What is this....................

In his deep subconscious, as he slept, a darkness shrouded himself in his dream with a spine-chilling coldness but something was different.

He felt calm.......too calm almost as if he could sense his personality had changed a little.

A burning sensation began to envelop the formless state he was in and soon he could feel his eyes.

As he looked down he could see his bare naked body slowly begin to manifest itself and he had full control of his body as it slowly formed.

Its manifestation was painful with a scorching sensation but the pain felt oddly pleasant, on one hand it was agonizing yet on the other it felt like that of a warm embrace as if his entire body was being hugged.

Slowly as it all came into place the darkness which surrounded him slowly backed away from him leaving him in a small circular area with what looked to be moonlight shining down on him.

His feet felt wet and as he looked down he could see a dark red liquid beneath his feet.

Blood...........................

It was like a flame and he was a moth to it, he felt himself being drawn towards it.

He bent over slowly and took his index finger and attempted to touch the blood.

As his finger made contact with the blood, he pushed down on the ground only for his finger and forearm to sink down into the blood.

He kept pushing until it had enveloped his entire arm and then he pulled it out and stood upright looking down at his bloodied arm.

What he stood on was blood which had manifested itself as a floor to him and it was sturdy similar to that of concrete and although it was a liquid when he used his arm to penetrate into it, he still showed no sign of falling through it.

The shadows slowly continued to back away from him until the small circular area free of it which surrounded him was now that the size of a medium-sized field.

As he looked forward at the receding darkness he could feel the blood beneath his feet begin to vibrate and began to look down once more, he could see ripples beginning to form.

*SHAAA

Something had emerged from behind him spontaneously, imitating that of something bursting forth from water.

He tried to turn his head to look behind to see what it was but he had lost control of his body.

What's happening now?

His body began to move on its own.

He bent his head down and raised his right hand up and looked into the palm of his hand then he took his right thumb and slowly rubbed it across his right palm in a horizontal manner.

Upon his thumb completing the stroke he opened his palm then clenched it into a fist.

He raised his head and looked straight on and took a step back only for the back of his calf to be met with something soft and slightly jiggly.

As he pulled back his other leg he could feel it meet with something of a different texture, it was hard..........

His knees slowly bent with a falling sensation overcoming his body and then the darkness which was slowly but continuously receding away from him rushed forth at a blinding speed enclosing him at all angles.

*Beating of drums along with flutes and singing in a foreign language

"[Yawns] Ugh.......[shifts arm]why the fuck am I so sore..............music?[opens eyes quickly] what happened.............." the boy said out loud as he awoke from his sleep.

He could feel heat coming from the side of him along with loud music being played.

As he rubbed his eyes, he looked up where he could see the moonlight shining through the leaves and then as he slowly turned his head to the side he could see something looking down and staring at him.

It was huge, had to be at least 2 meters in height, with an athletic physique. It possessed 2 goat legs with what looked to be a brown color, a fully erect penis, a slightly humanoid upper body with only the chest area, abdominals and parts of the face not covered in brown fur along with 2 great black ram horns protruding from the forehead,dark brown eyes, a small nose and thin lips along with a thick long brown beard.

Huh.........

The boy simply glared back at the thing like it was nothing.

It could see that the boy was unafraid and wasn't even surprised at its appearance, instead, he had a look of sadness on his face.

The creature simply turned around and headed back to the campfire where more of its kind could be seen.

The music immediately stopped and all eyes were on the boy.

Although they stared at him upon seeing him awake, they were the last thing on his mind.

In his mind, he was constantly playing over the events of the fight that had transpired to attempt to remember as much as he could so he could find the reason why he was alive.

Looking down he could see that he was shirtless and there was a huge bite mark on his shoulder.

As he passed his right hand over the bite mark over his shoulder he could feel the depth of the teeth which had sunken in.

Slowly everything was coming back to him and it was confusing, he should've been dead yet here he was.

It wasn't a dream, the wound showed him that along with the pain of where his once broken bones were.

He tried sitting up but he could feel it, his ribs hadn't fully healed yet they still weren't in the condition they were prior to him falling unconscious.

If they were he wouldn't have even been able to shift his body an inch and he just laid back down and ran his right arm along his left arm gently and felt the humerus................it wasn't broken into 2 as it was before.

Instead, all he felt was a sharp pain as if the bone had only been cracked and not broken.

He could feel a shadow over him, something was different or maybe it was the paranoia kicking in.

After about 5 minutes one of the creatures of the group looking almost exactly the same as the one before which was observing the boy's actions broke off from the group and approached the boy with a hollowed out horn filled with a liquid with a sweet scent and began to look down at him.

The boy simply looked up at it then lowered his head and stared forward into the darkness of the trees.

"Are you not afraid of me child?" the creature asked the boy with a deep voice.

"No...............If you wanted to kill me I'd be dead, if anything...................I'm confused more than anything..............how did I end up here?" the boy replied softly.

The creature simply looked at the boy's facial expression, he wasn't lying, it was the look of a man who didn't know what the hell happened.

"You are not the only one that's confused....................we looked at both of you from the trees above when you fought...............well when you attempted to fight..................he brought your body over to us and told us to heal you.................you are the only human we haven't seen him kill since he came here" the creature said slowly as it took a seat next to the boy on the ground.

Attempted to fight.....................huh reminds me of someone.............

The other creatures upon seeing this left matters to that one in specific and went back to normal as if anything hadn't happened, playing music and dancing.

"Only human he hasn't killed?" the boy asked out of confusion.

".....................Yes, we do not know his motives but for some reason, he did not kill you, if anything he treated you similar to what he did to some of the other beings in this forest"

"What do you mean?"

"When it came to this forest, it became quickly known to all of us and with that the urge to challenge this new being which no-one had ever seen arose within some of the other creatures.................he beat them all yet never killed a single one of them...............however anything related to a human he killed them with you being the sole exception"

"He have a name?"

"We do not know..........it stuck to itself, never muttered a single word in any language until you both met face to face"

"You know where he is?"

"Are you planning on visiting it?"

"When I can move properly, yea.........I want answers"

"Can you just not be happy with the fact that you are alive by him showing mercy?"

"There is no such thing as mercy in this world..........."

"...........Unfortunately, we do not know where he is, he left the forest immediately after his encounter with you"

"I see..................how long............have I........... been out?"

".....................Over a month in human terms"

"A month................"

"It was extremely troublesome healing you"

"What do you mean?"

"We carried you to the nymphai for them to heal you of your wounds, but your body rejected their magic in large amounts, we had to slowly heal you day by day in slow amounts.............your bones have still not fully healed up to now also.............the wound on your shoulder, we had to treat it with herbs...........healing magic would not work on it"

"Huh.......my body never had a problem with magic being used on it in the past"

"..................I must ask you, child, how are you so calm in an environment like this, around what your people call my "kind".......monsters............, you speak casually with me without hesitation or fear in your voice"

"..........Don't know, you look different but that's just about it, I just see you as another individual I guess"

"Interesting, some people would have defecated themselves upon the sight of one of us upon awakening"

This guy's pretty funny with the way he speaks........

"So what race are you?"

"Humans call us satyrs I believe if my age hasn't caught up with me"

"Satyr huh.......that's cool I guess"

"Can you sit up?"

"Hurts a bit but I think I can" the boy responded as he forced his body up.

The satyr passed the hollowed out horn to the boy.

"Drink, I'm sure you must be thirsty"

He would've asked what it was but ever since he had woken up he had begun to feel extremely thirsty and graciously accepted the horn and took a big gulp.

*COUGH *COUGH *COUGH

"What is this?" the boy asked as he wiped his mouth of some of the liquid.

"Wine hahaha" the satyr said laughing.

"Absolutely disgusting if I must say so, what the fuck is that after taste"

"............Do not insult wine, it is the elixir of the soul, we will have a problem if you continue................just kidding, it is strong though...........I thought humans loved this stuff, seems I might have been wrong"

"Oh they love this shit but I hate it cuz it fucks with my senses"

"Live a little, you are young"

"Never know when I might have to fight, can't be having too many fuckups that could slow me down"

"Fight huh, I'll take a gulp for that [Gulps down wine], so this is a question which has been plaguing all of our minds, how did you end up in that situation in the first place?" the satyr asked out of genuine curiosity which could be seen on his face.

The satyr asking this question seemed to reach even by the campfire.

One of those at the fire came to them and spoke to the satyr which was currently speaking to the boy in a different language and then proceeded back to the campfire.

"They are all interested and wish to hear your story child"

"I guess I don't really mind I guess but as you can see...........I can't really move all that properly, my legs still feel weak, by the way, do you have a name?"

"Quo'ah is my name young one and you?"

"Don't have one"

"You have my interest more than ever now and I am sure the others have heard everything up until now and they must be dying of curiosity, let us go to them, I will carry you"

The satyr got up then bent over and picked up the boy in his arms.

"Now now, don't let that [looks down at satyr's penis then up again] "thing" touch me" the boy said in a joking tone.

"I see you are trying to be funny but we are not into humans much less the men of your species hahaha" Quo'ah responded

"I hope so buddy"

The satyr carried the boy in his hands and placed him on the ground by the campfire with the other satyrs.

As he sat there another satyr walked up to him and passed him what seemed to be a piece of boar meat which was roasted over the fire and then he took a seat with the rest of the satyrs.

"Thanks," the boy said solemnly as he took a bite and the satyr responded in a different language.

"He says you are welcome" Quo'ah translated.

There were around 15 more of them all around the campfire all seated on the grass.

"They can't speak....well like this?" the boy enquired.

"It has been a while since we have spoken to someone who uses this language, they can understand it but they cannot pronounce the words yet due to how long it has been but give it a day or two and they'll be able to speak like we do" Quo'ah responded.

"Ahhh, I understand"

"So tell us what happened, we have all the time in the world"

The boy went quiet and he seemed to be a little worried about telling them all that happened and it could be seen on his face by everyone.

"We will not judge you child, there is no need to be afraid"

They saved me so I owe them.................live a little huh.............even if something pops up I can't fight anyways

"So.......all what do you wanna know?"

"Everything child"

Everything huh..............

"I'll tell you everything but first.............pass me the wine Quo'ah"

"THAT'S THE SPIRIT" Quo'ah shouted as he passed the wine to the boy and all the other satyrs began to drink as well.