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Over the next few days, while the group traveled through the forest, you honed your powers, RM providing guidance. He would make you talk to the trees and have them twist their branches together to create a shield, and then have you differentiate plants, creating concoctions to throw at your enemies later.
The day went by quickly, a set routine being established. After you had breakfast, RM would have you communicate with the plants and manipulate them to protect you in battle, while also having them go on the offense every once in a while, jabbing at an unknown rebel. You would practice this until lunch, slowly growing the amount of your power, its extent reaching new leaps and bounds as you strengthened it. Pretty soon you would be able to summon a tree branch to flick away a ball of energy without a second thought.
After, as Namjoon put it, "becoming one with the plants", you would then gather plants and smash them into a paste of sorts, your powers becoming an instinct to tell you which ones would help on the battlefield. You could not only use these plant mixtures to throw as bombs from hidden places on enemies, but you could also use them to wipe away infection from a wound, and help with the medical ailments caused by fighting. You were drilled over and over again on what each plant did, some which you had never heard of before until now, and what they each did when combined with the right properties.
In the dying light of the sunset, you would then have to call the animals to you, trying to strengthen a bond between you and them. Your mind was being stretched, trying to compensate for the mass amount of animals you were attempting to control at once. It exhausted you, but once you were used to the dizzying effect the animals had on your brain, you were able to focus. You would single in on one, making it do certain things, then have a group of them do an action. It required much of your attention, and that was probably the most, in your opinion, strenuous activity to practice.
This went on for quite some time, until you could do all three things with little to no effort. You would talk with the members in between the training, getting some small bits of information on the rebel's location out of them. For most of the time though, you were isolated from them in the back of the line with RM, practicing, practicing, and more practicing, until you were sick of it.
One day you mentioned this to Namjoon, but he waved it off, telling you that in order to win battles, you would need to practice even more. Pointing out that the energy was already covering all of your arms and starting to crawl down your torso, he blanched for a few seconds before explaining that you would have to have the energy covering your entire body. You could tell he wasn't exactly behind that statement, just that he was saying it to protect you from doing something rash. You were grateful, but annoyed that he thought you couldn't handle yourself.
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More days passed, and you were getting restless. What were the use of your powers if you couldn't use them against anyone? This question echoed through your mind every waking hour, slowly making you doubt RM, against your more rational side.
The strange sun was fading over the horizon then, when a rustle of a bush was heard to the left. Your head instantly snapped over to the area where it came from, tracking the quivering leaves that were making a trail towards you.
Scrambling up ahead toward where Jin was, you tapped his shoulder and said, "Jin? I think there's someone following us. It could be the rebels."
"Pshaw. No one would have the gall to follow our group. They wouldn't be able to stand against all of us, especially since the Everlasting Forest is a closed space, and they wouldn't be able to sacrifice many men to ambush us. I'm sure it's just a wild animal that's lost its way," he said, tilting his head upward in a haughty royal gesture.
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Fanfic"May I have your name sir? Mine is Y/N." "That's a pretty name. Mine is Kim Namjoon; most people know me as the White Rabbit, but you can call me RM." Y/N L/N has lived a boring life, going through the motions as a senior in high school, until one d...
