HELLO EVERYONE! Its me CrazyKrabby bringing you a brand new chapter of Crimson Snowflakes! As always i dont own diddly squat so dont send your well payed lawyers after me! Thanks! Now pleases enjoy the story!

Crimson Snowflakes Chapter 2: Life

Jordan slowly opened his eyes to the world. His eyes felt as if he was opening them for the first time in a long time. Taking a quick look around he found there was snow everywhere with trees reaching high into the sky reminding him of the time Corvus trapped him inside his mind. Slowly he tried to get up off the snowy ground but ended up stumbling onto his back. "Just great... My whole damn body wants to act weird today it seems" Jordan mumbled to himself.
After a few more tries he finally got to his feet.

Now that he was up he could take a bit of a better look around the general area. Yep, just like Corvus's simulation. Snow and trees as far as the eye can see. But oddly enough there was no data particles floating about like he usually seen in simulations. Given all simulations may not have data particles. The only ones he's ever been in is the Nuk3town simulation and the ones created by interfacing with his friends. Oh and ones made by Corvus.

Suddenly Jordan froze. He was supposed to be dead. "So this is the afterlife huh? Salim and Corvus would of got a kick outta this." He remarked. Suddenly he heard something that sounded like laughing off in the distance. Jordan slowly started to move towards the direction he could hear the laughing. As he neared closer he could make the voice out as a young male child.
Jordan wondered why a child would be out in the woods all by himself.

He finally caught sight of the child. He had what looked to be short red hair with a cow lick sticking up at the top. He was wearing a white T-shirt and some shorts. He looked to be around 9 years old. All in all Jordan decided this kid was definitely not dressed to be out here. He decided to get the kids attention. "hey kid?" The kid turned around to face him showing enthralled yellow eyes. "Do you see this Jordan? We've done it! The frozen forest is all around us! It's all true! I dont feel cold, yet i can feel the snow melt on my skin!" The kid said in a happy voice. Jordan blinked in surprise before uttering. "Corvus? Is that you?" The young child simply nodded his head. "Why the hell am i not dead? And why are you here?" Jordan asked. The young kid now known to be Corvus took on a thoughtful look. After a few moments he simply shrugged and said. "No idea. I would say i somehow became an actual A.I but i wouldn't know anything about that. As for your question of where we are? Just look around you! We're in the frozen forest! All this time Salim was right!" Jordan took on a thoughtful look himself and replied. "But all of that was just a dream my brain created. How do we even know if Salim was an actual person?"

Before they could question things any more they noticed a red glint back from where Jordan had woken up at. "Hey whats that over there?" Corvus asked as he walked towards the red object.
Jordan not having any clue decided to go and pick it up. What they found was a weird ruby looking power button you would of found on an old Nintendo game. "What the hell is this thing?" Jordan asked while inspecting the ruby closely. Corvus not having any clue as to what it is somehow felt like it was important to them somehow. "I dont know what it is but i think we should keep it. It feels as if its connected to us in some way." Corvus said. Jordan simply nodded and put it in his backpack he always carries on his back.

Oh yeah. Speaking of backpack he needs to check and see what all he has on him right now. In all truth he should not even be alive. But it seems like Corvus did something to save both their skins. Opening up his backpack he found a ton of field rations along with bottles of water and some of those chocolate bars Hendricks took a liking to. Or maybe he didn't since it wasn't real? Well that wasn't really important right now. Also in the bag he found Looking deeper into the bag he found an MR6 pistol along with his Golden Razorback. He really should of thought about everything being a little odd since his gun was gold... He never saw anyone else with a golden weapon running about. Its not really surprising everything was a dream. And then there was that time he used a gun that looked like it was made of crystallized emerald or something.

Continuing on looking through his things he found other useful military knick knacks for camping and the like. Staring up into the sky he noticed that it was starting to get dark. So he started pulling out all the camping gear and setting it up while he told Corvus to try and start a fire if he could so they could have some light for the night. Corvus at first refused as he did not want to melt even a little bit of the snow in the forest. But after a talk about how this place is constantly snowing he gave up and started attempting to make a fire anyway. About an hour later they had a comfy little camp sight made up.

As they were getting ready to sleep Corvus suddenly shot up in a panic. "OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS ODD FEELING IN MY BODY!?" Corvus yelled. Jordan looked over at him with a brow raised. "what does it feel like?" he asked.
Corvus, face getting more worried by the second replied. "Kinda like a weird rumbling right about here." He then pointed to his stomach. Jordan could not help but laugh realising what the problem was. Corvus is hungry it would seem. And being an A.I that never really existed he would not be used to human feelings. He got up and dug through his backpack trying to find some food to cook up on the fire. He found a big can of beans and moved it over towards the fire.
After making a simple a small prop for the beans to sit on over the fire he told Corvus what his problem was. "Your just simply hungry. Every day you got to eat food otherwise your going to get that feeling. If you dont eat you will eventually die from starvation." Corvus suddenly gained a look of understanding. Corvus could remember times when he watched Taylor and his crew eat food. Now that Corvus had feelings he kind of felt like a creep having just sat and watched them eating.

After a while Corvus's beans where finished and Jordan took them off the fire and handed them to Corvus along with a spoon. "So what do we do now Corvus? We have enough food to last us about a week right now tops. Tomorrow should we go searching for some form of civilization?" Jordan asked. Corvus taking a bite of his beans stopped and thought a moment before gaining a smile. "I like this idea. Anyone who lives in the frozen forest must be nice kind people." Corvus said. Jordan simply nodded his head and replied.
"Then thats, that then. Tomorrow we go hunting for a town or something. After a little bit Jordan pulled out a chocolate bar and started eating it. He then got into a sleeping bag to go to sleep. There was not much worry of the snow piling up on them given the campfire burning next to them. They were also under a fallen log so there should be no problem with snow.

As Corvus sat there eating his beans he saw something weird. He saw what looked to be two glowing yellow lights off in a cluster of trees just ahead of them. Just as Corvus was about to get up and investigate another pair of glowing yellow eye's appeared. Then another, and another, and another, until finally there were thousands of glowing little lights all over the forest. Suddenly the first pair he saw started moving out of the cluster. Corvus felt some weird form of tension in the air. Suddenly out of the cluster stumbled some abomination of a creature. It looked like a human but it looked like it had decayed all over. And the glowing yellow lights was its eyes. It seemed to stumble about without a care in the world.
Then thousands more poured out from behind it. They were wandering around everywhere now. Corvus quietly shook Jordan awake so he could see what was happening.

"What the hell cant a guy get some sleep aro..." Jordan grew silent as he noticed what looked to be stumbling corpses wandering all around them. He simply made a shush motion to Corvus. All night long they sat and watched the strange creatures wandering about the area. They wandered close many times and Jordan was almost tempted to pull out his Razorback and shoot them. But they never seemed to care about them sitting inside the large log. They just went about there business until finally late into the night there numbers dwindled down and the constant groaning noises they made had died out. After a while longer of staying awake to see if they come back or not Jordan and Corvus fell asleep.

Corvus awoke to what sounded like a large stomping noise. He wondered if it was one of those things from last night walking by them but it sounded too far away and much too large. Shaking Jordan awake they stumbled out of their log to investigate what was going on.
They got out and stared into the direction the stomping was coming from. "Why are we just standing here letting this thing walk towards us?" Jordan asked readying his Razorback in case anything charged at them. Corvus simply shrugged and said. "This is the frozen forest. Nothing bad could live here. I mean look at those things we saw from last night. They let us be. So this most likely will too." Jordan just nodded since Corvus had a point there but kept his Razorback readied anyway.

Suddenly out from the trees stomped a giant dragon. As soon as it spotted Jordan and Corvus it slowly walked towards them. It got right up in there face and sniffed them. Corvus taking this as friendly interaction just smiled and said. "See Jordan! It's..." But was then interrupted by the large dragon suddenly roaring right in there faces. *ROOOOOOOOOOAR* It's roaring kind of sounded like one of those dinosaurs you would hear in Jurassic park. As the dragon roared they were slowly blown back a bit from its roar. It kept this up for around five minutes for some reason.
Finally it stopped. "Okay Corvus i think he's..." Interrupted again by the dragon comediacally roaring at them. This time the roar was so strong they didn't just get blown back a little but they're mouth's were flapping open and shut making a weird little noise. Eventually it stopped again.
"Okay i think its done for real this..." Corvus started to say but... *ROOOOOOOOOOOAR* As they were being roared at Jordan looked to Corvus and said. "I think this things just trying to be an ass to us..."

Finally it had stopped roaring at them. It looked like it was about to blow fire at them given the way its mouth was starting to glow. Corvus and Jordan jumped out of the way as a large gush of flame came blowing towards them. "OH GOD JORDAN ITS NOT FRIENDLY, ITS NOT FRIENDLY, SHOOT ITS BLOCKS OFF!" Corvus screamed in fear.
Jordan stared at Corvus with a look that screamed "You think" and then began to spray bullets at the overgrown lizard. It did seem to be harming it thank god. It would of sucked if it was one of those dragons that could only be killed by some legendary artifact. The dragon started to spew more fire at Jordan but he used his cybernetic augments to jump over the large beast. Now being behind the dragon he began to spray bullets at its slightly weaker looking back. The dragon angry at being hurt flapped its tail at Jordan only to have a large ringing sound pierce its ears stunning it. Apparently Jordan could still use his cybernetic chaos abilities.

With the dragon distracted by the ringing noise Jordan released a swarm of Nano fireflies to burn the dragon up from the cellular level. With an unearthly scream the dragon was slowly burned to death from the inside and out until finally it burst into a weird bunch of pixels. Corvus looked at where the dragon was and noticed a weird little red orb sitting in the snow. Corvus picked it up and put it in Jordan's backpack. "something tells me the frozen forest is actually a dangerous place..." Corvus mumbled to himself. Jordan just nodded his head. Suddenly Corvus thought of something. "Why are you not trying to kill me? After everything i did to you?" Corvus asked. Jordan just simply raised a brow and smiled. "Simple answer to that. Considering the fact i was doing everything to myself since it was my dream. So in all truth its my fault you were an insane rogue A.I." Corvus accepted this answer and the two began to trot of towards what they hoped to be civilization. Meanwhile up in a tree a woman with a witch hat has watched everything that just happened.

And thats a wrap for today! Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! And if there is any mistakes or especially plot holes found dont hesitate to tell me. I would like to fix errors as soon as possible! So yeah. Anyway nothing interesting today but a quick explanation for what Jordan cooper looks like. After writing all this i realized i never explained how he looks. Well let me fix that right now.

Just imagine your average looking 19 year old. He shaves constantly so he never really has a beard. He kinda has shaggy brown hair. And if you want to know what he wears, its the call of duty outfit from the campaign. He also has blue eyes and you can just imagine him how ever tall you want him to be. Wow this explanation of how this character looks is terrible... Meh... I aint perfect. Anyways hope you guys are enjoying the story so far and i hope to see some mistakes being pointed out cause i feel like i made a few. Till next time mates!