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CW: Dismemberment of an arm
Ravyn Pain — Age: 121
Yuno — Age: 21
Xing - Age: 22
Silver Pain - Age:115
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Ravyn was getting attacked by the Death Trust and was being bombarded with all kinds of magic. She had to dodge while running as fast as she could.
She used her Air Slash attack and managed to hit two of them. They stumbled back from the force of it, looking stunned.
Then they hit her with shadow magic. The shadows around her suddenly moved and attacked. She jumped to dodge, but one of them still struck her in the eye.
Ravyn: "Damn it!"
She held her bleeding eye, trying to stay focused on running.
Ravyn: "I must get away from them... before it is too late."
She tried some quick maneuvers to lose them, but nothing worked. She ended up tripping over her own feet and hit the ground hard. One of them grabbed her arm and twisted it with full force, trying to break it. Ravyn screamed in pain.
???: "God, you're such a pain in the ass! We were just gonna kill you, but now we're gonna make it really painful!"
One of them twisted her arm even more. Ravyn gritted her teeth and tried to move despite the agony. Then an idea struck her but she had to provoke them first.
Ravyn: "Is that truly the extent of your abilities? How utterly disappointing. Your definition of 'painful' is remarkably weak."
???: "What?!"
Another attacker, wielding an axe, got angry enough to try cutting off her arm. The swing landed, severing the limb. But the attack also freed her by accident. Ravyn quickly teleported away, using the moment of chaos to escape.
She reappeared a short distance away and leaned against a tree, breathing heavily. She hadn't really thought about how much blood she'd lose in the process.
Ravyn: "I should have accounted for the blood loss... foolish of me."
She staggered forward, barely able to stay on her feet, trying to find help before she passed out.
After a while, Ravyn couldn't walk anymore. Her legs gave out, and she collapsed against a tree, her back resting against the trunk. Everything was spinning. She blinked slowly and, for a brief moment, saw someone moving in the shadows but she couldn't tell who it was before everything went black.
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Yuno was out walking. Her parents were driving her insane again, and she needed a break.
Yuno: "Why can't they just leave me and Xing alone? I already have to deal with their goddamn transphobia, and now they're throwing this whole marriage thing on top of it? They want a kid that bad?! Ugh, it's so annoying!"
She kept ranting as she walked, but then something in the corner of her eye caught her attention.
Yuno: "Huh? What was that?"
She moved toward where she saw something and froze when she found someone slumped against a tree, bleeding badly. They looked like they were barely alive.
Yuno: "Oh fuck!!"
She ran over, pulled off her scarf, and pressed it against the wound to stop the bleeding. Then she leaned in to check if the person was still alive.
Yuno: "Okay, you're alive... but passed out. That's not good!"
She picked the stranger up struggling a bit and ran home. Inside, Xing was preparing food when she heard Yuno's voice yelling for help.
Yuno: "XING! I NEED HELP HERE, NOW!!"
Xing ran out and stopped in shock when she saw Yuno carrying a bleeding, unconscious girl.
Xing: "WHAT HAPPENED?!"
Yuno: "I don't know! I just found her like this outside. I stopped most of the bleeding, but she's really pale she's lost a ton of blood. We need to treat her now!"
They brought Ravyn inside and laid her on the guest room bed. Yuno removed her top so they could reach the wound properly.
Yuno: "This isn't a clean cut. We need to clean it up and make it uniform, or it's gonna cause problems."
With Xing's help, she carefully cut the bone to make the wound more even and easier to treat.
Yuno: "And before we bandage it fire magic."
Xing nodded and used a controlled flame to seal the wound and stop the bleeding.
Yuno: "Okay, now we can bandage it."
She began wrapping Ravyn's stump. Ravyn twitched a little, but she didn't wake up.
Xing: "We'll have to change the bandages every few hours. If it gets infected, she might not make it."
Yuno: "Yeah. We'll switch off one of us rests while the other takes care of her."
Xing: "Okay!"
They took turns over the next 48 hours, changing Ravyn's bandages and keeping watch. She slowly started to wake up, though she was still out of it confused, unfocused but alive. They kept caring for her anyway.
Then there was a knock at the door. Yuno got up to answer it. A young woman stood outside, looking serious and worried.
Silver: "Is Ravyn here?"
Yuno: "Who?"
Silver: "Ravyn! I tracked her to this place, but I don't see her."
Yuno: "First of all who even are you? And why do you wanna know?"
Silver: "My name is Silver Pain. I'm Ravyn's younger sister. She went off the radar yesterday and no one's heard from her since."
Yuno frowned, clearly not trusting her right away.
Yuno: "...She's here. But she's hurt. She got disarmed and I don't mean that figuratively. She's missing an arm."
Silver: "WHAT?!"
Yuno: "Yeah. Follow me. She's kind of awake, but not really."
Silver followed her into the room and gasped at the sight.
Silver: "RAVYN!"
Yuno: "We've done all we could for the stump, but she needs to get to a hospital. We didn't take her because we're not near one."
Silver: "I'll take her. I'm not letting her die."
Yuno: "Good."
Silver: "Who are you two? I want to tell her who saved her."
Xing: "My name's Xing!"
Yuno: "...Cǎihóng Yún is my name."
Silver: "Nice to meet you both, then."
She gently picked Ravyn up in her arms. Ravyn stirred slightly, eyes fluttering open.
Ravyn: "Silvi...?"
Silver: "Yeah, it's me, Ravyn. I'm taking you home."
Silver carried her to the door. As she left, she gave a grateful wave to Yuno and Xing.
End