Hello, been a while sorry this is probably the only update your going to see until I can come up with some more chapters, but hey good at least I'm here.
Also the next chapter is when we really really start canon but I need to do some serious editing before then and again produce more chapters.
Now a word from FEN or Fever as I call her.
F.E.N. Nice and calm, for the most part.
Chapter 9 Hospital stay
When we walked into the ER waiting room my eyes immediately peeled to a pair of familiar people sitting on the chairs.
Xero looked like nothing happened to him while Wank, well, the blood covered shirt and the makeshift sling that her left arm hung in told me more than enough, I mean Deimos told me beforehand but still, damn.
"Hey!" Xero called over as I moved towards them Deimos told me he had to go back to the hideout and start making sure that whatever happened at the arena was erased or better yet unlisted so he just dropped me off with a bag filled with a couple small cartons of ice cream, a t-shirt we had bought at the ice cream shop and where I cleaned the majority of the blood off my bandaged hands and body.
"Nice Shirt." Xero noted that the shirt I wore was hot pink and had a large soft serve ice cream cone on the front.
"Thanks, not like we popped any clothes in Wanks car, weapons on the other hand-" Just to prove a point, before I sat down right next to them I pulled out the same P99 I had used before and held it for Wank to take. "-Got a bit of use out of this, don't ask, it was a street racer and after tonight I just don't wanna get into it."
Wank who took the gun seemingly let out a sigh of relief before she slowly slide the gun away into her pants pocket,
"So where were you in the end?" Xero asked as I tilted my head from side to side.
"Deimos is most likely going to compile the arena's security system and make a music video of what happened." I said with a shrug as I didn't really want to talk about what just happened.
"Ok… did you kill her?" Xero asked as I frowned.
"I think… so I mean I left a-" I paused as I saw a curious child suddenly walk by. "Well let's just say she won't be respawning… I think… ok it's really just fifty-fifty at this point." I decided to use game terms which Xero immediately understood and Wank well she just seemed to nod along in what I think was understanding, she probably heard the rest of us speak enough Game logic for her to understand a thing or two..
"Sooooo, basically she might appear again like a recurring boss." Xero simplified and I just nodded.
"Enough talk, I have brought ice cream for us all." I said wanting to change the subject and I remembered the plastic bag filled with frozen goodness in my hands.
Smiling, I casually pulled out two small paper containers and handed them over to Wank and Xero.
Wank was quick to take the container with the words vanilla chocolate chip and Xero took his cookies and cream leaving me with the strawberry ripple and vanilla swirl mix.
"How are you doing anyway?" Xero asked while I handed everyone their own spoons. I made sure it was plastic spoons that they gave us and not those crappy wood spoons that felt off.
"Deimos gave me some morphine when he picked me up," I started to explain and paused to take a small mouthful of sweet ice cream. "I'm on a bit of a high from tonight's activities, but I've calmed down for now." I further explained as I noted how Wank seemed to struggle in trying to eat her ice cream as it seemed to be too cold or hard for her.
"Here pass it here." I said holding my hand out, putting my ice cream on my lap Wank handed over her ice cream and spoon, with a couple quick pokes and stabs I broke the ice cream up and then started to mix it, slowly the ice cream looked more like chunks but after about half a minute it started to soften up to the point where it was more of a soft serve than straight up ice cream scoops shoved into a container.
Handing it back to Wank she placed her container in the hand of her broken arm before using her free hand to slowly start scooping up the soft mixture of ice cream with ease and slid the spoon into her waiting mouth where she found herself enjoying the taste.
"I'm going to see if we can get another doctor to look at you as well." Xero said as he casually got up from his seat without another word and left.
Now it was just me and Wank sitting in the middle of a semi-deserted waiting room. I should have known, seeing as this was the middle of the night that the only people who would be working in this place would be a skeleton crew.
Looking at Wank I quickly picked up that she was no longer wearing her doorag which allowed her long platinum silver hair to be free, but she kept her black goggles on, they now sat around her neck while her face mask was moved to sit under her chin which allowed her scarred mouth to freely consume the sweet treat that sat in her hand.
"Wank… about tonight I-" I stopped mid-sentence as Wank's bright crimson eyes turned to look at me. "-I'm sorry about what happened, I just panicked and… I should have never agreed to that fight." I said with a shake of the head but stopped when I felt something on my shoulder.
Looking up I found Wank's hand on my shoulder while she looked at me with what I could only guess was a forgiving smile.
"Alright I'll shut up for now." I said as I gave her a small smile, she nodded and went back to her cold treat.
Meanwhile I looked down at my own treat and shook my head before I slowly started to mix up the ice cream together.
I liked it better when it was soft and smooth rather than big and lumpy anyway.
One Week later.
Our short visit turned into a week of both Wank and myself in our own small little ward as we were quickly treated for our wounds, seeing as mine was the worst out of the two as I had a literal chunk of flesh being torn off me via someones own teeth, I was stuck in a bed and had to go through something like a skin transplant just so there wasn't a big flesh hole in my shoulder.
Then that led me to also having my aura unlocked alongside Wank's, but hers was so her arm would form back quickly and mine was to make sure the skin on my shoulder had adhered quickly and safely to my body.
God the things people can do with aura being involved.
So I was stuck in the bed for a week while Wank was allowed to leave whenever she wanted but instead stayed nearby despite her being discharged four days ago with her Aura and her new semblance worked overtime to heal her bone.
You know, I found it rather ironic that Wank got herself a regenerative semblance, so ironic that I had to stop myself from laughing at the idea that one of the most fearsome killers in existence who ends up dying through a time loop many times would just have an insta-heal on hand.
Still I was happy that she was ok and from the news I've been hearing with the Doctor who was in charge of me I would finally be discharged sometime later today.
So that was the good news, the bad news on the other hand… oh where do I even begin.
Yeah, actually no, everything was alright, no problems whatsoever.
Deimos had done me a solid and downloaded the whole list of music he had in his tacpad and placed it into all of our scrolls so I at least had music to listen to, he managed to get me that drawing tablet he had bribed me with, I was using it as a soft hum of music played through the room from my scroll.
I was currently doing a sketch of random things that had my attention, to be more exact I was just drawing scrappy Chibi versions of grimm doing random things like gardening or some shit like that.
Wank was sitting nearby as she was looking at another issue of the weapons magazine she had picked up somewhere.
I was supposed to be let out later today.
I just needed to wait for Xero or Deimos to drop off my clothes.
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"Where the fuck is Xero and Deimos?" I blankly asked out loud looking up from my drawing pad and looking at Wank who simply blinked in confusion before giving me a shrug in return, I don't know why but I had a distinct feeling that when those two are alone they could get into trouble.
3rd POV
With Xero and Deimos now
"What have you found so far?" Xero asked.
"So far I have found a lot of weird shit happening and by weird I mean this is not Remnant style weird shit." Deimos had informed before he held out a small amount of paper with random images. "Now I don't know about you, but I know two of these are from my world."
Deimos pointed to two of the images, one of them was an image of a giant man wearing a suit holding a giant shotgun while his face was covered with equally gigantic goggles and a face mask, the one that made the giant of a man weird so to speak other than his size was the gigantic nails that were shoved up under his neck and came out the top of his head.
The second one was an image of a man in a metal mask with hair like that of a clown while they held a stop sign, compared to the last one this guy didn't look all that bad. That was if you completely ignored the face he was covered in blood and that there were bodies all around him in different states of… dead.
"...I swear to god I saw this guy somewhere." Xero said as he took the picture of the clown and looked more closely before he widened as he remembered.
"Oh shit, yeah I know this guy, but instead of a person he was more of a… ethereal construct made up by-?" Xero's eyes seemed to narrow when his eyes caught one of the images, picking it up Xero's expression seemed to turn cold.
"Where was this taken and when." Xero demanded turning said picture to Deimos who just blinked in confusion as he looked at the picture and saw that it was a grayed out image of what looked to be zombies but instead of the usual green or gray coloured skin that most Zed's Deimos had dealt with these ones looked like they had tar covering random bits of their bodies and their eyes were obviously glowing.
"That was… Patch just the island off the side of the Vale, it was weird seeing as it's actually a good place so I heard, yeah there are Grimm that hang around there but the Island is covered with retired huntsmen and huntresses, and going by the date… a good ten or eleven years ago.." Deimos said with a shrug not really remembering too much about the picture.
"Shit, shit, shit!" Xero blurted out angrily. "She's alive, she has to be, of course I couldn't get away from her but if she's here maybe… no that wouldn't make sense." Xero started talking to himself in a hushed tone of voice before he just stopped.
"We need to go to Patch." Xero finally decided, catching Deimos by surprise.
"Ah sure… but before that… you mind if I finish this burger?" Deimos asked, holding up a cheese burger.
While they were having this conversation the two of them were in the hospital parking lot eating lunch.
"Isn't that Hamish's burger anyway?" Xero suddenly asked. "You know he's going to be pissed when he finds out you ate his burger and he's pretty pissed off with you already." Xero stared blankly at Deimos who just shrugged.
"I got him his tablet, he's not going to do shit." Deimos said with a smug grin before taking a large bite of the cheese burger.
10 minutes later
"AAAAAARGH!" Hamish roared as he launched himself at Deimos, his cybernetic hands wrapping around the hackers neck while Wank tried and failed to pull said hands away from the choking Deimos. "YOU ATE MY FOOD YOU CUNT!"
"Well I warned him." Xero said with a shrug as he ate a fry before moving over to stop Deimos from dying.
This time.
Chapter 9 end
