The Special Care Unit is where people and creatures of the more special cases are treated. Its here Diane and Tricera are recovering among the oddities and monsters, as well as the deformed types.
"I got all bruised during that fight with those guys…" Diane sighed rubbing her arms.
"A giants durability is second to none, is what i hear a lot. Its safe to say that notion was really tested yesterday." Tricera said.
"Easy for you to say! You're more well built than me and youre wearing armor!" DIane abruptly snapped.
"Please, try to calm down Diane. This hospital really healed us up, and Elizabeth and King helped too." Tricera said. "I had no idea this hospital was especially designed to treat all manner of creatures as well as those in other clans."
"Yeah, this is the first ive heard of it. They do great work here too." Diane said.
"Make way there!" a doctor called as a group of nurses and doctors were pushing a large glass tank filled with seawater and the wreckage of a ship. "Set it over there with those two." the lead said as they acknowledged.
"A tank full of water with a shipwreck? That's treatable?" Diane asked in bewilderment.
"Excuse me? Im not a tank of water." a voice said inside. "Well technically I am but...I am alive." they said.
"Huh?" Diane said. "An enhanced I guess."
"Yeah. I am." a voice said. "Gimme a second."
A face materialized out of the water as three quarters of a body surfaced from the tank.
"Freaky!" Diane said.
"What do they call you?" Tricera said.
"Helen, thats my real name. But a good friend calls me Torrentia." She said.
"I'm still shocked a person made of water is in the hospital. How did this happen?" DIane said.
"Well…" Torrent Ioa said.
A few days earlier.
"This time, for sure!" torrentia said concentrating as she rose up from the waters of Atlantica and developed a body. "I did it! Finally! Now i can…"
"Red alert!" a voice called as a galleon was coming full speed at her. Torrentia screamed as the ship collided with her large body.
"I… didnt see that Galleon coming. And since i was big from developing in the ocean…"
"She was trying to develop a moving body unaware of a ship sailing right into her." the doctor said. "She was starting to deform so we used a tanker and took in as much water as we could."
"They say water doesn't feel pain, but they're big liars. That hurt a lot." Torrentia said.
"Ouch…" Tricera said.
"Would it have killed them to watch where they were going? Why were they in such a hurry?" Diane asked.
"It was a Pirate Vessel en route to Big Mom's Tea party." Torrentia said.
"You can tell?" Tricera asked.
"It was a large singing ship so...yeah." Torrentia said.
"Unfortunately, we weren't able to separate the shipwreck from her body. All ships in Big Mom's fleet are homies, so they have souls. When the ship crashed, the souls in the homie became trapped in the unconscious waters within her. Normally if a homie dies, the soul just vanishes. But considering they were trapped inside something non living, well…." the doctor said.
"Yeah...so they'll be spending a few weeks trying to remove these parts from me. Meaning I'm stuck in a tanker for a long while.' Torrentia said.
"Thats terrible! Im really sorry all that happened to you." Tricera said.
"Yeah. I probably should have checked to make sure nothing was coming before I tried that." Torrentia said.
"Wait...so...do you know those Dimensional Heroes?" Tricera asked.
"I do actually. They helped to protect the world I live on a couple of times." Torrentia said.
"Let me guess, you ran into Hope there too? He's a friend of our leaders." Diane said.
"Yeah. He's a bit annoying if you ask me but if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be where I am right now." Torrentia said.
"Annoying?" Diane asked.
"He used to drone on and on about Enhanced becoming heroes. But...it was thanks to that talk I got over my fear and protected everyone from Ursula the first time. Of course, i did have to spend awhile trying to reform myself from a whole ocean, but what i dont get was why he was so obsessed with helping me that time." Torrentia said.
"Maybe…. Its because he likes water?" Tricera asked.
"Ooh, maybe he likes you!" DIane squealed.
Torrentia blushed, the water in her tank suddenly boiling a bit.
"Wh-what?!" Torrentia said.
"Uh...maybe we should keep her emotions down." Tricera said seeing some of the tanker cracking.
"That is a glass container. Not a good thing for boiling water." a doctor said.
"Oh… so-sorry. I guess the whole thing with water being a sea of emotions applies to me too." Torrentia said.
"Its nothing to be sorry about." Tricera said. "You were just thinking about Hope."
"Sometimes i think he always has girls on the brain." Diane said.
"Youre the same with Meliodas, you know…" Tricera said.
"Hey… so listen… i heard about the attack you guys went through. Its been all over the hospital. I hope all turns out well for all of you." Torrentia said.
"And i hope you get better so you can go back to working on developing your body." Tricera said.
"Yeah, id better hope there aren't any ships to crash into when i'm all fixed." Torrentia said.
The two giants and watergirl laughed as they bonded over their experiences. Sometimes when injured, the most unexpected of friendships form in care and healing.
