The Human

My eyes shot open. I found myself starring at a dark cloudy sky shrouded by thick leaves and branches. Some moonlight trickled in between passing clouds. I noticed that I was laying on my back which should not happen. "Jim?" I call out into the darkness but to no avail. I look around and start to process my surroundings. I was in a forest, but the trees didn't look like normal jungle trees like in pictures and from what I have seen in some adventure movies? But I didn't know much about jungles so I thought that the trees were just uncommon or something like that. I was still waking up and it hit me like I had been hit like a freight train. I'm in the middle of god knows where and all I have is my clothing and... My phone, I reached in my pocket to pull out my phone and see if it worked but the screen was just black and completely unresponsive. I'm such an idiot when I get back... If I get back I am so fired.  it must have been my phone that got me into this mess the electronics or the signal that could have been affecting the teleporter range or something. I couldn't think straight I needed to rest until morning but I am not laying down on the ground I got to build some shelter before I sleep.

I get up off the cold ground and began to slowly walk towards a good sized stick for the spine of my shelter. I want to lean it up against a tree and set it up like a tent, I don't know what they are called but I seen it on a TV show once and it worked. I propped my big stick up against a sturdy looking tree and began to collect smaller sticks to lean on the big stick. Just as I thought it couldn't get any worse I heard the distance noise of Thunder. "Great, just what I needed to be cold and wet." I cursed under my breath. I picked up some large fallen leaves and hastily set them up over the smaller sticks to create some make shift shingles. I also put some large leaves along the ground to make it some what comfortable, but it wasn't much help. I tried to fall asleep but I couldn't my mind was to busy processing information and thinking of plans for tomorrow. I decided it would be best to think what I would do tomorrow and the next day to stay a step ahead and possible increase my chances of making it out of this forest alive and back to my nice home. "Home..." I said softly. I now know how much I took my home for granted and wish I wouldn't have been so blind. Maybe this is God's way of telling me that I should not take things for granted, if there is a God. I start to hear the rain beat down on my shelter and I was afraid that the structure would fall apart and I would get drenched. I lay my head down on the damp cold ground and began to drift into the sweet embrace of sleep.

I sat up in my bed staring into my bedroom, I took note that it was a lot darker than before, normally I have a computer monitor that it constantly on and I never shut it off. It probably performed a few updates and shut itself off, I couldn't even see my desk from my bed it was so dark. I stood up on the floor and I got a sudden feeling like I was being watched by a silent killer, the ones that learn your every move and wait for the right moment instead of just killing you on the spot. Always watch out for the quiet ones I noted. I had no idea why I thought that it must have been my subconscious thinking. I walked towards the door of my room and from the other side I hear a very strange noise emanating from the outside of my door then it stopped. I opened the door only to find absolutely nothing. Darkness everywhere everything was black, I couldn't even tell if there was a ground or not. I stepped back and grabbed some metal disks that I had from work that was laying on my desk. I tossed one disk into the darkness and sure enough it hit some kind of floor, it was the same level as the floor in my bedroom so that was a plus. "This must be a dream." I say to myself. I tossed a few more disks out into the darkness and the same result for each one. I concluded that there was a solid base there and It was safe to walk on, I decide to take a step into the darkness and I land one foot and sure enough it hits the same surfaces the disks did, I take the other foot and plant it next to the other. Big mistake as soon as I landed the other foot on the surface the floor just fell out from beneath me and I felt that weird feeling you get when you go down a steep slope on a roller coaster and I hit water, despite falling for a good second or two hitting the water did not hurt, it was as if you jumped off a small diving board. I tried to swim to the top but I couldn't it was like the water didn't exist but I was still drowning in something.

I snapped back from my nightmare only to find my shelter had failed and I was now soaking wet in cold rain water. By now the storm was going pretty hard and it was pouring rain. "UGH!" I shouted in anger. "Nice, just what I need to start my new jungle life!" I yelled sarcastically. I decided that I would just cover myself up in a bunch of wet leaves to prevent my from getting any more wet than I already was.

I slowly rose to consciousness.  I opened my eyes and was assaulted by green light shining through the leaves. I throw the leaves off of me and took in my surroundings for a second time. It looked way different that it did in the night, in the night I couldn't see very many details about the trees and other plant life. But in the daylight it was a whole different place, the trees where completely different, I never seen trees like this at all. There were some similarities but it was almost like I was on a different planet. I strayed my attention from the trees to the sky, it wasn't much different so I assumed that it was my lack of knowledge on jungles that was confusing me.

I begin to start on my journey deeper or hopefully out of the jungle, I had no idea what direction I was heading but I decided that I would head towards the sunrise. As I was walking through the jungle I noticed that there was not a single tree, bush, plant that I knew, I might not know much about jungles but I certainly know that there has to be some familiar plant life in a jungle. Many things could've happened during teleportation but being teleportated to a whole new planet that cant be right. I continued walking until the sun reached its highest point in the sky. I decided to take a break and sat next to a tree and thought for several minutes about my life. I thought about if I would die here, or if this is even the right planet, I didn't recognize anything here. I thought about how I never really did anything with my life. I worked, went home maybe played some games with the spare time I had. I never got married never had kids I was just a guy who had a job and played games and did nothing. I was just "living" drifting through life as if it were a lazy river only I was just floating doing nothing exciting or having any fun life experience. Now I am here to live out the rest of my mundane life, I regretted not doing anything with my life and I began to cry.

I wiped my tears from my eyes and got up and began walking "I am not going to die like that." I reassured myself. I walked for hours the sun had begun to set and the moon was starting to rise. I looked at the moon for a few seconds and noticed it didn't look quite the same as the one on earth maybe I was on a different planet but if so, which one I had no clue where I was. All I know is that I am stuck in this jungle on some planet or maybe I am crazy and I was on earth, or I was in a coma and this was all some weird dream. I was so confused and I had no idea what to do. I heard a branch crack just off to the left of me, I jumped away from the sound and looked in the general direction of where it was coming form. I focused on a pair of sharp yellow shapes in a bush nearby around them was a silhouette of some kind of animal. I started to back up and ran the other direction If this was a different planet I did not want to encounter any kind of creature that could harm me, even if it meant no harm I still didn't want to see it. I ran as fast as I could the other direction I looked behind my shoulder to see if it was chasing me, it wasn't there. I stopped to catch my breath. I heard a deep growl coming from behind me, I froze in place decided whether I should turn around and face whatever is behind me or run again. I slowly turned around and found the same pair of glowing yellow eyes that were staring at me before. We both locked eyes for at least 30 seconds. The wooden beast turned away and headed the other way. "Definitely not on earth." I said to myself. I turned around and began senselessly walking.