Adventure in the Land of Illusions

Chapter 12

Once you were out of the room, you were greeted to a forest of trees instead of a town like you thought. You looked around confused before turning to Reisen II.

"Hey, I thought you said we were in the capital, but there's only trees around here." You pointed out.

"Did I say we were in the Capital?" She asked and you nodded your head. "My bad then. I meant that we're near the capital. We're actually in the Sea of Serenty."

"A sea? But there's nothing but trees." You said looking at all the trees that are on the moon.

"It's just what we named it okay." She said as you shrugged your shoulders. 

"Alright. If you say so." You said before you started to walk in a random direction.

"Where are you going?" She asked.

"We aren't getting anywhere by standing so I took the intiative." You said while still walking.

"That's the wrong way." She said. You stopped and turned around headed the other way. She sighed and followed after you. The two of you walked for quite some time as you saw nothing but tree after tree.

"So how many 'seas' does the moon have? We've past nothing but trees, so I can't tell if we're still in the first one or not." You asked.

"There's four seas. The Sea of Serenity, the Sea of Rains, and the Ocean of Storms." She said as you withheld a comment on the last one not being a sea. " After the Ocean of Storms is Mare Ingenii, or you can call it the Sage's Sea. We're currently walking through the Sea of Rains right now." She said as you sighed. Something then caught your attention as you left Reisen II by herself. "Come on, we're almost there." She tried to encourage you, but when you didn't reply, she looked back. "(Y/N)?"

She looked around until she saw you staring at a tree. "What are you doing?" She asked.

"I'm hungry and there's peaches in this tree. I haven't eaten since I was with Yuyako and Yuumo and Yuyako ate my food." You said while picking a peach and taking a bite. "Wow, these are delicious. Want one?"

"No, now come on. We're almost to the capital." She said.

"Come on, you know you want one." You said while holding out the peach. She huffed, but took one anyways.

"Alright, let's get walking. We still have some ground to cover." She said before walking away.

"I thought you said we were almost there." You said while taking another bite of your peach.

"We are!" She said. You laughed at her and continued to walk through the never ending seas of trees. At some point, there were no more peach trees and only another type.

"Hey, isn't that... uh... which one is that again?" You racked your brain as you tried to remember what kind of tree it was.

"That's the Udogon tree." Reisen II answered.

"Oh, I know about that one. It's said that flowers bloom every three thousand years." You said.

"That's right." She said.

"You know, we got this tree back on earth, called the Sandbox tree. The bark is covered in cone shaped spikes. The fruit that grows on the tree also explodes and launch their seeds when it reaches full maturity." You told her. "The seeds reach a speed of up to 150 miles or 241.5 km."

"Thats' uh..." She was confused on what to say.

"You can't even eat the fruit either." You interrupted. "The fruit is poisonous and causes vomiting, diarrhea, and cramps if ingested. The tree sap is said to cause an angry red rash, and it can blind you if it gets in your eyes."