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Fighting the Fate.
Chapter 7: Shaken to the core.
Dan sighed. The past few experiences had not only shocked him but shaken him to the core as well. To see his best friend breaking apart made his heart cry tears of blood. The once perfect teen was turning into a physically and emotionally suffering sick boy. Physically,he had became very weak and heat radiated from his body and could be felt if someone sat near him and as for his emotions,they were not stable. At times,he became depressed and cried,or seemed to go in a trance and talked about things which made no sense. He was scared of his constant horrid nightmares which attacked his mind in his feverish sleep. The IV drip was constantly providing his body the much needed water through his wrist vein. In all,he was standing at the cliff of a dead end,ready to jump and embrace the eternal sleep.
Right now,the Ventus brawler was staring at the plain ceiling blankly. Dan was trying to get him to talk but he seemed to be indifferent of his surroundings and had no interest in answering. It was all because of Shun's anger at himself. He was getting tired of nightmares and Keith had suggested that he needed rest so they might have to sedate him. This one thing was enough to flare him up as the raven haired teen hated it. Dan had somehow managed to cool him down and calm him a bit but it wasn't enough. Shun had cried in front of Dan. First an IV and now sedatives...all his memories came crashing back to him,haunting him,suffocating him,ironically laughing at him,bringing him on the verge of tears,fear and pain evident in his topaz eyes.
"Shun,come on buddy...talk to me..." Dan pleaded. His patience was remarkable as he dealt with his sick friend.
"There's nothing left to talk about." Shun answered,still gazing at the roof.
"Don't say that...you can't lose hope...we'll find the cure for you...I promise." Dan took his hand in his own.
Shun abruptly pulled his hand out of the grip as he glanced at Dan, "You know what Dan,I'm sick and tired of all this..." His voice was harsh, "I'm tired of all these promises. I don't need them. Every time some thing happens,all you say is that you promise. Promises are not enough to live and dwell upon."
The short out burst surprised Dan since his best friend was cool-minded and calm.
"Shun...I know it's getting hard for you to manage. We're trying to handle..."
"You don't know...you can't..." Shun turned his head away,frustrated, "I'm sorry...I just...I just can't take it anymore." His voice was low now as he shifted,his back facing Dan.
"I understand buddy.", Dan smiled sadly, "I know how you feel."
Shun coughed. His head was pounding as if some one was hitting it with a hammer. He groaned in annoyance as a wave of pain surged through his chest. All this pain was getting unbearable. He needed...escape...he wanted...freedom...
"Maybe you should rest buddy..." Dan placed a hand on his shoulder.
"No..." Shun shook his head, "Can't."
"Just close your eyes and get some sleep." Dan forced him again.
"I said no...I don't want to have nightmares again." Shun struggled.
"Shun...listen to me...every time you have nightmares,I'm always here to wake you up...right? Please...you need rest." Dan told him sternly.
"I'm scared..." For Shun to openly admit it in a low,barely audible whisper meant that he had high chances of a cardiac arrest.
Dan's heart missed a beat, "Oh buddy..." He finally decided, "Would you like to have a tranquilizer?"
Shun lifted his head,his eyes slightly widened, "I...I didn't say that."
Dan hated it but sedating his friend seemed the only option left now, "I'm sorry...but it's the only thing left to make you feel better." He gently ran a finger on his cheek which was facing up,tracing the red tinges which had appeared there due to sickness and fever.
Something stabbed the sick teen in his heart painfully as another memory flashed in his mind to suffocate him on the verge of tears of blood...
FLASHBACK
"Mom...why aren't you answering me?" Topaz eyes had tears in them.
Nothing but the constant slow beep of the heart monitor was filling the white room and cracking the heavy fog of silence.
"Mom...are you sleeping?" Raven hair were moving slightly by the wind but their young owner seemed as still as a statue.
"Sh-n..." The voice was quivering and the young boy had to strain his hearing capabilities to listen the word.
"I came mom...like I had promised last night." Young voice was filled with hope.
"I kn-ew...you-'d co-me..." The woman smiled or at least,tried to smile behind the transparent mask that covered most of her face.
"Have they used this mask so that you cannot talk to me?" The boy tilted his head to get a better view of his bed-ridden mother.
"No...sweet-heart...I ca-n...spea-k to...my...Shu-n." The woman resembled her son very much.
"Grandfather hit me today." The boy told,his voice hateful and topaz eyes shining with crystalline drops.
"Wh-y?" Talking was becoming a hard task now for the hospitalized woman.
"He...he said I waste too much time here...with you...I became angry at him and I...I shouted...I told him I'll never leave my mom...no matter what happens...then he...he slapped me...and I...I ran away and...and came here...to you..." Crystal trails formed on the pale cheeks of the young face.
The woman rose a hand shakily and touched her son's cheek,stroking it softly before closing her eyes. The hand became still and tensed a bit before falling back down lifelessly.
"Mom? What happened? Mom...are you alright?" The boy asked as his mother tried to say something but nothing escaped her dry lips. A moment of silence came and went by and then...
A long,constant,endless beep filled the atmosphere,horrifying the boy and shaking him to the core.
"MOM..."
His scream echoed and was over-ruled by the dreadful,terrific beep...
END FLASHBACK.
Shun tried his best to blink away the tears but in vain as the horrid memory repeated itself over and over again. Parts of sentences still echoed in his mind,
"The oxygen machine had messed up...fix it...NOW..."
"Commence CPR,the heart rate is dropping."
"-dangerously low...QUICK..."
"Remove the mask..."
"Put that one on..."
"-can't risk it..."
"-very difficult...it's hard now..."
"-almost impossible..."
"-not getting a response..."
"-extremely critical..."
"There's nothing we can do now..."
"-use that mask for anesthesia."
"-might not survive..."
The sick teen shuddered as the incomplete bits of sentences stabbed his heart sharply...making him cry out to stop the haunting voices, "STOP IT..."
His action startled Dan as the Ventus brawler shook his head and shivered violently,his teeth clenched and topaz eyes shut tight as he hyperventilated.
Dan sat on the bed and held him firmly, "Shun...Shun...look at me..."
But the teen got worse as tears spilled on the covers and his fever rose dangerously,reaching the limits.
"Shun...look at me...come on...try to relax..." Dan took his hand in his own,only to find it becoming cold, "Shun..."
He worriedly called Keith who rushed in the room, "What...? What happened? Is he okay?"
"I...I don't know..." Dan was holding the sub-conscious teen by his shoulders,who was sweating and shaking.
"Shun..." Keith tapped his face gently, "Come on...open your eyes..."
But his attempt went in vain as the teen gasped and choked.
"What the...SHUN..." Keith quickly began to rub his chest gently as the sick teen struggled and fought to breathe.
"He needs oxygen...Dan..." Keith looked at the Pyrus brawler expectantly.
"W-what can I say...I don't know..." Dan panicked.
"I'll get the mask...we can't risk his life." Keith got up.
Dan placed his hand on the barely conscious teen's forehead as Keith retrieved the object and stroked back his hair gently. He was extremely worried but at the same time,he was some what relieved to find the Darkus brawler by his side for help. Keith fixed up all the wires and with a deep breath,placed the mask on the teen's mouth and nose gently.
As soon as Shun realized something was happening,he began to struggle. Even though,the fever had drained his strength,he still tried to put up a fight. Dan held him by his shoulders firmly as his best friend tried to fight against the mask.
"Shun...buddy listen to me...it's just an oxygen mask...it will help you to breathe...calm down..." He was trying his best to restrain his best friend.
"Stop fighting...it's just to help you..." Keith grabbed his hand firmly which had the IV drip in the wrist as to stop the teen from ripping it out again, "Come on...be a good boy and accept it already." He sighed as Shun tried to pull his hand out of his grip and tightened his hold.
It took a good half an hour to hold him down before the fever crossed its limits and the teen fainted. All this pain and exhaustion was too much for him to bear.
"Shun..." Dan called unsurely as his best friend stopped struggling.
"He's unconscious." Keith exhaled as he checked the pulse rate and the fever, "And spiking up a high fever...again."
"How long is it going to continue like this?" Dan asked,exasperated,as he got up from the side of the bed and sat in the chair beside it,taking the lifeless hand in his own.
"I don't know what to do...where is the cure...what is the cure...I've no idea." Keith sighed,falling in the chair opposite to Dan beside the bed.
"We have to help Shun and we have to do it soon. He'll die like this." Dan's voice was filled with determination.
"I know that...but the point is...what can we do?" Keith raised his head before getting up, "I'll be back in a couple of minutes."
Dan nodded and the Darkus brawler left.
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Far across the distance,on a volcanic land,where no creature could withstand the barren dryness,a figure was sitting in a cave surrounded by lava. He was coughing every once in a while and magma's lust shone on his masked face.
"Ugh...this illness was meant for the others,especially the brawlers...not me..." He muttered,followed by a sneeze.
"Master...?"
"What?" Wiseman spat at his bakugans.
"You should make yourself a cure sire."
"As if I didn't know." Wiseman huffed out.
Boiling lava's reflection could be seen on his grey and black mask as he smirked evilly.
"Very well then...so be it. I'll prepare the cure for me only. But in order to do that,I need a special ingredient...I need...the blood of some one who has suffered this sickness...someone young and strong..."
He laughed menacingly as the an image appeared in front of him. Raven hair,topaz eyes and Ventus attribute...
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