Strike Witches
The
Winged Chronicles
Strength
Beep,beep,beep. A pair of eyes open up and start to notice their surroundings, with mild grunt and groan Lynette starts to wake up from a sleep that she remembers nothing about. The constant beeping sound attracts her attention as she looks to her left side and sees a IV unit and a few pads on her arm and on her thumb. Lynette still a little groggy slowly raises herself with her left hand and not really thinking she starts to look around. The dark atmosphere with lights hanging from what could be described as a cave. Lynette looks towards her lap and notices that she isn't wearing her top or her PJ top, just her bottoms and a large white T shirt and a blanket. Lynette discovering this starts to feel a mild stinging sensation coming from her right hand, Lynette not thinking of anything lifts her hand from the cover to discover what the pain was.
As Lynette starts to raise her hand she notices that she couldn't move let alone feel her fingers, panic striken when she had her arm in front of her all she could do was stare in horror and see only gauze wrapped half of a arm and no hand, she ever so slightly thinking that she is hallucinating takes her left hand and moves it around where her fingers should be and telling herself "it's just an illusion." After a few seconds she discovers that she isn't and slowly Lynette starts to remember what happened the attack,saving Mina,getting hit but, she doesn't remember who saved her as Lynette without even noticing a single tear flows down her eye followed by another and another until she is crying uncontrollably.
After a few minuets Lynette starts to calm down and she slowly raise herself from the cot she was sleeping on and taking the cover she wraps herself with it and slowly starts to explore around the cave. When she turns a corner she sees a single figure working in front a table with a single lamp hanging from the roof. As Lynette slowly approaches the voice of Griffin says "I'm sorry i couldn't of been there to help, if I was there this wouldn't of happened," Lynette in shock says "you save me?" The voice replies "yes," Lynette asks "what about everyone else?" Griffin replies "there safe, they defeated the Neuroi and went back to the base expecting us to be there." Lynette asks "why aren't we there now?" Griffin replies "I didn't have the materials i needed at the base, i needed to act fast ad i made the decision to save you." Lynette with a slight surprise and after a slight pause in a faint voice says "thank you." The body in the chair moves slightly as Lynette slowly approaches and stands next to him Lynette sees a metal contraption in front of him and asks "whats that?" Griffin with a little pride in his voice says "it's your new forearm and your new hand, I've spent a week perfecting it and i must say it's my best work yet."Lynette stands there for a second until the word week kicked in, in a shocked and a slight yelling voice "a week!" Griffin nods and replies "It took a lot of time to set up the proper equipment in whats left of your right arm and make this" as Lynette stares at he gauze covered right arm and slowly starts to remove the gauze wrapped appendage to discover a metallic covered tube with groves a top hatch and covering whats left of her forearm right before the joint and her elbow. The metal was cold to the touch, no living thing was part of it. Griffin turns around with a large clank and a smile says "it's finished" Lynette with curiosity slowly reaches to touch it as Griffin tells her "if you want I will attach it, but let me warn you, the pain will be nothing like you felt before" Lynette's hand stops for a second and with a look of determination in her eyes she says "I don't care" Griffin nods and says "very well,lets get started then" as Griffin points towards a coat hook behind her and says "I took most of the blood out" and in a more quiet/embarrassed voice has his eyes looks away from her says "I didn't see anything." Lynette blushing a little bit grabs her shit and coat and inspects it, the faint color of red is still present, then Lynette remembers how much blood was pooling and she realizes how lucky she was to be alive.
Griffin leads Lynette back to the cot in the other room and brings some equipment with him, Griffin asks Lynette to lay down and he grabs a chair and sits next to her. Griffin grabs Lynette's right arm and places it on a small table at her level and grabs her new hand attachment and Griffin opens the plate on her forearm and takes a wire from the base and says "you will feel a sharp sting" as he connects it to her hand. The pain was tolerable as she nods telling him to continue,Griffin connects four more wires and Lynette feels every connection. Griffin looks at Lynette and says "this is the hardest part, after this the entire arm is connected, are you ready?" Lynette takes a deep breath and says "I'm ready" Griffin says "prepare yourself this part will be the worst" as Griffin takes the two pieces pushes them together and with a metallic click he turns it and locks it into place, in that instant lighting bolts start firing from her nervous system, Lynette shrieks with one of the most intense feeling of pain she has ever felt yelps as Griffin says "I'm connecting all of your nerves to the mechanism" and Lynettes head falls backwards and collapses from the pain and passes out.