ScootsRiver
A Baby Demon
The tree kinda reminds me of the "Heart of The Island":http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Heart_of_the_Island. Benevolent, yet capable of directly killing, able to make it's own decisions to shape the future, has a fair bit of power in it's own domain, but still needs protection, protection that it must itself deem worthy of protecting it... In LOST, there were even six candidates that were all worthy of protecting The Heart.
Only difference is, I don't think The Heart was sentient.
Only difference is, I don't think The Heart was sentient.