mom... Dad..." He looked around however there seems to be no one that could save him.

Tears started dripping from his eyes as he heard the shirk from the bird and then he could see it coming towards him.

"Agh...!" letting out a grunt he picked up a fallen branch from his side. "Fuck you!" just as the bird came in front of him he swung the branch in his hand with all the force he could muster.

However, the bird just opened its beak and crunched the branch aside like it was nothing. Next, it's the beak that moved like an arrow and pierced his right eye.

"Ahh...!" in panic and pain he grabbed the eagle with both of his hands and threw it away on the ground. He could feel nothing in both of his eyes.

Even his right eye that was not attacked turned completely black, making him blind. Blood seeped out of his body like a waterfall.

Body slumping in the dirt he rolled his legs towards his chest and buried his head in them his hands moved over his ears protecting them from any further attack and after that, he started yelling loudly with his hoarse voice.

"HELP PLEASE! HELP ME! THIS THING IS GOING TO KILL ME! MOM..."

However, no reply came to his pleadings. He suddenly felt the bird on his waits and a shiver ran down his spine.

"Mom... help me... sob..." he stared crying in low voice.

"ouch..." The metal-like beak of the Red eagle entered his shoulder sending another wave of pain and helplessness through his body.

He could feel his blood moving through his shoulder and entering his nose. He felt like vomiting. "That fucking truck..." He remembered how that truck was gonna hit a small kid and he decided to not save the kid.

However, even after that, the truck turned ninety degrees at the final moment and hit him instead of that kid.

'Is this the punishment for me not saving that kid? Is this hell?' A small thought moved through his brain at what seemed like his final moments.

However, suddenly the beak that was eating on his shoulder stopped and a warm wave rushed through his body. The pain that was breaking his spirit down all this time suddenly stopped and he even started to feel ecstatic.

"What is this feeling? Am I dying?" He slowly opened his right eye and a shock ran through his body.

He could also feel his left eye, which was just pierced by the eagle, both of his eyes turned fine. His hands then moved on his bare chest and there was no wound there too. Even the pain coming from his neck stopped.

His pupils moved to the corner to look at his shoulder and found out the red eagle suspend in time. Not only it, the leaves that were floating around also stopped in the time.

And the world around him also lost colour. Everything looked black and white.

Moving around he stood up. The eagle was still at its place with a piece of flesh in its mouth. Bren looked at his shoulder again to find out that it was still intact like brand new.

He then looked at his body and found out that he has no shirt on and only rough black pants were there. He was not sure of the colour of the pants as everything around him was currently black if not white.

And previously he was too busy and in a hurry for him to notice the colour of his pants.

After a few seconds, his breath returned to normal and then he quickly picked up a sharp stone from the ground.

He didn't know what was happening, however, he was sure of one thing that if he didn't kill this bird now it will kill him sooner or later.

Moving towards the eagle, Bren pulled one of its wings and then sliced it with the help of a sharp stone. The blood at first slowly moved out of Eagle, however, it soon stopped and suspended in the air like everything else.

"Time has not stopped but is moving very slow." He concluded looking at the things still floating around very very slowly.

He also pulled out the other wing of the Eagle and moved back. He also smashed its legs into a paste by a heavy round stone.

"At least it will not be able to harm me now."