Adventure In An Unknown Plane

"Where am I?"

Jay did not know or had any clue where he was right now. He was back on his human form and was stark naked.

When he looked around, he saw that he was at a normal looking forest. There was really nothing unusual besides him being naked.

Jay quickly transformed into his partial chicken form.

"Hellson, any idea where we are right now?" Jay immediately asked Hellson as he entered the mind room.

--- Mind Room

"Jay, this place is really strange." Hellson said to Jay as he entered the Mind Room.

"What makes you think so?" Jay said as he grabbed the guild emblem near the wooden desk.

"Try using magicka and you will understand."

Jay tried to do use the guild emblem but the moment he tried pouring magicka onto it in order to activate it, he found out that he cannot do so.

"What the hell?"

Jay set the guild emblem aside and tried to use 'Touch Of Blizzard.' But the same thing happened. Nothing.

"Wait... then what about my skills?"

Jay started to try out his Moon Warrior and Chicken Skills. The only thing that worked was his chicken skills. When he tried out using blood magic, it only worked when he was using the Vampire Chicken form.

"I wonder how everyone is doing back at the Fatelord Plane?" Jay asked himself as he went out of the mind room.

...

--- ??? Forest

Jay strolled around the unknown forest he was in for an hour after realizing that something was weird about it. Wherever he went, he was being followed by small birds that perched on the tree branches.

Besides the numerous small birds that were following him and the plants around, there were no other signs of life around him.

"This is so weird... and creepy..." Jay thought to himself and decided to keep moving. But instead of going in circles this time, he decided to just go straight north.

...

~Grrrr...

"What kind of strange beast is that?"

Behind one of the trees, a young lady was currently stalking Jay, whom she had mistaken as a strange beast. She had long brown hair that reached her lower back, blue eyes, and a small vertical scar on her right eye. As for what she was wearing, she had a gray fitted pants and white bandages wrapped around her boobs. She did not have any kind of footwear or any accessories of the sort.

Beside her was bear cub with brown fur that was currently hiding in the bushes.

"I wonder if it tastes good?" The young lady said as her lips curved into a smile. She patted the bear cub's head and a jagged shortsword suddenly appeared on her right hand.

...

Oblivious to the fact that he was about to become prey to someone, Jay was walking at a slow pace as he whistled.

"Hellson, tell me if you detect anything. This place is getting weirder and weirder for some reason." Jay said to Hellson.

Before Hellson could even reply to him, thorny vines suddenly grew from the ground and constricted Jay's legs.

"What the fuck?!!"

Jay quickly changed form and used Chicken Mimicry and jumped high into the air. Due to the change in his size, he easily escaped from the thorny vines that was constricting his movement. But just as Jay was about to land, a small black shadow suddenly pounced onto him and disappeared immediately.

It was so fast that Jay did not even had any chance to dodge it or defend himself.

"Jay!" Hellson panicked when he saw Jay getting hit by this unknown object.

"I'm fine..." Jay was about to say so but before he could even fall back to the ground, the black shadow suddenly pounced on him again, making him bounce up into the air again.

"Motherfucker!"

Jay cursed loudly and went to his Vampire Chicken form. After doing so, he spread his wings open and flew higher into the air.

'BLOOD DARTS!'

Jay was so furious that he targeted the whole area around him. If he cannot find the one attacking him, then might as well attack the whole area around him.

But the moment his Blood Darts hit the trees or shrubs, it did not even pierce through and just fell to the ground. It was as if his Blood Darts turned into normal chicken feathers.

"What the..."

Before Jay could even process what was going on, the black shadow pounced on him again. But this time, Jay felt a strong shockwave punching his stomach.

Jay got forced down to the ground, with a lot of his black feathers getting scattered in the area.

"Just what the fuck is this..."

Jay spat out some blood on the ground beside him before trying to get back up. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, a bear cub appeared on top of him. It was so heavy that Jay could not even move his body.

"Nice one buddy!"

The young lady who was stalking Jay suddenly came out of her hiding spot and came closer to Jay.

"Who the hell are you..." Jay tried his best to speak before the bear cub stomped its front paws on his chest.

"My name is... WHAT THE HELL?!!"

The young lady was shocked when the 'beast' she was hunting down spoke in human tongue. She immediately commanded her companion to move away.

"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. Please don't punish me miss druidess..." The young lady knelt beside Jay and bowed her head.

Jay first tried to stand up and recover before returning to his human form.

"I'm not a miss nor a druidess. How the hell can you confuse me for a woman?" Jay said and sighed. This young lady was so weird.

"Huh?"

The young lady was confused and she looked at Jay's face.

"Please don't joke with me miss druidess. I may be young, but I've heard a lot of stories already."

Jay did not know what was going on with the young lady's mind for her to keep calling him as a 'miss druidess.'

"I. Am. A. Guy." Jay said slowly as he looked at the young lady with a weird expression on his face.

"What's a guy?"

"..."

Jay did not know what to say anymore and gave up.

"Again, I am so sorry for this miss druidess." The young lady said as she bowed her head again and was about to walk away.

"Wait. Where is the nearest human settlement here?" Jay hurriedly asked so that he would not have to walk around the forest aimlessly again.

Jay waited for the young lady to speak since it looked like she was thinking of something. Then after a few seconds, she spoke up.

"Bevelona City is just across the river to the north. It will take you around 3-5 days to reach it. But if miss druidess is in a hurry, you can come over to our village which is just a couple of miles away from the east of here."

"Are you returning to your village?" Jay asked since he wanted to have some kind of 'bodyguard' with him. He was still scared by the fact that a bear cub almost killed him just a while ago. If a bear cub was that strong, then how much more for bigger creatures in the forest?

"I'm really sorry miss druidess. But I cannot return without gathering any food."

"Quest time." Jay thought in his mind and asked the young lady if it was fine if he tagged alongside her.

"Umm..." The young lady was a bit scared when Jay said that he will go with her. But in the end, she just agreed and thought that this 'druidess' was so weird...