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All Chapters of Unique: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter One

Darkness and screaming, that was all that Will had experienced for what seemed like an eternity. The screaming was unfamiliar, more guttural than what he was used to, and it seemed to be increasing. After a while he realized he was also part of it, he stopped and tried to analyze the situation he was in. [How did I get here?] his thoughts started getting clearer, earlier it was just a blur. He calmed down and tried to move his body, he felt two arms and two legs, and three fingers and toes on each limb. This startled Will, however he soon moved on, he then realized how weak his body was. It wasn't a weakness that came from being intoxicated or knocked out, which is what he thought at first. It was a weakness similar to having been laying in bed for weeks at a time, Will had experienced this once before when he was hospitalized for pneumonia and his muscles had atrophied.   Suddenly a rough arm grabbed his neck and p
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Chapter Two

 Will woke up with a slight headache and some dizziness. To his surprise he felt a lot stronger than before. For a split second he thought he was back in his human body, and that everything before was a horrible dream. However that wasn't the case, his surroundings were a lot darker than where he had been feeding, but he could still see quite well. He heard the snoring of his siblings in the same room, there were seven of them and all were male. He slowly walked out of the cave in a cautious manner, but as soon as he came out of the cave entrance and into a wider tunnel, someone grabbed his neck and lifted him off the ground. He struggled for a bit but didn't yell or scream, the ȧduŀt Goblin holding him up was looking at Will carefully. The Goblin showed Will a wry smile then started carrying him further down the tunnel. After following the tunnel and passing several entrances, they reached a similar dome shaped room like the one Will had previously
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Chapter Three

  In the following days Will had gone to the Chiefs room after waking up. Chief didn't seem to mind, and kept teaching Will more words. Will was surprised at the rate he was absorbing information, it was like his brain was a sponge. Chief would also wrestle with Will sometimes and even spar with the sticks. Will was still very small, but to his surprise, only a couple of days passed and his muscles had already grown and he felt much stronger. Will could also stay awake for an entire day instead of falling asleep all the time. [Goblins seem to grow and develop much faster than humans. It's only been a week and a half and I can almost understand Chief, I can even run around half the day without getting tired.] Will came to understand how the Goblins lived after a while longer. They didn't have any kind of tribal structure or any type of government as Will had previously thought. They were anarchists, they helped each other from time to ti
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Chapter Four

 When Will woke up again, he was leaned against the cave entrance alone. Chief had probably just dropped him there before dealing with their catch. He got up and started heading for his room, it was still night so his siblings were probably still sleeping. Will sat down on the ground opposite to where the others were sleeping and started thinking about what happened today. [This can't be how they usually hunt right? It's too inefficient, there has to be something I can do. First of all, they go in large groups. If they went alone or at least in pairs, they could be more stealthy and there would be more hunting groups out there catching more prey. However the reason they go in large groups is probably because their tools are so weak. Those sharpened sticks didn't do anything to the boar's thick hide. Maybe I can do something about that, I don't know how to make bows which would be a lot better, but at least I can make spear tips and knives. Maybe onc
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Chapter Five

 What happened next left Will in disbelief. The other Goblins had charged the boar without any planning or strategy. In addition, they were screaming and yelling their lungs out! The boar was immediately startled and tried charging away, but some of the Goblins had managed to surround it already. Chief was one of them, he was staring it right in the eyes. However the boar continued charging, Chief managed to roll to the side dodging the boar, but the two Goblins next to him got knocked in different directions. The size of the boar compared to the Goblins was huge, it was like a bull compared to a human. One of the Goblins who got knocked away hit a tree trunk, the sound of the spine snapping was loud and made all the other Goblins stop in their tracks. Will walked over to Chief and helped him off the ground, Chief had a huge grin on his face. "Why happy? Boar gone!" Will exclaimed with his still developing Goblin vocabulary. Chief just shook his hea
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Chapter Six

Currently there were only three people in the room. Will, Chief and something else. Chief had called it a sow, but it wasn't a pig. Will realized it was female because of the brėȧst and her genitalia was exposed. She had a greenish brown skin color, but was it a female Goblin? She was rather large, Will even estimated that she was bigger than a regular sized human, at least humans from his world since he had never seen a human here before. She was tied up to large boulders in the room, but even if she wasn't it didn't look like she had the strength to struggle. She had small cuts and bruises all over her body, her eyes were glazed over as if she didn't have any consciousness, but she would sometimes let out painful mȯȧns every now and then while she breathed. Will suddenly felt an urge, an instinct. The first Goblin instinct he had besides eating, he wanted to jump whatever it was that was in front of her and mate. However the human part in his mind was aware of
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Chapter Seven

  After hearing about the scout, Will knew they had a day, maybe two at most. So he immediately went through all the preparations he had made. For defenses he realized the best option they had was to use the narrow caves to funnel the Orcs, he didn't know how many were going to come, but numbers wouldn't be an issue if they could fight in the tunnels. He also decided to take advantage of the difference in height, he got all the Goblins to help him drive thick and sharp stakes to stick out of the cave walls above Goblin height. That way it would be hard for the Orcs to move around unscathed. Will had also managed to take advantage of the 'Adrenaline Mushrooms', he didn't have any apothecary skills, but he did some experimentation, and inhaling the mushrooms after drying and grinding them to dust made the effect almost instantaneously. So he handed small leather pouches to all the Goblins with the mushroom powder in it. Will knew that inh
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Chapter Eight

Will was halfway through the cave system when he realized the Orc leader was quickly catching up to him. He finally couldn't stand it anymore and looked back. There he saw the towering Orc, slowly moving through the tunnels. The Goblins that came in its way were all crushed with one swing, sometimes two or three at a time. The defenses Will had set up, the stakes in the wall, all broke like twigs against the Orcs armor and muscles. [I was so naive, how could I think I had any chance, and it's only one Orc. I thought I could defend against more? How stupid! Goblins are too weak, way too weak!] Will turned back around and picked up his pace, he couldn't be bothered by the Goblins in the cave, most were dead anyway. He had only one last plan that could maybe help him survive, and if that didn't work, he would just have to accept his death.   Will ran faster and faster, not stopping for anything until he reached his des
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Chapter Nine

Him. Hours passed as Will sat slumped down in the corner of the cave, he had been silently clutching his left arm. Will had unconsciously grabbed his severed arm and held it against the open wound, almost as if he was trying to re-attach it. Will stirred back to life as he felt a slight tingling from his left arm, he couldn't move anything, and the wound had clearly not healed, it could even just have been his imagination. However this was enough to motivate him into moving again. In the hours Will had sat there, he had time to process all the intense emotions that surfaced during the morning massacre. After thinking for so long, Will's conclusion had led him to realize that everything that had happened was out of his control. The Goblin group was doomed even before Will was born into this world, and no amount of preparation he could make would have changed that. His only option was to get stronger so nothing like this would happen in the future, or if it did, that at least he would
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Chapter Ten

Will was elated when he saw the dirt road, he suddenly lost all strength in his body as if all the exhaustion from the past month had finally caught up with him. He slid down on the ground for a while, but realized it wasn't completely safe so he got up and dragged his backpack back to the edge of the forest. He set up a small camp behind one of the larger trees so he had cover and started planning his next step. The road stretched from one horizon to the other, it was following the edge of the forest. On the other side of the road, there were only plains as far as the eyes could see. The plan was to head as far south as possible without endangering his life. He figured out that because the days were getting longer and longer as spring turned into summer, so he could safely ȧssume he was pretty far north on this world's hemisphere. So the more south he could get, the easier it would be to survive winter. However if he went too far south, he would encounter more civilization or more wi
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