Consciousness crept back to Henry in fragments. He attempted to move, only to find his body ensnared. Panic surged as his eyes snapped open. "What the hell is this!" he bellowed, staring down at the ropes that bound him.
Yellow-tailed lemurs, efficient in their knotwork, had taken him prisoner. They marched on, indifferent to Henry's struggles, carrying both his camping gear and the fallen red ogre.
"These cunning off brand Pikachu's," Henry muttered, ceasing his futile attempts to escape. He scanned his surroundings—left, then right—only to gasp at the sight as he saw the also carrying the red ogre's corpse and his camping bag.
The march halted abruptly as Henry was squirming around. A lemur approached as the lemur's cackled, its tiny feet stepping over him to stand on his chest. They locked eyes, and before Henry could react, a jolt of electricity coursed through him as it's yellow tail and black fur grew a small hint of yellow, plunging him back into darkness.
When he awoke again, it was within the heart of a mountain cave—the lemurs' abode. Cast into a storage room brimming with fruit, alongside his own bag, he watched helplessly as the lemurs prepared a feast with the ogre as the main course.
"Great, I've been abducted by Pokémon," Henry sulked, bound and wounded. Observing their feast, he noted their intelligence—and a troublesome ability to manipulate electricity. Lying there, he began plotting his escape.
The yellow-tailed lemurs feasted, their chattering filling the cave. Meanwhile, Henry lay bound, his frustration mounting. "Couldn't they have untied me first?" he grumbled.
As dawn broke, the cave remained eerily silent. "Yawn! That's probably the worst sleeping experience I've ever had," Henry muttered, as he was greeted by the dime lited cave, "Woah! I didn't realise this before but are those glowing stone", he marveled but the cave was awfully too silent. "Wait... Dont tell me..." realizing that the lemurs had likely consumed the poisoned ogre he'd defeated, Henry was relieved yet felt anticlimactic with things turned out.
Henry spent his now realised freedom squirming toward his camping bag, where he knew he had a knife to free himself. Hours went by and Henry finally reached his camping bag, he rummaged through it, gripping his knife with his teeth, and he began cutting through the vines. "Success!" he exclaimed, finally freeing himself.
As he was thrown in the food storage part of the lemur's abode, his surroundings revealed a trove of various fruits, and Henry indulged. "Finally, other kinds of food," he rejoiced. But his predicament remained—the lemurs were likely dead, and he was stranded in unfamiliar territory again.
"Fine then! I'll claim this cave," Henry decided, pulling out the flowerhead of the the mana-eating plant, the only he had. "A new home, then." He declared, "I'll use this to cultivate that plant so I can drive away monsters". Henry proceeded, scanning the cave, knife in hand, ensuring it was safe.
The cavern stretched before Henry, its vastness both awe-inspiring and daunting. "This place is really big," he murmured, noting the lemur's nursery he found. "I'm lucky all the adults ate the meat. Those lemur babies were easy to get rid off."
As he explored further, he realized he'd reached the heart of the cave. "Guess that was the last room," he concluded, returning to the main area. There, a pile of yellow-tailed lemur corpses lay—silent witnesses to their demise.
"Now let's gather all these bodies," Henry resolved. He separated the corpses, a small portion to the right and the rest at the entrance. "I'll save some for dissection," he muttered, sitting down to rest.
His mind wandered back to the goblin den. "Back there, I at least had some basic equipment left by those guys," he sighed. But now, he had a new home—a bigger cave.
Henry took out the flowerhead of the mana-eating plant, tossing it onto the pile at the entrance. As the flowerhead touched the corpses, new mana-eaters sprouted, consuming the corpses of the yellow-tailed lemurs. The cave floor to the roof was now covered in their growth.
"Now that that's done, I have to get to work," Henry decided refering to the remaining corpses. But first, he needed rest. Deeper into the cave, he found a spot and settled down. The night enveloped him, and he slept.
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