It was January and Jess felt good. She quit her job as a singing sensation, she is 6 months pregnant, and she is flying her very own and first kite. She thought about Taro and where he is. She thought how her plant, Twoey, was coming along with Deiara. Nothing could ruin this beautiful day in the clearing near Taro's forest.
"Hurray!" Jess exclaimed with glee, "My first ever kite! I'm flying it, I'm flying it! Fly kite, fly!!!" The kite suddenly fell on top of a skinny tree with black leaves and red bark.
"Alright then," Jess sighed, "Don't fly." She was about to get the kite down when it seemed like the tree was eating it. Jess screamed, then stared as the tree swallowed the remains of her first kite.
"Oh my gosh, it's a Kite-Eating Tree!" The purple-haired girl shouted, "And I thought they only exist in Peanuts." But it wasn't just some ordinary kite-eating tree. It spoke in a familiar voice.
"Hi Jess!" The tree said smiling.
"T-T-Taro?" Jess stuttered, "Is that you?"
"Yup." Taro said.
"AUUUUGH!" Jess fainted in a soft bush. Taro tried his best to bend down and see if Jess was okay, but he was only a tree so he only bent down a little.
"Are you okay?" Taro worried. Jess woke up slowly and then hugged Taro's chest made from bark.
"Yeah, but the question is; Are you okay?"
"I'm fine... I'm just a little hungry that's all..." Taro kind of regretted saying that. Whenever he said he was hungry, Jess would go through anything to make him full by giving him a lot of things.
"Okay, I'll give you something." Jess smiled and went to buy something. She came back with a very big, red kite. She then cut her arm and drenched the kite with her blood. Putting the kite in the air, she tried many times to fly it.
Jess: Little more speed, little more rope,
Little more wind, little more hope,
Gotta get this stupid kite to fly.
Gotta make sure it doesn't snag
Doesn't droop, doesn't drag
Gotta watch out for ev'ry little- whoops!
Little less speed, little more tack,
Little less rise, little more slack,
Gotta keep my wits about me now.
Gotta make sure it doesn't get the best of me
Till I get it in the air somehow.
Millions of little kids do it ev'ry day
They make a kite and-"poof"- it's in the sky.
Leave it to me to have the one fool kite
Who likes to see a little kid cry.
Little less talk, little more skill,
Little less luck, little more will,
Gotta face this fella eye to eye.
Now that I've seen you chasing moles,
Climbing trees, digging holes,
Catching your string on everything passing by
Why not fly?
Wait a minute,
What's it doing?
It isn't on the ground.
It isn't in a tree.
It's in the air!
Look at that.
It's caught the breeze now,
It's past the trees now
With room to spare...
Oh-
What a beautiful sight.
And I'm not such a clumsy guy.
If I really try
I can really
Fly a ki-
Before Jess could sing the word, Taro bit on the big kite and slowly ate it up. Due to Jess's spoiling, his whole body grew taller and wider. Jess screamed at her failure to fly a kite so she also offered the string as well.
"Here, you can have dessert..." Taro chewed on the string, but then spat it out.
"Sorry sweetie... I got to watch my weight. I've gained some pounds just now." Taro sighed and started to sob. He did not want to be a tree forever. Jess hugged him again.
"What happened to you?" She asked. Taro thought for a moment.
"Well I remember this girl coming into the forest, I talked to her, and then she hit me on the head and I woke up here as a tree..."
"Who was she?"
"Her name was Risa. She has black hair and purple eyes. She was actually kinda pretty with how she looked and with her sorcerer's outfit and spellbook. I told her that and she giggled and then said something I didn't hear and then hit me." Taro smiled at Risa's beauty. Jess got a little jealous at that remark.
"Don't worry, Taro-kun. I'll think of something..." Jess said, "I wonder where the rest of the boys are."
