Survivor: Badlands [Closed]
Characters: Greed/Ling, Winry, Beat
Content: Lost in the Badlands~
Setting: Badlands
Time: After the ship has crashed
Warnings: That could have gone better
( That was going to hurt tomorrow )
Content: Lost in the Badlands~
Setting: Badlands
Time: After the ship has crashed
Warnings: That could have gone better
( That was going to hurt tomorrow )
Shit. Not good.
When Greed...no, Ling spoke to her she closed her eyes, pinched the bridge of her nose and breathed deeply. Okay. How the hell Ling was up and about was beyond her, and as much as she should be happy about it, it really meant nothing if they ended up dying out here. They may have survived the fall, but now they had to survive the Badlands.
They had stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
"I can't explain now, Ling, we have to help him." A shot of panic went through when she realized she was no longer holding the kit and she looked around, calming down a little when she saw it was back where she had fallen.
"Ling. If you're okay to stand could you please get that to me? We have to do something to help him." She could do this, she had nursed people in awful conditions before.
"Beat. Beat, we're here. We're all alive. We'll get through this, just hold on please."
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Oh this was bad.
"W-win? We made it? H-hurt too much... ta be dead, yo." He husked. It... was hard to breath.
".... whose Ling?" He finally asked, giving "Greed" a confused look.
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As Beat addressed him, Ling gave him a lopsided smile. "That would be me," If Beat could look hard enough, he'd notice the major differences in how they looked, from Ling's softer expression to the not so violet eyes Greed was known for.
"I'm sort of Greed's other half, its nice to meet you, despite the circumstances." Ling started to open the kit and get a few things out.
To Winry he mumbled, "His arm looks out of socket. We might have to ...realign it." He paused, looking at her, "And you need to be bandaged up as soon as possible."
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She was sure that Ling's explanation would only confuse Beat more so she added "We'll get everything explained later, I'm sure Ling is just as confused as you right now." Her face become quite serious now and she stood up (flinching as she did so) and took in their surroundings. They were near a small gathering of trees, but beyond beyond that was just desert land. There were a couple residue of a couple crates not to far---they must have fallen with them, and they should go over and see if there was anything that could be used.
Winry's mind was already racing. First they would have to get bandaged up. Then they could scavenge so they would have a full inventory of what they had at their disposal. Then making a shelter--thank goodness they have fallen near some wood otherwise that would be much more difficult.
They would need to build some solar stills to get some water, they couldn't depend on finding any ponds or other sources of water around here so they would have to take what they could from the subsoil.
She took the kit grateful from Ling and nodded. "Yea, let's take care of him first." Her eyes fell to Beat's arm and she bit her lip. Ling was right.
"Ling. Prop him up on your knees." She opened the kit and started going through it, seeing what they had but mostly looking for pain killers. This wasn't going to be pleasant, but she had dealt with worse.
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"Outta.. socket? Oh hell... it ain' broken is it?" he whimpered, feeling too weak to hide his fear. He let the other two move him however they wanted, hissing and crying out anytime he was jostled or bumped.
He had saved them, but if he didn't pull it together he was going to get them killed.
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"Let's hope not ah...Beat, yes?"
He glanced up at Winry, watching her work. She was hardly any better from what he could tell, but he'd keep quiet until the first one was tended to. He had to wonder what'd happened to them. Had they fallen off the damn ship? It certainly looked that way. He was annoyed he didn't know, but then, there was a reason for that, right? Greed was still there, too, but he was positive the bastard was unconscious from whatever had happened to them.
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She found a bottle that would suit their purposes of nulling Beat's pain and carefully read the ingredients and instructions, she sized up Beat for a moment, calculating the most she could give him. She poured some of it into the cap and then leaned over him a bit, trying to be careful not to bump into him.
"Here, Beat. Drink this." she said holding the cap to his mouth. After he drank it they would wait about ten minutes for it to settle in.
She pulled back and let out a soft sigh. This was going to be tough. They were all strong people, but they were all severely injured. But they would make it. They had to.
A wave of dizziness passed over her and she lurched back a little but readied herself, putting a hand to her head. Her vision kept going in and out, her body was begging for more rest but that was impossible right now in their conditions. The girl closed her eyes and started breathing evenly.
"One of the pipes that was directly connected to the engine was ruptured. It started flooding the ship. Beat, Greed, and I were down trying to save as much of the rations and tools as we could in case the ship got stuck out in the Badlands. Someone opened the hatch though, and we got flushed out. We're only alive because of Beat and his airboard." she explained to Ling, not opening her eyes.
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Right now he was enjoying the soft dull feeling that was the painkillers. He sighed, his eyes glossing.
"A'ight... do it. I'm..I'm good." He muttered, his head rolling a little.
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He glanced down at Beat and gave him a slight smile. "You've got my thanks for not killing us."
When Beat gave his okay for his arm. Ling held his other shoulder tightly so he didn't try to jump or anything instinctively.
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Once she felt secure in her analysis, she began: she bent his arm at the elbow and began to rotate his arm and shoulder inward towards his chest. Now this would be the unpleasant part, and she bit her lip. Hopefully those pain killers were really powerful or this would hurt a lot. She then rotated it outward, holding his wrist and pushed, popping it back into the shoulder joint without a moment's hesitation--delaying it would just build up anticipation.
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After his breath ran out, he slumped forward, gasping for breath.
"Ohgodohgod.... r-ribs..t-too... before I.. chicken out.."
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They were in the BadLands, Ling didn't know what to expect. He'd never been out of Ivona, himself. Greed was the one fascinated with Vohemar.
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Or perhaps they did. It seemed so ironic to Winry, that only a couple days ago she and Rhyme had been talking about her practicing her magic for her deemed 'emergency cases'. She use to be pretty damn good at it before she let herself fall out of practice...after what happened to Ed and Al.
There was obviously a moment of deliberation on Winry's part as she remembered that, but there was no choice. She couldn't leave Beat like this.
Winry closed her eyes and put her hands on Beat's chest again. She concentrated very hard--would she even still be able to do it after all this time? For the first couple seconds absolutely nothing happened, and she started to get frustrated with herself, but then she began to feel that familiar bubble of warmth grow in her chest, then spread to her arms, hands, and through her fingertips.
She bit her lip tightly, almost drawing blood as she strained to continue that flow of energy. Damn, this was harder than she had remembered, she really had lost her touch.
When she couldn't do anymore she pulled her hands back with a sudden jerk and the warmth instantly retreated, now leaving her more exhausted than she was before. She leaned back, propping herself up on her arms and had to bow her head and begin inhaling and exhaling evenly.
[[ooc: up to you how well or how poorly that works, orz. i couldn't think of anything else]]
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But when the warm feeling came off her fingers, his enjoyment changed quite a bit. He gasped softly, his head falling back. It hurt, but it was the kind of hurt that relieved pressure. The hurt of something going right. And it was so warm. A tiny hiss escaped him as the bones shifted under her fingers. He knew it should hurt MORE then it did... but it wasn't that bad.
And there was the rushing feeling in his veins and head. He had no idea what it was, and wouldn't be able to tell anyone about it later... But it was his own tiny spark of magic, the tiny thing that was so much more advanced in his sister. It flared up, mixing with Winry's much greater talent, helping along where it could and enhancing the healing.
When it finally stopped her groaned, his eyes refocusing.
He felt... not great. Sore even. But not... injured. Like he had been beaten up rather then broken.
"Win... I think I love you a little..." He said, that weezy tone gone from his voice.
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Was it really so long ago? His concept of time was so disoriented, he couldn't honestly tell.
When she stopped he frowned in concern. "Winry? Are you all right?" He would have been at her side but he was still propping Beat up. Laying him down could cause him pain in some way.
"It's your turn now, yes? You need to get patched up. And lay down."
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"I've always been able to do it," her voice was soft, "Got it from Pinako, I guess. She was a great magician, one of the things that made her so good at magitech." But it was no surprise Ling didn't know of this. She hadn't used it once in his presence, nor informed him of it. If she was bad about keeping in practice now, one could say her will was non existent when she was a preteen. So shortly after the accident, she had given up altogether, and it was only in the Badlands that she vaguely started up again.
Mostly due to the fact, that if she didn't, she would have been killed.
Her eyes fluttered close again and she shook her head.
"I hit my head really hard." she explained "My vision keeps going in and out. I'll be okay though, with rest." And she was sore, and tired as hell. She was surprised she was able to remain conscious, but she felt so beat that she obliged without question and laid down right there on the ground. After all they'd been through it actually felt soft.
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