Plants and trees with the different types were everywhere. The mountains were full of lushness of green plants.
Birds and Insects hummed and chirped all the time making the forest sounds singing.
Raliz scouted the area. She remembered when she was 10, she and her Grandpa played hide and seek here.
The truth is, they weren't really playing but doing an another type of training.
Her Grandpa wants to teach Raliz some assassination skills. And for an Assassin, you should have to be agile and knows good stealth.
And the Forest or these mountains are the perfect place for learning those. Also, aside from being lush, these mountains contains some wild and dangerous animals. These mountains are also a little darker because of the gigantic trees shading everything from the sunlight.
Raliz once hide in a really large tree with a cave-like hole on it. Raliz was just enough to fit in and hide. Her Grandpa didn't saw her for hours and hours until it became darker and darker, the sun came down.
Raliz came out of the hole and saw that everything around her is dark and cold.
Raliz stayed calm and waited until her surrounding glowed. All of the plants, trees shone with different colored lights and guide her to her Grandpa.
Raliz tried to tell her Grandpa what happened but her Grandpa always says that everything was all in her head and was caused by trauma but Raliz didn't believe it. She knew what she saw but she never told anyone else about it again. She was scared that people might think of her as a liar or crazy.
Because she had been in the mountains for countless times, she didn't got lost and knew the way where she went. Its like the mountain was her home, she knew every corner of it.
She stopped at a twisted tree with a large hole on it.
"This is the tree!" Raliz smiled and remembered what happened back then.
Roar!
'What was that?' Raliz became aware.
She looked at her surroundings and saw footprints on the ground. She inspected the footprints.
"Yep. This is definitely Bear's Footprints." She nodded.
She followed the footprints. Along the way, she encountered huge claw marks on the trees. Judging from the height of the Claw marks were, the Bear might be massive!
Beads of sweats formed on Raliz's head. She was a little nervous about her fiend. She kept up the pace.
Roar!
Raliz stopped immediately. Raliz hide herself from a bush. She poked her head out and look.
She saw two bears fighting. Both of them are Grizzly bears. One was a little bit larger to a normal adult Grizzly bear and its enemy was... Well, its Gigantic!
The Other one looks so fierce. A huge scar was on its left eye making it looks like a Gang leader. Its height is comparable to two Grizzly's stacking up.
The normal Grizzly roared angrily to the Scary, gigantic Bear. The Giant Bear paws pounded the ground making itself more intimidating
The normal Grizzly didn't attack. It stayed where it has always been and when the Giant Bear attacked, it moves and start to slap the enemy away with its paws and claws.
"That normal Grizzly is acting strange." Raliz think for a moment.
"Its like its protecting something... Could it be?" An idea popped up.
Roar!
A cute little roar echoed. A Grizzly Cub appeared behind the normal Grizzly.
" I was right. That normal Grizzly is a Mother to a Cub and that means..." Raliz stopped.
"No way... Its not the dad. Maybe the Dad was killed by it." Raliz's second thought. The Gigantic Bear couldn't be the Dad, because if he is, then why is he attacking its own family?
"Should I help them? Grandpa said I should kill the The King of this Mountain, A Grizzly Bear. Well, this is kinda tricky. I don't know who's the King of this Mountain among them!"
As she was saying this the mother bear suddenly flew away and bumped its head to a very sturdy tree and fainted.
"Well, I think this Giant is the target." Raliz looked the Gigantic Bear fiercely.
The Cub went to its mother. The Cub rubbed the head of its mother, getting her to wake up. The Giant Bear was closing in. Saliva were dripping from its mouth and it wanted to eat the Cub.
It opened its mouth and was ready to swallow the Cub in whole when a loud bang came out of nowhere.
Bang!
The bullet hit the Bear's thick hide in the area of the belly. The bullet sank in a little that made Raliz shocked.
'What the?! He is thick!'
The Giant Bear looked around trying to find the attacker but it didn't find Raliz and continued its pursuit.
Raliz ran behind a tree where the Mother Bear and the Cub were near it. Raliz aimed her Gun at the right eye of the bear and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
The bullet went past through its eyes. The bear was ferocious and angry when the bullet went through its eyes, it began to thrash wildly.
It slammed itself on a tree and the tree almost broke in half. The bushes were flattened and shredded.
The Mother Bear got up and saw what's happening to the Giant Bear. Like a human, it grabbed its Cub and ran away.
"Now the two are gone. Its you and me, Big Guy!"
Raliz started to aim her Gun to the Bear's vulnerable parts. The Bear roared in pain and immediately lied on the ground. It was wriggling.
Raliz didn't know why would the Grizzly wriggled like that when most of her shots weren't that futile.
At last, her questions was answered. The Brown fur on the Giant Grizzly suddenly fallen off. All it left was a gray and thick hide on its body.
But then, bone-like thorns appeared on its back with crackling sound. Its body quickly grew two time its size before and two huge bone-like horns grew on its head. It transformed!
"What the what?! How?! How did it transformed?! I thought it only happens in anime's and movies!" Raliz couldn't believe what is happening.
The newly, transformed bear opened it eyes, and red lights were glowing inside.
It turned to looked at Raliz's direction. Red beams of light shot out of its eyes. Thankfully, she dodged it in time.
She ran away from the Scary Monster. It is no longer a Giant Grizzly Bear, but a scary monster!
Raliz hid behind a large tree. She catched her breath and remained silent. Raliz's mind is going haywire now. How did the bear became a monster?
Crispy noises sounded near Raliz. Raliz suddenly got goosebumps. The Monster Bear was very close. Turning the leaves, twigs and bushes into minced with its weight.
Raliz wanted to sneak a peek and slowly poke her head out.
Pew!
A laser past by near her left ear.
"Oh, shoot!" Raliz bring her head back behind the tree. She panted.
"That was close but that's fine. Stay calm." Raliz looked around her. She readied herself.
By the time, the bear got close to the tree, Raliz ran to the next tree to hide. Raliz made it.
The Bear knew where Raliz is hiding and shot the tree with its lasers.
The tree started to burn.
"Oh my God!" Raliz shrieked and ran away from the burning tree.
The Bear kept spewing lasers out from its eyes trying to kill Raliz. Raliz kept evading all the attacks swiftly but it was tiring her out. She couldn't attack back.
If this keeps going, Raliz might be killed.
"Raliz! Think!"
Raliz thought of something. She grabbed her bag. She saw the rope. An idea popped up to her mind.
"If I remembered clearly, there is a rocky area nearby."
Raliz looked at the map.
"Straight ahead." Raliz ran towards the rocky area of the mountain. She made sure that the bear would have some time to catch up to her.
While she was running, she saw the mother bear and the cub ahead.
"You two! Run!"
The Mother Bear heard her and sensed the Monster from behind and ran.
The Mother Bear grabbed the cub and put it on her back. It stopped and wait for Raliz to catch up.
Raliz looked confused.
The mother bear growled and looked at her back. Raliz understood.
This creature is really intelligent!
The bear wanted Raliz to climbed on its back.
"Thank you!" Raliz didn't hesitate and jumped on the bear's back. Then, the bear ran.
"Shoot! You are a fast one!" Raliz was amazed by the speed of the mother bear.
Raliz hold on tightly. Burning trees suddenly collapsed behind her. The Monster Bear really are a monster! Its burning and destroying the forest down.
'This has to stop!' Raliz clenched her fist, feeling sorry for the mountain and the animals living in it.