"Yes! Great job, Tak!" Flora cheered. "You've got the warrior's staff! With it, now, you can polevault yourself up onto higher ledges!" She then turned into her green ball form, and floated up onto a high ledge leading to outside the tomb.

"Try to use it to get up onto this ledge! Oh, and I sense a Nubu plant nearby! Let's go look for it!" She then flew out the window.

Kat mirrored her, flying up onto the ledge, motioning for Tak to follow her. It took Tak a little while to get a hang of the Staff's polevaulting, but was able to hoist himself onto the ledge after a few tries. Kat nodded in approval, and they both went downwards to meet up with Flora, by a strange looking plant.

"See this? This is one of the Nubu Plants Jibolba was talking about. Now, we won't need the whole thing," She said, pointing at the giant plant. "Just the little flower in the middle."

Tak acknowledged her advice, and snuck towards the plant. Suddenly, Kat noticed the plant was twitching. Her eyes widened in fear, and just as the mouth of the plant was about to close on the hand of her newfound friend, she screamed, and pulled him away.

"What the heck did you do that for?!"

"TH-THE PLANT! IT'S ALIVE!"

Sure enough, the plant started to move on its own, as arms separated from its sides, and grew claws, and the mouth of the plant became a head, along with the flower they needed becoming its tounge.

Tak suddenly wrenched himself from Kat's arms and ran towards the plant, striking it about three times with his club, but then getting a nasty scratch on his arm. He was flung back a bit, but then got himself back up and went full speed, once again, toward the plant. Kat had a worried look on her face as the plant suddenly began bulking itself up, as if it was about to charge up a huge attack.

Tak stopped about two steps away from the plant as it unleashed a mighty roar, and with it, a blast of white energy. Tak screamed out in pain as the white heat shot through him and sent him reeling backwards. Once he came back to his senses, his first thought was of how much that reminded him of when Jibolba had tried to protect him from the sheep spell. His second thought was:

I am gonna KILL that plant!

"Tak! Look! The plant is weak after the blast attack!" he suddenly heard Flora call out. "Get it!"

Tak nodded after his vision cleared, and leapt for the plant, landing a swift and heavy hit upon its head. All of a sudden, he heard a snap akin to roots giving in. He opened his eyes, and what looked to be the plant's back snapped, and its head was laying flat on the ground, with its mouth open. Thankfully, its flower-tongue was still intact, and perfectly healthy.

Tak was still paranoid about the plant, so he snuck up to it, and quickly plucked the plant from it, still watching the plant. When it didn't spring back to life when he expected it to, he exhaled with relief, but felt a sudden pain which made him collapse.

Flora gasped and rushed over to him, and placed her hands over his wounds. A glow similar to the one she emitted when she grew a flower out of the moss appeared as she slowly healed him. As she lifted her hands away from him, all of his wounds were completely healed. Kat then snuck up behind Flora, and tapped her shoulder with a sharp, metallic finger, causing her to jump, startled.

"Excuse me, Flora," Kat started, her anger obviously building. "Why did you not…"

"…have the decency…"

"…TO TELL US…"

"…THE PLANT…"

"…WOULD TRY…"

"…TO KILL US!?"

Kat was holding Flora by her shoulders and rapidly shaking her, the screen pressed roughly against the green sprite's nose.

"I…I didn't know! The...the plant just s-suddenly…"

"WHAT ABOUT YOUR WHOLE DAMN PLANT LIFE KNOWLEDGE CRAP?! HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW!?"

"It normally doesn't! It must've been cursed or something!"

Kat suddenly couldn't come up with anything to say, and experienced a horrible adrenaline backfire. She dropped to the floor, and fanned herself inside the box. One of her mechanical arms mimicked her movements.

"Oh, Flora…I'm sorry about that. I suppose I was a bit distraught. I mean…Tak could've…died!" Kat apologized, trying to make her outburst reasonable.

Flora nodded and said, "Yeah, I'm sure I would've too, if I was in your position to be his main protector."

They talked for a bit, and Tak was finding himself a little bored. He looked around the Burial grounds, taking in the scenery a bit. He looked at the flower, still in his hand, and decided to smell it, out of curiosity. When he got the first whiff, he responded with an outburst of:

"WHOA!"

Flora and Kat floated over to him and looked at his stunned expression quizzically.

"G-Guys!" He finally sputtered. "The flower…it's got this scent…I…can't really explain it…heheh…uh…you smell it, Flora!" He handed the flower to her, and she complied to take a strong whiff.

"Whoo~ BABY!" She exclaimed, floating around dizzily, but with an almost sickly happy look on her face. "It smells just like…uh…hmm…I can't quite place the smell…smells oddly like...uh…" She scratched her head to try and explain the smell.

Kat and Tak looked at eachother, exchanging confused expressions, then shrugged and giggled to eachother.

"But HOO BOY, WHAT A RUSH!" She said breathlessly, twirling around in the air.

"Uh, Flora, I know you're happy about the plant, but…shouldn't we get going to the next place?" Kat asked shyly.

"Oh! Right! Uh…Tree Village, off we go! You keep the plant, Tak. I'm sure you can keep it safe." Flora said, as she patted Tak's shoulder, and handed him the plant. She then transformed into her pretty green ball of light, and wooshed off to the exit. "I'll meet you two back at the village!" She called out to the two.

They looked at eachother and nodded, then rushed off to the exit trailing behind Flora. Once they reached the steps going down from the tomb, Kat stopped Tak for a moment and shushed him. They both looked over to the melon tree, and saw the ram he'd lured to it earlier, pleasantly plump and content in his melon induced coma.

They both stifled laughter, and ran off, shortly getting to the bone lift that would take them back to the village.

Little did they know, someone was watching from the shadows.

"Hrrgh…it seems the first plant failed to kill the boy. I may have to step up my plan."

"Don't worry about it, boss! We placed stronger curses on the other plants. Right bro?"

"Mmmeh! Enf uff heh gushm cugh muhrr, meerf muh nuh shmucksh unnuh duh flrr!"

"Uh…he said 'And if he gets close enough, it might just smack him into the floor!' Or something like that…"

"Well, it looks like you two aren't completely useless after all…."

"Hey, Kat," Tak asked. "Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?"

"No…why do you ask?"

"Eh, just curious…" Tak mused as the lift carried them both back up.

A/N: What did I go on hiatus for again? Pfft…I barely know, myself. But whatever, it's back again! Tell me how you liked this chapter, rate, review, all that good stuff! Oooh, and guess who's watching our heroes! Huuhuuhuu!

My opinion: I dunno why, but I feel as if some parts were dragged out for too long, and the plant fight was too short. Maybe the next plant fight will be better! Well, we'll find out in the next chapter!