Chapter 06 - The Disaster


Gregor, Ripred, and Luxa where going through the halls when a guard ran up to them, nearly out of breath panting "Luxa... Aurora... Injured... Jungle... Was Attacked!" Luxa's face went paler than Gregor thought even possible, she looked as if she was going to faint, "Luxa... Why was Aurora in the jungle?" Ripred seemed to not notice the fact she looked as if she was having a panic attack, "I... I... I sent her out there to investigate, she was looking for anywhere there could be a large source of water... that... that meets the rocks... I guess she must have been followed by a patrol because of the suspicious behavior... She could have died because of me..." And with that, the guard escorted them down to the hospital wing, as they got closer they could see more people staring at them, wondering what was going on, when they noticed Gregor they gave him a polite nod, must have gotten word that I've been here, not much of a surprise anymore. When they arrived at the hospital room that Aurora was in, they looked through the glass and even Ripred nearly fainted, what lie before them looked much worse than even the Plague did, here was this once beautiful bat, now she was strung up to the ceiling upside down and her wing looked as if it had been ripped in half, there was blood everywhere, bandages were soaked and here wing was hanging on by some silken threads. Her body was covered in bald spots nearly as big as Gregor's head. There must have been thousands of bites, all oozing some sort of purple liquid, not blood, but something else, the doctors inside the room were dressed in what looked to be makeshift hazmat suits and were using syringes to collect as much purple ooze as possible. Gregor noticed something moving, something inside the purple liquid, as a drop of it fell from her skin it burst like some sort of egg and thousands of tiny worms spewed out of the purple goop. Gregor couldn't stand the sight, as if on cue Gregor collapsed with Luxa collapsing beside him a few seconds later.

When he awoke he was in another hospital room. A few nurses came and checked on him until he was cleared to leave around an hour later, apparently, He had collapsed and hit his head but Luxa fell over and knocked it again cushioning her fall. Eventually once he felt rested enough he stood up and started walking around, he looked around for Luxa but couldn't find her anywhere in whatever wing of the hospital he was in, so eventually, he left and went looking for her in her room. When he approached the entrance and looked inside he saw multiple people cleaning up her room, they must have assumed it was ok for them to come in now that Luxa was no longer secluding herself. Gregor entered and they gave him some polite nods, "Hey, do any of you know where Luxa is?" They all looked around at each other and eventually, one of them spoke up and said."She was in here, but when we arrived she didn't seem to be here." Gregor knew she must be hiding in the secret room, how else would she have just disappeared from her room. Gregor waited around the room, helping out the cleaners until eventually, they left, they thanked them for his help and he said it was no problem. A few moments after they left the room Gregor went over to the corner of the room and pressed down on the stone, the door clicked open and he crawled down into the room closing it behind him. Like he assumed, he noticed a torch flickering illuminating the room and Luxa was asleep down next to it in front of the prophecy. He slowly made his way over and tapped on her shoulder to wake her. She awoke, noticing Gregor and sat upwards. "How long have you been there Gregor?" she said rubbing the dust out of her eyes. "I just arrived, how have you been, with all that's happened, with aurora" She sat there, just staring at the flickering lights on the walls, eventually she spoke up and said "Well, the doctors say she's going to live but they don't know if she will fly again, and if she did not as well as she did before. As for the purple ooze, they said they have no idea what it could be, the creatures inside of it, they have discovered to be maggots, obviously for you, they must have been much larger, they said that if the scouts didn't find her she could have died and had those things eat her. They still don't know what happened, the scouts say they found her near a drinkable water source but she had landed in a pile of the ooze that must have been covered by a thin layer of grass." Luxa noticing she was rambling on stopped and stared at Gregor, "I'm worried for her Gregor, I'm her bond, I should have been there for her..." A tear started forming in her eye, Gregor wiped it away, "Don't worry Luxa, she's going to be fine, after all, If she's bonded with you, she won't let death tell her what to do." She let out a laugh, "You're right, she is as stubborn as I am." They crawled their way out of the tunnel and closed it behind them. Luxa looked around, noticing it was clean, this must have meant something to her because she looked sad, she must have thought of it as a reminder of who she had been waiting for eventually, she looked at Gregor for an answer as to what happened, all he said was "Well, that's what happens when you go to sleep in a secret room." They let out a light chuckle and left the room.

As they were going through the hospital, Gregor asked a nurse as to if she remembered how long he had been sleeping, she told him that he was out for about a day, they kept Gregor under because he had a minor head injury and didn't want him to be confused. Luxa must have woke up earlier than him if she was able to go to her room. This meant that they hadn't seen Aurora in most likely 20 or so hours, which gave them some sort of hope that she might be doing better. When they arrived at her hospital wing a few doctors were leaving Auroras room with some jars full of the purple ooze, one of them seemed only half full which must have meant that they finished. When Luxa and Gregor looked in, Aurora did seem to be doing much better as her wing had been stitched up more and all the cuts and bandages were replaced. Aurora's eyes seemed to flicker open, here gaze seemed to wander the room until eventually land on Luxa, she let out some sort of sound that was incomprehensible but Gregor and Luxa both knew what she meant, she found something, something very important, and with that, her eyes closed from exhaustion, leaving Luxa and Gregor to their thoughts.

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or around that area due to being on chapter 6 without them even leaving Regalia or putting a plan into place.

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