Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-26545936-20170711214120/@comment-30014014-20170713185014

Of course he of all people was sent to deal with this. Simply becauysde he hadn't given his full pledge to the current state of order. Trevis never considered joining up with the high rulers, despite his clear talent to rise within the ranks. His apothecary skills were of the best.

But, as of late, with mostnewly appointed recruits and heroes, they would rather spend it on the 'common' rabble, rather than try and make a name for themselves. Seeing as this had cost them quite a bit before, they decided to send him to a potential death. What could he say, no? An aopthecary refusing a holy mission bestowed to him by a high ruler? WHat would become of his reputation?

Trevis sighs as he witnesses the Nacha spider. The first thing to come to his mind... is her silvery hair. How radiant they are. So perfect-looking. Alas, her cries of pain do much to dissolve his lucid dreaming. Despite being a monster, his apothecary morale prompts him to help, even should it mean potential death. TRevis had never stopped at such an outcome to nuture those is dire need.

A caretaker shows no disdain at whoever calls out...

"Yea, only this is what got me in this situation to begin with" he quietly comments as he crouches to search for his kit in his bag. Funny thing is, he used to cure monsters as well before. Somehow, a potion of spirit energy had always been his best ressource for it.

"Therefore, adding some to the bandages should help her" he adds as he prepares his band-aids. This takes a bit of time to prepare, crouched behind a rock. Meanwhile, the silvery-haired spider lady continue to plead in whimpers, the pain lingering throughout her entire body.

Hours pass as he patiently waits for this fair maiden to lul herself to sleep. As the deep night hits the sky outside, she does so, still writhing in pain. Trevis' breathing pattern slightly picks up sleep, knowing this part was going to be dangerous. "Alright, better get into it. Maybe this time I'll escape with no slash or puncturation" he nervously laughs while approaching the dazzing woman.

Upon coming up to mere centimeters, only then was he completely struck by her immeasurable beauty. Her hair, even more silky up close. Her skin, as pure as snow falling in winter. Trevis could feel a heat rush coming in his cheeks, even with his apothecary chemical mask on. Sweat began pouring from his forehead as it did everytime he had to deal with a monster.

"Good gracious, why do they always do that?" he silently complains, noting that even her spider mandibles reaching out of her back were in wounded state. Putting his admiration for her body away for a second, he startsputting bandages infused with a neutral spirit energy solution. Slowly, of course. THe hours pass and not a single second is passed without him trembling at the prospect of accidently touching her bare body, a sensation that would leave him wanting for more even with his four-layer leather gloves with an isolation solution in them.

It's like they are actually trying to get him to want the touch. "So unfair..." he whispers.

THe deed is done. The bandages start working as well a another solution poured in her mouth to increase the spirit energy potency. Trevis sighs in relief of a job well done...unti he realizes he will have to come back again for nother dangerous attempt at aiding her.

Speaking of the Nacha spider, her body jolts a bit left and right, but increased in frequency "She's waking up! Better skidaddle!" With wind on his feet, Trevis runs out of the cave. HIs predication came to be right as the woman soon woke up, looking over herself "WHat the hell?!" The effects are not to be scoffed over as she springs a happy smile over the soothing effect of the nursing bandages "I guess this feels ok. But when did I do that?"

Trevis, meanwhile was silently observing from afar with a pair of googles, noting how her demeanor had changed. However, he knew all too well this would come back until sufficient amounts of spirit energy was given to her to heal. "It'S going to be fine, I'm sure of it..." he says with an unconvincing voice.

And so, day after day, Trevis came every night to replace the bandages with fresh ones. Sometimes, he'd leave something for her to eat, because if there is one thing he learned about monsters, is how they too could come to appreciate a good meal.

Day for day, week for week, month for month for an entire year. The surrounding towns could feel a difference as the wailling had stopped to but faint whimpers once in a while. And even then, they were but brief. Trevis had decided to increase the dose of spiritual energy with each wrapping.

Unfortunately for him, with each coming, he could feel her senses becoming more aware of her surrounding. This was getting more and more dangerous for him, especially as she was questionning more and more the origins of her slow but assured recovery.

"Alright, this is the LAST time I'm doing this! She'S getting way too aware of her surrounding with all of that pain gone for the part" he says as he starts crouch-walking in the deep night within the cave.

There she was, near the riveeside in the cave. Her spider mandibles out of her back lay behind her, her sitting form tending to her hair by the river. Trevis couldn't help but observe for a moment, forgetting she was still in need of aid.

He waits....

And waits...

And waits even more...

"Finally, she's asleep!" he exclaims while slowly getting out of his crouching rock. For some reason, throuough the year, he has been getting excited at the prospects of getting close to her. Admiring her hair. Gazing at her amazing flawless body. Watching her sleeping face. Gazing at her li--

"Ok, ok, this is getting weird" he shakes his head at his thoughts becoming...passionate "After this, I'm filing for a region change. Like always..."

Once again he goes to work, putting up the very last set of bandages on this fair woman, this time taking every second for his eyes to feast upon her. Like every monster he came across before that needed help, he tethered on the brink of action, halted only by his apothecary mantle. Like every single one of them, he had filed for a change in region, fearing he might be tempted at going too far. Or worse, that the monster herself might find him out. Luckily, this never happened.

Surely he could carry on like that, right?

"Alright! FInally finished" he sighs in relief at his work. A faint smile adorns the woman's face. UNder his apothecary mask, he couldn't help but smile as well. Though his eyes conveyed sadness at the ticking time he had left before having to wander away. He places a hand on her right cheek "Perhaps this will soothe your pain until you find an alternative".

A faint blush appears on said cheek, prompting him to leave. He walks to the outside his departing silent, the same way he came.

Days pass...

Trevis is seen walking out of the city, a paper and a map concerning his next destination. "Further south, eh? That's fine. I hear many could use a helping hand anyway", he says, unaware of a following gaze in his direction.

Night falls and in his inability to find an inn to sleep in, Trevis decides to go by the riveside, with his equipment by his side. He gazes at the river, wondering how his next travel will go by. Then his mind dwell to the Alcha-Nacha "I wonder how she is doing".

"I don't know, why don't you ask her yourself!"

Trevis jumps up in surprise, grabbing his custom made crossbow in the direction of whatever the voice came from, his eyes alert. And shocked...

THere she was, standing before him. Well, standing is a bit generous, considering the spider limbs behind her kept her away from the ground. Her arms were crossed, sporting a gothic attire in black. It goes well with the crimson eyes she bears.

Looking at his crossbow dripping with an unknow solution, she raises an eyebrow "This is how you greet your unknowing patients now? Are you being an idiot right now? I hope not!"

Trevis stayed silent, unable to decipher how she's even track him down. Never the less, this was quite an alarming situation he was in. How did she find him all the way here?

"Hey dumbass! I asked you a question! Don't space out like some hopeless pervert catching a glimpse of a woman for the first time!" she shouted, a slight anger in her voice. Was she always like that?

"W-well, you pretty much snuck up on me" he mutters, still cautious with his weapon close to him "You could have attacked me without my knowing".

"Ohh snuck up on you? You mean like you did for an entire year? Like that?" she replies with sarcasm in her voice this time. Trevis couldn't help but pick up a bit of a hostility in her.

"!!" This came as a surprise to him. To learn that she found out about his coming and going for an extended time. He couldn't find anything to say about this.

"Ohh, you didn't know, did you? When you find yourself covered in bandages every week, you start asking some questions. Unsurprisigny, some apothecary just ran into me each time, thinking he'd just mend me for no reason. Lookiung at that backward town you just walked from, there was no one with any sort of common sense about this line of work you do. SO obviously, you had left. Well..." she chuckles with a grin plastered on her face "...not quickly enough!"

Saying this, she slowly approaches, forcing Trevis to back a bit in the water, his crossbow still in hands. "What's wrong? You afraid? You didn't seem so scared when I was asleep. Or is the thought of a consious woman putting you off?"

As she approaches, does he back further in the water, until it reaches his waist. Trevis tries to think of something to disarm the predicamment, unable to know what thought linger behind her mind.

Suddenly, a spider claw swipes off his crossbow in the river, leaving him armless. "That's not good!" he defensively stances himself, taking a hand on his left side. She's directly before him. Whatever he thinks of doing, he better do it quickly!

But, what is she doing?

Trevis felt her touch grab him, but not in an attacking manner. No, her hands were at his back, giving him no chance at reacting. Her spider claws were stationnary, unwillint to attack.

She was hugging him deeply. He could feel her voice wailing slightly "Why?! Why did you just left me after providing everything for a year?! What kind of moron just leaves a lady like that?!"

"W-wait! WHat do you mean by that" Trevis couldn't believe what was happening. THe spider lady, crying in his arms, because he left her?

Taking her hands away from his back to his chest, her eyes directed themselves to his own, swollen with tears "I mean when someone decides to play altruism toward someone else, usually they present their damn selves! THey do not just vanish from thin air! DO you realize how foolish you made me look like, waiting on you with a token of my appreciation!"

"A token of your appreciation?" he asks, clearly confused on the situation at hand, only to see a spider claw holding a basket.

THe basket closes in the the two "Well, like I said, this backward town you just tailed off has no one worthy of even starting a conversation with as they are all pea-sized in the head. WHen I realized someone truly kind was caring for my poison--

"So that was the issue here!" exclaims Trevis, earning an angry cowl from her.

"Hey jackass! Try not to interrupt someone while they're speaking next time!" her calm demeanor returns, still wiping tears off her face "Anyway, when I saw you were trying to magic the pain away, I felt spoiled. So, the day you never came back, I was waiting for you with a present and an opportunity to talk with the one walking around without a stick up his ass like the last hundred that came before".

With this, she puts her hands around his neck, blushing fairly at his emerald eyes.A sudden swipe from one of her spider claw falls down near his face, prompting him to flinch. She scoffs at his reaction "Pff, don't chicken out now. You know I'm not here to kill you!"

"Then what was that for?!" he replies, a bit unnerved by her feint, only to find out his mask had fallen in the river. HIs face was now exposed...

...exposed to a kiss.

ONe that only last a few seconds, as he quickly gets himself out of it, unprepared for it. The taste of her lips is persistent, leaving him speechless. A bit surprised by his initial repel, she chuckles a bit ~Hey idiot! Don't know you it's impolite to push away a lady giving you her heart?~

She kisses him again, this time going for a longer one. The two blush pretty evidently as this last for quite a long time. After what seems to be a while, they both break the kiss, leaving the spider womane specially painting for air.

~You know, for someone who seemed reluctant at first, you sure gave in pretty quickly~ she sings with a wink on her left eye, still embraced in his arms.

"Monsters have this effect from what I can deduce" he replies, placing a hand on her cheek, pretty flustered himself

~Hey now, hand off buddy! Can't just touch a lady's face like that~. SHe says this, but her bodiliy movement says the opposite, basking in this moment.

After a while of staring each other in the eyes, Trevis throws a glance toward his open aid kit "I guess this means you want me as your personal apothecary?"

"NO idiot!" she speaks with a slight reprimantory face, one that shift quickly to a mischevious one ~Surely you have enough common sense to know I would prefer to be in your arms...and perhaps...~

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