Strange World - A Short Fiction Story

In the isolated jungle...

I was lying on the ground filled with mud and water. When I woke up from my sleep, I found myself surrounded by a strange jungle that seemed like from the outer planet.?

I was crying with the pain as I jumped from the tree when I fell with the parachute.

I cried in a loud voice. Where am I? what is this place? Anybody there?

There was no response at all.?

I cleared the mud from my T-shirts with water falling from the tree that looked like some kind of animal. In the spur of the moment, I heard a grunting sound coming from behind. I turned my face to look at it.?

It shook me from top to bottom as it was something that I had never seen before.

It was a rabbit-like creature; it came to me and stopped, then started eating some vegetables. I tried to touch the rabbit, but suddenly, its whole body moved like a glitch and reacted weirdly. I was shocked and found myself in balance, fell on the tree where I was taking water to clean myself.?

In my wonder, the tree also reacted so weirdly by turning into thousands of tiny butterflies and flowing away from me. I fell to the ground and looked at the newly created butterflies from the tree. They were so colorful and had their unique color, size, and structure different from each other.?

It was strange and unimaginable but enchanting and exquisite.

For a few seconds, I almost forgot about the rabbit. The butterflies were flying in some kind of formation. I stood up and tried to pick one of the butterflies as I couldn't resist myself. When I put one butterfly on my backhand, one giant turtle kind of animal came from nowhere and ate all of the butterflies, then that animal started chasing me as I had the last butterfly on my hand. I started running like a maniac. I turned left to avoid the creature, but it was clever as it did the same. It was trying to eat me alive with its monstrous conical-like-shaped teeth. I ran faster as I could, but the creature was not in a mode to lose its prey.

I saw an elevated rock near the large mud hole. I leaped to the rock and jumped to the branch just above the mud hole. Out of nowhere, the splash of the mud water came from below, opened its canine-like teeth, and tried to eat me, the exact moment the creature from the air attempted its last bit by opening premolars teeth from the left of its mouth.?

It was the time when I saw the hundreds of teeth trying to eat me concurrently.

The mud creature picked up the flying creature with its cave-like mouth and ate it alive. I got lucky by picking up the tree branch with my left hand and hanging it in the air during a very crucial time of my life.

The unimaginable luck played the game that I almost lost and saved the life of the unluckiest man in the weirdest land.?

The Cave

I cursed the jungle, cleared my cloth, and started walking in the deeper jungle. After passing the few steps, I found the rabbit again hiding in the tree trunks. I tried to catch it, but it slipped from my hand.

When I followed that rabbit, I came across a hole that turned further into a cave.

I went further into the cave and discovered an ancient natural gate leading to another cave, further and further. The cave was old, ancient, filled with webs resembling spiders but thick and robust. It seemed like no human had ever been there before in the cave.

After walking for an hour and so, I saw a circle in the middle of the air. It was a very unusual transparent glass-like circle that was hanging in the air. When I tried to touch the circle, it floated like a bubble. It felt like a mixture of liquid and sticky.?

I tried to put my hand in the circle, and in my wonder, it went inside without breaking it. Instantly I removed my hand as the cave was wet and dry; however, the temperature inside was cold like ice. It almost freezes my hand.

I threw some stone inside it, but nothing came back. I was surprised but curious to know about the circle. The option was limited, and if I wanted to reveal the truth, I needed to go inside; the choices were mine. Take the risk for curiosity or leave it as it is.

I finally decided to take the risk. I managed to grab some big rock so that I could lift myself. I went inside the circle and found the land that was beyond my imagination.?

The wonderland

The temperature was colder than the ice; however, the weather seemed like spring. The tree was blessed with fruits and flowers, and the rivers were cleaner than the crystals. The sky was milky white, the land was greenish-white, and the air was strange as there was no air.?

The strangest thing about the land is that there was no sun in the sky, nor any moon or planets, only the bluish cloud is perfectly aligned shapes.

I found the same rabbit there with his family.