The Birth of the Pale Rider

A young boy taken to an eerie forest at the back of his school by some bullies is inadvertently drawn into an alternate reality filled with dangerous creatures and frightening beasts.
He meets a talking turtle who he forms a bond with. This turtle sends him back to his own world with the help of some powerful magic.
But a great destruction awaits both our world and the alternate reality whose fates are linked. When a set of global catastrophes occur around the globe simultaneous, one of which happens over the boys school, he is taken to a world which is beyond his comprehension and imagination. In a bid to return home he travels across strange lands, evades deadly creatures and frightful witches to return to a home which is on the brink of annihilation.
Accompanied by Saworide the turtle, it is a race against time, evil and loss which culminates in shared fate