22- A lizardmen wilt.

(A. N. Pun with a plant wilt and a Person's Will.

P. S. Search waht a plant wilt is, it's basically a plant dying.

Sorry if the quality of this chapter is bad but I'm doing a mini internship because of my school so I've been kind of busy. )

-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_(Village POV) -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-

*hiss*

*glug*

"Ah! The river is giving me a vision!"

"The.... Spider .... is... DEAD!"

In a darkly lit room, a shadowy figure was heard.

*flash *

"Get your ass out of this room MADELINE ."

"But dad! I'm having VISIONS!"

"NO YOUR NOT! Your just drinking that stupid water while pretending to be the shaman again!

*Sniff **Sniff*

Gah!..there's barelly any poison on it as well! You've been skipping on your training!"

"BUT DAD!"

"NO BUTS! I'll be having a meeting with the village elders and I want you to stay here."

This kind of scene wasn't that weird in this village.....well except for the last part that is.

In fact ever since three months ago, when the shaman declared that the spider was dead it has become even more common.

"*Sight*"

" Problems with the kid again village chief? "

" First elder? My kid's delusions are the least of my problems at the moment. Jackal died last night."

"What? How?"

"How would I know? I sent him in order to investigate that green mass growing on the center island and see if it was some kind of slime or magical tumor.

Next thing I know, the shaman is telling me he saw him get killed by some random bird!

Worst part? He didn't explain shit and just left!"

Of course the village chief would be angry, while it is true that the spider was strong, it wasn't like the villagers couldn't kill it.

Their species bathed and drank poisonous waters for generations.

They cant drink nor touch the rainbow River's water but it's not the same about the less potent water on the islands.

The spiders only magical attribute, while still deadly effective, would at least be weakened on them.

This 'thing' on the center island? It's tottaly unknown to them.

"We should have just killed it when we could , chief ."

"Secound Elder, do not let your emotions cloud your judgement.

That beast was only crazy because it had not yet reached its third evolution, once it did we could have trained or at least bargained with it for its ability to heal the rivers poison.

Was that not why we kept throwing the sick at it? For it to evolve into a more healing oriented path?"

"... AHahahah, what does that matter now, chief ! It's dead, and it's body will only help another being evolve.

We don't even know what said being species is, much less if we can communicate with it!

"A most foolish decision indeed."

A person walks in, said person did not look anything like the other lizard folk.

Usuall lizardman or lizardwomen have hard and white underbellys, frog legs and arms that would not be weird to be from a quadrupedal animal.

This lizardmen had none of that, it's hands where thin and long like a skeleton's and there was none of the white scales attributed to a lizard flok.

This person was a hybrid, the son of a human and a lizard women and the humans genes ran strong inside of it.

"You agree with him shaman?"

"Most unfortunately I do, while on a normal time id say it would be best for us to make peace with this new being.... I recognize that bird."

"Is it dangerous? Will it attack us?"

"it can't, but it surely want to.

It has made a vow, it cannot attack another being unless said being is inside of its territory...

That or its students territory, jackal must have reach inside of the root zone."

"ah... I see, if we allow that thing to grow until it's roots reach our island we'll be inside of its territory."

"Indeed also that 'thing' is a cactus."

"Even if we can't stop the bird can't we just kill the cactus? Plants are usually dumber than most other beasts of the same stage.

It'd be even easier to kill than the spider for us."

"Not possible, first elder. Did you forget what I just told you about jackal dying yerterday?"

"Ah, your right chief."

Unknown to the three people busy discussing, the shaman was thinking.

'Hmmm, this first elder is a disgrace only good for his age.

The second one at least as an head on its sholder evn if... A little dramatic.

The village chief though.... *sight*... What a crazy bastard, I guess his daughter got her personality somewhere. '

"The bird will stop our attempts, while it's motto is to let nature run its course, it will not let one of its students die in an unfair fight."

"Then what do we do?"

The shaman looked over the village with a somber face.

"We declare war."

"What!?"

"THE FUCK DID YOU SAY!"

" What?!"

"Language chief."

"Who cares about that! Explain yourself didn't you just say that the bird would kill us if it deemed our attacks to be an unfair fight?"

"Yes but.."

The shaman looked at him.

"... You seriously misunderstood what an 'Unfair fight' is for this savage beats.

They will kill their family .

They will kill their species.

They will kill their weak.

And so much more.... To them an war of 1000 man to 1 isn't unfair... An assassination attempt is.

They fight for some reason no one understands...and when asked about it they'll just make a bunch of beep noises.

And that bird.... It's one of the most blodthirsty beast to ever be born... But also one that values this code of honor the most. "

" I see, you'll declare a war against this beats cactus in order to make a 'fair' fight.

This way the bird won't be meddling on our fight and we'll have an excuse to kill it and prevent the bird from decimating our village once it is inside of that cactus reach. "

(A. N. Ah! Fish in death's river? Don't you mean : lizard in the rainbow River?)