Lester looks around for anything that might help him, signs of a road to civilization.

  But he spots something odd, an orange on the ground near him. Perfect! This can help fight off the infection." He eats it and then lays down again. "But I need to go... now..." The pain from his wounds was unbearable, so he imagines someone, anyone, coming to heal him. He tries to stand on his unwounded leg, but somehow his pain was beginning to fade. He noticed there wasnt any blood coming out of him anymore. He looks at his wounds and they've all been healing slowly.

  "What the hell?! How did this happen?!" He stands on his two feet and he feels as if he is unscathed from his battle. The wounds were still healing but the infection was being fought off and will eventually dissipate. "This is nice, somehow I'm healing from my wounds. Now I just need to find my way to a town, or even find my friends if they're even around"

  Elsewhere, Raynold and Annie were waking up. Little did they know they weren't that far away from where Lester was.

  "Hey Ray, wake up". Malyn was trying to get her friend up. He slowly sits up. "Where the hell are we?" Ray says in a raspy voice.

  "No idea" Malyn replies. Ray gathers himself and stands up. They were in the middle of the woods, fortunately still bright out.

  "I can hear all sorts of animals around us" Malyn says as she spots snakes, rats, birds and other animals.

  "Since this is the woods, hopefully we don't come across a bear or something" Ray says in a nervous tone.

  They come across a river.

  "This is good! I've heard that If we follow wherever this stream goes to, we'll find civilization!" Malyn says triumphantly.

  "But which way, up or downstream?"

  "I think downwards"

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  So they go down the river. As they did, they came across a snake that was a Vipera ammodytes, an aggressive venomous snake. It wasn't looking their way.

  "We should go around it." Ray suggests.

  "Yeah" Malyn replies.

  As they were making their way around it, Ray steps on a rat that shouts and reacts in pain. This alerts the snake to their location, and it looks at them. They were only a few meters away from it.

  "Shit!" Ray says in anger and fear. The snake rapidly makes its way to the two. "Let's make a run for it!" Malyn yells. The two went off being chased by the snake. As they were running at full speed, Ray falls into an inconspicous ditch. "Oh no!!" Ray screams out.

  "Ray! I'll get you out!" Malyn reassures Ray. "But the snake, look out for it!"

  As Malyn turns to look at it, it was already striking at her with its venomous fangs. She manages to evade by a hair's length and backs off. The snake looks at Ray who seems to be trapped and an easier prey.

  "Oh no you don't!" Malyn rushes at the snake and performs a Front Snap Kick, this kick involves a quick, snapping extension of the foot forward, making it a fast and powerful technique. She hits the snake square in the head. It gets knocked into the ground, giving Malyn a chance to smash its face in. And that's exactly what she did, she went for an axe kick to its head, then she stomped it into the ground multiple times until it was dead.

  Ray manages to climb out of the ditch. "Malyn, you okay?!" Ray says out of worry.

  "I'm all good, just finished killing this damned thing!"

  "Nice job!"

  The two then proceed walking down the river and from the horizon they could see a town. "We're almost there!" Malyn says in glee.

  "Please don't let there be a bear, please don't let there be a bear..." Ray keeps repeating in paranoia.

  "Speak of the devil, there's one over there" Malyn says and points to one approacing the pathway on the other side of the river. It was a Eurasian brown bear. It spots them.

  "Shit! It saw us!" The two start gunning for the town. The bear goes into the river, quickly swims and makes it to the other side. "This is all your fault for mentioning that damn bear you idiot!" Malyn says and blames Ray.

  "We're in a forest, of course there might be one!" Ray responds.

  The bear was rapidly closing the gap between it and the two. "Now it's come to this, I might have to do it..." Malyn murmurs to herself.

  "What're you going to do? Don't think of doing anything stupid!"

  "We can't outrun this thing, it leaves me no choice!"

  Malyn goes for a spinning back kick. This kick requires a 360° spinning kick with the heel of the foot as the weapon. The bear goes for a slash, she evades then gets the kick into its face. The bear recoils back, seemingly in a daze. "This is our chance, now let's go!" Ray yells.

  "No, I have to severely injure it!" She goes for an inital jab, multiple hooks and an uppercut inflicting wounds on the beast.

  "Holy shit, I knew she was strong but not this strong!" Ray says impressed by Malyn.

  She was going for rapid punches and then goes for another spinning back kick. "I've got you now!" Malyn says in confidence.

  But the bear lets out a roar of rage, slashing at Malyn and sending her tumbling into the ground. She managed to block it with her arms.

  "Malyn! You okay?!"