A/N: So here's chapter 3, sorry for the waiting time! I'll publish chapter 4 right away too as an apology. This isn't as long, unfortunately, but I tried to make chapter 4 longer and the rest. :) I hope you enjoy!
Mei's body was trembling, the pain was felt in every vein of her body, and she was on the verge of giving up, but she was not allowed to do that now. She had fought for three days with the marshal, Marie and Chaoji. If you didn't know them, you would think that they wanted to die. Mei had lost count of how many demons she had destroyed, and how many was still coming her way. Her body was soaked in the stench of blood, and she was covered in red. She had almost lost the feelings in her legs, now she just jumped across the sky, slaying demon after demon on record.
An unbearable sound pierced through her ears, and her eyes widened. It was horrible sight. Aiden broke.
Shattered in small pieces throughout the whole place. She was stunned and unable to move, until she fell to the ground. Her last vision was a level three demon appearing, smirking, and aiming for her. His intend was to kill.
Chaoji saw that Mei was lying on the ground, a handle to a broken sword in her right hand. A level three demon was approaching her, and he had to do something. He destroyed the level one demon in front of her, before he ran towards Mei's body.
His eyes widened slightly, his left eye twitching. Where was her right leg? He destroyed the level three in front of her before he fell to the ground in front of him with a blank stare. Was she dead? But.. Mei couldn't die. She wouldn't. Mei would never allow herself to die in a place like this.
No matter how stoic and arrogant she was, and how much she despaired Chaoji, she was still his comrade. His family. A tear fell from his left eye, and just as he was about to scream in the agony, an Innocence fragment from the sword started lighting, and collected the fragments of the sword. Some of the fragments traveled from her right hand up towards her head, and Chaoji simply stared at the Innocence, which was making its way to her mouth, and down her throat. A hoarse cough and heavy breathing appeared from Mei. Was this?.. Chaoji's eyes widened once again, and he blinked more than once because he didn't believe the sight before him. Did her Innocence just revive her? Or was she just unconscious?
Either way, the Innocence had just given her conscious back. She was still lying with a heavy breathing and closed eyes, and Chaoji followed the light of the Innocence as it lit up where her right leg was supposed to be.
The leg was back, and at last, the sword handle started lighting, and her sword was back too. Chaoji didn't understand what was happening before his eyes at all, but her body was still covered in open wounds, cuts and bruises, so he had to bring her body back to a safe place.
Somehow, he managed to get her into the Garden of Eden, and the townspeople were mortified by the look at the young, wrecked girl in his arms.
"Is there a doctor nearby!?"
A man appeared and they laid her back down on the ground, where she had laid only a few days prior. He started stitching some of her opens wounds, while one of the citizens cleaned her cuts and bruises. She was severely damaged, drowned in her own blood, and it wouldn't surprise them if she had a severe concussion, too.
"Please, take good care of her!" Chaoji yell, before he ran back to the battlefield. If Mei was going to die, he didn't want her to die in vain.
The fight was finally over, and the battlefield was clouded in mist and destroyed demons. Tiedoll stood alone, gasping for his breath, as he scanned the place for more demons. The ground was tainted in blood, and his body was trembling. Chaoji and Marie were inside his defense technique, resting, and now it was his turn to return.
Tiedoll was looking at Mei. Her body was clearly in great pain, but she had managed to survive. It killed him inside to see her like this. Tiedoll knew that Mei had problems with The Order, and where kind of a complicated kid, but Tiedoll couldn't help but care for her as if she was his daughter. She had been his apprentice for over 10 years after all. He couldn't help but laugh every time she and Kanda was arguing, and how she always pretended like she didn't care about anything, when in reality, she cared about everything. Tiedoll could feel a tear running down his cheek. Mei wasn't ready to die yet. All she knew was The Order. Mei arrived as a small kid, and you couldn't say she was happy about that decision. She looked and acted like a clinical zombie her first years in The Order.
"Yes. We're on our way.. No… She's still unconscious. Yes, we're traveling with a bunch of Finders. Chaoji is severely injured, but conscious. Marie is better, but not much. Yes.. Aiden is all right. We don't know much about how or why, but Chaoji is talking about her Innocence reviving her. Aiden is a much more advanced weapon than before.." Tiedoll smiled at the thought. Aiden was evolving.
They arrived at The Order, and they had Mei carried to the paramedic's section where she lied in coma. Lenalee had hard the news of her arrival through Kumoi, her brother, and had rushed to Kanda's room. They arrived at the paramedic's section, and saw Mei's body. She was completely wounded up. The matron walked towards them. "She have a severe concussion, a ruptured lung, a ruptured tympanic membrane, four shattered ribs, a broken leg, a broken arm, a broken nose, eighteen shattered teeth, twenty-two open wounds, problems with her eye, a lot of internal bleedings. Chaoji was talking about losing her leg, but the Innocence reviving it. The scientists are examining that at the very moment," the matron exhaled deeply when she was finally finished.. To think that a teenage girl would fight to this extent. The matron had seen many wounds and broken bones in her time in The Order, but this had to be the most extreme.
"How long did they fight?"
"4 or 5 days straight, according to the rapport. Though Mei was unconscious the second day, and to the beginning of the third day. She went fighting again when she awoke, and ended up like this.." The matron looked like she was on the edge of tears. Lenalee fell to her knees tears streaming down her face. Her world was slowly falling apart. How many did God plan to steal from her?
Kanda didn't say or do anything. He was simply frozen, staring at the broken body in front of him. What the fuck was that idiot thinking of? He clicked his tongue in annoyance. The matron had left them alone with her, as they were completely out of it, both of them.
A/N: I'm not 100% satisfied with this chapter, but I didn't know how to change it without changing the story, but I tried my best! Thank you for reading!
