LU 223 - Cashew 1

I was going outside to feed the mounts when something caught my attention, well, someone. Stella was walking around planting trees. How dare she, she tries to lock Shayde in some hold in the ground against his will and is exiled from the clan and she shows up here? I stepped out into the pouring rain walking toward her. When I got close she looked up and smiled at me.

*“Oh Cashew! How are you doing?”*

She planted another tree and it grew in an instant.

I glared. *“What are you doing here Stella?”*

She looked over confused. *“Planting trees? What does it look like?”*

*“You're not supposed to be here Stella.”*

My wings buzzed behind me, but the sound was muted by the rain soaking them.

She had been about to place another tree but paused and looked over at me. *“What do you mean friend?”*

As the tree grew so it covered me from the rain I tried to dry my wings a bit. *“Shayde told you, you were exiled from The Warden Wakers.”*

She turned to walk away to plant more and chuckled a bit nervously. *“I don't remember that, I do remember the death threats, but I'm sure you guys didn't mean those”*

*“I assure you, we did. And you have been exiled from this clan and the land it lays claim to.”* The rain started to slow.

She scratched the back of her head as she placed another tree. *“Yeah I don't understand why I would be, friend.”*

*“Oh I don't know, maybe because you tried to lock Shayde in a bunker against his will!”* My wings buzzed as I stepped inform of her.

She looked a bit surprised as the responded. *“I did it to protect him.”*

I stepped closer. *“It doesn't matter! You trapped him in a bunker against his will! You tried to take his freedom from him, it doesn't matter why you did it! He made the decision to come back here and fight with us, with his clan. He is our-”*

I stopped to correct myself. *“He is MY leader, me and the clan will follow him and what he thinks is right in this situation.”*

*“I don't know, staying in the bunker is much safer!”* she smiled as she grew another tree.

My antenna twitched as the rain completely stopped *“Stella you don't belong here, get out of here, before I use force to make you leave.”* I grabbed my lance, Fire Ant’s Venom, but I didn't point it at her.

She looked at my lance, *“That's a shiny stick you got there, very nice. But I do belong here, I mean my room is still here.”* She looked over at the glass dome that sat against the tree stump.

*“It's not your room anymore Stella.”* I moved the lance away from her. *“Stella we don't want you here. Please leave.”*

Stella looked a bit hurt as she stared at me, “W*ell that's not very nice… We are friends.”*

*“We aren’t friends Stella.”* My wings buzzed.

*“Not anymore.”*

She seemed to panic a bit and started trying to stall, *“Well I still have more trees to plant.”, “Hey, Cashew want to see a magic trick?”, “Wanna hear a joke Cashew?”* She planted more trees and I touched the leaves with Fire Ant’s Venom and they caught fire. *“Woah! Cashew don't do that your going to burn down the forest! Don't you care about Nature?”*

*“I care about my friends and helping them. Shayde doesn't want you here, I don't want you here, and if it takes burning down a forest to make you leave then I will. I've already watched one forest burn down around, I will watch another.”*

She started trying to stall again, *“Well trees are important, you know that Cashew, you're a bee!”*

I let her stall for enough, so I started again. *“Stella, you don't belong here anymore. This is your last warning, leave now before I make you.”*

She seemed to cave as she sighed, “*well can I at least say goodbye to my room first?”*

I thought for a moment before sighing and nodding. *“Fine, you can say goodbye to your room.”*

She smiled and I led her inside where she proceeded to say goodbye to every object, wall, and floor piece as we walked through the house to her room. She then went to say goodbye to everyone else rooms, insulting the hall that I haven't finished yet, and say goodbye to several random flowers. As I was leading her out of the base she turned to me.

*“Are you sure that isn't my room anymore? I mean it still has my name next to it.”* I then took my axe and broke the sign that said ‘Stella’s Room’ and Stella looked at me.

*“Wthat wasn't very nice…”*

*“Its time for you to go Stella.”*

She sighed again but nodded. *“Alright, lead me out of the claim.”*

And so I did. We walked all the way out to the forest where I stopped and turned to her. She looked around a bit.

“This, is it? Hey, look a chicken!” I looked over and saw a black chicken, it looked like the chicken I had a while back but it was just some random wild chicken.

*“Look! We can take care of it, I can be the mom and you can be the dad!”*

I gave the best-unamused look I could make as a bug.

*“Stella, don’t come back to the clan, or anywhere near its members or the base…”*

I turned to leave her and she walked toward me. I turned quickly and struck her with my lance, not a lethal blow, but Fire Ants Venom set her on fire and she backed up a bit and quickly put herself out.

Stella looked at me surprised but then her expression flattened, *“Oh, I see…”*

I pulled my lance back behind me.

*“Your acting on anger, fueled by rage.”*

She wasn't wrong, I've tried to be nice, I've let her say goodbye, let her take the things from the room she wanted, humored her jokes and conversation to stay as long as she could. I watched her disrespect me, I was already angry, but now I'm done.

*“Perhaps I am, Stella. Perhaps it's because of you.”*

*“Well I can see you are not happy with me, how can I make it better?”*

She smiled at me like she could fix this.

*“Leave, I don't care where you go, just leave and NEVER come back, Stella. You don't belong here.”*

I turned to leave her out in the forest. As I started to walk away she ran past me towards the base.

I took off after her. She got to the base before I did and blocked the door with blocks of iron. I banged on it with my pick axe as I shouted

*“Stella! Get this out of the doorway!”*

She removed one of the blocks and smiled at me. *“Hello Cashew how can I help you?”*

I took out my bow and aimed it at her and fired. It hit her and she stumbled a bit. *“Ow! Ok ok, I'll take them down!”*

She took the other block of Iron down and came out of the base. *“Ok I see that you still are not happy with me, do you want a hug?”* She held up her arms to hug me and I backed up.

*“You need to leave, now.”* I pointed my lance at her. *“And if you don't leave, then I will kill you.”*

She smiled a bit, *“how could someone so small kill me?”*

I moved closer to her. *“Quite easily actually.”*

*“Well, your fire stick hasn't done anything to me yet.”*

I snapped, I lunged at her with my lance and it took 3 strikes for the fire to consume her. Something happened, something to do with Stella being a universe I guess because she sort of exploded, leaving a large burn spot outside the base’s front door. I stared down at the burn mark left by the universe realised what I had done

*“...shit”*