Looking up I saw the outline of something massive. It held me on its stone palm and looked at me with its two black dots. The creature had a vaguely humanoid shape with two arms, two legs and two black dots were his eyes should be. No mouth, no nose, no ears. Just 2 dots on his face. Even without any other features I could tell it looked at me with curiosity.

How I know the stone face was looking at me curiously?

Well, intuition, I guess.

We starred each other in the eyes as both of us wait for the other to do something, but due to its eyes being so wide from each other I just starred at one of his eyes. I call them eyes, but it just looked like black dots that somebody painted on them.

Still scared for my life I froze up like a popsicle. Never before did I feel so weak and hopeless. No, that's not correct I have felt like this once before, but that´s a story for another day.

I felt a cool breeze blowing that made me shiver.

Suddenly the living bolder raised its other hand and slowly pointed at me with its finger and gave it a slow wiggle.

Not knowing what it wants or means with the gesture I just curled myself up and prepared to jump off his hand. I then realized I am being suspended into the air a good few meter above ground. Also, it´s still cold outside, the only reason I am awake right now is due to the warmth I´m getting from the boulder´s hand that emits just the right temperature. So, jumping off its hand isn´t an option anymore as I would just freeze to death after a few minutes. I think the tempreture dropped even further when I was asleep.

Snapping out of my thoughts I could see the rocky finger creeping towards me ever so slightly. I flinched and closed my ey-

Oh, right I can´t close them, I don´t have eyelids!

I did the next best thing I could. Preparing for the worst and pray that it won´t be painful. I had to watch it touch me without my consent.

The one finger alone was twice the thickness of my body.

As it gently touched me, I cried out in a hiss and turned my head away.

"Hissss~" while in my head screaming 'Nooo~'.

Wait, it touched me gently and its finger is unexpectantly smooth and warm.

After a while it stopped feeling me up, gave me some head pats and retreated its hand again.

I peeked up at its featureless face and saw a question mark written on it while the monster was tilting its head to the side.

It looked like a confused kid.

Looking at the face I relaxed a little, seeing he isn´t going to harm me, for now at least.

*flick* *flick*

I flicked my tongue and just smelled nothing but dirt and a tinge of minerals.

While flickering some more I realized that some other smells were approaching me. Like the smell of sand, salt, and iron.

(An: I will just call the boulders as he, it is easier to write and understand.)

I turned my head and saw that I am now surrounded by 3 more boulders. All staring at me with their featureless faces. They literally have stone faces and I couldn't find out what they are thinking about.

Despite being the same race, I think, they all looked different and unique. They all had different shapes and sizes, even their number of eyes are different.

The one to my right had only one arm, 4 eyes and has a spiky skin, he smelled like salt, sea salt to be exact. He was the smallest of them, and his head was on my height. Looking at his body I saw that he has a small and bulky chest, with short legs and a long arm that reached the floor.

The one to my left had 6 black dots on its face, this one was the tallest of them, towering the others by two heads. He looked smooth and robust, with four arms, were as two of them were over his shoulder hanging in the air. He was the one smelling like iron. This one looked like someone made him. Like he was wearing armor or something.

The last one who was standing behind me smelled like sand and was slim instead of "muscular" like the other three. This one looked different than the others. It has two slim legs and arms. I don´t think they have a gender, but I will still call her she, as the creature just looked feminine to me. She has a very gentle aura surrounding her and is the most human like in appearance, with human proportions, wide hips, slim waist, two small mounds on her chest and a small oval face with 2 dots as eyes. Ignoring the sandy body and featureless face it could be a cute girl. She even stands like a human. Having her hand clasped behind her and leaning forward looking at me with a glint in her black dots.

Her face was only inches away from mine and she starred into my eyes deeply, while I glimpsed into her pitch-black eyes. Getting lost in the darkness.

Do they even see with them or are those cosmetic purposes, and why are they all staring at me?

*flick*

I flickered my tongue again, being nervous and shy again.

When I flicked my tongue, I could see the two dots on her face disappear and a exclamation mark appear. She then stretched her slim hand slowly towards me. Unmoving I continued to star at her, not wanting to go against her as she could easily squash me with her delicate hand. She rubbed my back with her slim fingers. It was unexpectedly rigid and sandy.

"Sssss~"

I started to let out a satisfying hiss. I don´t have hands anymore so scratching my back feels kind of nice.

"Sssss~"

We continued to stare at each other, unblinking, as we both aren´t able to blink. I think this is the longest time I have been starring at a female creature in the eyes. Kind of sad when I think about it. My past life wasn't exactly enjoyable. I wonder where I did go wrong in my life.

*sigh*

As if feeling my sadness they suddenly looked at each other for a while and then .

"Dumm dum dumm dumm dum dumm~"

I heard a deep rhythmic bass sound coming from the dirt creature. I don´t know how he does that or were the sound came from. His body just vibrates. The sound sounded like a music beat.

"Tss ts tss ts tss ts tss~"

Suddenly the female monster chimes in adding her own beat. The sound the made was like someone grinding sandpaper together. It oddly felt nice hearing their beats.

Then the other 2 added their own beat harmonizing together and creating a unique music that I never heard before. It was so catchy and good that I forgot all my worries. I couldn´t help but sing along or better said, hiss along while wobbling my head from side to side. I never been this relaxed and happy before in all my lifes.

"Sss~" "Ss~" "Ss~" "Sss~"

I didn´t know when but even my tail began to tap the hand I was sitting on, in rhythmic fashion.

They all looked at me while also tilting their heads from side to side, but instead of the black dots on their faces they were replaced by symmetrical shapes and forms. Every time they tilted their heads to one side all of the shapes changed to a different one and then back.

It is a truly mesmerizing sight. An experience I will never forget. So there are nice and carrying monsters with intelligence. I think I will follow them for a while, seeing where they are traveling to. I am glad I meet them. My first friends in this lonely world, I guess. Well maybe not friends but at least travel companions.

But then the beat was dropped.

"DMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!"

Replacing the soothing melody was a deep, very deep ton.

I felt my whole body vibrate. It sounded like a deep bass, making me a little dizzy.

The others hearing the bass turned towards the one holding me, who was pointing with a finger into the distance.

I looked around and saw everyone looking at the direction he was pointing at. Turning my head to see what everyone was looking at. There were small figures in the distance moving towards us.

*flick* *flick*

They had many different scents, but the most dominant one was a green smell.

The same green smell I was following.