A Walk in The Woods [Complete]

Jaci giggled rather happily at her new perch, it was a strange place to be just sat on someone else’s arm but the big human was a strong one and it didn’t seem to be bothering him any, if anything it was something rather fun, though she did seem quite at ease around this hulk of a human, he didn’t seem threatening despite his giant size and scary demeanour. Though she just beamed happily at him at the words until he said hurt and she startled slightly, dropping off his arms and getting into a laughably amateur combative stance.

Though with the lack of attack coming at her she relaxed again, head tilting to one side before at least getting some clue of what he was saying, it was a question to do with the humans and her being hurt, this time her rather polished stick came back out and she used that instead of her foot to draw, trying to do her best to draw a person within a person. The inner person was mostly circular and the outer was all angles and straight edges, and had what looked to be a laser of some sort coming out of the right arm.

Then she used to stick to point. What she was pointing at was barely visible but at the edge of her vision there was a large burn scar along the trees there where she had fought the thing. It wasn’t quite what he wanted from her but she was trying to help him understand, though even if she had understood her answer wouldn’t have been too helpful since humans came from outside her forest. It was why she never left the forest via walking, just in case.

“See? Big cling bang! Bigger cling bang than big human!”

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She hesitated a while at the folded arms, unsure of just how much in trouble she was. This big human didn’t act right, it was kind of strange just how kindly and friendly he had been so far. It caused Jaci to relax a little more, maybe they had given up on trying to kill her here and were going to start being kind. Maybe they would actually explain why they were destroying parts of the forest. Granted, she doubted that there would be much of an explanation either way. Though it did seem that her drawing hadn’t got the message across, but she did have an idea on how to help explain. Though her timing couldn’t be worse as she gestured for him to follow her, and started moving through the forest by bouncing off the trees, catapulting herself rather quickly to the pointed out area and landing heavily just past the burned up tree.

Once there she scrabbled around, using the stick and her hands to dig and started to pull out, well it looked like warped metal plates. A little melted and twisted reinforced plastic or glass considering it was see through and tried to show Lettuki once again what she meant. “Big Cling Bang, it go” Here she started walking in a mechanical way. “Cliiiing, Bang” At the bang she stomped a foot down, and she gestured to the burnt tree and fired a small blast of purple ki at it. Vaporising the burnt section off.

“See? Small Human hunt Jaci with Cling Bang! Jaci like Big human.”

She gave him another beaming smile before stopping and giving an eep, rushing over to the tree and gently rubbing her hands over the exposed section of wood from her blast, talking the whole time in a soft voice, though the language was far and away different from the common one. The speech broken up repeatedly with little shhh sounds as if comforting a child.

“japachi moxt skjall. si tira ti jatil ekess ouith wux.”



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Jaci paused in her strange little act when Lettuki started talking to her again, actually managing to catch a couple of words that she recognised. Stepping back and pointing to the damaged area of the tree, then trying to take his hand and place it against the barkless section, trying to get him to feel the tiny amount of energy within the tree and how one could feel an injury without being able to see a wound.

“Tree, Tree hurt.”

She also managed to catch live and forest, and gave a rather sarcastic sigh. He was asking her to try and explain her banishment here to be killed at the hands of the humans for being weak and refusing to use the potential her father saw in her to his benefit. How to explain that after years here she had just come to enjoy being within the forest and had taken it as a home. So she shrugged, it was all she could really do

“Um….”

She started to walk back to where she had been drawing, hoping that he was understanding and needing some of the drawings to help. Returning to the picture of the happy home, she pointed at the dad, pointed approximately at her own behind and then gave a swift kick. Maybe he’d understand that she got kicked out.

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Jaci seemed to have a little trouble with the next set of questions, slowly scratching her head to demonstrate her confusion. She’d understood the question of him asking about others and the word home, she’d figured out that bit at the least. Was he asking if she had another home? Oh no he was with the strange log co. Tribe, he wanted her to leave so that he could let his friends cut down her home? Maybe, then again if he wanted that he could have probably just forced her to do so.

“Jaci home here. Only Half-tree and Stick here.”

With any luck that made sense to him, that she was mostly alone save for what would normally be found within a forest, though he might accidentally assume that these were people and frankly she was a little embarrassed about Half-tree. It had been a creation of loneliness that she needed to improve on. Though she tried to ask him a question, quickly doodling the logo on the current tribe that had been trying to get to her forest. A set of three circles, with contracting rings within each and the words log above, Co below. It was a strange tribal mark, one day she hoped to know what it meant.

“Know?”


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Jaci was getting a touch frustrated. The demon quietly swearing under her breath that this strange big human was asking so much of her when he had learned very early on that she was struggling to understand the words that he was choosing to use. Rather than try and make life easier to understand he persisted in his method. Jaci however had gone out of her way to try and make things clear for him. Worse yet he was talking about hurting someone else now. But the conversation rolled back around to her getting big somehow. Something about being big, or getting hurt on her back once more. She actually flinched back and started to get jittery, This human wanted the same thing from her as her dad did. He was going to hurt her unless she became strong.

But, he was smiling. So she wasn’t entirely sure if he meant the same things as her dad had once done. His face had never been smiling when he had forced her to try and unlock her potential, to manifest powers that she never wanted to use and was beaten for failing and refusing. Maybe that was why the big human was here. She timidly held out the weight he’d given her and offered it back to him. Unsure if they were talking about her getting tall as she had assumed earlier. Big made sense, but she didn’t want to get strong or whatever that was. She’d just like to not be looking up all the time when dealing with folk.

“N...No hurt back. Not again.”


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She seemed a little confused when he forced the weight back down and said no and tried to make what he wanted to do a lot more clear. It at least made some sort of sense to her that he meant hurting the logco tribe and not Jaci now that she thought about it some more. Maybe she’d be able to stop them ever coming back with his help in the future. But he wanted her to get taller first as well. Maybe it was a scare tactic thing. If she was as big as their stupid power suits, then they would be a lot less confident at using them.

“Cling Bang break easy. Hurt lots.”

She didn’t know how else to get across that destroying the suits wasn’t the hard part. It was how much they could do to you before you managed to do it. Though she mostly stared up at the giant human and gave him a thumbs up. He seemed to genuinely be willing to work with her on her problem. Maybe he was from a different tribe from Logco and wanted to get rid of them so his tribe was the better one. A small worried thought made Jaci think that this stranger wanted to make her do it, but she could feel out his strength from here and it was pretty similar to Jaci’s own Though she frowned and put a hand to his chest, realising how much of a well of power he had and startled in surprise

“zyak kiarf bekir!”

She didn’t know how to really explain so she demonstrated, forming a little ball of energy, pointing at it, then him and then exclaiming.

“But huge!”


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TWC: 3536