《Watching Grass Grow》Chapter 11: More Servants
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POV: Mystical Sakura
‘Aaagh fuck me, what am I supposed to do now?’
After eliminating the human slavers the beings attention was drawn to those trapped in the cage were he finally realized.
‘That man I just threw over the horizon probably had the keys, not only that the captives just saw something straight out of a horror film. I mean if a mage did that they would still call him a monster but at least a monster is tied to a physical body, trees moving on their own without anyone giving commands will definitely make a scene. …So how am I going to move them now, I didn’t really think this through to begin with otherwise I would have brought Ellie to act as a guide. Huh, well my image can’t get any worse, here we go.’
POV: Older Rabbit
[Young Rabbit 1] “What’s going to happen to us?”
[Young Rabbit 2] “Are we going to die?”
[Older Rabbit] “Ssshhh you two don’t be frightened everything will be fine.”
‘I said that as I comforted them but everything was certainly not fine, after seeing what became of the humans and how they were brutally killed without any hint of hesitation I started to think we were probably better off as slaves. My name is Naomi of the rabbit clan, a recognized scout of my village for my strong legs, a trait of the rabbit clan yet mine showed strength better than anyone apart from the chief. That is until a few weeks ago when my village was attacked by the wolf clan, it was nothing to different from usual, and my village already had plans set to protect the young should an attack occur. But how could we predict an attack from two sides with different purposes, after driving off the wolf clan a group of us went to retrieve the young only to hear that they were attacked. My clan were not idiots and the young had guards however a majority of them were young with few veterans, they were ambushed by a larger force of humans. The guard drove them back (not surprising) but at a cost, the humans abducted a fair number of our young to be turned into slaves.
I acted immediately and chased after them while the others went to inform the rest of the clan. The large force separated as they traveled as if there only purpose was that one attack, I intended to retreat and inform my clan but spotted one group resting nearby. They had a large cage with five guards and one sitting at the reigns who appeared to be a merchant and inside the cage was his new merchandise, two young females from my clan. I thought I would be capable of handling this much but my overconfidence lead me to forget a basic rule about ambushes, always check there numbers. When I darted out of the trees I aimed for the nearest guard a bald thug but my sword was stopped by an armoured hand, I jumped back to assess the new threat before being knocked down by a fireball. A knight in polished steel and a fire mage, with the element of surprise gone and being completely outnumbered I was easily subdued. My legs were broken by the knight, the merchant complained about it saying it would reduce my price but the knight would not allow his enemy a chance to escape especially the fast running rabbit clan, and thus started my life as a slave. We continued to travel, I attempted to comfort the children while the slavers collected members of the fairy race, apparently they received information about their location in exchange for the attack on my clan, two slaves was inadequate for their services.
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The slavers had collected quite a number of new slaves when it happened; I was still comforting the two children who continued to despair at their situation. The bald thug returned with a young girl who attempted to flee earlier, she was still pure though I’m not sure how long that will last after the escape attempt. The cage started to move when suddenly two spikes came from the ground and impaled the horses, chaos immediately took hold I was unable to see all the events as the girls within the cage would not stop moving. But I did see it, the fire mage who defeated me was casually lifted into the air and pulled apart as if plucking petals from a flower, next was the knight who continued to fight even while being lifted into the air but still he ended up as a ball of metal and flesh thrown towards his allies. The last part I focused not on the two who were thrown into the sky but what was it that actually threw them. Roots, tree roots to be precise but who or what caused them to move and what does it plan to do with us. When the chaos died down either to being frozen in fear or passing out I could see what was happening outside this cage, an arch was formed from tree roots stretching towards the sky. The two nearest roots came towards us and grasped the cage, panic ensued as our cage was lifted and passed down the arch from one pair of roots to the next.
Eventually everything became silent, we were still being passed down the arch but everyone gave up on screaming as it would not affect their situation, the two children have been embracing me with more strength since the slavers were killed. They did not ask any questions which I was grateful for as I would not know how to answer them in my current state of mind. We came to a clearing and all the members of the fairy race currently trapped with us gave out a sound of surprise. The clearing held only one thing that could register such a reaction, a tree at the centre of the clearing with white bark and pink leaves, no petals this tree had petals. And the whole thing radiated an aura as if to welcome us to a sanctuary, if I were to have walked in on this place alone I would believe I had stepped into the garden of the gods. As we were brought closer a group appeared from the trees and approached the cage, we were placed down right in front of them, the members of the fairy race started to cheer up perhaps they recognize them. A girl at the back of the group told everyone to stand back as the group complied roots sprouted from the ground and grasped all faces of the cage except for the one facing the group. She’s the one in control I thought, then two roots sprouted between us and grasped the cage door and with a groan and sudden jolt the door was broken off and tossed to the side. The group outside then entered the cage to help everyone out, even the jars holding the small winged fairies were opened and their occupants released, I was left in the cage with the two of my clan. We are not the same how will they treat us, roots came from the ground and entered the cage, I knew it were going to die I hid the faces of the two children who cried in my arms and closed my eyes. I started to feel the roots touching my legs and climbing upwards, because my job requires a lot of running the clothes covering my legs are usually short but I can feel the roots heading to my private area.’
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[Naomi] “Please.”
‘I begged not wanting to be violated before I die, but the roots continued further and stopped just before entering my clothing then tightened on my flesh.’
[Naomi] “Aaaaagghh!”
‘I screamed as the pain in my broken legs that I had learned to ignore was reawakened, the children in my arms were crying harder as they heard my pain. The roots started to move while gripping my legs I prayed for a quick death and hoped it wouldn’t treat me like the knight and mage from earlier as it manipulated my legs making me cry out in pain. Then the moving stopped, I looked at my legs with gritted teeth and was surprised by what I saw, they had been moved from there broken angle and set ready for healing. Are they trying to help I thought, it would be nice to get my legs back but I already knew it was hopeless. The group outside of the cage split and the one who controls the plant came towards me; she had green eyes, long green hair and a short stature. I would say she was the same as some of the others within the cage apart from one noticeable difference her breast hugged tightly by her leaf dress would put most women to shame and with such a small body too. She came towards me holding out her hands with a pink petal resting inside.
[Big Breasted Fairy] “This will heal you.”
‘Is what she said before dropping the petal on my legs, a light immediately started to emit from my legs forcing me to close my eyes, when I opened them my legs were healed as if it never happened. The children in my arms were staring at my legs in awe, I looked at the face of my healer she had her hand held out for me so I took it and she pulled me onto my feet while helping me to keep my balance.’
[Big Breasted Fairy] “Mistress would like to speak with us now.”
POV: Mystical Sakura
‘Woooeee nelly, would you just look at this haul, I’ve got enough here to start a small town, which is probably what is going to happen after taking half of them on as slaves. Well then let’s see here after taking the group that escaped the slavers and adding the group I just saved in all we have 31 people. With a little help from Ellie I was able to identify each type of fairy and count like that. First the 13 small exhibitionists with wings are pixies, the 3 children with branches for arms and legs are dryads, the 8 normal looking ones along with the older one are sylphs and the 3 green hairs left out of the group are nymphs who have lost their trees. Which brings me to the best part the last 3 who were hiding at the back of the cage were bunnygirls that’s right bunnygirls, I wasn’t sure when I first saw them before the rescue but now I’m sure official furries. Even better she’s definitely not a child, fairy or naked so it’s all good I was starting to worry that I would be surrounded by barely clothed lolis for my whole life but that problem is now behind me. So now with all the counting out of the way time to get down to business, Ellie please repeat what I’m saying.’
[Ellie] “Yes mistress.”
‘On second thought, Aria could you speak on my behalf otherwise I’m pretty sure that she will convince them all that I’m female.’
[Aria] “I will do as you ask, but might I enquire does this mean that mistress is actually master.”
After hearing what Aria was saying Ellie was beginning to sweat, she started to pray to her master/mistress’s god that Aria would not tell the truth about the origin of this misunderstanding.
‘Yes Aria I do consider myself a guy, who told you I was a girl or was it just the stereotype that girls like pink and so on.’
[Aria] “Ellie.”
‘Ellie can we talk after this.’
Realizing she was caught Ellie admitted her mistake and prepared herself to be punished.
[Ellie] “Yes master.”
‘So she did now I will definitely punish her later, moving on Aria can you tell the group to choose a representative for each type of fairy to come forward and speak with me, start with the sylphs.’
After Aria transmitted his request the older looking sylph with blue hair, pointed ears and tattoos came forward.
‘Pretty obvious, ok then the slavers are gone but what are you going to do now miss?’
[Sylph] “Crystal, my name is crystal and I am a water element sylph who has reached an advanced stage as shown by my markings. What I and the rest of us fairies have decided is that we will follow you and become your servants like the nymphs master. It’s the least we can do after you saved us, and we can see from the others that you are a kind master who will protect us if you will accept us that is.”
‘It’s obvious she wants to use me for protection, that said I was going to do it anyway so it’s no skin off my back, I accept but now what do the sylphs want; shelter, food, water.’
[Crystal] “We fairies can survive with just the benefits of nature as long as we are near your presence we are fine. However that being said we sylphs do enjoy using things such as food and shelter so if it is not too much trouble could we perhaps…”
‘Say no more I kind of expected something like that shelter and food, ok next the dryads.’
The three dryads looked similar to the nymphs in human appearances however the branches that covered their bodies were a tell-tale difference one had oak leaves, another had maple and the one who came forward pine. Yeah really she had pine branches sticking out of her hair and I think there are some pinecones as well.
[Future Christmas Tree] “Master if I might ask for the dryads if it may be possible to alter the land, the current soil is very infertile. We won’t be able to grow as strong in such an environment and could easily get sick.”
‘Soil maintenance got it, ok next representative will be from the pixies.’
From the large group of pixies a red haired one came forward, from Ellie it was heard that a fairies element can be determined by their hair colour, red head is a fire user.
[Matchstick] “We want mana, how are we supposed to play and have fun in this place.”
‘Mana that might be a little difficult since I don’t know anything about mana, I will see what I can do, next.’
From the nymph group a single figure came forward bearing the stares of all those present, even crystal.
‘Discrimination at its finest, what would the nymphs need don’t be shy know.’
[Carbon Copy Nymph] “If it’s possible… could we… could we stay?”
At her words the stares from those present grew stronger frightening the individual.
[Frightened Nymph] “Forget it, we will leave straight away, sorry for troubling you.”
‘Wait!’
Aria hesitated but spoke the word as she was told.
‘Let’s show them a miracle shall we, nymphs I have an excellent gift for you look around and choose a tree that you like, don’t be shy.’
At my words the nymphs spread out at a very nervous and slow pace, the others kept staring.
‘Right put a hand against your chosen tree.’
Once there hand was placed against the tree a message popped up in front of them.
Do you wish to form a contract with this tree, your status as a tree nymph will be restored?
Y/N
After reading the message the nymphs stared back at the pink tree and Aria who simply motioned them forward without knowing why she was told to do so. After they pressed yes light surrounded the three nymphs and to the shock of everyone present the nymphs were once again recognized as fairies.
‘I would prefer you accept them back without arguing, now then down to our non-fairy guests how do you wish to proceed.’
The older one stepped forward; she had light brown hair even on her ears, dark brown eyes, wearing leather armour with what appeared to be shorts and a white puff ball sticking out above her bottom.
‘Not as well-endowed as Ellie or Crystal but the ears and tail make me just want to hug her among other things, well then what do you wish to do, not that I’m against you staying but your situations is different.’
[Bunnygirl] “I am grateful to you for healing me but as you have noticed I am not the same, I and the two children still want to return home.”
‘I won’t top you leaving but there is a problem with your plan; no food, no water, no weapon, pretty much no supplies at all you go out there you probably won’t make it home alive.’
[Bunnygirl] “It is as you say, but I cannot give up because of such small trivial matters.”
‘It won’t be so trivial when you die from starvation, dehydration or just get picked up by slavers again.’
[Bunnygirl] “…”
‘Here’s what propose, stay here for a bit until we can get thing sorted then I can’t offer you my full support to get you and the little ones home, I might be a tree but there’s still plenty I can do.’
[Bunnygirl] “Ok, we will stay for now until we are finished preparing.”
‘Great to have you, and with that I have gained 31 new servants and 3 guest of the beastmen race, looks like it’s time to upgrade again.’
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Title Mistress of the Nymphs has been upgraded to the title Fairy King, under this title; fairies will flock to you and are more likely to follow your commands.
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