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Published: 2014-11-21 21:24:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2765; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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Description So. Sorry about this taking so long. I wanted it to be good before I post it >:I 

So this AU is veeeery heavily inspired by the game 'Forest'. 
I really like the game and I when I played it for the first time I was like 'how awesome would it be, if there were different tribes and stuff? :0 so awesome!' And now there are actually diferent tribes xD so cool. 
I actually alerted the tribes a bit, (y'know in the game they are pretty much the same, the models for different tribes are really similar, only difference being like, starving canibals who are thinner.) 
   So I gave them different clothes, and different Gods and stuffs. 

Have some concept art:
041 Concept Art

Warning for cannibals, their meals,  plane crash casualties, and everything in beetween. 
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'This is the last fucking time I babysit you idiots!' Was the last thing that Roy had yelled, before a weird noise sounded and the plane started falling. 
The sound - probably an engine catching on fire - was incredibly loud, and Dick's stomach hit the back of his throat, as they started losing altitude.
Panic filled the plane, people began screaming and yelling and crying. The shrill voice of the stewardess cut through the noise, as she quickly yelled out instructions. Some, unfortunately, ignored her, falling into histeria, but still a lot of people, - Including Dick and his friends - quickly followed her orders, by sitting in their seats, fastening their seat belts, and putting their heads in beetween their knees. Then the plane lurched forward and then back as they hit the tree line. Dick actually saw people falling backwards, their necks probably snapping on impact. 
Something heavy fell on his head - whenever it was a suitcase, a part of the plane, or even a human, he didn't know - and he lost conciousness. 
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'Grayson. Wake up!' Someone was shaking his shoulders. When he opened his eyes, he saw Artemis hovering over him with a worried look. She had blood dripping from her forehead. 
He felt her checking the back of his neck, before she pinched him in the fingers, in a clumsy attempt to see if he was paralysed. 
'Everyone okay?' he muttered, slowly taking his hand away from her, before sitting up with a wince, his headache fitting the massive bump he had on his head. 
He saw Kaldur, trying to free Conner from under some plane pieces, luggage and seats that he got stuck under. 
Megan was laying unconscious next to Dick, but she was breathing normally, so he guessed she was alright for now. 
Roy was nowhere in sight. 
Then he noticed the rest of the passengers. Or what was left of them.
The scene was brutal. 
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Dead bodies littered the small clearing that the plane crashed on. 
Some of them were killed by the fall, but the rest seemed...cut open? 
Some of the bodies still had daggers and knifes made out of bones, sticking out of their throats, eyesockets and chests. 
The stewardess from before was there too. With an actual axe in her stomach. 

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'Canibals killed them.' suddenly said Conner. 
He was immobilized but conscious after the crash and saw everything. 
'People came here, and started attacking the survivours. All conscious ones were dragged away. The rest was killed.' he said and for the first time ever, Dick clearly heard fear in the brunette's voice. 
They were lucky to be alive then. Apparently, Dick and his friends, managed to stay out of sight, being covered by luggage and plane pieces. The 'canibals' - as they dubbed them-  were more focused on the running people. 
But there still was a posibility, that they will go back here soon to finish what they started. 
'Then it is a good decision, to leave the area for now and look for a safer place.' Said Kaldur after a while, before he started opening luggage and searching for food and clothes. 
They scavenged all they could, before moving away from the clearing. 
'How about we head north for now?' sugested Dick, before taking a compass out of his backpack. He was glad he managed to find his things among the crash site. They left a message there, writted on the plane with mud and blood, (seing as they were out of options) that said 'We're heading North' in case some other passenger stumbled back to the crash. 
They all thought of Roy, but no one dared to say it out loud. 

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From what they could guess, they were stuck on some island, since they were flying over the ocean, when the plane started falling. 
Their plan for now, was to find a beach and maybe a safe place to spend the night. 
No one talked about the people who didn't make it. They decided to focus on survival for now. 
Megan was sitting on the beach, perched on top of a rock, as she looked out for any dangers, while the others worked. 
Her ankle got sprained during the crash, so she was ordered to rest for now. 
Artemis was walking around and gathering feathers, that the seagulls lost, for her make-shift arrows. 
Dick was taking stock of all their food while Kaldur and Conner looked around, in hopes of finding shelter nearby. 
The youngest just turned around to call for his friends, when his voice died in his throat. 
Megan yelled out a warning. 

There was a person, watching them from afar. 
Behind the man, several more appeared.
There were about 10 of them now, and they wore animal skins and blue materials around their waists, along with golden jewerly on their ankles and wrists. They were all bare chested with weird sun shaped paintings all over them. 

The team formed a tight circle, as the tribe members slowly and cautiously got closer. 
They were murmuring to each other in a language, that Dick didn't recognize, and they overall didn't seem too hostile. The spears they held were not pointed at the team yet, so it was a good sign?
'They are different' They heard Conner mutter. ' The ones who attacked the people by the plane were painted white and wore human bones as jewerly.' 
Then one of the tribe's men walked closer. He appeared to be about their age, and had a spear with a bird's skull on it, but it was his looks that were surprizing. 
He was pale. Paler than anyone present, and his body was covered in freckles. 
His hair was bright red and his eyes were green and he had Suns painted only on his right side. On his left side there was a weirdly shaped scar, going from his shoulder all the way down, to his left foot. 
He looked straight at Dick, so the ebony decided to bite the bullet and do something crazy. 

'Um...We come in peace?' He asked hesitantly, and the tribe's man twitched. 
His eyebrows furrowed in concentration, as he tried to reply.
'Ve come in peace...as vell' He smiled at them obviosly happy that he managed to communicate, and the people behind him relaxed a little. 
Dick only blinked surprized at the english. 
'My name is Vally.' He seemed more at ease now, and he struggled less with the language. 'Of the sun and lightning' 
He made a weird gesture at that. He raised his right palm up, as if he was trying to hold the sun, while the other's fingers were pointed down, in a claw hand gesture. 
Then the rest of the tribe and the team followed with the introductions. 

'Ve found the plane and your message' the boy explained. 'Do any of you need help?' He asked, nodding his head toward Megan and her swollen ankle. 
'We can manage for now. Thank you.' Kaldur spoke up, declining politely. They did not fully trust the tribe and they could see that the people behind Vally did not trust them neither. 
'Did you find any more survivours?' Artemis suddenly blurted out, what everyone was thinking but was afraid of the answer. 
The boy seemed to ponder about her question for a moment. 
'A lot of them.' Judging by his tone, he ment the bodies, 'But ve also found vone man who is vounded but alive.' 
Dick's breath caught in his throat for a second, but he quickly asked 'Is he a redhead?'
He saw the boy's brow furrow in confusion at his question and two women from the tribe behind him actually whispered to each other 'redhed?' in thick accents. 
So Dick had to actually explain it, by pointing at his own hair, then at the boy's and asking 'Is the colour of his hair red?' 
'Yes! yes! He is...redhed' Vally nodded at that, and invited the team to go back with them to their village, to their 'redhed' friend. 

After they pondered over it, they decided to go with the tribe, seeing as it was probably the best option at the moment. 
So they went. Conner refusing tribe's men's help in carrying Megan, while Vally - seeing as he was speking english best out of the group - explained that there were two more groups that went out to search for more passengers. 

They passed a lot of weird contraptions made out of human bodies and animals, and Vally explained it as the other tribe's work. 
The Nox tribe used this to check if anyone passed by. If the 'effigies' or anything close to them was moved, they would know about it. The pale boy advised them not to touch it. 
When Conner asked why won't the Soleil Tribe just fight and kill the cannibals, Vally just blinked at him surprized. 
'Vhat is it, that you people from the sky always vant to kill everyvone?' 
'People from the sky?' Conner muttered in reply but Megan whispered to him to just drop it. 

They came to a big clearing, that had a village in the middle of it. 
Some houses were made from wood, The rest were tents, with animal skins stretched as walls and doors. 
Before they could step closer, Vally held his hand up. 
He turned to them with a serious expression, before he gestured toward the grey rocks, at their feet. 
Only then did they notice that the whole clearing was encircled by them. 
'The ground you are about to valk on is holy. Please...Act with reason.' He looked straight at Conner and Artemis when he said that. 'No killing. Do not give me reasons to dislike you.' 
They promised to be good. 

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They talked to Roy - whom Vally and his tribe aparently found running from the cannibals, successfully fighting them off with a branch or somethig. He only agreed to go with the tribe, because the freckled boy promised to look for his friends.- and he was 'forced' to lie in bed, while an older woman took care of his injuries. 
He seemed really grumpy and annoyed, so nothing was new (They all could clearly see how relieved he was when he saw them alive).
They were glad that he was okay too. 
The healers quickly went to help Megan with her ankle, cleaned Artemis'es cut, and gave Dick some weird herbal tea contraption for his headache. 

Then Vally showed them the tent they were going to stay in, and said he had to leave them for a moment, to check in with the other group, who was scouting out the forest. 
He left them in the competent hands of another boy who could speak english very well. 
Billy Batson. 

Billy was 10 years old, and he was the only one in the village who actually remembered life before the island well. 
'I crashed here about a year ago.' He told them. 'I was flying with my uncle Dudley - my friend Amber gave us the tickets.- It was suppossed to be our holidays together.' 
His uncle died during the crash, but Billy was taken in by Vally and the rest. 
The team asked the small brunette, if he wants to go back home to America. 
'There is no one waiting for me there. I have a big family here and they all love me. This is my home now. ' He did seem happy with that, and he treated Vally as his big brother and vice versa. 

Then the red head came back, and they asked him about his story. 
He apparently also 'fell from the sky' but he was very small and he barely remembers anything. 
The plane fell, because it was struck by lightning, and everyone except Vally died. He got the lightning scar as a 'souvenir'. 

'If you were very small, how come you know english?' Dick asked, and the freckled teen smiled as the began the story. 

The planes and boats crash here very often. At least twice a year. 
It was surprizing, that no one ever came to look for all those people who went missing. 
Vally was not sure, how many people came originally from this island, and how many just crash landed and joined the tribes. That would explain the mixed european dialects that they seemed to use. 
Very few people survived the crashes, and the Nox tribe almost always got there first, taking the 'food' and dragging the poor people into the drak, cold caves. 
There were people, who tried to survive on their own in the forest, by cutting down the trees, and building shelters, but the cannibals can be very persistent when they want something, so all of those people eventually died. 

Although, when Vally was around Billy's age, three men survived a boat crash, and befriended the Soleil Tribe. 
They stayed for a very long time. All through autumn, winter and spring, teaching the tribe how to speak english, how to read books - that often got found in the luggage - and about things like history, other continents and even science. 

One of the men, was a pilot and used his knowledge to take parts of broken down machines on the island, and with the help of the second man - A scientist - they built a boat with an engine, that would allow them to get back home. 
The third man, during his stay with the tribe, became an incredible archer and one of the best hunters they had ever seen. 
When it was their time to leave (and they did take some other survivours with them) they were treated as heroes, and everyone still thought of them with respect.
 
Their names were Hal Jordan, Barry Allen and Oliver Queen. 

'Waitwaitwaitwaitwait' Artemis interrupted him in the middle of the tale, ' Are you saying that THIS is THE ISLAND that uncle Ollie got stranded on all those years ago?' The red head blinked at the world 'uncle' turning his head toward Billy, seeing as Billy often spoke of an 'uncle'. Maybe they were the same person? But wasn't Billy's 'uncle' dead? 

'Uncle Ollie?' asked Megan. 
Artemis explained that her uncle always bragged about a time he got stranded on an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and how him and his friends escaped it on a boat that they built themselves. 
She never thought the story was real to be honest. They all thought he just went on vacation for 9 months. 

'So...what now?' 
'We built a boat. And we get back home.' stated Conner, as if it was the most obvious thing. 
'I helped in building the boat last time. I know how to do it.' happily declared Vally. 
'So then we shall focus on finding the usefull parts, and waiting for the right oportunity to leave the island.' summed up Kaldur, and everyone nodded. 
They still had to look for the rest of the passengers. 
Looks like there were in for an adventure. 

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Quick Bonus:

Dick woke up with a groan, cluthing his throbbing head. 
He opened his eyes and was met with total darkness. 
The air was moist and it reeked like rotten meat there. 
He furrowed his brows. What happened? 

The last thing he could remember...was running into the Nox Tribe on his way back to the camp. 
He was with Kaldur and Vally at the time and he thinks he might have gotten hit upside the head. He remembers being dragged away, and his friends screaming his name. 

He reached into his pocket for a lighter. 
He fumbled with it for a moment, before it finally lit up, casting some light at the room he was in.
...Or rather...on a cave that he was in. 
There were dead people hanging from the ceiling, and from what he could see, that's where the missing 30 passengers went. He shakily stood up, limping toward the table in the corner. There was a body of a man there, in a 'I <3 NY' T-shirt, stained in dried blood. Dick carefully reached around the man and colected the various painkiller bottles spread around him. 
He took a few pills, before he started looting the rest of the place. He was glad that the cannibals left him his backpack. 
How nice of them. 

He once again glanced up at the bodies hanging from the ropes and shuddered. 
He had to get out of here. 

He managed to sneak past a bunch of sleeping cannibals, and even found a flashlight. 
He must have taken the wrong turn somewhere in the cave though, before he suddenly found himself alone with some weird, mutated, human, tree-octopus thing. 
No wonder Vally told them to stay away from the caves. 
The monstrosity then turned in his direction as if sensing his presence. He saw it's multiple human hands reaching clumsily towards him. 
...He definetly had to get out of here. 

end

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Heeey it wasn't so bad...right? I hope it wasn't bad. I tired. 


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Comments: 5

IamForeverFree [2014-11-22 12:57:44 +0000 UTC]

Awesome as always.

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B-aruaL In reply to IamForeverFree [2014-11-23 17:06:01 +0000 UTC]

thank you~ 

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lovelucy2012 [2014-11-22 02:22:41 +0000 UTC]

Great story man and the art is awesome.

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B-aruaL In reply to lovelucy2012 [2014-11-23 17:06:16 +0000 UTC]

aw c: Thank you very much! 

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lovelucy2012 In reply to B-aruaL [2014-11-23 18:25:11 +0000 UTC]

No problem

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