(Just for hell of it, I’ll admit that the forest creatures, like the werewolf, are just pure improv.)
(Fair warning, this one’s a bit long)
Goldergon huffed and walked away, leaving Axel to his fate. He stroked a few trees as he wandered, humming a random tune.
Minutes after Goldergon had left, an abnormally thin, elf-like creature with small horns where eyebrows should’ve been approached Axel. She knelt down and looked at the boy with concern.
She spoke to him, but her words were a strange mix of humming, clicking, and groaning. She then looked around and moved to a strange tree with massive leaves nearby, placing her palms and bare feet on the bark and climbing up as if she were climbing a ladder.
She grabbed several of the leaves and climbed back down. She gently picked up Axel and placed him on one of the leaves. She then ripped apart the others and squeezed them a bit, tapping the now sticky pieces onto his wounds. She continued to do this for a while.
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Malcolm stepped back from the small machine and hummed, calculating. He looked at the blueprints, then the machine.
“You sure this will work?”he asked aloud.
Two blue flashes answered him.
“Alright.”
Malcolm grabbed the full vial of nanobots and gently dropped one onto his finger. He placed it in a slot on the machine, fiddled with the dials, and waited.
Moments later, three more nanobots formed in the slot next to the original. Malcolm grinned. He opened the lid and the three bots crawled away.
Malcolm then started testing the machine’s limits, slowly increasing the number of bots made. The maximum was a thousand, and the machine didn’t stutter when he turned it to that, nor when he turned the speed of it up.
“Brilliant. Shall I try one of you then?”Malcolm asked the two evolved nanobots that had made the blueprint.
Malcolm took out the other nanobots and searched for something to place the new bots in. One of the evolved nanobots volunteered when he returned, crawling into the slot by itself.
He kept an eye on the machine as it poured out thousands of copies. Malcolm opened the lid to the new bots and they swarmed, crawling to the floor where they burrowed. The floor seemed to ripple, becoming smooth, but mostly retaining the appearance of wood.
“Damn. A floor I have missed.”
Commotion started outside and Malcolm glanced out the front window, noticing many people moving away from what appeared to be a strange looking cat.
“What damned cat is this? Shit! Just as this day looked good, now an alien feline has to appear,”Malcolm hissed.
The nanobots had changed most of the floor in the room by this time and started crawling up the walls. They didn’t touch the furniture though. Malcolm appreciated that, though he wouldn’t have really cared anyway. He inhaled deeply, smiling.
“No more smelling old wood and sap. Damn, I love the smell of metal!”
