The Survival

A random surviving story

     My feet goes up and down in circles. I'm am riding on a thin metal object, called bike. I lean right to go right, I never stop. We are all racing, some people like to rest, some like to push it to their limit. Lucky I don't have limits. I can ride 24/7. People said that it will take a week to get to the end. I just keep pedaling. I check my map. I notice all of my competitors are nearly 10 miles behind me. Good, the trophy is in the bag. I notice something... but it was too late. My front tire pops off. I skyrocketed into the sky. Urgently looking for something to hang on to. Before I know it, a sharp object stab at my arm, then my torso. Blue to rocky brown to blue. A sharp objects pokes me everywhere. After what seems like hours, it finally stopped. I feel like if I'm on fire. I look down, my leg is in an odd shape. "Great... just great." I look at the direction where I was rolling from. The street is too far away... I look around, notice my bike is only an arm length away. I grab it and look at the map. It was still functioning. The competitors are still 10 miles away. I grab the radio. "SOS, I crashed and is currently trapped between the rocks." I sadly got nothing in return. I groan after realizing no one is answering the radio... I check the wind direction. It's going south, toward the competitors. The winds picks up, as if the winds know what I am about to do. I then hear a wolf howl. I think it's time. The wind is getting stronger. I relax my head and scream a long, low mournful moan. I kept on howling till I turn blue. Then relax. The winds gets intense every time I howl, and relax when I don't. The sun drifts lower and lower. "Great..." I whisper. At night time it gets below freezing here. Normally if I keep riding, my body will be warm from the exercise. But I'm laying on rocks, and those carries heat and cold. I have no way to move due to my broken leg. Thus I can't start a fire. "Great! I'm going to die from hypothermia..." I groan. I checked the map again, they're closer, yet still far... they go 1.5 miles everyday. So by the time they arrive, it would be 6 days before they arrive... I'll be dead before tomorrow comes... But then as it's gets colder, a bunch of wolves came to me, cuddled up to me, warming me up. One baby cub put his head under my hands. I pet him. My stomach growled. One wolf was startled, left. After what seems like 30 minutes, he brought me raw meat. I pet it and eat the meat. After a while I fell asleep. I woke up, the wolves are gone. I grab the map, the competitors are much closer now, only 1 mile away. I thought how can it be, they're was 9 miles away, now 1? Then I realized I went into a coma. The wind rushes south toward the competitors, I howled again.
     "Hey! Knock it off! It's not fair that you took my food! Now you mock me?" A faint voice calls out. I was confused, so I howled again. "Knock it off! Or I'll come and kill you!" It calls out. A wolf came to me with a package, inside was food. I realized he took the food from whoever south, it was trying to lure the people down there to see me. I howled again, joined in by the wolf. After a long howl, the voice was much closer. "Come on! howl again! I dare you." I did so. When I heard a twig snap.
     "Don't shoot! It's me! I need help! I fell off my bike and broke my leg! I can't move, the wolf that stole your food was trying to help me!" I called out
     "What in the sam's heck?" A voice, much closer. "Hey honey! come here for a sec!" I heard footsteps. 2 couples came to me. "How did you survive?" the male man asked me.
     "Don't know, these wolves kept me warm during the night. I fell into a coma for 5 days straight. Here's your food back." I picked up the basket and handed to him. He refuses
     "Eat... you look like you just came from hell." He smiled. I was finally saved. The man called the ranger scout, after 10 minutes, I heard the familiar deep sound: chop chop chop chop. The sound of an helicopter. I smiled, knowing I'm going to be save! I then passed out after that. I woke up in the hospital. A doctor smiled.
     "Hello there, feeling better?" he asked. I shook my head. Too tired to speak. "Well sleep then, I'm going to tell your parents you're all right." I nodded, closing my eyes. After a while I woke up, the pain gone, everything is gone. I sat up, wondering what is going on. I look down on the bed and choked on my sob. It was me on the bed, not breathing. A figure shows up on the door, a dark figure, I felt scared from this figure.
     "I am giving you a choice, you can stay here, travel the world, haunting other people, or go with me, start another life." The dark figure asked. it unhooded itself, a skull replaces the hood.
     "Will it hurt to go to another body?" I asked.
     "No." A raspy voice lurks out of Death's throat.
     "Aren't you going to send me to hell? or heaven?"
     "Hell? Heaven? What are those you speak of?"
     "Um... Hell... for sinned people to be burned for all eternity... Heaven for peaceful happy people?" I explains. Death laughs
     "You people believe that?" Death kept laughing.
      "Very well... I'll pick another shell to live in, lead the way." I told Death, Death guides me to a pregnant woman and the stomach sucks me into the womb. Everything I've done is being erase, like it never happen. I've started a new life.

Reviews

[A.D. Wilson]

Very unusual story. I had a hard time getting into parts of it, but I really liked the ending. If the main character was in a coma for 5 days, how did he know it had been 5 days just by looking at his map? There are also a lot of unusual language irregularities like "they're was 9 miles away" should be "they were 9 miles away". I wasn't sure if that was just an unusual writing style. Overall, good story.