Hiya, and welcome to chapter 3, first off, thanx to my reviewers:
Lucid03days: Thnx 4 reviewing! Ill e-mail Vash later, I need him for another chapter at least, check back at the end of this chapter, or maybe the next one, and the plants im talking about are the Vash/Knives plants, unless I say otherwise, sorry for the confusion, ill add that to chapter 2
Sephiroth1Ripley8: Thanks for the advice, Ill try to at least pay a LITTLE attention to grammar, lol, I hope you like this chapter a little better
Hint: to avoid confusion, the Vash/Knives type of plant is usually said like "the plant" or "the plants" a regular bush/tree plant would just be "plant" or "plants" such as "I like plants" or "I like the plants"
Ill try to keep it understandable though, but if your confused, that might help
Chapter 3:
"Hello?" asked the tall man, "I was just wondering, why are you so far from the camp?"
"Sorry, we just didn't expect to see anyone out here." Vash said
"What are you doing here?" Asked Knives, "Everyone else is down at the ship, with the plants."
"Oh that, I never really liked using those plants, and most people just drive me nuts." Danak replied
"You don't use the plants?" asked Knives
"No, I lived in the dessert back on earth, learned to live away from everyone else."
"How could you live there without the plants?"
"Ehh, no one would bring a plant out where I was, so I just learned to get my own food and water"
"You don't need the plants to survive?" asked Knives, with a keen interest
"No, I don't, no one really does, they just think they do" Danak said, "My father taught me how to live away from the plants, come on back to my camp, Ill show you"
"What does this do?" asked Vash, looking at a strange device
"Oh that, that's my water source." replied Danak, "Over time it absorbs moisture out of the air, it gets just enough for me"
"How do you get enough food?" asked Knives
"I have a portable greenhouse in the back, it keeps enough moisture to keep the plants alive"
"Plants?" asked Vash, "I thought you didn't use them."
"No, no, not those kind of plants, I mean plants like trees and bushes, not the kind everyone else uses"
"How can you grow plants in a dessert environment?" asked Vash
"You wouldn't think it, but there's enough minerals in the ground here to support life, for a bush at least, as for water, I skim a little off the top of my water for the plants"
"But the minerals will run out in the ground," Knives said, "You would eventually drain an area of its resources."
Danak chuckled, "You don't know anything about farming do you?"
"Farming?" asked Knives
"Yea, farming, you know, the growing of food"
"I thought that's what the plants were for, you know" said Vash
"Heh, the plants are good and all, but we don't really need them to survive, like I said"
"I still don't understand, how do you keep the ground fertile?" asked Knives
"Some plants can actually rejuvenate the soil" he replied, "The only problem is... it takes away a season to rejuvenate the soil, so you need a lot of ground, and..."
"You have to keep cycling plants so there's always something to eat" Knives finished
"Exactly, you're smart, how old are you? 11? 12?" asked Danak
"No, I'm a bit younger" replied Knives, with a smirk
"10?"
"It doesn't really matter, but my IQ is higher than normal"
Vash looked on, as he saw the unthinkable, Knives talking with a human. And enjoying himself doing it, must be the only human on the planet that thinks like Knives, minus the homicidal tendencies.
Then he realized it, Knives would have to heal himself, he would have to want to heal, and it needed more than him to change Knives mind so.
Let me know what you think, Danak was the main idea behind this story, well, the idea behind Vash's attempt to save Knives... please R/R (include all the grammar critiques you want!)
oh, and no, sorry, I'm not done with Vash yet, Ill e-mail him later