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Warriors finally talks about his feelings.
Ehhh…. could have edited this more.
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Stupid ancient temples and stupid spirit of courage making them all more than keen to explore all those stupid ancient temples.
Four was in the middle of the group with Warriors just a step or two behind him. The temple was dark and even though they all broke out their lanterns or torches – or in Warriors' case, bring out his vampire eyes – the light barely penetrated the darkness. They had to rely on their hearing more than anything else and Four couldn't be the only one who hated the idea of relying so heavily on only one of his senses.
He was worried about Warriors. Somehow, he managed to become even quieter and he didn't even bother to hide the fact that he was upset. He was particularly upset about leaving his era after the battle where he lost control too. Four guessed there was somewhere else he was taking them but the appearance of the portal messed up his plans. He had no idea where he was trying to take them though – Warriors just said it was important.
Suddenly, Four's foot went through the floor, quickly followed by the rest of him.
He yelped in surprised as he flailed his arms for a second. He felt somebody cling to him from behind but that didn't stop him from falling – all it did was drag the person down with him. He heard shouts of alarm from above as he squeezed his eyes shut. He could hear more floor crumbling as they fell and whoever was unfortunate enough to fall with him held onto him tightly.
Just as suddenly as he was falling, he was stopped, followed by a loud snapping and crunching noise, laying on his back and in... not any pain at all for such a long fall. There was a hiss of pain, but not from his own mouth.
“You alright, Four?”
Warriors. Of course. He was right behind him!
“Fine. You?”
“Think I shattered my legs... maybe my hips too... but it's fine. Bones regenerate just as well as flesh does,” he said, unable to keep the pain out of his voice. “Just gotta make sure they're straight.”
Four winced. The unfortunate part of his regeneration seemed to be the fact that it didn't stop the pain. Sometimes, his reaction to the pain was delayed, but he never regenerated quickly enough for him to be able to skip the 'feeling pain' part entirely. He would rather that Warriors didn't play the part of living meat shield as often as he did when it wasn't a painless experience but Four suspected that the behaviour was unlikely to go away.
“I'm sorry-”
“Don't be sorry. I went after you for a reason. If you shattered your legs, you may never walk normally again. Or at all. I just need some blood and rest. Trust me, it's better me than you.”
Four frowned. There was definitely some truth in there and that was the kicker, wasn't it? Warriors wasn't wrong – it was logistically better for the vampire of the group to take all the blows than it was for all the regular, squishy Hylians to get hurt, possibly permanently. Warriors got his arm severed one day and had full use of it the next and that was far from the only time where serious injuries were basically made inconsequential within a day or two. It made sense for him to take all the deadly-to-Hylians blows.
It was too bad he was a self-sacrificial idiot on top of that.
We're all like that though.
Warriors alluded to the fact that he could be killed and Four was really curious about what it took to take a vampire out for good. He shook his head. He couldn't get side tracked, not when he couldn't relieve some of the itch by splitting. He pushed Warriors' arm away and the captain got the hint, letting him go. He got off his chest carefully and once he was sure that the floor wouldn't collapse again, and that he wasn't going to slip on the rubble, he sat down beside Warriors. It was still dark, so it was best for them to stick together.
Suddenly, something landed near him. Four jumped to his feet and immediately withdrew his sword, debating on whether or not he should split up since Warriors wasn't in any position to defend himself. A blue light lit up Wild's face. “Four? Wars? The others sent me down to look for you two.”
“Oh, thank goodness,” Four said, letting a sigh of relief.
“Wild? Did you find them?” Wind's voice asked.
“I'm fine but Warriors broke both his legs and maybe his hips,” Four answered, raising his voice so that the slate could capture his voice. He still didn't know how Wild and Wind could communicate the way they did, seeing as the people who made the objects they used were long gone by the time Wind and Wild got their hands on said objects. Wild didn't say anything but Four saw the full body shudder.
“Stay tight. We'll find a safe way down and meet up with you three. We haven't seen any monsters yet, but you know, keep an eye out.”
“Got it,” Wild answered. There was a weird cackling noise and Wild tapped his slate a couple of times to summon some wood and flint before putting it away on his hip. He used a dagger to strike the flint and the entire room lit up in an orange light. “This will give us enough light to see, but it goes both ways, so we'll have to be careful.”
Four nodded. As much as it gave them the ability to see, it also gave them away if any monsters happened to be nearby. At least he had a layout of the room they were in. It was a perfectly square, with a door at each wall, where two of the doors were locked with a padlock. It struck Four as some sort of hub room in the dungeon, but it was also weird that a hub room would be so far down. If the group found a map, he was definitely looking at it later.
“So... do we have to do anything with your legs before we feed you our blood?”
“He said we just have to make sure everything is in the proper position. We should probably get him off the rubble too... What do you think?” he asked, looking to Warriors.
“I would like to get off the rubble first,” he mumbled.
“You sure? It'll hurt a lot,” Four asked with a frown.
“I'm sure.”
Wild went behind Warriors and hooked his arms under the captain's armpits. Warriors hissed in pain as Wild pulled him into a sitting position and Four took the opportunity to gently grab both of the broken legs. Together, they brought Warriors to one of the walls and let him lean against it. Four got the feeling from the way that Warriors tilted his head closer to his shoulder that he probably wanted to lie down. He shared a look with Wild but he didn't move to help Warriors get to the ground. They agreed then – it was better for him to be upright. It would be easier to give him blood that way.
“You don't have any blood in your slate?” Warriors asked with a wince.
“No, I was going to try to find some today but we're here instead.”
Warriors' eyes went wide.
“You can just drink our blood though.”
Warriors didn't say anything.
“What's wrong?” Four asked. “You've drank blood from more than a third of our group with no problems. What changed?”
“Is it because you lost control recently? C'mon, talk to us. It's not like we have anything else to do and you have to drink blood if you want to walk again...” Wild muttered.
“I know,” Warriors said quietly. He directed his eyes downward. “It's not... this recent time. Not really.”
Four sighed and sat down beside him, drawing his knees up to his chest. “I can't make you do anything, but we've all noticed that you haven't been yourself lately, especially since we left your era. It might be helpful to say something.”
Warriors let out a long sigh, his shoulders slumping. “Do you remember how somebody at the tavern I took us to tried to kill us? I went back town to look for whoever did it. I wasn't going to at first, but I came across a tree and I was kind of inspired. At any rate, I went back to the tavern, and found the person involved because she reeked of hemlock. I was going to drink some of her blood and then kill her... instead...”
He paused for a second, biting his lips.
“Instead, I tore her throat out and I don't even remember it. One moment, we were talking, and another... I was just covered in blood. I don't remember doing it.”
The reason why Warriors didn't want to drink their blood was pretty clear now.
“And losing control after that didn't help.”
Warriors looked away again. “After we fought those monsters, I tried leading us the the vampire estate but we ended up in this era instead. Athena wanted me to talk to them and I wanted to try and figure why it keeps happening.”
“Well, we don't need other vampires for that,” Wild muttered. “If we can figure out why Legend's blood makes you sick, we can figure out why you absolutely lose your shit sometimes.”
Warriors raised his eyebrows and drew his lips into a line, not quite frowning but obviously not happy either. Then, he seemingly changed his mind, letting out a long sigh and straightening his shoulders as much as he could. “It can't hurt.”
“The first time was the black blood, right?” Wild asked.
Four nodded. “Yeah, when we were fighting the darknuts. It was the first time most of us found out what a vampire was. It had to have been the magic affecting you but... why did you drink it? Why was that the way you decided to reveal your secret like that?” It was the one thing Four often found himself thinking about. He completely understood hiding it, but he wondered what made that battle different.
If he revealed his own ability to split though, then maybe he could understand why a moment in battle would feel so important. Maybe if Warriors was a normal Hylian and not a vampire, he would have felt the need to split to save the others.
“Sky was down and if I didn't do anything, Legend probably would have gone down too. I had to do something to improve our chances, especially if Sky was going to make it out. The only option it felt like we had, with what I knew at the time, was to use my powers, so that's what I did.”
“Then the second time was the blood moon, right?”
Warriors nodded. While Four wasn't with them to see what happened to Warriors, he did see what happened to the moon and he did see the weird particles of darkness hanging in the air until it suddenly all vanished. Once again, the cause seemed clear cut. Warriors was overcome by some sort of external source of magic.
“Then this third time was with the woman? What happened then? You said you were talking?” Four prompted.
It took longer for Warriors to respond this time. It was clear that the night was weighing on him, but he also admitted that he couldn't entirely remember the night. He had to look through memories he clearly didn't enjoy to pick out the information to answer their question.
“Most of the conversation... isn't important. The only part I got upset about was the fact that she poisoned all of our food and she didn't care that if you guys died alongside me,” he said with a growl. “She called you guys 'collateral damage' and that's where the gap in my memory is. I remember her saying it wasn't a big deal if something happened to you guys and then I was covered in her blood.”
“Then the fourth time was with Twilight,” Wild said.
“Yeah. We saw the other monsters and decided we would take care of it ourselves because at the time, it didn't look like there were too many of them but it was only when Twilight got hit in the head with a club did I realize how our of depth we were. I remember trying to find a safe place for him but I don't remember much else until I kind of woke up again.”
Four was tempted to split just for this, just so that Vio could find the common thread in all of the times Warriors lost control. Together, he was the sum of his parts – he was all of them and yet none of them at the same time. However, when he was split, his core parts became much more exaggerated. Vio's logic was his most exaggerated trait and that would be handy right about now.
But was he ready?
Warriors already shared one of his deepest secrets to save them, but Four was sure that Warriors would have needed to reveal his secret eventually. He was sure that one day, he would have ran into a situation where he couldn't hide who he was. Was Four in the same boat? Maybe it would even help Warriors to know that he wasn't the only one with a secret. However, no matter how many ways he put it, the very idea of splitting made his stomach twist up a bit.
Back to the matter at hand. The first two times he lost control was because of magic. The third time was... he was angry? The fourth time he was protective and overwhelmed. Although, the first time and the third time also had elements of protectiveness.
Oh.
Oooooooh.
Four smacked himself. “It's us. We're the reason why you lose your shit as Wild put it. When we're in danger or insulted, you lose your shit.”
Warriors raised an eyebrow but Wild just sat for a moment, contemplating Four's words, before his eyes went wide. “I think Four's right.”
“That...” Warriors stopped, his shoulders slumping.
“I mean, I doubt we're the only factor in why you've been losing control. There has to be more to it that the other vampires can probably explain but we're obviously a trigger of some sort. With that in mind though, we can try our best to work around it,” Four stated, his mind already trying to conjure up some plans.
“I'll write to the other vampires and think about how we're going to mitigate... this...” Warriors muttered. He didn't look as upset as before, so he supposed that was a win. The most important thing was to get him to drink blood though. If they could get Warriors to drink some blood and start regenerating all of his shattered bones, it would mean that their conversation helped at least a little bit. Four took one of his bracers off and presented Warriors with his bare wrist, holding it in front of his mouth so he didn't have to move a lot.
“I know you won't lose control.”
He wasn't warned. There was a sharp pain as Warriors' fangs dug into his wrist but he was surprised that once his fangs were situated, it didn't hurt anymore. The only thing that he could really feel was Warriors' tongue lapping up his blood. Eventually, the fangs were removed and his wrist stung again but he barely had a moment to register it before Warriors' eyes started to droop.
“Wild!”
Together, they readjusted him. With some blood in him now, they silently agreed to lay him down so he could get some rest – he tended to crash after major injuries, something Wind had yet to notice – and if their resident vampire felt the pain, he barely reacted. He knew the captain wanted to lie down when they first put him up against the wall but there was basically no time between Warriors drinking blood and nodding off.
Four and Wild exchanged worried looks, but they nonetheless helped him settle. The cook pulled a pillow and a blanket out from the slate and shoved the pillow under Warriors' head while Four made sure that his legs were straight before throwing the blanket on top of him.
“I guess we just wait now...”
In the end, it only took the others an hour or so to find them, and another two hours for them to clear the dungeon and come back to fetch them. With the way Wind and Legend were complaining, Four supposed that there wasn't a whole lot to be found at the end. Maybe they were between eras then? However, if anyone recognized the dungeon, nobody said anything about it. It was certainly odd for there to be a dungeon filled with monsters and locked doors but no fancy gadget at the end.
Warriors slept the entire time but at least he was easy to rouse when it came time to leave.
“Wait, how are we going to get him out?” Sky asked. “Shouldn't we keep his legs and hips still?”
“Just tie my legs together or something,” Warriors mumbled with a yawn. “If you ruin them for a bit, it'll be fine.”
Time sighed. “I'm concerned about your lack of concern sometimes.”
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I've seen three (maybe four?) other LU writers now use Vampire Warriors and I'm thrilled. I know we aren't all using the same vampire rules but all I care about is the advancement of the Vampire Warriors agenda.
Does Wars ever drink human blood or is he too scared to find out what would happen?
He does drink human blood and it will be the basis of a couple of chapters, at least! He likes the taste of it the best (Warriors does a ranking for blood) but he doesn't drink it often since he does risk blood loss to the donor and/or turning someone else into a vampire.
