Strike Witches
The Winged Chronicles
Distress
Another month has passed and Yoshika is still in a coma, everyday Lynette comes in and greets her Mother who almost never leaves the room and just reads quietly, waiting, Lynette replaces the flowers next to her bed and leaves to continue her normal duties. Night falls and the base is asleep, Yoshika's mother has fallen asleep in her chair in the room as usual and everything is silent. (In Yoshika's subconscious) Fire rages in a endless room with Yoshika consumed in it, her voice screams out in agony as she tries to free herself from the pain "Help!, Mom, Lynne, anyone" Yoshika screams the fire consumes both her legs and her entire right side of the body, she falls to the ground in tears giving up. In the distance Yoshika sees a black figure in the fire walking towards her the figure starts to laugh malevolently, a sense of fear overcomes her. The jolt of fear pushes Yoshika out of her mind and back into the real world; Yoshika stricken with fear opens her eyes and inhales a breath of air. A sharp pain overcomes her lungs and she tries to get her bearings and figure out where she is. Yoshika instantly tries to grab her chest to calm the pain but discovers that she can't move her right arm. Scared she lifts her left arm and throws the covers off the bed, Yoshika in a sense of confusion and terror discovers that her right arm is gone. In a panic she lifts herself up and tries to feel her legs, the same horror overtakes her as she slowly lifts the covers and sees that her legs are also gone and white bandages.
Yoshika in exasperation puts the covers back over her body and franticly starts to look around the room. To her joy she sees her mother in the corner of the room sleeping, panicking Yoshika yells "mother" but no sound came out of her voice and only a sharp pain. Yoshika grabbing her throat feels something hard in her throat, panicking she width stands the pain and screams. An even more painful jolt emerges from the throat and with a slight tearing feeling Yoshika coughs and blood comes with it. With tears flowing down her eyes Yoshika tries to regain her composure and calm down, she puts her hand to her throat and tries to activate her magic, after a second Yoshika discovers that her magic isn't activating. Yoshika is unable to link with her familiar, and she fined out that her Shiba Inu familiar is dead. Now heartbroken Yoshika leys back on the pillow crying again and just lays there helpless waiting for dawn to come trying to call out her mother.
When dawn breaks Yoshika has calmed down and she has started to remember what happen before the accident and has slowly been trying to get her voice back, Yoshika noticing that her vision in her right eye isn't what it use to slowly puts he finger on her eyeball trying to get anything that's on it. When her finger touches her eye Yoshika could not feel the contact and she feels something metallic. Scared Yoshika looks in a panic for a mirror, at the side of her bed she finds one and she looks at her face. To surprise her face looks almost normal except a scar on her right side of her right eye, Yoshika sees that here eye is mechanical and not organic, thinking Yoshika came up with an idea who did this.
A nurse knocks and walks into the room doing her regular inspections. Yoshika sitting upright with her left hand on the blanket looking in the mirror turns to the Nurse who is speechless and say "good morning" in a slight chipper voice. The Nurse runs out of the room yelling for the doctor, all this commotion wakes Yoshika's mother who sees Yoshika awake. Amazed she gets out of the chair in tears and says "your awake" as she gives her a hug, Yoshika with a smile says "yes, I'm sorry" Yoshika's mother looks at her and says "don't worry about it, once your better we'll go home" , Yoshika shakes her head and says "I can't too many people depend on me". The doctor hurries in and starts to examine Yoshika and starts to ask a lot of questions.
About twenty minutes later Lynette walks through the door with flowers in hand and stops and sees the doctor talking to Yoshika in a chair, dropping the flowers Lynette bursts into tears hurries over to her with arms out grabbing her in a hug and says "Yoshika, I thought you were dead." Yoshika in pain from the hug says in a slight distorted voice "I'm fine, you're hurting me" as Yoshika tries to get some breathing room. Lynette lets go of her and with a sniff of her running nose says "how are you feeling" Yoshika with a slight smile says "I'm fine I'll be on my feet in no time" Lynette taking the answer to literally looks down at the covers and with a forced smile says "I'm looking forward to it." Lynette gets up and walking out the door says "I'm going tell everyone, I'll be back!" Lynette hurries down the halls and enters the dining room, with almost everyone there except Griffin and Mio, Lynette running past the door everyone looks at her on a confused look. Lynette out of breath says"Yoshika's awake!" after those words said everyone gets out of their chairs and hurries to Yoshika's room. Leaving Lynette on the floor almost trampled.
Everyone rushes into Yoshika's room to see for them self's, when they enter they Yoshika with a smile talking to the doctor in bed. Everyone pushes their way into the room to give her their praise. After the doctor leaves the group talk about what happened and what they did to keep her alive. Yoshika says "I'm soo sorry I caused you so much trouble" Lucchini putting her arms over her head with a smile says "it was a pain, so you better cook us something nice when you get better, heh heh" Yoshika smiles and with a determined look she nods. The group talk till the doctor comes in and tells the group that "visiting hours are over, Yoshika needs to rest" and the group disbands.
The following morning Yoshika awakes and starts to realize the limitations of her body. She needs help doing almost everything and the girls slowly stop coming to visit, except for Lynette and Perrine every day Yoshika's smile slowly disappears. On the second week the doctor releases her from the medical ward and Yoshika is free to go where she wants, as long as someone takes her. On the third week Yoshika has lost most of the will to get up in the morning and just looks out the window unresponsive to everyone. One day when Lynette and Yoshika were outside looking at the sea Mio walks by and sees Yoshika and her defeated eyes. Mio approaches her and says "I got the request from your mother to take you back home" the sentence causes Yoshika to look up at her. Mio in an annoyed voice says "I signed them" Lynette gasps at the statement. Yoshika in a quiet voice asks "why?" Mio staring right at her says "Why!, all you have done is sit here and feel sorry for your self, its time to go" Yoshika picking her voice up says "I dont want to, there's still people I want to protect" Mio yells "protect with what, you are having trouble getting the will to get up every morning." Yoshika knowing Mio's right with a caring voice says "I can change I can do something" Mio says "like what, How" Yoshika with tears starting to form says "i'll find something you can't just kick me out" Mio turns her back and with a hidden smile says "this is your last chance" and walks away. With Determination in her eyes Yoshika staring at the ocean says "Lynne take me to see Griffin" Lynete knowing why says "Yoshika, are you sure" Yoshika with a smirk says "I never been more sure in my life"
The Two head back into the base and start to head towards Griffin's room, when they reach Yoshika reaches forward and knocks on the door. A few seconds pass and Griffin opens the door with a slight smile kneels down and says "Yoshika I heard you were better, glad to see it" Yoshika with determination says "Griffin,Please, I need you to make me a some legs and an arm" Griffin's face starts to get serious says "why would you want that?" Yoshika replies "I need to go back to the battle field" Griffin stands up and says "No" and walks back to his desk and sits down. Yoshika shocked says "why, you did it for Lynette" Griffin facing her says "she was a special case, Lynette still had a fighting spirit, and she only lost half her arm, not half her body" Yoshika now distressed says " I still have the fighting spirit" Griffin says "that might be but its not enough" Yoshika panicking says "there's still people I need to protect and not matter what I'm gonna try" Griffin leaning on his knees with his elbows looks at the ground, sighs and pauses for a second. Griffin looking up says "are you prepared to accept the consequences if you go though with this" Yoshika says "yes" Griffin with a slight smirk says very well, I was hoping you would say that. Griffin stands up and heads towards his closet and pulls out a enormous case out of it. Griffin lays it on his bed and opens it. Yoshika and Lynette both enter his room and peer into the case. Inside are two metallic legs and a arm. Yoshika shocked says "you made this!" with a smirk says "you think I didn't visit you because I was lazy?" Lets head to the Medical ward and get things ready.
With Lynette and Griffin in the doctors room Griffin lays Yoshika onto a bed and says "Are you sure about this? You know the consequences of doing this is" Yoshika with a firm voice says "i do" and Griffin grabs his suitcase and opens it and with Yoshika laying on the bed he places each piece next to each limb there going to be attached to. Lynette holding her hands towards her chest just watches as griffin removes the bandages from Yoshika and slowly attaches wires to each other. Yoshika flinches from the pain as griffin says "it will get worse, since it might be too much of a shock were only going to attached one piece at a time" Yoshika shakes her head with pain and says "no attach them all at once" Griffin not approving this says "very well i'll attach all the secondary wiring and we will connect all of them at the merge them at the same time." As time passes griffin hastily tries to get all the wiring connected as Yoshika feeling like her entire body is being electrocuted tries to withstand the pain, for three scrutinizing minuets Yoshika takes the brunt of the pain with no pain killers until Griffin stands up and says "its time" Griffin gestures Lynette to come over, Griffin points to a clip and a switch right at the base of her right shoulder. Griffin says "when i tell you to go, you connect the clip and flip the switch" Lynette nods and Griffin takes the to clips and switches at her legs. Griffin looks at Yoshika who is sweating from the pain with tears in her eyes says "do it", Griffin says "NOW!" as the two connect and flip the switches. Instantly Yoshika back arks upwards from the extreme pain. Yoshika in soo much agony can't even scream, after a few seconds Lynette embraces Yoshika with tears in here eyes and says "Its ok, i'm here" as Yoshika fighting to look at her makes eye contact and her eyes fall backwards and she passes out.
WR*
My Apologies for the lateness of this chapter a lot of thing have been happening including being layed off from work, so its been a little stressful