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Delenos sat on the other side of the river. He waited for Misa to catch up to him so that she can use her shapeshifting form to get across with him.

A mystical energy could be felt on this side of the river, even though the were not close to the grove.

He trotted ahead of her. Make sure that he was somehow faster than her using his elemental Shape shifting to give himself lightning quick speed. leading her to the Sacred Grove. This is where the energy emitted from, and was the base of his natural powers.

He assumed his human form again. Leaning on his Gnarled staff. He waited for her. She would be able to smell him if she was finally attuned to her animal form.

Delenos took in a long deep breath as though he was taking in all the wind he would need to speak uninterrupted by breath. "Once a long time ago, an ancient treant stood here. He sought for a student to teach another of his ancient connections. That fateful night, a man stumbled across here and he taught him magic of natural magic that he had learned over the years." He pointed the gnarled end of his staff at the rocks. As he waved in a circle which lined the rocks, the mystical green energy followed along it. "This... was the very first Shape Shifter... Nearly 2,000 years ago..." The image of the first shapeshifter in the form of whirling leaves was in the center of the stones. "This was him when he was first connected to the spirits of nature. He felt the very things that you feel now." He let his staff rest on the ground, though it stood by itself as it also grew green. "He was considered the first druid. The first shapeshifter." The leaves swirled in the wind as more figures appeared around the first. "Then he had a family, and lead a normal life." The leaves continued to add more figures into the circle, the figures shrinking in size as more of them appeared as leaves. "Generations had passed. Druids have been mastering there bloodline for centuries. However the first..." As the leaves grew into the first figure. "Lost his family to a tragic accident of an attack from The White flame castle. He swore vengeance against them, and with his powers he laid waste to the castle and many of it's inhabitants..." The leaves blew across the ground leaving the circle of rocks. The staff hovered in between the rocks. "That is when the first druid lost connection with nature and life. He could not bear the loss of his family, and the eternal life he had been granted tortured him. He returned to The Sacred Grove with intent of destroying this forest from it's heart. This was nearly 1,000 years ago. The First Druid and The Ancient Treant fought for Days, Weeks, Months, and years. This was known amongst the stars and seers as Apocalypse. As years of this conflict had surged... hope had nearly come to an end. The ancient had called for the druid aid... but none dared face the first druid and his infinite wrath. Except for a foolish young druid seeking to prove himself. The young druid had struck the first with a lightning bolt from the storms. With that opening applied The ancient defeated the first, but the hatred of the first was to great that he fought to his last breath. Striking the ancient with a deadly and dark poison." He stepped into the stone circle grasping the staff in his hand. "The ancient rewarded that young druid with this staff, and entrusted him to keep balance to nature during his absence."

Delenos nodded as he stood in the center of the ring. "I have faced many of the things like you said... I used to have a family, and watched them die one by one from old age, or death from disease." He grabbed his staff and walked over to her. He was about the same size as her, with a frail and weaker body. "Also as I said before, you don't have to pass up your profession if you walk down this path. Many Alchemists and healers have come down this path, they used there gifts of talking with nature to discover new alchemical and Medical ways of making potions." He said as turned and sat down on a stump with a wood cutters axe in it's side. "If you are not ready to become a druid, you can go. I only wished to open up some options for some magical perspective. The punishment is sometimes agonizing... but your senses will sharpen, your knowledge will grow and you will have gained the assistance of nature..." He said as he watched the wind blow the leaves around once more. "The price for this life is high... but I can imagine that you will do great things."

He also admitted one more thing. "The tale of the first is a dark tale from older times, but no one was as powerful as him now, and you should not fear it happening to you."

"Off course... I'll be here whenever you wish to return..." He said as he sat down on the wooden stump he had previously sat on before. "You have all the time that is given too you, do you not?" He said with a calm smile.