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"Ow!" Goku yelped when he hit his cheek instead of... whatever was making that annoying sound. It'd been going on for a while, with Goku mumbling for it to go away or shut up until he couldn't take it anymore. As he was waking up, he noticed the other stuff that hurt, his shoulder, the leg bite, and his bumped head were all bugging him. The worst was the cut on his back from the wolf monster. Just lying there, on the wet and weird smelling grass was enough to force himself up, even if the pain got worse on the way there.

"Where am I?" He asked and looked around, it looked like a forest but it was full of water. Really, really green looking water with tons of little grass sticking on top of it. The trees sticking out were real thick too, almost three times thicker than the ones he was used to seeing, and the way they twisted at weird angles made them look sort of creepy. But it wasn't waking up in this place that made Goku freeze, it was realizing Nyoibo and Grampa weren't there.

"Oh no, no, no, no, no,..." He looked around like his life depended on it, and noticed he was a big, grassy shore right next to the water. The big water that looked like it went on forever... He dived right into the big grassy pushes, working his nose like never before. A hundred smells he'd never felt before were all over the place, and Goku knew how water could wash away a scent if you left something in it for too long.

Luckily, Nyoibo wasn't too far, just buried in some sticky grass Goku pulled out with the kind of strength he usually saved for throwing boulders. "Okay," He sighed in relief. "I found you! Now for Grampa!"

His relief didn't last long, no matter where he sniffed or looked or how much grass and dirt he pulled out, Grampa was gone. The only other place left to look that made any sense was the water. He didn't waste a second jumping into it. The water was pretty warm even if the green look made it harder to see in it. He poked around with Nyoibo at anything that looked like a pouch or rock, when it looked like nothing was on the shore, he swam deeper.

He went up for air three times, took a few deep breathes then want right back in. The first couple of tripes didn't work out, but on the third, near a mess of tree branches, Goku squinted then almost jumped for joy when he saw Grampa's pouch stuck there. With a big grin and fast grab, he got Grampa out of there and swam back up, spitting out some water before laughing.

"Sorry, Grampa! I promise I won't lose you again!" With a big grin, Goku almost swam back to shore but stopped when he saw something big, scaly and almost as green as most of the water start crawling down it. It wasn't one of the monsters, he could tell just by looking at it, but it wasn't anything he'd seen before either. Well, almost, he'd seen a few lizards smaller than his first crawling around the grass and rocks back home. This looked like them, except a hundred times bigger!

When his belly growled, Goku knew he had to risk it, a big catch like this could feed him for a while and let him fight more of the monsters if he ran into them. He knew the lizard was thinking the same thing just from the way it was looking at him. Even with its whole body being dragged, it came down the shore pretty fast and was getting to him in no time.

He heard a rumbling noise come from it and the second it swam faster, Goku made his move. Nyoibo blasted out of the water with his good arm swinging it, hitting the lizard so hard a whole bunch of its scales went flying all over the place. Blood was coming from where he got it and when it started sinking, he knew it was done for.

"Oh no, you don't!" He put Nyoibo between his teeth and grabbed the lizards tail before it went under, then with all the strength he had, Goku swam back to shore, ignoring the pains, the hunger, all of it just because there was a good chance he'd get to finally eat something!

"Come on! Come on!" He growled, dragging it far away from the water but it took him way longer than it should've, if he was feeling better, he knew he'd be able to carry it all the way back home no problem! When he finally got to drier land, he tossed it down then got to see what it was made of. The spot near the neck where he hit it didn't have any scales no more, shoving a lot of tender, juicy looking meat.

He checked around, finding some rocks and branches lying around then started smashing away the lizard's scales, by the time he was done, everything besides the head was just a big load of meat, nice smelling, pink meat for cooking. After starting a fire by banging a couple of rocks together by the branches, Goku extended Nyoibo through the lizard and hoisted it above the fire.

This time, he kept a good eye and ear out for more monsters, he wouldn't let one of them catch him by surprise again. He had a pretty good idea he wouldn't last another fight if they did. Luckily, the meat burned good and fast, meaning Goku was able to chow down in no time at all. The second he bit a chunk out, it was like all his problems were gone and he was just back to doing normal stuff again.

In no time flat, the lizard was gone besides his head and Goku was back on his back, his belly ginormous but finally full. "Yyyyeeeahhh, that's the good stuff,..."

He didn't know how long he lied there, one hand on his stomach and the other around Grampa but it didn't matter, he was gonna enjoy it for as long as he could. He thought about going back to sleep for a while, but after thinking about it for a second decided not to. His hunger might've been gone, but there was other stuff to take care off. So, with a loud belch, his belly shrank back to normal and he jumped back up, taking Nyoibo out of the lizards head and ramming it into the ground.

"Extend!" He told it and it did, going up and up and up until he was just above the super tall, twisted trees. "Woah," He whispered, shifting around the staff to see where he'd ended up. The last thing he remembered before ending up there was falling off a giant cliff with a river running down it, but this weird forest was so thick, so covered up thanks to the trees, there was no way he could see anything below him. Really far away, so far he had to squint hard to just barely see them, he thought he could make out some mountains that might've been the one's he drifted from down the river, but there were lots of them from what he could see. Weirdly, there was a whole big spot where it looked like the forest just... stopped then started all over again.

"Looks like I won't be gettin' back home any time soon," Goku said on the way back down. He stopped to check his wounds, getting some grub helped out a lot, his shoulder felt pretty normal, his bite mark only hurt a little, it was the backslash that still bugged him most. "Well, I won't get back any faster if I stand round here!"

As far as he figured, he could either jump from tree to tree or swim. Swimming would be faster but if there were monsters down there or other freaky animals, he might get into trouble, so he decided to bounce around instead. With a running start, he jammed Nyoibo in the ground and laughed as it sent him flying through the sky.

This was how the rest of the day passed, Goku jumping from tree to tree, taking in the look and smell and sound of the place better. He stopped to hunt and eat a couple more times, sticking and cooking more lizards wherever he could find some dry land, resting then starting all over again. By the time night started to fall, he was pretty sure he made some good distance for the day.

But night time was night time, and even with the extra long nap he took floating over here, he needed to sleep. So, on the last tree he landed on, he climbed all the way to the top, checked the leaves carefully for any snakes or monsters then lied down on a big, thick branch when it looked clear. Somewhere to the side, the moon was shining like crazy again, still looking big from the small part of Goku let himself look at.

Something about staring at it made him feel funny so he stopped and stared at the stars instead. Then he squinted at them, "Wait, they're weird too!"

A long time ago, his Grampa sat him down on a night when the moon was totally covered and started teaching him about... constellations? Yeah, that was the word. Basically, people could use stars to see where they were going or needed to go and Grampa taught him which ones to keep an eye out for if he ever got lost at night for whatever reason. But no matter where Goku looked, the stars weren't there, he didn't recognize any of them and he knew he hadn't forgotten either!

"It's like everythin' gone crazy,..." He said, suddenly feeling lonely and holding Nyoibo and Grampa much, much closer than a second ago. It made it hard to sleep, for a while, until he did anyway.

The next few days followed this routine, no monsters attacked him and he couldn't smell or hear any. The lizard meat was getting kind of old but it filled him up good so he didn't mind much, sleep wasn't bad, just kind of there. His back injury was starting to itch though and when Goku scratched it, it made it hurt even worse. Taking a couple quick dips made it a little better but it kept bothering him so much he started sleeping off his back. The mountains where the cliff might've been looked a little closer but Goku still had to squint like crazy to see them, still, every little bit meant he was getting closer so it was okay!

It was on the seventh day out when the routine broke when he heard a noise that he'd never heard before in his entire life.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

It was coming from the east, closer to the big empty spot in the forest he'd noticed. It kinda sounded like thunder if he wanted to find something like it. That wasn't the biggest deal of all though, it was the next thing he heard.

"Holy crap! They're everywhere!"

Goku's mind blanked out when he realized that was a person, he'd heard another person's voice for the first time in... like a million years! He couldn't help but feel excited and really interested. "Wait, them?" He said, wondering who the voice must've been talking about when it screamed again before being drowned out by the snarl of a monster! The monster was gonna kill that person!

"Sorry Grampa, we're takin' a little detour!" Goku started jumping faster from tree to tree, the thunder noise, screams and growls all getting louder the closer he got. Pretty soon, he started catching a whiff of the monster's stench too.

"Die you ugly bastard! Die!" The voice shouted at the monster, a couple more thunder noises came out before they stopped, replaced by a clicking sound like a woodchipper. That's when the man screamed so loud Goku's ear hurt just from hearing it.

By the time he got there, he saw why, the man, who was wearing a really black long shirt and pants was bleeding from a cut near his belly and the thing attacking him was a monster that looked like a bigger, nastier version of the lizards he'd been eating the past few days. It had a million small spikes running across its back then a few much bigger ones on its tail. Goku would have to make sure to stay away from that.

"Hey! Monster!" He shouted at it from the nearby tree and threw a branch at it just to make sure it didn't ignore him. It's big, boney head snapped towards him and with a crazy fast speed, the thing was back in the water and coming right towards him.

Goku let it smash into the tree before jumping away as far as he could, landing perfectly on dry land. The lizard monster didn't stay down with the tree long, it was back in no time at all and swinging its tail left and right like a big mallet. Then it snapped at him, forcing him to sidestep away. He got a hit in with Nyoibo and it cracked the skull a little but this monster was tougher than the rest he'd fought so far.

That's what it looked like until Goku noticed how big its mouth was... and how Nyoibo was just the right size to fight into it straight up. "Hey! You wanna bite me?" He turned around and stuck his tongue out at it, swinging his tail around. "Go ahead! Do it!"

When the lizard snapped, Goku didn't side step, he went right towards it, timing his jab just right and putting Nyoibo inside its mouth. The monster went pretty berserk then with a big, upturned stick keeping it from closing its mouth. He could see it trying to reach in to grab it out and straining to snap it in half but Goku knew how tough Nyoibo was, no monster would break it, ever.

He carefully walked up towards the beastie, avoiding a few claw swipes before poking Nyoibo. "Extend!"

And boy did it, for a while, the monster thrashed around even harder while Goku heard how its skull bone was snapping against the extending staff inside its mouth. When Nyoibo shot through the top of its skull, it hit the floor with a loud thud then started to smoke. He knew it was done for.

"H-holy crap," Goku turned around to the man lying there, staring at him like he couldn't believe he was real. He kinda felt the same thing back, honestly. "T-thank you..."

"Aw it's no problem-" He almost laughed it off before he realized the guy was bleeding. "Oh! Sorry, I forgot you were hurt!"

"Wish I could," The man laughed, bleeding a little out of his mouth when he did and covering his brown beard with it. He wasn't as old as Grampa, not even close but he definitely wasn't Goku's age either, he was someplace in-between... Maybe, Goku never met anyone but Grampa so could be wrong about that. But that didn't really matter, that nasty looking cut near his belly did.

"Really should've brought that medicine," Goku growled, feeling like even more of an idiot then. "Uhh, look, I think we can maybe stop that if you tied your shirt around it but-"

"I gotta get home," He said, wincing a lot. "They can fix me up there, the boss won't let me die, not... after what I found for im..."

"Uhh, okay,..." Goku tried not to sound too confused by that. "So, uh, where's your home?"

"Kuchinashi..." He whispered then nodded behind them. Goku tried to think of where that was, it wasn't the mountains for sure, they were right from where they were standing. "Gotta get back,... don't wanna die... the boss,..."

"Wait, is that where the forest stops?" He looked confused for a second before nodding. "Oh! So that's why it stops! You cut down the trees there to make a house!"

That confused look came back before he nodded again. "Sure kid, me and a whole lotta other folks..."

He was looking worse so Goku decided to stop with the questions and help him out. As gently as he could, he got that big, black shirt off him and tied it around the wound, using some red rope he had around his neck to tie it extra hard in-place. By the time he was done, he picked up the whiff of more monsters around and knew he couldn't afford to take em on then, not with the guy dying here next to him.

The man groaned when Goku lifted him off the ground then started running and jumped as far as he could. The backslash was starting to really bother him but Goku couldn't afford to stop and scratch it. The monsters were close by and with both his hands occupied, he couldn't even stop to take Nyoibo out without maybe dropping the poor man by accident.

"T-thank you,..."

"Don't mention it! My Grampa always taught me to help someone out!"

"Sounds like... a helluva guy,..."

"Yeah, he was the toughest there ever was!"

The man actually laughed a little. "You obviously haven't met the boss kid..."

"The boss?"

"Hei Xiong, kid, the man who runs Kuchinashi,..."

A/N: And with that, Goku's journey into the larger world of RWBY has officially begun!