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When tho two of them were inside the tree, it was almost as if there was a sun inside of it. There was a lot of bioluminesant plants that hung from the walls of the tree and glowed a yellowish orange. The monster was clearly a two headed venus fly trap that towered 50 feet over a lake of a purplish liquid. The gas that bubbled from it left a putrid scent in the air and burned the eyes.

"Poison," Epotheros muttered.

The plants two heads snapped with excitment when it had discoverd their prescence. Epotheros also was in a mood to destroy them quickly. He drew his long sword and illuminated it with a fiery energy field. He also activated the flaiming boots that resembled dragon's feet as well. He then bent his knees slightly and literaly flew at the head on the left. With a quick and fiery slash of his sword he cut through the stalk the at supported the head like a hot knife through butter. The other head sun around to attack Epotheros as the one that had been decapitated fell into the pool of poison. As the second head opened its mouth, Epotheros deactivated the boots and concentrated all of his power in the right hand to create the flaming claw of the dragon lord realeasing a powerful burst of flames. which the plant took the brunt of in its mouth, instantaniously incinerating him.

Epotheros quickly deactivated it and fell back down to earth landing on the first head. He then jumped across the gap of purplish liquid that seperated him from dry land. He landed and sheathed his sword, walking over to Clover with a rather emotionless look in his eyes.

"That was easy, I would have expected more."

Just as he said it there was a splash that came from the water as a third head flung out off the purple liquid. It was more flower like but still had a mouth that was split into four flaps. It also had a much thicker stalk to it that was riddled with thorns and stiff, razor sharp leaves. As it pulled its head out of the water it sprayed a thick purple mist at Clover and Epotheros.

"Damn," Epotheros thought, "we need something to blow it to the sides of us by cutting the poisonous cloud down the middle or else we are done for. I hope Clover knows what to do."

"Thanks Clover I owe you one," he said as he felt the wind brush against him.

The creature splash around violently in its pool of poison. It would push up waves of the purple liquid that would land on the shore and kill off all the life that was near it. Epotheros saw that this was very danderous for him and Clover so on instinkt he ran forward to the edge and held his hand on the surface of water pumpung a large amount of energy into it, drawing all of the heat out of it. As he did this the boiling fumes ate away at his gauntlet on his left hand and begain to burn his flesh. Before the wound was great enough, Epotheos had frozen the entire lake of poisonous liquid. It had also slowed the actions of the plant down tremendously.

Epotheros had wasted most of his magical energy on that attempt. He had only enough for one last burning slash from his sword. He raised it above his head as a spiral of fire surounded the blade. With all his might he swung it down releasing a large blade of fire that hit the creature down the middle. It let out a shreak of terror and pain as it was hit but the attack was nowhere strong enough to kill it. He knew they had one chance of finishing it, but it was up to Clover. He hoped she would know what to do, because she has seen it done before in a previous fight.

As the monster thrashed about, the flames continued to spread. He had no escape and it was loosing parts of its body every second. Before long the monster could no longer stand as its stalk went limp the plants head laned a few feet from where Epotheros an Clover were standing. The flames then turned black just before the body vaporized in a puff of black smoke. Left in the place where the head was now rested a mask piece. Epotheros went over a picked it up, examinig the clay like material before putting it in his bag.

Epotheros the walked back over to Clover to whom he said, "mission complete," just before he placed his arms around her and gave her a light kiss on the lips. His attitude was a little more bold right now and he was truly happy that the both of them came out of the ordeal alive that his emotion had gotten the better of him.

Just in time to ruin the mood a illusion of Zant appeared where Epotheros found the mask piece. "You seem to have gotten quite cocky since you defeated one of my four beast, but to tell you the truth, he was the weakest of the four by far. You'll stand no chance against the stronger ones." Zant's image then faded with is laughing.

When Epotheros and Clover returned to the castle he quickly gave the mask piece to one of the guards to take to the Lord. He noticed that the others were still not back. The guards had reported that Ty and Larien were spoted in the cstle but vanish as suddenly as they appeared. Epotheros hoped that they had gotten out of the place with out much difficulty but even if they were in trouble, he didn't have the energy to help them. He would become a burden if he went so he decide to wait for them in the main hall, but before that he got a wet rag and wrapped it around his hand where he was burned by the poison.

Epotheros sat on one of the chairs in the main hall and stared off into space. He was thinking what lied in the road ahead for them, but hopfully they would be victorious. Even if the monsters were tougher from here on, that posed little concern from him because if it all goes to plane the other three will be there to aid him and Clover. He was slightly nervous and was eager to talk to someone, just to help ease his mind.

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