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Post by Gummy on Mar 27, 2024 8:46:53 GMT -7
Klara grinned at him like a child in a toy shop. She allowed him to pick her up and she saw them inside. She nodded to be put down and her smile was amazing. If Kei had looked back he would have seen that the tree branches were impassable.
"They are so cute! I loved seeing animals asleep, especially the dormice their snoring were so sweet. They used to be all over the fields but I moved them to the edges when it came for the crops to be brought in."
Her home memories were good before she left. She was here now and that was what mattered. Klara suddenly looked behind Kei a look of alarm. The tree got denser around them and the root lowered. A couple of drunk men were shouting at each other and Klara looked very afraid. The light which had been coming through the branches was being shut off as the tree tried to protect Klara.
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Post by Zeronone on Mar 27, 2024 9:00:31 GMT -7
Kei lifted her up, holding her till he felt her hand tap his shoulder and brought her down, her big smile making him smile. He never had any siblings and since moving from Arizona too, well wherever they could get away from the monsters, Kei hadn't really had time to make friends. Upon learning of his abilities, they could stop running but his parents wanted a place where Kei could be camouflaged by other powered beings, thus New York city the home of the Avengers, Spider-Man, and many other well heard of heroes.
Seeing her look of, Kei turned to see what she was looking at. Noticing for the first time that the tree was indeed responding to her. The low hanging branches closing and seeming to form a wall of protection around them. He could hear the drunk yelling, the smell of whiskey making his nose twitch. His hand went to the inside of his hoodie pocket, clutching the small notebook he kept in case of an emergency. Looking at Klara, he placed his hand on her shoulder, giving her a reassuring smile.
"Hey, it's okay. Just a couple of drunks, they appear around here all the time. If they bother us I will take care of it. Promise."
Kei didn't understand her fear, but he wasn't going to dismiss it either. A lot of people had bad memories about stuff. he didn't know her past and wasn't going to pry unless she wanted to share. What he could do, was reassure her that she was safe.
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Post by Gummy on Mar 27, 2024 9:13:00 GMT -7
Klara watched and listened to things that Kei couldn't hear. Her breathing got faster as they got closer. Yes, she had come across a few in the park but she had avoided them or waited for them to pass. This was no difference. They were just men, sad men who were the worst. A flashback as Kei touched her. Her body turned stiff. His words cut through a little and she tried to breath through the worst of it.
The tree dumped heavy snow on top of the drunks and they looked around confused. Then moved on, the next tree did the same and so on for quite a distance and then men were running then tripped over a sudden root before getting up and carrying on. Klara relaxed as they got further away. Her voice was quiet.
"Sorry."
The tree started letting light into where they were once more. The way in was still guarded but at least there was light coming in more.
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Post by Zeronone on Mar 27, 2024 9:18:41 GMT -7
Kei observed Klara, whatever happened it had really done a number on her. He felt really bad for her, what he was amazed about was the trees. They protected her, he saw several branches move in intricate ways just to dump snow on the drunk men. And a root literally came up out of the ground on its own to trip one. He looked over at Klara, studying her for a minute. "You control trees, don't you?" There was no anger or fear in his voice, just pure curiosity. He chewed on his lip as he considered where to go from here. He probably shouldn't have blurted it out like that, but it was already done.
He looked at the trees, the way the branches seemed to protect her, even now it was like he could feel them glaring at him. A silent warning that they would intervene if he tried anything. He looked back, gazing at the girl. "I do stuff too. You don't have to worry about me saying anything."
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Post by Gummy on Mar 27, 2024 9:40:57 GMT -7
Klara looked at him worried but then sagged down to the ground heavily sitting on the same root which had tried to give her height. She thought for a little on how to say what she did. It wasn't just the trees it was more.
"No, I don't control.... I ask, I hear, they understand me and I encourage them to grow strong. They react to me because of how I feel."
She sighed and picked up a pine cone and looked at it.
"It's not just trees, it's all plants from the smallest blade of grass to the greatest trees I have known."
She took out a seed from the cone and placed it on her hand. then put a bit of soil onto it too.
"Grow. The farms where I grew up never had a bad crop, no matter what the weather did. I kept them going."
While she spoke it started to shoot up and roots came out of the soil and held onto her hand and in a second there was a sapling. She offered it to Kei.
"What can you do?"
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Post by Zeronone on Mar 27, 2024 9:47:22 GMT -7
Kei listened, sitting down beside her he watched her. She crawled into herself was the best way he could describe it. She looked defeated. The trees reacted to her emotions, well that was cool. He looked down as she planted the seed and with a word it did just that, it grew. She was mother nature incarnate basically. Way better and more useful than what he could do. Kei could tell the girl was nervous and a little shaken, so he made sure not to make any quick movements. He wanted her to feel comfortable with him and what she was telling him.
He took the sapling, looking down at it and wondered what a power like hers would be like. No running, no unwanted destruction, no nightmares of other planes and seeing things that woke him in a cold sweat. No whispers of hissing and growling when he zoned out for a second. But she had given her secret so he would do the same.
"I don't do anything as cool as you, give life and help others. I make monsters, I summon them from other places. Consider me the Monster King basically, though I don't actually control them."
He looked down, waiting a moment before he pulled out his notebook. Showing Klara the multitude of unfinished monster sketches. Monsters of all kinds flicked through his book. "My monster index you could call it."
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Post by Gummy on Mar 27, 2024 9:55:13 GMT -7
Klara looked at the notebook. She didn't seem afraid of the pictures in the book but a frown deepened.
"Those aren't monsters. Those are drawings."
She pointed in the direction the drunk men went.
"Those are monsters. Full of hate, anger and lust. You can't control them unless you put more booze into them. Then they just sleep, if you're lucky."
She looked up, she was more relaxed and curious.
"How does it work? You pick a picture and pull it off and it grows into that monster?"
She had got past powers are the spawn of evil to, it was a gift to help the world. How could the drawings help the world or do things. There must be more to it that just that. Everyone had a purpose, it just took a while to understand what that purpose was. Her's was to help heal the world as there were too much humanity in it and not enough kindness.
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Post by Zeronone on Mar 27, 2024 10:05:14 GMT -7
Kei looked at her then around to make sure the trees were indeed blocking them. He turned to a page of a large sabertooth tiger wreathed in ice. " Don't freak out, okay. It won't hurt you." Sometimes it was easier to just show then tell. He pulled a pencil from behind his ear and put it to the page. Drawing quickly he finished the piece of its ear that the picture was missing. As he added the final line, the notebook glowed blue. The smell of winter filled the air, cold winds blew faster kicking up and tossing snow. A large snowbank shifted and out walkd a car sized Sabertooth tiger. Its white fur had little ice crystals, its fangs and claws were a translucent blue and sharp as winters touch. Eyes of snow white, it turned a massive head towards them and took a step, then another, seeming to almost turn to snow as it passed through the branches and reform. Now standing only a foot away. Kei stood up, placing himself between the cat and Klara but not doing much else. The Ice cat blinked and sat down, looking between them. " Don't be afraid, he won't attack you."
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Post by Gummy on Mar 27, 2024 10:13:33 GMT -7
Klara let out a little sound.
"WHOOOOOW!"
Her eyes were wide and her smile grew wider.
"I'm not afraid. I have a raptor called Old Lace who watches TV with me! This is sooooo cool."
A modern teen would have probably added "Freaking" before the cool but she was still adjusting to the slang. The tree made a little more room for it as Klara stood up slowly. Then she remember the T-rex and trip to dinoland.
"You draw and it becomes real. That is neat. How do you make it go away? Not that I want it to go away. Do you think I could pet it? Old Lace really likes to play but also is a great cushion when watching TV. I think it should be called Snowflake! Molly would love a cat as a pet but she isn't allowed in case Old Lace eats the cat!"
Yep, cares had gone away as fast as water off a ducks back. This was excitement and it was really good for her.
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Post by Zeronone on Mar 29, 2024 7:36:26 GMT -7
Kei's smile grew wider as he met someone who didn't immediately freak out and run away or get violent about what he could do. Then again, considering she could speak with nature itself he should have expected a little understanding. Her questions made him reach out and pet the large Sabretooth, his fingers sliding into its warm and yet cold fur. Hearing she had a raptor made him very curious, was that a kind of bird? He had heard of some birds referred to as raptors in the past.
"Yeah, I draw them, and they appear, but only if I finish the whole drawing. As for sending them away I can or if I am knocked unconcise, they will vanish after a time. Sure, you can pet him. This one is a gentler one, some of the others aren't. I have seen a few that would take my hand off if I tried."
He was glad to see Klara's smile, she looked so sad earlier but now she was lighting up. Animals had a tendency to bring out joy in good people.
"So, is Old Lace a hawk or something? Can't imagine it would go after a full grown cat."
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Post by Gummy on Mar 30, 2024 14:44:23 GMT -7
Klara reached out and gently stroked the snow tiger and shivered then giggled. It felt odd to feel the cold then the warmth.
"Hello."
She said calmly then looked back to Kei and laughed.
"Noooo! Old Lace is a dinosaur. You know there was a whole load of them walking somewhere around here not long ago. A giant man, a woman who could fly a couple others and I helped get rid of them. They were here by accident but Old Lace has been Gert's pet for a lot longer. She is lovely!"
She then giggled as she felt behind the tiger's ear and it felt like being in a cold shower but also so warm. Kinda tingly it was amazing.
"Its beautiful. It's sad that they don't last. Have you tried drawing pokemon or cartoon characters? What happens then? What about other things like trees or hamsters? If you wanted to have a cool pet could you just draw one and walk around with it and say look what I got!?"
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Post by Zeronone on Apr 3, 2024 7:03:41 GMT -7
Kei resisted the urge to chuckle at her wonder, he felt it too when monsters were around. A sense of elation and joy, he adored monsters, obsessed over them really. Monster movies, games, toys that he collected, and yes drawings. Sadly, he didn't get to draw them very often since well, Giant car sized sabretooth tiger with ice powers wasn't really a common thing. Hearing that Old Lace was an actual dinosaur really perked up his ears, he hadn't known about dinosaurs walking New York before nor that there was a group that had one as a pet.
"She sounds incredible, I would love to meet her someday. I have only met one dinosaur and that was a giant one named Devil Dinosaur."
His hand moved through the large cats' fur, to its other ear where he began scratching. Gazing at the powerful monster with the love of one's pet.
"Well, I try and limit what I summon because I don't always know what will happen. If I summoned Pokemon I may summon something I can't control because in my mind it would have a personality not of my making. It doesn't work with inanimate objects. Already tried drawing things like Captain America's shield and Iron Man's armor. No go. As for the pet thing, it takes stamina to summon them and walking around with a giant monster just to show off may get me grounded. My parents forbade me from playing with my powers."
Not that he always listened to that order, now being a perfect example of summoning a monster to make a nice girl smile.
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Post by Gummy on Apr 3, 2024 12:48:05 GMT -7
Klara nodded as what he said made sense. She let the silence linger for a little as she enjoyed stroking the back of the cat. It was amazing.
"Trees and plants are alive, so would be interesting. They feel and listen and talk. You just need to be able to hear. It's odd though because their voices are muted a little here, with everything else around. Some are not doing very well and would do better if no humans were here. Though others are thriving. I can ask them to grow but they will also help me and protect me. Roses are one of my favourits but I really don't like cutting off some of the flowers, that's just sad. My husband ma...."
Her eyes went wide as she realised what she had said. She paused and tried to hide from Kei behind the sabertooth. She held onto the cat and tried to lose herself in the fur. She should forget about him. It happened over a century ago but to her it was just last month. The bruising had all gone but the scars inside were still there.
The tree tried to push Kei out but allowed the sabertooth to stay.
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Post by Zeronone on Apr 6, 2024 5:53:59 GMT -7
Kei stroked the sabretooth tigers fur, feeling the strength and warmth that the giant beast he had brought from nowhere felts against him. He listened as she talked about trees being alive and he knew that was true, trees and plants were alive and had their own purpose. He had never really tried to draw them or had any interest but after being unable to summon an inanimate object he had an idea of a giant plant monster that was trees and plants mixed together.
As he was thinking, his mind was dragged back when she mentioned a husb... was she going to say husband? That couldn't be right. Then again, there were cultures where girls married really young. He didn't want to judge but she didn't look like she came from that kind of culture. He felt the trees slowly pushing him out as she hid behind the tiger. He knew that feeling, scared and afraid of being judged.
He pushed back, stepping around to face her. Fighting off the branches was difficult, but they didn't seem to be trying too hard to make him leave. "Klara, I won't judge you and you don't have to be afraid. I know the feeling of being scared all the time, of your past haunting you. I am your friend; I won't make a thing out of it." He stopped fighting, letting the tree push him out if she still wanted it too.
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Post by Gummy on Apr 6, 2024 6:23:44 GMT -7
Klara didn't want to face him. She burried her tears in the fur of the huge cat. It had hit her a couple of times but this was different. She felt comfortable around someone. She felt like it didn't matter. The branches tried to push Kei back in and seemed to be embracing all three which was prickly to say the least!
Klara sniffed and sobbed her tears adding to the ice on the fur. She loved how it felt. The cold and warmth. Like frost on a winters morning where the sun melted through. She was melting through her heart and it hurt so much. She pulled back from the cat and wiped her eyes a little before looking at Kei.
"I'm sorry. This isn't how I'm supposed to act. I don't really know how I am supposed to act any more. In my time, we had to just take it, respect our husbands, be a good wife. 1904 was so different to now. I don't know how to be a kid, that was all taken away. He took me away and my mother let him. He took everything from me including my roses. He killed them and nearly me."
She took a big breath in.
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