Mountain, meet Endbringer | Glowfic Constellation

Yep! A woman casually holding a stick and dragging it on the ground as she walks, backed by two thuggish-looking men.

He's not about to come out to them. Trees are his power. He will shout in his language to clarify that he doesn't understand them.

They stop, and the woman with the stick asks a question in her own language.

The stick feels... weird.

He prepared trees in recognizably humanlike forms, for intimidation. A trio of these thump-thumps their way toward them. He tries to say 'no understand'. He's reasonably sure about the 'no' at least.

She doesn't look intimidated, but she pauses when she hears the words. She taps the stick against her leg a bit, then asks something.

The moving trees stop well away from her. They are partly a deception, with any luck they will forget the rest of the forest is his too.

He recognized 'you'. And says 'no understand you'. Is this a chance to actually learn significant parts of this place's language? "I am Tenno."

"I am Jua."

Tenno himself walks out in front of his humanlike trees. The worst she could do is send him home again, and it's not like this place has been particularly interesting so far. He's wearing armor now, of course, specially grown treeflesh.

He waves and says, "Trava, Jua." Hopefully it's clear enough that's a greeting.

She eyes him suspiciously and greets him back in her language. Her bodyguards do not do anything, and her stick feels a little bit weirder.

That stick is a weapon. He's positive. He makes preparations - a wall of wood between them, just underground, that can spring up in an instant.

But, visibly, he shrugs and motions at the sun. Can he get some actual language from her? Please? "What is name that?"

She smirks. "Jua."

"Hm." Well, who is he to say what they can name themselves. He nods approvingly and motions at a tree. "Tenno." Close enough.

Can he get her to name more things?

Maybe. How will he try going about that?

By motioning at them and asking what that thing's name is. Obvious stuff like 'ground' and 'tree' at first. He makes a fruit, points at a rock. He starts drawing pictures with mobile twigs if her patience lasts that long.

It won't. After two words she'll get bored and ask a question, pointing at him and then gesturing around them, sounding annoyed.

He shakes his head in as confused a way he can manage and says in his own language, "I still don't understand."

She groans and tries to mimic something, pointing at him again, then at her stick (which starts to glow very slightly when she does), then at his constructs, and then at the forest. She's saying something while she does it.

Time for visual aids. He makes twig drawing of a person not holding anything going into the forest and then going out the other side holding a piece of fruit. Drawing of people holding swords going into his forest and getting whacked by a drawing of his tree golems until they drop the swords or run away.

She seems amused that he apparently thinks he could take her on. She points at herself, then at the forest, then at herself again, and her stick is suddenly glowing much more brightly than it was. Before she's even done saying anything, she jumps towards him with the glowing stick, trying to stab at him.

3 things happen in quick succession. His wall of wood comes up. He starts flying up as quickly as seems prudent. Trees and tree golems start reaching for Jua.

Her glowing stick goes through the wall of wood and the trees like a hot knife through butter. She quickly climbs up the wall of wood and tries to jump and grab Tenno before he's too high. The two thuggish-looking men are way stronger than they look, and they already looked pretty strong, and try to hold the golems.

Jua lets go of the stick before she jumps, and it continues getting brighter and brighter and brighter-

The thuggish looking men can hold back the golems, but what can they do about non-golem-looking trees surrounding them, as well as roots and vines springing up from the forest floor? For that matter, the same attacks go after Jua. He's not trying to kill them, exactly, but he's definitely done being gentle with these savages.

Fates are fast fliers. Tenno is out of reach before Jua grabs at him. They are not that fast, so Tenno only has a few tree canopies and about fifty feet between him and the dangerous stick.

The dangerous stick goes boom.

Apparently the thuggish-looking men are fairly fireproof, and Jua herself touched the wall of wood and made it glow a lot to use it as a shield.

Except now it's glowing brighter and brighter again so she's running.

(Poor forest.)

That. Is. Enough.

The wall of wood flies after Jua as it glows. There are enough vines and wood gathered near the thuggish-looking ones that he can form a skin-tight shell. The two thugs are immobilized. Also suffocating.