Artificial 7: Genesis Requiem

Chapter 8: Changes

(Artwork is done by AI. It's Jeffrey.)

(Male Terra's POV)

The stone door opens, and we exit the log, walk through ankle deep waters, and stand before the Tree Of Knowledge. "Beautiful, tis it not?"
Genesis says as he plucks the fruit of knowledge.
"With this, I shall have the power of the ancient mages and herald the legends into a new morrow!"
Genesis takes a bite,
and Sora creates ice out of a mist that's around her and throws lots of ice at Genesis only for him to disappear.
"I bet you're wondering how I was able to get into this section so easily?"
Genesis says from a distance,
on one of the giant rock walls that surrounds the Tree Of Knowledge.

Genesis takes another bite from the blue colored fig.
"With this thing that we've been looking for."
Genesis lifts his right hand up,
and on the back of his leather gloves was a blue shining glass looking fragment.
"A piece of The Heavenly King Grimoire. Just even a tiny piece of the fragment is enough to trick almost any holy ground into bypassing most mental based traps. Hence, how I was able to get in here." Everyone pulled out their guns and started shooting at him,
but a barrier was castuch to the annoyance of everyone.

"Now that you know all of that, I think it's time we moved onto the main event." Genesis pulls out a green summoner's stone,
and it flashes a bright green light.
The plants in the area came to life litterally and merged into one kaiju sized monster,
roaring and spitting acidic breath!
Sora hangs back as we all bombard it with Pyro Magic or Lightning Magic,
or in the case of Female Terra and Zoey, use their demonic flames and lightning. The plant monster severs its stems, vines,
and other things that catch on fire or regenerate from being slashed by Ventus, Azura, Maddie, Glaciea, or Female Terra.

Sora launches a glacier sized ice spike from the ground upward,
impaling one of the three heads on the plant monster,
but it keeps fighting!
A vine wraps around Reed and Jeffrey as they get lifted into the air and lowered towards the jaws of the other two heads. "AHHHHHHHH!"
Reed screams.
Jeffrey channels his aura into his palms like a scalpel and severs the vine,
hitting the shallow waters on his back. "Hey Reed! Pray you don't come out the other end!"
Jeffrey cracks a joke at his friend's expense.

Zoey fires her gunblade and sets off chain explosions with a rune,
but neither did anything.
The next thing we know is that a flame engulfs the vine on Reed as he falls into the shallow waters then we could feel an intense heatwave coming from Selena as I turned to look at her and see her body bulk up a bit in the arms and calf muscles.
Steam is visible around her body as she aims a palm and burns the plant monster alive.

"Move out of the way unless you all want to be reduced to ashes."
Chase's voice can be heard from Selena as a loud humming noise can be heard from her as she opens her mouth wide as a small fireball forms in her mouth and gradually gets bigger!
Everyone fled,
and Azura froze,
causing me and Ventus to grab her and jump out of the blast radius as a large breath attack was fired from Selena!
The plant monster is reduced to a head from the breath attack,
but the stem of a neck dries up,
and the head goes limp.
I saw a shiny red object on it,
so I removed it,
and it looks identical to the one Genesis's grimoire.

"A creation of God. Must destroy it."
Sora and Chase's voice can be heard from Selena as she walks through the waters,
up the hill towards the tree.
"Ven! Grab as many fruits as you can! I'll buy you time!"
Ventus books it to the Tree Of Knowledge, and Female Terra possesses Alexander's body.
I step between Selena and the tree and point my sword at her as everyone stands there and watches!
Selena walks by me without hesitation, and Alexander lets out a demonic banshee screech,
causing me to drop my sword and run away,
tripping over a root in the sand!