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!!!WARNING!!!
This one is going to be darker than the others. Do not read this if you're not up for disturbing stuff.
If Plant Island is lush, then Mirror Plant Island is overgrown. This place is by far the most dangerous of the Mirror Naturals..
As mentioned in the past, while Plant Island is like a deciduous forest, M. Plant is more like a dense jungle. However, the climate is not the main source of danger here. Sure, the slime storms are gross, but unless you're unlucky enough to be allergic to ectoplasm, they're harmless. No, there's something very different about this island that makes it so dangerous..
In the Main Timeline, RitRawt is known as a (mostly) harmless fungus that forms a peaceful symbiosis with its host. That is not the case here. M. Plant is home to far nastier, mutated strains of RitRawt. These strains can infect a wider variety of monsters, and all of them cause severe illness. While modern monstrous medicine makes them fairly easy to treat if caught early, new mutations pop up every few years, forcing doctors to start from scratch again. It's a lot like Earth's flu seasons. However, most of these fungi are mere athlete's foot compared to a particular strain. A strain that almost became the island's doom..
A few decades ago, there was an outbreak of a strain of RitRawt that was unlike anything that M. Plant's doctors had ever seen. It was both highly contagious and highly damaging, and was also the first known strain that could spread to the nervous system. Infectees began displaying slower reaction times, intense mood swings, and loss of balance and coordination. This quickly escalated into seizures, incoherent speech, and memory loss. None of the usual treatments were effective. Doctors were scrambling to find a cure before their patient's brains were completely devoured by the fungus.
Little did they know that it was already too late.
One night, as if a switch was flipped, the infectees underwent a horrible transformation. Their eyes went blank. Their jaws went slack as green drool hung from their mouths. Their bodies sprouted a mess of vegetation and fungi, regardless of their elements.
The monsters were gone. Only husks remained. And they seemed to only want one thing-
To spread the RitRawt.
If not for the Ghazts, the zombies would likely have taken over the island, and then the entire planet. With how greatly their biology differed from the Naturals, Ghazts were immune to the mutant fungus. They were able to fight off and contain the zombies without fear of being bitten. Eventually, a vaccine against this strain, now dubbed RitRawt-Z, was developed. They couldn't save those who had succumbed to its control, but they could prevent everyone else from meeting the same fate..
Today, RitRawt-Z is nowhere near as common, but it stubbornly refuses to go extinct. There are still zombies out there, so travelling alone and unarmed is ill advised..
BEHIND YOU!!!!!