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Amaterasu could feel her heart sink upon seeing the “Plant Temple”. It had brightened her spirit thinking that there was some life on this meat ship. This was not what she was picturing at all when she heard ‘temple’! She imagined it to be a shine of lush green foliage with little song birds and colorful flowers, a refuge of untouched nature, but It was just a sea of vines and scruffy undergrowth. Even so, this was far better than having no growth at all. The condition of the rest of the ship was far worse than this place.

As she journeyed across the ship to reach the temple the sun goddess witnessed the extent of the defoliation. Amongst the twisted, mismatched buildings and houses were patches of brown scraggily grass and shabby shrubs. Hardly anything to rave about and it did nothing to brighten up the place. The ship felt so dull and stagnate. There was a river to break up the vast expanse of brown. Well if you wanted to call that a river. Sure, it flowed like one, but where were the cattails and the water lilies? It was just as barren as the rest of the ship. She wondered if the inhabitants could remember the feel of fresh green grass between their toes or the sweet aroma of a flower.

This was not expectable in the least. Something had to be done. The condition of this place was far worse than that of Nippon. The goddess would have to make everything herself. That was going to require great amount of her spiritual power, but she could do it. She had to.

Amaterasu narrowed her eyes with new found determination and she set off to work, starting with this river. With a flick of her tail there was an eruption of flora. The once barren shore was now covered in reeds, cattails, and weeping willows that gracefully arced over the water casting their shadows. This was only the beginning. Ammy raced through the ship as a tidal wave of green was left in her wake. Tirelessly she worked through the late hours. When the inhabitant woke up it must have been quite a sight. Seemingly over the night the ship had exploded with color. Where there were once bare patches of earth was now covered with grassland and trees of all shapes and sizes. And the flowers! Oh there were flowers everywhere! Around a nearly formed meadow was a ringlet of trees and sitting in the middle was an enormous cherry tree in full bloom. Its soft pink petals fell like snow in the breeze. Sitting at the base was one very tired looking white wolf. It had taken everything the deity had, but she did it. She panted happily as she lay in the grass, she just needed to close her eyes for a bit...

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Arika looks upon the large full-bloom cherry tree, a sort of expression of awe upon her usually somewhat sedated of expression face. The corners of her mouth quirk slightly, pleased by such a lovely sight upon such a strange ship.

She notices the wolf lying down near the base, looking incredibly exhausted. She steps towards the tree for a closer look, careful to move her low-heeled shoes quietly through the grass so as to not disturb the tired creature.

Amaterasu could sense someone approaching her. Lazily ey crasked open an eye seeing the newcomer. Did she come to admire her work? She was too tired to give the girl a proper greeting. Instead her tail just wagged a bit as she panted.

Arika crept carefully to the tree, stepping over the roots poking out of the ground to circle the magnificent subject. She has never quite seen a tree such as this. Not with the bright petals upon the blossoms. Not with the healthy buds that are still blooming.

It is an example of nature's best work, surely.

Amaterasu watched the girl as she stared at the tree with wonder. She must like her tree and that made the goddess happy. Getting to her paws the white wolf trotted up to the girl and flopped down in front of her, panting happily and barked.

Arika is slightly startled by the creature's coming up to her, but she judges that the wolf isn't feral, since a feral wolf would've attacked her head-on. Arika elegantly bows over slightly and smooths back the fur atop the wolf's head, smiling slightly.

Nanashi had caught glimpses of the wolf running, covering things with flowers. She came back now that she had time to afford and began searching for the wolf. Even with her stilettos she moved across the grass of the temple with ease. The harsh white of her skin and the cold black of her clothes made her seem out of place in this world of natural beauty, but that did not seem to bother her as she wandered through slowly, stopping to smell the flowers as she went.

She gasped, seeing the beauty of the cherry tree. She had only seen them herself upon occasion, though painters had been hired to replicate them in several places throughout the castle, but the dull pigments poorly captured their beauty. She noticed the tired wolf next, her heart beat just a little faster than was normal for an animal her size, but that was not surprising, considering the way she was panting. She walked over to the wolf and crouched next to her, gently patting her head. She would not be surprised if she was growled at, or even bit. She knew very well that she smell like blood, possibly even more specifically like Rei's blood, since it was so soon after she had fed from him. Her own scent was non-existent, though if the wolf's nose was sharp enough, it might be able to smell that cold scent of stone underneath the strong stench of blood.

The sudden pat on the head startled the slumbering wolf deity and she snapped to her paws. The girl reeked of blood that it stung at her nose. Her ears flattened against her head as she growled faintly. She did not know if this human was friend or foe. She was far too tired to put up any real fight.

The vampire queen pulled back her hand, though she did it without fear. She held it out, palm open, "Shhh, I mean you no harm. I only wished to thank you for all you have done." She was smiling softly, her face showing no sign of deceit. "Rest, little one."

Amaterasu was will on her guard, slowly inching forward to cautiously sniff the vampire's hand. She still stunk of blood but it seemed like she wasn't going to attack her and she loosened up. Her ears perked up at the woman's thanks and it filled her with strength. Her tail wagged and she barked quietly as if to say 'you're welcome'.

Nanashi smiled, glad that the wolf seemed to understand her good intentions. She used to animals at least initially shying from her scent. When she treated them well, they usually got over the scent- though most domestic animals from her country were accustomed to the smell of a vampire.

She moved slowly and deliberately to scratch the wolf behind her ear, "That's right little one, I mean no harm. Flowers are among the few things that can bring me true happiness." As an after thought she asked, "Can you speak?" There were a few werewolves in her would who could speak in their wolf forms, so what was keeping a wolf on this ship from speaking?

The vampires kind words filled the goddess with a warm glow deep within her and she could feel more of her strength returning. She tilted her head at the woman. Could she talk? The answer was both yes and no. There was not many people that could understand her, well normal people. Most people couldn't even see her true form. In her world the only ones that could speak with spirits was the Poncle. Upon arriving here she has only found a few that could speak with her.

She lowered her head with a slight whimper.

Nanashi smiled to herself a bit, stroking the wolf's head. The way the wolf lowered her head and whimpered it seemed like she was saying no. Which also meant that she could understand her- or so it seemed.

She sat with her legs a little awkwardly to the side, the heels making it difficult to sit more comfortably. Continuing to stroke Amaterasu's head and neck she asked, "Well then, can you understand me little one? If you can, bark twice." She seemed a bit silly saying the last bit, but figured that if the wolf couldn't understand her there was no one else to hear. If the wolf could understand her, then the request wasn't ridiculous.

Dean was wandering through, on his way back to the house, and then blinked. What the hell? When had this shown up? His steps slowed down as he gazed upward in shock at the plants and flowers. He then started peeking around for something like the beer tree. Hey maybe there was a tree this time that grew JD bottles?

A few moments later, he still didn't find any but the slumbering wolf surprised him. Wait, is it sleeping?

Amaterasu flicked her ear sleepily as she raised her head seeing a man looking at her. Was he here to admire her trees? Her tail started to wag excitedly at the man and she let out a cheerful bark.

Dean blinked at that. Ok animal seemed friendly enough.

"Hey boy," (He couldn't tell yet which gender offhand) "Hey puppy, whatcha up to?" He crouched down close by the wolf, and offered his hand out to sniff cautiously.

Ammy stretched out her neck to sniff the man's hand before she gave it one big lick clambering to her paws. Like an energetic puppy she raced around him as she casted glances at the trees and barked like she was trying to tell him something. After a few rounds she flopped back in front of him panting merrily away, tail still wagging a mile a minute.

Dean tilted his head more. What's the mutt trying to say?

"What, what about the trees?" Seemed to be pointing to them. "You see something up there?" Maybe the wolf treed a squirrel. He stepped forward and reached out to scratch behind the ears.

Her tongue hung out as he scratched her eyes. Oh how she loved the pets! She leaned into his hand, her tail wagging with more force. For a moment she forgot about trying to show him her trees. The pets were so good! Without thinking about it her tail wagged in a controlled manner, different from the usual side to side and a small flower appeared in the air. It just floated in front of Dean's face as she difted into the grass.

Dean jerked back, and his hand came up to slap the flower away like it was a bug. It startled the hunter ok?

"What the shit?!"

The goddess blinked. Why did the petting stop? Then she saw him swat at the flower and her heart fell. She lowered his head and sniffed the poor blossom and whimpered, looking back up at him with big eyes.

Dean belatedly realized this and his own face fell in reaction, "Oh hey, don't give me the puppy eyes, I didn't know ok? I'm sorry."

Bella has no idea what is going on. The City. What happened to it? She had been asleep... and when she woke up...

She has no answer, and is sort of overwhelmed by it all. She tries to think something, anything, but the only thing she can do is get up and start running all over the place, nose darting all over everything to sniff.

She wags her tail. And finally, satisfied with exploration but still amazed, she finds a spot to roll around in the grass and flowers and plant life here.

Ooh, what's that kind of tree? Bella's never seen one before. She comes over to look and-

"Hello!" she barks.

Hearing a familar voice Amaterasu perked up, filling up with a second wind. Seeing the wolf she met when she first arrive she jumped to her paws, wagging her tail excitedly.

"Hey Bella! You like what I did?" she nodded to the flora.

"Yes!" Bella is all excitement. This is unusually puplike behavior from the young Ahroun, usually serious and sort of gruff.

"You made this? I have never seen a thing like this! It is beautiful!" It is. She means it, well and truly.

"Sure did!" She run in a small circle all exctied to be praised for her creation and it filled her with new strength. "I saw that Plant Temple place you told me about and I was really sad. So I made things all better!"

Confusion was the main emotion Rei had been feeling of late, between trying to deal with a puppy and slowly hearing vague voices talking in his head. Exiting his room and finding the ship suddenly a forest only added to that confusion.

He slowly wandered through the ship with his dog, taking it all in. While he had never really been impressed by flowers and the like, this was still rather beautiful. And though the plants were very different, it reminded him of Brazil. Of home. That alone was enough to get him feeling a little overwhelmed and emotional.

After a while he got to the cherry tree, which seemed as much the center of all of this as anything. He didn't notice the wolf, but Fati did, and she strained on her leash, yapping, curious about the creature. Rei, however, was too busy being awestruck to really notice. At leash, that was, until Fati pulled hard enough to yank the leash from his hand. He'd pounced on it and got her back under control in moments, but is was enough to notice the wolf. Rei had encountered wolves before back home. He didn't really like them. They tended to be kind of... dangerous. And sometimes ate little dogs, if he remembered correctly. "Fati, down, girl," he said quietly, eyes glued on the white wolf.

In her dreamy haze Ammy thought she heard a dog barking. Slowly her eyes fluttered open taking a while to focus. There was a small dog.... and a terrified looking man. She could sense his tension, his eyes locked onto her. She was used to this kind of reaction back in Nippon. Who could blame them?

Trying to set the man at ease she happily wagged her tail showing him that she would not harm him or his pup.

"Um, good doggy, I mean, wolf," Rei said, taking a hesitant step back. The wolf was seriously looking right at him. In his experience in traveling time, wolves looking directly at you was not a very good thing. And here, he couldn't just slip back into time if the thing started chasing him. And it didn't help that his dog had the exact opposite reaction to the wolf as he did - wanting to go near it instead of very far away.

The goddess could still sense the man's nerves as she was trying to back away, but his canine companion was preventing him from getting away. Well, if the little pup wanted to say hi she might as well go introduce herself.

With a yawning stretch the deity got to her paws and trotted over, still wagging her tail in a friendly manner. She went straight up to the small pup and let the little one sniff her before she sniffed it in return, licking it on the head.

"Hey!" Rei said, practically shouting. He snatched up Fati, trying to cradle her next to his chest, but the small alien dog wiggled around like a fish, and he wound up pinning her under one arm. "No, you are not going to eat my dog, even if she is a pain."

And then he realized he was trying to scold a wolf. Well... this was becoming a very odd day.

When Aeneas woke up that morning, the world outside his little cottage was very different.

For one, there were weeds in his garden.

The alien had a quick breakfast of fresh fruits—'pears' they were called—washed, cleaned the bottom floor and lounge, put on his favorite knapsack and immediately went outside. It took all of ten minutes. Good thing, too, because this was kind of a disaster.

Aeneas grumbled inwardly, a deep bass tremble that rattled his feathers and unconsciously made his tail wag. There was grass everywhere! Why was there grass in his vegetable patch? It needed to not be in his vegetable patch.

More than that, there was grass outside his garden, too. There was more than just grass. There were trees, and flowers, and funny little patches of moss and water lilies by the river and, well, just about everywhere else. Suddenly, Aeneas found that he was no longer so concerned about his plants.

It took a bit of wandering to find the culprit—or at least who he assumed was the culprit—taking a casual snooze underneath a tree with vibrant blooms, some sort of white-furred canine that was much larger than what Aeneas had seen in the research pods (the domestic variety, mind). Upon coming closer, thus, the alien began to rethink confronting the creature for information concerning this radical transformation. It—she?—was most likely, you know, quite tired. No need to wake her up now and risk and grumpy rebuttal, eh?

Purring nervously to himself (louder than he thought he was, actually), Aeneas turned on his heels and began creeping off the premise. It should be noted that he isn't an animal of stealth.

In her half awake state the white wolf heard something creeping away in the most ungraceful of manners. Curious to see the source of the noisy she cracked open one eye to see a most peculiar creature. She had never seen such an odd animal before. She couldn’t help but to wonder what did it smell like?

Needing to get a closer look she let out a whimpering yawn as she stretched getting to her paws. The deity trotted behind the alien and stuck her nose in its feathers sniffing it all over.

The answer was obvious enough, once our canine goddess got a good whiff. Aeneas's blue-striped fur was thick, deeply layered and somewhat dampened due to Stacy's humid climate and his normal routine of swimming, thus that part of the alien smelt rather like a combination of hay and raw minerals, an outdoor scent that nonetheless managed to appear sterile. Deeper in he smelled of heat, radiating from his core in waves and erratic pulses.

Otherwise Aeneas smelt quite similar to baked apples. This had a lot to do with the fact that Amaterasu had rather unexpectedly buried her nose in the creature's thigh and, thereby, scared the living crap out of him, causing a sudden consumption of nitrogen within Aeneas's second pair of lungs, converting it into nitrous oxide before it was expelled through the rows of feathers on the alien's face.

On a less technical note, Aeneas screeched with surprise and jumped several feet in the opposite direction.

Dhianeila was certainly surprised at the sights. They were lovely, just like many areas on the many beautiful planets she had both lived on and visited. She vaguely wishes she could be physically walking through the meadow ... maybe if she asked somebody for a small favor, she could do so. But for now, her projection moved about, taking everything in.

"Ah, I wonder what caused this?" she wondered allowed, her eyes landing on the tree Amaterasu rested under.

Amaterasu lifted her head seeing a young girl approached her meadow. The way she looked at the new surroundings she could tell she enjoyed the flora. This in turn made Ammy happy making her tail wag merrily. It brightened her spirit seeing people appreciate her creation.

When she noticed Amaterasu herself, she had only a moment of hesitance. Until she could feel no sign of violence or ill intent-- rather, she felt the opposite coming from the beautiful creature. It was strange, feeling such strong emotions from what she thought was just a normal wolf; it intrigued her some. Perhaps she was part of a race Dhianeila herself had never met before.

"Hello," she greeted.

Plants. Plants everywhere. In an odd way, it reminded her of what had been happening in Orange Star as the war was over. Mysterious flora that had bloomed where they had been only sand. Alas, this did not last long, as the Ohm ended her world shortly after.

Curiously, she touched some of the flowers in both awe and remembrance. That's when she noticed the large white wolf someone obviously had put face paint all over.

"Huh..."

Amaterasu sleepily open one eye to see a young girl entering her meadow. The way she leaned over her flowers and how she touched them the goddess knew that she enjoyed them. This made her happy and her tail started to wag a bit.

Kettch had, eventually, braved the tentacle tubes to get to other levels of the Great Stacy's belly, and had discovered the city. However, he too had been dismayed at the lack of green growing things. He was used to the deep primordial forests of Endor.

All these buildings - what were they made of anyway? Carved from cliff faces of stone? Some were made of wood, but they were often all so square and blocky... so very alien. It made Kettch nervous walking through the streets. It was all so open and bare between the buildings - there was so little cover! What if the people had to hide from large predators? Every time he ventured down into the city to explore, he tread warily, his spear held at the ready.

He didn't stay in the city, though. It was too alien and strange. It made him nervous and uncomfortable to spend much time down there. He much preferred the forest in Hydroponics. However, he intended to scout around. He wanted to be sure of the lay of the land inside the Great Spirit. So he continued coming down into the city to scout around.

However, things were very different this morning. There were trees! There were plants all over the city! It was wonderful! It was a miracle! Surely the work of a Great Spirit of nature and the forest!

Amazed, the ewok wandered through the newly wooded areas of the city, marveling at this great working. Had a shaman called upon a Great Spirit to do this? If so, surely it must be an immensely powerful shaman. Perhaps if he could meet that shaman, he could teach him more of speaking to the spirits. Kettch just had to find him first...

But first, he really should thank the Great Spirit who had done this. Kettch scratched his head as he looked around the area he was in now. For such a powerful spirit, not just any old spot would do to give thanks. He would need to find a sacred place - like the Soul Tree groves back home...

As he looked, a wash of vivid pink caught his eye, curious, Kettch headed in that direction. Stepping out of the small wood, he found himself in a clearing with a great tree in the center. A truly amazing tree!

It wasn't as big as most trees on Endor, but it was magnificent! It's crown was bright pink and shimmered in the light breeze! Petals swirled like snow in deep winter throughout the clearing. Surely this was a sacred place! This amazing tree was surely a powerful tree spirit itself! Was it the Great Spirit that had turned the lifeless stone land into lush green growth?

Kettch padded out into the clearing, stopping on the way to gather a pouchful, and two handfuls, of the blessed petals from the ground. As he came before the grand tree he threw his arms up into the air, tossing petals in imitation of the tree before he called out to the tree spirit.

"Hear me, oh spirit of the great Flower Snow Tree! Great is your beauty that you bless Mother Land's children with! You bring color and life to this land of stone and bare earth! Far from home, you bring us beauty and life! I am Kettch! Hear this far-wandering ewok's thanks and praise!"

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