(This is a joint post between Cinia Pacifica, Katsucha, BlinkXPoke, TheLoneGentleman, Gahald_Mills, and BagMan.)
Aoi ran at full speed to catch up with the other members of her group. Beside her was Sakura who ran with her, and she found Ing standing in front of her, Ine seemed to be staring at something from beside Ing.
"What.... is this?!" Aoi thought out loud, reaching complete cessation in movement at stared at the scene before her.
The chick was tangled with green vines and strange plants were... walking over it's body?
This is the first time Aoi saw something more crazier than the chick itself. To top it all off, it was all happening in the same damn day. The chick was frantically trying to move around, but it could only attempt to repeatedly clash it's legs with the ground.
". . . Chick bondage. . . ?" Ing questioned the situation without any hesitation, taking out a camera to take pictures.
"Is this the time to take pictures?! What the hell are those things anyway?!"
"Haven't I already mentioned that? These are the so-called 'moving plants' that are rumored to be in here. . . I can't think what else they can be."
Hiding behind a thick tree, Sono watched the group of four through the trees. He knew this forest quite well, and had no fear of being lost. He was too far to hear what they were talking about, but close enough to see where they were going, and tailed them through the woods, I better get paid this time, thought Sono. Hearing the sound of a camera going off, he tried to get a better veiw. He had seen the chick before, but now it was all tangled up in vines. He figured that it was Amelia who was responsible for this. It turned out to be a perfect distraction and he looked for a perfect position to start working from.
"Guys don't you think we should help it?!" Sakura said, scared from the very strange sight. Looking at the peculiar sight of the strangest plants ever keeping a chick tangled u, but she still felt sorry for the chick that chased after them earlier, perhaps because Sakura likes animals a lot.
"Yeah, we should!" Ing said in excitement while putting his camera back in his pocket and he continued to search inside his pocket.
"E-Even if you say that... look!" Aoi pointed towards the things that walked around the chick - all over the scene.
There were strange-looking flowers with mouths, fangs were visible from their mouths. Trees with mouths had their roots disrupting the chick's movements, and there were strange plant-like things that couldn't even be described, but they were the most grotesque things that Aoi ever saw... "Are those some kind of beetles... ? Ew, saliva is dropping from their mouths!" she noted, but what she didn't notice was that a leaf was burned to nothing with said saliva.
Shouta peeked out from where he was hiding, hearing three voices. Two of them, he recognized: they were Sakura and Aoi. The third was a male voice he doesn't remember hearing. He saw the three observing the chick entangled in some strange kind of vines, and other flowers and trees with mouths, intent on eating the chick. Ew... What is with this forest? Giant birds and, now, carnivorous plants, seriously!? was Shouta's first reaction, but afterwards thought, The chick is in trouble, though, I can't just leave it to die! What are those guys doing?
"We'd just get caught in the plants like that chick if we went to help" Said Ine, downcast. She couldn't stand watching something in so much pain. "This is too cruel"
Aoi peered towards the student who seemed to be appearing from the other side. She stared until realizing it was Shouta, What's he doing here?! she thought, then looked around, He's better off from being here... then it seemed like Sakura made a strange sound, so her attention was diverted.
D-Don't you have you an invention that could help it Kouzuki-san!!"
"I have, but it's still in the experimental stage," Ing pulled out a relatively large lighter, and continued, "This was supposed to shoot out fire but. . ." Ing opened the lighter, bubbles started to spew out, "That happens. . ." He sighed.
"Are you kidding me...?" Shouta hadn't realized he had said that out loud, it was too absurd seeing a lighter which was that much of a failure. "A lighter that blows bubbles...?" he said as he walked over to the group.
"What are you doing here?" Aoi almost shouted, unable to control her tone of voice due to the situation, Shouta replied with a "Does that even matter now?"
Ing casually ignored Shouta despite noting that it was him who the chick went after; glad that he's safe, and went on with what was talking about earlier, "Yeah, it was supposed to blow fire out, but bubbles comes out instead... basically, it's an incomplete invention. Hahaha~" Ing laughed lightly and put his invention back in his pocket.
"I think we should just run back to the school then! If we can't do anything, surely the teachers can! We aren't gonna be able to do anything at this rate, other than become plant's food."
"And leave this poor chick here?" Asked Ine "too cruel" She mumbled again.
"By the time we run to the school it might be too late! We have to do something now!" Sakura said as she couldn't stand the idea of the chick being eaten by that monster plant.
"Say that after you know what to do about it!" Aoi retorted, "Because if we knew the answer, we wouldn't be arguing to begin with, right?!"
"Aoi-san" said Ine, downhearted "We can't just do nothing though" She remarked.
"Exactly my point... " Aoi looked down, it's pointless arguing with them, What's there that we can do, honestly?