13: Lost Amongst Nature

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Lost Amongst Nature.

=Chapter 1: Coming upon beauty.=

Florandus Vindivicus had been tracking through the forest for a full week days now and his rations where low, conserving his food would only last him three more days. Knowing this he went out to hunt for something he could take with him after killing it, his mind settled on rabbit which would give him another three days. With the mid-day sun shining through the trees he moved through the woods spotting deer and birds, It took him an hour to see a rabbit munching on a leaf. A quick shot pinned its head to a tree root, he made a small fire using flint and a rock in his bag and prepared the small critter. using an almost smokeless bed of embers he cooked it and placed the heat disinfected meat in his rations compartment hiding it's smell. Safe on food he continued on his way through the forest when in the distance a deer was struck in the heart by an arrow. He watched three elves halt among the creature, bow down and speak some kind of ritual. After that they skinned the animal and took from it what they could carry. The ranger having heard but never seen indigenous elves quietly followed them. The four came to an opening where the spacing of the trees seemed odd, It was almost like the forest had a ten meter restraining order preventing its trees from growing near about twelve larger trees which grew in a strange curved manner. The track had turned mid-day into dusk. One of those trees seemed hollow, the elf's entered it only to appear again on some sort of wooden scaffolding a few meters higher. It was now that Florandus noticed the trees holding up huge flowers five times the size of an alraune with the pedals closing at the top. In the side of those flowers where wooden doors making the flowers look like houses, each flower house had a scaffold like platform. Those leading to another flowers and them all leading to the entrance in the tree trunk of the most centered tree which had the size of around twelve old oaks, but not reaching quite as high. The ranger was in awe at seeing such a beauty of a village, even better than in the stories he had heard from the occasional drunk in a tavern. Florandus knew how they saw humans as inferior and knew that casually walking into their village was not a good idea. He climbed up a nearby tree from where he could observe the village in hiding, reaching a good vantage point he pinned his icepicks around his sides as guardrails and sat down comfortably on a thick branch. He had cut it partially into a flat surface instead of a round one with his sword. The removed wood was jammed in between other branches and the tree trunk, now he had a secure seat up in a nearby tree where he could sit observingly for the next two days. Knowing these villages where deep in a forest he only had to walk away from the village to get out of the forest after he was done with observing. With all around him getting pitch black the ranger closed his eyes for a sleep.

=Chapter 2: A wake-up call.=

The next morning the ranger woke up from something touching his right cheek. opening his eyes he was met with a young elf around the age of sixteen prodding his cheek curiously. Seeing the man awaken the elf sat closer to him. "You are a strange looking elf.." Florandus broke a sweat at being found out this quickly. "y-yeah, That's why I don't enter the village. What are you doing up here?" The elf girl plucked his ears and her own. "Oh, I saw you sleeping here while climbing the trees. My mom doesn't want me doing such dangerous things on my own, that's why I'm here in secret hehe." The elf chuckled to herself, she then crawled onto the ranger's lap and touched his chest with her hands. "Whoa, you're flat as a rock. No wonder you hide out here, breastfeeding will be hard with these.." Florandus blushed and tried to hold in a laugh. "You must be a real smooth talked huh?" The elf giggled and moved her face closer to his in her excitement. "Then you have never met my mother, she's treat you like some human with this poor look of yours." The ranger was happy he wasn't a woman who would actually be insulted at hearing this, then a question rose in his head. "How do you think humans look?" The elf leaned against one of the make-shift guard rails and pondered. "Let's see, how did the town elder described it? Humans are all huge bulks of muscle and greet others by hitting them in the face, they also hit their woman for fun and the woman like it a lot. They are very violent and always try to rape a woman as soon as they see one. Their towns are also always filled with death from their constant fighting, but they breed like vermin so there are always more humans around. And they are very dumb, they need monsters to cook and clean for them because they don't know how." The ranger scratched the back of his head at hearing the partially bias description. "I see.. Do you think you'd recognize one if you met them?" The elf gave him an annoyed look. "Who wouldn't notice a fist to the face? I'm not dumb." Florandus chuckled. "I didn't call you dumb, yet I don't know if that description holds for all humans." His hands where suddenly pushed against the bark behind him and the elf girl stared at him with a serious expression. "Is your solidary life making you mad?! Of course those beasts are all like that, the village elder would never lie to us." She released one of his hands and pulled him by the other. "Common, we'll go to her and you can hear it yourself!" The ranger showed her resistance by pulling back. "I can't go there, they would ridicule me. I'd rather stay here." The elf pulled out the icepicks and pushed them into the young man's arms. "No buts, you are coming with me!"

=Chapter 3: A man’s last tale.=

Being pulled by the hand Florandus sheathed his weapons and after her trying not to be dragged over the ground. They entered the hollow tree and moved up a spiral stairway, The ranger was dragged to the big tree in the middle of the village. Before entering he could see the elf residents who had just woken up stare him down in confusion, luckily there where only four faces out of all of them who seemed to recognize his appearance as his true species. The teen elf and the young man she dragged by his arm entered the tree house followed by three of the hunter elf's, one of them had gone to scout the area for more humans. The inside of the tree seemed like a jungle version of a throne room with an old yet beautiful elf-woman sitting in the throne using some kind of magic on a flower in her hand. The teen elf caught her attention by storming in with as much noise as one could expect from the graceful elven kind. The elder's eyes grew slightly wider as she saw the human be pulled inside, the teen elf spoke to her while pushing the ranger to the foot of the throne. "Elder, this elf said your description of the big aggressive humans was wrong! She needs to be informed from the one who knows best." The elder looked at the human while saying nothing and played the flower aside, having the silence Florandus turned his head to the elf girl while the three hunter-elves behind them silently stared at him in disgust. "Wait, I didn't say she was wrong. I just said that description of being aggressive might not hold for every human.." Rising from her throne the elder walked down the steps and touched the young man's shoulders and torso, she measured his calmness and muscularity as she touched him. She then turned to her younger kin. "The sight of this man surprised me, It seems there is indeed an exception to the rule. Young one, this creature is not an elf. This rather weak and cowardice creature is also a human, yet he seems to be a weaker male. I must wonder how diverse their appearances must be if you where fooled into thinking this was an elf." The elder turned to the ranger. "How did you lie to her to make her believe you where an elf and why are you trespassing in our village?" Florandus Tried to follow her with his eyes as she circled him, but the elder pushed his face to stay facing the throne. "She just assumed I was an elf because she had never seen a human before, a-and because I differ so much from your description. I stumbled upon your village on accident and wanted to leave the next morning, I was then dragged here by her against my will." The elder looked criticizingly to the young elf and saw an expression of honest guilt, she then stopped next to the ranger. "I hear you speak with truth, although I would not recommend shoving off the blame upon our own. Had she denied your story you would have died a lying man."

=Chapter 4: Suspension of execution.=

Florandus gave her a confused look. "Died a lying man?" It was then that he heard a bow being drawn and released, with his reflexes he turned and caught the arrow before it hit and shot it back with his bow in the shooter's direction no second later. The arrow dug itself into the wood a few centimeters next to one of the elves face's. The room was held in silence for a second, before the elder spoke again. "That was very lucky of you, If you make it out of this room as well you are allowed to leave our village unharmed. Though I wouldn't count on it, human." The elder spoke and took the young elf girl out of the room, as they left two of the three other elves drew light swords that seemed to have been used only once or twice. The first tried to stab at the ranger, for which he stepped to the right making her stab miss. During moving to the right his left hand holding his bow pushed her throat making her gasp for air, his empty right hand grasped her blade holding hand twisting it making her drop the sword. When he released her twisted arm he knocked his right elbow into her face, at which the first elf fell to the floor. All this had happened in one flowing motion not even lasting two seconds. The ranger put his bow away and moved closer to the second elf who now held her sword in his direction. He grabbed the tip with his fingers without touching its sharp sides and pushed it upwards for his right foot to kick the guard of the handle into the elf's stomach making her fall to the floor. Florandus dashed backwards for an arrow to closely miss his face, he took out his bow and shot an arrow back landing it on the bow the elf was holding. The impact of the arrow on the wooden bow broke it in two pieces at which the third elf surrendered. "Wait, don't kill me!" The ranger put his bow back on his lower-back and threw the swords to the other side of the room, then he bowed down at the second elf lying on the floor. "Did I kick to hard?" The elf had moved from holding her stomach in pain to sitting on her behind with her hand on the sore spot. "It still hurts, but there is no wound I think."

=Chapter 5: An indeclinable offer.=

The third elf looked surprised to the human helping her friend. "Are you not going to kill us?" Florandus shrugged. "Why kill you when you're already on the floor?" Hearing that the door opened and the elder with the young elf came walking back in, she seemed pleased. She took Florandus chin in her hand and held it up to her smiling face. "Somehow you make an old woman happy, showing her that not every human appears to be some brute. Your feat of defeating my warriors without bloodshed let alone your weak eying physique surprised me even more. Had you fatally wounded one of them I would have torn the skin of your unpleasing male figure and healed my elves in an instant." Just as she expected she received a nervous chuckle from the young man. Florandus didn't know whether she was praising or insulting him, she might not even know the difference between the two. The elder released his chin and the young man turned to the teenage elf who dragged him here. "Is she your mother?" The elder looked curious at the girl. "What does he mean by that?" The girl giggled nervously as she understood what he meant. "N-no, that's my grandmother. My mother is even more like that than my grandmother." The elder looked puzzled at what she meant, then her hand held her face in annoyance as she sighed. "Everyone apart from the human, leave the room." The elves looked worried as the four of them (one unconscious but being carried) left the room. The elder now sat back at her throne and motioned for the ranger to come to her, with him at eyelevel she spoke to him in a strangely soothing voice. "you have proven your worth through your actions. As you might or might not know, our village is without men. We like it that way and thus it will stay that way, yet in a fit of sick humor by mother nature we cannot reproduce without your vile kind. I will propose to you what my mother proposed to a traveler once, you are to impregnate all elves of the latest generation." The ranger was surprised and wondered if he was just imagining this, he was about to cut in when the elder cut him short. "Only impregnation, once that has been performed you will leave our village to never return or I will smite you as you stand. understood?" Florandus being genuinely terrified nodded, for he would later enjoy more than he could have ever imagined.

Two days later he had fulfilled his promise in abundance and waved good bye to the elves as he left the forest for a new adventure.