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FFXIVWrite Day eight: Shed

with @windupiceheart vertical @windupnamazu Butter and Sirius and @umbral-heart Hanabi

Cherrypit walked his way over to the strange shed in his home's backyard. Babycorn had spent months trying to build a treehouse for him to play in and had messed up so bad she built a shed instead. But Cherrypit didn't really mind. It was still fun. Even funner when he could use it as his own little room. The inside almost resembled a hall of mirrors. Crystals lined the walls. It was pretty weird but Cherrypit didn't care. All he was here to do was to throw these used bandages away.

For as long as anyone (and Babycorn) could remember, Cherrypit’s arms have always been covered. By something, anything. Be it a long popoto sack, unfashionably long sleeves, regular sized sleeves, or even a whole different body.

It wasn’t really something anyone ever worried about. There were certainly many more things to worry about Cherrypit besides the lack of ever seeing his arms. Unless you were in the group of people that thought of Cherrypit as nothing more than a regular baby, like so many people that knew him did, including his beloved sister.

It wasn’t till after the unfortunate events at the battle of Ghimlyt Dark did anyone realize that Babycorn hadn’t entirely told everyone everything about Cherrypit.

(there were actually a lot more secrets she was hiding but for her sake let's pretend she’s been truthful)

Cherrypit had been among those taken to Ishgard after the battle. His injuries weren’t as severe as the rest of the Warriors of Light, which was a relief. At the most he was just a little shaken up about the whole thing, refusing to leave his sister’s side even as she received treatment. He calmed down significantly when Aymeric had shown up with a brand new toy just for him, a stuffed blue elephant toy.

When it came time for Cherrypit’s examination, things couldn’t have gone worse.

The first healer screamed when they noticed that Cherrypit didn’t have a heartbeat. Then when the distant voice of Hanabi explained that the lack of a heartbeat was normal, they ended up fainting and had to be carried out.

Aymeric worriedly watched as Cherrypit silently sat on the bed, kicking his legs back and forth while playing with the stuffed elephant's trunk.

He’s not normally this quiet. Aymeric recalled all the times he had met with the siblings. Most of the time Babycorn had to physically restrain him from bouncing off the walls, he was that excited. Even more so when they hadn’t seen each other for a while. Aymeric could understand.

Truly one never knew true terror until Cherrypit decided he liked you enough to leap onto your face to hug you like he had done to both Aymeric and Estinien one day.

While the healers were busy attending to other matters, Aymeric decided he would try and see if he could find out what could be bothering Cherrypit. Besides the obvious worry for his sister and his friends and the very true reality that he had been in the middle of a battlefield amidst destruction and carnage.

Aymeric paused, maybe there wasn’t that much to ask.

Before anything, something caught Aymeric’s attention. There were bandages wrapped all over Cherrypit’s arms and legs. That was strange, from what he had heard Cherrypit had hardly been injured. All he had needed was a small bandage on his face and a huge lollipop to get him to stop crying.

Aymeric looked around and happened to spot a nurse walking by. He signaled them down, “Do you recall who placed these?” he asked, pointing to the bandages on Cherrypit. The nurse gave Aymeric a confused look and shrugged, a hint of panic to their face.

Could these have been placed back at Ghimlyt Dark? Aymeric worried that if that were the case, they might already be due to be replaced with new bandages. Or else…

He made his way out into the hallway and yelled up and down the hall. “Excuse me! Is there anyone who could change Cherrypit’s bandages?” Aymeric looked back at Cherrypit, he was still looking down at the floor, kicking his feet in place. “I’m afraid they may be too tight or in need of a change!”

“Coming Lord Aymeric!!” Many people shouted back from down the hall. Everyone knew Lord Aymeric meant business when it came to the safety and health of the Warriors of Light. Doubtless if he had the time and means he probably would have healed many of their injuries himself.

One brave soul decided to take it upon herself to change Cherrypit’s bandages. Coming up behind her were a group of her colleagues who had come to provide moral support and also to watch because everyone else was already taken care of at the moment.

Cherrypit offered no resistance, he knew these people were only here to help his sister and his family so it only made sense to let them help him too. If they wanted to change his bandages then they could. Even if it made him a little scared that Bebe wasn’t doing it.

As the nurse began to unwrap the first layer of bandages on Cherrypit’s arm off there was a strange foreboding feeling in the air.

Before anyone could do anything, Cherrypit’s arm bandages completely fell off.

Almost everyone in the room let out a loud gasp.

There were a lot of things that everyone expected to be under those bandages. Things like cuts and bruises came to mind, it would be worrying to see but normal under these circumstances. Those bandages had a reason to be there, after all.

Never in a million years would anyone in that room (except for Cherrypit hi) have guessed that under those bandages would be a large eye looking back at them, a small mouth, a collection of scales, and a series of small dark marks with strange twig looking things coming out of them.

“What is this…?” Aymeric knew Cherrypit was much much different than other children his age but Babycorn had never mentioned any of this.

Cherrypit watched as one by one, more people ran out of the room and away from him.

He could recognize those expressions. They were scared about something. They all kept looking at him, so they were probably scared of him.

But that didn’t make any sense! He didn’t do anything scary!

Cherrypit looked around in a panic, wondering where his sister was. When he was doing this he happened to catch sight of Aymeric looking at him.

He looked just as scared as the rest.

Being looked at that way by one of his friends was enough to send Cherrypit crying all the way to Babycorn’s room.

“Cherrypit please wait!” Aymeric tried to stop Cherrypit but it was no use.

Thankfully Cherrypit was a loud crier so it was no problem to follow where he had run off to and even then, Babycorn’s room would have been Aymeric’s first guess anyway.

At the sound of Cherrypit crying, Sirius and Butter immediately came running out from Lunya’s room. Sirius took an extra second and a few steps back to give Lunya a stern reminder to stay put and Lunya didn’t have the energy to argue with him.

“What’s going on?! Is Cherrypit-?!” Butter yelled out, stepping into the room. He let out a small gasp when he noticed that this was Babycorn’s room. She was still asleep. So he did the only logical thing he could think of and stepped back outside.

“What’s going on? Is Cherrypit okay?” Butter whispered this time. Sirius came in walking behind him and looked upon the scene with Butter.

Several of the healers (and Aymeric) they had seen around the building were all gathered around Babycorn’s bed. Most of them either had a toy or a piece of candy in their hand. All of them were obviously trying to coax Cherrypit from under the bed.

“What are you all doing?” Butter asked in a slightly louder voice.

Aymeric put down his rattle to explain. “Something happened while trying to replace Cherrypit’s bandages. I never expected something like this to happen.” He would gladly apologize to Cherrypit once he had calmed down (and Babycorn once she woke up) but first this situation had to be resolved.

Butter and Sirius were both confused. That was the first they heard of Cherrypit having any type of bandages.

“As it turns out Cherrypit may be hiding more secrets than Babycorn let on.” Aymeric continued to explain, “Whatever the case-We just need to get him out from under the bed and try and calm him down.” Or else he might wake up everyone in Ishgard at this rate.

It was kind of a miracle that Babycorn was still knocked out.

“Fine job you’re doing there.” Sirius said. He could have sworn that Cherrypit’s crying was only getting louder.

“whats going on here?”

A tall shadow cast itself over Butter and Sirius. Butter looked up and found himself face to face with both Vertical and Hanabi staring right past him and into Babycorn’s room.

“What are you two doing here?” Butter asked.

“Shouldn’t both of you be resting?” Sirius sternly asked, a little worried that Lunya herself would be coming up running next.

Vertical held up some dango. “hanabi was giving me a snack. i asked her about it.” She had gotten lost on her way to the kitchen. Vertical also had an extra in her other hand, most likely for B’ig whenever he was well enough to eat it.

Hanabi nodded. “I remembered I bought a lot of them back in Kugane! And I needed a snack to help cheer me up so I just started eating some!” Though Hanabi was still making sure to keep enough to share with everyone else.

By now Cherrypit’s crying had devolved to sniffling to himself, which is how that past conversation was even allowed to happen. Otherwise no one would be able to hear anything.

“Hmm…” Sirius took note that Hanabi was holding a whole bunch of dango in her hand. He called out to her and asked her if he could have just one.

“Of course!” Hanabi happily handed one to him.

“Thanks.” Sirius then made his way over to where Aymeric was and held up the dango to him, “Here just use this.”

“Use this?” Aymeric held the dango up and inspected it.

“And if that doesn’t work we can use the cookies I bought!” Butter happily tried to whisper. The cookies he had bought specifically for no one in particular.

Aymeric knelt down closer to the bed and did the only thing he could think to do. He moved the dango around under the bed much like one would move a cat toy around.

Cherrypit’s sniffling instantly stopped, “Dango! Dango!” his little hands appeared from the darkness and grabbed onto the dango itself, exactly how his sister held it. Aymeric stood up and brought Cherrypit into the air, still hanging off of it. He laughed to himself and kicked his feet rapidly in the air.

Now that he was out from under the bed, everyone could finally see what had scared everyone so bad.

“Oh! Cherry you got an eye on your arm! Can you see out of it?”

“Yeah, that tracks.”

“dang.”

“If you want any more dango Cherry I have more!”

Cherrypit let out a happy little babble of words as he bit down and began to eat his snack. “Mmhmmphh! Baba! YumYum!! Yummy!!” His vocabulary was finally expanding. Everyone was so proud.

The mouth on his arm was drooling a bit.

#ffxivwrite2023 #cherrypit #butter #sirius #hanabi #vertical #i havent liked some of my fills but you know what its fine #cherrypits bandages have always been here but just underneath ya know #when his clothes rip when he transforms at the end of arr and post sb you can seem them but ehe #theres lots of things on there like eyes and mouths and places where dark oozy mystery stuff is #and some scales from his dad #maybe!#who knows!#ahahaha sorry aymeric you deserve better #everyone in that room was afraid for their lives of babycorn waking up and thinking they made cherrypit cry #im hungry and hot and i guess this is why this one turned out this way

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