As Belle was watching, tears formed in her eyes, then slowly fell down her cheeks. It was pure torture to watch Will be like this. He was now shaking as if he was having a seizure.
A streak of blood now started leaking from his mouth and running down his face.
An interesting scene then happened: the bead of blood and the trail it left behind started to crystalize, turning into what seemed to be ruby. But how was this possible? How was it possible for blood to turn into ruby?
As this event was quite chaotic, this small detail wasn't noticed by Miss Amelia, who was frantically applying medicine to Will to help cool him down and stop his body from moving.
"The blood!!!" Belle yelled, managing to grab Miss Amelia's attention and direct it to the stream of blood leaking from Will's mouth, which was now turning into ruby.
"What the hell? Who is this boy??? Where did he come from?" Miss Amelia almost yelled at Belle, who was now scared for Will's life.
This process of convulsions continued for nearly ten minutes before Will started to finally settle down. At this moment, his eyes, ears, and mouth were all bleeding what looked like liquid ruby. It was the most beautiful thing either Belle or Miss Amelia had ever seen, but they had no time to enjoy its beauty because of what was happening.
"He appears to be stabilizing, but what the hell is happening to his blood? Why does it look like ruby?" Miss Amelia said, somewhat concerned as to where Belle found this boy.
Before Belle got a chance to respond, they both jumped in fright as they heard a shrill *CRACK* resound across the room. One of Will's broken ribs had suddenly snapped back into place, and started to heal.
For the next five minutes, multiple cracking sounds resounded across the room as Will's shattered ribcage started to put itself back together, one bone at a time.
As soon as the last of the cracking sounds ended, a small grunt escaped from Will's mouth.
"Will? Are you okay?" Belle asked with concern when she noticed that Will was waking up.
"Uggghhhhh... What happened?" Will managed to groan out without moving. It was obvious he was in a lot of pain.
"My brother beat you nearly to death," Belle said with bitterness. It was clear that she was angry at her brother, but she couldn't hide the concern in her voice as she looked at Will who was now trying to sit up.
As he was sitting up, he still had not opened his eyes, which he now tried to do.
After a lot of effort, he finally managed to open his eyes, but when he did he was stunned by what he saw.
In front of him sat Belle, who had a tear-stained face, showing clearly that she had been crying, followed by the fact that her face was showing shock.
"Your eyes!!" Belle yelled as she pointed at Will's eyes.
"Huh? My eyes? what about them?" Daniel asked with confusion visible on his face which was now covered in blood.
"They're RED!!!" Belle yelled, forgetting that Will had just woken up and was in a lot of pain.
At this point, Miss Amelia was desperately trying to find a mirror, and when she finally managed to find one, she quickly handed it to Will, who was still looking at both of them in confusion. What had happened for both of them to be looking at him like this?
As he looked at himself in the mirror, he couldn't hid the shock on his face as he not only noticed the red eyes that he had, but also that his face was covered in blood!
"Why is my face covered in blood? And why does it look like a bunch of crystal?" It was clear that he didn't know what was going on.
"Wait, Ruby? It's Ruby?" He muttered in confusion.
"Ruby? What do you mean by that?" Belle asked, clearly intrigued but also slightly scared.
"Nothing, just a weird dream I had," Will responded, now getting up to go clean off his face. Despite the blood looking like ruby, it washed off fairly easy, which surprised Will. It was as if it was blood, water, and ruby all at the same time.
"By the way, why were you crying? Your face is stained with tears,"
Hearing this, Belle's face instantly became a bright crimson as she realized that she had cried over a boy who she had just met and only spoken to once.
"I... Umm... Your body was shaking, and it was really scary. I thought you would die!" Belle yelled as her face continued to get brighter and brighter shades of red each second.
Seeing that the princess was getting embarrassed and trying to get out of the uncomfortable situation, Will changed the subject. "By the way, where are we? I don't recognize this place,"
"You're in my Doctor's house in my courtyard," Belle said, but when she realized that she had brought a boy into her home, she only got even more embarrassed at her actions.
"How long have I been asleep?" Will tried to change the subject again.
"Five days," Belle responded simply. She felt that if she spoke a word more, she would surely die of embarrassment.
"Thank you. You saved my life. I am eternally grateful to you, and am yours to command," Will said gratefully as he kneeled down on one knee and bowed his head towards her.
At this point, she was so embarrassed that she barely managed to squeeze out a "Stand up please," before leaving the room, leaving Will with Miss Amelia.
Will decided to leave Belle alone and asked Miss Amelia what happened, but she was trying to get him to lay down and didn't notice him speaking as she was focusing on his chest. This detail didn't go unnoticed by Will, however, so he decided to tap her shoulder and ask, "Is there something wrong with my chest?"
Miss Amelia responded with, "You don't know? Your chest and ribcage was completely shattered only 10 minutes ago! Does it not hurt???"
"WHAT???" disbelief was written all over Will face as he heard the shocking news. First, his blood turned into ruby. Now, his shattered ribcage had healed in only ten minutes. 'What the hell is happening???' he screamed in his heart.