User blog:Redknight910/WWYD Thunderbird Ronchellster

I look over at the harpy, proud in the fact that we got at least one of the menaces, but as I watch, I start to see how much pain it’s in. I cautiously make my way over to it, not sure if what I’m doing is brave, stupid or downright suicidal. But when she turns to me all I can see is fear in her eyes.

“St-Stop! Please, please just leave me alone.” She starts to cry and tries to back away, screaming as she accidentally moves the harpoon. My mind’s made up, monster or no, I’m helping this poor girl.

I promise I only want to help, starting with the harpoon. She tries to back away again, and cries out when the harpoon wobbles slightly. I tell her to please trust me, and try to get closer to her again. She cowers, but doesn’t make another move to run.

I look over the wound and wince, is this the kind of damage they always did? Thank the gods that we only used the small fishing harpoons, or she just well might have been amputated.

I carefully try to snap the harpoon off at the wound and slide the other half out. She screams, sending a bolt of lightning out in a random direction. I let go and panic, scrambling away. When she looks at me her eyes are less fearful and more desperate. I try to keep calm and tell her it’s almost out, but it’s going to hurt to pull it the rest of the way. She nods and looks to brace herself for it. I quickly pull the remaining part of the harpoon out, listening to her groan as it comes free.

She spins around and I expect to be zapped to death by lightning, but instead I feel a large wing embrace me. I open my eyes to see a sunning face, tear streaked but smiling.

“Th-Thank you… Now I know why I saved you.” She snuggles into my shoulder, and I ask what she means by ‘saved me?’

“Hehe, I… Snatched you up from… The deck of your ship before it… Capsized. I didn’t… Want to let… The sea girls have you.” Her voice is still heavy with pain, and I place a hand on the back of her head, smiling, and thanking her. I ask if she ‘saved’ me to take for herself.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“…Yes, I did… It was when I got you that I… Got hit.” I put my free hand onto her shoulder, trying not to put pressure on it or the touch the wound. I tell her I can’t let a sacrifice like that go unrewarded, even if it was for a selfish purpose. We then hear several cracks of thunder in the distance.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“My sisters!” She cries out, trying to wave to them with both arms, only to fall to her knees in pain. I kneel next to her and wrap my arms around her, telling her she’s going to need to rest her arm, and that means no waving it about. The three sisters land next to us, fretting over their sister, when one of them looks at me, eyes furious.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“How could you do such a thing?!” She shouts at me. “After everything she did to-“ She’s cut off by the girl I awoke with.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“Alana, he helped me, without him, I’d still be curled up over there with a harpoon in my shoulder. The one yelling at me, Alana, turns to the other girl.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“If you hadn’t gone after him, Lily, you wouldn’t have been shot in the first place.” Lily stood and walked over to me, putting her good wing around me.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“But I love him.” I look at her, and her eyes are wet with tears again, this time though, they’re tears of joy. I return the embrace, telling her I love her too.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“Come on, Aly, you have to admit, they look cute together.” One of the other two comments.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">“Yeah, okay then, you take good care of our little sister, got it mister?” I nod, promising to protect her. The other three take off again, and I hear one grumbling about the youngest getting a husband first.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">We sit there, wrapped up in each other for a bit longer, before breaking part. I mention that I can’t really go home with a monster, let alone a monster wife, and together we start searching the wreckage for anything salvageable. The first thing I do is tear a piece of cloth off of one of the sails to bandage her wound and make a sling for her wing.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">By the time we’re done we’ve collected a few things we can sell when we find a monster friendly town. We find a town by the next afternoon, and with the money we make off of the salvage we rent a room at one of the inns. I also brought some proper medical supplies to wrap her arm in, including a salve to promote healing.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">That night, safe and comfortable, I learn EXACTLY what it means to be a thunderbird’s husband. I also learn what a thunderbird looks like when she’s having an energy leakage. We stay in the inn until our coin runs out, then set off for the nearest port town. I keep working as a sailor, and Lily gets a job aboard the ship too, being a lookout.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:15.75pt;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;mso-fareast-language:EN-AU">We spend most of our time not working doing what any thunderbird couple do. Having the most intense, pleasurable sex I could ever imagine.