A day in the City

you blink at Eisire for a moment, or at least try to in your condition. was she really telling you off? well she does have a point there, you shouldn't be fighting, but HE started it, crazy ass clown

ﾒ_0 err ss0rry eissire, w0nt happen in public again

you mumble back as your knee give out and force's you to sit on the ground

But...most seadwellers are brutes...land culling pirate fish bastards...

Good job. You are well on your way to pissing off Eirsire even more. She is going to kick your ass two ways from Sunday at this rate and you can't get that punch drunk grin off your face. Okay it may be a bit of the other type of drunk as well, but not your fault. Someone had spiked your ice drink when you weren't looking.

We can still make it to the restaurant... just let me finish off...... fish fins here...

You get up only to take a few steps before falling over again. How hard did that guy hit you?

How did Aarush manage to fan the flames to your fury? Your eyes widen, your scelera had already started to shift to orange but it was getting very close to the colour at the base of your horns. Your fins are fanned out on either side of your face, more of an instinctual thing than anything. Your fins really did tend to give away your emotions. "Really Aarush?! You are telling your seadweller date that?" Your hands are now balled at your sides.

You turn to Sielus as Aarush fails to reach his footing. "You won't do it again, period!" You snap at him, then turn to Aarush. "And you won't be finishing off anyone, especially not Sielus he's a friend of mine! I don't care if he started it!" You step closer to Aarush, anger is fueling your words now. "If you think I'm still going to a restaurant with you while you are covered in blood and drunk you are sorely mistaken. I am taking you straight to your hive and leave you to incur the wrath of your moirail, and then going home myself!"

well that settles it, the fights over now that Elsires here to keep you to from killing each other... tho you will morn the loss of those free drinks, you probably have a life banning from that place now... such a shame.
wipeing the blood from you driping nose, you give a choked out giggle then fall back on the lawnring, you were dead tired now, too much psionic's were used it seems, should of just stuck to your strength, then you wouldn't be so tired now.

your sure no one will notice if you take a nap now, at least not that gorilla beast of a indigo, with that last thought you start snoring loudly as sleep takes you and shuts out your pain.

Nooo... I didn't drink anything. Just a ice-drink...

You would blink at her. You just had a ice drink why was your head all muddled. It wasn't that guy. He had locked arms with you before the brawl. It didn't make much sence even to your head.

Just... Ice drink...

You shake your head trying to clear it. It was getting fuzzier and shit Eisire was mad. Yet you could not focus on anything. The sound of the other seadweller, Sielus, was not helping. You were dimly aware of her saying something about handing you over to Ducita, but your vision was dimming as you sit on the ground. You shake your head again as you wipe your nose against the back of your hand... Why were you still bleeding? You were not feeling that well.

Sielus's snores attract your attention. Huffing, you kneel beside him and shake him by the shoulders. "Sielus you can't sleep here. Come on-" You hook your hands underneath his arms, or well arm and his nub of a shoulder, and half carry half drag him over to a nearby bench, forgetting how heavy he was. You find his arm and manage to reattach that to him. You shake him again, "Come on Sielus up and at'em." You pull a tissue pack from your pocket and put it in his hand, you were rather worried about the amount of blood leaking from his face but you needed to return your attention to Aarush. Maybe if you put both of them on the bench you can tend to them at the same time... Best you stayed between them. You didn't want them to start fighting again.

You hook your hands under Aarush's arms. "Lets get you cleaned up as well, sweetheart." You help him over to the bench, making sure to keep quite a large space between the two highbloods. You sit between them, turned towards Aarush for now. You try to stop his nosebleed, starting to get rather worried. "Aarush? Aarush, whats wrong?"

awoken from your oh so short nap when the nerve endings reattached to your metallic limb, gasping at the fresh pain from the reattachment you barely have time to notice that you now have a handkerchief in hand when the large indigo is plonked next to you, wow he looks unwell now, did you do that?

ﾒ_0 heh, y0, ssuck it up princessss, i didnt hit y0u that hard did i?

you comment offhandedly while you inspect the serpent like joints of your steel arm for damage, finding several stress fractures and joints that were completely crushed, dam, you would heal fine, but getting this fixed is going to be a pain in the wastechute.

finally noticing the handkerchief in hand, you apply it to your nose to stem the tide of violet and watch your fuchsia friend tend to your indigo enemy

"Iit's nutten..."

You mumble. You rub your eyes as you are sat on the bench. You've gotten worse beatings then this, what's the matter with your head? An ice-drink vender would be strolling past with her cart. You watch it with half lidded eyes. Was it the heat that was getting to you? You've always have had problems with heat, you dimly remember visiting a swamp and passing out thanks to the humidity.

You watch the ice cart sale's woman. You had bought your first ice-drink from her cart, you didn't remember the gold bangle around her arm. It hits you like a sack of bricks.

"Shit...!"

You've fallen right into a very cleverly planed trap. A poisoned ice drink, a challenge that you could not pass up that gave plenty of exercise to expedite the travel of the poison throughout your body. Hatch twins. It wasn't one seadweller you had been after, it had been two.

You frown at Sielus. "Sielus be nice!" You sigh as you wipe the blood from Aarush's face. "Did I reattach your arm properly?" You asked, a little calmer now. You make yourself take several deep breaths. No use getting yourself worked up and angry again. Sielus seems to be alright now, so you can focus more on Aarush, who hadn't stopped bleeding yet.

You frown when he swears, following his gaze to the troll at the cart. "Aarush, whats going on?" It takes you a moment for everything to click. He was poisoned, it made sense why he was acting so bizarrely despite saying he hadn't had any liquor. You look back to him, speaking quietly. "Did that troll poison you?"

ﾒ_0 wait, what?

your ear fins prick up at the word poison, did that mean the indigo wasn't fighting you in peak condition? that's just not right, that means the whole fight was pointless in your books, even if it was a draw, no one interferes with your duels.

ﾒ_0 whatss thiss ab0ut p0iss0n? what? wh0 the fuck in interfering in 0ur fight! I'll break them in half

you were on your feet again, fuming at the injustice of it all, this was down right illegal, some one was responsible for this, and when you catch them, your gonna put them in a cage made from there own rib cage

ﾒ_0 0k wh0 wass it! you snarl at Aarush, sparks cackled and popped from your damaged arm, almost to emphasis how pissed you were now

You manage to growl at the loud seadweller.

Shut up would you fish fins?

You lean forward as you would pale in color and suddenly empty your stomach of it's contents. Probably a good thing, especially if the poison was ingested, but it could also be a sign of how the poison was progressing threw your system. You try to keep calm and think. You had been poisoned before, not quite in this manner but that was an experience you had hoped not to ever repeat.

You sit back again wiping your mouth with a shaking hand. You cough, a weight was settling over your chest making it difficult to breathe. You had an general antidote back at your hive, sitting quite neatly in your medicine cabinet, but it was too far. You try to think but things are getting fuzzier in your head.

Eissi... think...

You blink and shake your head. She was a brillent scientist in her own right, she could figure this out right? Maybe with the loud sea bass' help?

You grab Sielus by the back of his shirt when he stands up. "Sielus, your face is bleeding, you are in no condition to break anyone in half. Now please, sit back down!" You give his shirt a firm tug in an attempt to pull him back into his seat. You barely have time to turn to Aarush when he throws up. You rub and pat his back, using the other hand to hold his hair back.

You gulp a few times, realizing you are going to need to create an antidote outside of your lab. "Ok, ah.... Um... Sielus, stay here with Aarush and make sure he doesn't pass out." You hop to your feet, looking around like a wriggler lost in a crowd. And then you dart, hopping from cart to cart, buying the ingredients you need with no rhyme nor reason to your erratic movements.

wait, what? you didn't have time to argue with Eisire before she disappeared in to the crowd. why did you have to take care of the indigo? you didn't even like him! stupid clown shouldn't of gotten himself poisoned. you thought bitterly ah you sit down again and wipe the excess blood from your nose, finally it stopped bleeding.

ﾒ_0 great... wriggler ssiting duty you sigh and look to the troll that your meant to keep awake ﾒ_0 hey y0u sstill with the living? passss 0ut 0n me man i'll ssmack the purple 0ff y0u

you couldn't remember the last time you were sick from poison, living with serpent dad exposed you to many toxins that you built up a immunity to over the sweeps, particularly his venom, which you would be soaked in when you were naughty and he put you in time out, in his mouth

You manage a chuckle. It just sounded so ridiculous in your hazy mind, him smacking the purple right off you. The mental image causes you to laugh harder.

You couldn't smack a one legged milk-beast up side their pan.

You descend into fits of giggles that you just can't stop. You want to bring your hands to your mouth to make yourself shut up, but you are having a bit of difficulty even locating your hands as everything feels disconnected and numb. You find yourself coughing again as pain settles like a heavy weight on your chest.

It makes you gasp like a fish out of water, slightly hunched over to one side, your fist tightening over shirt like you could rip out your blood-pusher. It sounds wrong to your ears, its steady beat erratic like you had run a marathon with out training. A soft whine comes from your throat, and here you sit with someone you diffidently feel black for. This was embarrassing as hell, but at the same time you cannot stop the noise that comes from your throat.

You think about getting up and getting on your jet bike and just heading back to your hive. In fact you don't even notice it but, you have stood up taken a couple of steps and have fallen onto your side onto the ground.

You return as Aarush falls over. Dropping your bag you kneel beside him, rolling him over so if he throws up again he won't choke on his own vomit. Next, you gather his hair up and tie it back with one of the pink hairbands around your wrist. "Just hold on a little longer, okay?" You say to him, trying to smother your fear. You lean down and kiss his forehead before getting to work. You unpack the bag quickly, sitting cross legged with a large bowl sat on top of your thighs. You start adding the liquid ingredients one by one with stunningly precise movements. "Sielus, I need you to crush up the dry ingredients. Here-" you hand him a stone bowl with a stone crushing tool. "Use this. Make sure you get it to a fine powder okay?"

you give a disgruntled sound at the request but do it anyway. who ere you to refuse a heiress after all? takeing the stone bowl and club thing, you begin bashing it in to the bowl with very little skill, sending little chunks over the edge.

ﾒ_0 ss0... you begin after a while of plant bashing ﾒ_0 h0w d0 y0u tw0 kn0w each 0ther? m0irailss? you ask, a bit intrigued that a nice girl like her would hang out with a ghost monster like him, or yourself for that matter. ﾒ_0 0h, iss thiss any g00d? you add, holding up the stone bowl filled with the plant you pounded in to dust

You just lie there really. Their voices sound so far away. You blink a few times as you look around, Eisire was there... that's good. Wait she went somewhere? Where did she go? Other trolls are starting to look at what was going on curiously. You feel distinctively uncomfortable and let out a whine. Your limbs feel numb, you can't help it when they occasionally twitch but you try to control it by balling up your fists your fists and relaxing them. Wait, or is that a twitch too?

You can't help but blush when Sielus asks how you know Aarush. You smile, flustered, as you continue to whip up an antiserum. "Ah, well. It's redder than that, actually. We met when Aarush was hunting a target and I, um, I was in the wrong place at the wrong time and he mistook me for his target at first." You laugh a little. "So, yeah that's how I know Aarush..." You look over to your flush and rub his back, seeing his twitches. You glare at any passerby that look at the three of you funny.

You examine the contents of the stone bowl. "yeah, this is good." You add some to the mixture. "Just these two now, watch me to this one-" you dump the extra into a little plastic Baggie and tie it off. Then, you put in the next ingredient and show Sielus how to grind it easier. "See? Slow and circular. You gotta put elbow grease into it." You finish easily, add some to themixture, and store the extra before handing the bowl back to Sielus and the last dry ingredient. "By the time you finish that I think this should be ready..." You just hope it works and you don't accidentally poison Aarush even more.