Otherworld Adventure

Day – 1

"Woof! Woof! Woof!"

"Ugh, wha?"

On the ground, a boy woke up with a start, hearing the sound of a dog barking next to him. When the boy got up and looked around, he noticed that it was only Silver, his pet wolf.

"I'm up Silver. What the heck happened?"

That's right. The last thing that he remembered was looking at the white light that was enshrouding the whole city earlier.

Then he remembered his mother screaming… After that everything went white.

'What the hell happened?'

The boy looked around and saw only greenery.

"A forest?"

Taking a look around the area, he noticed that it was all green with very huge trees shooting towards the sky. This was something that he normally saw back when he was 8.

Training with his father and grandfather in the wilderness at the huge family island that they owned, so the scene wasn't unfamiliar to him.

"Did Father dump me back on the island after I fainted?"

As he spoke out his thoughts, he immediately started cursing in his mind.

'Damnit, is this punishment because I fainted only because of the white light? That's too cruel damnit! Is this seriously how you treat your son!?'

After his inner monologue, he immediately calm down and assessed his situation.

'Okay, calm down. Remember what to do for surviving in the wilderness.'

"First, gotta find a water source. Hopefully they didn't dump me too far from the inland river or the shore."

Cecil got up and took another look at his surroundings. Looking at them closely, he thought that they seemed bigger and lusher than the last time he was here. He found a tree that looked good enough to climb.

He started climbing the tree agilely. With all his training, he was really adept and scaling trees, especially trees that had thick trunks and rough bark covering it. It made it easy since the rough bark acted as good scaffolds for him to use.

"Silver, wait here. I'll look around and find water."

"Woof!"

'At least they didn't leave me by myself on the island. Having Silver around will help me cope with plenty of situations, since I don't have any sort of weapon on me right now.'

After climbing for about 2-3 minutes, Cecil finally reached the top.

'Were the trees back on the island always this tall?'

Reaching the edge of a very thick branch on the tree, Cecil started looking around, trying to spot the river he was familiar with. Very soon he found a very, very disturbing scene.

"Wha, what the hell?!"

What he saw was a vast greenery. The forest seemed to stretch as far as the eye could see. Not to mention that he saw what appeared to be the silhouette of a very enormous tree in the distance.

Although it was only a shadow, it loomed far into the sky. Even from a distance it looked huge.

"This… this isn't the island!"

Of course this wasn't the island. Nor was he on Earth. How could he possibly be on earth? The huge tree over in the far distance easily trumped the tallest mountain on earth!

Everest had a height of around 8,800 meters! But the huge tree in the distance easily surpassed that by at least another couple thousand meters.

'Heck! Being called huge would be an understatement for this tree!'

From where Cecil was, he could only see the shadow of that tree's trunk, but the most important thing was that even if he looked up into the sky, he still couldn't see the branches of it.

"Ohh man, where the hell am I?"

Well, the good news is that Cecil actually spotted a river from the branch he was standing on. It didn't seem to be too far away. 500 meters or so.

"Let's just head over there first, secure some water, and then try and make sense of this situation."

After arriving back on the ground, Silver greeted him with a bark. He took a quick survey of the area and after confirming that the area was safe, he sat down on the ground.

"I found a river around 500 meters to the north of here."

Well, north would be hard to say, since he didn't know the cardinal directions of this "world" yet, or where he was in the first place.

"Okay, let's go."

Cecil started jogging in the direction of the river that he saw from earlier alongside Silver.

After around 50 meters, Silver started barking and growling urgently. Turning his head back, Cecil noticed that Silver's fur were standing on end.

"Grrrrrrr…"

"What is it, Silv?"

He immediately stopped and looked around. After which a hair-raising sensation crawled up his spine.

"What?!"

"GROOOAAAARRR!!!"

A 4 meter tall black bear with red glowing eyes appeared from behind a tree in front of them. It roared and started sizing the two up.

"B-bear? How?"

Although the huge tree already gave Cecil a reason to doubt if he was on Earth, but this bear in front of him, pretty much convinced him of it.

It was huge, but not only was it huge, the 4 claws that retracted out of its paws, the meter long blade that was growing out of its elbows, and the menacing black blade on its head that looked like a horn, was already convincing enough that it was not a part of the animal species of Earth.

'Seriously, how the hell did this bear get so huge?! It easily trumps all the bears from earth! Now I'm convinced, this isn't Earth at all!'

"Prepare to fight, Silv!"

"Grrrrr…"

Receiving the an affirmative from Silver, Cecil quickly takes his stance. His form was from his family's martial arts. This particular stance was used for defense and counterattacks.

Of course he wouldn't even dream of fighting this monster bear head on, it would be utter suicide. It would be better for him to figure out its attack patterns and habits, then go for a counterattack. Right now, this wasn't training, his opponent was out for blood and preferably a meal too.

'One wrong move and I'll be its dinner for the evening.'

"Come at me!" Cecil taunted.

"ROOOARRRR"

The bear roared and charged at him. It charged at him on all fours, just like how a normal bear from Earth would when charging and chasing after its prey.

'Thank god my knowledge of animals from earth is applicable to animals from this world.'

Of course, knowledge from Earth shouldn't be heavily relied upon since this wasn't Earth. It could prove fatal for Cecil if things turned out differently than he expected.

'I'll just use that knowledge for reference and probe out the characteristics from the animals of this world.' He thought.

When the bear got close, it quickly stood up on its hind legs and swiped its claws at him.

Cecil easily predicts that and moves back out of its range. Now that he was so close to it, the bear was really large in contrast to his small height. It was already about 2 meters taller than him when it was on all fours, but now that it was standing, it was at least 5-6 meters in height.

'Damn, I can't win. We're in a totally different weight class, not to mention that I don't have any weapons on me!'

"Woof!"

Silver jumped onto the back of the bear and takes a bite at its neck. Blood splatters out and a small chunk of meat and fur was bitten off from the neck of the bear.

'What?! When did Silver get so strong?'

Sensing the nuisance on its back, the monster bear waves its arm back.

"Silver! Evade! Quick!"

It was too late, the bear swung back its arms and the elbow blades sliced towards Silver.

After quickly taking a bite at the bear, Silver was in motion to jump off the back of the bear, but the blades were already on its way, slashing towards him.

The blades slashed at Silver causing his fur to be dyed in red. It was fortunate that Silver twisted his body and only had his left hind leg cut.

It was a good thing that the blades didn't chop off his leg. The wound looked deep, but he wasn't in danger yet.

Cecil quickly charged forward and struck at the leg of the bear trying to make it stumble and hopefully divert its attention from Silver.

After successfully hitting its leg hard, Cecil quickly took evasive actions, learning from Silver earlier that the bear had quick reactions. In the corner of his vision, Cecil saw Silver successfully landing and limping away quickly.

'We can't win, it's too strong, and just one casual back slash already caused Silver to be severely injured like that.'

Just one of the bear's casual backhands caused Silver's combat effectiveness to be cut in half. Without Silver's mobility, the next attack from the bear might even kill him.

"Silver, stay back!"

After giving Silver an order, Cecil started to quickly look around the area, trying to find a way out of the bad situation they were currently in. Running was impossible, since Silver was injured and couldn't possibly limp his way out of the fight, there was also no way Cecil would ever abandon Silver.

'What should I–'

Cecil quickly spotted the vines that were dangling from the trunks and branches of the surrounding trees. He thought up a reckless plan that could possibly kill this bear.

'Damn... it's do or die. Let's just do it then!'

After resolving himself, he quickly started executing his reckless plan. The first step would be attracting the bears attention.

"Silv! Keep your distance! I've got a plan!"

He quickly eyed the stones on the ground around him and started I picking them up by the handful. After getting enough, Cecil started chucking them towards the face of the monster bear.

"GROOOOAAAARR"

'Good, I managed to piss it off.'

After taking a glare at the slowly retreating Silver, the 'bear' turned its attention towards Cecil who started chucking rocks at its face, especially towards its eyes.

After chucking all the rocks he picked up earlier, Cecil quickly bent down to pick up a couple more while running around.

He quickly threw the rocks he picked at the bear's face, obviously trying to annoy and hopefully, injure its eyes. The monster bear started charging at Cecil on all fours again.

On earth, a normal bear could easily chase down a human when it was charging. Too bad for the bear, although it was fast, Cecil started running in between and around the trees, taking advantage of the environment he was in.

While doing so, he also took his sweet time picking up and chucking rocks at the 'bear' while slowly collecting vines that were hanging nearby.

The bear was fast of course, but every time it was about to catch Cecil, he immediately took a sharp turn behind a tree, or double backed on his direction if he found a large boulder that he knew the bear couldn't break past with its charge.

Due to this the bear constantly sped past a couple of meters ahead and had to turn around again and face him before charging at him again.

This was a good strategy since the bear couldn't cope with it after chasing him for around 30 minutes.