How To Beat the System

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   The girl had five Phantom Tigers surrounding her as Grecia lead the way over to the tree. Wisteria lifted her gaze to give one a glance, but found their expressions to be dull and only focused on sending the girl with the utmost security. The blonde ticked a small laugh at their seriousness before snuggling deeper inside of her new cloak.

The group stopped at the side of a mountain. Grecia looked over at the girl in worry before placing her palms flat against the rough surface. Wis rose a brow in question and slightly jumped to get a peek at what the woman was doing, but she was carefully pulled back by the soldiers.

"Please stand back," they said. Wis bit her lip before standing behind the Phantom Tigers, waiting for Grecia to finish. At first the girl heard the sound of rumbling and felt the ground underneath her shaking. If not for the soldiers helping her, the blonde would've fell. Wis quickly gazed to the female and saw that the side of the mountain started to crack open, moving and breaking apart. The surface floated upwards avoided their forms before officially making an entrance to the group.

Grecia called to the girl, "The tree is in here. Escort her inside."

They nodded their heads and let the human inside carefully. Wisteria shook their hands off her arm and decided to go explore by herself, ignoring the Phantom Tigers' worrier gazes. Wis walked on a crumbled pathway and looked over to the walls which were embedded with dazzling green jewels. Inside of this cave was unnaturally warm, so she lifted her hood down.

Grecia lead the human and made sure that she wouldn't get lost.

Since it was dark, Wisteria was just getting used to it after being inside for some time. That was until she saw something illuminating throughout the walls, making the gems glitter even more intensely. Wisteria perked her head up in excitement and picked up the pace to see the tree. Upon arrival Grecia abruptly stopped Wisteria from moving any further and pointed, letting the human bask in the scene.

Although the tree was only twenty feet up high, it's branches stretched out far and had peaches growing. The leaves were unnaturally pale blue and the bark had some strange markings, almost like the ones she had seen back in Deimos' temple. The tree's roots were long, but they seemed withered and a few branches were hanging dangerously low to the ground as if they were wilting. Though the tree seemed magnificent form this view, Wisteria came closer to it and felt the blistering magic that came near to an end.

Somehow the room darkened even further upon the group's arrival, but Wisteria paid no heed and turned over to Grecia. The female tiger swished her tail in an apprehensive manner with her catlike eyes darting around.

Grecia tugged the female's arm and whispered, "Please help us... we beg of you."

Wisteria patted her head in a silly manner before urging the tigers to take a few steps back. The blonde stepped over the swiftly and slowly stood in front of the weakening tree. She took a moment of walking around it, feeling it's energy somehow becoming fervently alerting before it disappeared. Using a finger, Wis touched the skin and instantly felt a shock running through her hand and up to her arm. She hissed at the contact and brought her hand up to her chest.

Grecia wanted to pull the human away, but Wisteria shook her head and stood even closer to the hostile energy. The girl inhaled to calm her raging nerves as she lifted both of her palms, emitting an unearthly glow.

The roots curled up and suddenly enlarged, growing their color to a darker blue. The leaves had withered even more and fell off the branches and soon there were new ones popping up more radiantly than the previous leaves, and the rough bark had cracks in them, ripping themselves apart and revealing a dark green gem in the middle of the tree. The tree had magnified itself and seemed more lively than it was before.