I'm gonna keep writing in first person, and I need your opinion on something. Should I give Sequoia an archenemy? Or just keep going like I am? It's hard to write a story without an antagonist. And even if I did make one he/she wouldn't show up for several chapters since I got stuff to do first. Anyways, grab your down feathers and prepare for the chapter!

(Sequoia's POV)

All I could see was pink. I figured that a flower had landed on my face so I tried brushing it off, and my vision cleared for a second and then the pink was back. I felt around my face until I felt a tiny stem right between my eyebrows. I plucked it from my face and my vision cleared up. It was a huge flower, and it was a horrendous shade of pink. If I didn't enjoy nature so much I would have crushed it. But I liked nature so I set it in a glass of water. My arm had fallen asleep during my slumber so I shook it awake. I got up, donned my leafy toga, and went to the breakfast table, which was made when I was turned mortal since apparently my body requires food. I could only eat meat since everything else was made from some kind of plant, and nobody could harm plants without incurring the wrath of Viridi. I grabbed some sausage and bacon, then sat down. I bit a piece of the bacon off and swallowed, only for it to immediately rise back up my throat. I kept trying to swallow but it kept on coming back up.

"What the..."

I spit it out, dumped my food in the trash bin, and went outside. I sat down in the shade while my stomach protested the lack of food. I tried to get my mind off of it and went for a walk in the garden. Sunlight shined down from the sky, landing on a small leaf on my shoulder. Immediately I felt some of my hunger go away. Intrigued, I sat down for about half an hour until I wasn't hungry anymore. Then it started raining. I just shrugged and let it rain, and the small droplets of water that hit me were immediately absorbed by my skin. I did not understand this at all, but Tages had my back.

"You're a plant. That's hilarious considering your name."

"Seriously? Is this because of that seed?"

"Probably."

I groaned and walked inside, but not without noticing a foreign feeling in my arm. I touched it and nearly screamed at what I felt. There was bark. GROWING ON ME!

"Holy-"

"Don't curse, remember last time?"

"Oh yeah."

I didn't want to deal with this now, so I just went back to bed, and what I woke up to was some of the scariest shit I had ever seen, and I was literally born and raised in the underworld. All of my skin save for my face was bark, pure bark. My fingers were small, sharp branches and my toes were the same. I could move around, but it was scary to me, probably since I had gone from being an angel to being a tree in less then a year. At least I lived longer now. But the pink flowers sprouting on my arms were less than enjoyable. I went back out into the rain, which was pouring much harder now, but then all of a sudden it stopped. The clouds that had once held the rain were now glowing at irregular intervals and sparking. I heard booming thunder shortly before a zigzagging blue streak came out of the clouds and hit me. My new bark skin lit ablaze very fast. I panicked and ran around batshit crazy since whenever I tried the pat the flames out they would just burn more.

"TAGES!"

"Try depriving the reaction of oxygen, no wait you produce oxygen now... Water! Get water!"

I ran and jumped into the nearby lake, which Viridi made for the plants that needed to be near a body of water. As soon as I hit the water, my legs began to grow very tall until I touched the bottom of the lake. Then roots spread out from the part of my legs that was above the water until there was a cluster of semi-entangled roots holding me above the water. The leaves that had sprouted on me turned a bit darker shade of green as the roots supporting me burrowed into the bottom of the lake to support me. Viridi had apparently heard me screaming and had rushed outside.

"Sequoia, why are you in the lake, and why are you a mangrove tree?"

I didn't really have an answer to her second question, so I just told her what happened.

"Lightning struck me, then I caught fire, panicked and jumped in the lake to dowse the flames. And now I'm a tree!"

"That's both hilarious and amazing."

I just frowned as the roots retracted at blazing speed, causing my to fall into the lake, making Viridi laugh like a madman. I swam out and as soon as I hit land my leaves returned to their sequoia tint of green.

"Hilarious," I said in the most sarcastic tone I could possibly muster.

I walked inside and went back to bed, which was beginning to become the solution to all my problems. I woke up after a good 14-minute sleep and tried experimenting with my new tree stuff. By sundown I was temporarily blind in my right eye. I don't even know how. I got sleepy, and my legs merged together and formed a large tree trunk, then stretched high into the air. Branches and leaves stretched out into the air near the top of the trunk as my body turned into a sequoia semperviren while I slept. It was surprising comfy being a tree. I dozed off to a dreamless slumber. When I woke, Tages wanted to do some experiments.

(Tages' POV)

The reaction Sequoia had to the lake was truly amazing. I suspected that the seed in his forearm recognized the different environment and changed accordingly. Perhaps if I have him ascend to a high altitude another form will appear. Sequoia could stretch his roots very far, so I had him grow his legs and arms fifteen meters tall.

"Alright, Viridi has graciously supplied us with a mountain for our little experiment, so climb until I say stop."

Viridi had made a platform stick out from the side of the mountain every thousand feet, so I had Sequoia climb until he reached the 11th platform. As soon as he set foot on the platform h me shrunk until he was a total of fifteen meters tall, then his legs merged to form a trunk of 1.5 meters. Then a cone of branches that had short pine needles jutting out occupied the branches. The bark on him turned grey-brown as his toes became roots and dug into the ground.

"Pinus aristata"

As usual, Sequoia's small intellect couldn't process what I said.

"What?"

"It's the tree you are now, also known as a Bristlecone Pine, a tree that grows at a maximum of 11,000 feet."

"Oh, so can we leave now?"

"Of course not, I still have tests to do. How's your breathing? Is it hard to breathe?"

"No."

Weird, he shouldn't be able to breathe well, we are a little over two miles up. Wait, I forgot, he now creates his own oxygen supply. I wonder if he could survive in space? Probably not, the air would be sucked away immediately.

"Thank you, now climb down, we'll test more tomorrow."

Goldengear9: Thanks for leaving a review, and for being the first to ever review, follow, or favorite any of my stories! And nice guess!

I'm feeling very well with this chapter, and expect more tree forms later! I might change his name for each tree. Prolly not.

RagedCagedPenguin waddles into the sunset...