The Chronicles Chapter 36: Wounds
Series Title: The Chronicles
Chapter number: 36
Chapter Title: Wounds
Beta: jheili
Author: Biohazard Geeky Nutcracker coolohoh
Length: Series (862 words for this chapter)
Rating: G
Pairing: OT5
Summary: The land of Vihar has been thrown into chaos. Is there anyone with the bravery and skills to save the world?
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A/N: Again, a complete rewrite. And again, it's posted late. *Shrugs* Was going to skip today but in the end I persevered... RL happenings yeah... Can't be helped... But hey, if things work out, it could be a really happy event for me... So yeah... Hoping it turns out well. For more info, read my LJ. It's friend locked though... :P
The blue mana ball expanded to cover almost the entirety of the cavern. The boys raised up their hands to shield themselves from the brilliant blue mana. Nino was crouching behind Aiba and Ohno, while on the other side, Sho and Jun were lying on the floor, hiding behind Sho’s celestial bronze shield. The mana fizzled out at the hit the cavern wall, leaving behind nothing but silence and a sea of dead corpses. The entire army of the Enlightened lay on the floor, unmoving and dead. The corpses nearer the boys had suffered multiple wounds, some even missing an arm or even their heads - victims of Sho’s broadswords. Others merely received multiple slashes, proof of Ohno’s katana work. Meanwhile, those who were killed by Ohno’s mana blast look charred, like they had been burnt in a fire.
“What… What the fuck was that?” Nino spoke, shellshocked as he tried to picked himself off the floor.
The only sound in the cave was Ohno’s heavy breathing and the sound of blood dripping onto the cavern floor.
“How… How did you do that Ohno” Sho fumbled.
“I don’t know… I just gathered my mana and made a big fireball…” Ohno said, shaking his head. It took him a while to realise that his hands were trembling.
“You’re bleeding…” Sho suddenly noticed the pool of blood gathering at Ohno’s feet. He fumbled around his pack, looking for something to wrap Ohno’s wounds with.
“Is… Is everyone alright?” Ohno asked, trying to recover from the shock himself. He was pretty sure he was trying to make a giant fireball. It came up gigantic alright, way bigger and more effective than expected. But why was it blue? Whatever that thing was, it certainly wasn’t a fireball.
Ohno picked his way through the sea of corpses in a daze and kicked randomly at one of them. They were charred alright… Burnt. But it didn’t look like they were burnt by fire. The ground wasn’t charred either. Whatever magic was it that he had summoned, it wasn’t the intended fire. Just what was that?
Sho approached Ohno from behind, shuddering and he stepped over yet another corpse.
“We should bandage your wounds…” Sho muttered.
The duo slowly made their way back to the base. Aiba was trying to wash the cut on Nino’s knee and arms with some water, trying his best to conserve what little drinking water they had.
Meanwhile, Jun was concentrating on his own wounds, he seemed to be focusing his own magic and using it to close up the wounds.
“Wow, you can do that with magic?” Ohno asked has he noticed Jun’s wounds closing up.
“Yeah… It’s life force after all, you can use it to accelerate the cell growth and heal wounds… But it takes up a lot of mana so I can only use it to stop the bleeding…” Jun explained as he turned his attention to the large gash on Ohno’s left arm. He had Ohno sit down as he pulled Ohno’s sleeve up.
“Why don’t you just take it off…” Sho suggested, concerned about the wound on Ohno’s right shoulder blade.
With some reluctance, Ohno took off his tunic. His well toned abs glistened with beats of sweat. But Sho was too horrified to notice. All he could see was the horrific looking black circular wound on Ohno’s right shoulder. It was huge, almost 10 centimetres in diameter. Sho staggered back a little in shock.
“Does… Does it hurt…?” Sho stammered.
“I don’t know… It doesn’t really hurt now…” Ohno replied. Adrenaline was still rushing through his veins.
Ohno turned his attention to Nino who was sitting beside him. Out of pure curiosity, he touched Nino’s arm where a wound was and willed mana into the area.
“What? Ow hey my leg tickles! Oooh oh my arm, it tickles!” Nino yelped in surprise.
The surprise changed to astonishment as he saw his wound close up before his very eyes, leaving nary a trace nor a scar.
“Wow!” Ohno gasped as he proceeded to heal the rest of Nino’s wounds.
“Ne Oh-chan… Maybe you should heal yourself first?” Nino suggested as the wound on his knee closed. It wasn’t just a superficial healing too. Nino flexed his knees experimentally. They felt good as new.
“It’s not healing…” Jun frowned at Ohno’s gash. It was still bleeding despite all his efforts.
“Hmm… Let me try…” Ohno muttered as he repeated the same on his left arm. Ohno felt the tingle of mana gathering in his arm… But instead of the wound closing, it seemed to make it bleed even more. Alarmed, Ohno stopped immediately.
“Seems like it doesn’t work huh…” Ohno noted, cocking his head to the side. “I guess we’ll just have to bandage it then…” He muttered.
As Jun cut a strip of cloth to bandage Ohno’s wound, Ohno grabbed his forearm.
“Hey!” Jun yelped in surprise as he felt the familiar warm tingling sensation of life force entering his body, healing his wounds.
“Wait…” Jun gasped as he realised what was happening.
The mana wasn’t flowing from Ohno to him.
It was flowing up from the ground.
Chapter number: 36
Chapter Title: Wounds
Beta: jheili
Author: Biohazard Geeky Nutcracker coolohoh
Length: Series (862 words for this chapter)
Rating: G
Pairing: OT5
Summary: The land of Vihar has been thrown into chaos. Is there anyone with the bravery and skills to save the world?
Please refer to the [Masterpost] to navigate between chapters. Join nutty_arashi if you wish to be notified of new chapters.
A/N: Again, a complete rewrite. And again, it's posted late. *Shrugs* Was going to skip today but in the end I persevered... RL happenings yeah... Can't be helped... But hey, if things work out, it could be a really happy event for me... So yeah... Hoping it turns out well. For more info, read my LJ. It's friend locked though... :P
The blue mana ball expanded to cover almost the entirety of the cavern. The boys raised up their hands to shield themselves from the brilliant blue mana. Nino was crouching behind Aiba and Ohno, while on the other side, Sho and Jun were lying on the floor, hiding behind Sho’s celestial bronze shield. The mana fizzled out at the hit the cavern wall, leaving behind nothing but silence and a sea of dead corpses. The entire army of the Enlightened lay on the floor, unmoving and dead. The corpses nearer the boys had suffered multiple wounds, some even missing an arm or even their heads - victims of Sho’s broadswords. Others merely received multiple slashes, proof of Ohno’s katana work. Meanwhile, those who were killed by Ohno’s mana blast look charred, like they had been burnt in a fire.
“What… What the fuck was that?” Nino spoke, shellshocked as he tried to picked himself off the floor.
The only sound in the cave was Ohno’s heavy breathing and the sound of blood dripping onto the cavern floor.
“How… How did you do that Ohno” Sho fumbled.
“I don’t know… I just gathered my mana and made a big fireball…” Ohno said, shaking his head. It took him a while to realise that his hands were trembling.
“You’re bleeding…” Sho suddenly noticed the pool of blood gathering at Ohno’s feet. He fumbled around his pack, looking for something to wrap Ohno’s wounds with.
“Is… Is everyone alright?” Ohno asked, trying to recover from the shock himself. He was pretty sure he was trying to make a giant fireball. It came up gigantic alright, way bigger and more effective than expected. But why was it blue? Whatever that thing was, it certainly wasn’t a fireball.
Ohno picked his way through the sea of corpses in a daze and kicked randomly at one of them. They were charred alright… Burnt. But it didn’t look like they were burnt by fire. The ground wasn’t charred either. Whatever magic was it that he had summoned, it wasn’t the intended fire. Just what was that?
Sho approached Ohno from behind, shuddering and he stepped over yet another corpse.
“We should bandage your wounds…” Sho muttered.
The duo slowly made their way back to the base. Aiba was trying to wash the cut on Nino’s knee and arms with some water, trying his best to conserve what little drinking water they had.
Meanwhile, Jun was concentrating on his own wounds, he seemed to be focusing his own magic and using it to close up the wounds.
“Wow, you can do that with magic?” Ohno asked has he noticed Jun’s wounds closing up.
“Yeah… It’s life force after all, you can use it to accelerate the cell growth and heal wounds… But it takes up a lot of mana so I can only use it to stop the bleeding…” Jun explained as he turned his attention to the large gash on Ohno’s left arm. He had Ohno sit down as he pulled Ohno’s sleeve up.
“Why don’t you just take it off…” Sho suggested, concerned about the wound on Ohno’s right shoulder blade.
With some reluctance, Ohno took off his tunic. His well toned abs glistened with beats of sweat. But Sho was too horrified to notice. All he could see was the horrific looking black circular wound on Ohno’s right shoulder. It was huge, almost 10 centimetres in diameter. Sho staggered back a little in shock.
“Does… Does it hurt…?” Sho stammered.
“I don’t know… It doesn’t really hurt now…” Ohno replied. Adrenaline was still rushing through his veins.
Ohno turned his attention to Nino who was sitting beside him. Out of pure curiosity, he touched Nino’s arm where a wound was and willed mana into the area.
“What? Ow hey my leg tickles! Oooh oh my arm, it tickles!” Nino yelped in surprise.
The surprise changed to astonishment as he saw his wound close up before his very eyes, leaving nary a trace nor a scar.
“Wow!” Ohno gasped as he proceeded to heal the rest of Nino’s wounds.
“Ne Oh-chan… Maybe you should heal yourself first?” Nino suggested as the wound on his knee closed. It wasn’t just a superficial healing too. Nino flexed his knees experimentally. They felt good as new.
“It’s not healing…” Jun frowned at Ohno’s gash. It was still bleeding despite all his efforts.
“Hmm… Let me try…” Ohno muttered as he repeated the same on his left arm. Ohno felt the tingle of mana gathering in his arm… But instead of the wound closing, it seemed to make it bleed even more. Alarmed, Ohno stopped immediately.
“Seems like it doesn’t work huh…” Ohno noted, cocking his head to the side. “I guess we’ll just have to bandage it then…” He muttered.
As Jun cut a strip of cloth to bandage Ohno’s wound, Ohno grabbed his forearm.
“Hey!” Jun yelped in surprise as he felt the familiar warm tingling sensation of life force entering his body, healing his wounds.
“Wait…” Jun gasped as he realised what was happening.
The mana wasn’t flowing from Ohno to him.
It was flowing up from the ground.