Love Struck Delusion
Chapter 244 - It's not easy huh?
Zeta's POV.
"Just calm down. I need you to work with me. I'm going to help you. Give me your hand." I urged him as I reached out for it. Raptor was growling and very carefully I used my other hand to reach under my cloak. The second I touched my knife he shot forward in his chair to grab the hand I already had extended. Using everything he had, Raptor twisted my arm back and almost instantly I curled in pain shouting.
"Oww! Raptor!"
Cody got involved almost instantly the second he saw him attacking me. Going behind him as fast as he could, Cody wrapped his arms around his neck to start squeezing. The whole time whispering to Raptor.
"Calm down! Let go of her man!"
Raptor was trying to twist my arm off and I was in no mood to lose it, but the venom was taking him away from me at this point and hoping he would listen to Cody just wasn't going to be enough to end this.
Pulling out my knife as I struggled in pain to move, I managed to get it up on the desk and refocused all my efforts on just getting a better angle to work with. Considering I was basically bending back due to how hard Raptor had me in his grip, that wasn't easy to manage. However I turned on my own venom and quickly found enough power to move my hand back. Raptor just growled louder and began to focus on Cody. In a second he slammed his head back as hard as he could forcing the smaller fox to loosen up on his chokehold. At the same time I shouted.
"Raptor stop!"
The second Cody lost his grip, Raptor released my hand and decided to swing backwards. Cody threw himself backwards to avoid the strike, and that gave me enough room to jump in and give it my best shot at controlling the man. Raptor didn't care for it and the second I got a grip over his neck; he stood up from his chair and tried to struggle me off.
It looked like I was trying to put him to sleep because I had to force my body to cling to him if I wanted to hang on. Cody who was recovering from the near miss went for my knife and Raptor followed that up by kicking the guy right in the base of his forearm shouting at him.
"Don't fucking…..don't touch me! Let me go Zeta!"
"No!" I replied as I decided to try and take him down. Setting up my leg to go in between his, I managed to trip him up and together we stumbled into his desk with Cody backing up a few inches to tell him.
"We're trying to help you Raptor! Stop struggling and let us! You'll feel better!"
My eyes were staring at the knife as we were bent down right over it. Cody tried to go for it again but I felt my body start to panic as Raptor decided to get it with his right hand. Then he swung it at Cody who took a step back and shouted.
"Whooo!"
Raptor wasn't in his right frame of mind and I was left in a bad spot being wrapped around his neck like this. The second Cody backed off was when he slashed at me and I expected it to go for my arms, but Raptor flung the knife at my face which was right over his shoulder. I felt the sharp metal slash across my left cheek as he cut me open about two inches.
"Aghhh!" My scream was a mute point. I had to let go and my reaction to the pain was to back away and grab my cheek. The whole time I cursed and growled into my hands as Raptor went on to try and get Cody next.
Cody however was ready and when he tried to swing at him, he was met with a quick counter that ended up with him releasing the knife. Then Cody gave it all he had to tackle Raptor back into his desk. Combined leg movement took them both to the ground and with Cody on top, he shouted at me as I was bleeding all over my hands.
"Zeta! Help me!"
My body was kicking out of its normal phase of venom. I had to push it to just heal the slash I was given and very steadily I began to feel my feral side taking over. Cody was doing all he could to keep Raptor down and I was starting to lose my own sense of control, but I had to keep going. If I went feral I knew this would get much worse. With my wound sealing, I reached down for the knife and once I had it in my hands, I got down on my knees to get at Raptor's neck. His hands were wrapped on Cody's arm and using all I had I wrestled his grip off him and mounted the same arm I took over. Raptor had no choice but to watch as I began to cut down on his index finger. In seconds he was bleeding and I knew I got him good enough to feel safe. So shortly after I tossed the knife a foot or two away and ordered Raptor who was starting to gasp for breath.
"Breathe. Just fucking try to breathe Raptor. Calm down. It's okay."
Cody held on as did I, but we could feel his body starting to relax. When it was good enough to start easing up, I took off my cloak and wrapped the hood of it over the open wound ordering him again.
"Just breathe Raptor. Clamp down on this. You need to let it go out slow. Come on…...close your hand."
The hedgehog obeyed and after about a minute he closed his eyes all together and just started to breathe like I said. Cody let go of his neck, but remained under him as we made sure this worked. Cody however sensed my venom still being a problem and urged me.
"You need to relax too, Zeta."
I nodded but remained sitting on Raptor's arm as I did it. All the time I've spent nearly going feral gave me confidence that I would be fine after some time. So I just focused on my own breathing and after some time felt my face. The cut was gone but I still had blood on me as I questioned what to do now.
Raptor was breathing heavily and after another minute I spun around on my butt and faced him directly to urge him calmly.
"Look at me Raptor. Look."
His eyes opened back up and thankfully I was happy to see they were back to their normal purple color. Giving the man a small smile I urged him.
"Close the wound now. You're doing great."
The hedgehog now called upon his own form of fucked up power and after a moment more he said back to me in a tone I could remember.
"It's closed. Let me go."
"Not yet." Cody told him as we wanted to make sure he was under control. Raptor accepted that and once he understood why; he just let us remain at the ready just in case. We gave it probably five minutes. Halfway through I asked the man.
"If you left another scar on my face, I'm gonna kick your ass."
Cody began to chuckle despite the reality of that statement. I would kick his ass if I had too, but I was just happy this was under control. Raptor on the other hand shut his eyes to think. After a moment or two he replied
"I'm sorry. I….I….don't…..I don't know. I don't know what to do. I thought I could handle it."
"One dose maybe man, but not two. You're not trained and no offense, but viper venom is running on a track of its own. No one I know can handle two doses and that goes for every perfect user I ever met." Cody stated as Raptor soon asked.
"What did you guys give me?"
Keeping him down, Cody replied as I began to lick my hand in hopes I could muster enough spit to start wiping off blood from my face.
"I gave you one of my doses back when you went down in the mess hall. It didn't do anything so Peek gave you one of his."
"It doesn't feel normal Cody." Raptor told him as he quickly followed up by stating back.
"It's not normal. Peek's venom is on a different level. He just got cleared for Shader Industries's new user program. The venom he has is fitted with a custom strain of viper venom. I don't know what it is and I don't have any facts for you to hear, but Zeta and her sister are going to look into it. You just need to keep calm for a little bit longer. You should be happy, you're for sure one of the toughest sons of bitches I've ever known. Not even trained and you survived two doses of that shit. Come on now Raptor. Doesn't that make you happy?"
"I guess." He replied as Cody chuckled and told him next.
"There you go then. Just take another minute and breathe it out."
"Okay." He replied as I knew I was shit out of luck for cleaning my face. With my eyes redirecting themselves back to Raptor I asked him.
"How's your head feel?"
"Better. Thank you."
Very slowly I got off his arm. Cody also took it as his chance to let go and the second we let him free he just decided to remain on the floor. His hand curled my cloak and after I saw that; I reached back down to take it away from him. Raptor was staring at me as I looked over the hood to see it was covered in his blood. Letting out a sigh I joked in hopes he would smile.
"Gonna have to wash this now. Asshole."
"Does it help if I say sorry?" He asked me back as I shook my head to reply.
"Not really."
"Ahhhh." He moaned as I then said to Cody who came around to look at my face.
"Thank you for helping me there. I couldn't have done that by myself."
Gently feeling the spot where I had been cut, he replied seeing it was healed.
"No problem. Guess it was a good idea to stay behind after all. How's your venom? You looked bad there for a moment."
Nodding my head I replied.
"I'm okay. It was bad. I nearly lost it. Thank god you were here like you said. I just need to rest up. Which is why we even decided to come here." I stated as I looked back to the hedgehog laying on the floor. With our eyes locked he questioned.
"What?"
Grabbing his hand and pulling him up and back onto his butt, I replied while taking his hand into my lap.
"What are you doing tonight? Do you want to go back to your house? Pepper and Peek are already on their way back. I wanted to know since I plan to head over too."
Raptor took a moment to think. I stared at him with a smile as he soon replied.
"In a little bit, sure."
"Okay. Where's Molly by the way?"
Rubbing his eyes Raptor replied.
"With Blitz and Tusk. Pepper has been too busy watching out for me so she hasn't had the time to train her like I asked. Figured it would be for the best letting those two get their hands on her. Gives them something to do and believe it or not but Blitz asked if he could."
"Aww. You plan on letting those two go at some point? Or….?" Raptor began to shake his head.
"I don't know. Tusk has family here so it's an option, but Blitz is from the states. G.U.N won't take him back."
Squeezing his hand I replied.
"They might. As far as they know Blitz and Tusk could be dead. Not like Linnen said anything since he has no idea whether they lived after we got Gorgon from him. If you play it out right they could probably go back claiming they were captured by Archer or something."
"Or the anti-rebellion?" Cody suggested as I widened my eyes and stated.
"Or them. Not like G.U.N is friends with those guys either. They lost contact in Pakistan, so that could easily be what happened. They got separated from Gorgon and were captured after that. That would work. All they need to do is wait till the war is over and come out pretending like that was the case."
With Raptor looking back at me he replied.
"That's not the issue. The issue is they know too much."
Getting defensive for my friend, I told Raptor back.
"Tusk isn't going to say shit. He's on our side and Blitz hasn't gotten himself involved. They don't know shit other than you saved their lives and if they want to go back to G.U.N one day they are going to be forced not to say shit whether they like it or not Raptor. Trust me on this. They aren't going to say anything that could harm us. Do you hear what I'm saying?"
Raptor began to nod his head. After which he replied.
"I hear ya. I just…..I just can't think right now. Help me up please."
Keeping my smile, I got up on my own feet and then helped him onto his. Once standing he reached up to feel my face. I felt some warmth leave his hand as he told me calmly.
"I'm sorry about your face."
"Nothing a shower and some whiskey can't fix." I replied as he chuckled and gave me a small hug. I hugged back of course and urged him by whispering into his ear.
"Get your shit together. Let's go home and relax. I still gotta sit down and look over the venom we slipped you."
"Okay. Give me a few minutes and we'll get out of here."
Nodding my head, I then urged him as he tried to retake a seat at his desk.
"You need to let us know if you start to feel any of that pain again. Your body may still be reacting to it, but that depends on how strong the stuff you took was. It might be a little before it stops completely. I know it took me a few hours before my body went back to normal and I'm not a perfect user. Not to the degree Cody is."
The fox stepped in to suggest.
"I hate to offer up the idea Zeta, but what if he's going through the process of being a perfect user himself? It's extremely slim, but that could explain his condition. If he wasn't able to process it he would have gone feral a long time ago. His body might be capable of housing it."
"He could be, but right now that is the last thing he needs to worry about. You Raptor need to rest. If you were perfect I'd know. At the most your body can probably house the venom for use, but not for storage like Pepper can. You held on really long without much trouble, but it's too early to say you can be perfect. Your body wouldn't work if it meshed into your DNA and trust me, you'd feel that."
"I don't feel much of anything right now." Raptor went on to say as we watched him collect the knife off the ground.
Gently he handed it back to me and with care I got it back in my vest. At which point Raptor said to us.
"I'm gonna go steal Molly from Blitz then I'll meet you guys outside and we can go. Okay?"
Cody nodded and replied as I fixed my hair and got back on my mask.
"Sounds good boss. We'll be waiting for ya."
Raptor followed us back out and I watched from the top of the stairs as he went to go find Blitz. When he left my sight I decided to regroup with Cody who said to me.
"You know I never had to watch a man as much as I had to watch him. Shit is always going down."
"He's popular when it comes to having trouble. Part of the reason why I'm almost ready to glue myself to his back. Haha."
Cody began to laugh with me as we made our way back to the truck. I got the engine on but remained outside as we waited for Raptor. It took a few minutes but he came out of the capital with Molly running out as fast as she could. I got down immediately as she came running right over. She jumped right into my arms and began to lick my mask as I squeaked.
"Hey baby! How's my good girl doing?!"
"Braf! Braf! Braf!" Cody got himself inside the truck by this point and as Raptor got over to us Molly was already trying to climb onto my back. The problem however was she was getting big. She had to be nearing twenty pounds. As she nearly slipped off me before I could stand, I asked Raptor with some concern.
"Are you sure she's a coyote? She's getting pretty big."
Raptor gave me this confused look to reply as he opened up the back door to the truck.
"I thought she was? Marcus said she was and everyone I ever talked to said she was. You think we're all wrong?"
I wasn't too sure yet, but I replied.
"She's just growing fast. Coyotes don't really weigh all that much and especially not the girls. She might be a wolf too judging by her teeth, but I'd have to do some research."
"Well that would explain why she's starting to weigh me down." He went on to suggest as I smiled and got Molly down on my lap to drive. The girl was indeed not a coyote. She couldn't be. She was getting tall too. She was sitting in my lap and she was basically head level with me sitting down. Guess I have another project to work on when I get back to the house.
As we drove it became clear just how hungry I was getting too. It's been a while since I last ate and not to mention my mind was still going all over because of Raze. I had no idea what to think still, but that was not something I wanted to think about right now. I'd wait till tonight. I wanted to grieve but just not here.
With Molly sitting in my lap and Cody on his game, I looked back at Raptor using the mirror and caught his head down and resting. He had to be going through a lot. Even with what we just did; there was no way the venom was done with him. It was clearly taking his energy away and hopefully soon he'd be in bed resting like a baby. Pinkies crossed that's the last of the pain he'll have to deal with.
mT Shadow.