4. Training
Mizuki grunted as she sat under some cold water and breathed as she tried to gain discipline and control. She had come to this place called Atlantis, a lost city apparently. They'd been alive for thousands of years and there were few of them. The queen, Kida and her husband Milo, who was a surface dweller who had searched for this place and protected it from greedy bounty hunters. She was grateful that they had allowed her to stay and live here.
When she first came here she had been injured still from her escape from the pod. She had crashed on the outside of the area, near the caves and was unconscious when they had found her. Kida and Milo had taken her back to the palace and let her rest and have her healed. Which surprised her as she was a complete stranger to them.
When she had woken she found them and she had panicked and the plants that were around her had come to her aid and defended her, making her and Milo fall back and the guards go to protect her. But Kida seemed to understand her fear. After calming her she talked and explained what happened. Of course Mizuki had apologized profusely about the plants, saying she had no way to control her powers as they seemed to be tied to her emotions. The queen just smiled as she touched her shoulder and nodded, seeming to understand.
Since then Kida, as the queen asked to be called by, had given her hospitality and had let her stay in the palace. Though Mizuki was happy with it, she missed home and had a feeling that some of the guards didn't like her too much. She understood why, she was an outsider, an unknown ally or enemy. She breathed as she went and slipped off her stone and onto another before making it to land, changing from her wet clothes into some dry ones before returning back to the village.
The people in the village were selling there strange species of sea food and regular food to others. It was quite nice to see such a peaceful place, no war or heartless or darkness resonating in this place. Most of the people had white hair and blue markings on their tanned skin, it was kinda beautiful in it's own way. She herself wore an Atlantean outfit, which was a cloth over her breasts and a skirt wrap as well as some cuffs on her upper arms and her ankles while she still wore her black band around her wrist that reminded her of home and her friends. Her hair had grown longer in the months that she had been here, as it was now past her shoulders, one lock of hair having beads intertwined within it. She sighed before going to a small patch of greenery outside the village where no one would bother her.
Flowers littered the area as well as hanging willows which made the place majestic. She sighed before sitting down cross legged before sighing as she breathed in the smell of the air around her. It was beautiful here.
'Breathe in. Then out. Feel the plants and trees around you. Feel the earth around you.' Mizuki breathed and closed her eyes, gripping her knees as she started to build up her power, focusing on what she wanted it to do. Untrained she could do many things as her emotions ran wild, but with training, it was harder, but it got easier to control. No, control wasn't the word. More like 'be one with the world around you' or something. She could bend the will of plants, allowing them to do as she commanded, trees and larger plants were pretty hard and used up a lot of power to do so. She could make things grow faster depending on what it was. It was quite lovely to be able to make plants and food and such. She even gathered seeds and could use them in fights to help herself in other places. Like bombs and such. She had small bags of seeds on her belt and were separated by which plant types. Plus if there were seeds in the ground she could make them grow. It was pretty sweet.
Mizuki grunted as she felt power surge through her as the plants around her grew quickly and numerously. "Keep going." She breathed to herself. She would grow stronger, she vowed that she would that way she could find her friends and be their strength.
'I will grow stronger.' She thought as she gritted her teeth and lifted her arms slowly, feeling more power and more plants growing. She let out a cry before she lifted her arms up high and felt the plants surge around her, growing rapidly before Mizuki slumped forward and placed her hands on the ground, breathing hard.
The girl looked up and saw several tall trees, about teenage years as well as grass that was a few feet high and flowers in several large patches around her, it was quite beautiful, almost like a small forest.
The young druid chuckled as she went and sat up, sighing as she wiped some sweat off her brow. "Won't be long till I'm able to make more plants and make older full grown trees easily." She said before standing up. " That way I can be able to protect my friends, without hurting them. Without fearing that I won't be able to control my powers around them." She said. "I will grow stronger. To protect them and help them. That way they don't have to try and protect me or make me feel like I'm a burden."
She doubted they thought of her like that but that's what she felt like. She didn't care if they do or not, she wanted to protect them. All her friends and all the people she cared about. To do that required more and more training.