Sorry about the bad grammer on the last chapter, I was still getting use to things but hope you enjoy this. I'm gonna try to make chapter a little bit longer but for now enjoy the story and don't forget to comment about your thoughts about the story so far. :)

3 years later.

Oaks P.O.V)

Oak was in bed with maple, they had a long night from guarding the village from Hemokaies and then after that they were kind of forced into a party that Thorn had made, so yea a pretty long night. Oak was mostly fast asleep but he knew he had to get up soon since he's on early patrol. But when Oak was about to get up he felt something heavy on his chest, he looked down at his chest to see that Citus was on him. Poor guy mus of been cold last night, should of have replaced those heat stones before they run out. Oak slowly sit up while holding the small 3 year old Naga. "Hey there little guy, you good" Oak whispered to Citus who mostly just mumbled in his sleep, Oak slowly stand up and walked out of the room to let Maple sleep a bit more, he might as well get Citus and himself some breakfest.

Oak walked out of his bedroom and walked to the main room of the tree house to make some breakfest until he heard one of the hallway doors open. "Dad?" It was leaf. "Hey honey, try not to be too loud, mum is still asleep, also good morning" Oak winked at Leaf in a michievous way. Leaf giggled a little, Leaf always had that protective but positive personality. Leaf seem to just got out of bed since her bright red hair was kind of everywhere on her dark skinned face. "You want some breakfest honey?" Oak said to leaf who nodded in responce.

After a few hours everyone was up and Oak was about to go to work until he felt a small tug on his leg, it was Citus. "Hey buddy. you want to come with me don't you? I'm sorry but you can't come." But Citus immediately grabbed onto his leg with his arms and tail onto him tightly. Oak got him off and tryed to walk out of the door but as soon as he took a step he felt Citus on his leg again, so Oak did it again and again. After the third time Oak just gave up and picked up Citus and walked out of the tree house and onto the forest floor before heading into the main village area.

The whole village was inside the red wood forest, so most of the trees here were mostly a deep red color like they are stuck in Autumn. Surronding the village was tamed Venus flytraps, who know to let go if they sense wood elves in there traps or guests. In the middle of the village was a fountian with the statue of there village leader Sundew Sunray.

Oak started to feel eyes on him and Citus from some of the people around here, he thought they would be use to Citus after 3 years of having him but it seems like everyone was still feeling weird the Naga around. Since Nagas have been hunted down to extinction and Citus might be the last of his kind. Oak started to worry about Citus might think when he gets older, being the last of his kind, being scared of people outside the walls, feeling lonley and scared. Citus was also the most easily seen person in the village, his blue tail with purple stripes kind of make Citus stand out alot more since everyone mostly wears red, green or brown clothes.

"Hey Oak!" Oak immediately knew who it was, the jokster of teh village aswell as being Oaks twin sister, Thorn. "Hey Thorn, I thought you were suppose to be scouting for trespassers and stuff?" I said to her. "Yea and so are you, they sent me to pick ya up since everyone is so impatient around here, and hello there little guy!" Thorn said happily to Citus who looked at her with excitement. Both Leaf and Citus know Thorn, the first time they met was when He and Maple had to to go out for awhile and will come back home late. but when they came back from some Guards told us that Thorn 'accidentally' set some things on fire because she was trying to attempt to make home-made fireworks for Leaf and Citus. That was the last time we let Thorn babysit the kids.

"Look I might not be able to get to work since I got Citus here, and I can't really leave him alone at the daycare since...you know" Our whole family knew what happened the last time they left Citus, they left Citus at the daycare for the day. But when they got back half of the daycare was covered in overgrown vines and no one was able to get out until they chopped down the vines, turns out teh vines won't listen to them and so they had to chop down so they can get everyone out, people are still confuse to this day on why the vines didin't move. After a few days after the incident we found out that Citus grew the plants in a instant, moslty wood elf magic takes time and so was mostly use as traps than actual attacks, but Citus seem to just be a master at it and he was only a few months old.

Oak and Thorn begin to walk towards the scout group up area, everyone knows that Thorn was a jokster so they needed another person to comfirm that it's true or not. When we got there everyone seemed to have to have the annoyed-and-sick-of-this-excuse-face. "Oak please tell me your actually coming with us this time?" Dryad said to Oak, Dryad was the leader of the scouts and also Sundews second-in-command.

"Look Dryad I'm so, so sorry but Mapleis super tired and Leaf is at her school you know I can't leave Citus alone." Dryad just facepalmed and looked tired and annoyed. "look Oak, your the best we have in this team and we need you to make sure we don't have that same fire we had 3 years ago from those bloody smug lords, this had happened 4 times this week so you either leave Citus here or your off the team ok?"

Oak start to feel a rise of fear in his chest, it took him years to get into the scouts and being part of the scouts is Oak's and Thorn's whole family tradition, since his great grandfather was in charge of the whole group when there ancestors first moved here. If Oak is off from the scouts he will bring shame to his whole family and his name. Oak sighned and turn towards Thorn, Citus tried to keep his grip on Oak but Citus knew he had to let go. So Oak went out with the scouts leaving Thorn and Citus behind, hopefully Thorn won't set something on fire while hes gone.

4 hours later

Oak had his bow out, he was on one of the tree branches looking for any deer or other creatures to take back to the village as food. The rest of his group had already took down some deer and toom them back leaving Oak alone in the Forest, but Oak was close. He can hear the deer walking near the tree he wa son. Just when He was about to reach for his arrow he heard a struggling noise, he then heard the deer scream and struggling as a snapping sound was being made.

Oak cautionlsy got down the tree branch and onto the ground and then looked near the area the deer was suppose to be, but instead there was a small puddle of blood. Oak's heart was beating fast, he has no idea who or what took down the deer and especially when it was killed so quietly. Oak was about to leave the place when he felt something grabbing his ankle, he looked down and saw small tendrils of vines covered in moss wrapping around it. Massu.

Oak started to panic and try to get it off but more and more tendrils were beginning to wrap around his arms and legs, he can barley move and he was terrified. When Oak looked over his shoulder he saw it, the Massu's face was looking right at him, the Massu's face was the same shape as a deer so that's one mystery down, but now he's stuck and he knows full well that Massues never leave anyone alive. "P-please no! Not like this!" Oak started tp feel tears going down his face, he's never going to see his family, he cannot think of what there reactions will be like when they find out that hes gone.

"Drycha wait..." Oak and the Massu freeze, Oak looked straight ahead and saw anotehr Massu but it's body was more huminoid aside from having no legs and instead having tendrils instead, like it was wearng a dress. "I hope you have have a reason for interupting me eating this elf thing, you know it's hard to get a good meal these days" the Massu that had Oak said. Oak was so confused, he grew up knowing that Massues can't e smart or be able to talk, they were just mindless and heartless beings, but here right now theres Massues having a conversation right infront of him. "D you not smell the scent? the smell of strong and powerful magic?" The Massu called "Ivy" said. The other Massu moved it's head closer to Oak. "your right Ivy, this one has the scent of extremely powerful magic, more powerful than the ancient lords." Oak was hesitant if he should speak or not but since he's here he might as well. "W-who are you, how can you talk? And what do you mean 'powerful magic'?" The Ivy Massu looked directly at him with it's humen like head. "Your the one who has him don't you? You have the last of his kind." Oak was confused again. "You mean Citus? He's only 3 how do...wait, your the one who put his egg in the village didin't you?"

The Massu slithered over to him as the other Massu begin to ease its grip. "I did, and since your his adoptive father, you might as well learn his story."

Oak was quiet but he nodded. "tell me everything...please."