After dealing with what would not have been a future threat going by the action of the two-headed direhog, Rio returned to the creek and continued his cool bath, paying no mind to the two-headed beast that followed him and collapsed by his side in deep sleep.
Though he couldn't get it completely clean, rubbing his clothes against itself in the water, he got most of the blood out and about three hours later he began heading downstream.
Unsure of his location and its geography, Rio figured it was better to stick to the stream where he could easily access food and water and potentially encounter human life.
Rio began his journey downstream without the two-headed beast but after some minutes was joined by it and he shrugged at its presence.
With all his focus on work and climbing the company ladder, Rio had never been one for pets and he didn't know what to think of this unique beast which had ended the life of its own family.
"It might have just done that for its own sake"
For the rest of the day, other than the overgrown version of the animals he would see on Earth, Rio encountered nothing amazing but when the sun set and the moon came out, sitting beside the creek, he lay on the ground and looked up the skies, taking in by it's beauties because rather than stars twinkling up there, there were several massive planets.
"These things are too darn close" Rio muttered as he looked at the large heavenly bodies, which stretched backward in a straight curving line.
The fact that despite the planets being so close he could only see them at night and not during the day alerted Rio to the fact that the planet used a day to make a rotation and that this wasn't Earth.
"This isn't even the Milky Way" Rio realized and he couldn't help but groan internally realizing that he might have just doomed himself.
"I'm fucked"
With all the meat he had consumed in the morning, hunger was no worry for Rio and he had no problem falling asleep, but some hours into the night, his eyes shot open as a chattering sound reached his ears, the aggressiveness in it not hidden.
Immediately Rio's eyes snapped open, he pushed himself to the side, rolling to his feet and escaping the bite of what looked like a spider but had six long thick legs, a scrawny body, a hunched back and a shielded head that reminded him of an armadillo.
The creature stood at the same height as Rio, but this was no concern to him as he closed the distance between them in a second and swung his axe down on it.
Rio's axe sunk deep into the creature's head and as it collapsed dead, he sneered.
"Weak helmet"
As Rio pulled out his axe, he turned looking for the two-headed direhog which he had thought of as watchdog, surprised not to see it.
"Did it get eaten?"
"Na, that bastard's desire to survive surpasses even mine, he would growl and scratch even in the stomach"
Rio observed the dead creature's belly for some seconds before turning on his heels and hearing some faint barely detectable noises coming from down the stream shot in that direction.
Keeping his senses keen and eyes peeled out, Rio sped downstream and minutes later whilst he was still some ways from his destination, he began feeling a heavy pressure from ahead.
Rio stopped for some seconds, peering ahead before he continued forward his expression turning harder the further he advanced and it wasn't just because of the increasing rattling sound.
By this time, Rio had already realized a certain number of things about the new life he had been thrust into and one was that just like the level 4 direhog could freeze him with its roar, this being some sort of mind attack, so could he with the bloodthirsty aura he gave off, and the same applied for several other creatures.
Something ahead was releasing a powerful scary aura and what was worrying Rio at the moment was that though he was still some distance from it, he could feel his desire for blood be rapidly quenched.
The closer he got, the more his predatory desires were dampened and already could feel fear popping up somewhere in him.
Hardening his heart and mind, Rio charged on and soon he was near enough to realize that the sounds he was hearing weren't just from one source but multiple. At that moment, the only thing keeping him going forward and fighting the fear pushing him to go in the other direction was his will and the phrase he kept repeating in his mind.
"Let me just see"
Rio's body trembled and shivered as he advanced and fearing that it would freeze if he stopped, other than slowing as he got closer, he kept his legs moving.
Rio had no idea when he left from moving beside a creek to a river and just as his eyes chanced upon a cliff, the clattering and a blue light coming from over it, his legs gave out.
Dropping to the ground, Rio tried to get up to his feet, but he found his legs unable to move and his hand sluggish.
Though he managed to keep his mind safe a kind of power Rio could not understand had hijacked his body, rendering his legs numb to his commands.
"Betrayed by my own body"
With the goal just a few meters from him, Rio dragged himself all the way to the edge of the cliff and taking a deep breath, he looked over at the valley below.
Though it took his eyes some time to adjust to the light, Rio spotted a large blue cube floating in the air, this being the source of the light.
He saw two large portals floating just some meters an equal distance on both sides of the cube and though this threatened to bring him happiness the sight of thousands of huge caterpillar-like creatures crawling around the valley filled him with a deathly chill.
There were so many of them that they crawled over each other and the worst was yet to come as Rio realized that the powerful pressure which he had been feeling and which had rendered his legs useless hadn't come from the culmination of the thousands of creatures but rather from one super large gigantic caterpillar which lay at the end of the valley completely covering it's end and serving as a live dam.
Just looking at its body caused Rio's eyes to sting, and when he looked at its head, getting a glimpse of its eyes, his mind became consumed by darkness and he passed out.