A Not-so Normal Day
King is created by @vex-bittys, Flare is made by @dawnsbitties, Payt is by @toxious-bitties, Mono is by @mythical-adoptions, Twister and Blueberry Puffs are made by @selkiesbittybonanza and Drop is by @meadowlarkkitties. Echo, Shadow, Wild and Blue King are all by Me.
Also, @wonderland-isles made the vitamin crystals, tysm.
Warnings: Bitty harm, Gore, Guns and Death.
It started off as any normal day in the Shadow household would: King waking up at 5am to do housework, wake everyone up and at 6am, send the kids to school.
It was currently 6am, so Echo and Shadow, King's owner, were taking the younger kids to school while the teens walked. The Bitties were typically homeschooled or adults already, so King tended to take care of that.
Just as King and Flare were washing the last of the breakfast dishes up, there was a knock on the door, not exactly unusual but not common on a Thursday morning. "Payt, Be a gentleman and open the door, would you sweetie?" King called over his shoulder at his lover, Payt, a 10ft horrortale papyrus 'bitty.'
"K!" Payt got up from the dining table and slithered to open the door "Oh, Hi Wild!" King heard Payt exclaim from the front door, he smiled and wiped his hands on a tea towel before making his way to Wild, his owner's oldest biological son.
"Hey, guys! Wanted to come by and help you out a bit, I've brought my boys with me too!" He explained happily, more cheery than usual "Oh! Well come on in, make yourself at home!" Payt slithered to the side, so Wild could get in.
"Aw, hey" King looked down at Wild's bitties, a Honey Fold and a Dealer Bitty: The Dealer was named Mono and the Honey Fold was called Drop, they didn't come around often, but it was a pleasure to see them again.
"So, How're things going with that mission of yours?" Payt asked, sitting down on the opposite couch to Wild, Flare slithered in and settled next to the two lamias
"Pretty good actually! Went to that Sanctuary last week and helped out with sewing and fixing some bitty ladders, found some wild bitties in my  back garden, so I left some water and food out for them and adopted these guys!" He stroked Drop, who leaned against him and purred quietly.
"Wow, you're sounding more and more like Mom every day," Flare commented, laying against King lazily "Heh, what can I say, I love bitties." Wild shrugged and grinned, his blue goggles tinting his natural eye colour to a sort of purple "Gotta rescue the ones I can, right?" He rested his arms on his lap and held his head in one hand
"You're a real hero, kid." King couldn't help but feel proud of this kid, despite the fact he's only known him for about 3 months, it made his soul feel happy to see his owner's kid be so into saving his kind.
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A Few Hours Later. . .
"Well, I must be going, gotta go into the city soon to grab some items for Shadow" King mentioned, getting up and slithering over to the door "Ok, we can take care of things here for a while!" Wild called after him as he closed the door and headed off to the city, which was a long walk considering they lived in the middle of a forest, but he doesn't mind exercise anyway.
It must have taken about 20 minutes to walk to the city usually, but thankfully King had a trick up his sleeve, Shadow had given everyone a teleporter gem in case they needed to go somewhere emergency or not, so he simply teleported over to the city centre and headed to the nearby's farmers market.
Sadly, he didn't make it far as he was dragged into an alleyway, where a gang of thugs pinned him to the wall "woah, HEY! LET GO OF-" He managed to punch one of them in the face and loomed over them in his full 7ft height, hood up aggressively.
The Head of the Gang laughed "Oh, you made a bad choice in doing that!" He grinned evilly and a second King tackled him to the ground, it soon became a struggle of red and white, blood splattering on the cold floor "GET 'EM BOYS!" The head yelled as the second King, whose shirt said 'Scarface', pinned him to the wall and about 10 Thugs started slashing at him aggressively, he struggled and tried to fight back, but Scarface was too strong, and he couldn't move without getting hit.
The Audible sound of his HP lowering echoed through the alleyway, and he eventually his survival instincts kicked in, and he lunged at Scarface, knocking him to the ground and whipping anyone in the way of his tail as he attempted to tackle the Leader, only to get interrupted by a blur of blue and white as something shoved the four thugs in front of him to the ground. He was fuelled purely by instinct and rage, he saw red, he felt safe with this stranger, so they both started fighting off the other thugs back-to-back, getting badly cut and bruised in the process.
And then...
BANG.
A gunshot went off.
King yelled in pain and jumped at the person who shot him, the Leader, and bit down on him as hard as he could. The Leader struggled and screamed in pain as the venom joined his bloodstream, but his moving was only making his time alive shorter and more painful.
And then-
BANG
another gunshot.
The Helpful lamia hissed loudly and jumped the two that shot him, knocking them unconscious quickly, both of them were bleeding badly now, cuts up and down their body, shirts torn and showing their bleeding arms and spines. Now, all the thugs were unconscious or had run away, and the Leader was writhing in pain as he slowly went still and died.
As for Scarface, he had fled when the first gunshot went off, nowhere to be seen. Only now did King get to see what the second lamia looked like: a blue scaled King-like lamia with no pattern on his hood.
Although, this didn't last long as the Blue King slithered a bit forward and fell unconscious, to which King managed to catch him at the last moment before he cracked his head on the floor
"Damn it..." King thought, putting an arm around the stranger and lifting him up, he grabbed the teleporter gem that had fallen to the ground in the fight and quickly teleported as close to home as he could.
He was teleported a bit away from the house, and his entire body felt heavy and painful, despite this, he continued to the house, feeling the strangers tail drag behind him.
He eventually shouldered the door open and muttered "Wild. Here. Now." before collapsing onto the floor.
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"Wild. Here. Now" was all Wild heard before a thud came from the living room, he hurried in and saw King bloody and broken on the ground with a similar bluer stranger next to him, his stomach dropped.
"PAYT, FLARE, GET HERE NOW!" Wild yelled, starting to tear up as he paced back and forth, knowing he couldn't lift the two 7ft lamias on his own.
Both of them quickly hurried down and carried them onto the couch, stripping them of their shirts and hurrying off to grab bandages and medicine.
Thankfully, all the other bitties were upstairs, so nobody had to see the bloody messes that were the Kings.
Payt came rushing in and started bandaging King up, wiping down the wounds before-hand, tears ran down his face as Payt watched his mate so hurt.
Flare followed soon behind with Twister in tow and did the same for the blue King, everyone was extremely panicked but tried to keep the situation quiet. Wild was pacing back and forth with his head in his hands, crying through all of it.
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About 3 Hours Later. . .
King and the stranger were bandaged up, and Everyone was starting to calm down, Shadow was at work currently, and nobody wanted her to stress out enough to rush home, so they just decided to keep quiet.
"....T-Twister, What'd you think that blue King is?" Flare asked quietly, sitting opposite to the two unconscious lamias "He looks like a Blueberry Puff King hybrid, H-Honestly." He answered quietly, visibly rather shaken.
"Well, If he doesn't have an owner, I'll take him in," Wild told them sternly, his goggles laying next to him, so his blood-red, crimson eyes shone with pure determination "I don't know what happened to them, but I'm not letting it happen again." He added firmly, stifling a sob.
"Looks like he's gonna be alright though, some permanent scars to his ribs, spine and his eye but...They'll both pull through." Payt confirmed confidently, still shaking but trying to keep calm.
"When I find the man who hurt my brother-" Wild snarled, fury filling his eyes, Flare put a hand on his shoulder "Trust me, all of us want to do the same but we can't. If anyone got into a fight with King, their probably dead anyway." He patted Wilds back and sighed.
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That was yesterday, both of them are slowly recovering, and everyone is calming down, but Wild refuses to leave until both are better, so he's staying in his old room for the time being. I've given both boys some vitamin crystals to help, but that's all I can do currently.
