Chapter 13
"F*ck men, I need to peeಠ_ಠ" Kirby said to me
"Okay just hurry up" I replied to him
We are at the entrance of the Eldertree Forest just packing our tents and things and foods. Kirby went deeper in the woods to hide and pee.
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"F*ck, my bladder hurt so much" I thought to myself
I went deeper to hide from my team for privacy, I could hear a waterfall nearby splashing. I went to a tree and peed. aaaaahhhhhh, best feeling to empty my bladder, I just peed, silently.
♪Hhhmmmm HMM HMM HM Hmmm, laaaaa la la, lala, lalaaa♪
I could hear someone singing and humming nearby, the sound of a girl, it sounds like the hum came from the falls. I took a peek from the trees, I saw a girl sitting admiring the views of the falls.
The girl is a complete chick, a beautiful girl is at my point of view, humming a song and looking at the falls. She is wearing armor like Mathew, maybe she's a knight like Mathew.
I can't take my eyes off the girl, sh*t, she's a complete chick, I could stare at her all day long, I wish she was in the group, I'm not sure what Mathew's reaction is for this.
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"Where's Kirby? He's taking too long, do guys even pee that longಠ︵ಠ" Nova muttered to us
The others are patiently waiting for the dude, the hell.
"I'll go check on him" I said to my team
They nodded at me, I started walking in the direction where Kirby went, I could hear a waterfall nearby. Maybe he went to the waterfall to admire the view¯\_(ಠ︵ಠ)_/¯?
I followed the sound of the waterfall, I saw a familiar rogue suit, it is Kirby hiding behind a tree peeking on something or someone from the waterfall, don't tell me he's peeking at someone taking a bath.
I went behind Kirby silently and took a peek behind Kirby's shoulder, there's a girl sitting on the ground admiring the view of the waterfall singing a lullaby. What a relief, I thought Kirby is a pervert peeking on someone. I touched Kirby's shoulder, he jumped and looked at me.
"Shit, you f*cking scared me" Kirby said to me
"What are you doing? The others are waiting for you" I said to him
"Okay I'm sorry, let's go" Kirby said to me
I let him go first back to the group to make myself left behind. I looked back at the girl nearby at the waterfall, she is in a knight's armor with no helmet, seems like a rookie's armor but shiny like a newly made armor.
I've been thinking of recruiting new people to expand my group to get strong and recruiting a girl so that Nova isn't the only girl in the group, I hope the girl accepts my request. I went closer towards the girl.
"Hey" I said to the girl taking the girl's attention
The girl looked at me with a surprised face
"Oh hi, what do you want?" The girl asked me
I took a deep breath and readied myself, this is embarrassing.
"I know we just met but I'm looking for new people for my group, may I ask would you like to join my group?" I asked her
She made a surprised expression then started thinking, I waited for her answer.
"It would be good and exciting to have friends and make teamwork rather than fighting alone, yes, I would like to join your group" she answered
I was surprised by her answer and sighed with relief, that was easy, she stood up.
My name is Jill, it is nice to meet you and it is nice to join your group" she introduced herself
"My name is Mathew, it is also nice to meet you, why don't we go?" I introduced myself
I led Jill back to the group, she asked questions about the group while we walked. We arrived back at the group, Nova is walking back and forth, she is really excited to go for a vacation. The rest are just talking.
The four noticed us, they made a shock face when they saw Jill, Kirby has the most shocked expression on his face, I smirked at him mockingly, pretty sure he had a liking for the girl.
"Who is she?" Nova asked me
"She is Jill, a new recruit for the group" I introduced Jill
"Hi everyone, nice to meet you all" Jill greeted everyone
"A new girl in the group!" Nova excitedly shouted
"Jill, this is Nova, this is Marc, this is Kirby, and this is Jayden" I introduced the group to the rest
The group greeted Jill back
"Why don't we go!?" Nova Excitingly said
The group packed their things and started walking.
"May I ask where do we go?" Jill asked me
"Me, Jayden and Kirby are having a three days break, during those three days we met Marc and Nova, you are the third one, we went for a vacation in two forests and this forest is the third one, we just explore or look at what the forest is hiding" I replied to her
Jill nodded and caught up to the group, Kirby went closer to me, I didn't realize he's not with the group.
"How I'm the world you just recruited her" Kirby asked
"I just asked, oh yeah, I'm noticing you have feelings for her" I replied and smirked at him
"No I don't" Kirby said to me
"Don't lie to me" I said to him
I joke at Kirby about him having feelings for Jill while we catch up with the group. Nova is talking with Jill about her information while Marc and Jayden talked about the tasty meal yesterday.
We went deeper into the forest, there's nothing to find beautiful here. The deeper we went in the forest, the darker it was. It's getting darker but the light of the sun helps us see through the dark, the forest name doesn't even fit the forest's environment.
We can't see a single life or enemies around, we wandered around. The group made a path for me to go in front, I went to the front and put on my helmet, we were unsure about what the forest was hiding and my group wanted the leader/tank in front of the group.
*Clrck*
"Stop" I said to the group and made a halt sign by raising my hand
"What is it?" Nova asked me but I waved my hand with a halt sign to keep her quiet
It looked like I'm the only one who heard it, we just stood there in silence, I focused my ear around and waited for the sound again.
*Crrrt*
"Ready yourself" I said to the group as I heard the sound again
I sounded like a round coming out of the dirt, we looked around, it sounded from the right. I looked to the right, there's nothing unusual, I looked to the left, nothing also. I would be desperate if I made a false alarm.
*Crrrrrt*
"Watch out!" Kirby yelled at me
I looked back to the right again, there's a walking tree going near me. The tree swung his branch at me, I flew away to the tree from the left and landed to the ground, my armor made a clack noise as I landed.
*Clrrrrk*
I heard a similar noise from the tree behind me, the tree raised from the ground and started moving, I recovered myself and rejoined my group.
*Clrrrrk*
Crrrrrrrrt*
I heard 2 similar sounds behind the group, I looked behind, there were 2 trees moving. Jill went behind the group and raised his shield. There are 4 moving trees surrounding us.
The rest of the group readied theirselves, the two rogues unsheathed their dagger, Marc summoned a flying glowing blue axe and Nova's hand glowed green.
It felt like recruiting a new knight was really a good decision.
"Uhhhh, what is this line?" I heard Jayden said
I looked behind, I could see a white phantom line that is connected on my back while the other end of the line is connected to Jill, what is this line? Jayden waved his hand on the line, his hand phased through it.
What the hell is this?
*Clrk clrk clrk*
The tree in front of me started moving towards me, it swung its branch from my right. I raised my shield to block the incoming strike.
*Bang*
The impact is strong and made me walk back.
"Wooaaaahh!!" I yelled as something hit my leg and I hit the ground
The tree behind was the one who did it, I heard some groaning from the group, maybe they are fighting the 2 other trees behind. The tree behind me raised his big root ready to crush me, I rolled away before.
*Thud*
The impact is strong, it's a good thing I rolled away. I stood up as fast as I could, my armor is dirty from the soil, it will be very hard to clean it after. The 1st tree swings his branch to me, I duck to dodge it. I ran straight to the tree and hit it with my sword.
*Slchk*
*SCREEEEEECH*
It's skin is hard but I made a wound on it's side, there's violet goo coming out from the wound, maybe it's blood. A mouth suddenly opened in the middle of the tree and screeched out of hurt, I didn't know it had a mouth.
The tree became angry and swung his big root at me, I jumped over it and ran towards the tree and gave it another hit.
"AAAAAHHHH" I heard someone screaming, it is Jayden
It was strangled by the 4th tree's roots, the root is crushing him. I ran towards him and hit the root, I just sliced it halfway through, even the root was strong, there is a purple goo coming out of it, there are signs of the 4th tree getting hurt
I gave the root another slice and cut it. Jayden fell to the ground with the dead root still strangled around him.
"Can you guys protect me while I took this root out of him!?" I shouted at the group
They heard my request and gathered around me while attacking the moving trees, I unwrapped the root around Jayden. The root is heavy so I have to give it all my strength. I noticed a glowing line, it is the line that came from me and going to Jill.
It felt like the line was connected to our hearts, after the line connected, it felt like I was more durable like the tree hitting me but I only felt a medium damage from a big root that should hurt a lot, but I still don't know what this line is going to do.
I unwrapped all of the roots around Jayden and stood up.
*Thud*
The 4th tree's root hit me in the stomach as I stood up, it hurt. I held on the root, it raised me high over the 4th tree head to smash me to the ground. I noticed something glowing behind the tree's head, there's some kind of a big lump with a tiny covering something glowing, the color of the glow is violet.
"Whoaaaa!" I yelled when the tree started to swing and smashed me to the ground
"Ack!"
The tree smashed me to the ground but something reduced the damage but it still hurts, but the big lump behind the tree's head got my attention, I rolled out of its sight and went below the tree.
"Hey come here Jayden!" I yelled to Jayden
Jayden came running at me after slashing the roots coming towards him, he dive and crawl so that he won't be seen by the tree beside me, the tree just wandered around while looking for me.
"Hey we need to do this fast so no question ask, you see that lump? I'm going to assist you to go up there and see what's behind that lump" I instructed Jayden
He nodded, I stood up and knelt for Jayden to jump, Jayden went a few cm away. I heard Jayden start running, he jumped at my back, I stood up to boost him high up, he jumped as I stood up.
He went high up and unsheathed his 2 daggers, he stabbed the back of the tree and used it for climbing.
*SCREEEEEECH*
The tree is hurt as blood oozes out of its wound, Jayden started climbing with his dagger. The tree started waving at his back, I have to distract the tree. I went to his front and stab it at it's lower part. The tree screeched and swing it's root at me, I jumped over it.
"Mathew, is this what your talking about?" I heard Jayden from behind the tree
I ran behind the tree and looked up, Jayden already reached the lump.
"What should I do with it!?" Jayden asked me
"I don't know and I can't see it, just stab it maybe it will kill the tree!" I yelled at Jayden for him to hear
He didn't stab right away, he put his hand inside and grabbed something and let it out for me to see. He's holding a perfect circle colored violet, it is throbbing, there's also a like that is connected to the throbbing circle.
Jayden just cut the line and let himself fall down to the ground, the tree shriek and shriek loudly than before. There are signs of the tree weakening and fell to the ground. The other trees have an scared expression, they dug their root to the ground and stay their ground like a normal tree.
"What happened?" Nova asked
Kirby went near to the 3rd tree and stabbed it, there's no ooze coming out, just only bark of a tree, he continuously stabbed it, there's no sign of violet ooze.
"Now what is this thing?" Jayden asked me and showed me the circle thing
It looked like an orb, it is glowing violet, there are veins around.
"I don't know, let's ask the guild quest giver when we get back