ꜱᴄᴀʀ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋᴇʏꜱ

Chapter 11: Rheton

He held on to the nearest branch as hard as he possibly could. What was happening to him? It was like the leaf had cursed him.

Dirt began covering his face. It felt like he was suffocating, even though he was still above ground.

No. No. No. His mind screamed at him through the cloud of dirt. Pull yourself out, cut the vines. DO SOMETHING!

Rheton focused on the crumbling of the dirt and averted it to the sound of raindrops falling. The dirt had fully engulfed his face now. He had to do something.

He felt something heavy in his pocket. He let go of the branch for a split second to pull out a dagger. He couldn't see the writing on the hull, but he knew what he had to do.

He gripped the dagger and slashed at the vines weakly, they began slowly loosening. But not by much. He slashed the vines just in time before they suffocated him.

He fell to the ground with a hard thud and his chest was heaving. He felt like he was going to faint.

The world around him started fading to black, he couldn't do anything. He couldn't stop this. He had finally passed out.

He woke up in a bright room, with what smelt like plants.

"Who in the world ordered the vines on him?" a harsh voice shouted. "You could've killed him if he wasn't ready yet!"

Another voice cleared her throat. "Well, sorry, Juniper. I didn't know I wasn't supposed to keep one of them protected, I thought he was a dud!"

Rheton closed and opened his eyes. He saw a few people holding plants, and some with what looked like nurse outfits and military outfits. He sat up with a groan of pain.

He felt something prickly in his left arm. He looked down to see an IV in it with greenlike liquid coming into his arm.

The girl named Juniper regarded him sweetly. "You're awake," Her hair was auburn like tree bark he had feared when he was a kid. "Do you remember your name?"

Rheton clicked his tongue. "First and Last? Or with my middle?" He regarded Juniper. She looked like the head nurse judging by how the other nurses treated her.

"Preferably just first and last, but if you'd like, you can say your middle name," she put white gloves on and walked towards him.

"Rheton Seyword," he stated as he readjusted himself on the bed. "Anyways, what is this place?"

Juniper walked towards him and smiled. "Let me take your IV out," He nodded as she took it out and pressed a cotton ball to it. Rheton winced slightly. "Your in a place called the philodendron, it's a place for geokinesis kids,"

He clicked his tongue. "Geokinesis kids? What are those?"

Juniper cleared her throat. "You really don't know much about us, do you?"

He shook his head no.

"Do you see all these plants around here?"

Rheton nodded.

"Only geokinesis kids can touch those," she grabbed what looked like a snake plant and placed it near him. "We also have the ability to tell plants apart by just looking at them."

He looked over for it for a few minutes before coming to a conclusion. "That's a snake plant, but not quite. It's a hybrid of a snake plant."

Juniper looked amazed. "That was fast," she smiled at him and put the plant back.

"Is my sister safe?" he blurted, not even thinking about it.

Juniper raised her eyebrow at him. "Your sister? No one was with you when we found you."