Megan is not having a good time :) First moments of their arc, when Benedict just captured them. Cws for torture, swearing and blood ment.
Febuwhump day 18 (late): Too weak to move.
Megan was panting, in way too much pain to even move. His limbs were a limp mess below him, and he couldn’t even tell in what position he was in. His vision was blurred and all he could see were mixed up images and colors that danced in front of his eyes. He had given up on trying to make sense of them.
He heard footsteps. Someone was arriving. He should get up, he should run, he should hide--
He could only manage to let a whimper come out of his mouth.
Donatello kneeled in front of him.
“Oh, you poor thing”, his mocking voice infuriated Megan. “Are you in pain?”
Between rasped breaths, he managed to shout “go fuck yourself.”
Donatello smiled, his fangs sharp enough to make Megan shiver. Not one second after, agony replaced everyhting in his body and he felt like throwing up. He moved his hand to his mouth. Megan was surprised to see that he still had it on him to scream anymore.
“I think I’d be more polite if I was you”, he heard Donatello say. “You’re kind of depending on me here. And your friend on the other room is already on the limit, you know?” He grinned. “But I mean,” he laughed. “You probably noticed that.”
If Megan had the forces to, he’d spit on him.
“H-how… How, dare you--”, he coughed, his chest hurting with every breath. “T-totsuka--she…”
Donatello just waited for him to finish, patiently. Megan couldn’t continue, despiste his best efforts. He was already using all he had in him not to pass out.
He knew why he was in pain, even if his body had not a bruise on it. Well, not actually not a bruise, but a few cuts and scratches weren’t responsible for that freaking purgatory that made him feel like shit. It was Totsuka.
He was feeling her pain.
Benedict Donatello, the stupid vampire who had captured them, knew that. He spared efforts and made the bare minimum to hurt them both.
Just torturing one.
The mere echo of whatever the vampire was doing to his partner had Megan on his knees in an instant, and after some hours, drooling helpless on the floor. He could barely talk, or think, and having his eyes opening for too long made him feel like he could die.
Megan knew it was stupid, but he wished Totsuka was okay. But by Donatello’s words, he knew not to hope much.
“Well”, his torturer slowly got on his feet, his pale dark skin shining with the white lights of the room. “I’ll pay a visit to her, and maybe, when I’m back, we can talk like reasonable men, yes?”
Megan flinched.
No.
“A visit”.
That meant hurting Totsuka more.
Megan wanted to protest, but he could only cry out something in the tone of an offense.
Donatello laughed. He left the room and let the door open.
Megan tried getting up. Maybe… maybe if he could just reach Tot…
His arms couldn’t lift his weight long enough for him to sit up, and he fell on the hard white floor again.
But he couldn’t stop trying… he--
A blood-boiling scream cut the uneasy silence, and when the friction of the air hurt his throat Megan noticed it was coming from his mouth. The pain went away as fast as it had come, and it had him trying to curl around himself, trying to ease something, but there was nothing he could do.
He felt an itch on the back of his conscience, and he knew Totsuka had blacked out.
Tears streamed through his face, making him use all of his forces to keep himself from crying out loud.
He’d punch the wall if he could.
What had they got themselves into?
Benedict Donatello was quite proud of his new aqquaintances.
Two kids, whom he first thought to be a pair of girls, but were a boy and a girl, powerful magicians, with silly screams and that were bonded to each other.
Incapacitating them was easy. He’d only had to order his servants to restrain one them, and with one knife and one strike, he had both on their knees. Two for the price of one! A perfect affair, he’d say.
He hummed a random lullaby as he walked through the corridors to the room he’d let the black-haired one in. The door wasn’t even closed, nor was he restrained in any way, but the boy was a limp doll on the floor.
Benedict lowered himself to his level and manhandled him to sit. A light whimper came out of his body, but he doubted the boy was even aware of what was happening at this point. His dark eyes were glassy and unfocused. He was quite pretty, Benedict thought.
He smiled, brushing his hair.
Oh, they both would make such good pets.
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Febuwhump collab day 18 - too weak to move
Hi yep I’m still working on febuwhump XD I’ve got two more fics after this in fact! Expect the next one up either later today or tomorrow >:)
This was suggested by an anon, thank you! They wanted Warriors or Sky, so I kinda did both. It ended up taking a turn I didn’t expect, but I hope you like it.
Warnings: Heat exhaustion, a brief discussion about infertility
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“Aunt Sun! Aunt Sun Aunt Sun where’d you go we need you!”
Sun looked up from the lemonade she was mixing, and saw Wind run into the kitchen, almost tripping on his flip-flops but catching himself.
“Aunt Sun!” he gasped, and Sun looked at him in surprise.
“What’s the matter Wind? Did Sky and Warriors finally get tired of hucking snowballs at each other?” she asked, leaning on the counter. “I’m all for a snow day, but it’s just too hot to be out there, even with snow.”
“No, no they didn’t, b-but Warriors was making a really big snowball and then he fell over and now he won’t get up, and Uncle Sky told me to get you,” Wind stuttered, and Sun froze, then immediately dropped what she was doing.
“Lead the way,” she said quickly, and followed Wind outside, the heat hitting her like a physical weight.
The area was suffering through a horrible heat wave, and everyone was desperate to cool down, in any way they could manage. Warriors had brought Wind over to hang out with Aryll for a while, and offered to generate some snow for a snowball fight. It had helped a lot with staying cool, but Sun had gotten to the point where she hadn’t been able to handle the heat any longer, even with snow, and she’d gone in to mix up a more reliable way of cooling down.
She was wondering now if she should’ve stayed out, though.
Wind led her to the backyard, where several rapidly melting piles of slush lay, Sky kneeling among them and apparently uncaring of how wet he was getting. Aryll sat next to him, her eyes wide, and Warriors lay collapsed beside them both, parts of him pale while others were flushed with heat.
A sharp spark of fear hit Sun’s chest.
“What happened?” she asked quickly as she kneeled down beside the two, Sky frantically shading Warriors with one wing while the other fanned air towards him.
“I don’t know, he was just making some more snow, and then all of a sudden he just...” Sky gestured helplessly, and Sun leaned over Warriors, unsure of where to start.
“He sleeping?” Aryll asked in confusion, and Wind picked her up, looking shaken.
“I don’t think so Aryll,” he said quietly.
Warriors’ eyes flickered open then, and they all leaned forward to look at him, his expression confused as he blinked up at them all.
“Wh’ happened?” he mumbled, and twitched a little like he was trying to sit up. He didn’t make it more then maybe an inch though, and Sky and Sun both pushed him back down, Wind and Aryll looking on with wide eyes.
“You just collapsed Wars, take it easy,” Sky said worriedly, still fanning him. “How are you feeling? Does anything hurt?”
It took Warriors a moment to respond, all of them watching him carefully. And when he did finally speak, his voice was unusually quiet and raspy.
“...dunno,” he murmured, blinking dizzily at them all. “Sort of... s-sick, I-I guess...”
Sky leaned over and put a hand on Warriors’ forehead, and the worry on his face sharpened.
“...you feel warm. Warriors, you’re never warm,” he said in a voice that was on the verge of panicking.
“‘parently I am today,” Warriors slurred, looking dizzy as he closed his eyes again.
Sun tugged Sky’s hand out of the way so she could feel Warriors’ forehead as well, and she frowned at the heat that met her fingers. Warriors wasn’t burning up or anything, but for someone who always ran cold, the fact that he was warm to the touch at all was worrying in more ways than one.
Sun made quick eye contact with Sky, and the look on his face confirmed her own thoughts.
He pushed himself too far.
“Wind, would you take Aryll inside and get a wet washcloth? There’s some clean ones next to the sink,” Sun said, and Wind nodded and went back into the house, Aryll still looking back with a curious look. “We should get him inside, it’ll be cooler in there.”
“Yeah, yeah that’s a good idea,” Sky said with worry thick in his voice, and Sun gave his hand a quick squeeze.
Sun then helped him sit Warriors up, his head lolling a bit. They each pulled one of his arms over their shoulders, Sky pulling his wings in, and lifted him up, slowly carrying him inside. Warriors didn’t move much during all this, looking blearily around as they moved him, and the lack of anything else only worried Sun more.
Normally Warriors would’ve cracked a stupid joke by now, or at least reassured them he was okay, especially earlier with Wind and Aryll watching. Instead all he did was remain slumped in their arms, and Sun and Sky wasted no time in bringing him into the house.
They laid Warriors on their couch, Aryll watching curiously from the floor, and Wind returned after a minute with a wet cloth like Sun had asked. She quickly wiped it over Warriors’ face, dripping it in his hair and dampening his skin, then placed it on his forehead.
“Is he okay?” Wind asked once she’d finished, and Sky ruffled his hair.
“We think he just overheated a bit buddy. He should just need to take it easy,” Sky reassured, though Sun could still see the worry plastered all over his face.
“Can I help at all?” Wind asked, anxiously shifting his weight from one foot to the other. Sun looked at her nephew, and nodded, seeing the worry bright in his eyes.
“Yes, I think you’re exactly who we need,” she said kindly, and gestured him over. “Would you blow a bit of air on Warriors? It doesn’t have to be a lot, but it’ll help him cool down faster.”
“Yeah, I can do that!” Wind said eagerly, then sat down in the chair beside Warriors, blowing a gentle breeze through the air.
Warriors shifted as the air brushed him, and he let out a quiet sigh, turning his head towards the breeze. Sun and Sky watched him in silence for a moment, and Aryll wobbled over and poked her head up by Warriors’, smiling when the air blew past her own face as well.
“Sleep?” she said, poking him with a chubby hand, and Sky tugged her away.
“...yes, he’s resting right now pumpkin, so let’s leave him alone, okay?” he said, and Aryll blinked, Sky gently pulling her back from her uncle’s side.
He picked Aryll up and set her over by some of her toys, trying to get her distracted, and Sun busied herself with wiping the cloth over Warriors’ face again, feeling his skin. Still too warm.
She held back a sigh, watching Warriors’ hair be tousled by the breeze Wind was making. Warriors and Sky had both been the ones to push themselves the most back during their hero days, often further then they should... but while just playing with his family, Warriors never gone so far as to pass out.
Something must be up.
Sky came back after a little while, Aryll happily stacking some blocks, and he looked down at his brother, still motionless and pale.
“Should we call a doctor?” he asked quietly, and Sun hesitated.
“...I don’t know. It seems like he’s just too hot, and I don’t think they’d be able to do anything for him that we can’t,” Sun said finally, wiping the cloth over Warriors’ forehead again. “Let’s give him a little while.“
“Alright. We should probably call Artemis though,” Sky mused, and Warriors cracked his eyes open.
“Don’ need to,” he murmured. “She doesn’t... need more problems. Leave ‘er be.”
Sun and Sky both raised their eyebrows at that, and Wind paused in his blowing, giving Warriors an odd look.
“Warriors... you’re not a problem. Especially not to Artemis,” Sun said, and Warriors closed his eyes, not replying.
Sky frowned.
“...Have you had any water to drink today Wars?” he asked suddenly, voice suspicious.
“I guess..? ‘lil...” Warriors mumbled after a moment of silence, and Wind looked down at him worriedly. “Don’... really remember...”
“So you spent the hottest day of the year making snowballs in our backyard, and you haven’t had any water all day. Is that what I’m hearing?” Sky asked with a bit of a bite to his voice. “Did you just forget you get dehydrated when you use your powers too much?!”
“I don’t know,” Warriors murmured. “...sorry.”
The fight went out of Sky all at once, and he sighed, wiping some sweat off his brow. He lightly nudged Warriors with a wing, and didn’t say anything for a moment, obviously thinking.
Sun decided to cut in. “Well you should drink something now, you need to get all that water you used up back in you, and it’ll help cool you down,” she pointed out, and Warriors gave a small nod.
“I can get him some!” Wind offered, and hopped off his chair, running into the kitchen before anyone else could offer to go.
Sun and Sky watched him scamper off, then turned back to Warriors, who was trying to sit himself up again. His arms shook, and Sky quickly grabbed him before he could fall, helping him up without a word.
Warriors leaned his head back once he was sitting upright, and closed his eyes, his face worn. Sun studied him for a moment, fixing the cloth when it tried to slide off. Warriors looked tired, but in more ways then one, a weariness apart from dehydration and overheating evident on his face.
Adding that to how he’d overused his powers, forgotten to drink anything during the worst heatwave they’d had in years, and his reaction at the mention of his wife...
“Warriors... is everything alright with you and Arty?” she asked finally, looking at her brother in-law.
Warriors remained silent, his face creasing a bit further, and Sky and Sun gave each other looks.
Hit the nail on the head it seems.
“Alright Wars. Something’s eating at you. You never push yourself like this unless you’re really out of it, or something’s wrong,” Sky said as he sat down beside him, and Warriors softly huffed.
“Do not.”
“Do too. And I can think of at least three times off the top of my head,” Sky said pointedly. “Come on. What’s going on with you and Artemis?”
Warriors stilled, and the quiet buzz of the ceiling fan was the only noise in the room for a few moments. It was occasionally punctuated by Aryll’s giggling and the sound of Wind clattering around in the kitchen looking for a cup, and Sun was about to threaten to call Artemis and ask her for answers when Warriors let out a sigh.
“Things’ve just... been hard,” he said, voice still faint. “We’re okay, we haven’t... fought ‘r anything, but...”
He hesitated, then exhaled again.
“...We’ve been trying so hard,” Warriors murmured, eyes still closed. “For kids. But we...”
Sky put his hand on his shoulder, and Warriors swallowed.
“...I don’t know. Maybe it’s a sign we’re just not meant to be parents,” he whispered.
“Warriors, don’t talk like that,” Sun said softly, her heart falling at the grief in his voice. “You and Arty will be wonderful parents.”
Warriors didn’t reply, and Sun put her hand on his other shoulder, wishing she knew what else to say.
“Overextending yourself isn’t going to fix anything Wars,” Sky said softly, drawing his wings in. “This... this isn’t your fault. You can’t punish yourself for things outside your control.”
Warriors seemed to droop further where he sat, and his eyes remained stubbornly closed.
“I want... to fix it,” he said in a voice so quiet Sun could barely hear it. “But I can’t. It’s a problem I can’t... solve, and Arty’s suffering for it.”
“And it isn’t your fault,” Sun reminded him. “You can’t control this Warriors, and you’re suffering just as much as Arty is. Don’t minimize that.”
Warriors stilled, and Sun fixed the wet cloth on his forehead where it had fallen slightly.
“I’m sorry Link,” Sky said quietly. “I knew you two were struggling with it, but I didn’t realize...”
“It’s all right,” Warriors murmured, and Sky squeezed his shoulder.
“Still. If there’s anything you two need... just ask, okay? We’re here to help Wars, but we can’t if you don’t let us.”
“Or if you make bad decisions such as creating too much snow in the worst heatwave I can remember,” Sun added, and Warriors’ mouth twitched into a faint smile.
“I’m already... regretting that, trust me.”
Sun smiled back, and Warriors finally opened his eyes, looking between the two of them. He still looked unusually subdued, but he seemed a little better then before, and Sun counted it as a win.
“We should let Artemis know you collapsed though,” Sun said, brushing some hair out of her face with a sigh. “And somebody is going to have to drive you home... then maybe we can discuss this a little more. But right now you need to rest, and focus on cooling down.”
Warriors sighed. “Yeah. I know.”
Sun gave his shoulder a squeeze, then withdrew it, resolving to bring things up with Artemis next time they had some time to talk. If Warriors was feeling this badly, she could only imagine how Artemis was doing.
“I got your water!”
All three adults looked up as Wind finally walked back into the room, carefully holding a mug in his hands and looking a little frazzled.
“I couldn’t reach your water cups and I didn’t want to break them by blowing them so I just got a mug cause it’s basically a cup, and I know this one is kind of weird but I it was the first one I found,” Wind rambled, and looked at Warriors anxiously. “Are... are you feeling better, Warriors?”
Warriors took the garishly colored mug with a trembling hand, then took a long sip of water. Some color seemed to come back to his face as he drank, and when he lowered the mug, he gave Wind a small smile.
“Yeah bud, I am,” he said quietly as he looked at his hands. “Sorry for scaring you.”
“I wasn’t scared,” Wind said quickly, then climbed up on Sky so he could be next to Warriors. “Just... don’t do that again.”
Warriors let out a soft chuckle. “No promises. But I’ll do my best.”
Wind flicked a puff of air at Warriors’ face with a grumpy huff, but after a moment he went back to blowing a soft breeze at him like he had earlier, looking relieved.
Warriors relaxed as it hit him, and closed his eyes, looking much better then he had before.
Sky gave Warriors’ shoulder one more gentle nudge, but didn’t say anything further, and Sun got up to go phone Artemis. Wind started in on some kind of story about what one of his brothers had done recently, Aryll toddling back over to sit beside them and listen, and Sun looked back and watched them for a moment, a somewhat sad smile on her face.
Then she headed for the phone, Aryll’s giggles following her.
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