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Poison Ivy had been taking a nap on her favorite tree, when a scream startled her awake. Her first relflex had been to snap at whoever had dared to wake her. Only her second might have been to strangle him or her; not that she would admit that she actually thought of being kind enough to let them live with such a crime.
Mildly frustrated, she then started to try to locate the source of the scream by overlooking the crosspaths inside her Garden. Human heads everywhere, Human clothes. Oh, Maybe, no, these are only Human inventions over there.
It’s hurting her eyes to see her kinds right next to these kinds. In a perfect, correct world, there would be only them and nothing and nobody more. Only her, her babies, fueled by the sun, and maybe some particular kinds of animals to keep the food chain running and exchanging to guarantee their survival.
Yet suddenly someone screams again, even if now that she’s fully able to focus on it, it sounds more like a gleeful squeal. Or a surprised screech. One of both -she’s indifferent to the exact description- but it’s still quite bothering her.
Looking downwards, she then proceeds to take notice of the unpleasant noise’s owner.
A small human. Less then a decade old with big, round eyes, in which the innocence only so glitters and shines in a bright shade of blue.
Also the girl (the physical appearance spoke for itself) is currently aggressively dabbing her finger at a poor sunflower, before her mouth is trying to swallow the unfortunate blossom whole.
Her fists clench in an reaction all too familiar.
So much cruelty and the human didn’t even age that far to speak properly. It’s only proving what she had been already aware off. The human race is cruel and selfish and must be erased from the planet as soon as possible.
Sliding down the bark of the tree, she stops to stand next to the little twerp of an human. Blue eyes look up at her curiously, so innocently as if she didn’t just hurt a plant knowingly.
Ivy suppresses the scoff and lifts a hand instead, commanding for a vine to wrap around the human’s waist. The vine does like said and lifts her to hang upside down. Strangely the disarming action is making the girl giggle happily as her dress flips over in agreement with gravity.
Strongly, Ivy glares at her in offense whilst cradling the delicate flower in her hands.
,,Human, don’t you dare to hurt my kinds!” she hisses with every spark of disgust, she can manage to show on her otherwise quite neutral features. ,,Or else you will suffer by my hands.” she whispers in a low, threatening tone and leans close to her young face to scare her.
Bright laughter paired to a wide, teeth-lacking grin is spat back into her face and she turns up her mouth into a displeased grimace.
These cruel monsters fear nothing already, so malicious, they have become. They should feel the revengeful wrath of Mother Nature just now!
But as soon as the hot anger started pulsing through her veins, that fast, it calmed again.
Even if she will poison this human now and effectively remove it (always a plus), there are still thousands, no millions of her species running around the globe. It would be more of a waste of goods to erase one minor life, when she could erase millions instead.
Motivated to try to liquidate this harmful race with another devious plan, she sighs reluctantly and taps her finger to her chin.
,,Fine, petty human,” merely her eyes lock onto the girl, who is babbling everything and nothing happily as she plays with the grass beneath her. ,,You shall live, it’s not like you will survive for long anyway.”
Around the corners of her lips a satisfied grin is starting to develop. ,,Once I’ve figured out how to remove all of you at once and sidestepped Batman and his crew, you will finally feel the wrath of Nature.”
Nodding once, it’s settled. The child may go. She will pay later. Revenge will be sweeter this way anyway.
Snapping her fingers, the vine losens it’s grip on the body and the girl squeaks out when she flies and hits the grass with dull sound. Once she sits up, her blue eyes look up at Ivy in confusion and her head leans to the side when she rubs it idly.
,,Go,” Ivy repeats while her hand does a shooing motion.
Wide-eyed blinking from the girl is the only thing, she was able to receive.
Ivy breathes in deeply to calm herself. ,,Human Girl, go away. Find your mother or, I don’t know, your human father.” After a beat of silence and still no reaction, she forces herself to add a sour ,,please,”
The girl straightens to stand on her knees and then she suddenly starts crawling forward.
Ivy creates some needed distance by stepping away from her. ,,No, I said go there.” she commands with her finger pointing into the opposite direction of her moving.
One of her legs jumps when the human tries to grab it with her short arms. ,,What are even you trying to reach?,” she asks in serious confusion. ,,I’m stronger than you. I can break your bones with a finger flick. You won’t win in a fight against me and my army.”
The girl stumbles over the thick root of a tree and falls forward with a tiny yelp, proceeding to grab one of Ivy’s ankles. Weak, short arms embrace her leg tighter when she wiggles it experimentally to shake her off.
What the..
Is she snuggling into it?!
Stifling the unholy screech in the back of her throat, Ivy clears her throat. Immediately the grass to their feet starts growing and wrapping around the human on her leg to divide them so she can breathe out in relief again whilst shaking out her leg to lose the feeling of a human clutching it.
By the time, she felt composed enough to continue whatever this is, her gaze strays lower to see the girl blink up at her, sitting, neatly, fully wrapped round in a handful of plants.
Satisfied with what she was able to gaze at, Ivy hides her grin and puts on a vaguely neutral expression. ,,I told you so,” the unamused look on the human’s face is enough to break her facade and she cackles for a few. Only when happy giggling joins her, she stops to glare at the young human’s joyful face. ,,You had the opportunity to handle this the easy way, yet you had to choose the difficult one,” she shakes her head. ,,You, human beings, are all the same.”
A little sneeze sounding from the girl uncuts her. Ivy looks down at her again, thight-lipped. ,,I presume, it’s time to part,” she sighs and fondly brushes over her own red hair. ,,You’ll hear of me in the news, when I succeed to work out the perfect weapon to destroy you.”
She walks away without looking back once. By the time, she had reached her favorite tree again and affectionately stroked the rough bark, she contemplated at least thirty different poisons to spread over air to kill the human population and at least twenty places to use as to prepare the toxins.
When she was about to think of a way to transport her precious garden there, a loud squeal pierces through the silence and she jerks at both surprise and the pain to her ears.
,,Mother of Nature,” she curses to herself in a murmur as her fist halfheartedly bangs against her tree.
Humans have no sense for survival, do they?
The squeal sounds again, only this time, slightly louder.
Or at least, this particular human girl doesn’t seem to have any.
Ivy groans and clutches her head in frustration. ,,You won’t kill a human just to satisfy yourself, Ives, that’s a waste of effort and nerves,” she tries to convince herself. ,,You will just move her to somewhere else, where you won’t hear her screaming anymore.”
Nodding once, she pushes herself to walk back to where she left the human all tied up on the ground. Yet, while she walks, the shrill sounds get only louder and really start to drag on her nerves. The urge to break something is grand and massive.
Once she is able to see the girl, she releases a breath, she wasn’t aware she was holding. The blue eyes turn to look at her when she steps onto a stick and creates a noise loud enough to alarm her of her presence.
Poison Ivy rolls her eyes at her face. ,,Oh, don’t act all surprised, human. You purposely annoyed me so I come back.” she says while she wiggles her fingers to command for the vines to move the girl over the earth, without her touching it. ,,Unfortunately for you, human girl, I figured out your tricks and I’m glad to say that they won’t work on me.”
While they walk, the girl remains quiet, so Ivy takes it as her burden to fill the silence then. ,,I promise, it’ll be quick,” she lifts her hands to spread a wall of roses and they pass through the hole, she created. ,,I’m working on a gas, that’ll kill every animal on earth, even on low doses so your body won’t even feel any pain,” she hums absently. ,,It’ll be like resting.”
Quickly looking down at the girl again, she notices her eyes as closed.
,,Exactly, just like this,” she agrees and flicks her fingers. ,,Just like sleeping in. You, humans, have no fault after all, that you’re selfish beings and cruel to no end. You were created like that,” she shrugs once and settles with smiling a little now that the girl can’t take notice of it.
,,And I just so happen to be kind enough to help you out by erasing you myself.” she stops when they see the wall, made of glass, telling that they have reached the farthest from Ivy’s napping place, that is possible.
,,We’re here.” Ivy turns to adress the girl, but the young being is apparently deep asleep. Rolling her eyes, she commands for the vines to untie her and for a large leaf from a tree to bow down lower to cover her up.
,,Only uncover her when humans pass by, although,” she narrows her green eyes at the sleeping body, contemplating whether or whether not the girl would be foolish enough to try to come back to her side.
,,Only when humans could possibly notice her.” She decides in the end and nods at the tree, being no drop stupidly optimistic about the consequences of letting her stray freely.
Obviously, the same mistake had been made once already.