Role Playing Fan Fiction ❯ ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF THE UNCONQUERED SUN ❯ Survival 101 ( Chapter 1 )

ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF THE UNCONQUERED SUN

 

Disclaimer: I own nothing except Yuki Samada.

 

Note: This is not a crossover with Red River. Yuki has only the same appearance of Yuuri Suzuki. Let see how a modern schoolgirl can evolve in a world and a time when mankind can become Exalted.

 

 

Chap 1: Survival 101.

 

 

As the sun greeted the young girl in all its glory, the school-girl was not very inclined to be mesmerized by the savage beauty around her. She was in THE wilderness! The air was so pure in its quality that it was almost choking. For Kami-Sama sake, she was a city girl! The only two concessions to her lifestyle were the yearly vacation to her great-grand mother's farm near Kyoto, with the daily excursion on horseback, and the regular trip to the ocean coast with her father to, as he put it, `break in his sailboat'.

 

Here, the situation was definitively `serious'. She has nothing of any utility to survive. She didn't know where she was and where to go. Not counting the fact that she has no idea how she has come here. She refused to believe that the `make-believe' little story of copying the anime of `Rayearth' was the reason of her presence… At least, not until she encounter the Master Cleft of this world.

 

No! There was a logical reason to her presence wherever she was. She, perhaps, has been kidnapped by someone and abandoned in a remote location of Japan. She didn't feel hungry or thirsty, so it was possible. There were wooded areas like that in Japan although most were near mountainous region.

 

She sighed. Well, what to do now? Her mother had repeated to her that when one is lost, one must wait for the rescue to come to him. The only problem here was she was lost `somewhere' and not in a region known by anybody except by those who have abandoned her here. Worse, those same individuals responsible of her presence could come back and perform unspeakable acts on her.

 

She had to move, she had to take a direction. Well, she was a child of the Land of the Ascending Sun and it was a direction as good as another. Sighing again, Yuki Samada took the direction of the East.

 

She was a small girl, only five feet, with the normal yellow skin complexion of her race. She was very healthy fifteen years old teenager and had a striking appearance reinforced by her tight frame. She had shoulder length unbounded black hair and deep hazel eyes that burned with confidence. Her school uniform was standard with a light grey colour and its simplicity only enhanced her force of personality.

 

Hours later, she met her first challenge: Thirst. The region was bursting with life, but she didn't see any source of water for now. This was more preoccupying than the fact that she didn't recognize any of the plant life. Trees, bushes and flowers were completely different than anything she had seen so far. The mass of some of the insects were worried her and the appearance of a bird in a tree with leather wings was surely the product of a hallucination.

 

She couldn't have been thrown in the distant past of the Earth. She was not in a remake of `the Lost World', wasn't she? Well, she didn't meet any dinosaurs or mammoths or sabre-tooth tigers so everything was all right now. Right?

 

As the Sun continued to observe the young girl during its course, the stamina of Yuki was challenged. She was very fit for a city girl: The constant practice of martial arts at her school has made her whipcord lean. She was not very strong, but fast and resistant. Unfortunately the absence of water was taking its toll. Worse, she hadn't been able to identify any edible resources. The few bites that she had risk with a few samples of the plant life had made her nauseous.

 

Exhausted by her long walk, Yuki took at least the precaution to scale a tree and find a large branch to rest. She didn't have seen any animal life, but she sure heard it. The night was coming and with the absence of fire, she didn't want to be caught by a predator on the ground. The various frightening sounds in the forest were also very encouraging to take the upper situation.

 

The night-sky was magnificent. There was none of the light pollution and the night was treating her to a grandiose presentation of its celestial fires. So beautiful, so many stars. Lying on her back, gazing up by a gap in the forest roof was almost a religious experience. Yuki has been educated with the Shinto Faith of her land: Respect your Ancestors and the Kami were everywhere. Under the starry sky, here was proof to the Japanese girl.

 

Wait a second! There were no known constellations in the sky. She gasped and took a better look. Even the North Star was absent. There was even coloration of stars never seen before, like a violet hue. Kami-Sama, where was she?

 

Amazingly, she slept all the night a dreamless slumber. Even the teeming life of the night didn't rouse her. The exhaustion of the trek through the lightly wooded country, her ordeal during the transition to this world has left her vulnerable to the night-life. She felt very lucky to be able to see the Sun on the morrow.

 

She needed help and fast. She needed water and food or she WILL be food to the inhabitants of the forest. She could perhaps continue like this for another day or two but after that…

 

The torture of the following days was an amalgam of the chastisement of Sisyphus and Tantalus. The insect life has deemed her a worthy prey and clouds of nasty bugs `bugged' her during her trek. She absently asked herself what they were eating in the absence of Japanese student. She also has seen proof of the presence of large predators with the carcass of previous prey exposed in a few locations. The mass of the bones of some of the preys left little imagination to the sheer might of the hunters or their numbers if they were of smaller built.

 

As she struggled to walk with a walking makeshift stick, she found her first ray of hope: a large trail in the grassy ground. It was the first sign of civilisation as she recognized the characteristic tracks of horses and wheels. She almost cried of relief, help was perhaps very near.

 

The direction of the tracks was very obvious. Like a zombie, she began to follow the path. She couldn't last long. After an eternity, as the evening was letting the night coming, she finally perceived under the haze of her hunger and exhaustion the scent of smoke-wood and more fainter under it, the smell of faecal matter.

 

Gingerly, she limped in the direction of the scent. Finally, she come upon a hill and gazed with great relief on …a caravan?

 

It was an assembly of a dozen of various wagons. They were neatly arranged in a circular position between two hills. In the back, the drafts animals were groomed and taken to the clear waters of a small river. Here and there, fires were used by men to cook the evening meal. The only jarring thing in this scene was the height and appearance of one of those draft animals.

 

Among the horses and…camels?...was a beast of perhaps 18 feet at the shoulder compared to the…Bedouins?...around it. It was probably a mammal weighing several tons, with strong legs, a short neck and a shaggy head.

 

Well, it was official now. She was in another world. Yep, no way that she was still in some part of her Earth. Bedouins existed, but in the desert. And nowhere there was such a massive creature at this draft beast. At least, she was saved now. Slowly, Yuki began her approach to the camp.