The jelly mantia was consumed in flames. Vail lost his nerve, though,
so he
ran back into the house screaming. He went back outside and saw that
the
jelly mantia had put out the fire around him. Vail lit the all the
matches
and tossed them at the mantia. Now, both mantia and Vail were terrified
of
each other. Vail got over his fear a little bit and then used the
create
coin to create a device that continually spat fire at the mantia. The
jelly
being took two steps toward Vail, and then it melted into a sticky
puddle
with four large fangs. The fangs were put in the house and Vail went
back to
sleep, but he kept waking up from nightmares of sharp claws, large
fangs,
and a giant piece of jelly.
Vail woke up the next morning and used the erase coin to erase all
traces of
the fight last night, including the house. The exhausted fantosqush had
fallen asleep, so Vail cut off a small piece of the little blob,
thinking it
might come in handy. Soon Vial reached a really small town. He stayed
there
for about a week, getting over his shock from his run-in with the jelly
mantia. At the end of the week, he saw a Puffsnatch fight. Two
Puffsnatch
were fighting over an old man's carrot. One was apparently trying to
defend
it, and the other was trying to steal it. The defender lost, and the
old man
didn't have any more food. Vail went over and offered the old man a
meal.
The old man agreed. After the meal, the old man told Vail why he didn't
have
any food. He didn't have any money. He was a cheese cube maker, but he
didn't have his racket blade. He said he would've got it back sooner if
a
band of fight plants hadn't started guarding it. Vail didn't know what
a
fight plant was, but he volunteered to retrieve it for him, if the old
man
would give him some cheese cubes when he was back in business. The old
man
agreed. The next day, Vail went to the abandoned cheese factory near
the
Ashitayan woods. The factory was overrun with every kind of vegetation.
He
walked in and after walking awhile, saw the racket-blade. A circle of
small
trees surrounded it. He walked toward the circle of trees, and all of a
sudden, felt something jab him in the arm. It was a long vine that came
from
a tree. Suddenly all the little trees around the racket-blade pulled
their
roots from out of the ground, and started walking menacingly toward
him.
Vail had found the fight plants. He couldn't get out because some
plants
near the door blocked the exit. He had no choice but to fight the
plants
that were coming ever nearer. He released the power of the fight and
flight
coin with Splinter, and slipped on Power. At that moment the fight
plants
charged at him, waving their vines threateningly.