Confused, dizzy and totally not understanding what was going on, Keith tumbled down the low rise at the bottom of the hill, unable to halt his progress. In blurry glimpses he saw something approaching ahead. Two large tangled messes, bushes? One blood red, the other a soft light green, had something small and white between them. He could swear in the short glances he got at it the two bushes were... tugging on the white something? OK, not bushes. Him already a mess he began to panic.
"No! S... stop it!" Came a high pitched screech up ahead. A girl? Wait, the white thing it... was getting very close! Oh no!
He couldn't stop and a few moments later crashed headlong into the three objects, and the one in the middle turned out to be, as he'd guessed, a naked girl.
The world got a total mess for a moment, as arms and legs went everywhere, seeming like far more than there should be. He felt like his eyes too were thrown around somehow, his vision chaotic. Then he got a fragmented view of the girl screeching as she flew up in the air a few feet, then plummeted towards him. Instinctively he reached out and gently caught her with an Oof.
"I got you!" He said, then blinked at his odd voice. It was like talking through mud, or maybe multiple voices on top of one another?
The girl shuddered, then looked panicked at him.
"Noooo! Another one? Please don't hurt me!" She gasped.
Keith was about to ask what she meant, maybe insist he wouldn't hurt her, but the two 'bushes' decided to intervene. Protectively he wrapped his... arms... around her? What? OK, that felt weird. But he had no time to react, even to her yelp of shock, as he fought off the two... things on either side of him, finding himself tangling with both at the same time, while also holding the girl? How was he doing this? Also how come he could carry her like a bag of shopping? It was like she weighed nothing to him.
A blood curdling roar came from the red one on his left, and this close the... tendrils? Tentacles, the creature was thrashing at him were clearly visible. Oddly, when he punched and kicked at it he could see blue-green blurs going at them, rapidly striking it. Was he wearing gloves or something?
The light green one seemed to spread, coming apart and attacking from multiple directions! That one also thrashing tentacles at him, small thin tendrils waving on the end of each one. Both of the creatures kept reaching for the girl held protectively in his arms and he tried to back away. At first just standing was complicated and a mess, but he staggered back, desperate to get away from these things, and tensing he jumped.
WHOAH!
"SHIT!" Keith yelled as he soared over the two creatures, then a few moments later saw the ground coming at him. "Brace yourself!' He cried to the girl, curled around her tighter and hit the ground... and bounced. OK, that hurt, but not much. He bounced twice more before stumbling to a stop. Shaking himself he looked back and saw the two creatures starting to move towards him, a weird rolling gait of all those waving tentacles surging them forwards. He gasped and started running away from them. Thankfully they started going at each other again, and soon had stopped to fight fully.
He kept running anyway. Dashing towards the odd woven roof trees he saw earlier he went in, the miss-matched shadows covering him as he hid behind the odd trees.
"There, you're safe now." He said, then drew the quivering girl out and put her down gently.... and stared at the six blue-green tentacles that he'd used to put her down with.
Slowly his eyes grew wider, and he managed to look at himself, shaking as he realized he looked not dissimilar to those two horrors he'd just saves the girl from!
The girl in question slowly wavered to her feet, eyes wide, staring at Keith
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