When Ryu woke up it was night.
In the sky was a shiny silver moon. It looked mysterious and unreachable at the same time.
This was actually the first time Ryu saw the moon in this world. He had seen the moon in his previous world many times, but this moon was different, it bathed the sourrounding forest in a mystic silver light. Allthrough the former forest looked very scary with the corpses, broken swords and red trees, the moon light changed all grases and the trees as if they were alive.
All looked beautiful and strange at the same time. Was this an ilusion?
Ryu concluded that he has to get out of this forest quickly before something bad happens.
He ran toward the direction he walked before he found the wolf. Running on his four feet felt really strange, since he allways just ran on two feet. In his mind it was confusing, but for his body it felt natural, like his body didn't knew how to walk different then on his four feet.
After running atleast for several hours Ryu felt that the air was switching from a rather wet to dry.
No normal human could sense this change, but with his sharp dragon senses he felt that soon he should reach the end of this mysterious forest.
Just when he turned his head around he saw a tree swallowing a human corpse. In less thana second roots shot out of the ground, grapped the corps and flew toward the tree trunk. Just before the root crashed into the tree a big mouth opened wildly and ate the whole human.
It was truly terrifying how could a dam tree eat a whole human in less than a second?
This wasn't a normal tree.
Ryu realized why there were less and less corpses on his way. It wasn't because lees had died here, it was because the trees ate all the corpses on the ground. So the trees were really alive.
Without thinking much Ryu ran even faster than before. What if the trees ate the humans here and they were still hungry? Wouldn't he be their next prey?
He ran as fast as he could through all the bushes and the grass. Sometimes the trees turned around to him, but did not halt his step.
After running several miles he finally saw the end of the forest.
Suddenly more than fifty roots shot out the earth and flew in his direction.
Ryu barely managed to doge, but instead of flying in the next trees behind him they were chasing after him.
It was as if the forest was preventing him from getting out. Ryu already predicted that some trees maybe attack him with thier roots. Surprisingly he did not even try to outrun the trees what was nearly impossible in a forest.
Ryu ran towards the trees and when the roots toward him he quickly used his claws to cut them through.
Rooooaaarrr!
Out of nowhere some trees began to sceam with thier big moths in thier trunk. The scream was truly intimidating and fearsome.
Ryu quickly used this rare chance and out of scary forest before all the angry trees could finish him off with their roots.
But he didn't even stop a second, Ryu ran again several miles to make sure that he was really safe.
After running around 10 miles he felt many unknown presences, but they weren't really dangerous. In comparison with the demonic wolf all of them were nothing more than ants.
He also saw bird like creatures flying in the sky and many small creatures sneaking through the bushes.
This forest felt again a bit familiar. Allthrough the moon was shinning mysteriously and the plants and trees seem to look a bit different then the ones in his previous world, he couldn't feel any real danger coming from his sourroundings.