I was freshly starting up my career as a writer when I was but 21 years of age. It was at that time I had decided to get a closer experience with botany, (as I was currently doing research on plants for the book I was working on) and had journeyed into the mountains in the State of Washington. I had heard it got very cold up there most of the year; and that the trees were covered with snow during the wintertime, so I had waited until summer to make the trip into the forests.
As I was choosing one of the many trails that lead up into the woods on a not-too-hot but still warm day, I noticed that one of them had gone unused and overgrown. Curious, and thinking there was less of a chance the plants had been tampered with by human intrusion, I decided to follow it. Bush and flower brushed up and surrounded me as I went deeper and deeper into the foliage, briefly stopping to examine all manner of plants around me before I continued. After I had come to the conclusion there were no more plants in the area that I hadn't already studied, curiosity got the better of me as I wondered just how far up the narrow trail went.
I traveled deeper and deeper until almost half an hour had passed of me walking, though I did not tire. After all, I was young and had always had plenty of stamina. Especially considering my size, I had always been quite small for a man. 5 foot and five inches, only 114 pounds. Very petite though muscular, handsome face, pale skin, green eyes and brown hair at medium length.
Just before I made my decision to turn back, I came across a wide circular grove with all kids off different trees and fruit orchards. I wandered into the middle of the grove, my feet trampling lightly on the slightly wet grass which went up and over my shoes. 'What a curious place.' I thought to myself. 'It does not seem that anyone has been here in quite some time, not even the animals seem to have fed themselves on the berries growing on the bushes.'
As I bent down to examine a particularly brightly-colored ladybug sitting on a leaf, I heard a girlish giggling sounding throughout the air from behind me. Whipping around to see who could have avoided me after I had already checked to see if anyone else was near, I saw no one. At least; not at first, until the giggling sounded out again,only this time ending in laughter. My eyes turned in direction, searching for the origin from whence the laughter came, until they landed on an oddly-shaped green-colored tree which matched my own height. As I stepped forward to examine it, I realized it was shaped like a person with thin arms, and thin legs coming up from the ground. The arms were turned upward, as if it were a person covering their face and body with their hands. Where the hands should have been, instead there were wide leaves which the tree was hiding behind.
'I've never seen such a thing!' I muttered to myself in awe. And then it giggled! I jumped back with a start in surprise and watched as what had appeared to be arms began to move. The covering the tree folded into themselves as the arms pulled away, revealing: what looked to be a girl.
Or at least, what a girl would look like if she were a tree. The thin arms and legs were attached to a body just a bit thinner than mine, but with a rather large pair of breasts which were bare before my eyes. As my gaze traveled up, I saw that her face was shaped like an almond; with black eyes as dark as the pits from a watermelon, and shaped like them as well. Her mouth was thinly shaped and curved into a smile; when she opened it to speak, I could see she had no teeth and instead a small vine for a tongue.
'I have not had a visitor in so long, how is it you came to be in my grove?' she asked me sweetly, her voice sugared as if she survived on a diet of sugar plums.
'I just...followed a trail here, that's all. It looked as if it had been unused for awhile.' I answered her. She giggled once more sweetly.
'Not just anyone can enter this grove...I allow only those with a love for plants, and those with virgin hearts to enter here.' her legs pulled out of the ground and stepped forward to me. I stammered in surprise and tried to step back, confused by what she intended to do, but I found that I could not. Glancing down at my feet, I saw that vines had come up from the ground and had tied themselves around my legs. I looked up to her as her face grew near to my own.
'You don't need to be afraid, I did not appear before you in order to cause you harm.' she lifted up her arms and now I could see that underneath the leaves were tiny fingers. They reached out and touched my body, traveling and exploring the muscles underneath my shirt. Suddenly she pushed me back and I fell, my fall being stopped by more vines which had come up from out of the ground and had now wrapped themselves around my arms. They pulled me off to a larger tree in the center of the grove as she followed, stopping at it's trunk. I sat there with my back against the bark, quite dumbstruck at the events which were taking place as she knelt down and bent her skinny frame over my own.
'What is it you want with me?' I asked a bit fearfully. She knelt closer to my ear and whispered.
'Every five summers I must choose one human male to give me seed so that I may live, for the life of this forest depends upon my own.' she replied in a song-like voice.
'Seed? I am no plant, I bear no...' I trailed off as she held a thin finger to my lips and shushed me. A smile played on her thin lips as her fingers were directed to the end of my shirt, grasping it and pulling it up over my head. My arms went up as she took it from my body and threw it aside, her fingers returning and now caressing my bare skin. Although the temperature was warm, Goosebumps erupted as I felt her tiny hands play on the surface of my body, nearing the tip of my nipples and circling them. She moved her face forward so that all I could see were her dark eyes in front of my own, and it was then I felt two sharp pricks enter into my nipples.