Chapter 2: A New World

My name is Deke Comes. I used to work as an MMA/Combative Instructor.

I had been watching anime online when the largest Solar Flare in the history of our sun burst directly toward earth. My computer screen flashed bright white blinding me momentarily and when my vision cleared, I was on my back in a grass field naked and feeling like I had just run a 50-meter dash in less than 4 seconds, carrying 100 pounds while getting electrocuted.

I felt something bad had happened and suspected I was not in Kansas anymore as the saying goes. My first clue was the fact that I could see two suns. The smaller one was lower on the horizon and appeared to rise in the north and set in the south twice a day if you were to assign a compass barring to it. The larger sun would rise in the west and set in the east once a day and was much brighter.

I met Laya a female Lynx person, Laya looked like a female but was covered in fine fir everywhere except her breasts and had real cat ears along with a short tail. Her face looked more human than feline but you could tell she was not completely human.

Laya sent me to a village where I became the War Chief after demonstrating my fighting skills.

I ended up with a mate and strangely enough had Laya given to me as my slave after convincing everyone that she had been my slave before I supposedly was attacked and lost my memory.

Why was I the War Chief, well another group or clan that had suffered severe drought and other natural disasters had attacked the village and I demonstrated extremely effective fighting skills.

After interrogating a prisoner we discovered that all of the remaining members of this clan or group was making their way toward our land and intended to capture our females, kill all the males, and take over our land.

This brings us to the current meeting we were having.

I explained how I recognized the blowguns as a sudden flash recall from before my attack. I now also remember other weapons me people had developed for hunting first and fighting second. I described a bow and arrow and promised to make and demonstrate its effectiveness for both hunting and fighting. I also described armor for protecting the body and again promised to make and demonstrate how it worked as well.

Then we discussed sending scouts out to see where this enemy was and how long before they reached us. I suggested me sending Laya as this was one of the reasons I had her as my servant. Calling her my servant instead of slave brought questions. I quickly answered that my people had two categories we referred to persons under another person’s control. A slave was often referred to as one who was poorly cared for and expected to do any and all tasks given to them immediately and without question or hesitation, not complying could result in serious punishment. However, a servant was referring to one who is treated almost like a family member or almost like a regular person. They are expected to obey all instructions immediately and without question or hesitation but rarely in fact almost never disobey or defy the person in charge of them.

Everyone quickly understood since this is the manner I had been treating Laya this whole time. So when I said that sending her out to scout was what I had trained her to do. It was suggested to send a few fighters with her to protect her. I explained that traveling by herself, Laya could move much faster than any fighter or hunter could and it would be easier for her to hide by herself than if there were others with her. This made sense and the issue was resolved as everyone agreed with my suggestion.

We broke for lunch and while lunch was being prepared I asked for and was brought the items needed to make a bow, armor, and a makeshift arrow. I was watched intently by just about everyone as I put the arrow together first as it was the hardest and needed the most time to set (glue on the fletching) the bow was last as it was the easiest to make. The armor was not difficult to make it just needed to be sized to the person going to wear it.

The arrow was easy to make once I described what I needed. I asked for a sapling the same width as the smallest finger and as long as the arm from the shoulder to the tip of the fingers. One of the women gatherers yelped, jumped up to her feet, and took off running. Two male protectors turned and ran to follow her. Daywa a 19 year old single female returned with several reed like saplings that were perfect for arrow shafts. Feathers were easy as well since we ate birds of all sizes. I asked for tail feathers that were as long as the hand from the wrist to the tips of the fingers and a woman turned and said something to a young girl who nodded stood and ran off. She quickly returned with a basket full of feathers all perfect for fletching. I turned to the knapper I could not remember her name and asked for a small piece of flint or obsidian about the size of her thumb and as thin or flat as she could find.

I asked for glue and the strongest piece of wood about two fingers wide and one finger thick, the length needed to be from the ground to the shoulder and I suggested bringing two or three different types of wood to see which would work best. Two men left to go get what I asked for.

I then asked for the thickest piece of leather as large as was available and two shirks along with needle and thread. Two women stood and went to gather these items.

Juwoo was the name of the female who brought a large hide that was very thick about ¼” or more. Fueb brought the shirks, needle and thread. I had Hakuu stand as the model and two pieces of hide were cut to fit on his chest and back. Once I laid the shirk down and set the leather hide where the chest and back area was Fueb and Juwoo pushed me aside and set the second shirk on top and began to sew the edges together.

Everyone laughed and Gogon said that this was indeed a great idea for protection. I then took a shaft and ran a kutir along the length to smooth out any knots or bulges. Then I took a small piece of leather hide and put sand on it. I folded it in half and began to slide the shaft through the folded hide while twisting it back and forth, the sand wrapped in the folded leather smoothed the shaft even more. Daywa picked up another shaft and began copying what I had done.

After getting the shaft as smooth and straight as I could it was time to add the fletching. I selected two feathers that were close to the same size and shape and cut them down the middle carefully. Then I used some glue just on the cut edge of the feather to attach it to the end of the shaft leaving about ½” from the end. I did this three times evenly spacing them. I asked for a length of thread about as long as my arm. Fueb handed me the thread and I carefully began to wind it around the feather fletching winding several turns in front of the fletching and after the fletching and glued the thread ends in place. I cut the notch into the end of the shaft and set it aside.

Daywa had caught up to where I was and asked if she had done everything correctly. I observed she had done a better job than I had and said she would be in charge of arrow making. This immediately made her a very important female and being single would now have many callers.

I remembered Ayalla’s name she was one of the knappers when she came back carrying a bundled up hide. When she laid out the hide there were many small pieces of flint and obsidian along with a fist size chunk of each and her hard stone and knapping tools.

I was able to find a perfect flint arrowhead triangle shaped with a long back end just the right thickness. Carefully splitting the other end of the shaft just about an inch long evenly in the middle of the shaft I was able to use glue to set the arrowhead in place and asked for a very long piece of thread. Fueb made a face and pulled a roll of thread from her pouch and handed it to me. I thanked her and shocked everyone when I gave her a friendly hug.

I then carefully wrapped the thread around the end of the shaft tightly holding the glued arrowhead in place and preventing the shaft from splitting further and I glued this thread in place as well. Daywa asked for the rest of the thread as she was ready to put an arrowhead on her arrow. She had already done the fletching. I asked her to make another while I made the bows. Daywa smiled, nodded, and continued to finish the arrow.