Chapter 44

He lays her down then takes some things from his storage ring, a small vile that had black fluid inside, He raises her head then forces the fluid down her throat.

"make a barrier for now, take turns keeping it up" Tanka said while rushing to Lillians side, he starts undoing her armor and Thea grabs his hand. Tanka shakes her off, continuing with what he was doing, when they saw the blackened area his face went pale and he falls on his butt beside her.

" why is it this bad, will she make it!" Thea said in a raised voice while he wets the area trying to clean it, black blood comes out from the hole. Tanka flicks her hand away from Lillian, he puts a folded gauze on her and tapes it to her side.

" Lillian why did you come, I told you I'd keep her safe" Tanka said with saddened eyes, he looks around cavern and sees hundreds of different plant life.

" Thea tell them what to look for, I'll carry Lillian away from the entrance, just in case those things break through" Tanka said

Thea pulls out the note book then sees a crimson red bell flower attached to a large trunk about 12 ft high and 8 ft wide with vines hundreds of feet stretching out from its main body. A part of he page was missing, but thats the flower, Thea showed all of them what they are looking for and they all start looking through the caverns.

Tanka layed Lillian on a blanket near a vine covered wall, she kept feeling air hitting the side of her face, she pulls out her dagger cutting away the vines. Red blood trickled out of the vines as they wiggled away from her, a small walkway was opened up revealing a tunnel completely covered from top to bottom with vines.

Tanka was walking out of a small cavern when he seen her enter, but dozens of vines covered the tunnel back up like it was never there.

"Thea let me see that book" Tanka said grabbing the book looking through it, past the picture of the plant, was another picture of a woman and the writing below it was in druid.

Tanka froze seeing the words about a druid that was cast out from her people for being evil, she'd created plants that would feast on flesh.

Tanka looked back at the entrance they came in and he noticed the goblins stayed away from the barrier, they were just watching.

" ok everyone group up, no less than six people and keep an eye on the vines. I think the plant were looking for eats people and a druid might be here, that's 100 of thousands years old" Tanka said, as they made their way to where Lillian entered the small tunnel, when they got to where her blanket was a bunch of flowers was now there on the vines and they started blooming all over the cavern. They were twice the size of their heads, lining the petals was razor sharp thorns and one of the men moved closer to the flower. He reached his hand put to touch the sharp looking thorn that was longer and wider than his finger, the flowers petals quickly closed around his hand taking it off.

The other flowers lunged out latching on to different parts of him, the vines coiled around his body bringing it against the walkway.

They kept him anchored there, whenever someone came closer to them, they'd start inflicting pain on the man by piercing his skin with vines or twisting his body parts to where you heard bones snap.

" we got to get to Lillian, how do we get passed them and what are they doing?" Yasek said looking at Thea for answers.

All she could do right now was observe this plants bizarre behavior, the plant was slowly drinking from the man and also stopping them from advancing. All the vines in the caverns had large flowers appearing everywhere around them, Thea quickly got a barrier up around them three and the familars.

" put barriers around you completely, the flowers are going to drag you like hi-" Thea was saying, when several men were yanked away by the vines.