Chapter 29: Into the Enchanted Jungle

Chapter 29: Into the Enchanted Jungle

"I didn't know you had a garden, it doesn't seem at all like you though." Alice says as they slowly head to the built-up green house, Greeny being forced along but also seemingly a bit interested.

"I mean you have a fire fixation, and well your size along with what I saw on your computer, and I mean even your like and desire and stuff involving the supernatural, I really figured you where more a tech and computer room shut in type of guy." Alice explains her surprise, in front of the green house John turn to look at her and gave a tiny laugh.

"Yeah, I can understand why you would think that, but I like my plants, always have and probably always will, I'm a natural healer so I studied it and built my own greenhouse to well house my herb plants, I mean they can do untold harm and do just as much healing, it all comes down to how you use them and treat them. Its where I would come to be alone, to talk to them well plants can't listen or understand so it was more talking to myself but still, its my own little piece of heaven, my sanctuary away from the world and everything else." John tells her, a small smile on his lips as he opens the green house door but that quickly turned to shock surprise at what he found, instead of shelves of various potted plants of different heights and types with small nicely spaced-out creeper plants climbing up the back wall behind a small pond of water plants what greeted him now was more like a jungle inside rather than a simple green house.

"Wow, you really do love your plants huh, but how did you make it so much bigger inside than outside? That's sooo cool!" She screams practically bouncing as she looks around like a kid in a candy store.

"This isn't how it was; I mean its way to big and what I had was smaller plants, my biggest one was my citronella bush and even that was only just past my waist in height after growing It for a few years from a tiny little thing, well not counting my Elder tree that I recently got but that was going to be planted outside so it doesn't count, this this though is like a true jungle following the Tardis or Harry Porter rules." John says as he looks around in surprise, only faintly managing to recognize a few, the once small and medium sized plants having practically sprung up and changed like the rest of the world, the oddity though that puzzled John was why this one room seemed like an entirely different world even from that which existed outside.

Slowly making there way inside the now towering tree like plants rustling in non-existent breeze, the once clear and narrow foot path now earthy with various roots making there way over the floor, the once glass ceiling easily visible now so high it could no longer even be seen, only faint rays of light shining through the leaves, oddly none of the plants seemed to be affecting one another and creeping vines of various kinds gently wrapping around them in a almost tender like embrace.

John knew he had two choices here, he could have them go further in and try to find out what was going on here, examine his herbs once plants now trees and see if there was maybe an item or even multiple items causing the change to the space and plants taking a chance in his sore state and trusting Alice to take care of him and using Greeny as bait to get away if needed, or have them come back later when he was feeling better, the risk there being if the plants grew even more or the place expanded beyond imagine, or worse well recovering something beyond their ability to handle or face comes to take up residence causing him to have no choice but to abandon his garden.

No, John would trust his gut which was telling him to push forward, not only that he refuses to lose this last sanctuary of his.

"Come on, lets find out what's going on here, I'm not going to lose this place, Alice if anything happens, please cover me as best you can as we try to make our escape, Greeny I thank you in advance for any possible needed sacrifice that you will serve to buy us time." John says to the pair getting an angry glare from the fairy as she's dragged along and a laugh from Alice who seemed to be enjoying this darker John.

As they made there way deeper John examined the trees and vines, finding how he could still tell what plants they originally where even in there now changed forms, his thoughts on if their former medical uses where still existing and if they would be stronger or not.

As they continued further in Alice kept her senses about her, focusing on any sound she heard well Greeny seemed to admire her surroundings in amazement.

"The air is so pure, the energy in the air calm yet natural, how the absolute hell is something like this able to exist! And you want me to believe its your place? I don't believe you! Humans after a certain point only know how to destroy and nature is always what you destroy most and you're probably going to end up taking more and more form here feeding your greed and destroying it all like the monster you are without a care of what the plants may feel!" Greeny shouted, refusing to believe not the vast forest like place they found themselves in but rather that John was one who liked and treated nature fairly, what she received was an angry glare from John and being pulled close to him by the chains.

"Listen you, normally I wouldn't give two bits about what you say about me or even say in general to me with your twisted view, your anger and whatever about humanity is justified, but don't you dare think I would bring harm to my plants, they have been one massive constant for me throughout my life and always there for me so don't you freaking dare think I would bring harm to them." He tells the fairy heatedly, visibly angry at her for her remarks as he forces her down to the ground using the chains to pin and press her down and slowly tighten around her, if he could he would have preferred crushing her into the ground through some kind of unseen pressure but he would use what he has available to him.

"S-s-s-sorry, please let me up, I'll be good." Greeny shakily says and begs, visibly shaken and scared from seeing this side of John and resolving to keep silent and not poke the slowly waking dragon, wondering what has caused such a shift in him and if her own earlier comments on his softness may have triggered something unknowingly.

Alice though at this point seemed to be staring at John with stars in her eyes, a bright blush on her cheeks and wiping her mouth, her legs rubbing together and if John had looked at her he would see she seemed to be physically holding herself back, this new side seemingly turning her on and stirring something in her, right as Alice was about to say something a scream rather close by was heard, breaking the silence and shattering the mood, moving as fast as he currently could with Alice beside him, focused and serious once more with her knife drawn and Greeny shaken and dragged along.

What greeted them though was a weird sight, hanging upside down was a thin athletically muscled young man, a leather cap with googles, a brown leather jacket over a skintight t-shirt and black skintight jeans wrapped in vines that seemed to slowly be wrapping around him more and more as they held him in the air.

"Well I'm a cultured enough gentleman to know where this normally heads but normally it's a woman not a man, not judging though, I'm sure there's plenty of guys and girls into the whole role reversal thing." John says with a cold dark laugh as he watches, the vines though seemed to pause for a moment as if hearing him, the ground shaking as a large seemed to move towards them breaking the soil on it approached, Alice stepped forward her knife gripped in her hand and ready to lash out if needed, whatever was in the ground seemed to stop in front of them though, poking out the ground a large and thick yellow root to burst out the soil, its tips bending towards them as if observing with unseen eyes, then somehow much to there surprise began pointing with its tip as if telling them to go just beyond the vine bound person.

"Can someone please help me before these things get more touchy feely, I really don't feel comfortable with any of this, please, please help me!" The man seemed to yell seeing John and the others, the root stopped indicating at John and the others and he could have sworn it turned to look at the guy hanging in the vines.

"And why exactly should we? A strange guy tied up in vines in my former greenhouse. Clearly you probably did something to upset my plants or let by your lover who seemed to be into some seriously kinky stuff." John flatly tells him but a amused smile tugging his lips as a dark glint flashes in his eyes as he looks up at him, the root doing a odd nodding motion at Johns words before the guy seemed to be lowered slightly by the vines and roughly pulled backwards, taken in the direction the root pointed with a small scream gagged by a vine that put its tip in his mouth and filled his mouth, the root giving one more pointing motion before retreating into the ground and tunneling away.

"Yeah, no I can definitely tell if that continues its going to be a R-rated scene I don't want to see at all, but we might as well see what's going on, at the very least they don't seem hostile towards us so far." John says, slowly forcing himself to go the way the root pointed, chains set and ready if needed and Alice looking excited with her knife at the ready, Greeny though confused and slightly worried, a feeling of trepidation as her instincts where telling her exactly what awaited them yet remaining silent to avoid drawing John's attention towards her again.