Summary: Eris is down with a mysterious illness that has no known cure, and she only has a short amount of time left. One fateful day, Reagle discovers a cure, and a very desperate Eris pleaded with him to help her. He agrees, but only one one life changing condition...

Tags: Dark, Sad, Romance (Yes, Romance, but no weird shippings, promise).

Wish you were here

Prologue

There beneath the shadows hid a snow white eagle. Her breathing was short and shallow, and dared not make any slight movement. Sweat soaking her feathers, her heart was thumping in a constant pace: Ba-dum, ba-dum, ba-dum. Her eyes were focused on one thing: a butterfly dedicatedly resting on a flower.

Without warning, a paw gripped her feathers. "GOTCHA!" The shout caused the eagle to jump a mile high and the butterfly to flutter away in fright.

"Oh great job, Laval! Look what you... done! You scared the... butterfly that I was observing...away!" She yelled offendingly at the joker.

"Sorry Eris. It was just a prank." Laval said innocently. However, Eris didn't seem to buy it.

She scoffed in annoyance. Haha, very... funny." Sarcasm was dripping in her voice.

Laval tilted his head. "You don't sound good with all that wheezing. Maybe you should head back home and catch up some rest."

Eris slowly turned. "That… sounds good… See you… some other time…" With that, she spread open her wings and headed back home.

"Sure been needing to go home a lot these days," Laval commented to himself.

Eris flapped her wings in a clumsy fashion. Her head swam and her chest felt like it was strapped with a rope way too tight, making it a challenge to breathe. She staggered in midair as she felt a sharp pain on her wings.

Uh oh, better find someplace to land! Eris thought frantically as she scanned her surroundings. A tree! She'll just land on the canopy of the trees. However, she blacked out all of a sudden and tumbled down from the sky and collapse on weak tree branches that snapped under her weight as soon as she landed on them.

Regaining her sight once more, Eris could only witness herself falling along with snapped branches. She felt a hard knock on the back of her head. Something grazed at her head, and she felt a cool liquid trickle. The world spun around before her and she blacked out again.

Out of the corner of his eye, Laval could see something hiding under the shade of a tree that was covered in snow white feathers. He skidded his Speedorz to a halt. Wait, it was breathing! It was an eagle. He cautiously walked over to get a better look. The eagle's breathing was unnaturally slow, and it was bleeding. That eagle was… no way...

"Eris? Eris!" He immediately hopped off his Speedorz as it toppled over to the side, instantly forgotten.

The lion rushed over to Eris' side. He nudged her head, which flopped over. He lightly shook the limp eagle. "Eris?" Laval's eyes darted around the forest while his mind raced. He fell deep in thought, before he carried Eris on his back and got on his Speedorz. Without a second thought, the lion speed the vehicle out of the forest.

Driving a Speedorz at top speed while carrying someone else on the back was something vaguely challenging and dangerous. However, Laval didn't really care. He had to help his friend. Ahead, the Lion Temple came into view. On Laval's back, the eagle stirred.

"Mmph… Wha… Laval?"

Laval slowed down and looked back at the eagle. "Oh, thank the Legend Beasts that you're okay!"

Eris gingerly raised her head. "What happened? I was flying, then I felt a sharp pain in my wing, fell, something cut my head and I felt real dizzy."

"You passed out under a tree and you're injured. We're on our way back to the Lion Temple. You catch up some rest and I'll fetch some doctors to help, okay?"

Eris nodded weakly.

Laval flashed a smile. "You'll be back up in the sky in no time."

Eris lay her head down between his shoulder blades, too tired to care about being rocked back and forth.

Laval parked his Speedorz and bolted up the steep, golden staircase and to the fort. The guards patrolling the area were all staring in curiosity.

He ignored them and rushed to the guest room and laid her on the bed. He grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her head to stop the bleeding.

"You stay here while I call the doctor, okay?"

Eris nodded weakly

"Good afternoon. I am Nurse Eunice. How can I be of assistance?" A female eagle nurse asked as she stepped in the room.

Laval replied, "She was flying, then she fell because of a sharp pain on her wing, felt something cut her head, and now she feels real dizzy."

The baby blue eagle approached the bed and kneeled down in front of Eris' limp form. "Eris, how are you feeling? What doesn't feel right, dear?"

Eris tried to prop herself up on her elbows, but her arms were too weak and she fell back onto her back. "I'm really dizzy… and my chest hurts."

"Oh dear. I'll get Doctor Ester and we'll get you a full body test so we can see what's wrong, alright?" Laval left the room and waited outside as the door clicked shut.

Moments later, stomping could be heard down the hallway. "Whut happened? Where's Eris?!" A paranoid Rogon boomed.

"Keep your voice down, will ya?"

Rogon shook his head stubbornly. "Not whun she's sick!"

Laval sighed. "Okay. Here's the deal. You stay quiet, and allow the doctors to concentrate, then you can visit Eris faster."

"Alright..."

Half an hour later, Nurse Eunice poked her head out of the door. "For Eris? Come on back; the test is completed."

Laval and Rogon stood up and entered the room. Rogon immediately rushed to Eris' side. "Eris! How are yu feelin'? Everythin' okay?"

Eris gingerly craned her neck up, looking at the rhino with droopy eyes. "Tired."

A cyan blue eagle entered the room. "Good afternoon, I am Doctor Ester. How are you feeling, Eris?"

She looked over once again. "Still tired."

Laval peered across the bed. "What's wrong with her?"

"Eris has developed some disturbing heart murmurs, and her windpipe is unnaturally narrow. It's very unusual to hear them from young animals; usually the elderly get it." Ester replied as he turned to his patient. "Eris, have you had any recent fevers or throat infections?"

The snow white eagle drowsily shook her head.

The doctor looked at a clipboard. "Any family history of heart issues or asthma then?"

She shook her head once again.

Rogon rapped the end of a table with his hands."But she's yung, and she'll fly again, right?"

"We're waiting for the results of the test to be sure, but she'll need some major treatment in any case."

Nurse Eunice poked her head in the door. "Doctor Ester, the test results ready in the hallway."

"Thank you." He mentioned to Eunice. "Would you like you discuss them out there, Mister..."

"Rogon. 'Course I wuld."

Laval settled in next to Eris' bed. "I'll keep Eris company."

Rogon and the doctor left the room.

Eris had just nodded off when Laval heard a thump against the wall and the unmistakable noise of a shouting rhino.

Laval flashed an uncertain smile. "On second thought, I'm going to see what's going on."

Laval exited the room and into the hallway, eyes narrowed. "Rogon, what in the name of Cavora have you gotten into-"

Rogon was busy being restrained by the nurse, trying her best to block the rage. "Charlatan! Quack!"

Laval moved to help the nurse hold Rogon away from Ester's throat. "Rogon!" Laval snapped.

"This... this fraud is tellin' lies 'bout Eris!"

Laval ignored Rogon. "Doctor! What gives?"

Ester tried to straighten his coat and catch his breath. "I'm sorry, but we have no idea what kind of alien disease Eris contacted. There is nothing we can do."

"LIAR!"

Tears brimmed in Laval's eyes. "How long does she have?"

"About two to three months. If she's lucky, four."

Rogon choked through his sobs, "yu... l-liar..." Laval pulled him into a hug, and the two solemnly snak to the floor.

"Rogon... I... I'm so, so sorry..." was all what Laval could say as his friend sobbed into his shoulder.

The closed curtains muted the sunlight from entering the bedroom. Gorzan slowly pushed the door open, allowing G'Loona to enter.

Eris looked up. "Hi guys."

"Morning dude." Gorzan greeted in his usual tone. "

G'Loona stepped forward and handed Eris a bouquet of colourful wild flowers. "Freshly picked flowers from the meadows. Only the best for our friend."

"Thank you." Eris thanked gratefully as she received her gift.

G'Loona noticed a pile of books stacked neatly at the side if the bed. "Looks like someone gave you books."

Eris nodded and smiled warmly. "Yup. My eagle friends visited and left me this tall stack of books to kill boredom."

Gorzan stepped around Laval's sleeping form (he volunteered to keep Eris company for a day since Rogon was unavailable) and sat by the bed. "How do you feel?"

Eris hesitated for a moment before facing Gorzan. "Scared."

Gorzan nodded. "It's only natural to feel scared, but you have to be strong for your friends sake."

"This isn't fair!" G'Loona shouted, stomping her feet. "You told me that everyone deserves to live, as life is precious. This isn't right!"

Gorzan sighed as he moved to her side, facing her. "Sometimes things happen that aren't right, G'Loona."

"Unless somebody racks a cure for this horrible... sorry." She sniffed away a tear.

Laval lifted up his head half-heartedly and adjusted his frizzled red mane. "I'm sorry. I didn't notice you guys coming in."

"Nah, it's alright dude."

"Hey, anyone's seen Laval? He hadn't shown up since the last two weeks." Gorzan asked, not help but notice that their lion friend was absent.

"Doesn't he care about me anymore?" Eris asked fearfully.

Rogon threw his hands up. "Exactly! Why hasn't he beun by?!"

"Rogon." Eris said in an audible voice to her friend. "Everyone deals with grief differently. It isn't our place to tell Laval how he should handle his feelings."

"He shouldn't abandon Eris either!" Rgon yelled back. "That's it, I'm knuckin' sume sunse into his thick skull!"

"Don't you da-" Gorzan started, but the rhino was gone.

Everything was a blur as he ran across the hallways. He asked a guard for direction to the prince's room. Soon, the door to his room filled the rhino's vision. He began banging the door several times.

"Laval! I knuw yur in there!" He boomed as he banged the door again.

When the door did not open immediately, Rogon used his rhino strength to enter by force. He found his anger knocked out by the potent stench of a drink, but he couldn't make out what it was. Rogon leaped over the books that were scattered messily all over the floor. A frazzled lion sat at a desk with his back to the rhino.

Rogon's jaw dropped. "Uh, Laval? What's with the-"

"Don't disturb me! I'm busy!" Laval snapped as he hastily flipped the pages of a thick book, his back still facing the rhino.

Judging from Laval's personality, he would never even bother to even browse through a single book. Just what or who made him do this?

Rogon picked up a book at his feet. The title stated: Types of Medicine and their Uses. He picked up a second one and read its title: The encyclopedia of the eagle body systems. A third one was: Book of Medical Science Volume II.

"Must... find... a cure! No time to... waste!" Laval murmured in an inaudible whisper.

"Uhh... Laval? Yu okay?" Rogon asked in concern.

"No! Err.. yes! I mean... I'm busy finding a cure!"

Suddenly, everything clicked into place. The books, the cure… yes! Laval was trying to find a cure for Eris' illness! So that's the reason why he hasn't been showing up lately!

"Hey Laval, what du yu think yu're duin'? Didn't the doctor say there's no cure fur the illness? Stop trying, it's hopeless."

Laval whipped his head around. Rogon jumped back in surprise. His eyes were bloodshot and dark eye shadows were visible. Not to mention his frazzled, fiery red mane.

"And you're just giving up like that? Without even trying? You should be ashamed to say that you love her!" Laval snapped harshly, sending Rogon the meanest glare he could give.

"And yu're gunna study yurself tu death?" Rogon argued back.

"Look, Rogon. This is a life we're talking about, and a friend's life no less! I'm not just going to sit there, feel sorry for Eris and let her die on her bed!"

"What do yu think yu can achieve by lockin yurself in yur room and study nun stop?"

"That's because I care! I care for Eris and her well being! She's a great friend to me and I can't lose her!"

Rogon was silent.


I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ACTUALLY A LoC category! OMG!

Good lord, Rogon's accent was a BIG pain in the butt to write. It's tough to write the accent of someone who speaks like a moron.

I really hope the characters aren't OOC. I really really hope not.

Slight hints of LavalXEris are shown in the fic.