WPC #330: Weak to Strong MC (Aitsuji)
Title: Power of Food
Concept: weak to strong, food, alien, zombie??, evolution
Character: mushroom
Plot outline:
Mushroom feeds on everything that decays. After feeding on an alien decomposing thing it gains awareness. Started to devour anything and gain its abilities and intelligence.
Draft:
"~~KK??? NNNNdddoo?"
???
This is tasty. I want more.
"III It's cold.
"SGGGYUHWNW&^$$$! KIKK! SSGGFSF! V. V. V."
Where am I?
"D- - -. W - t - - . Mu - - r - - -..."
What's that?
Sizzle!
It hurts!
"Water. Dark. Need water and dark."
Ah, that's right. I can hide under a rock. Why though?
For a long time, I slept. The sounds stopped. When I opened my eyes again there were moving shapes around me.
Beneath me, I feel the connection with my roots. The spores float in the air. I smell fresh moss and rain. The leaves are wet. There's a stench around and a buzzer flying everywhere.
Annoying. Annoying. Annoying. So annoying.
SNAP!
The buzzer fell. It fell into two pieces. Was this meant to happen?
Creeping over from root to root, I sucked it up. It was slow but it was worth it. Beneath me, the purple mush turned slowly into liquid. We drink it up and cast more spores. It tastes awful but there's something more.
Hungry. What's this? Hungry. It's not enough.
The liquid stops. There's no more food. We need to search for more. But how?
Movement! We need to move. Flies have legs. The buzzer had legs. Let's grow some of those.
Creak! Creak!
The roots twitched and folded. However, the stump was too fixed onto the soil. We must remove it at once to move.
Tear!
It hurts! It hurts! It's not the same as the fire. The water did not help stop the hurt.
Tear!
It hurts too much! Should we wait for it to go away? No, maybe we don't need legs. The buzzer had wings and we can fly.
Spread the spores we will. Spread them high above!
Two cycles of heat passed as we hid. The rain came again. We drank as much as we could and took root in a new place. The buzzer has a friend. But this friend did not buzz. It hopped and screeched noisily. It was an annoying fellow.
The noisy fellow sat on smooth rocks that throbbed with heat within. It's liquid in there we need. Let's eat! Let's eat!
Chirp! Chirp!
Peck! Peck!
It hurts! It hurts! Stop it!
The liquid from inside the buzzer fell and covered the ground with liquid. The body slowly turns to liquid, we drank everything up again.
Oh, I know what you were. You were a bird. Now we have wings and a voice. I see the bright ball in the sky, it's very different from the fly. The bird can eat a fly, the bird can eat a mushroom. I am called a mushroom. But I can fly like you.
What am I? What am I? I'm hungry. Feed us more! More, more, more!