Chapter 2: Awakening After Darkness

Darkness… Darkness surrounded me. For how long will my roots bind my crumbling body to the cracked ground? It feels like something's calling me from the depth of the arid soil. I am nowhere, waiting for my veins to end.

I remember glimpses of the past, yet I fail to recall memories. My life force is dwindling and I'm losing all my mystic abilities. The hope that's inside of me is starting to disappear.

Yet. It isn't time to lose "hope".

Something's calling for me not to die.

I know I can't.

So I won't.

I still can feel worms touching the tips of my drying roots. If I use some of my life force I could call for the worm and command it to dig up the soft ceiling, a good amount of luck is needed if I'm to survive. So I can't mess this up.

– After a little while, the roots of the plant reached an earthworm, its ability to dig was extraordinary. –

Now I got what I need. Its commands will be simple, dig the soft ceiling and let air, and water through.

– The plant tried harder and harder to control the path of the worm, its life force getting even weaker and soon enough, the pale leaves will sear. A few moments after the worm was digging the ceiling, small amounts of water started pouring, enough to save but not to heal it. later it became worse.

The drops got late from one another. The roots got too weak to bear it. So it raised its little leaves to the sky, it went higher and higher. This Instinct to be afraid. To want to live. It's the only thing it can think of, and when the last drops of water fell, all of the life force was spent on growing the roots, but sadly, due sluggishness and drought, It snapped off. –

That was PAINFUL. All this hard work to achieve nothing. I'm going to die in this-

– suddenly a burst of sunlight pierced the roof. It seemed like the worm had been digging around and reached the surface. Finally the warmth and sunshine of the sun struck the little plant like a forgotten memory buried under the heavy pain of demise. And soon enough it realized something, it was in a large enclosed cavern with only one side that has an opening, and that it took a new form, the form of a beautiful daisy. So it licked every bit of sunlight to restore the life force lost in its time in the cave. –

I'm a flower? Hehe… hehehehehehee~. I had been scared by the possibility of dying, while I took the form of a low-life daisy, and now I'm enjoying my time in the light of the holy star.

*Thump* *Thump* *Thump*. – The sound of small footsteps can be heard from far away, from the side where the small tunnel exists. The cave's been silent the whole time Daisy was awake, so expecting company was not on the mind of the small flower… Eventually, a small girl with long white hair appeared from the crawl-way. –

A human girl? In a cave system that's as dark as the night? Is she lost or stuck in here? She might be useful to me if I could help her…