Chapter 2: Where is the firewood?

Doron slowly opened his eyes as a splitting headache assaulted him. He looked around and realized that he was lying down in a patch of forest that had only grass. The trees, for some reason, grew around this patch of grass like some kind of circle.

The wendigoes, or were they wendigos? No, they were nowhere to be seen. Even the children were gone, except for the little naked girl who was looking at him. Let's recap: The wendigoes, or were they wendigos? were nowhere to be seen; even the children were gone, except the little naked girl who was looking at him. That can't be right; is he imagining things?

Doron closed his eyes, massaged his glabella, and opened his eyes once again. His mind is still imagining the little girl in front of him. He had to admit it, though. His mind could imagine a really fine loli. Wait, why is she smiling all of a sudden? Why is she coming closer? Why is she shivering? She might be cold, but the look he was seeing from her was really creepy—well, the sexy kind of creepy. Don't get him wrong, he is not a lolicon, but the girl had this sexy aura around her, and it was not because she was naked; it was... natural beauty. Are you buying that?... never mind... or he was just maybe horny.

"Uh, can you talk?" Doron asked as he slowly backed away from her, scared out of his wits, as he also tried to hide his boner, which surprisingly did not go down. He was really horny.

The loli had light brown hair that seemed long enough to reach her back. Judging from how it was being dragged on the grassy floor of the forest, her pale white skin was still visible even though the moonlight was not able to penetrate through the forest canopy of trees. Her eyes were not visible, but from how they shone a neon green, she was not human. Well, she literally just spawned, so I don't know what he expected.

The girl, on the other hand, just kept crawling towards him like they were doing some kind of BDSM play where she was the cat girl, and he was scared and ready to faint from fright. The only thing missing was her having a tail... I don't know why he thought of it like that.

Doron tried to get up a couple of times, but his body had not yet recovered from the headache and the weakness, and the only remaining amount of blood was going to his lower region.

There was just a metre between them now, and Doron could clearly see that she looked younger than he had expected, like about thirteen years old. They stared at each other, and her green neon eyes starred at him. She first looked at his tent, then looked back at his face, and finally spoke.

"Choose"

"..."

Doron knew he had heard something like this before, but where? Of course, it was from the Wendigo or wendigoes?. Doron looked at the girl and also spoke.

"Choose what?" He did not have much hope of her answering him, but it was better than looking at a decaying corpse. Even if the girl could be the Wendigo, a beautiful face was better. Maybe she was asking him to choose between giving him a head or not. Let's forget he actually thought of that.

"The sacrifice has been found, but it is in danger," she said, looking at Doron.

"..."

Now Doron felt like he was being toyed with. How does what you said now have anything to do with... Wait, she is still talking.

"The black robes are coming; the sacrifice has to choose his power." The girl said with her sweet-sounding voice that it could give anyone rotten teeth from just hearing it.

"What power?" Doron questioned as he slowly got up from the ground and gazed down at the girl, who kept eye contact with him and did not make any other movement at all, though, with their position, something looked a bit odd.

"The black robes can only be affected by three things: holy light, blue flames, and life energy. The sacrifice can only choose one of these powers for now." She said, completely ignoring the tent in front of her as three flowers slowly appeared before Doron. One looked like an azalea, with the inner petals in gold colour and the pigment slowly turning white at the edges; the second did not look like a flower and more like a plant; if Doron remembered well, this plant was called an Agave 'Blue Flame'; he already knew why they used that one; and the third one was surprisingly a sunflower.

Doron looked at these flowers in front of him and did not know what to do. Was he supposed to eat them or just touch them?.

He knew the Azaleas were meant to represent the power of the holy light, since it was like the flower of gods, and the Agave was the blue flame or blue fire, while the sunflower, of course, would mean life energy. But what was this saying about these black robes? And why does she keep calling him sacrifice?.

"The sacrifice can only pick one power, and can only use it for a day, until the sacrifices life is threatened before the power selection roulette is activate again" The girl said as she stood up and the green grasses on the forest floor slowly covered her naked body like some kind of symbiote suit.

Now she looked like some forest fairy, if one did not know about her true form of being a wendigo, remembering the decaying monster earlier, his boner became flaccid of course.

"Uh, What is happening?" Doron could not help asking. Today was the last semester of the year, and next semester they would all become second years in university, so some of his classmates decided to go out for some fun. Some choose the beach, some a water park, while he and some of classmates took camping, in actuallity, they were the last batch to get to pick where they wanted to have their own little vacation, and camping was the only activity that was not picked and lucky for him, camping was the only activity that he could apply for, so here he was.

'All this just happened because of some firewood' Doron sadly thought as he looked at the three floating flowers and the girl who seemed to be thinking of how to answer his question since she had a look that seemed to be pondering over something.

After some minutes, the girl finally spoke.

"The sacrifice cannot know of his purpose yet, he is only advised to pick a power and protect himself". The girl said, as her green neon like eyes flashed.

"Why?" Doron could not help asking.

"For the fear of the sacrifice running away" The girl answered matter of factly.

"..."

'This would make me even want to run away the more.' Doron lips twitched hearing what the girl said, as he looked around trying to see if he could maybe run away or something, he doubted that the girl could run and catch him if he focused on running.

Don't mind the shape, he was a marathon runner back in the day, when he could only run about 300 meters and would feel like his legs were going to fall of...so in conclusion, he was going to get caught no matter what.

'What else, what else... my phone!' Eureka, a brilliant idea. He won't believe it if the wendigo knew a thing or two about phones and technology.

He quickly fished out his phone from his right pocket, the screen was a bit cracked but it did not affect his navigations on the screen so he had some hope of calling someone.

He did not have much contacts, and calling someone faraway was plain stupid. He entered the group chat of his classmates and found Josh's number and quickly copied it, went to his phone app, pasted the number and called.

*toot*toot*

It rang for sometime, before he heard the sound of the call not being answered.

He copied another number, this time someone he felt would pick.

... Also did not connect.

He tried everyone's number and realised that non of them picked his call, even those outside.

"Does the sacrifice want to call someone?" The girl asked turning her head, with a confused and innocent look on her face. Doron on the other hand froze.

He slowly looked at the girl and gave a dry laugh. "Why would you think that, *nervous laugh*" He nervously asked as he put his phone behind him.

"That is because I also have a phone." The girl said as the ground parted and a root came out with an iphone on it. "It's really easy to now chat with other hostiam custodis on the web, and also watching tiktoks and instagram reals is another way to be entertained."

"..."

"oh, and I actually placed an electromagnetic barrier in place to avoid being disturbed by my virtual boyfriend, he is so clingy if you didn't know, i'll remove it now, but please be fast with your call, I don't want to speak with him"

"..."

Doron now realised that even monsters knew of tiktok now, that means some of these monsters would have been laughing their asses of when they saw fake videos of humans claiming to have seen bigfoot, or a mermaid, or a vampire.

Doron did not keep that thought for long as he quickly made the call to Josh who picked after sometime.

"Hello"

"Hey, Josh, could you help me with something?"

"Who is this?"

"It's Doron, look I ne--"

"So you are that Doron?! What the f*ck man, where is the firewood?"

Doron looked at his phone in shock.

"The what?"

"What do you mean the what? We have all been waiting for the firewood, everyone said you were on firewood duty tonight." Josh said pissed.

"I was not the only one; it was I, Jim, and Julia who were in charge of fetching firewood. Look, that's not the problem here; I need help." Doron retorted.

"Jim and Julia were with you?"

"That was when we entered at first, then all of a sudden they just left; I assumed they went to a different spot to get firewood," Doron answered.

"Look man, I nee--"

"Okay, just bring the firewood." *boop*

"..." Doron looked at his phone, then at the fairy girl, who seemed to be texting someone with an irritated look on her face, probably talking with her virtual boyfriend.

As he was about to quickly call another person, he heard.

"We are breaking up; don't text me again." Followed by his call being disconnected before it was about to ring. "So, are you done?" The girl's face returned to that innocent and dull look from before.

"I don't think I really have made a sacrifice'.