Annihilators

New Moons Will Arise

Emerald had spent most of the afternoon trying to sneak meat out of the motel dining-hall. She had promised to gather food for Drakon, and too much time had already passed since she last saw him.
The poor creature was probably starving at the moment.
Sneaking food out was difficult, but not impossible. She went back in every fifteen minutes, saying she wanted to try more items on the menu.
But after the fifth return, the cook told her she couldn't come back.
She had to move stealthily then. She used her control over plant-life to sneak her food out of the dining- hall while the cook was preoccupied.
After many successful attempts, she finally had enough food to feed Drakon.
Formed a grass basket around the food she had gathered and brought it around the back of the motel.
Once she made it around there safely, she called out to Drakon.

It's safe. I have food; you can come now

In mere seconds, the mighty dragon appeared into her view and landed right in front of her.
She still couldn't believe she had become friends with a real dragon.
She'd seen so many amazing things, but this was something she'd never expected.

"I got you as much food as I could", she made the plant basket stretch out in front of Drakon so he could smell it.

She started to say, "I don't know if you'll like it all so-".

I'm one swoop, Drakon gobbled down all of the plant basket.
He chewed it for a few seconds, then he swallowed it all.

"Wow, um... okay", Emerald started laughing at the dragon's appetite.

She pet the bridge of Drakon's nose, and he hummed with satisfaction.
The dragon was ferocious, but at the same time it was calm and gentle. It had a friendly aspect to it, that Emerald had come to appreciate.

"Now go hide before someone sees you", she warned.  "I'll come see you in the morning before anyone can spot you".

The dragon hummed in agreement. He spread his large wings and flew off. He became out of sight in seconds.
Emerald looked at the plants she made grow from the ground to make the plant basket, and was amazed.
She just realized, she made plain grass grow in desert sand.
She touched the sandy floor, and wondered why else she could make.
She began to practice; she started off growing more grass. She touched the ground around her, and grass began to pop up all around her.
Emerald decided to go a little further and added dandelions to the grass. Before she knew it, she had made an entire field of grass and dandelions behind the hotel.
She decided to add try growing a tree; she touched her hands down in the middle of the grass she had grew.
At first nothing happened, but then rumbling came out of the ground.
Before she could react, an entire tree about fifteen feet tall had erupted from below her.
The eruption caused her to stumble back and fall on her butt.
She was discombobulated at first, but when her eyesight came to focus she was able to see what she had created.
It was a magnolia tree; like the ones that grew in her hometown.

'Home'

Emerald hadn't thought much about her home, and her friends that were still there. She had wondered if anyone was looking for her, or if they thought she'd just abandoned them without word.
It made Emerald almost want to cry; the tree reminded her of a place that she couldn't go back to. If she did, then everyone there would just be put in danger. She doubly go back now, maybe not ever.

"Can you grow Sativa too?", a voice called from above her.

She looked up and saw it was Ronnie sitting on the roof of the motel.

"What was that?", she called out.

"Can you make Sativa?", he repeated.

"Oh um, maybe", she said. "I don't know, let me try".

Emerald focused her mind and tried to create the plant he requested.
In a matter of moments, the green plant popped up in-front if her.

"Nice", he said, as he hopped off the roof of the building and down next to her.

She looked at him and asked, "How are you going to smoke it?".

Ronnie lifted his finger, and a white beam of hot energy appeared above it.

"Woah", she said, with amazement.

"Yeah, I didn't know I could do this either", he explained. "I think this comes from the energy I absorb from others. I figure out powers are growing somehow. It's like the more we become more comfortable with them, the better we are at using them".

Emerald shrugged her shoulders, at that point she wasn't worried too much about her powers anymore. She would have fathered smoked the Sativa with Ronnie. She felt like it would certainly take her mind off things, and help her to relax.

"I can tell your stressed", Ronnie said. "If you wanna' relax for real, I think you should go holla' at Lance".

Emerald became disoriented at his words; how could he even tell that she had an interest in Lance.

"Don't worry I don't have the power to read minds", he said. "I just get feelings about certain stuff".

The way he said it made her believe he actually could read minds. She left it alone and headed back around the motel room she was sharing with Sanai.
She had enough to think about for one day, and just wanted to relax.
When she finally made it back to her room door, the door swung open before she could even touch it.
It was Sanai, and she looked nervous.

"Hey, are you okay?", Emerald said with much concern.

Standing  in the doorway, Sanai looked at Emerald and said, "Yeah, I'm just going to check on Greg for a second".