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More and more teams begin to arrive, teams like Team Beauty, the rest of Team Danger & Team Child, etc who werent apart of the main HQ headquarters, rushing to the scene.
Follo has never seen so many cleaners, let alone powerful givers all in one place!
Although a giver himself, Follo had only just gotten his powers LITERALLY A FEW DAYS AGO!! Not to mention being able to only use is ability once and then having to build that stress up again, yeah, no battle for him…at least not yet.
More and more people start coming out of the exit root, seemingly coming from the actual main entrance…the hidey hole / parking lot.
‘Shit, people must have wanted to leave immediately and went to THAT exit!’ His grip so tight around Alan that veins start to show.
Follo’s snaps out of his drowning thoughts by gris’s firm yet reassuring grip on his shoulder, he glances to his older supporter who gives Follo a nod then turns to the others
“ALRIGHT! All supporters and givers are needed at the parking lot, seems are fight isn’t over just yet and we need to support them!”
Gris says with confidence, hiding his own fear and worry but what he couldn’t hide was the grip on Follo’s shoulder that was trembling.
All standby support cheer in agreement, another team of givers whom just arrived offered to lead the team of supporters just in case I’m which Gris agreed.
“We will company you.” That voice…Zanka’s older brother with hell guards, seemly only a few due to the rest helping the crowd evacuate the surround area’s.
Gris nods, already informed by Semiu that Mildretta and Meriege made an agreement of being on the same side for the time being.
They rush in, Givers leading the group due to them being the only ones who can injure this non trash beast trash beast?…On the sides is where the hell guards are in a square like formation, supporters being in the inner square.
They all make sure that non of the crowd is injured whilst on the way. Making sure not to get in the rushing crowds way or that anyone has gotten crushed by in the intense fight that has broken out.
That's when they see Riyo with the twins, along side them is Bro, Dear, Guita, August, Amo, Fuu…or Hii?…ugh WHO CARES RN all that matters is that we were able to find each other!!
Rushing to the same Area but coming from the stage direction….just like the report said.
But then, 3 people goes a different direction…August who rushes towards the back exit with a LONG ASS EXTENSION CORD with Fuu carrying Amo.
Most likely the best for this situation, Amo didn’t have a grasp on her powers just yet…Fuu happily running with a beaming and giddy smile whilst holding Amo… just happy to be ordered around.
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Moments before: With Twins, Riyo, team Child, etc.
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Bro heads in first as he leads the group to the backstage exit as it leaded an easier path to the hidey hole.
They run into August backstage with a girl with short sheek, straight white hair with a sword…Hyo and the event organiser…Miss Wing.
August has a long cord in hand, “THANKS AGAIN YO” August says as he was about to dash out the room, pausing as a familiar voice echo’s through the hallway where the unconscious staff members lay.
“AUGUST!” It’s Riyo’s voice, August turns. Relived to see them alright and that more fighters have arrived so quickly!
Behind the group follows Fuu and Amo, seemingly unaware that the group hasnt noticed them yet. Just quickly and quietly following as unsure what to do next, ‘poor kiddo’s!!’ is all August thinks before glancing back to Riyo as Bro, Guita, Dear and the twins rush past him.
“The fight has moved to the car park area, supporters are moving the injured to the back exit where Eishia is at!”
Riyo quickly says, bolting out the door, then yelling out to Amo and Fuu. “You two stay with August!! Fuu, protect Amo and August! Make sure that cord finds its way to Eishia!”
“Yes ma’am!” Fuu happily agrees however Amo frowns… she knows this is for the best as she doesn’t have a grasp on her powers but Amo couldn’t help but feel kinda useless—
“Alright!” Cuts through Amo’s thought, both Fuu and Amo glance at August.
“Let’s get going, if we are behind them then we’ll be protected at least until we gotta split!”
Fuu nods, picking up Amo again. Amo doesn't stop him or reject the fact she is being carried, she liked it in all honesty…It didn't feel, gross…the dirty feeling…
It…
It feels controllable, like she could say no and Fuu wouldn't push her…
He didn't even try to get all handsy…
“Right-“ Fuu gets cut off by the door they just came slamming opening with such a force, the bang echoed.
Supporters and hell guard rush down the hallway, the hell guard immediately cuffing Felix and Gil whilst the supporters check up on the unconscious staff members.
August bolt out which Fuu takes a moment to process that August already started leaving and quickly hurries behind him with Amo in his arms.
Carefully protecting her whilst Amo holds onto him to not be jousted.
They follow behind the group until they run into the hell guard with the cleaners and supporters rushing towards the same area.
The hidey hole, the car park…
August and Fuu run toward the back exit, Amo glances around…she is unsure what else to do in this situation, until she sees Eishia healing Zanka to the best of her abilities with the rest of the battery she has left.
August immediately joins her and hands her the cord “RIGHTO SIS! TIME FOR YA TO DO YA THING!!”
Eishia immediately locks in, nodding as she disconnects her cord from the power bank then reconnecting it to the extension cord.
Fuu, Amo and August watch at first then start helping those who are injured to be moved to Eishia more easily and quicker along with other supporters…
Eishia hasn’t healed this many people in years…thoughts of self doubt immediately infuriates with her mind!! ‘No no, dont think that! These people NEED you to be strong!!’
Luckily, the other supporters who are in the medical field are helping out to the best of their abilities.
Mainly writing down and examining their injuries whilst more experienced medical supporters actually physically assist, which makes things much easier for Eishia to heal when she gets a full idea on the injury she is healing.
August even left for a moment to get Eishia a snack and water when she feels exhausted…to get her energy up.
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Meanwhile…
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Rudo sits there, limp on his knees, in front of Goutness…
‘…i…’
‘…I almost…’
‘I almost killed goutness.’
My airways clench, my lungs feel tight and heavy.
Maybe it was the burning sensation of the flood of blood that I was coughing up or the underlying panic of becoming just like my father making me nauseous.
My insides feel like they're mixing together. Mixing and blending, making my organs as one squishy messy cake that makes my head feel warm and heavy yet so light and cold
I feel as if I were on cloud nine, so tired.
The battle is over.
‘If it werent for Enjin…I wouldve killed goutness…’
I glance down, allowing my head to rest dreadfully…
…
Uh…
…
How did I get on the floor…
…
When did it get so bright…?
Ungh…
The burning light
That's all that is flooding my view
a burning, sharp, painfully glowing knife of sunlight stabbing my vision as the world around me dances in mixtures of twirls and curls.
Flat ringing, where was I again?
Ohyeah, the doll festival…
I was fighting Mymo…
He tried to mock the Kami (gods)…
Then I got my revenge for Zanka…but…
I don't know if he told me who killed regto…
Only that they are apart of the cleaners…
uhghhn…
My brain feels like it's moving with every thought, pulsing and squeezing.
I feel every pump in my body flowing out, the raw sun against my open skin
How filthy
Filth.
Human filth.
Such a waste…
…
Regto…
I’m tired…
Can I come home…?
...
I know I don't deserve it for what I've done…
and what I haven't…
I haven't even gotten to…
Average you…
...
“I…”
“…s..owy…be…ing…”
“Useless...”
And then, the burning slowly began to sting.
The world slowly but steadily began going dark, there was nothing.
Nothing at all.
Just as if you were asleep.
I swore I heard muffling before I accepted the invitation call of rest…must be another hallucination.
The warmth of someone’s arms around my chest.
“R…e…gto…?”
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“RUDO!!” Gountess yells as the boy suddenly transforms back into his broken human body, his small childish body.
Blood fills the floor beneath him, his back is bright red with blood and scraps from being thrown into the wall earlier in the battle…that would be an instant death for anyone.
Anyone who is human.
His broken spine is exposed to the dry dusty darkness of the parking lot, his head cracked open that it’s leaking blood dyes his soft white albino hair with deep red that oozes out so quickly that when Gountess can even move.
He is pretty much just completely drenched with his own blood as the metallic smell suddenly hits him he immediately goes into action.
Rudo was able to free Gountess before he passed out, Gountess quickly pulls himself off the chair with his hands alone and place them beneath Rudo’s head before he could slams onto the ground.
Caught by Gountess’s hand, quickly pulling Rudo into his arms…
‘He is small…he looked bigger in the wolf form.’
‘The change is so drastic…that when he is like this?…he is so small…too light, too skinny, broken.’
Gountess quickly but carefully turns Rudo’s body so his head is looking upward, his eyes are open…but he isn't there.
All there is…
…is a weak, agonisingly suffocating gasps of air that comes through the rush of blood coming up from his mouth.
That sound, that agonisingly raw and horrific sound immediately caught Enjin’s attention as his eyes snap towards the source, not fully had realised that Rudo had gotten hurt…spots them and Enjin freezes, he goes pale.
He visibly panics, something Enjin doesn’t usually show…atleast not this intensely…
Enjin looks like a dear in spotlight, like his stomach dropped.
Like a child who lost something important to him.
I can hear my heart pounding in my ears as I see the scene before me…the small, bloody face of Rudo…
The face of my little brother…
My brother that I barely got back 2 months ago.
My baby brother he lost 13…no…was it 15…years ago…?
I…
I shouldn’t be thinking of that.
'Oh god what do I do.'
I snap out of my short daze, dashing rushes over to Gountess and beside Rudo as I take off my coat and lay my baby brother’s broken body onto, he is so small in comparison…I use it to cover his exposed spine and open skull.
The suitcoat swallows Rudo whole, as if he were a baby once again…wrapping him up to try and stop the bleeding as I extremely carefully placing my hands on either side of Rudo head’s while Goutness holds him as if he were an actual baby, I gently lift Rudo’s jaw with my fingertips to open his airway.
Making sure to not move his neck, blood flows out more easily…short gasps of desperate air, quick weak coughs along with gagging.
I take Rudo from Gountess’s arms and into my own embrace, resting his bloody face against my tense right shoulder as I apply pressure onto Rudo’s back…
The blood has dyed the coat red, making it squishy and full. The feeling is absolutely disgusting, the irony smell of his warm blood is all I can smell.
I think I'm gonna throw up
Either that or pass out.
My head is spinning so badly I’m on the verge of passing out.
I don't even realise I'm hyperventilating until Gountess grips my shoulder, everything is ringing and far away but I don’t look around to understand my surroundings to snap out of it.
I don’t look away from his face.
Nothing else matters except for him, I can't look away…
His hair…face covered in his own warm blood, my own blood drips down and mixes with his.
I…
I don't care if im hurt, I don't care if I have this stinging sensation that is making it harder to think and move.
‘My brother’
‘My baby brother…’
My eyes sting and burn, ‘shit…’
‘Am I crying…or is it the blood coming from my head getting into my eyes…?’
‘…’
I just got him back…I finally got to know his name, what he liked.
I failed him, I failed you…
“…I…I should’ve…”
‘tsk, is this truly the best outcome…? Should I try again…?
‘no, it was risky enough the first time…’
…
‘if I find Eishia fast enough then…!’
…
My mind goes blank as Rudo heaved so weakly, so rawly dry and painfully against my shoulder…he weakly tries to move his head into my shoulder, looking for some sort of comfort in his last moments—
.
My shaky left hand gently cups the side of Rudo’s face that isn't pressed against my shoulder, carefully moving the coat to wrap him up as if holding a baby who is asleep…
I know I am treating him so babyishly…I never got to see him when he was born…
I couldn't help it, especially not now.
I press my face against his shoulder, holding him close…
“I should've been there…”
I choked on my own breath pathetically, it feels like I am grasping for air…
My teeth so tensely clenched that I’m suffocating slowly in a deep ocean, but the water is dry and tightly strangling me.
Then…
Something….no someone is attempting to pull Rudo out of my grasp, I hold him tightly to my chest.
‘I wont let go, I wont ever let go again, never again.’
‘I won't abandon you and I wont let you abandon me again, you don't get to leave me!’
‘…’
“You cant…”
‘Not again.’
“That's not fair…”
‘Please not again…’
“Its not fair…why…”
“Please…don’t…don’t go…” I barely whisper as my vocal cords are so strained that it hurts.
It sounds just like a broken mumble, it doesn't even sound like me. Each gasp of air is stabbing me, I feel Rudo be pulled away from me as I crack and break down.
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No one has ever seen Enjin cry, let alone wailing…
And if so, he hasn’t for years.
But here he is…breaking down and blubbering, shamelessly reaching for Rudo as if his life depended on it.
Bro held Enjin back from behind to stop him from reaching Rudo as Gris and Follo quickly place Rudo onto a stretcher.
Riyo stood there, in shock as she watched Enjin sob. Enjin.
The Enjin,
THE Enjin crying for…Rudo.
She felt herself tear up, like a weight was on her chest.
Both Dear and Guita are both teary eyed, trying their best not to just grab onto Rudo and not let go!!
Bro was wanting...so badly wanting to let everything out onto Mymo…
But the hell guard’s are taking care of him…
Well, what's LEFT of him.
The two stood there whilst looking down at the ground, standing beside Enjin as he grips at his hair.
Tears rolling down his cheeks and onto the ground beneath them, he is covered in blood.
In Rudo’s blood…
His hands, clothes…
He buries his face into his hands, not caring if bloody as his face is bloody still…
He tries getting his breathing under control with the help of Gountess…
Trying so hard to not let those thoughts win over, not be so worried about a child who just saved his life but the whole ground itself.
Gountess looks down at the watchman necklace in his palm, then clenches it shut as if he made his mind up.
But he wont let that show of emotions out just yet, he has to hold it together.
Someone has too…
But then.
Then a sniffle breaks it, it wasn't from Guita or Dear this time.
Riyo
Riyo broke, she couldn't hold it.
Not when Enjin could barely hold himself together, she knew if Enjin was crying then there was a reason.
Her reason? Well…friend was dying, her friend she only just made.
One she wanted to learn more about, to make a connection with.
One she wanted to understand more.
She was still upset about him asking her to kill him if he lost it,
‘but if…no! The moment Rudo wakes…I’m…I’m giving him a piece of my mind!’ She thinks, yet…
Tears roll down her cheeks, her gaze does not lift from the ground.
Riyo’s legs felt weak yet heavy, she choked on her breath as she tries to wipe the tears away but they kept coming.
That's when Guita breaks, then Dear.
We truly are pathetic.
Gris wanted to kill Mymo with his bare fucking hands
He almost broke the stretcher handles, he is PISSED.
…at himself.
He wished he got to them sooner,
got to Rudo sooner.
The poor kid’s stomach is cherry red, not just from his blood but from the internal injuries, the red is already turning a dark purple bruise.
His breathing short and weak, Follo is crying but moving the best he could.
Moving as fast as they possibly can without making it worse for him, for Rudo even if they both felt so lightheaded from the unbearable sight and metallic smell of fresh blood.
Rushing through the crowded exit where they see Zanka is sitting up against the wall, looking more alive then before...
Next to him sit a bunch of people healed Eishia had healed…seemly Eishia is now double checking Zanka’s injuries.
That's when Gris opens his mouth, the pure panic and rawness of his voice cuts through the crowd. Maybe even the tension itself…
His voice cracks as he lets himself breathe in, then.
“EISHIA, RUDO HE—“ Gris chokes on that breath, he can't. He can't even process this, not only the state Rudo is in but how he can't even believe how attached he has gotten to this child!
He doesn't even try to finish his sentence as he rushing over with Follo. Laying the stretcher down Infront of Zanka who peels his eyes open slowly…
“Rudo’s what…—“ Zanka says annoyingly until he focuses on what is in front of him.
Red, curled up.
Eishia jolts back in shock, almosting choking on the inhale as she freezes for a moment.
You know that look when you know something isn't just bad but SERIOUSLY bad, that's the look on Eishia's face.
Pale, widen eyes as tears swell.
"I-I..."
"Oh my god...oh my god..."
She continues to repeat as she begins examining Rudo with an overwhelming feared expression, Zanka sits there in shock.
Gris, starts balling his eyes out as his legs give in…Follo hasn't stopped shaking, his breathing panicked with tears down his face. Looking Rudo up and down as if it would magically make Rudo be better.
However, due to crowding…Both Follo and Gris had to be moved away and placed with the other supporters.
…
Zanka is frozen in place.
He thinks he might throw up, pass out? His gut is wrenching but his eyes wont move from the boy who is laying unconsciously in front of him.
As if waiting for the punchline, waiting for the sike guys!! I’m ok!! Haha…
…
He knows it won’t come,
Rudo isn’t like that.
But Rudo being covered in blood? Rudo being injured?
That isn’t Rudo.
Rudo being injured, is something that Rudo isn’t.
But the longer I look at him, the more I feel the realisation slam down onto my lungs.
Oh god, have I seriously been thinking Rudo couldn’t get injured cause of his giver abilities?
Cause he is more gifted…??
Am I truly that self absorbed that I only thought of Rudo being from the sphere, a bratty, spoil boy who somehow gets whatever he wants—
Did he truly not try to see him as a person who can bleed, who can fail?
‘What kind of teammate…’
‘no…’
‘what kind of teacher am I to think that about my own student?’
A hell guard returns in a rush, whistling to get everyone's attention.
the battle.
Is over.