Introducing the Druid

Lia stumbled back almost falling on her but when she saw him gasp, she could feel her heart almost pound out her chest from how much he surprised her and Violet who standing a few feet behind had the feeling as she looked at the male in panic. The Male then took in his surroundings as Lia quickly pulled out her plasma pistol and readied to fire if she needed to at the male, Violet stood behind moving her head back and forth to both of them seeing how the events would turn out.

"Holy shit the guy is alive..." Violet whispered to the human woman.

"Really Violet haven't noticed!.." she hissed at her sarcastically but never taking her eyes of the male still in the tree.

The male eyes them attentively while also taking in his surrounds as he tried to get out of his groggy state, his eyes quickly caught on the pistol once his vision became more clear.

The guy looks like Mimir" Violet commented staring at the weird tree man.

Lia turned her head to look at her in confusion at this" Mimir? ....God dammit don't tell me you've been sleeping with Dryads again Violet!..." Lia groaned in fustration, not many knew but the Terrans and Dryads had a gentle understanding with each other due both races constantly being mistreated by the Titans, but most of the Terrans didn't know where they lived and the Terrans didn't exactly advertise that they friendly with them ethier, they only reason Lia knew was cause Violet was her friend and kind of a nymphomaniac and told her about her many "fun times" with them.

"Hey! Mimir is a satyr and yes! Maybe I have been with Dryads recently!" she pointed at Lia's face.

More confusion fell upon the strawberry-blonde's when the Terran mention something of Satyrs due how rare it was to hear about them. Satyrs or more like animal human hybrids where created during the war in a effort to help the human side to try to win it, They were described having goat like legs and rich hair straight and curly, they have Horn's and different sets of of eyes which where they got the name.

They where the first hybrids but eventually they started to do it with other dangerous and deadly animals, reptiles, lions, bears, wolves, Panthers, etc Now having they're most dangerous cousins the Chimera's. It proved quiet successful and helped during the beginning of the war with the strength but later on the hybrids showed violet aggression even to their own allies making them unpredictable. The humans didn't have time to control them and couldn't afford to be in a civil war in middle of the war they where already having so sent all of them away.

Then having  to deal with other disaster their kind had created, their violent natures had caused their desendents to become criminals, murders, raiders, and bandits of the desert away from the influence of the cities and into the deadlands while the rest are nomadic, almost gypsy like but are unpredictable people can't tell if they'll attack or not.

Which is why the Titans don't bother with them and because they are out of any of the cities limits, the only time they care is when they do something that does envole with their affairs.

"Fuck Violet! I knew you where a nympho but you know hybrids are much worse then Dyrads! Their violent and uncontrollable!" she yelled at her friend trying to knock some sense into her.

"Except that motherfucker was a beast in the sheets" she smirked at her companion.

" That doesn't!-

I know you having a spat but would one of you ladies help me out of here.." a soft spoken voice said cutting off Lia and making both turn theirs back to the tree.

The male looked at them expressionless with his mixture of gold and silver blue eyes.

"Violet....your sure this guy isn't one of your Dyrad friends..." Lia whispered to her while her pistol remained up and her eyes never leaving his.

"If he is, than he would've been more talkative, with horns and his eyes would've been silver" She whispered back.

Lia then slowly went over to the male who watched her every move, her pistol still high in the air and pointing right at him.

"Who are you?...are you a Dryad?...one of the rebels or radicals?" she asked him seriously as she stared at him hard.

"Except Mimir has a nice goatee beard" Violet pointed out.

"NOT NOW VIOLET!!" Lia yelled curtly at losing her patience with the female Terran.

"Have you come to free me? Or is my death your wish?" His voice echoed in the hollow tree his skin was fused in wood, moss was formed behind his back.

She looked at him puzzled at this "That depends..." she got closer to him" Are you a threat?...if not then I definitely don't...I'm not a monster..." she told him softly as stopped just two feet away from him.

His eyes looked at her carefully taking her in, Violet began to take a couple steps forward becoming curious of the male and what Lia planned on doing.

"I have to say your Terran friend is very..."expressive"..."  He putted delicately as he looked at Violet.

Violet gave him the bird.

Lia just rolled her eyes at her friend "Yea she's very...." she turned around to face him again "Lovely..." she said in exasperation.

"Why are you here?" He asked, his eyes looked tired.

She scoffed at this.

" I could ask you the same thing Sir? Or better yet why you are in the tree..." She suddenly switched to soilder mode " I'm Sergant Aurelia Giles and one of the boader guards for this side of the boarder and the power lines so you see my job is here what about you sir?" she asked him deathly serious.

I am..was a druid of this forest, I was betrayed... I had to die" he echoed "I was placed here to be fused with the tree by those who I called friends" he glowered attempting to struggle in the tree. "This tree is draining everything of me inside I will die once it's full."

Lia has heard about Druids before but only from what Violet and her family vaguely mentioned about them, from what she gathered they where someone who dabbled in the mysteries of the aliens and studied the myteries of the alien nature caused by the blast 200 hundred years ago. Lia was curious and deeply concerned about these so called "friends" of his and about what the tree was doing to him, she feared something sinester was being planned out in this forest. She knew she couldn't stand watching this male suffering anymore so She quickly pulled out a knife in her belt and then began to crave aggressively into the bark of the tree trying to claw him out.

The druid felt his breathing relaxed feeling the wood peel away from him. Lia grunted and growled as her attempts to get him out became strenuous for her but she didn't give up and continued to plunge her knife in and finally after what felt like forever the druid fell out of his prison surprising the young woman which made her catch him clumsy causing both of them to fall into the grass with him laying on top of her. "Thank you" he whispered feeling relief for his rescuer.

Violet began to smirk when she saw the position they in as she went other to help Lia with him, the young woman was sitting up making the male cradle into her stomach and lap.

Lia frowned at her friends smirk "What Violet?" she said annoyed.

"Oh nothing" she winked pulling the man off of Lia.

The male groaned and opened his eyes to look at the females staring at him. "Can you stand?" the woman asked him.

Lia now having a better look at him saw that while he looked like a Dyrad he had traits of a Titan too as she looked in shock to see glowing green vains going up his body and his pale brown bark like skin.

"My legs lost nerve, Let me rest to let them gain feeling" he spoke rubbing his limbs.

Lia brought her gaze to Violet at this "Violet don't you have a herb in you that could help him?" she asked her friend.

Violet nodded scrambling through her sack "here" she gave to her.

Lia raised the male's head and brought it up to his mouth making him groan as she did "Eat this" she demanded  as she shoved it into his face, he looked at her and at in questionably but are it noneless. After the druid took his medicine, the numbness in his legs slowly disappeared and they both helped him up and slowly walked through the densed terrain.

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Both Violet and Lia helped balance the male as they made their way through the green, they walked in akward silence the only sounds that could be heard where the wind blowing against the branches and grass.

"It's so beautiful out here.. away from the tree" he sighed attempting to gain his balance.

"I know...It's why I love working out here...away from the city..." he looked at her a little surprised at this due him never seeing a human let alone a woman wanting to escape from the comforts of the city.

"I never thought of it like that" he spoke before turning his head away to look at the pathway.

" I couldn't stand the control of the city anymore...where humans are nothing but second class citizen's and mindless obey the Titans even when it goes against there freedom of choice...." she said calmly trying to control her anger.

The bushes nustled close to their distance.

She looked at him seriously at this" No...no I don't..my step-father is Kaleo Lithium who is also the father of my 2 youngest siblings, not mention my trainer was Atlas who I deeply respect and my boss Rion who I'm good friends with..." She brought eyes to the ground " I just can't stand their arrogance...and there egos...my step-father is very controling of me...." She said as she brought her eyes back straight ahead.

The male looked at her surprised at this information about the young woman, regonizing the names she mention on a personal level.

"Her dad basically wants her to be submissive baby making machine" Violet said bluntly.

"That's... revolting seeing you as a baby machine I don't know where he's getting the idea but that to me screams insanity the way he thinks, But are there good counilmen?" He questioned.

" Violet is over exaggerating a bit yes he's persisting me to get married but he's not forcing me...he wants it to be my choice before the deadline of my 23 birthday cause he knows neither he or I will have any say when the council decides then..." she said depressingly.

" And he actually not so bad honestly ...he's never been cruel to me or nelected me...quiet the opposite he annoys me, but he's a Titan and they're not really goood at expressing there emotions..." she said.

The male turn his head up in alert "Did you hear that?" He said hearing noises.

This made Lia and Violet freeze, the young woman began to look around cautiously " What?... She asked quietly, Violet started to feel a little freaked out.

"They're moving towards us" he groaned still not strong enough.

Lia then notinced what he was talking about when she saw figures poking out the green and into the open which made her quickly grab her pistol and point at the figures. Dryads popped out from the bushes stalking the group with hungry eyes.

Lia started to feel unease going through out her body remembering her vulnerability with with the black and blue Dyrad form long ago "Violet please tell me these are you Dryad friends..." she asked the female in a hushed tone.

"Sadly no these guy's seem a little.. cannibalistic" she was tensed wanting to take her weapon.

" By the way they're looking at both of us Violet I don't think it is for "eating" pre say..." she said as she saw lust in their eyes making her quickly handing another pistol to Violet.

"You picked a wrong day to traverse our lands" the blue and yellow one hissed "Let's have some fun before they die" the green one with red eyes flicked his tongue readying to strike.

Lia could already feel the pheromones radiating off them and she knew the female Terran could feel them too as she started against her will became more flustard and relaxed "We should just kill the half breed we need females..." a orange one said seriously to the others. This made Lia pthough, Half breed? She thought.

*Splat!* A gush of blood hit Lia in the face Violet gave a shout of surprise seeing the red one collapse on the ground with no head.

"Aaaaahhhh!!!! They're here!!" The yellow blue one cried before being shot square in the chest and stomach bleeding to death on the ground.

Bullet's rang out killing the Dryads but not one bullet hit Lia or her companion's. Both Lia and Violet gasped in relief after being freed from the pheromone hold but Lia could still feel weak form the affect from them. Her legs started to feel wobbly and she felt like she would crash down along with the male she was holding up, through the bushes were groups of Titans and some human's welcoming the companion's.

A Titan saluted "The General will be pleased to see you" the Titan spoke to Lia as the Group separated each other to give room for the general.

Lia's eyes widen in shock when she saw her old instuctor coming towards them "General Atlas" she saluted him shakely.

"At ease soldier" he spoke gruffly "it's good to see you though" he nodded.

She smiled at him "It's good to see you too sir" The generals eyes trailed to her companions and when he caught sight of the male his eyes widen in complete shock "Sir what!- But he was caught off by one look from the male's eyes, it was obivious he didn't want his real identity known.

Lia was confused by this as she turned to look at the male with a raised. "Hey Lia isn't this guy the hard ass who almost killed you with training..." Violet asked bluntly making Lia glare at her.

She then turned her head to the large Titan" So why are you here General?" she asked curiously.

"We were order to comeback home by the council" he took a huff" But I was also ordered to bring you back home well Aurelia..." he said solemnly.