No Time To Waste

The young man saw Xenon run off quickly, he turned to look at the object next to Flora, he was scared of it as he thought it could really kill him. In reality Xenon picked up a random object from Shu's secret layer hoping it would help Flora, he doesn't even know what it does. More importantly than that, Xenon was on a very important mission. As he was running in the icy forest, Xenon remembered that he had to keep going straight and no where else until he sees a star on a wall. This seemed quite simple.

After running for about 3 minutes, Xenon noticed something strange, everything looked the same. It was as if he was running in circles, he needed a way to get out of this strange forest. Xenon decided to climb a tree to see what was going on above, when he reached the top he noticed something. One side of the forest was gone, like nothing ever existed there. He decided to take a closer look and started to walk on top of the trees. He reached the end and saw the stone wall the young man was talking about. He jumped down from the tree and stood infront of this wall, Xenon pressed his hand against the wall and it didn't go through, did he get scammed? Xenon was not going to give up so he went back a few steps and looked at the wall fiercely as if they were about to fight. With full speed Xenon ran towards the wall, this was his last hope. While he was running his face touched the wall and went in, on the other side he saw a paradise. After entering the place, Xenon almost forgot the reason he was there. For some reason he was getting drawn to this spring wonderland, Xenon decided to keep his guard up in case something was going to happen.

Xenon only had around 55 minutes to find this plant or Flora will be in danger. He looked around remembering that he had to find a white flowers that come in bunches which stem and leaves are fuzzy. There weren't many flowers that matched this description but Xenon would not give up until he would find it. After walking around he came across this waterfall and beside this waterfall grew a jade white flower which had a fuzzy stem and fuzzy leaves. Xenon definitely got lucky in this, now all he had to do was pick the plant and head back to Flora. That's when he felt overjoyed, like this was his happy place and couldn't control himself. Xenon's body wouldn't move, all he was thinking was getting the flower and rushing to Flora, he didn't have much to waste!

A laugh was heard from behind him, Xenon wanted to turn around but he still wasn't able to move his body. That's when a very strange looking women stood infront of him, she looked normal at first glance but if you looked closely she wasn't. Weeds were growing out of her as if she was a piece of land that hadn't been looked after.

"Let me go!" Shouted Xenon.

"And why should I do that?" Answered the women in an unpleasant tone.

"And why should you keep me strained here?"

"You trespassed on my land, so of course I'm going to strain you."

"Huh? Your land?"

"Don't act dumb." The women said harshly.

Xenon stayed silent, the young man didn't say anything about the spring valley being owned by anyone. After loosing track of thought, Xenon felt as if he was loosing more control of his body. He looked at the women and thought she had looked familiar. That's when it popped into his head, once he read a book that talked about an cursed land that draws people to it and then steals their souls. The cursed land is called Lilith.

"Hey I know what you are doing, Lilith."

Lilith took a step back, "How do you know my name!" She said aggressively.

Xenon smirked, "Are you afraid now?"

Lilith recomposed herself, "Well it doesn't change anything, you knowing my name."

"Are you sure?"

Xenon knew that Lilith was getting intimidated as he could feel more controlling of his body, all he needed to do was provoke her even more.

"What about if I knew your secret, would that change something?"

Lilith pointed at him, "BULLSHIT!"

Lilith was completely out of it, Xenon used all his strength and regained full control of himself. He looked Lilith in the eyes madly and ran towards her, pulling off one of the weeds growing. This made her shriek in pain, Lilith then lost conscious and fell into the waterfall. Xenon looked shocked but couldn't care less as he wanted to get the plant to Flora as quick as possible. He went to the side of the waterfall and picked a bunch of Yarrow, as soon as he grabbed it, he felt the ground shaking, could this be the effect of defeating Lilith?

Xenon look around and this paradise before him was collapsing, he needs to get out of there as quick as possible. He ran towards the wall he entered through, protecting the plant with all his might. Finally, he found the wall he entered from and went through it at full charge.

Only 25 minutes were left for Xenon to bring the plant to Flora. Xenon jumped on the trees and started jumping quickly across each tree, until he reached the cave. That's when he saw a huge amount of blood covering the floor. He rushed to the young man and handed him the flower.

"What happened here?!" Asked Xenon aggressively.

"She started bleeding out, I tried to stop it but already so much blood was lost."

"Can you still save her with the Yarrow?"

"I think so, let me prepare it first."

The young man grinded up the yarrow in a paste and then pierced his finger and dripped his blood onto it.

"What are you doing?" Xenon asked concernedly.

"My blood has a healing element, it will help heal the hole in her stomach."

Xenon took on a gamble, and believed him, he could do anything just to get Flora healed.