I explored the dark forest for several hours, but not once did I see an animal. It was almost as if they were avoiding this place for some reason.

So, I made the decision to go for the 'Tree Boa' evolution, and while that should have been an easy task to accomplish. I was in a forest after all. But I couldn't see any plants that I could get to. The only vegetation around was the trees, and I couldn't eat them because the bark was too hard.

What else could I do at that point? Simple... Climb a tree and eat the leaves.

Now, If I could only figure out how to climb.

I had already fallen off twice, and that was the third time I had fallen… Each fall causing me to let out a grunt of pain.

"This is seriously irritating me."

Trying to climb the tree like I moved along the ground wasn't working out. I could go up about twelve feet, but then I would fall.

"How else can I get up there?" ... Maybe I could try wrapping myself around the tree?

"Couldn't hurt to try." So, that's what I did. I went back up the tree like I had before, but when I felt I was about to fall. I angled my body, so instead of going straight up. I circled the tree and wrapped myself around it.

"Hey, It worked! I managed to stop myself from falling off!" I celebrated.

So, what if it had taken four attempts? I was new to this body, and I didn't know how to move effectively yet. In other words. I was like a child again.

Repeating my new 'technique' several times. I successfully climbed to the top. Where I then moved onto a large branch to rest.

"That... was much harder than I thought it would be." I had to rest for several minutes before I could move again.

After my rest, I moved over to the leaves and started trying to eat them. Since I couldn't chew them. I wound up repeating, what I had done with the Stone and Dirt. Tilting my head back, and allowing them to slide down my throat.

"This tastes awful...." I didn't stop eating though.

Soon, I had cleared the branch I was on of its leaves and had to move to another.

At some point, after I had begun eating. I realized that it was day time. The sun was shining brightly through the canopy of leaves.

The warm sunlight felt amazing on my scales, and I was beginning to feel sleepy.

"Hmm... Now that I think about it, I have been awake for a while. However, I want to finish off this tree before I go find a place to sleep."

Even though I almost fell several times. Eventually, I had cleared all of the branches on this tree of its leaves.

That's when I looked up...

"What is that!?" Towering above everything, and I do mean everything, was an off white, cylindrical structure. So large, I couldn't see the top. It even reached above the clouds.

"Is... Is that a building?" I wondered.

No, surely not. No way that thing was man-made. Then, that begs the question... If it wasn't man-made, what was it?

"I'll head in that direction after I get some sleep." I made my way back down the tree. Hoping that I would find somewhere safe to sleep for the night. I still hadn't seen any animals, but I would rather be cautious and alive. Then be attacked in my sleep, and die.

I could finally see what the ground looked like for the first time as I had cleared out the leaves of the tree. I probably should have noticed earlier, but as I was seriously distracted, I didn’t. I had dark green scales on my back, from what I could see, anyway. And my underside was light gray.

"Maybe I should head back to the river? The water there should be fresh, and it could have fish.... Of course, it could also be a hotspot for animals."

Then again, it probably wasn't. I had been exploring this forest for hours, and I hadn't seen a single animal.

So, why would one show up just because a river was nearby?

"Oh well. Not like I have anything to lose by going back. Maybe I'll clear out the trees surrounding the clearing, and make that my temporary base."

My decision made, I retraced my 'steps' back to the river.... Kinda. I got lost for a while and wound up wasting a few hours trying to find the clearing again.

When I finally did find it, the clearing wasn't as empty as when I left it.

"Shit!" I hid behind a tree to prevent the animal from seeing me.

The animal had its head up and was sniffing the air. Presumably to detect any nearby predators.

Peeking my head out from behind the tree. I got a good look at the animal.

It was large, warm blooded, and had four legs. Aside from that, I couldn't see what it was.

"Can I take it down?" I wasn't sure of this body's capabilities. Hell, I wasn't even sure if I could eat it if I did take it down.

"Not going to stop me from trying, though. I'm starving..." I slowly moved around the tree, while making sure that I was at its back.

Then, I crept up on it. The closer I got to it. The more I could make out.

It was pretty big. Easily over six feet tall, and covered in fur. Two large horns sat on its head, each with multiple dull points.

"If I'm going to do this, I need to hit it where it'll do the most damage." After making sure that it still hadn't seen me. I moved to its left side.

Then I got even closer. So close, I could touch it if I still had arms. And just when I got into position.... The damn thing looked down.

It let out a startled scream as It tried to run away.

Using my tail muscles, I launched myself at it, and I bit into its neck, then held on as it thrashed about.

After trying to buck me off for a few seconds. One of its legs stomped down on my back. Which was the only part of me it could reach. I had the wind knocked out of me, but I held on.

It tried to do it again, but I swung my tail up onto its back, causing it to miss.

"How do I get it to stop!?"

An image of me climbing up the tree flashed through my mind.

"That's it!"

I started trying to wrap myself around the animal's waist and neck. And though it took several tries, I succeeded. Then, I started squeezing causing it to whimper in pain.

It continued to thrash around, hoping to either throw me off or stomp on me again, neither happened. In fact, I started squeezing even harder in response. I was probably squeezing harder than necessary, but better safe than sorry.

A few minutes passed before its struggles grew weaker. Then a few more passed before it finally collapsed to the ground. Still, I refused to let go.

I planned to continue squeezing until I was sure it was dead, and only a few minutes later, I was sure.

It’s breathing slowly came to a stop, and it didn't take another...

" Finally. I was beginning to think it would never die... Now I just need to figure out how to eat this thing." I sighed.

I released my hold on the creature and circled around it. I was trying to find the best place to start.

"I guess I'll just start at the back" Moving to its hind legs, I bit down on its rear. That's when my body's instinct took over, and it began to pull the creature into my mouth.

It took a long time, but I had finally managed to swallow over half of the creature when I developed a problem.

The creature was too large for me to swallow it in one go. However, as I could already feel it dissolving inside me. I decided to just wait for it to dissolve before I swallowed the rest of it.

Which took a while.

I actually fell asleep while I was waiting, woke up, and it still wasn't completely dissolved yet.

This was made even more problematic. When I saw something coming towards me. It was similar in appearance to the first animal. Only not as big.

"Damn... That's not good."

I could only think of one thing to do in this situation.... I spit my meal back up and made a break for it.

By the time I had made it to a tree I could climb. I started hearing some odd noises behind me.

Ignoring them for the moment. I climbed up the tree until I reached a branch I was sure I could reach. Only then, did I look down at the creatures.

"Oh, God... What are those things?" The second animal had found the corpse of the first, and had started Eating it!

A pop-up answered my question.

Alpha Deer

The Carnivorous cousin of the common white-tailed deer.

Tier 2

"Ah... That's probably why I haven't seen any other animals. These things have been eating them." I decided after that to just wait up in the tree for the other deer to leave.

"The most depressing thing about this... Is that I'm hungry again."