towerofanimus | A daring rescue [Shion and Reno]

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A daring rescue [Shion and Reno]

Characters: Shion and Reno
Setting: Around but then in the cathedral
Format: Prose
Summary: Reno has been avoiding Shion for a while but when he doesn't come back to the room at all for a few days Shion goes looking for him
Warnings: Here be monsters

Shion still felt bad about reading Reno's book, matters were made worse by the fact that Reno had barely spoken to him since. There room had became one of awkward silences or attempts at conversation from Shion's side, just to have Reno make excuses and leave.

Still when a day and then two went past without Shion seeing Reno at all he began to get worried. The tower was a place where any number of awful things could happen any day and so Shion set off to look for him. He asked around and when no one had seen him he began searching the floors beginning with the cafeteria.

After a long time searching, his coat torn from a close shave with a forest animal; Shion entered the cathedral beginning to look around, wondering if Reno was here.

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Hungry, thirsty, and sleep deprived, Reno looked over at the entrance to the cathedral and wondered if he was just seeing things again. He had been stuck on this damn archway for- well, he had lost count by now, but he had been up there long enough that only his training was keeping him glued to the stone. On top of all of that, he was injured too.

Vicious claws had torn his shirt sleeve and laid waste to his skin underneath. The gashes were mostly scabbed over but whenever he moved they broke open and bled a little more. There was a nice little spot of blood on the floor where it had dripped down. He was a tough guy and could stand a lot of things, but it felt like it was getting infected.

Below him, and incredibly excited every time he started dripping again, a large archraven hung out. It stood motionless at the very foot of the arch he perched on, occasionally looking up when he moved.

When he first jumped up here, he had been planning on attacking this thing with his long range attacks and get it out of his hair, but oh no. In his haste, the EMR had dropped off his belt and clattered on the floor only to be swiftly pounced and skittered across the cathedral by the archraven when it had burst to life again. He wasn't going to fight that thing weaponless, and he had to wonder why it just didn't climb or fly up. There were a few tears in the back of his shirt where it had tried to lift off with him when he had first backed up into it and discovered the damn raven statues could move.

Yelling had no effect in this place, either. Every time he had tried the air had acted like a muting substance. He tried climbing down and running when it acted like it wasn't paying attention, but again it burst into life when he got close and had clawed his arm before he could scramble back up.

Squinting, he could have sworn that was a figure. "Hey!" He yelled, though he didn't hold out much hope the figure could hear him. Besides, it could have been another monster; he had no idea if it was day or night.

Shion at first didn't hear the cries, he was searching, looking around the cathedral for any sign of Reno when he saw the blood. His eyes widened and he went towards it wondering if someone had been injured. They might still be here and needing help. As he got close he finally heard the sound and looked up.

"Reno!"

Sadly his call alerted the raven, which burst to life a moment later. Shion froze, eyes darting between Reno and the raven.

"No, no!" Reno gestured for him to get back while the archraven prowled around, pawed at the blood spatter, but didn't seem to sense Shion for the moment.

Argh, why did it have to be Shion? He wasn't going to live this down, not in a million years. "Hey, Shion," he called as quietly as he could without the raven noticing. He hoped the boy could hear him. "That thing will shred your skin off. Don't get too close."

Shion looked up at him and back to the raven. It was dangerous and he shouldn't get too close to it, really should run away but Reno was trapped and injured and so he couldn't, wouldn't.

"I wont," he promised but then seemed to break that promise a moment later as he decided. "Leave him alone." He skittered a little closer, not planning to go within reach but aiming to distract it.

The archraven caught sight of Shion, turning in a lazy way toward him. Reno cringed and shook his head, slapping a hand to his forehead. "The other way."

It didn't seem to matter though, as the raven had fully locked on to Shion and was gaining speed, it would be a definite big problem in a second.

He is going the other way now, running as fast as he can the raven gaining on him quickly because Shion wasn't very fast. He did try and head towards the staircase though, hopefully they could shake the raven off.

Taking that opportunity, Reno dropped from the beam and landed, tucking into a roll. When he came up he ran for his EMR. That was the one chance they were going to have in surviving this thing.

"Hurry Shion!" He yelled, though the natural muting properties of the cathedral turned it into a whisper before it reached the other boy.

There it was! Reno grabbed his EMR up, thanking his lucky stars he was left handed, and didn't even slow changing directions. He grabbed a pillar and swung around, the EMR charging up.

He was hurrying, running as fast as he could though he was slowing, running out of energy. He was not used to such things, even after his months in the West Town he was weak and lacked stamina. He glanced back for a second but continued running, hoping that Reno could get to the doors.

The blast of lightning hit the archraven mid leap and sent it flying. Reno just dashed right by it for the doors, catching up to Shion and grabbing the back of his collar to help him with that speed issue.

It seemed as if they were safe, for the moment.

Shion let himself be half dragged along as they reached the stair case, he clambered up into the media room. Once there he half collapsed, glancing behind him fearing the vulture had followed them.

Reno wasn't particularly winded from the run, being used to it. It was just all the damn pain in his arm and the exhaustion that had him leaning heavily against the wall near Shion. There was no sign of the archraven, so it must have stayed in the Cathedral floor.

That was good. There would be no witnesses.

"The hell," Reno puffed, pushing off the wall and leaving a few bloody marks only to turn and stare at Shion, "were you doin'? You coulda been killed."

Shion took a few more painful breaths, his breathing slowly returning to a normal rate. He was still trembling, mostly from the fear. He blinked at Reno stupidly, "You... Looking for you... you were trapped..."

Truth was he hadn't been thinking at all from the moment he had seen Reno in the cathedral, he just knew he needed to help him. "You're injured..." He stepped forward to look closer at Reno's arm.

Seeing Shion like that made Reno ease a little. He didn't want to scare the guy any more than he was.

"You were lookin' for me?" Honestly, that surprised him. Though now that he was thinking again, distracting that raven had to take a lot of guts. There was apparently more to this guy than met the eye.

Ow, ow. The pain was starting up. It had relaxed into a dull throb when he was sitting motionless, and the adrenaline had kept it during the chase, but now with the scabs freshly broken the pain was searing up his arm, until he started cradling it to relieve some of the pressure.

"It's just some scratches."

Shion nodded, "You didn't come back to the room..." He had been worried, he was still worried. Still he half expected a lecture about being reckless. He grabbed Reno's wrist, the arm that wasn't injured. "I have some bandages in my trunk, if you leave it it will get infected."

"Yeah, I know, it's already getting infected. I didn't want to move in case it started flying agian." Reno winced with the weight shift of being grabbed, now that he was feeling everything.

There would be no lecture about being reckless. Shion was not a turk and he did not expect that he would listen to orders. Still, it impressed him that he would do that.

Few people ever stood up for Reno outside of the Turks, and that earned a little bit of respect.

Shion nodded and led the way to their room. He just hoped the infection didn't set in because he didn't trust the clear collared infirmary workers, especially after whatever they had done to their collars.

He gathered what he needed and began to clean it, "How long were you up there?" He berated himself for not going to look for him sooner.

Blink. He didn't know, really. If he could guess, it would have been "A day. Maybe a day and a half." Then he shrugged, though that just made him wince a bit.

The fact Reno was letting Shion even touch his wound attested to the fact of how exhausted he was. Would hardly have been the first time he tended to his own wounds on or off the battlefield either. "Could have been two. You've probably got a better idea than me."

"I hadn't seen you in two days..." Shion concentrated on bandaging the wounds, if it had been two days he would need rest and food. "I'm sorry for not coming earlier..." He had just figured Reno had been avoiding him. But he should have known something was wrong. Then perhaps he wouldn't be so injured and exhausted.

"Don't worry about it. You're not my mother." That came out wrong, but what Reno was trying to say it wasn't Shion's responsibility. He was just too far gone to try and put it in a better phrase.

Shion looked down again, worried that he had pushed Reno too far and he was angry with him again. He didn't stop bandaging the wounds though. "No... I'm not but I'm your friend, the least I can do is make sure you are safe. That's what friends do..."

His voice indicated that he wanted to make that into a question, but he made himself state it as fact.

He stared at Shion for a moment, not quite understanding what he was saying. "Am I?" He hadn't really considered it. As far as Reno was concerned so far, Shion was a roommate and perhaps someone to talk to on the odd occasion, and perhaps he even started to warm up to him a little until that part with the report book. Now, everything was confused and he couldn't think straight.

"I think I need some rest."

Shion looked down embarrassed. He knew better than to assume friendship from people, but he had thought...

He supposed even months in a tower were horrific things happened hadn't stopped him from being a naive airhead.

He managed a small smile, "Rest I will get you some food."

Reno didn't need to be told twice, as he settled down on the bed as soon as Shion had let go of his arm, and if it hadn't been so painful, he might have fallen asleep right then.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. Sure. Thanks."

Shion took the elevator down to the cafeteria since he knew Reno wouldn't be able to stay awake for much longer. It was just towards the end of lunch and so Shion grabbed a plate of sandwiches a glass of milk and one of water.

"Here," he entered the room, "Eat and then sleep."

By the time Shion got back, Reno had curled up on his bed pretty comfortably on his stomach and rested his head on the pillow. Naturally, that led to one thing, and then another, and he was asleep already.

Shion didn't have the heart to wake him, so he just left the food on his bedside table for when he woke up and then lay on his own bed, despite not having hid from a vulture for two days he was asleep very quickly.

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