Plants and Bones (saxen, closed)

[halen2020]

In a small copse of trees, near an old building, a young green girl sat, her legs crossed, her eyes closed. Her name is Holly, and she is a plant witch. The grass close by is growing. Not like grass normally grows, but at a hundred times the speed of life. It grew visibly taller, in a circle all around her, until it reached a foot in height. Then, it stopped growing, and started swaying in a nonexistant breeze, making a noise that sounded like whispers...

[nomacaa]

Saxen and Alexandros were finally taking off from Radiant Garden again. They had gotten Shira settled in well enough and Saxen wanted to visit Twilight Town again. It had been several months since he had been there. He just wanted to get away from his normal routine for the day. He piloted his newly upgraded fighter ship toward his destination and enjoyed shooting down several heartless ships. He continuously checked the status of all his systems. He knew that it was likely unnecessary, since he had only added one gummi, but he always liked to be careful when it came to his engineering work. He took his ship down and went into town. It was a nice place. There was such a warmth to it. He walked through the town, suddenly remembering things he had learned when he was here last, the most prominent of which was the old mansion. He found the crack in the wall and went through. A crack like this would be guarded intensely and fixed within the day back home. . . When he got through to the other side, he heard something. He couldn't quite make it out, but he could hear it. He looked around for the source of it and noticed a small girl sitting in a patch of unusually tall grass. That was where the sound was coming from. He carefully walked on, trying to make as little noise as possible before leaning on a tree, to listen.

[halen2020]

All around the young plant witch, the plant life became more lively. Grass straigtened, flowers brightened, trees shook off their dead leaves. The greenlife began to slowly sway, even the trees, the whispers of leaf on leaf growing. Suddenly, she raised her hand, and a vine shot out, ten feet long. She swished her and through the air, her eyes still closed, and began to move the vine as if conducting. And the greenlife responded. In the whispers, a gentle melody was heard.

[nomacaa]

Saxen watched the plants around this girl. Apparently, she had some connection to them. He watched the plants sway, even the trees, and heard the whispers grow. Then, her hand rose up and a vine shot out. Saxen instinctively jumped back, but relaxed himself as soon as he realized it wasn't coming at him. He watched her hand and the vine move and heard a melody float through the air. He slid down the nearest tree to sit and listen to the song. He closed his eyes and focused on the sound.

[halen2020]

As she sat, two more vines grew from her hand, each one conducting a different section. the melody seemed to swell, the whispers grew, and the greenlife swayed all around Holly. A gentle smile touched her lips, as she exorted to plants to sing their song. She began to hum along with the gentle melody...

(song: first part of www.youtube.com/watch?v=p61SfgbbrY4)

[nomacaa]

Saxen smiled as the music grew and more parts joined in. He had always enjoyed music and this. . . this was special. It was like the forest was playing just for them. He relaxed and listened, resting his head against the tree. He would have been content to sit there for hours just listening. Actually, probably not, but that was just because he could hardly stand to be still for too long. His previous goal to explore the mansion had left his thoughts and been replaced with his contentedness to listen to this song.

[halen2020]

All too soon, in Holly's mind anyways, the song was over. She knew that she couldn't make the plants sing too much, because that took a lot of energy. And while the greenlife was happy to share it's song with one so much like them, they were now very tired. The vines in Holly's hand retracted, and she stood and stretched and yawned. She opened her eyes. "Eek! Who are you? How long were you there?"

[nomacaa]

Saxen heard the music stop and opened his eyes. He saw the vines retract into the girl's hand and was starting to get up when she yelled. He was surprised and fell back to the ground. "HOLY- " THUD. He got back up and looked at the girl. "Calm down," he said, closing his eyes for a second. "I just heard the music and thought I'd listen, no big deal, right? But I'm sorry if I scared you. I'm Saxen." He walked over to her and offered a smile and his hand. He shook his head to get his hair out of his eyes and looked down into hers. "Again, I'm sorry if I bothered you."

[halen2020]

"Oh, I'm sorry, you just startled me! Are you okay?" The boy had fallen over, but he quickly got up. He walked over, and offered his name, and his hand. "I'm Holly," she said, shaking his hand. She gave him a quick once over with her eyes, and thought, He's cute... Then he looked into her eyes, and she found herself unable, and unwilling, to look away. He had such intense eyes... She stared into his eyes for a full thirty seconds, then blinked. With the blink came a blush, and, realizing she still had his hand in hers, she released it, and backed away, blushing, and staring at the ground. Her voice suddenly had stopped working.

Yep, no doubt about it, Holly had another crush.

[nomacaa]

"Holly. . ." he repeated to himself. He was horrible with names. They stood there for about thirty seconds. Saxen was starting to wonder if Holly was okay. Then, she blinked, blushed, and stared at the ground. Saxen smiled and chuckled, shaking his head. She was. . . something. She was funny and, he had to admit it, kinda cute, but, then, he was always suckered by the short ones. "Great. . . I've gotta stop this, really. . ." he told himself. He put his hand on her shoulder and gestured over toward the old mansion. "I was going to explore the old mansion over there. Care to join me?" he asked. It seemed only polite to ask, seeing as he had interrupted what she was doing.

[halen2020]

Why did this always happen? Why couldn't she talk to a guy she liked? Every time she met a cute guy, without fail, she turned into a clam. Why couldn't she relax? She felt his hand on her shoulder, and looked up, and was once again caught by those eyes. There was laughter in them, and, had he not spoken, she would have been content to stare. The mansion? "Um, you mean my home?" she asked.

[nomacaa]

"Um, you mean my home?"

"You live there? I thought it was abandoned." Well. . . that was a surprise. He wasn't quite sure what to do, now. It would be pretty rude to ask a girl you had just met to show you her home just because you were curious. He looked out at the mansion and then back where he had come from. "I guess that answers that, then. In that case, I might just get going, unless, of course, you need anything."

[halen2020]

Leave? What? Uh uh! He ain't leaving yet! The shock of his sudden good bye broke past her verbal barrier. "Oh, no, no one did, I mean, I do, but I don't own the place, I just kinda moved in, 'cause I needed a place to stay, and it's empty, except for a couple of other guys, well, they aren't really guys, I don't know what they are, but I don't bother them, and they leave me alone, so, if you wanna see the place, then come on, you can come see." then she took a deep breath. Her shyness returned, though, thankfully, her blush did not.

[nomacaa]

Man, this girl could talk fast. She was probably really nervous, but Saxen was too slow to figure out why. Of course, he couldn't catch the majority of what she said. He caught: moved in, empty, and the offer to show him around. "Well, then, it's your home. Lead the way." He spoke with a light smile and gestured toward the mansion, taking a slight step back to make sure he didn't hit Holly.

[halen2020]

Whew, he wasn't going to leave her. She smiled, and took his hand, and started walking towards the mansion. Since she couldn't see him while she walked, her verbal block seemed to disolve. "So, why did you come to Twilight Town? Are you visting someone? Did you need something from here? How do you travel around?" she was babbling slightly, and suddenly realised it. She shut her mouth, and blushed again.