From above you see the very tall trees are spreading a bit forming several small clearings. The beetle has been rolling his boulder chariot along, taking its sleeping passenger in a bumpy ride.
Who wakes up groaning, her head waves around as if she where on a boat
"Oh im feeling dizzy" she looks around to see she's on top of the boulder and that the beetle is pushing it in reverse as usual
"I'm tired and Oh I feel sick" She says grabbing her stomach "Im so dizzy I might throw up" she adds looking at her feet and noticing some sort of blueish color in her soles.
"Whait a minute" she slowly says, a doubtful frown on her face while rubbing her stomach. Who looks at the beetle, its trident horn, and looks up as if trying to see her own horn. Then, in sudden realization, she gasps open eyed and screams.
"Oh no! Im pregnant!"
"Hey mister!" She yells at the beetle who stops on the spot turning around to see her.
She jumps down from the chariot and defiantly gets face to face with the beetle, lifting her foot to its face, showing the blue sole
"Listen buddy" says with a menacing tone "You didn't nt got eggs in me with your jello right? I dont know how you do things here but you better not have me popping bugs out of my heiny or boy I swear I'm going to"
The beetle interrupts pointing up. There are some tall shrubs with orange sized berries hanging from it
"Food!" Yells Who joyfully while the Beetle quickly climbs the tall shrub and starts throwing berries down for her to catch.
Moments later, while sitting on a small mound, under the shadow of the big trees close by, they are both munching fruits
"Oh this made me feel way better, I guess I haven't eaten in a long time" Says Who, happily kicking her legs as she gives a look at the beetle.
She notices the beetle is about one head shorter than her in height, not thick but stout, and it's shell looks like an armor but with football shoulder pads. The three points on the trident horn that raises from its back look a bit worn.
"You know" she says while the beetle looks at her "I might not be your type, but where I come from" Who suddenly freezes, she can't remember anything but a feeling of a distant dream, a lonely person sitting by itself "I think I was lonely" she says looking a bit concerned that that's the only feeling she can remeber.
She sees the beetle eating pleasantly, then she looks at the boulder cart, which seems all worn down as if it had been traveling for a long time. She then notices the calm and silence of the whole world around them, it looks like a lonely place and this makes her realize that maybe the beetle has been alone for long "I wonder if you have any friends"
"Ok!" She taps a berry on the beetle’s shoulder "we will call these Orries! And Ill be sure I always carry some for you!" The beetle sees shes being joyful and imitates her.
"Hey, do you know how to speak?"
She asks and starts making motions and noises pointing at the beetle who replies makes noises with its small teeth and the something like whistling that makes sort of a prrrrrrrt sound.
"Hmmmmm. Do you have a name? Beetey? Albeetlo? Shelldon? well, they are all sounds to you I could call you prrrt! and you’ll" the beetle suddenly gets excited.
"Nooo" Who says with a stranged face "I’m not going to call you like a fart, just imagine! you would get confused all the time" she says while looking at the beetle’s horn with three endings.
"Ok I got it! Take a knee please" she jumps up and grabs a stick while the beetle stays motionless
"Okaaaay, we are going to need to work on that."
Who then throws a berry on the ground and fakes surprise "Oh an Orry!"
As the Beetle kneels to grab it Who raises the stick like a sword and with a royal voice and poise she says
"I hereby name you Sir Balthazar Ukulele Raedman" She pauses and looks at the trident "the Third"
And touches both shoulders with the stick
"But people can call you Burt!"
They both start jumping around and hug joyfully, and when they calm down, Who sighs in relief and asks.
"Hey Burt but for reals my belly will be ok right? Theres no babies in my belly right? Burty?"
Burt looks at the sky seeing a gigantic moon rising far away
"Burty quit playing games answer me!"
Later in the afternoon the landscape changed to a wavy plain with very tall trees that are spread away from each other.
On the further side of the forest they can see some mountains rising sharply, but they are hidden behind a thick fog, that is slowly seeping onto the ground as the night approaches, leaving a mist behind them.
Burt is joyfully pushing its carriage, in reverse like usual, with the boulder steamrolling over small bushes and bumping onto every rock.
Who is walking by his side, giving him a concerned look
“Burt” Who says while hugging herself “Have you ever tried like pulling the cart instead of going in reverse? Like instead of going backwards just stop and go that way”
The moment Burt sees Who pointing in the direction they where coming, he effortlessly stops, and just like if he wasn’t carrying anything he crosses his feet and twists in a quick WhOoSh!! Swinging the giant boulder chariot around putting it in the opposite direction.
Who sighs in disappointment “Well we know you are super strong so that makes it up for something right?” She approaches the chariot giving a careful sniff “what is that anyways?”
Who looks at the cart with detail, sees the branch made chariot, the bent solid twigs, and it looks at the giant boulder. its like a sculpted clay ball, and looking more closely, she can see signs of engraving, details, markings, and one looks like a gigantic face that has been eroded. Everything looks carefully crafted and extremely worn out.
“Burt how old are you?” Who asks while Burt stands proudly beside the chariot
Who then points at the sun on the horizon “Look see that” and starts drawing on the ground
“This is the sun, and it goes up and down and that counts as one, it does it again and that counts as two” she says and drawing two lines in the ground.
“Hhmm, counting days won’t make it”
Then she looks at the moon and remembers it moves slower in the sky
“That one Burt!’ Who says excited” How many suns go up and down for the moon to do one?” She asks as she draws a moon and starts making lines to add up.
Burt crouches beside her and after giving the drawing a good look, it scrapes a bit of dirt besides the lines and looks to Who
“Sigh, its ok, we will learn to chat a bit more ok?” Who says while getting up and starting to stretch while looking at the strange moon.
Burt looks at the marking he did on the dirt, there are now three lines. Then he touches his trident horn and looks at the moon on top, he jumps to stand up and goes back with Who.
Who is looking at some big flowers. She’s joyfully humming and slightly dancing to the tune while sizing the wide petals, trying to see if she could make some clothes out of them.
Burt turns and walks towards the chariot, he feels there is something wrong and looks back into the mist, he reacts alarmed and runs towards Who. She had just kneeled and gotten a flower on her hair
“Burty” Who says posing cutely and looking at Burt “Do I look pretty or…” she stops suprised to see Burt running towards her.
“No! Wait!” Who yells and kicks while Burt lifts her over his head and starts running towards the chariot, quickly throwing her on top.
“No! No Babies!!” Yells Who, pointing at him with a mad look. “Im pretty but Im not your girlfriend!” She yells again but Burt is not looking at her.
“What are you looking at” she asks, looking into the forest, the thick fog wall had gotten closer. Then, a slow crunching sound is heard, the treetops move far away and the mist starts flowing quickly covering the ground beneath them.
“Burty?” Who asks scared.
A rumbling groan is heard, and from behind the nearest mountain, she can see a giant shadow lurking, looking for something. It sees them, the giant glowing eyes start moving rapidly towards them
“Let’s go Burty!! Let’s gooo!!” Yells Who
The chariot jolts backwards suprising Who, making her fall toward, hitting the ground face first.
“I swear this thing is getting tiresome” She says while trying to lift herself
Burt runs and lifts her taking her back to the chariot
“Watch the hands mister!” Who yells while slapping Burts hands “Aieee!! Hummppff!” She groans as she lands on top of the chariot again, now gripping the basket firmly
“Buuuuuurt!!” She yells as Burt again pushes the rolling boulder at full speed, they both look at the giant closing in, the fog wall closing faster between them. But they don't know they are on top of a very tall mesa and that shortly there will be no place to run.
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