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We're more than carbon and chemicals

Who: All Draftees
What: Fighting Third Party
When: 26th, 27th, 28th, 1st, and 2nd
Where: The Southern Farmlands
Summary: See here for overall details.
Rating: Probably gonna be gorey in places :|a

DOESN'T NEED A CUT. People should know how this works, if not, just follow other people's lead. I'm gonna set up some strategist threads at the top, for the four strategists to use if they want to, otherwise people should start their own threads.

((Mod Note: Since this has been asked a few times, just fyi, the livestock do not talk. Happy hunting!))

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[He's stronger than he thought, or maybe Keiichi is lighter. They both fall and roll a few times, mixed up in the dirt and blood. He needs to stop this and get back up. He has to summon again before the soldier follows them and stabs them both. Keiichi's helpless like this, so he has to protect -

Crack.

Something unyielding. He's glanced his head on the concrete wall and they come to a sudden stop. But he can't hear the sound. Suddenly all sounds are somewhere far away. His fingers grasp for his Evoker anyway but they feel odd, not really attached to him. His vision is swallowed up in grey.

He - can't do this now. But there's nothing he can do to fight it either. For the moment, he's passed out.]

[He can't see the enemy. There's only Rika, holding her wounded eye.

He can't hear Minato's voice. There's only that pained shriek filling the air.

He can't see Minato, for Minato doesn't exist in this world. Or maybe he's dead already.]

[But he senses the tackle. The world suddenly becomes agitated and spins. His body rolls over the ground and it hurts. Luceti's streets turn into a whirpool merged with the sky and the bodies. He loses sense of direction, of presence and existence.

When the crazy spiraling stops he hears a sound, a crack. Something broke, what was broken? He feels sick and dizzy. It's hard to move to raise himself again and his movements are sluggish.

Where... Where is he? He was... At Luceti, right? At the village, surrounded by the corpses of his friends and hearing Rika's scream.

It's gone now. There's no silence but there's no scream. And the ground at which he stares as he raises himself isn't one of Luceti's streets. Drops of blood fall over his hands and the ground, just a few of them but the color distracts him.

Blood... Where is it coming from? His neck. That's right, it itched, maggots had been crawling inside of it... Wait, maggots? There are no maggots inside his body that's... Isn't that one of the symptoms of the syndrome? But it doesn't itch now, it just hurts where he damaged himself. What the... What did happen just now?]

[He looks around, quickly, started. This isn't Luceti. It's the battlefield and it doesn't itch so... The illusion, the hallucination, was the Luceti before? He doesn't have much time to ponder though, the enemy that Minato helped him to dodge is on their track. The enemy! Where's his rifle?! Wherever it ended he has no time to search it, so he just reaches for the gun and shoots at the soldier several times. There'll be time to ponder later.]

[His head aches. He's wading through fog. Every movement is sluggish, but he needs to...

To what? They... were on the battlefield, but now he's on the ground. He tries to recall what happened, but thinking at all makes his head throb more.]

[Keiichi pants. Mind still cloud and confused. This... This is real, right? It's not an hallucination. He didn't just kill one of his friends, right?

Something moves behind him, it's a sluggish movement that doesn't register as a threat to Keiichi. Why doesn't it register as a threat though? Just because it's slow?

He turns his head to look... Minato is there, trying to raise himself, he seems wounded. No, he is wounded, he can see the blood dripping over his face. Why... Is Minato hurt? Why are they on the ground? Why doesn't he have his rifle... Ah, of course, it was an illusion, wasn't it. That world in which his had shot at his friends and hurt Rika, he was under stress, he snapped when the bullet hit a soldier's eye.

Then again, maybe this is the hallucination after all. And he really did that horrible thing. He still can't be sure. But in this place he's seeing Minato alive and moving, hurt but alive. He's with the other draftees and they are fighting enemies and everyone is back at the village of Luceti waiting for them. Maybe this is the hallucination, even if his neck hurts maybe he just is hallucinating that too. But that's okay, Minato's hurt in front of him and he almost had an outbreak. They need a break from the fight, they need to recover so he'll stay here, he'll help Minato, if this is an hallucination so be it, this hallucination is good compared to that "reality". If it's not then he has even less reasons to want to go back there.]

Minato... Minato, can you hear me?

[A hit to the head can be pretty serious, he has to make sure if there's any extra damage.]

[His vision swims and his ears are ringing, but Keiichi's voice cuts through the fog. Yes, he can hear him... But why he's asking is another matter. His head still throbs. Shakily he raises a hand to it and it touches something wet, sticky.]

What happened?

[Them both are wet and sticky, one from the wound on his head, the other for the self-inflicted wounds on his neck. Anyway Keiichi does his best to remain calm, he needs the medicine and Minato a doctor. He could take care of the first now but he doesn't want anyone seeing it so...

He moves closer to Minato to make sure he doesn't fall.]

You hit your head against the wall, I think. Or against something else. Anyway, we should go and find Ami-chan so she can check on you.

...Right.

[They're outside, aren't they. That's dangerous. Where's his Evoker? He graps around for it but starts to wobble.]

[Keiichi grabs him before he falls and hurts himself more. He looks around, spotting the Evoker and grabs it. His own mind is dizzy but that's it, his sense of balance is still better than Minato, just his thoughts are hard to keep in control.]

Lean against me.

[He will get them inside before they are targeted again.]

[He leans, not like he has much of a choice. There's one other thing though -]

My sword, too. [that thing had taken work to have made. No, it's not really what he should be concerned about right now but he's having trouble holding onto more than one thought at a time.]

Edited 2011-03-02 19:33 (UTC)

[Keiichi just looks at where they were before. It's not that far but still... And they are an easy target.]

You really want to take a trip to there to just grab the weapons while you're bleeding from a wound in your head and there's still enemies around?

[Hard chance man, Keiichi starts to move towards where it's safe. They can recover those later or whatever. A sword isn't more important than their healths.]

[Hey man, he has no idea how close or far the sword might be. Last he recalls he should have it. Minato just makes a noise and leans more on Keiichi as they start moving. His legs are only barely cooperating and he feels almost detached from them.]

[Whatever, dragging both our loser asses to where it's safe. And suppressing the urge of banging his head against a wall hard until it breaks in an attempt to clear it. It would certainly not help to clear his mind.]

[No it would not, it would just make him as useless as Minato is right now. but soon enough they'll be inside, and as safe as it's possible to be right now.]

[There are several doctors in the draft, or so he remembers. But he doesn't care. There's only one doctor he wants, in fact he would want her even if she wasn't a doctor, he wanted her as his personal doctor of sorts even when she was just a teenager and didn't have medical training. So there's only one person whom he searches for as soon as they are inside.]

Ami-chan! Ami-chan, I need you, please!

[Mercury comes quickly the second she's being called for, and quickly moves to help the other two. Her eyes look them over quickly for a first appraisal.]

[His mind is still fuzzy and dizzy, really he's more focused than Minato but it's not easy. He has the strange feeling of being standing over an edge, ready to fall from it into a spiral of madness again.

He eyes the blue haired girl, he recognizes her, but his mind doesn't immediately click on the fact that Mercury was Ami all along. He's just focused in finding Ami and he forgets about this thing.]

Mercury! Help me, I need to find Ami-chan soon. Minato hit his head and he's bleeding and I'm not in better shape, have you seen her?

[Minato has completely forgotten about Keiichi having an outbreak, or really much of anything from the past half hour. One moment he was fine, the next he's like this. The pounding in his head makes him not too concerned though. He just... wants to sit down.]

[It seems like both of them need help if Keiichi doesn't recognize her and Minato looks like he's not doing well. Mercury glances from one to the other. No time for that immediately.]

Where were you hurt?

[But he wants his Ami not Mercury- wait, that voice...]

Minato tackled me to help me dodge an enemy and we rolled too far and his his head, he also has problems with keeping balance or his recent memory I think... And I almost tried to tear my throat out when I had an outbreak of the syndrome...

[Got your hands full already, Ami-chan?]

[it may have been soft but he heard and understood that last part :|] What?

[He tries to twist while still using Keiichi as support to look at him...]

[She stiffens, but soon shakes her head to clear it. She can't get emotional or panicky right now; she has to solve this.]

Your medicine? [She asks this to Keiichi.]

Where is the pain exactly, and how does it feel? [This to Minato. Her hands are quite full, yes.]

[Shush Minato, you're at a worse shape than he is.]

I've some on me, but I need you to give me the shoot. I can wait though... I... I think I'm stable and here I can relax.

[He will also need help with those wounds in his neck but Minato is at a worse shape.]

It's just my head. Look after him first.

[Keiichi's medicine is much more important. ...in his opinion anyway.]

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