Strag's Story

The scouts' glance were grabbed by a strange whistling sound, not much could be seen easily, but their echolocative abilities allowed to show some other strange creatures sitting atop trees. And these noises seemed to resemble a way of calling the group over.
And so, out of the 10, 3 flew down. Gropping their rifles tight as the other 7 hovered above, aiming and ready to fire at these creatures as soon as danger were to occur.

Hovering in front of these creatures, the Flee spoke; "Hello, we are scouts from the Fleeair Empire. We come in peace."

The Strag look at eachother and one steps forward.
The Strag says, "You are the second things we've met. We do not know what the empire is but we mean no harm. We just want to meet more things. We did not like that last thing we met. So we got bigger and stronger. Have you met the big thing?"

"Big thing?" The Flee were confused, the only big thing they knew of were the ice giants. But these guys definitely haven't seen ice giants. "As long as there are no harm, we can stay in peace. If you are being threatened then you are welcome to integrate into the Fleeair Empire for protection as long as there is a small diplomatic meeting with our King."

The Strags ignored the last part.
"You mean you haven't seen it? Big thing. Scary thing. We think it... It rules the land."
The Strags then talk.
"We could show you it maybe... Only the eldest Strag knows where it is..."

"Our mission is to only survey the areas in a certain distance. We can't go any further for now." The Flee kindly declined, looking up to the others giving a signal that these creatures are not hostile. "A colony would be coming down here some time, you can show us then. I need to report this to our King now, so we must leave."

(I just noticed that everyone pictures the plains as if a literal plague razed it. It looks exactly like it was before the plague arrived.
It looks normal, fine, nothing out of place, animals still run about. The plague doesn't kills, it doesn't even wipes the memory of the beings unless needed.)

The plague beast graces the grass below him with his hands. He spreads the plague trough the earth now, and it rapidly spreads trough the entire land. However, the grass itself looks perfectly normal...
"Be my skin."

The plague beast inmediately feels the strange beings that the flying vermin told him about. "They're still here..."
A small marnen beast comes from a hole in the ground and climbs onto the same tree the flying beings and the small green creature are.

"King... Okay. See you."
The Strags climb down and go back to their "nest" of bushes.
They decide to make a wall hidden in the bushes by scratching of bark and they found better bushes and planted them and place them and made them taller so they had a 12 foot high camouflaged bush house with walls and a leaf roof. It was a big house but not so big with all the Strag inside. Strag had grown so they took up more room. they decided they would go outside every day and soak sunlight and water and eat berries and then come in at night to plan things and sleep.
The Strag liked the new house and hope the Flee things would come back.

The Flee flew off back towards the Northlands with the information ready to be shared with the King. A colonisation will be authorised with the warning of another sentient life and some 'dangerous' being who hasn't been located.
It won't be long until the Empire shall finally spread south.

The Strag realize the they are few they are big and strong.
They build a bigger house. Thicker wood, thorny bushes. A plank roof.
They create order.
They promote the original Strag to leader of the Strag. The Strag appoints jobs.
Berry Gatherer. Builder. Watcher. Farmer. Explorer.
They expand into two big houses of bushes and wood.
They dig with their claws to create irrigation for famring and so it leaks into their house so they can get water for their grass fuzz.
They establish rules that must not be broken. They plan their future. The Strag hope to become strong as the flees. Then they can meet the beast and learn about it.

The Strage evolved better minds.
And they decided to expand. they had 53 children who understood the world.
They built tools and within a few days they built a big town ((the size of a county)).
The buildings were wooden but not huts, they were buildings. they were coverd in vines and leaves so you couldn't even see or get to the walls. They were three stories high and there was 35 of them. They had wooden roofs and irrigation for the floors so they could always have water. The Strags kept evolving building more and making more. Some of them found a cave and released the stone was stronger. They mined it and mined all sorts of things. They made stone buldings and so they had 10 wood and 30 stone buildings. They crafted weapons of stone and iron and smelted things. they made shops. They had created a tiny civilization within days.
The Strag were so determined to become something bigger and like the Flees they never stopped working.
Instead of gathering berries they grabbed the bushes from all over the forest with berries and place them outside of their town for easy access. Then they farmed all sorts of plants. The Strag even created government, with the newest Strags being the council, and the oldest being a presidential group. It wouldn't be long before they discovered wheels and electricity and more.
The Strag were evolving and ready for what was to come.

The Strag assigned with exploring saw the Flees and elemental creatures and decided to follow them. He smelled them far away and remembered what he was told the Flee smelled like. (He is the new generation Strag, smarter, bigger, has iron knives, and can control nature elemental's extremely well)
Strag made sure to be stealthy while following them.
He had to follow his smell very far to get to the chilled northens but he did.