PROLOGUE
Rain was falling in the night darkened forest. The trees around the lone meadow were dripping water like ice cycles in spring. An all ready drenched ground was the perfect place for a seed to begin root, which is exactly what the large brown seed lying in the center of the medow began to do. The trees around the meadow were pine trees, their smell riddle the air. It was day's before summer was through and the leaves of Autumn would come again. The seed began to send up broad leaves not natural to this habitat. This seed was an interesting one having no nut or Barrie it was held in, where as all the other plants had something of the sort. This human-heart sized seed was brown matching perfectly to the clearings floor. You could see the white roots that were running into the ground from the bottom of the seed. The stems and leaves that had been sent up now began to grow rapidly. They began to intertwine with one another.
Now reaching about the height of an average height human the stems started to become thicker while the leaves started to shrink back into the plant, to the point they were completely gone. Arm like branches shot out at about shoulder height, pointing downward, going only about two feet out. At the same time the trunk of the plant had begun to split in two and formed appeared as legs. The seed had begun to sink back into on of the trunks and was now moving through the plant towards where a heart would sit. The top of the plant had started to round at the top while a neck began to form giving it the appearance of a head. If you had been a wandering deer or squirrel sprinting home to get out of the rain you would have seen what looked like a human wrapped in a plastic bag.
Water was dripping from a newly formed nose while it was rushing past the forming eyes. Then the lips began to appear as smooth as the steps of an old hard wood floored home. Curly vines were sprouting from the top of the head, a lone leaf popping out every so often amongst the tangle. The seed, which had now reached its destination began sending little hollow roots throughout the body giving it a way to transfer water. Fingers and toes were starting to grow out at the end of the limbs. If that deer or squirrel had stayed to watch this and get even more soaked then they would have been they would have seen the metaphorical plastic bag come off of a metaphorical human so that all they're features would be clear. But of course there was no deer or squirrel around as the storm was now at it's worst and all wise woodland creatures would have been in their dens or nests safe from this down pour.
This creatures name is Faunus, she is an Ajeon. These creatures are a combination of plant and human, capable of taking almost any form, communicating with plants and were given the gift of near immortality. The Ajeons have loved plants since they had first gained the consciousness of humans and while they were still human they spent almost all of their time trying to cogitate up a way to bring the two species closer. No one who remembers how this was done will tell any one so as to prevent their enemies of finding a way to reverse it and making them mortal again, bringing them back to their defenseless human selves.
The storm was now nearing it's end and the rain had begun to abate, Faunus noting the change gathered as much water as she could and stored it in her hollow roots and a large hollow where lungs would have been if they were needed. The seed would pose as a heart for her and would only beat when water was needed in an area of her body and in order to conserve the water Faunus would close off certain hollow roots and send the water directly to it's source avoiding wasting energy by moving all the water in her body.