Beware the Guard Plant

30 April 2015

02:43 Ruzeth tries to come visit Tihan at her house?

02:45 Tihan is not home! Not that he could tell, her house still looked quite the same without her, obviously.

02:48 Ruzeth sees approaches Tihan's house from the distance and smiles at the familiar abode. Quickly, he closes the gap and approaches the wooden door, giving it a few hard knocks, waiting patiently. When she doesnt come, he tries the knob and finds it locked. With a frown, the little zebra begins to plod around the house, hoping to find the mare nearby, perhaps working in her garden.

02:50 TihansPlant was around the corner. Try as he might, the enchanted door remained firmly locked for the unknown entity. As he came down off the porch to look for her, the plant stirred in the center of the garden, sensing his approach. The fenced-off garden didn't seem to have the mare in it, but the large plant in the center could possibly be hiding her behind it.

02:53 Ruzeth opens the gate in the fence and enters into the garden. The lovely scent of various herbs fills the air as many of the plants were in bloom. "Tihan?" He calls out, hopeing that she would answer him. His eyes inevitably fall upon the large plant and he's curious. He's never seen somthing quite like it before and begins to approach to look at it.

02:58 TihansPlant raises itself up from the ground as the creature approached it, a thick stalk holding up a single massive bulb atop it. It turns to 'look' at him as he approached, several smaller stalks with similar, but much smaller, bulbs lifting up around the edges of the garden, all staring at the interloper.

03:00 Ruzeth stops in place as the plant begins to move and blinks at it. He glances around the garden to see if he can see the mare, finding that it must be a trick. "Tihan? What are you doing? That doesnt scare me..." The zebra, however, has a bit of a shakyness to his voice, looks uncomfortable as he stands there. After a couple of moments he shakes it off and takes another step forward.

00:20 TihansPlant stares down at him as he steps forward. He could see it tracking his movements, despite having no apparent eyes. As he steps over a plant to go further into the garden, one of the smaller stalks from behind him sneaks up towards him, nearly silent in its motions aside fro ma quiet rustling of leaves.

00:24 Ruzeth frowns deeper as the plant seems to follow his movement. Surely the mare was playing a trick on him, but he was intrigued by the boulbous flower at the top that seemed to be watching him. "Huh...Tihan you have some pretty strange plants. Why dont you come out and stop playing tricks on me?" He says again, now only a couple feet from the central plant.

00:27 TihansPlant regards him with irritation. As he ignores the plant's obvious warnings, it decides he is being too threatening and two of its smaller stalks 'bite' around his hindlegs, gripping onto him with a somewhat sticky substance on the inside of their mouth-like bulbs. They immediately lift his hindlegs upwards, while the main head and its other smaller stalks watch him in eerie, near silence.

00:31 Ruzeth yelps as he feels something grab on his back legs, coating them in a sticky cool substance. He snaps his head back quickly to the look and see what was happening, only to see red tipped bulbs wrapping around his hind legs. "Hey! What are you doing?!" He shouts. Lifting a leg to try and kick it free, he suddenly finds that he's tilting forward as his rear is picked up into the sky by his squirming hind legs.

00:36 TihansPlant stares him down stoically, pulling his legs more firmly apart to stop that bothersome squirming. The stalks raise him higher and higher, until he is hanging in midair with his face at... what would be eye level with the plant, if it had any eyes. One slightly larger offshoot stalks raises up and grabs around his forelegs, sticking them together and coating them with the strange sticky substance that his hindlegs had been encased in as well.

00:43 Ruzeth has trouble fighting the plant as his legs are spread apart, taking much of his force out of his attempts at kicking. He soon finds his weight being lifted off his front hooves as he dangles in the air, squirming with all he can do. "TIhan! Tihan! Your plant is crazy Hellp!" He shouts as he stares down the stalk. His rings on his mane and tail jingle with the motions, which become increasingly less erratic as his front legs are grabbed and pulled into tention.

00:46 TihansPlant continues to stare him down. He is making far too much noise. It rears up slightly, and its massive maw opens, and the three stalks holding him in the air lift him up and over the gaping maw, allowing him plenty of time to look down into the sticky, green hole that had opened up. A single, smaller hole went down further into the plant, where its stalk connected at the back of its 'head', which now had its maw open and facing directly up underneath him.

00:51 Ruzeth squeals as he feels himself raised even higher, now sitting about two pony heights in the air as he dangles over the ground, positioned just over that central stalk. Suddenly it opens up, revealing an incredibly wet looking inside between the plants two 'jas' dripping with a green fluid. Down further he could see that it led to a tunnel. Ruzeth gasps and pulls frantically at the vines, struggling to get free from the powerful grip that encased him. "Let me go He stupid plant! LEt me go!"

00:57 Ruzeth watches the plant open wider still, big enough it looked, to even fit a pony in. Suddenly he's dropped down towards that maw head first. His hooves slip down over the rubbery flesh, getting coated in the slippery substance that lined the inside. Soon the resto fhis body follows, crashing into the plant's flesh with a wet sound. The chamber smelled sickly sweet as he squirmed inside it, trying to orient himself, and finding it increidbly difficult for him to do so with his forelegs glued together. To make matters worse that stalk was closing up behind him. "Tihan!" he shouts hopefully.

01:06 Ruzeth pauses for a second as hes cast into near total darkness, feeling his panic rising up even more. THe zebra finally manage to turn himself around, and on his sticky hindlegs he raises up against the edge, pushing at the top of the plant to hopefully pry it back open. "Ugh, let me out of here!" His movement can be seen making bulges on the outside of th eplant ans he struggles, likely a comical sight.

01:08 TihansPlant sits silently still as he struggles inside its large jaw. Yes, he was able to move small sections of it, but its great weight was too much for him to push up alone. Instead, this only bothers the plant into making more of the sweet fluid in its mouth... which, incidentally, was starting to tingle a bit.

01:13 Ruzeth smiles as he sees a little bit of sunlight and presses a little harder out at the firm seal of the plant, but in his effort he loses his balance and ends up crashing back down into the center of the plant, sending what had become a rather deep puddle splashing up and all over him. His body began to feel weird as he gets coated in the fluid, feeling it itch all over. "No cmon...this cant be happening..." he whines in disbelief.

01:17 TihansPlant is getting rather tired of his squirming by now. He feels its entire head lift up again, tilting back so that that hole into its stalk is directly where gravity would pull him towards. Slippery walls almost guarantee that he will end up ther eventually...

01:20 Ruzeth feels gravity begining to shift again in the darkness, leaning him backwards. towards the center of the stalk, though in teh dark he couldnt see much. He fins that his hind legs had collided and stuck together with the sticky sap that coated both of them, leaving him lepless as he slips. His hooves scrabble at the walls as his hindlegs and hips slide down the tunnel, and he only seems to keep sliding.

01:28 Ruzeth feels himself slipping into the tunnel, stretching it and slowing his journey down, but the slick surface ensures that despite the tight fit he continues moving. His entire form has slipped into this tube now, and his squirming only proves to create small bulges in the plant wall. He could smell the sweet nectary smell growing even stronger where he approached.

01:36 Ruzeth feels his body compress as the walls around him become immovable, as he realizes that he's now passed down into the ground. He beats against the unmoving walls with his hooves, trying to make some sort of an impact to no avail. With a loud splash he falls down into a larch chamber that seems pretty full of juices, coming up pretty high on his body.

01:36 < Ruzeth> (any previous prey remians in here? :P)

01:37 < Tihan> (probably just like... rabbits and other smaller woodland creatures.)

01:39 TihansPlant makes no reaction to his actions against it. It had no cares as he beats on the solid underground portion of its body, and quietly rests on the surface as if nothing was happening. The air was rather stagnant down here, and with the way the plant had folded itself back up over the way he had come in, no more air was going to enter the chamber either.

01:46 Ruzeth flails around in the chamber, getting sort of to his hooves and inching around it for a way out. As he moves, he bumps into something that was distintly the bones of something about the size of a dog. The zebra lets out a scream of fear and moves even more frantically, eating up what little air is breathable. As the tingling gets worse he feels himself becoming more and more lightheaded. Finally Ruzeth ends up sucmombing to the enviroment, passing out in the acidic bath that will surely turn him into plant nutrients.