John Carter 2: The Gods of Mars
Chapter 2: The Plant Men
Once John Carter ran as fast as he could while jumping into mid-air to find the Tharks, the green martian that he first met when he first came to Mars and Princess Dejah of Helium, he finds himself in a forest and sees the birds on Barsoom.
"Wow", said John Carter, "It's so beautiful."
He then walks through the forest, thinking to himself, "I wonder what this forest's plants look like on Barsoom."
As he looks around for the plants of this forest, he starts to hear noises that are not too far away from him. Then, from out of the ground came nature-like men crawling towards the earth man. There were about 28 of them with only one of them trying to get ahold of Carter.
"What are you doing?", asked John Carter and attempted to move four spaces away from one of the plant men.
"We are looking for the one they called "Dotar Sojat", said one of the plant men.
"Wait a minute", said John Carter, "You spoke my language and theirs as well."
"Tell us who you are human", said the second plant man.
"I'm John Carter", said John Carter, "I've been here on Barsoom before."
"How will we believe that?", asked the third plant man.
"I'm trying to find the Tharks", said John Carter, "They're the ones who called me "Dotar Sojat".
"It is him", said the fourth plant man, "He is the one."
"We have heard of your actions to save our planet, human", said the fifth plant man, "It has been a long time and we were trying to find the only one who can join us to destroy these Tharks. They have been destroying this beautiful forest with their beastly weapons and as long as they are terminated, we shall have a king to led us towards the people of Helium."
"And kill these innocent people who thanked me for saving their lives 10 years back?", said John Carter, "I don't think so. Besides, the Tharks have been my closest friend as long as I can remember and if you're doing this to save your own people, then you're just savages."
"Well, you are the one who saved a princess of Helium", said the sixth plant man, "Perhaps if you do not us, we would most likely to find her and keep her hostage until you make your decision."
"Dejah?", said John Carter, "She's somewhere far away from you freaks and as long as I find her, nothing will stop me."
"If you will not join us, we shall exterminate you once and for all!", said the first plant man and takes out his own gun, but before he could kill John Carter, a bullet came through his body, thus killing him in the process. Then, from out of the sky came the green martiantribe known as the Tharks of Barsoom. John Carter looks up to the sky and sees them fighting off against the plant men with their own sword as and weapons.
As the last remaining pant men spent their last three fighting killing off the rest of the Tharks,they were still no match andagree easily overpowered by the leader of the Tharks himself, Tara Tarkas.
"Who gives you the right to interfere on our territory, Tars?", asked the first plant man sternly.
"You have been waiting for the right time to strike another human who might look exactly like Dotar Sojat", said Tars Tarkas and sees the same warrior who defeated Tal Hajus after he killed the White Apes, "It cannot be."
"Can it truly be?", asked Sola, Tars Tarkas' daughter after she appears from behind from one of the Tharks.
"Dotar Sojat", said Tars Tarkas, "I cannot believe it. You're alive!"
"It's great to see you again after all these years, Tars", said John Carter, "Now, can you tell these guys over there to let me through? I have to look for Princess Dejah."
"As soon as we're done with these insolent fools, we will try to find her with you", said Tars Tarkas and kills the remaining two plant men while the other five plant men ran away before the other Tharks kill them offscreen with their gun. As they walk right past them following John Carter on his way towards Helium, we see the yellow blood on each of the plant men on Barsoom. We then see a Thern, a God of Mars, watch John Carter and the Jeddak of the Tharks walking through the forest before his medallion glows and transports him away.
We see the Thern going to Matai Shang, who had mysterious survived his death when he tried to kill John Carter's nephew, Edgar (AKA Ned) Rice Burroughs.
"My lord", said the thern, "He's back. John Carter has returned to Barsoom at last. He's at the forest of the Plant Men."
"Excellent", said Matai Shang, "Soon, I will make him suffer for what he did to our plan to conquer Barsoom. Send a giant creature to go after the man and kill him once and for all. When he does, tell it to bring me back his head."
"Yes, my lord", said the thern and transports himself out of Matai Shang's lair.
Meanwhile, while John Carter and Tars Tarkas walked with the other Tharks, they talked about Dotar Sojat's disappearance 10 years back.
"I was followed by a man dressed in white", said John Carter, "His name's Matai Shang and from what I've heard from Dejah a few years ago, he's a Thern and knew about my presence on Barsoom. He planned to have Sab Than kill Dejah Thoris and all of her people in Barsoom during their wedding. I was lucky I vanquished it, but I'm not sure if Matai's coming back to find me or not. I'm not sure. Don't you think so, Tars?"
"I think so, Dotar Sojat", said Tars Tarkas, "Soon, we shall make that Thern pay for what he has done these past years on Barsoom."
Suddenly, a noise is heard from the two and when they turn around, it appears to be a giant Triceratops-like plant monster with thorns.
"What the hell's that?", asked John Carter.
"A Tricerathorn", said Tars Tarkas.
"A dinosaur on Barsoom?", asked John Carter, now confused.
Before Tars Tarkas can answer, the dinosaur-like creature charged towards the group.
"I'll take care of this", said John Carter and takes out his sword, "You and the others run. Go!"
The Tharks then ran and are almost there out of the Plant Forest while John Carter tries to vanquish it with his sword. With only three tries, however, the creature uses its vines to guard it while he cuts off every single one of them.
"It has its own defense", said John Carter, "There must be a weak spot for him somewhere."
John Carter jumps to the top of the Tricerathorn and stabs it in the back, it appeared to have no effect on him and the creature hits the earth man with his vines and shoots his thorns at him. He dodged every single one of them only to find a scratch on his shoulder from one of the thorns. Before the creature can kill John Carter, another creature appears and attacks the monster by distracting him and giving him enough time to hit it with its head. Much to John Carter's surprise, it happens to be...
"Woola?", asked John Carter, surprised and the dog-like creature, who helped him attack the Warhoons, ran towards him before licking him in the face.
"Boy am I glad to see you", said John Carter and together, they jumped towards the creature and attacked it with their strength. He then sees a hole below the creature's stomach, "So that's his weak spot after all."
He goes towards the creature again and uses his sword to stab the hole, causing it to scream and growl in pain before it roars very loudly. He then takes out a few organs before it spews blue blood on his face and the earth man got on his companion before it ran very fast. They see the Tharks out of the forest and they walked towards them.
"Looks like you found your old friend at last", said Tars Tarkas, "Now come. We shall take you to a shelter where we'll be safe."
"Where?", asked John Carter.
"To the chamber", said Tars Tarkas and the earth man walked with the Tharks far away from the forest.
Sorry I took so long. I wanted to kill some time before I'm going to school today. I'll update soon, so enjoy and leave out some reviews, please cause' this story is lacking a bit on it's views.