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Who: Martel Yggdrasill and you!
What: Nightmares!
When: Today
Where: In Martel's nightmares
Rating: T to R for death and blood and general horror stuff.

[Martel was asleep in her bed when the toxin came, and she fell from her dreamless state of sleep to something much, much worse.

When you arrive in her dreamscape at first it seems empty, just blackness that seems to never end. It’s cold, and empty, and it’s almost like you’re trapped there, with nothing. Only when you take a step, does the blackness start to resolve into colors and pictures. A nightmare starts to take form, and you can’t escape until it plays out.

What’s your worst fear?]

[ooc: Sections: DEATH | GUILT TIME | SOULLESS/EVIL CRYSTAL DISEASE]

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[Martel can't even hear Tsuna, or see him. She doesn't see the man either, or feel his blade, until it plunges into her back, running her through. She screams, dropping her staff as the man pulls out the sword, blood spattering her white dress as she falls heavily, hair pooling around her. The man drops his sword and disappears, leaving Martel dying on the ground.

Tsuna probably finds he can move now that he's watched her get stabbed.]

[The scream comes out too late.]

Martel!

[He runs over, thoughts racing, time seeming to slow. He couldn't do anything. Nothing. Not even warn her. He just watched, soundlessly, as the man stabbed her, blade going clean through her torso, out the other side.

Once he gets to her, he drops to his knees, reaching out to turn her over.

Oh my god. That is a lot of blood. She is losing so much blood, too fast, and he can't do anything.

He already feels tears pricking at his eyes as he whips his head up to yell.]

Someone! We need a healer, right now!

[Some part of his mind knows there's no one around. He bundles some of the loose cloth from her dress, pressing it against her wound. If only he'd at least said something.]

Edited 2012-10-06 00:59 (UTC)

I'm the only healer around... [She gives a bit of a rattled, choking laugh. Then she notices who it is.]

...T-Tsuna? [She was not expecting him. What was he even doing here?] What are you...

[His vision is starting to blur at the edges. But he bites back the tears, focused on only her first words:]

Is there something you can do? Martel?

[Can healers do that-- heal themselves? Maybe they could, but that wound looked awful, and Tsuna could tell she was losing energy quickly. If there was nothing she could do, he wouldn't have any choice but to go into hyper will mode, and carry her until they could find someone.

But if he'd only said something, they wouldn't be in this predicament in the first place.

Why hadn't he said anything?]

[She gives a small smile, reaching up with her bloodied hand to touch his cheek.] No, Tsuna. I know my fate. This... [She takes a deep rattling breath.] Has happened before.

[When her fingers brush his cheek, a tear slides out from his eye, tracing itself along her finger, mixing with the blood. His powers-- they're not there. He can't do anything.]

No, Martel, I... [A few more tears fall. He takes a shaky breath.] I'm... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

Don't be sorry... [She's still smiling slightly.] I was... a-always fated to die, I suppose...

No, don't... don't say that. If I'd just-- [He chokes.] I just watched, and...

Don't blame yourself... There was nothing you... [She swallows heavily.] Or anyone could do.

This can't be happening...

[Another shaky breath. A gulp.]

You'll-- you'll come back, won't you? The castle...

[Were they even at Paradisa anymore? He's never seen that tree before. Never seen this place before. What if she was-- ~~forever?~~]

[She can't explain in that much time, she can't even begin to tell him that she was already dead and just playing it out. That she'll die if the castle sends her back. That she might be dying again right now. So she puts on a brave face.] Yes, I'll come back. I'll be fine, Tsuna.

[But uncertainty lingers in his mind. Even if she was coming back, even if she was going to be fine-- she was dying in front of him, and he couldn't do anything about it.

The hand pressing against the wound curls into a shaking fist. He shuts his eyes hard. All he can do is apologize as the tears continue to drop.]

I'm sorry, I'm sorry...

[Her eyes close on her tears, one escaping, and her hand slides from Tsuna's cheek. The rattle of her breathing stops. Just like that....she's gone.]

Martel? Martel! Martel!!

[He shakes, staring at her lifeless body. And then he hunches over a little, tears pouring down his eyes, before finally he doubles over, forehead resting on her stomach.

And the only sound that can be heard is Tsuna's broken sobs.]

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