The Tree Temple Chapter 8

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Tiana Forest swirled around, leaped back, and rapidly put an arrow to her crossbow and shot it in a beautiful display of flame. The creature that stalked her took the form of an eight-foot-long black scorpion with two dagger-like tails filled with poison. Tiana quickly loaded another arrow and another projectile of flame bashed into the giant scorpion. Tiana watched as the bug tried to fight the heat, rolling, flailing, and letting out its sorrowful screech. However, within the flame, Tiana saw something that made her skin crawl. The large bug-like creature began to change within the fire, it's body began to crack and bend, taking the form of man. When Tiana saw what the fire left behind her knees grew weak, and the feeling of fear lay in the pit of her stomach. The Scorpion man stood above her, its claws dangling above the girl's head. However, Tiana snapped out of her fear and loaded another arrow, the scorpion went for a strike to her neck and the wall of dirt and bug parts behind Tiana burst apart, revealing Cookie Dough Cream.

The Artificial Human known as Cookie Dough Cream sprung from out the dirt wall covered in grime, her schoolgirl outfit had become tatters, her face took on a wild smile with crimson-filled eyes, and her fist was equipped with three needles each. The girl landed upon the scorpion man, wrapping her skinny legs around its neck, and planting her needles into its face with every punch.

A pink sickle broke through a wall of dirt behind the scorpion man and wrapped around its body, the enchanted chain began to retract, pulling Kandi Kane from the bug wall's clutches, and the she-demon landed a double kick into the back of the scorpion man.

Tiana took this opportunity to load another arrow, "Watch out girls!"

Kandi and Cookie leaped back as Tiana let the arrow fly and it burst in an enchanting display of red flame. The scorpion man wailed, retreating into his bug form, and ran off into one of the walls where it rapidly built a tunnel and escaped.

Cookie and Kandi looked back at Tiana and Tiana realized through the adventures the three had built some form of trust, "Let's go kill it."

Cookie smiled, "hehe hehe, this is going to be fun."

"The creatures in this realm cause much chaos when it comes to battle." Kandi answered.

Tiana nodded, heading towards the tunnel, "Let's finish this mission ladies." Tiana wondered if this was how Juliet felt.

***

Johnnie True Jr. carrying Juliet Valentine in his arms reached the end of the tunnel to reach what looked like a massive forest. Johnnie saw mushrooms the size of small buildings, dragonflies the size of birds buzzing about, beetles as big as baseballs, grass reaching four feet, and in the midst of all this was a giant tree with branches the size of bridges.

"Johnnie!" Juliet said, breaking from the Werewolf's grasp, "I can feel my sword, it's somewhere close."

Juliet held out her hand and closed her eyes, she had to concentrate, the blade was near yet still a distance, "Just gimme some time."

Johnnie let Juliet concentrate and decided to explore the oversized forest, the tree caught his attention but as he walked he was stopped in his tracks by a deadly giant spider that lay at the base of the tree.

***

"I'm so happy we escaped the spider." Isaac said, walking on one of the branches of the giant tree.

"We didn't escape it." Shawn said, "We fought such a menace using our skills and martial arts, a fine tale to tell our comrades someday."

"Yeah," Isaac cheesed, "I guess we're pretty awesome."

"ISAAC! IS THAT YOU!"

Isaac looked down the tree to spot a figure thatseemed familiar and as the boy recognized who it was his smile got even bigger,"It's my brother 

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