Relaxation in a Sunflower Patch (Maruca)

Maruca stepped through a large field of sun flowers her feet were soft and delicate as they stepped over the grass buried beneath their tall stalks. She wished not to hurt any of the interesting plants she'd found thus far on the planet she'd landed on. She had no clue what the planet's name was or what exactly inhabited entirely, but the place had tall looking rocks she had come to know during her stay and a cold chilling air.

She shuddered at the thought of the strange white powder that had come down in droves and nearly buried her when she exited her ship in the past. She estimated since then she'd only been on the planet a month and everything was still very strange to her. As she continued walking she heard something lay down against the ground and ducked beneath the flowers. She stilled her breath and waited and listed to what they might do.

"What if the thing was hostile?" she pondered gripping a sunflower in front of her. seeds sprouted from her fingertips and dropped off into the soil around the sunflower. If it was hostile she would catch it using the methods of Amazonica. Surely, it would not expect her movement and the trap she was setting. It had not moved yet, but might at the slightest threat. She had to be careful as she allowed energy to escape her body and travel in front of her knees.

Maruca looked up from her kneeled position on the rich, earthy soil and saw a boy with black hair and blue highlights standing before her. She rose to her carefully and released her control over the plant seeds. They stopped growing and her power died down. Her sky blue eyes focused on his figure and she noted how tall he was compared to her, he looked to be about five feet six inches at least in her opinion. It was rather freaky considering that she only had a seven inches of height on him so to speak. His body was covered by a black shirt, which hid the fact whether or not he had any muscles or not.

Maruca said nothing and decided to offer a basic Florian greeting to him. She bent over and picked a couple of the sunflowers off the ground lifting their large yellow heads up for him to look at. They were meant to be a calming agent for one's atmosphere and no matter who the person was this tactic had so far worked in her life. But this boy seemed to be a different species entirely from her.

"Ma-ru-ca..." she said pronouncing her name slowly. The words rolled off her tongue in a childish way adding to her desire to lessen any hostile relations. She did not want to anger the first person she just met from this planet. She'd had conversations with planet hunters from her planet Amazonica in the past and none of those had gone well. She remembered at that moment one in particular where a Florian's head got shot off by an energy beam from mispronouncing someone's name. She certainly wouldn't do this to the boy before her, he was quite young looking compared to her, but there was always the possibility he could attack her still.

"Plan-et, Ama-zon-ica. Where is this plan-et; what is this plan-et?" she asked trying to gather information from the boy.

Maruca watched the boy take the flowers from him and smiled slightly. He had accepted her gift. He had smiled and nodded at her too. To her, the answers he gave when he scooped up the earth and touched his chest seemed acceptable to her.

She uttered, "Don't be scared, but I am an ali-en." She decided to say and said aloud. She focused her energy and allowed it to course through her veins from her head to her toes. A bright pink aura began to surround her while bits of it floated off as though they were Sakura petals. It was an amazing sight to behold over anyone watching as the aura caused the grass and sunflowers to bend away from her.

Her body floated into the air and more power built up inside her. Her brown hair billowed around her and the red tattoos on her arms glowed. "Will release power and show you alien form..." she told him wondering all the while if he were frightened or not. He had not seemed too phased thus far.

"You have used the words M'lady. How do you know I am royalty?" Maruca asked as she continued to power up her transformation.

During the process, her normal white-tan skin turned green and red rose petals began to grow from her body. The petals first appeared on her wrists slowly pushing up from under skin growing until they were six inches in length and three inches across. Then they grew out of the back of her neck. These petals were much larger and brighter though taking on a mixture of red and pink as they mixed together in a crisscrossing array. They formed a nice tall collar around her neck that was two feet in height. Thus blocking her peripheral vision. She didn't need it though because she sense a many good things around her as her transformation continued.

The green tint from earlier formed into green leaves that sprouted from her body and had soft and rounded edges. The green suit she gained from these clung close to her body allowing for a slim and sleek appearance that showed off the few muscles she had in her arms and legs. She could feel overwhelming power surge from this.

She landed on the soft grass once her transformation was done and said, "I am Queen of the Florians. Perhaps you know who we are? Perhaps you speak to everyone this way?" She needed as much information as she could get from this boy and although she felt she could blast him at any moment she did not want to. She held out her hand instead with her palm facing the ground and voiced, "You are very nice or have been since I have met you Akira."

"I see, but I don't understand still. What are Tenma and Tenshi?" Maruca asked as she pulled her hand away and let it drop to her side. "Are they strong? If they are I ask that you fight me. I have reasons for this I can explain before or after this if you want. But for now I shall make the first move."

Her lips closed and she focused her energy in her current form. She let the energy flow through her body and allowed seeds to form in her hands before spinning scattering them all over the ground. When she was done doing this, she came to an abrupt halt, kicking up a little pile of dirt as she did.

Maruca listened to his response and shrugged ever so slightly. He seemed far too overconfident. She was not that pleased by his attitude. It had a rough edge to it and she felt she needed to put him in his place. Her pink aura swirled around her grazing the grasses at her feet and pushing them and the flowers aside.

She lightly stepped over top of the plant with a heel to toe stride and closed the distance between herself and Akira as he floated before her. Then she raised right hand gently so that her fore arm and upper arm pressed together. She bent her wrist forward and pressed the bottom skin pad of her thumb against the top of the blue nail polish on her right middle finger. Extending her hand forward, she flicked her middle finger out towards him and sent a small ki blast at him. The ki was shaped into a small sphere a foot across and was very dense.

"Show some respect please and know your place boy of royalty, Akira. This is not meant to be a period of playtime. I have come here to learn the ways of fighting so I may defend myself and others." She voiced in the midst of her attack.

"You were lucky to dodge that attack. I know you'd like to think of this as a game thanks to your age, but we're messing with some pretty dangerous projectiles." Marua stated as she caught Akira's blast of ki with her right hand, wrapping her fingers around the glowing and dangerous orb, she added, "Your technique needs some work, but you might become quite good if you work at it. Although, I prefer not to use these blasts we can shoot at each other." She threw the ball back at him and wondered how he would react to this now. The speed at which it hurtled was a relatively slow speed, so he could probably block it if he had the guts. Maruca wanted to get to know every inch of this boy's personality and thinking process. It would only help her get the upper edge of this spar and possibly give her insight on the Tenshi or Tenma he spoke of.