Hero 108: A New Beginning: Ch. 29

Snake Meets Spider

By: ARTgazer12

While the fighters were away, the peace keepers were left in Big Green. Shari was new, so she wandered the halls. She already bumped into several members, each one having a rather…interesting effect. She saw Bloodstone, but the stare he gave her ran her blood cold. Kawkee was scary at first, but Shari managed to greet him. However the moment was short lived when Kawkee mixed two wrong chemicals. Maiden never left her room, but she sounded sweet. Though Shari wasn’t convinced, “Thith is hopeleth…” She slowly sulked down a hallway, her arms drooped to the sides and her motions slow. “I never thould have joined. I only cauthe fear…” She remembered how the younger members took to her. They only clung close to Lovely. “Maybe it would be better if I le-”

“You!” Shari suddenly felt her hand to be grabbed. “You know healing potions!”

“I…who?” The one grabbing her was too quick for her to look right away. Shari felt herself being dragged off by the one who talked and grabbed her. The naga managed to look down to see pink. It was Brave One, and she looked like she was in a hurry.

YX, in terms of status, was doing better. He was no longer in pieces, and the scars disappeared almost instantly. But his body was still feeling the odd effects of disharmony. It also appeared that his mouth had disappeared, or at least no longer showed itself. He laid in his bed, the blankets covering his spider lower half and part of his mid section. Suddenly his room door burst open, causing the demon’s head to turn. Brave One…? His eyes went wide as he saw their visitor. Who…? He then saw Shari’s lower half. A naga?

“YX?” she spoke. Her tiny furry fingers grasped his right hand. She smiled warmly, “You’re going to be okay now.”

The naga gently grasped the spider demon’s hand as well. She sniffed, “Hith heat thignature ith thrange…unuthually cold.”

The pink monkey turned to her, “You can help him? Can’t you?”

Shari was literally dragged into this. She did know proper potions, but why the sudden rush? Plus why was she talking to her? The naga was told that all Brave One could do is hiss. But, this was also an opportunity. She needed to make some friends, and what way to start that to help? She nodded, “I can, I juth need my thingth.”

About an hour passed until the naga and monkey could get everything inside his room. Soon there was no one in the room except for Shari and YX. The snake girl was already at work, looking at each of her supplies through her covered eyes. She made a nervous smile and turned towards him, “Um…nithe to meet you?” His eyes saw her, but they quickly went back to staring at the ceiling. She frowned before turning away. Even though her eyes were covered, there was an obvious state of sadness. Oh no… she thought, He’th going to hate me. It’th goning to be the thame thing ath before. I’m tho terrible with people. I juth want to thlither down a hole right now…

An hour has passed, and Shari was getting the final touches. She of course had to see his symptoms first. She knew about healing potions, but his condition was unusual. He seemed to have bits and pieces of different simple diseases, making it complicated to figure out an exact cure. She sniffed the vial, “It thill doeth not thmell right…” With a small hack, she spat a lob of her own venom into it. She swished it around until the color and odor changed. She smiled at her work, “Ah! Now it thmellth right!”

Putting the medicine in a spoon, she made her way over to him. She reached the spoon out but stopped, seeing as he seemed to have no mouth. YX, however, had a nose. He hissed loudly at her, causing her to flinch back in fear. She was afraid of his hissing, and the newfound mouth that she saw. His own skin was ripping like it was never meant to open. That smell…it is HORRID!

Shari whimpered slightly as he continued to glare at her like she was an enemy. “You…Y-You need it to get better…” The hissing and the glare did not stop for a while. But, YX eventually calmed down. Shari, however, was still nervous. The steady hand she used to have was now quivering, making the liquid splash out of the spoon. The glare finally settled, YX now regretting even wanting her in. The naga eventually got the idea and moved the spoon closer. The smell was horrid, but the spider demon drank it down anyway. He coughed and hissed in anger after he drank it. Shari backed away the moment he finished the last drop. He shrieked horribly after he swallowed it. He glared at Shari, and she could feel the stare go down into her soul. The naga gulped, “Y-You needed it. And I can’t give you anything elthe until morning.” She felt the glare increase. However YX turned and stared up at the ceiling. She gulped, “And…I need to thay with you too becauthe you need to take thomething elthe before you thleep.”

It had better taste better than that last spoonful. Much to his disappointment the next medicine was even worse. Shari almost had to hold YX down to give it to him. The face that he gave her scared the naga more than anything had ever before. Shari wanted to leave, but she couldn’t. In case YX was one of those kinds of patients, he would have needed another spoonful. Currently she was out of the room because she had to get more ingredients. This gave him the chance to fall asleep. He was tired and a bit exhausted, but mostly he hoped that Shari would leave him alone. Within the first couple of minutes the medicine kicked in, making him pass out.

Shari reentered the room, holding a few vials of different stuff. She took one look at her patient and sighed, placing the vials aside. “Tho much for making a friend…” The naga was about to remove her blindfold, seeing as it was no longer needed, that was until she heard some grunts. The startled girl turned to see her patient, gently tossing and turning in his sleep. “Oh dear” she spoke, “He mutht be having night terrorth…” The girl was even more startled as the tossing became thrashing. The grunts became silent screams, each coming out of that horrid ripped mouth of his. Shari, despite her rising fear, slithered to his side. She grabbed a chair with her tail and placed it directly beside the bed. The naga sat down and grasped his hand, “Calm down YX, it’th only a nightmare!” Her response, however, was claws digging into her hand. She yelped but contained it, not wanting to wake him. It was horrible to wake someone from a night terror. The claws dug deeper into the wounds of her hand, but she stayed. Fresh tears flowed down her face, but she kept a small smile. “It’th okay…I’m here. It’th okay…”

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The next morning came and YX was the first to awake. He groaned, awaiting the headache to come, but to his surprise it did not. He no longer felt any of his symptoms. He had no fever, no headache, no anything. For the first time in a while, YX felt like his old self again. He was such in a good mood that he rushed to remove the covers but found his hand attached. He looked to the source and gasped greatly, his hand was stuck inside someone else’s hand. The hand belonged to Shari. She stayed with me…all night? He was confused to why someone would do this even with his night terrors he experienced. The demon removed his claws and looked at the wounds. I did those…even in my sleep. She stayed with me all night… Her snoring showed that she eventually did fall asleep. However he saw her tear-stained face and mouth stuck with a pain-filled smile. He sighed before spotting her supplies. Using her med kit, he wrapped bandages around her hand, closing the wounds. Perhaps I was too rough on her…

After he wrapped her hand, he placed a crumpled up note in the bandaged hand. He patted her head as he left. Shair stumbled awake, “Oh! YX?!” She watched as the rest of his spider legs left his room. Her eyes looked to her hand, as she felt something inside. She removed the blindfold and looked at her hand. She knew he caused damage to her hand, but YX must have helped bind it. Then she noticed the paper. She unfolded it and gasped in the process. The writing was horrible and scrawled on the paper, but she could read it. “Thank you” was written poorly on the paper. Tears came to her eyes as she smiled.

“SHARI!” Suddenly the naga turned to see Brave One. However the monkey fell over with gray fur. At first she was confused by the sudden change in color, but then realized that her eyes were revealed. She sighed before slithering towards her, vial of her antidote in hand and blindfold reapplied.