Though the stick was not a very good weapon, it was a great utility tool. As shown from dropping-
'Frickin, miles in the air'
So Alioth obviously wondered what would happen if he combined the two sticks. Surely it just becomes a cheat skill and makes him overpowered, right?
Yeah, no.
[Pointy stick and "Stick", shall be combined]
[Pointy stick is higher rank, it shall devourer the other]
In a quick blue swoop in the air, the pointy stick he was once holding suddenly disappeared, just, into thin air.
Confused, Alioth angrily swore at the skyline inwardly, wondering if he had gotten scammed.
Luckily, after a short few seconds, Alioth was relieved to know that his stick was back, and it was so back.
Not only did the stick keep its pointyness, it gained range, which practically turned it into a spear. Additionally, rather than light pink, it became dark pink, which Alioth didn't know which he liked better.
But he liked the light pink a bit better, it had a ring to it.
[You have received a forged a remembrance]
[Wood Spear]
Though Alioth knew it definitely wasn't the best, it felt important to him, so important he had given it a name. Or rather just "pointy stick."
Seriously.
"Hey! What are you doing up there! And looking at a stick at that!" the unnamed girl shouted toward Alioth, or "One" to her.
Panicked, Alioth jumped up for a second, before realizing it was just the girl he had just talked to.
Quickly thinking of something to say, he said the first thing that came to mind.
"Just, searching for sticks," Alioth shouted back.
Alioth had no answer, probably because he was pretty weird.
Soon after the quiet reply, Alioth jumped down from the thin branches, slowly making his way down from the large tree.
After around a minute of jumping down, Alioth landed on the pink dreamy floor, then he spotted the girl and ran over towards her.
"Hey! Umm"
'Crap, I don't know what to say! Uhhhh, uhhhhhh, maybe I should ask her for her name?'
'Wait, would that sound pushy? AH MAN SCREW THIS'
"What's your name!" Alioth shouted, he shouted very loudly.
Soon then, silence followed, had Alioth stumbled upon something he shouldn't have asked for?
'I knew it was a bad idea, I just,-'
"Why should I tell you?" Alioth heard coming from the direction of the girl.
"Because I told you my name, so couldn't you?" Alioth blurted, quietly.
Quietly because Alioth was never a good liar, in fact, when Alioth said his name was "one" he tried very hard not to say his real name. The real reason? It had just been too long since someone had called him by his name, hence, he got a bit unusual to it and didn't really like it.
"Um, am I supposed to believe "one" is your name? I mean, you could have tried a bit harder while hiding your name, y'know? It's hardly believable that someone would name their child "one," I think you should have gone with Jeremy or something at least." The girl snorted, but she was nonetheless correct.
Embarrassed by the words he received, Alioth tried running back to the nearest mountain cave, jokingly, of course.
But was soon caught up by the girl who was following him perfectly fine.
'Scary'
"Fine, if you're not going to tell me your name, at least tell me what I should call you." Alioth said, in a rock solid voice.
"Well, since you're one, that means I'm zero, because I'm better than you." Alioth heard from the left of him.
Turning a bit annoyed and flustered, Alioth mumbled-
"Two, can you like-"
"Zero, boy"
"Two"
"Zero"
"Two"
"Zero"
This exchange happened for around fifty more times, before they actually reached the nearest cave entrance, which Alioth had not planned to do.
Funnily enough, it was about to be sunset, so Alioth was definitely going to be sleeping in the cave, together.
'Wait, that's not funny at all!'
But besides the awkwardness of being in the same cave, Alioth wondered how Two had survived all that time without staying in a cave.
Heck, the last time he didn't he wound up into the top of the mountain, there's no way that she was just letting the environment take her. Right?
"Hey, I have a question. Two, how did you survive without a cave?" Alioth said politely.
"I'm just built like that, you know what I'm saying?" Two replied.
"Wait, actually?"
"No, dumbass!" Two shouted, loud enough for everything in a mile radius to hear.
"Then, how?"
"By staying near the tree, the tree never moves. But since we're already in the cave, heck, I don't know why you brought me here, we definitely can't make it there before night." The two said in a calm voice.
'Wait, she followed ME, not I led her here, and why does she sound kinda happy about it? That's freaky, freakier than the-HOLY CRAP theres a FUCKING GIANT SPIDERS NEST IN THE BACK OF THE WALL'
"Uh, look there" I tried scavenging words, and mumbled. But-
"HOLY FUCK YOUR DEAD" Two shouted.
"SHHH, be quiet, the parents of the spider nest might wake up!" Alioth snapped back.
"Welp no point now, look, they're already awake." Alioth heard from Two in a guilty voice.
"I hate you, so very much" Alioth calmly said.
Before the sun had even started setting, the two spiders that guarded the nest and the cave, lunged toward the two of them.
'Damn'
Alioth grabbed his pointy stick, and quickly dodged the spider's slash, but quickly caught a glimpse of the spider.
It had eight eyes, eight sharp pointy scythe-like legs, and was roughly a half times larger than Alioth, it was also furry, but the inside of the mouth did not look so great, it looked like a dumpster, and the smell was horrible.
That was all Alioth could comprehend.
'What should I do?'
In a panicked thought, Alioth stabbed the spider with the pointy stick, just before it had tried slicing him up into sushi again.
The attack just slid off of the spider, seemingly like it had just dealt no damage to it at all.
'Well, it is just a stick'
Before long, the second spider started cornering him with the first one with Alioth in the corner of the room. With their fangs pointing out and green acid like substance coming out from their mouths, the spiders lunged towards him.
Alioth, with nowhere else to run, looked for an opportunity to escape, but no one was there, Two was gone.
But when Alioth had lost all hope he looked up, Two was on the attic-like stone floor of the dark cave, and reached out a hand for him.
Alioth quickly grabbed, not thinking a second thought.
However, in the distance, Alioth heard something that sounded like, "Don't grab it, that's a ____ spider!"
Trusting the words Alioth let go and stabbed the humanoid spider with the stick. Surprisingly, it had destroyed it, not just destroyed, decimated. As if it had never existed on the Earth. Or was it Earth?
[You have defeated…]
With no time to spare, Alioth used the spider's size to his advantage, and slid beneath all eight of the right side spiders' scythe-like legs.
With no hesitation, Alioth ran out of the cave, he saw a shining bright pink star shining right towards his eyes.
And jumped.