My eyes start opening and I feel my arms and legs feeling weak and feeling stinging pain in my tosor with all the arrows and knives in me. I haven't removed them all which might have been a good idea.
I get myself up slowly and carefully not to fall over again but I trip a bit and fall on my knees.
"Argh...Shit shit...I need ot get up!"
I place my hands on my knees and push myself up feeling the arrows move inside me.
I push on and start moving out again south and continue walking holding me stomach and not trying to barf up blood.
*minutes later*
I notice a clearing. I start speeding up my walking and trip a few times but kept my cool and kept on limping over.
I continue to move out and fall out of the clearing on my face spitting a bit of blood but looking up. everything is echoing.
I see Lara and Arla sitting around and then they notice me.
"Hey is that...C-coda?! Oh my god, what the! Arla! Come over here!" she screamed running over to me and dropping on her knees near me.
"What is, oh my..." she doesn't express much emotion but the sudden cut off her voice shows she is shocked enough.
She runs over and creates a healing aura around me and presses against some of my bloody wounds to test them or something.
They move me over onto my sitting upwards hazily and rip my shirt off. I have arrows in my back and front with a few knives in me. Since I don't have my armor they easily injured me. Why was it off of me? Did those ex-adventurers remove it off of me when I was asleep?
They attempt to pull them out and I scream in pain
"ARGH! Ha ah.....*huff huff*
I look down and see the blood start pouring out only to be sealed by a healing orb by created by Arla.
I wheeze a bit in exhaustion and Lara takes my head and presses it against her chest. It feels so soft through her kimono...
The wounds on me start to heal up but leave behind cut scars and arrow scars in their place. healing can close wounds but can't recover the blood lost. That will take time.
As I am on my knees my eyes start to feel heavy again and start dropping again. Luckily I am not bleeding now but still, I don't think it is a good idea for me to lose consciousness yet.
I close my eyes just for a bit and open them every few seconds as Arla is healing my wounds. I start feeling the pain fade a bit but still existent. She is good at healing but it isn't strong. Minor cuts and wounds are enough to be mildly healed but not entirely. She spread her healing aura around my most dangerous wounds.
Arla stops for a moment and takes a deeper breath. She is worn out. She isn't our best mage in magic but she is our only one currently. She finishes her breaths and continues to heal me regardless of her exhaustion because she cares about Coda.
*30 minutes later*
"uugh..." I moan out.
"I feel like I am dead..." I say with a slight curl on my face.
"H-how can you joke about nearly dying again?!"
"Because I am me..." *huff huff*
"But you could've died...Look at your scars!" Lara screams at me.
I lean up a bit with sours all over my body and check out my new scars and yeah I took quite a bit of punishment.
I lean back down slowly and lay on the grass. to relax a bit since my body has not fully healed but Arla did her best to heal me. She is sleeping somewhere else to rest after using a lot of her mana to heal me.
As I lay I notice Lara is having some odd aura around her. She seems to be thinking about something.
*Lara POV*
That idiot..how can he be so calm and relaxed about his situation? He could've died from his encounter with whoever it is. I swear, if I find out who did this to him there will be hell to pay. He is so important to me. I can't stand to lose him.
I look over to him and he has his eyes closed breathing in with his chest rising up and down shirtless. I stare at his new scars which have dried up blood.
He looks so relaxed...How...If only I could relax but I can't. He needs to know!
*Coda POV*
"Coda...I...you...*sigh*
"How can you be this way?!"
"huh?"
"MMMM! Idiot!" she says while running off again in the opposite direction of me.
*Sighs* "How can I understand a woman like that."
I try to get myself up my the soreness still lingers in me and it prevents me from getting up as fast.
I however regardless of pain get myself up and walk over to Arla slowly who is sleep on the grass in the open. Still having a bit from her excessive use of healing magic to save me. I owe her.
I lay down next to her and wait for a bit until she wakes up.
*Hours later*
I start waking up a bit and have this feeling of warmth on me. I widen my eyes and look to my left and notice Arla is sleeping with her legs and arms wrapped around me. She must've moved in her sleep and is hugging me like a pillow now.
Adorable...
But she is making me sore in the process now that I think of it...But this isn't too bad of a feeling. Would be kind of sus if Lara found us like this. I will just make another excuse like I always do. Thats a song...Anyways.
I start shimming myself to get a bit comfortable and as a result, Arla starts rubbing her face into my bicep and tightening her grips around my arm. I could get used to this if I wasn't still sore and had some cuts on me. At least the arrows are out of me. Plus the knives. But still those men.. did a number on me. But so did I on my own.
*hours later*
I wake up again to the darkness of the environment and the smell of something good. I get myself up feeling the aches in my body and stand. I notice a campfire about 10 meets from me and start limping over towards it holding my stomach which still hurts.
I walk over to them sluggishly and sit down on a log which I don't remember being there. I notice Lara has a frying pan I had packed a while ago and is cooking some fish. Looks good. I am already salivating over this without actually doing it.
"So is that dinner?"
"That's my dinner so yes." Lara scoffs at me
EH? why she mad at me? Don't tell me she saw us getting close with Arla while I was asleep...
"So...saw you ogling with Arla...not that I care just wanted to ring it up...Seems like you enjoyed some company," she says making a bit of a red pouty face.
Yep she knows...*sighs*
"Looks I was just sleeping next to her when she clamped onto my arm it wasn't anything else Lara. So please can I have some? Pretty please? I don't want to go hunting this late this hurt at night...
"I uhm...Sure..." she stutters
"Thanks!" I say triumphantly
"Not like I want you to hurt yourself again..." she whipers to herself without Coda hearing.
"What?"
"Nothing! J-jsut eat!" she says gripping the frying pan handle tightly.
*minutes later*
"Man, that was some good fish. Where did you get it?" I say rubbing my stomach which still hurts a bit.
Over by a lake over to the east further of camp. About a few hundred meters. I got my kimono wet so I am wearing another one very identical. In-incase you didn't notice...
"Oh, so that was what was different with you...Sorry I thought something seemed off but didn't want to come across rude if I was wrong."
"W-well, that's nice..." she says being flushed a bit and looking at her half-finished fish.
An awkward silence comes over the air and we both sit there silently for a couple of seconds. I get this sudden chill over me since I don't have an extra shirt on me.
I move a bit closer to the campfire and get my hands closer rubbing my hands together trying to warm myself up. Arla notices me and starts to shimmy her way over to me slowly oddly enough. I look at her and she stops for a moment but continues.
She sits next to me and leans in a little. This is making me a bit uncomfortable what is she doing? I hear her sniff me. What the hell is she doing?
"uhh....What are you doing?" I ask
*sniff*
What the fuck? Is she high off of fish or something? This is actually a bit funny. But still weird. I tap on her shoulder and she opens her eyes. Her eyes are beautifully brown and I can't help but look deeply into them. I start getting this tingling feeling in my heart and I can't handle it.
I turn my head around.
"You don't love me do you..."
What the...where did that come from?
"uhm what do you mean? Of course I love you. We both have been through a lot you are like my best friend and-"
"No! I mean love me..."
Where did this come from? Why do I get this itchy feeling in my chest? Actually it is getting worse my stomach feels bad...Wait where did she get this fish from?!
I start backing down and she opens her mouth with a bit of drool coming out of her mouth. Oh boy I think she is high off of some fish!