Our Story

## **Introduction**

**The Grove has been around for as long as anyone can remember, alongside this has hosted the faction system. A way of life in which people live dependent on their personality, skills and character traits. The factions consist of Fleorirat, Turnloak, Lillikoi and Blair. All Serving their own distinct purposes. As per annual tradition, Fleo held their Flower Jamboree, inviting all the factions to the grove to meet, interact, make friends and play games. This being the new generation to come of age to host the events. The annual jamboree became more of a way to meet those who they shared this world with.**

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### **The Flower Jamboree**

After this event, Zen began his travels, going into factions, introducing himself due to the fact he was unable to attend the flower jamboree, as well as sharing his ideology to unite all the factions under one, new, faction. Some agreed, most disagreed. Zen continued to spread his views nonetheless.

### **The Night at Blair**

One day, in Fleorirat, Faith and Mei were minding their own business when they heard screams outside. Enter Korn, being chased by Vaifur, an unknown entity who doesn't speak the common language. After the situation was figured out and deescalated, Mei went on with her day and faith began to talk to Korn. Eventually, they decided to join Zen and Vaifur on their travels back to Blair (Zen inviting them to try and "prove" Blair isnt as it seems). Upon arrival, Zen sees Marce looking around Blair. To avoid confrontation, he pretends like he didn't see her *stealing* from him. He gives them a tour of Blair and lets them stay the night. At night, they see Vaifur checking the house they are in, waking them all up. They assume something isnt right, and go steal invisibility potions to figure out whats going on, where they hear him speaking to Vaifur. Vaifur, speaking a different language, was discussing their unity plans. Faith trips and damages her legs in lava and they run away, back into the house. Trying to act like nothing has happened they return to their beds. Greeted by a suspicious Zen, he wishes them well on their travels back home. The three return back to the Grove, and they talk about how it is safer to never speak about what happened that night. They then decide to split up and return to their respective factions. Before making her way home, Faith calls Korn back and they talk about the upcoming market event. Faith tells Korn about the speech Zen is planning to give... Korn doesnt think any of this is a good idea. "It's not how the world works."

### **The Visit to Blair**

Mei, accompanied by Jay and Faith, travel to Blair to question Zen about his ideas. After arriving and hearing his ideas again, Jay sides with Zen thinking it will bring peace to the lands and better life. Mei and Faith do not agree. Faith and Mei leave to return to Fleorirat. Jay stays and speak to Zen, asking him for the assassination of Slash, the captain of the ship in Lillikoi, in return for him to agree with Zen’s plans. Zen says Vaifur will perform the task in the future. Jays leaves.

### **The Meeting at Lilikoi**

A few days later, a meeting is held at Lilikoi to discuss Korn and how she is missing. Upon arrival, Jay meets Zen and asks about the deal, Zen says there are too many people and they move forward. Marce overhears and confronts Zen, where Zen then states that if she wants to keep her life and her faction, she will say nothing. In the meeting, Zen’s ideologies are brought up, Zen explains them, many disagree including Zoura who clearly disagreed with his. However other people like Teebs, Slash and Aramis also disagreed. In this meeting Zen noticed Aramis had not been to Blair for a while, so asked him when he plans to return. Aramis doesn't give a date and runs away.

### **Mei's Bunker**

Mei meets with Faith to try to get answers about what has happened to her, Faith doesn't feel safe about discussing it so Mei leads her to a bunker which no one has seen. She was followed by Vaifur as they discussed between written messages what happened at Blair. Faith did not say anything but told Mei she would find out when the time required it. Upon returning to Fleorirat, Faith finds Vaifur alone. She, feeling slightly threatened by mei, asks to stay at Blair for a while. They meet with Zen and he agrees to allow her.

### **Thank you?**

Since Faith had asked to come back to Blair, Zen sent Vaifur to bring her there not bothered to do it himself. Upon arriving at Faiths bakery Vaifur showed up at the bakery, Faith is excited! She starts rambling and trying to find things to pack, while he just stares at her- *silently.* Faith realizes she was talking so much and her throat is now dry, asking Vaifur if he had some spare water, he gives her some. Faiths thoughts starts to become foggy… she passes out- Faith wakes up.. in her bedroom, very out of it. As she’s looks around more, everything is a *little off* she starts to think she is dreaming. Faith decides to go down to her bakery… but there is in fact no bakery. She walks out to a balcony realizing she is in Blair. Faith starts to search for anyone around. Having no luck she reluctantly goes down in the *”not evil lair”*. There she finds Zen and Vaifur. Zen explains she has been asleep for 4 days now, that Vaifur… overdid it on the “water”. That he built a replica of her house to make her feel more comfortable too. Hoping she would stay longer. They talk and then start a tour of Blair. A lot of things had changed since Faith was last there. They make their way back to the “not house” and Zen tells her about a goodies chest they left for her. Faith gets excited looking at these gifts! Faith continues her day drinking the potions and having fun messing with the effects given by the beacon. “Maybe Blair isn’t so bad after all?”

### **Korns Return Home**

Korn wakes up on the stairs of the castel, unaware of the time that has passed since *The Night in Blair*. She continues on her journey home talking to herself about what they heard. It starts to get dark and Korn walks up on an abandoned house. But she is confused as she would have seen this before on her many travels to The Grove. When all of a sudden a crazy older lady runs out at her screaming about nether portals and trying to steal her *bones*. Korn is very thrown off and just kind of stands there, shocked. Then the lady just walks away and yells for her to *"follow"*. Korn is confused, but not scared so she follows her into her house. The lady starts to talk about magic- Korn by this point just thinks she is absolutely bonkers, but is going to humor her anyway. The lady tells Korn she is in the faction Turncloak..? The two continue a tour of her house meeting all of the ladys cats. Until she starts to talk about *bone magic*... Bone magic seeming to be a type of reading? So Korn just goes along with it, not like she had a choice not to. They start the reading, it consists of a lot of *"bOnEs!!"* But it concedes with *"You have no past, and your future is grim. Like murky water. The bones tell me that what you are here to do, is coming to fruition. The next step in your life is coming and its coming like a train at a sheep in the middle of the road. The only one who can stop all the sheep, is you. There are boneless sheep! So many. But, the boneless one they will join you all for riches, they will promise you a world beyond your knowledge. But this is not for you but rather his own gain. Do not trust this boneless one."* Then the lady starts to talk of a gathering? *The Market??* Where everyone... is going to be at? No, it cant be. There is no way Faith wouldve gone through with it... Faith and Korn had talked about how that wasnt a good idea- Faith agreed.. right? The ladys mouth moves too quickly for Korns brain to focus on one thought the entire time. Next thing Korn knows she is taking this lady to Turncloak, her home. "Cactus wont mind right?" she keeps telling herself, praying its true. The two continue on to the faction and Korn lets *Pink* live in her house.

### **The Argument**

Captain Slash wanted to know why Marce had confronted Jay, but more so what Zen had said. Having been threatened, Marce was not necessarily feeling talkative of the matter and let her temperament get the best of her, further making The Captain more suspicious. They get into an argument over why she wont just tell him. Slash gets super frustrated that his own first mate cant trust him over Zen. The argument ends with Marce secluding herself in her shop. Not even minutes later, Zen enters and tells her she did well in not exposing him too quickly for the sake of Lilikoi. After they left, Marce was tormented in whether to get help or to stay quiet until whatever plan they had comes to fruition.

### **The Hitman**

While Slash is reflecting upon the argument with Marce, he is collecting resources in the mountains. Unknown to him, Vaifur is lurking in the shadows waiting for the perfect opportunity to fulfill his *quest.* Once given the perfect chance Vaifur makes himself known and surprise attacks Slash, pressuring him up the biggest mountain around. Until eventually he falls off and Vaifur presumes he is dead. Luckily Raven too was in the area and saves Slash with is handy *clutch bucket*. Raven takes him to Blair where his wounds are tended to. Although, his arm is fully destroyed and cannot be used again. They make haste in getting the strength to get to the upcoming market event, knowing *they* would be there.

### **The Market**

Everyone gathers with the people of their factions and makes their way to the market. The market is hosted by Faith within the Grove, with games and people selling things. All is going well and people are actually enjoying themselves. At the start people are running around setting up their booths when Mei and Faith look over to see who is coming with the Turncloak group- *Korn.* She is just walking along setting up her assigned booth as if nothing has happened. Confused and shocked Mei and Faith confront her about being missing for months. But to Korn its only been days since the night they spent in Blair? So she brushes them off as if they just have a bad grasp on time. The Event continues and profits are made! Eventually Zen shows up, and the memories of that night in the Lair come back to them- "is it actually going to happen?" "is it going to be here?" Mei, Faith, and Korn cant help but start to panic a little bit at the sight of him. Nothing seems to be happening so they move on with the festivities of the event. Everyone eventually gets to the the mini games that have been set up, until Slash appears covered in blood and bandages, his arm in a sling unable to be moved. He begins to shout, exposing Zen and Vaifur for trying to kill him. Zen claiming he has no proof of anything, and that he couldve done this all to himself. Slash assures everyone that he did in fact NOT, and that the reason Zen is surprised he showed up- is because he was supposed to be dead. Mei starts to pressure Zen getting in his face and pushing him asking him if all he wanted *peace* why would he do this. Trying to kill someone doesnt really show the want for peace. Zen then replies "Ive tried peace, you dont want peace. So, you can have conflict." as he kills Mei for threatening him. Everyone runs off in chaos, Zen takes over the Grove by saying *"Leave, or you're next."*

### **The Mechanical Arm**

Midst the chaos of Meis death a small group of villagers find themselves in The Bone Ladies old house. This group consisted of Raven, Stein, Slash, Pink, and Korn. They discuss what happened to Slash, and try to wrap their heads around Mei… Midst their conversations they start to hear this deafening growl from an unknown source. Not knowing what else to do, Korn hurries them to follow her to Turncloak, in hopes Cactus can help Slash with his wounds. They venture there running as fast as they can. Once they make it, Korn decides they should go into Cactus’s ship to wait for her to return. Slash is dumbfounded by the sights of the ship- “There is no water? *and it’s floating?*” Once they make it up there everyone falls asleep exhausted By the days events… They all awake to a very confused Cactus who isn’t happy about the trespassers. The group explain that Korn had brought them there…. Although Korn is no where to be found. *“You mean the person who has been missing for months? Yeah right!”* Cactus laughs. Eventually they gain Cactus’s trust enough for her to help out. She starts talk of a lab she found a bit ago, but wasn’t confident enough to explore. They set out to find the entrance. Once inside they look around for a bit and Slash goes and lays down on one of the old beds. Cactus gives him some meds, putting him to sleep. She uses the resources left from the scientist before her to build Slash a prosthetic arm. *The base made of pure obsidian, gears and bolts of iron and copper, with leather straps and accents.* Once finished Slash finally awakes. Everyone checks out the amazing handy work, and Slash tests out his new arm. It works amazingly and is stronger than ever! “Let’s see what this baby can do.”

### **Mei in Limbo**

Mei opened her eyes confused to where she was, she looked up to see a huge tree with an open entrance, a path of glow stone, and a lot of lights around. The next thing she noticed is that there were a lot of chest around on the ground all over the place. She then looked at what it was seemed to be a Goddess. The flying *creature*, spoke: *"Welcome to Your Limbo"*. Mei started to freak out not knowing what anything was, she started asking questions and looking around. The Goddess explained everything in riddles. *"You can come back here, yes." "This place is made for you, and only you." "No, no one has ever been here before." "You make the sacrifice, you get your life back."* Mei starts to then ask this Goddess about them-self, why they are there and if it was lonely. Rambling until the question of "What is your name?" The Goddess was thrown off- not having an answer, just stared at Mei. Mei then gives them the name *Lily* the Goddess likes this, and accepts it as her name. Mei then entered into the tree seeing the sign "wanna continue?", she then opened the chest to see the flower of when Marce give to her "you are not alone :)" she asked the Goddess if that was her sacrifice, Lily replied yes. Couple days later Lily brings her some news telling her to see what was going on in the living world, it was her funeral. Mei watched everyone and everything but she wasn't really there, no one could see or hear her. After hours of watching Mei gets tired and comes back to her limbo. After that Mei realizes her friends actually care and miss her, she takes her sacrifice and throws it at Lily "I dont wanna be here anymore!"

### **In Honor of Mei**

Faith, Teebs, Jay, and Ruby all meet up and start heading over to the fountain in Fleoriat. Faith explains what happened at The Market, and people from other factions begin showing up as well. In honor of Mei, Faith goes up to the top of the fountain and places water to finish it. Everyone then heads over to the Fleoriat statue, everyone goes to give speeches in honor of Mei, however, when Red finished his speech, Faith and Red noticed that Teebs had written something on a sign, but broke it before they could read too much. Faith and Red ask why she wrote that, and Teebs asks Faith if she was also a demon. Everyone disperses into separate conversation. Faith overhears Red, Cactus, and Pink talking above her, saying not to trust anyone, and to use them as allies. People begin to leave, and Faith, Teebs, and Pink stick around a bit longer, talking about recent events. The three decide to do one of Pink's "bone rituals" to see what might happen in the future. As they do this, Pink tells them that they will meet again, and that she must talk with Zen. Pink tells Faith she will be "brought when needed", and that the bones had told something about her. Faith realizes that Pink is talking about, and tells her to leave, which she does. Teebs asks what happened, but Faith dismisses it and says she's going back to the statue. At the statue, Faith plants an allium and begins apologizing as if talking to Mei. As she is doing this, she hears a loud sound, and stops. When the sound stops, she puts her armour on and goes to check on Teebs. The two look around Fleo, but find nothing that could've made a *sound* like that. The two go back to Teebs's house and talk a bit more before going their separate ways. Faith goes home and sees the book Mei had written in, re-reading it. As Faith reads the part that says she knows and loves who Faith is, Faith sighs, saying *”if only Mei knew who I really am…”*

### **Raven The Brave Soul**

Raven set out to find Zen. He travels through the nether portals from Turncloak to Blair to get to The Grove. Upon arriving Raven finds The Grove *infected.* Vaifur appears at the gate, and silently threatens him. While Raven is trying to talk him down, Zen hears the commotion and appears, and asked Raven to come in to talk. Raven makes it clear he is only trying to find the truth behind the attack on Slash. Zen tells Raven the truth about everything. That Jayy really did hire Vaifur, and Zen then tells Raven his true plan to unite the faction by making *chaos*. Raven threatens Zen, but backs down in the end. Raven leaves the Grove hearing a mysterious voice behind him..

### **Are We All Crazy?**

> *Korn & Psycho*
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Korn wakes up, *alone*, in Cactus’s ship. There is a book on the floor reading: *“..just because I know you will return. We went to help Slash. Also, they are honoring Mei in Fleo, you should go there asap -Cactus”* Korn starts to wonder how she missed them? How did she sleep through all that? And how are they already able to host a funeral? The Market was just yesterday… right? As Korn starts to make her way to the ground she notices a dark scary looking being. “Who are you and how did you get here!?” She says with her sword out. The man looks very frightened and answers back “I- I’m not sure how I got here, but please don’t hurt me..” They talk for a few and he introduces himself as *Psycho,* a member of *Blair.* Korn not wanting to leave him there alone gets him to come with her to Fleo, and they advance in the travel.

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Teebs, goes into Meis old house looking for “goodies” Mei all of a sudden appears. Teebs tries to ignore her, thinking she was a hallucination. However, Teebs becomes annoyed and finally answered back to Mei. Teebs finally realized that *Mei is actually alive.* Teebs is still going through Meis containers so Mei helps Teebs find something in the community farm. Teebs then heads outside to see some new faces, Korn & Psycho. Teebs shows them that Mei is alive by a simple *punch.* Faith and Ruby show up, shocked…

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Faith and Ruby are talking in the bakery, and decide to go to the community farm in Fleoriat to do some farming. While in the community farm, they hear people talking, and Mei and Teebs come into the building. Faith freezes, staring at Mei in disbelief. Mei comes closer to Faith, which makes her back away in fear and confusion. Everyone leaves the building and begins talking outside, where Faith also sees Korn and Psycho. The group is still confused, and tries to get answers from Mei, but to no avail. Faith thinks that Zen could’ve done something in order for Mei to come back to life since he had killed her with his scythe and not a normal weapon. The group talks a bit more, and Faith asks Kor if there was something that Turncloak could do, such as tests to see how Mei came back. Korn says they could go to Turncloak to talk with Cactus, who might know something.

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The group gathers what they need for the journey and leaves to go to Turncloak. On the way, the group sees Vaifur pass by them on the sea, but he seems to not notice them. Everyone arrives in Turncloak, where they meet with Red, explaining the situation. As people talk about why Mei is alive again, Red mentions that he had seen a group of people coming out of what they said was a lab in Turncloak. Everyone decides to go look for said lab, and find Raven outside. Red remembers that Raven had been with the group from the lab, and the group follows Raven to the lab. When arriving at the lab, everyone looks around, seeing monsters in cells, overgrown vines and cobwebs, and redstone contraptions. Everyone gathers together and people begin explaining their sides of their stories. Raven tells everyone he had met with Zen at The Grove, and says that Zen’s plan was to force everyone to unite and take him down for the fun of it. Raven then mentions that Jay was the one who had told Vaifur to kill Slash. Raven also says that there is an “infection” at both The Grove and in Zen’s basement called “Wrath”. Faith and Korn also tell everyone what had happened when both them and Marce had been at Blair. The majority of the group agrees that they should all stick together for now, and figure things out one step at a time. The group decides to leave the lab and get some rest. They decide to bunk in the attic of the Town Hall, and everyone heads to sleep.

### **Who Are We?**

Faith goes to the bone sanctuary, and begins talking with Pink about recent events, as well as asking what the bones had told her the night of the funeral when Teebs and her had done a bone reading. Pink tells her that she was told about Faith being a half-demon, which makes Faith anxious. Faith explains that Pink can’t tell anyone that she’s a half-demon, since a lot of people had seen demons as brutal and evil creatures. As the two are talking, Red and Ruby enter the bone sanctuary, and Pink tells Faith that she should tell the two what they were just talking about. Faith tells them, and Ruby also tells the group that she is a half-demon. The group talks a bit more before they hear someone scream, and see them fall down past a window. They bring him inside, and Pink names the new demon Josh. They all talk together, and someone brings up that Zen is also a demon. Ruby tells them that she needs to leave, and leaves the bone sanctuary. The rest of the group decides to go visit Zen in the Grove, and they set off away from Turncloak. At the Grove, the group looks around, seeing the *wrath* everywhere. As they enter the castle, Zen approaches the group, asking what they are doing here. Pink asks Zen what they all are, to which Zen replies saying that Pink is a *traitor*, Red is a *nobody*, Faith is a *Lower Demon*, and Josh is *imperfect*, as well as mentioning that they are *missing* another one (referring to Ruby.) Red gets angry and attacks Zen, but is swiftly forced to retreat when Zen attacks back, nearly killing him. Zen tells the group that it’s worthless trying to fight him, so they might as well just ask their questions and look around the Grove. As they look around the castle halls, Faith notices a phantom in a cage, asking what it is. Zen replies saying it’s “Mei”, and Faith accidentally says that Mei is alive, much to Zen’s surprise, and the rest of the group’s displeasure. After some time, Red decides to leave on his own, threatening Zen before he leaves, to which Zen pulls out his scythe, telling him to go.The rest of the demons stay, and Zen tells them that this will be *the last time anyone enters the Grove unharmed*, unless they get an invite from Zen. After a little while, Josh mentions that he thought that demons were normal, to which Zen replies saying, “Where we come from, we’re normal.” Pink adds on, saying that they come from the Nether, which Zen replies saying that it is in fact not where demons come from, and that it is not hell, despite what they have been told. Faith later asks why Zen killed Mei at the Market instead of doing things the way they had planned: *peacefully*. Zen tells her that the peaceful option was a hope, and he didn’t think it would’ve actually worked, so he *became the villain that everyone needed to fight against.*

### **The Experiment**

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Mei decides she needs a new outfit, so she helps herself to Korns closet; knowing Korn wouldn't mind. She proceeds to look around the house talking about how she wants to leave- But how Cactus is the only reason she has stayed. While walking around in a daze, Mei bumps into Cactus. Who seems almost on edge and very erratic, running around in search of materials. *"I am a genius, because I just figured out how to beat the system."* Cactus says while looking through the Turncloak storage rooms. Insert Slash who walks into Korns storage room, Slash rightfully being shocked that Mei is standing in front of him- Knowing for a fact that he saw her die... He explains his reason for being there; he is in search of Cactus' help for maintenance on his arm. Cactus distracted, hurries off and continues her search.

Mei: *"So what are we doing exactly?"*

Cactus: *"An experiment!"*

Mei: *"You mean the one where you have to kill yourself?"*

Slash: *"So wait... you just came back from the dead... and you're trying to kill yourself??"*

*"Yeah.. uhh. Basically!"*

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Faith runs to the bone sanctuary in search of Pink, needing to talk with them. Faith expresses her concerns about the rumors with the experiment... she wants Pink to do a reading.. to see if everything will go okay- *"My brain is going wild! It's crazy up in here!"* Pink exclaims, interrupting Faith. Pink then brings her up to the reading room, but realizes she needs to make a bigger circle for this... They then begin the reading.. *"That's a lot of bones?" "Well.. a lot of bones for a lot of problems!"*

The reading continues: *"Everything will turn out fine.... for you at least. For Cactus- ehhh. But, I'm more worried about uh- youu... and uhh... OH its nothing... you'll be fine.. Things are going to happen.. One, by one, by one, our whole thing falls apart, because everyone is consumed by their greed; just to figure things out! It's killing us, all of us. Honestly, I feel worried, there is someone out there that I cannot see but I know they are there, and it is the most aggravating thing... I know that something is coming for us, but I don't know how.. I don't know where."*

Pink then touches on what Zen had told her at The Grove... that if she \*consumes\* greed; she may become young again. ...they agree no one besides the other demons need to know about that meeting- Pink assures Faith that everything will be alright, she promises that she will make sure of it...

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Cactus barges into the bone sanctuary helping herself to anything she finds. Pink and Faith alarmingly run down the stairs, annoyed from all of the sudden voices. Faith notices Slash's new arm, noting how cool it looks. Mei stops at the door noticing Raven peering into the sanctuary, questioning him, but getting ignored. Mei then frantically shares with everyone what Cactus is doing, and expresses her concerns. Everyone starts asking questions only getting more and more confused... Cactus getting frustrated, finally has everything and has them all follow her into the lab.
*"Let's go find out what happened to Mei."*

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Once in the lab Cactus has everyone clean up the area, and she then sets up her brewing station. No one is happy about having to clean up, but does as told anyway. Everyone being shocked with everything they are seeing in this place- Pink goes off to start a bone reading. Cactus explains that she has figured out a way to "kill herself without actually killing her" Everyone panics thinking that coming back to life might be a Mei only thing, and that this experiment may not be worth losing Cactus. Pink then speaks up and says that everything will be fine, and that Pink has trust in the bones to guide them. Mei then freaks out, and her voice changes exclaiming: *"You don't know shit".* Slash quickly steps between them, and tells them they cannot kill eachother here. Cactus then speaks up and has everyone but Mei leave the room. The group go into a side room, and start to discuss events that have happened since... The Market. How Korn has just been showing up randomly, after being "lost" constantly with no explanations. *"She is gone, then here, and then gone again.." "I mean she appears at the right times.. so, I guess that's fine" "At least its convenient."* Meanwhile Cactus is having Mei help her create the serum. Mei constantly asking if Cactus will be okay. Cactus just ignoring her, and asking *"are you going to help me or not?"* to which of course Mei agrees to. Cactus then says that the serum is finished, and has Mei get it out of the brewing stand. They walk over to the medical room, and Cactus lays in the bed. *"You ready?"* Cactus asks. Mei panicked says *"Noo... I'm not!"* Cactus takes the serum anyway. Mei sits by her bedside while she is under. Pink all of a sudden yells for Cactus and the group run into the other room, seeing green particles leaving Cactus body. Mei's voice has changed again, she is upset and seems almost angry. *"Cactus said you guys should leave, so I think you should."* Mei says holding out her sword at them. *"What are you doing, she looks sick, you need to pull her out!"* Mei's voice switches mid sentence, and she again asks them to leave the room again, they finally comply and walk away. Moments later Cactus wakes up... a little confused. *"We need to do it again! Hurry up! Give." "Are you sure?" "Give."* The others can hear the conversation, and are questioning why they would do it again- Cactus then takes the serum a second time. Pink starts her reading; *"I think Cactus is doing the right thing." "I think this is going too far." "no.... this isn't as far as it can go-"* They hear Mei's voice change once again, sending chills down everyones spines. *"I feel we just need to know more"* Slash says. Pink then chimes up and says *"People are going to die, is that what you wanted to know?* Faith requests to avoid this topic, and move on. *"You're gonna be okay right?? Yo- you're gonna be awake? Cactus? Cactus...?"* Mei continues almost begging for her to wake up. This time is taking much longer than the first, causing a panic over everyone. The group briefly talks about Mei's voice... they agree that it isn't normal, but that it isn't the time to worry about that. Cactus then wakes up, and Mei yells out in fear. They then rush back over to the medical room. Cactus looking much sicker than before, and coughing. Pink then throws a book at Cactus, telling her she will know what to do with it. They begin to argue if Cactus should take the third serum, almost begging for her to take a break. *"Cactus what are you looking for?" "Answers.. Look, you told me that everyone was looking for me, FOR THIS. SO.. let me do it." "How many experiments have you ever failed?"* Raven asks. *"Zero."* The confidence behind her words assures everyone that she will be fine, and Cactus lays back on the bed; taking the third serum. *"Just give it"* Mei's voice then goes deep again, and everyone moves away... *"Wha- wut.... wa, what. Ca- Cactu- CACTUS IS GONE!!"*