CHAPTER FOUR: PITCHER PROBLEMS!
-Ryoko ran further through the hive, and later encountered an area of the complex that was covered in green pants and vines. Ryoko noticed that there were many moor creatures here; this time they looked like pitcher plants with legs. The pitcher plants stalked about the chamber with a hungry, sinister look about them. Ryoko snuck through some brightly coloured bushes, carefully observing the plants to see what the best way to strike would be.
One of the pitcher plants managed to sniff her out anyway.
-Ryoko did a blackflip, and dodged the plant monster's bite attack. She drew her knife, and leapt for the beast, slicing it in half, pouring its digestive enzymes all over the ground. The other pitcher plants got ready, opening their mouths and charging full speed. Ryoko was ready for them; she jumped high into the air, and dropped a bomb down at them, landing in one of their mouths. after one second, the bomb exploded, showering all of the other pitcher plants in digestive fluids, causing them great pain as they scurried about, panicking.
"You guys are a pain in the acid!" Ryoko sighed, moving to fight the overlord of the pitcher plants.
-The plant overlord was a massive pitcher plant monster, made sessile by the thickets of vines and overgrowth anchoring it to the ground like a mafia victim tied to an anvil and tossed into the river. the plant dripped acid from the ceiling in hopes of ensnaring any unlucky mercenary who happened to chance across it. There was no doubt; this plant was a living trap, and the little mousey Ryoko needed it to spring on itself.
-Ryoko grabbed a long, firm vine on the ceiling, and swung down, kicking the pitcher overlord in the mouth, then landed behind it and stabbed it in the back; a white sap poured out all over Ryoko's knife.
"At least it isn't angio-sperm." Ryoko thought, shuddering at such an Idea.
-The pitcher plant overlord was infuriated; it swung and thrashed its vines about the way a child with a blindfold attempts to destroy a piñata. Ryoko readied at her chance; she held her knife in both hands, and waited for the biggest vine to head for her! As the vine reached for her, she batted it away with the blunt end of the knife, causing it to crash into a pillar, causing it to fall over and crush the pitcher overlord, causing it to moan in pain as it bled sap profusely all over the ground.
"You may have thrown some fast balls," Ryoko sighed, "But I hit a home run right there!"
The mutants now definitely had the disadvantage, but Ryoko was not done with them...not until Nana was avenged and the forests and towns safe from their attack.
(A.N: Sorry it took me so long to update, but y'know...holidays, people, that sort of thing. I got Bioshock recently, so I might write a fanfiction about that after I finish this and chance of eternity. Don't worry, this wasn't meant to be THAT long of a fanfiction.)