Lucky find.

"Your back!"

She hugged me tightly, her blossom suffocating my face.

I breathe hard trying to take all the air I could as my head sink to her chest.

The smell of daisy penetrated my nose, I look up and saw her gorgeous face, tears could be seen in the corner of her eye, her expression was something I can only imagine seeing in someone who have seen the love of her life rise from the dead.

I look around confused, was the love of her life supposed to be..me?, I'm the only one present beside her so I think I am.

My arm was injected with a transparent straw connected towards a monitor where my heartbeat could be seen.

What the monitor presented looked like the giant waves of the sea in Hawaii, I visited that place cause it was the designed meeting place one of my customers picked.

'My heartbeat looks pretty much alive isn't it?' I pondered

"Haha, yeah why would I believe purgatory is rea-

My sentence was caught short when I awoke from my daydream.

A thick fog cover my view but it didn't block my other senses, I could feel a strong grip on my waist.

"We're gonna rescue you, just relax Walker!!"

"Walker are you here, please respond!"

Hearing the frantic voice of the two brothers did I come to my senses.

The thick fog that forces me to daydream no longer work, everything that happened before the realistic dream become crystal clear.

I could get out easily cause the one gripping my body was rather slimy, it have a strong grip but my body was slowly slippering through its grasp just a small resistance and I could get out.

But why would I?, maybe this is my only way out, what if I died that day, the nurse must have failed in keeping me alive, or else why am I here!?, maybe dying at this place would wake me.

Yeah, it's the only option I have left if I wanted to leave.

I hesitate to move I was never suicidal, but I'm desperate and desperation could lead to stupid decisions.

The fog cleared and the image of a monster showed itself in front of me.

Seven,...no eight leaf veins, seven rampaging destroying all the walking trees near the vicinity, while his number eight tentacle was gripping my body slowly moving me towards the large opening made at the ground.

A suspicious hole was dug in the ground where all eight veins are connected, I was sure it was the monster's head.

'pretty sure I'm gonna be a meal' I thought, almost aborting my idea of being killed when I saw circling sharp teeth, it looks like a meat grinder.

Hans, seeing Walker descend towards his doom panicked, he wanted to approach slowly and kill the monster but on how things are going Walker might die before they could even come close.

"This won't do"

With almost no hesitation he ran towards walker, avoiding the seven tentacles going after him and stopping when he reached the monster's grinder like teeth.

"Walker force yourself down!" He yelled posturing himself to catch the guy.

"No!, just leave me" Walker responded looking like a lifeless doll.

"Walk-

BAM

Hans was hit with one of the seven rampaging tentacles, he was sent flying directed towards the mouth of the monster.

Before he fell into the hole, he saw his brother Johny who is supposed to be an aggro who has the job to take the seven tentacles attention away from him but it seems his brother failed.

he caught glimpse of Johny down at the ground his forehead bleeding, Johny wobble up just to see his brother clutching his hand at the hard ground centimeters away from being a fertilizer.

"Hans!"

He heard his name being called so he loudly respond.

"I'm okay, save Walker first!"

Lies, Hans hands were trembling they felt numb and his body was urging him to let go, that would be good except there's a warm air coming from below, it smells like fresh mint.

Hans grip on the ground loosened and he got a little lower making his toe touch the circling teeth, He wince in pain feeling intolerable pain on his whole leg.

Johny with a wooden spear in hand tries to parry the strong attacks of the plant monster he couldn't focus much with so many things happening in front of him.

His brother Hans had his pinky toe cut off and was seconds away from dying.

Walker was about to get eaten by the same monster and his other brother Johna was unconscious his back against a giant Boulder.

....

A month earlier.

Johny's black hair was reflected on the arrows on his back, he reached for one arrow and it was sent flying towards a green root on the ground.

"I got it!, you see that?"

He mused but no one took notice of him.

Hans is busy trying to hear walker's opinion repeatedly as if one answer isn't enough.

"Are you sure you don't want to get back?" He asked and Walker respond with the same answer he did in the thirty times this question was bought up

"Yeah, I want to help you guys and purely I want to know this place" Walker was looking around when johna was the first to notice.

"Guys take your weapons out!"

Johna yelled slashing a walking tree near him.

"We will get surrounded at this rate."

Walker pointed the wooden spear he have towards one of the harmless trees listening to Johna's word.

"Sir Walker these trees are harmless" Hans stated poking it with his machete.

"Johna stop teasing Sir Walker"

"I'm telling you these trees will put their act down and attack us!" Johna stated his opinion slashing a tree that came near him making the others slowly flee.

"Yeeees!!" Johny screamed running towards Hans.

"Look at this!" He showed his green painted hands and Hans looked surprised seeing them.

'How did he find this?' Hans thought still not believing what he is seeing

He took a deep breath and slowly approach the root that Johny's arrow pierced through.

Something green was pumping in those veins, he knelt tracing the green substance and feeling its warm and greasy texture, he said with a heavy smile.

"It's real"

His eyes locked on Johny approaching the kid and giving him a warm hug

"You did it!"

"What did he do?" Johna asked a tree trunk stuck to his machete, he didn't need someone to tell him cause once he saw the root he muttered its name.

"Herb blood"

Hearing Johna, Walker couldn't help but ask

"What's herb blood?"

"It's used to heal wounds that couldn't be healed, like a missing leg or arm" Hans stated still a little shocked at what he is seeing.

"It sells for a lot" Johna added

"Johna slap me" Hans creep closer to his brother waiting to be hit which surprised Walker when he saw johna raise his arm and slap Hans in the face.

Pack!

By the sound of the slap, it wasn't a half-assed one and Johna probably put all his strength on that.

With a red mark on his face, Hans finally accepted reality.

"We struck a goldmine!, you two go back and grab containers, grab anything in the house that could carry this"

He took the machete in Johna's hand signaling him to follow Johny who is already heading back home.

"Why not that guy?" Johna pointed at Walker.

Hans gave Walker the machete and spoke

"He'll help me"

The two brothers look at each other eye to eye for an entire minute until Johna broke contact and muttered gibberish words leaving to go back home.

"Well, he's gone Sir Walker let's also start"

Hans must be a professional in whatever this is, when Hans slash the veins a large amount of liquid got sprayed out, but when Walker cut one it didn't drop anything, the root was hard and looked rotten while the one Hans slashed through smelled minty, and it inside has sticky green oozing out.

'Am I even needed here' Walker thought.

"We will all go to the city Sir Walker" Hans spoke digging the ground to find more of those roots.

"Your wish might come true at that place" Hans added.

"I don't think it can and if it does it might cost a lot, and does something like that even exist?" Walker answered with a negative mindset.

"and if something that can help you exit this place exists, I don't think it will go unknown."

"Well your wish aside, do you want to see the city?, it might surprise you"

Hans suggested, there's no point in helping someone achieve their goal when they don't believe it's achievable themself.

Walker thinks for a few minutes before giving a reply.

"I don't want to be alone so I'll join you"

he slashes the small veins below his feet and a drop of green liquid drenches the fertile soil.

"I did it!..finally" seven tries and Walker finally found a vein that contains fresh 'herb blood.

He didn't know he would be this worked up over something so simple.

"Now sir walker I need your help to dig more of this" Han's said holding the long vein and tracing it back to its home

The two who came home have now come back,

Johny has three large wooden barrels on his shoulder.

While Johna was dragging a metal barrel, the mark on the ground show his progress.

"When this is done, huff- I want my bed" Johna spoke his body smelling like expired vinegar if it does exist.

"Of course, we will be rich when we sell all this" Hans stated as he step back showing his two brothers the work he and Walker did.

All eight veins are present, Hans and Walker helped each other to dig them out of the ground.

Johny's mouth opened

"Wow, it looks like an octopus!"

Walker looked at the eight veins his body reeked of sweat.

"Oh, it does"

"Right!" Johny replied with a contagious smile which made Walker grin on instinct.