User blog:The Weary TimeLord/Memoir of a Dimension Hopping Madman: Love in the face of pain. Chapter 14.

Chapter 14: Time Lord, Traveler, Soldier, Doctor.

Once we were all agreed Wendalia and Yumika moved to take their positions and I began an all-out sprint like a bat out of hell. After reaching what I presumed to be adequate distance between myself and the city I began to scream for help to add to the theatricality of the moment and give my act some credibility. “Help me!” “Please help!” Callia on my instructions had waited for two minutes before giving chase and was now pursuing me at a steady run or slither in her case. The Order Knights reacted to my overblown performance exactly as planned. As soon as they’d seen me they had begun a full gallop in my direction yelling things like “Worry not civilian ye shall be saved from the clutches of thy monstrous torment.”  And other dictums including but not limited to “The Order will be victorious and vanquish the Monster Scourge for the Chief God!” or “Protect the weakling from that hideous monster!” Yeah that one really got on me nerves ''Weakling Ha! You’ll soon see! Assholes! ''The hideous monster comment irked me as well, Callia, whom I assume they were referring to as she was the only one they could see was about as far away from hideous on the spectrum as you could possibly get. In fact all the ladies I had seen thus far were downright gorgeous. At this point I am so annoyed by their stupid and rather unoriginal doctrines. ''I wish I could plug my ears full of wax like Ulysses did to avoid the siren’s song, just for different, less beautiful reasons. ''

The group of Knights surrounds me and the leader an overly muscled jock type begins spouting yet another rhetoric laden speech. ''Oh for the love of all that is good and holy, again with the speech! Ugh! ''Having surrounded me the knights began firing magic at Callia, and failing to hit her in quite a miserable display of substandard magic. One of the mages present went way off mark and she fired a long blast that missed Callia and careened into the city itself. A huge blue explosion of energy billowed out from the point of impact with enough force to shake the ground on which I was standing. “'''ENOUGH! Now you will know the full unbridled rage and fury of a Time Lord”''' I scream in cold anger. With that Wendalia and Yumika spring from their hiding place behind the group and the assault begins. “Yippee Ki-Yay Motherfuckers” I yell with glee as I grab the leader by his chest plate and throw him through the air to the ground where he proceeds to do several uncoordinated cartwheels. I have no doubt he broke a few bones as I could hear several blatant snapping noises followed by incessant screaming. “Oh will you stop screaming!”

By that time Callia had arrived and sucker punched the mage that had let loose on the city and caused the massive explosion, knocking her out cold. “That is for the peoples of Rathengalia you Bitch!” she screamed. Callia started to beat the woman over and over; seeing this I quickly deflect the sword strike of one of the knights shattering the blade and breaking his arm by snapping it in my hand before racing to Callia. “Stop, she’s down Callia!” I grab her and pull her off the bloodied Knight “Lady Vellantha said to take them alive now STOP!” My full power coming to bear on the woman as my eyes flashed with a deep golden hue and yellow lightning surrounded my form. Fear etched its way along her face and the terror was clear as her eyes seemed wild and unfocused. Callia managed to whimper out a meek reply as I let the glow in my eyes recede from view. “Yes…you are right Doctor of course.” With the unpleasant snarling over and Callia back in control of her senses we resumed the fight; Yumika was busy fighting two mages that had caught her off guard when I was yelling at Callia. Luckily Wendalia had her covered and beat the two attackers senseless from behind with a flail. ''Ugh that’s going to leave a mark or two. ''

I launch myself over one of the larger guys as he tries swinging at me with a claymore which dodge as I kick him in the gut sending him crashing into a dark twisted tree. Yumika drop kicked another woman from the Order in the head while Callia was crossing blades with a rather brutish man. Callia ended the fight easily enough by running the man clean through his chest and out his back with her sword. I was initially horrified until I realized the man was unharmed huh neat magic. With the shock wearing off I grab another woman from the Order and throw her towards the rest of her allies dazing them. The odds were equal now with four on each side. While I can and will fight to protect the innocent I do not relish violence, as such I walked forward with my hands held in a non-threatening position. “Please stop, I do not enjoy violence in any case you will not be harmed if you surrender.” I was reading the auras of the four Order Knights as I said this, and even though what I said was true I did expect quite a bit of pushback. “You expect us to believe that after you four decimated our forces; I would rather die an honorable death!” the man who’d spoken stepped forward with an incredulous look on his face. “Well now you’re just being stupid, we’re stronger and faster than you are. Please lay down your weapons no one else needs to get hurt.” When the Order Knights made no such move to surrender I scowled and motioned to the three Mamono warriors behind me. “Watch them would you? I’m going to check on the wounded.”

I move over to the leader of the group who was still on the ground from where I had thrown him earlier and was now unconscious. I begin concentrating and the familiar yellow glow of regeneration energy pools around my hands '''“Stop him! He’ll kill the commander!”''' one of the younger women yells out. I couldn’t be bothered to look back as she tried to charge me I was busy after all, thankfully Yumika had me covered and stopped the woman with a well-placed leg swipe. I used the regenerative energy to heal the man’s wounds and nit the broken bones and tissue back together. When my patch job was finished the man awoke and I helped him up.

With that I continue checking over the other Knights healing them and easing their pain where necessary. Once my job was finished I turned back towards the four Knights I had originally propositioned with surrender. “You see, we mean no harm but they will protect their home…” I motion the Callia, Yumika, and Wendalia. “…And I will protect the innocent.” A quick word and a threatening look from the Order Commander I had just healed cowed any fighting spirit that remained in their ranks. The knights auras had started to fluctuate becoming less red and gaining a semi white color and I watched this with a particular interest. ''Normally auras don’t shift that fast, how…curious. ''With the Order force stopped as a potential threat we journey back to the city with the soldiers each held in step with the Mamono warriors. After all their auras might be changing but I still didn’t have any reason to trust these Order soldiers. What’s that old saying after all? I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them? (Admittedly the context of such a quote loses its bite considering I was in fact able to throw the soldiers quite a distance, but that’s just a matter of semantics.)

As I come to the main gates I can see a throng of people running about trying to attend to the damage from the stray magic blast during our fight. I see an entire city block has been leveled trapping humans and monsters under tons of rubble. My mind immediately switches gears into triage mode. With the thought of rescuing injured in the forefront of my mind I race at super speed over to the wreckage of a destroyed building where a woman with plant like features, and green tentacles (who I later learned was called a Tentacle, huh imaginative names really.) was trying to free a man pinned by the rubble. She was quite frantic and I feared her digging at the rubble would collapse the whole wall killing the man.

“Stop, if you destabilize the wall he’ll be crushed.” Hearing this, the woman turned to me sobbing. I analyzed the scene rapidly; the man’s legs were pinned under the weight of the wall, and were undoubtedly broken. He had thankfully passed out from the pain and therefore was not flailing about which could have made his predicament worse. “Ok, what’s your name?” “M… Melanie” she responded through heart rending sobs. “I’m the Doctor, now I’m going to lift this wall when I do you need to pull him clear before it breaks apart, understand?” All she could do was nod but that was enough, in a split second I had lifted the enormous wall off of the man and she pulled his body to her sobbing uncontrollably as she did so.

Quickly checking both his legs I determined the extent of his injuries. Put simply if this was any normal day in any normal world he would never walk again; thankfully things never tend to be ‘normal’ when I’m around. Ramping up my regenerative energies I infused his injuries with enough energy to mend his legs and wake him from his unconscious state. With the man awake and his legs healed I bid Melanie farewell and move to help someone else.

Looking around I can see monsters and humans working to save those trapped under debris. I spot Vellantha and Lilith working with Callia and a man I’d never met before on healing folks hurt in the explosion. “How can I help?” I yell to them as I reach them. “We’re trying to heal as many people as we can, but so many have been injured in the explosion” Vellantha replied. Callia gave me a quick rundown of the casualties over eighty people had been injured, but so far no one had died. More people were pouring in and I was working to patch up a man that had been hit in the abdomen by pieces of an exploding window. “Doctor I could use your help over here!” Callia yelled out to me. “Give me one minute I have to finish suturing a wound.” Once I was finished I moved to where Callia and the man from before were standing over a young girl who had been badly burned and is missing her left arm.

“We’re going to need more equipment than what we have here” at the same time the knights we had fought came running up to us carrying large bags of medical supplies. ''Ok that’s lucky. ''“What species is she; I need to know for my treatment.” I quickly ask Callia while unpacking supplies from one of bags. “She appears to be a Beelzebub.” ''Ok means she’s bug like, closest would be a fly. Thank god this isn’t in the same vein as David Cronenberg’s The Fly Universe. Ugh ''Grabbing painkillers and a syringe I have one of the Knights administer a shot to help with the pain. Normal medicine cannot regrow limbs or heal burns very well and it would take too long to set up the necessary casting circles for mystical healing. As such I’m left with only one option even if it’s going to adversely affect my own health. I begin to infuse the woman with more of my regenerative energy. As it seeps into her visible changes begin to occur; burns recede and her arm begins to regrow. “She’s stable” I murmur then I pass out.