Gians of Giri

New Friend, New Enemy

"You want to try it again?" Mesan asked, confused. He was with Theon in the test girl gazebo. Theon wanted to try waking her up again, but Mesan wasn't so sure that his plan would work. "You do remember all those failed attempts at waking her up, don't you?"

"Yes I do." Theon answered. "But we have created life before. Maybe this time, it is possible. I've been thinking of the process I've used to make minds, and I think I can do it."

"Okay, then." Mesan said, taking off the casket lid. They had put the test girl in a stone casket so she wouldn't erode away and stay preserved. She was given clothes: a green shirt with puffy brown short sleeves form Aruki and brown shorts from Theon. It was a solemn time whenever they were at the gazebo. "Good luck."

"Thanks. I'll need it." Theon used his powers to create the consciousness. The bright light was black at first this time; it turned white and then grey. Theon lowered it into the body. The body started to glow and the skin turned a dark brown. Poofy dark brown hair came out of the scalp. The girl opened her dark green eyes and yawned. Mesan whooped with happiness and patted Theon on the back.

"Great job! You did it." He said. Theon nodded and helped the girl sit up. Her palm touched the side of the cactus and little stout fungi grew on the stone. Mesan looked at Theon. "What is that?"

"Um...mushrooms?" Theon answered slowly. The little girl looked at the fungi.

"Yep. Mushrooms." She said. The male gians looked at her in surprise. She shrugged. "I just know what they are. Who are you?"

"Apparently you also know how to speak." Theon commented. "And I'm Theon, the gian of mind. This is Mesan, the gian of earth. What is your name, the thing you want to be called?"

The girl thought for a moment. "Vina. It sounds pretty. Plus," She raised her hand and a vine came from the top of the gazebo and grabbed her wrist. It picked her up and put her down on the floor next to the casket. "I can control vines."

"You can create new life!" Mesan said. He looked at Theon. "Does this mean that she is one of us? A gian?"

Theon shrugged in response. He did not know. The process he had performed was not done he did before. "I guess so."

The girl, Vina, looked at her clothes. "What are these?"

Theon updated her on the vocabulary that she needed to know. Vina grew flowers - specifically orange tulips and blue roses - in the casket. She also created a huge flower at the top of the gazebo and the sides of the stone gazebo turned into its roots. She looked at Theon.

"May I meet the others now?" Vina looked at the mind gian expectantly.

"Sure." Theon looked into the distance. "We can wait here; Aruki is coming."

"Aruki, the air gian."

"Yep." Mesan answered. Vina smiled with joy as he patted her head. Aruki landed.

"Theon, I've come to-" Aruki stopped and looked at Vina. "Oh, hello! What's your name?"

"I'm Vina, the gian of garden!" Vina introduced herself. "Theon told me that you are the gian of air."

"Right I am." Aruki said, lifting Vina up with her powers. She brought Vina down. "And I assume you are the one who decorated the gazebo and is responsible for the flower on top."

"Yep!" Vina nodded in confirmation. "I was also the one that was lying in a casket."

Aruki looked at Theon. "Really? You figured out how to wake her?"

Theon shrugged, in a 'it kind of just happened' sort of way. Mesan greeted Aruki and asked about her business at the gazebo. "You kind of stopped when you saw Vina."