Monster's Awakening (Chapter 5: The rabbit and the wolf)
(Disclaimer:I'm still poor so I don't own any of these properties no matter how much I want to, MH is Capcom's and FE is Nintendo's)
Dialogue key
"Blast off" normal speaking
'Blast off' though
"Blast off" Monster speaking/emphasise
[Blast off] Telepathic dialogue
[Drago's POV]
The moment I saw her taking out the beaststone I knew that things took a turn for the worse, I grit my teeth in frustration.
'I know that I have a talent for pissing people off but I haven't done anything yet, this is ridiculous!' I thought.
"Panne stop this, now!" I hear Chrom shouting in the background.
If Panne heard him or not, I have no clue, because she got in her usual position as a dirt cocoon when around her for a moment, then she bursted out of it in her Rabbit form.
'Oh crap…' was the first thing I thought, I turn to see the some of the group coming to intervene, however a part of me is telling me that this will get worse if I don't resolve this now.
"Guys please! Let me handle this, I don't know what her deal is, but if it's a fight she wants she'll get it!" I tell them.
Robin looks at me uncertain of my decision.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure everything goes well" I say, hearing this Robin nods, but he is clearly unhappy about it.
I turn to see Panne still in her rabbit form growling at me, it seems she doesn't want to get others involved if necessary.
"Why are you doing this?" I ask calmly.
"I don't have to answer to you!" she growled.
"Very well," I take my stance getting ready for this "guess I'll have to beat the answers out of you" I say.
Panne clearly didn't take to well that, she pounces at me swiping her claws aiming at my face. I duck dodging the attack making her land behind me, however before I could get my bearings she launches a kick at my back, which causes me to get thrown a few metres away before falling down on my face.
'Ok, she is faster than I expected,' was my first thought as I pull myself up off the ground, 'better get serious or this could worse'.
I decide to go for the offensive and start running towards her, she seems to take the challenge and charges towards me. When we were close enough she curls up to a ball a launches herself in my direction, I put my arms in front of me to cover myself and charge to meet her attack.
The resulting clash sends us both relling back, Panne landed on her back while I was able to to recover and get myself in position.
Taking the opening I charge and slam on her before she could recover, and while it wasn't enough to break anything it did stun her.
I go and swing my claw at her, however she manages to twist herself at the last moment and makes me miss, taking the opportunity she swipes her claws at my face and,
*Swishh* "AHHHHHHH!" I screamed in pain as her claws struck face,my vision my vision going red for a moment.
I continued screaming in pain, I could feel the wound closing but that didn't stop the pain, I open my eyes to look at Panne who seemed shocked at what she did for a second before composing herself.
At this point I feel like something broke, a sudden feeling of bloodlust courses through my body, I grit my teeth to try in a vain attempt to compose myself, eventually the feeling won out and then…
Everything went red…
[3rd person POV]
Panne looks shocked as Drago's blood fell to the ground, the shock of possibly landing a fatal strike at him, the shock snapping her out her frenzy for a moment however when Drago opened his eyes her instincts kicked her back into frenzy.
Because what she saw were the eyes of a predator… And she was the prey.
"ROOOOOARRRR" a resounding roar made everyone in the area cover their ears.
Panne got stunned because of the loud noise when she felt something slam into her.
Drago then proceeded to hit her in her sides until she managed to shake him off.
Panne then kicks Drago in the chest with her hind legs, taking the opportunity she slams into him knocking him over, then she restrains his arms with her front legs, Drago struggled to get her off but found he couldn't.
Taking the opportunity Panne goes ahead and bites down on Drago's neck, "AAAHHHH" he screamed in pain increasing his trashing.
After a few more seconds he managed to kick her off.
As Drago stood up he held his wounded neck, Panne could see that he was healing slower than before, she knew that he was getting to his limit, however she herself has also getting closer to it.
The few hits that he managed to land ended up doing more damage than what she would like, she didn't know how long she could maintain her rabbit form.
Drago and Panne growled at each other as the slowly circle around each other, they were clearly aiming to end this with this last attack.
They charged at each other, both of them preparing their claws for a final slash, however before they could attack…
*BOOOOOM*
An explosion knocked both of the fighters apart from each other making them fall to the ground, they turned to the source of the attack, just at that point they see Chrom approaching Falchion drawn, Robin was in the back his hand stretch still crackling from the magic spell he launched.
"That's enough both of you!," He shouted "Any point you are trying to prove has already been decided, so either you cut this out or I drag you apart screaming and kicking!" he stated in the same tone he would use for his soldiers.
Both of them growled at that, however they backed down from attacking again, at that point Drago falls to ground unconscious reverting back to his human form in the process.
Chrom runs to check on him as Panne reverts back to her normal form looking ready to pass out.
Kellam and Donnel help her stand up as, as they go to the infirmary with Maribelle and Chrom helping to bring Drago along.
(-Line Break of breakiness-)
Chrom and Frederick stood outside the infirmary as they waited to hear news about Panne and Drago, they watched as Robin talk to Lissa about the status of the two patients.
"That was really unexpected milord" Frederick finally spoke breaking the silence.
"What part? The fact that we have a third shapeshifter or the fact that him and Panne suddenly attacked each other like wild animals" Chrom said
"Mostly the second, I'm aware that Panne isn't the most social of us but she has never acted like this before" Frederick responded while putting a hand in his chin in thought.
"Yeah, I thought it was just shock and confusion at first but I didn't expect things to devolve this way, I feel horrible for not acting sooner" Chrom spoke his voice tinned with sadness
"It wasn't your fault milord, none of us could have expected the situation to change that drastically" Frederick said trying to reassure his liege.
At that moment they noticed Robin approaching looking a bit tired from the recent events.
"Any news" Chrom asked hoping for the best
Robin sighed and rubbed the back of his head, "Well there's bad news and good news," he said.
"Please tell us the good ones first, if you will" Frederick replied, with Robin nodding at that.
"Ok," he clears his throat "so both of them, didn't suffer anything life threatening, thank Naga that Drago heals fast because he suffered the most amount of damage, Panne only suffered from some bruises and a few broken ribs while he had scars, bruises, broken bones, and who knows what else, he should be dead but he's recovering pretty well" Robin explained.
"And the bad ones?" Chrom asked.
"Both of them are still unconscious and we have no idea of how long they'll stay that way" Robin responded looking down sadly.
"We can only pray then…" Chrom said.
(Later) [Drago's POV]
Ugh my head...and the rest of my body, yeah everything hurts, I struggled to open my eyes...just to close them back because it was too bright...wait didn't this happen before?
Anyways I once again try to open my eyes, just more slowly this time, and managed to get them open and look at my surroundings.
I'm in a small bed, a bowl of water sat near me, seeing that the water was a bit dirty I can guess that it was used recently.
I let out a groan of pain as I sit up, my entire body aching.
I turn to see the crystal sitting in on top of...my clothes? Confused I look down at myself to see that I'm only wearing only my undergarments...and see a number of scars that were across my body from my recent fights.
"Man if the guys back at home could see this they'll probably they'll probably think I'm crazy" I mutter to myself a bit saddened at the memory.
Then I hear the door open and watch as a woman dressed as a maid comes in.
"Oh my, you are are awake!" the maid says surprised "I'll inform lord Chrom and lord Robin immediately!"
I nod at the message, and the maid leaves. I decide to start recounting the events of today, the good news is that I didn't need a therapy session to remember them this time, the bad news is that I lost control again, though it wasn't as bad as last time...I hope I'll be able to control this power soon.
After a few more minutes I hear the door open again.
I look up to see Chrom and Robin entering, accompanied by Lissa, they seemed relieved when they saw me.
"Hey guys" I said, my voice was a bit raspy which made me cough a bit, Lissa came and gave me some water, I smiled a bit at the gesture and gave her my thanks which made her smile a bit in turn.
"So...what happened?" I decide to ask.
"Well you and Panne decided to have a fight," Lissa said, before she started recounting the events excitedly...Is it just me, or was she too excited about it?
"And in the end you and Panne ended up unconscious, you were bedridden for a few days, Panne woke up just yesterday," she finished.
"Surprised that she didn't try to kill me while I was asleep," I dryly say.
"Drago she isn't normally like that" Lissa tried to persuade me.
"Could'd fooled me" was my response, though I couldn't help but wonder why she acted that way…Lissa looked down sadly at my response, I sigh at the look she is giving and rub the back of my head, "Sorry, I'll try to talk to her later" I say to her, that seemed to bring back up her spirits a bit at the very least
"Actually," Robin starts "there's someone that would like to have a talk with you…" he says nervously.
"Really? Who?" I ask.
"Me" a new voice responds.
Breaking a cold sweat I turn to look at Panne standing in the doorframe glaring at me.
'Oh fuck, this can only go wrong' was my only thought.
(End of chapter)
Hello everyone Dragon_XZero reporting for duty!
Before anything else I would like to say that I'm reuploading the other chapters the this shitty fic, I would like to thank my beta: Touhoufanatic, he managed to make this into something decent.
We are nearing the end of this little introductory arc, so yeah that will be fun.
So Panne won!...kinda, maybe, not really, she managed to stay conscious longer than Drago so take that how you want.
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