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Aleck was glad at least something was happening he could help in, and that there was hope for a shortcut.

He ran at the giant carnivorous plant, which moved by dragging pulling itself forward slowing on its tentacle-like roots. Aleck swung his sword, only barely scratching the plants bark-like skin. Aleck jumped back away from the gaping mouth and was tripped by a long tentacle-like root. He slashed it off with his sword, but it kept wriggling in a disgusting way. Aleck slashed at the roots, cutting a whole ton off, but they all kept wriggling around and inching their way forward on the ground. The monstrous mouth lunged down at Aleck, but he drove his sword straight into it. It pierced out the back, and the mouth snapped shut on the sword, resulting in a tug-of-war over the sword. The plant pushed Aleck over, hopped on him, swallowed up the sword completely, and digested it. It leaned over Aleck and stretched its mouth open wide. The mouth kept stretching wider and wider, and when it was nearly as wide open as Aleck was tall, he shoved his hand that was free from the wriggling tentacles into his pocket, hoping to find anything that could help him. Cards spilled out everywhere around him, and in a final act of desperation, he stabbed one card at the stem like neck. The card floated out of his hand, and began spinning in the air like a ninja star as it floated to his other hand. He positioned his hands on either side of the stem, and the spinning card passed cleanly through the neck, cutting it in half. The mouth, no longer supported by the stem, fell forward onto Aleck’s body, which it had been leaning over. The mouth was clearly still alive, and it started to close, but Aleck bent his legs into it, and pushed on the lower jaw with his feet while he pushed with his arms outstretched above his head on the upper jaw. The jaw buckled slightly once or twice, and then, it suddenly gave in to the pressure, and Aleck found himself folding the jaw backwards and inside out. Aleck jumped back and watched as the mouth tried to go back to normal, but it couldn’t. It kept wriggling around on the floor, though. Aleck stuck his  arm out over the cards, and they flew like metal shavings to a magnet and stuck to his hand. Aleck shoved them back in his pocket.

This fight hadn’t taken long, and Aleck could see the others were still dealing with the other two monsters.