The Leaf Queen Rises (Gravity x 20)

It was on a hot day, as almost all days were on Amazonica, when her mother and father called them to their chamber, a grand opening in one of the largest trees in the jungle. Maruca Senda was the only princess and daughter of the Florian king and queen Gentian and Calantha. In terms of their appearances both Gentian and Calantha looked mostly like other normal Florians. Gentian had a haggard face, short green hair and brown eyes while Calantha had a soft face with with blond hair and sky blue eyes. Neither were very muscular looking and had white tan skin. Both parents wore skins made from wild jungle giraffes and therefore had a very spotty and colorful set of robe brown and tan robes covering their bodies as edict dictated they only look different from their people in terms of fashion if it could be helped.

Maruca at this point and time was only a little girl of seventy at this time, for Florians could live easily up to three thousand years if they were lucky. Although, in human standards she would be around six. She, unlike her parents or other Florians, was unique because she had grown into a little lady much faster than her peers. Normal Florians took about one hundred twenty years to reach yet she had reached the age she was in fifty years less time than them. It was interesting to see this and therefore they signified her as a very special being after knowing this.

Gentian noticed as he finished discussing things with Calantha that the room was beginning to reek of alcohol. He turned to his wife and asked, "How much drink did they give our daughter?"

"I believe enough to fill a hot tub dear," Calantha stated as she covered her mouth to suppress a fit of laughter.

"I should consider making a law against alcohol," he thought as he looked down at his daughter.

Maruca's eyes began to close but her ears picked up on her father's words, "Youngish daughter of mine, I know you're drunk beyond reason and wondering why alcohol is probably needed for the ritual we're about to put you though. But it's not a thing just of principle ritual." He raised his arm and index finger into the air and then pointed at his daughter, "It's to keep from thinking you want to kill yourself. "Well, be putting you through a series of alterations in your normal sense of being. The great Father Plant shall bestow upon you some of his great girth and with this girth try to crush you. You must resist and kill the tendril connected to him for only then will you stop his violent action!"

Calantha began to clap at her husband's speech and remembered many of the other Florians who had tried this ritual. The point of it was to destroy the most hated thing on the planet itself. The crashed ship junk yard in which the gravity chamber rested. Few actual Florians had mastered ki abilities, so they took it upon the younglings to try and blow the gravity chamber from the inside out. Why? Because in there someone had gained access to and created their Father Plant's great powers. It was one's destiny to destroy and thus come out stronger than ever.

Gentian anticipated the day when a child of his could blow up the metal monstrosity and save his planet from its annoying and evil grasp. He had watched some sneak into it and mess with the controls in the past only to watch them get crushed under the great metal contraption's strange powers. Talk about an uneducated, backwards sounding world... Well, that was how things worked on Amazonica for the Florians. The machine had already tried to kill twenty people who had tried to conquer it.

Maruca looked up at this structure with awe and giggled as she saw the very edge of the sun shining off the top of the surface. "Mommy, daddy," she said in a slurred ton. "What is the big boxxie doing here?"

Calantha sighed, walked over, and pat her child on the head. "It's here to test you."

"Test me..." Maruca pondered. Due to the fact she was drunk her parents figured she had not been paying much attention to all what they had said, however, they did not mind. It was a good sign if she could not remember what she was doing. The pain she was about to endure was soon to begin.

The seven guards then huddled around Maruca as her mother instructed, "Be sure to push the big red circle inside Father Plant. He is ticklish and likes when you do that..."

Calantha looked back at her husband and thought, "Why have we created such a fake religion on this planet. Why have all our ancestors done this? We have been stupid all these years and what's about to come will likely kill my only daughter."

In truth, Gentian and Calantha knew what the chamber in the shipyard really was. It was a machine meant to push the physical limits of any creature. Yet at the same time could kill them if they were not careful. After looking at the machine and having watched many fail they had decided to try and make a super soldier based around their strange customs so that they could oppose other planets and stop them from attacking. Maruca had been selected on the grounds that all of their previous testers had been nearly adults. They had come to understand that the older and more bulkier the person was the more pain the strange box caused.

In Maruca's case, if they had known the physics behind the box they would have known that their six year old daughter who weighed exactly thirty six pounds, and was three feet, six inches was stepping into a nine pound death trap. To them, that would be like two fully grown adult gorillas sitting on them. What a predicament that would be, and so, the ritual got its name the Ritual of Strength simply because they knew nobody who was stronger than two gorillas. People had to get drunk though so they did not feel their spine and such being crushed by that kind of weight. After a few hours, they hoped to take Maruca out and find out if she could walk under said gravity.

Calantha could hear the screams of Maruca inside the machine and ran over to the door. She turned her head to her husband and cried, "We need to unlock this dumb contraption now!"

Gentian stared back at her fiercely with his dark eyes and said, "No, we wait for result... She's only been in there five minutes."

"She's not ready though for this she's not the chosen one of the ritual." Calantha voiced. She got on her hands and knees and went to beg for her daughter's sake. "Please, let Maruca out she'll die in there."

"She won't I believe she really does have the Father Plant's abilities." Gentian voiced.

Calantha got up from her knees and walked up to him. When she reached him she back handed him across the face, much to all the guards' surprise and whispered to him, "Cut the bull crap, there never was a Father Plant, you have had people, including me listen to your nonsense for years..."

The king rubbed his hand against his cheek as he listened to his wife complain grabbed her wrist and said, "I wouldn't be so sure about that." He fished through the lining of his jaguar cape and pulled out a small prickly plant that looked like a cactus. It was blue in color and had many rounded nubs growing from it.

"This," he told his wife, "is a new type of plant I found growing from Maruca's forehead last week when she hit her head at the water hole and fell in. I treated her injury that very day and found that despite my efforts something was growing out of her head. I thought it might be a bump but it was instead a plant that had randomly grown out of her forehead. I called it a night pear since it develops nice little blue things that look like pears and then I kept it."

Calantha gawked at the little plant and took it into her hands to inspect it.

"I have one hundred more of these at home and a nice collection of other plants from Maruca. You might not know this but real Florians can grow flowers and such at will just by forcing their seeds through their blood stream, mixing it with water, and letting this mixture sit in sunlight. It's why we meditate to absorb the sun and keep hydrated if we can." Gentian explained as he crossed his arms and gazed into her eyes.

Within the gravity cube Maruca still lay on the floor, her breaths became shorter and quicker as she tried to calculate the time she had been inside the giant metal monstrosity. She had puked all of the notable alcohol out of her system, but the pain she felt from the machine still got to her and was squishing her lungs. She could feel her lips were chapped and damaged from having ejected so much liquid from her body at once. The floor around her was covered in her puke.

What was she still doing here she wondered? She tried to think of a way to escape, but her head hurt and her body was too heavy to move. She just wanted to sleep and while she closed her eyes she felt herself tap into a strange energy. This energy was her ki. Using this energy, she allowed seeds to grow on her body until a hard protective layer of wood covered her internal and external body parts. Maruca decided to stay still and used the ki in her body to help conserve the physical energy she had left.

Outside the gravity chamber Gentian sighed and decided to listen to his wife. He walked up to the door after the guards moved aside for him and opened it. This caused the gravity in the room to automatically shut off. "I suppose she'll have to..." he started to say but then noticed his daughter wrapped in a wooden shell.

"What had she done?" he pondered. He walked over to the log that was now in the shape of his daughter and picked it up. Carrying out of the room he passed by his wife and tol her, "She has the potential to destroy this machine. I told you, but she'll need to go in there again at a much later date."

Calantha sighed and slapped her forehead as the muscles on her face contracted into a scowl. She hated the awful man now who called himself her husband. Gentian had nearly killed their daughter and that was enough for her to make her want to warn her about her own offspring about her upcoming future. Calantha decided from this day forward, even if Maruca somehow forgot these horrible experiences, she would go ahead and make her into the most rebellious, daddy hating girl their world had ever seen. No matter what the Father Plant thought.

New Techniquee

Iron Wood Technique- The user gathers their will and forces their muscles to become thick and dense like the trunk of an iron wood tree. It also protects their inner organs. Due to this, they can block a number of physical blows, but cannot move at all when this occurs. If they are flying in the air, they will drop like a rock. This technique only lasts one post yet is extremely susceptible to ki energy making explosive attacks and ki attacks twice as dangerous when used against this technique.

(Requesting Power Level.)