Ace and Taro, entered into the planet's atmosphere and landed right on the surface. They both gazed up and noticed that the whole sky was completely purple. They then moved their gaze to the planet's surface and were amazed at it's unique appearance. The ground had this blue coral color to it, and the rocks and boulders were bright red, so were the far off mountains that they could see. As they slowly began looking around, not leaving each other's side, they noticed that there wasn't much vegetation, except that is for a few thorny looking shrubs. When Taro took a closer look, he noticed these odd looking flowers growing on then. They were purple with tiny yellow colored dots on them that you could barely see. He was about to touch it when Ace provoked him not to.
"Taro, we must not touch any of the plants, yet. They could be poisonous for all we know."
"Your, right," said Taro, retracting his hand from the unknown plant.
As they further explored, they came to a forest area, with these very tall trees. They had rather thin white trunks and jaggedy purple leaves. The fruit that grew on them were similar to that of a pear ,only they were pink. Most of the ground was now covered in golden colored grass and it was high enough to reach up to their knees. As they carefully walked threw it, they continued to look for any signs of life, but found none. The whole area seemed uninhabited.
But, it wasn't.
Deep in the forest, there was some new living being, that was hidden so that neither Ace nor Taro could see it. But it could see them. And it wasn't the least bit happy about these trespasser's. It planned to pounce on them as soon as it got the chance ,in order to protect it's home.
Eventually, Ace and taro came to a river. The water itself was clear, but the colorful rocks on the bottom gave it an interested rainbow color. When Ace walked a few feet down the river, Taro stayed behind for a moment. He stood by the edge of the river and kneeled down. He bent over slightly so he could get a better look at the glistening rocks on the bottom. He spotted a blue one that was closest to him and was about to place his hand into the water, when he remembered what Ace said about touching possibly dangerous things. He thought for a moment, but then decided that there couldn't be any harm in a small stone. So once he looked over at Ace and saw that he was looking the other way, he carefully reached down into the water and picked up the attractive smooth blue stone.
He held it in the palm of his hand, examining it for a moment, before bringing over his other hand and was about to touch it when the, thought to be, stone did something unexpected. All of a sudden, the blue object sprouted at least ten small legs and a small round head with three red eyes and two sharp fangs, similar to that of a spiders. Before ,Taro even had a chance to react, the creature made a small jump a bit right into his hand that he was about to touch it with.
"AHHH!,"Taro gave a yell of pain and slight panic, quickly alerting Ace. Taro instinctively stood up and tried franticly to shake the thing off that still had a painful grip on his hand. Ace reached him just as he was finally able to free himself from that things fangs. They both saw it quickly disappear into the river again.
"Taro! What happened? Are you alright? What was that?," Ace anxiously asked, gripping Taros upper arm with both hands.
"That thing…I thought…I thought it was just a rock, but when I picked it up it bit me," said Taro looking at his hand and seeing the bite mark that that thing left, which Taro could tell still stung.
"Are you sure your alright?" said Ace looking at the bite and sounding slightly worried.
"Y-Yeah, I think so," Taro said curling his hand in a fist so that he wouldn't have to keep looking at the bite mark. "It's very small anyway. I think we should just continue our planetary evaluation. So let's get going," Taro began to walk down the river, with Ace following after a slight hesitation. Taro, only tried to make it seem like it was nothing to prevent Ace from worrying and he tried to hide his true feelings as well as he could, because, the truth is he didn't feel alright. In fact, quite the opposite. The second that that thing grabbed onto his hand, he felt it's venom surging threw him, almost like an electrical shock. And when it finally let go he felt slightly nauseas and lightheaded, but that only lasted for a moment, now only the bite itself stung, which was already bad enough.
As Taro walked slightly ahead of his brother Ace, he brought his hand up in front of him, trying to make sure Ace didn't see, and slowly opened it up. He looked at the bite on his palm, which would probably be red by now if his hand wasn't already red, and for a moment he just stared at the two small punctured wounds on his hand. The stinging sensation was beginning to slightly spread and Taro breathed nervously as his whole hand now felt like it was on fire. Taro, quickly brought his hand back down to his side so that Ace wouldn't become suspicious. He tried to ignore the pain, but it wasn't easy, since it seemed to only be increasing.
Once, Ace and Taro came to a more isolated area, which was cornered with large red boulders, they were about to turn back, when Ace suddenly gripped Taros upper arm, causing him to give a slight hiss of pain, but was too low to be noticed by Ace. Taro, looked at him in confusion.
"Do you hear something?" said Ace scanning the area.
"No," was Taros quick answer even though he was uncertain whether he could hear anything or not, all he could think about for that split second was the fierce pain growing in his arm. After pushing his personal needs aside, Taro for the first time tried to see if he really could hear anything or not. For the first few seconds he didn't, but then he suddenly heard something like a twig snap. He quickly looked into the forest, expecting whatever it was to be there. But, after a few more moments of silence, Taro finally turned back to the high red boulders and as he was beginning to bring his head up to the top, something that was up there suddenly jumped down right on top of him, sending him straight to the ground. It happened so fast that all Taro saw was a black blur.