Green Inferno

John decided that he needed to test out Annie and Liv's fighting abilities. He had already fought Annie and Liv before but he wanted to see how well they worked when on his side. He had also only seen Liv in action as a zombie, not a **** Knight.

The three went to the forest to hunt greater dryads.

John cut the first Dryad to pieces. John, Annie and Liv were surrounded by a dozen more Dryads. Three of them swung vines out of their bodies, trying to trap them in one place while the others would stab them with hard branches. Due to the physiologies of Annie and Liv, the were both unharmed.

John tried to dodge or parry most of their attacks. The good news was that because the Dryad weapons were literally part of their bodies, any parry he or Liv made counted as an attack and caused them damage. In fact, the Dryads would react with pain when their blades were cut.

It wasn't long before the three of them had killed three of the Dryads. Annie began firing slime water at Dryads. Liv fired an ice spell.

"You can do that?" said John, surprised.

"I'm a **** Knight now" said Liv.

Apparently **** Knights had ice magic. John was hit by some thorns and began to feel sleepy. He noticed that the Dryads were gathered in the same spot round a very large tree. Suddenly the tree opened and out stepped a woman.

Okay, its wasn't the thorn like John suspected, he must have breathed in her pollen. Annie and Liv were both unaffected due to their psychologies. There were also many other Dryads to deal with. Now the Walker family had a secret technique for situations like this.

It had been passed down from his great-grandfather Joseph Walker (well, step-great-grandfather, I guess). It was one last all or nothing gambit.

RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!

John jumped inside Annie's body, using her substance to remove the effects of the pollen. Not wanting to drown, he quickly popped his head out as the Dryad queen approached.

"Listen, we can make a deal" he said.

"Really?"

"Yes, I can spare your life and you can become my sex ****"

The dryad queen was dumbstruck.

"Really, John?" asked Annie.

"I think I'll pass" said the dryad, "I'm going to kill you and grow a new dryad out of your corpse"

Liv climbed up a tree and shot ice at the dryad queen. She jumped from tree to tree, shooting ice at her opponents. Annie had the same idea. With John still in her body, she stretched her arm to a tree to climb up and began using her stretching to swing from tree to tree.

The motion sickness caused John to vomit on the dryad queen. Annie stepped up her game, firing a slime at a Dryad queen that burned her like acid. The dryad girl screamed in pain before absorbing energy from the ground that healed her.

"Are you kidding me?" said John.

Annie sliced another dryad from behind with her slime blade arm. John jumped from Annie's body and slashed the dryad, killing it. At this point there were only four Dryads left, including their leader. It was at this point that he realised, he should be able to use a healing spell with his biomancy as he'd be able to change his body from wounded to healthy.

He and Annie formed a plan. The two pretended to pass out.

"We got them" said the dryad queen, "focus on the **** Knight"

The dryads were now attacking the **** Knight. John could the opportunity to kill another dryad from behind. Another dryad attacked but John's agility allowed him to jump back. Liv hit the dryad with ice. With the dryad frozen, John smashed him with his sword.

"Fucking die!" shouted Liv, blasting the dryad with ice.

John hit upon an idea. He could use the collar to control the dryad queen.

"Liv, can I trust you without the collar?" he asked.

"Yes"

John took the collar off of Liv.

"You and Annie keep her busy"

Both Annie and Liv engaged the dryad queen in combat, allowing John get behind her and put the collar on her.

"What?!"

The dryad fell to her knees, sobbing.

"What have you done to me?" cried the dryad queen.

"You got a name?" asked John, "I don't wanna keep calling you dryad queen"

"We never needed names, I was a daughter of the forest"

"I'll call you Ivy"

"You see, Ivy, I am Prince John Walker. You will serve my people. In exchange, my kingdom will provide protection to your forest"

"You'll protect the forest?"

"Yes but you must obey me at all times. For example, you need to gather the corpses of the other dryads. We will take them back to my castle for research"