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Desmond's eyes widened at the news. "What?!" Immediately he stood up and chucked the bottle to the ground, taking a deep breath before rushing off after Klyde. What had happened? How had she gotten hurt? Why didn't somebody try to protect her? His questions only made him furious, wanting to rip apart what... Or who... Had done this...

The bad part was, he had no idea just how severe she'd been hurt... He was in for a rude awakening.

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Hearing Bent tail call out as Atticus put the finishing touches on wrapping Riyo's palms, the doctor scrambled over to where he kept his things and pulled out a quilt he'd been sewing while unoccupied with tending to the wounded. "Here. Until I can get them back out and stitch you up." He draped it over Riyo's shoulders, which she promptly took in hand to cover her torso completely. "Thanks..." She called weakly, trying to stay conscious. Her mind hadn't processed what was happening, so she had no idea who was about to walk in that door.

Once that was settled, Atticus practically flung the door open. "There's no reason to wait out here. Put her on the empty bed." He'd examine her when they were inside... Though he could already see it looked bad.

Seeing the two vampires approach, Shun went on into the cabin after Neko and Bent-Tail. As mentioned, Riyo was in here as well though the quilt kept him from seeing the extent of her injuries. Frowning somewhat, he turned his attention back towards the white haired girl while still thinking.

It seemed like most of her wounds were interior... which were considerably tricker to handle than a cut on the outside. Shifting in place, he let out a sigh before deciding to go ahead with the idea that came to mind earlier. He shot a quick glance at Atticus and Neko, then discretely took out one of his blades. Taking in a breath, he quickly sliced his left palm, hissing something low under his breath. His hand had balled up into a fist at this point as the cut stung, but soon shadowy wisps could be seen coming out between the cracks of his fingers instead of blood.

Putting the knife away, he held his hand over her body where the wisps flowed over towards her. He wasn't planning on losing a great deal of blood over this so by no means would it end up healing completely but this was just something to possibly help push her body in the right direction.

Bent-Tail stared at his friend as this happened, recognizing the spell. Quite frankly, he didn't recall seeing Shun ever use it on anyone before.

Neko turned to Shun and Bent-tail when he realized they had followed him in. "When I said you guys should stay outside....it was more to the group and not just the blood suckers. I know you're probably worried but there is a lot going on-" And then Shun cut himself. What in the ******** were they dealing with? Atticus' words seemed to echo his own thoughts until he saw the magic starting. Now being a former teacher over dark magic it wasn't hard for Neko to realize what Shun was using.....but it was hard to say what he was going for since dark magic really wasn't known for its healing abilities. If anything there was nothing gained without something lost. "Whatever you think you're doing I would probably stop. We don't need another student collapsed."

Moving away to let Atticus deal with them, Neko headed toward Riyo. Leaning down slightly he placed a light touch on her shoulder. "Hey, I'm going to have a look at your back, okay?" Reaching for the blanket he tried to maneuver it so that it was covering her front, not wanting to expose her with the other boys here. His touch was a gentle one as he saw the bandages Atticus had put in place for the time being.

All the talking and noise was making Mitsu a little nervous since she couldn't seem to focus on any one thing. Everything was a blur and that included her vision and the words of conversation. Nothing seemed to make sense and she just wished desperately that sleep would take her...then maybe the pain wouldn't be as bad.

As Shun came to stand beside her, unfocused eyes glanced up at him before they started to drift closed. She couldn't tell what he was doing or what he had done but it had apparently upset someone in the room....and had someone called her name? She thought she kept hearing it but the voice had changed from the first time she had heard it. Maybe she was dreaming now? It would explain a lot.

As Shun's magic started to work there didn't seem to be any sort of vast improvement. It was hard to see the inner workings on how it was helping but the internal wounds were expansive and it was edging them toward healing a little faster. It would still take a great deal but it was unlikely she would get sick again from blood sitting on her stomach.

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With a sigh, frustrated that he hadn't gotten an answer, Klyde walked over and had a seat next to Desmond. They were quite a pair at the moment, sitting outside awaiting the news. He couldn't seem to hide his worry as he rubbed at his temples. "This is ******** unbelievable."

Of all the things he imagined happening this was no where close. He had never expected to fall for his target let alone being honestly worried for her well being as he sat outside the medical cabin. It was enough of a realization to make him start to regret how this was all going to end the pool of guilt that had been threatening to haunt him now starting to fill.

Shun's words only seemed to make the doctor more aggravated. "Really Shun? Do tell. May I ask, where did you go to medical school? Maybe you can teach me a few tricks. I've only been doing this for a few years now, after all."

Hearing himself, Atticus sighed and tried to calm down. "Look." That was always a great way to start off a lecture. "You want to help. I get that. She's your friend. She's in a bad way, and it sucks. But I am completely capable of handling this myself."

Riyo's eyes widened as she realized the quilt was being lifted behind her. Using what little strength she had, Riyo tried to scoot away from him. "Nononono. I don't think so." That wasn't Atticus. She knew it wasn't Atticus. And she only let Atticus touch her because he knew. He knew about her scars and he knew about her. But she didn't want to let anybody else in. Especially with other people around.

Glancing back to Riyo as she tried to get away, Atticus gestured to her. "And if she freaks again, she's going to bleed more and probably pass out. So when I ask you to leave, It's not just for mine or Mitsu's sake. So both of you, please leave."

"Hey, calm down." Neko smoothed retracting his hand back. "You're in no shape to be moving around." She looked like she was about to collapse right there. "Is it because I'm a guy? I can change that." Sure Atticus was a guy too but he was also the nurse, maybe she was uncomfortable with another strange man who really didn't look like a doctor of any sort. He could easily use his shape shifting for a while if it would make her more comfortable.

Mitsu shifted her head slightly giving a cough, the remainder of the blood still on her stomach coming up without warning. Taking a few gasping breaths she closed her eyes trying to tune out the noise. There was no yelling but she could feel the tension in the air. Hand loosely gripping her shirt above her stomach where there was still obvious pain, she started to mumble her brother's name. It wasn't very audible and she only said it a couple of times before she fell silent again having no energy to really speak.

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When Poke approached Klyde looked up at her as she started to hound Desmond with an almost inaudible question. "He doesn't know what happened, they apparently just found her." He tried to explain knowing Desmond was probably on edge. The other vampire looked completely miserable at the moment, no need to add to that.

Atticus watched as the boy ran off, shaking his head and glancing at Rat-Tail. "No need to apologize. I'll tell you guys when it's safe to come in, if anybody asks." He assured the boy and waited for him to leave.

"No, I don't care that you-" She paused, her eyes becoming very confused. She heard him wrong, right?

Yeah, that must be it. "I don't want people I don't know touching me. Male or female OR genderless." Her volume was fading in and out, head tilting to the side when she found it bothersome to hold it up.

Atticus had been gathering the items he would need as fast as possible when he heard Riyo complaining. "Alright Riyo." He sat down his instruments on Mitsu's bedside and looked at her. "Do you know this girl?" He pointed to the almost unconscious Mitsu while staring at his stubborn cat acquaintance.

"Y-yes..." Riyo admitted reluctantly.

"Do you want her to keep hurting?"

"No!"

"Here's your two options. Either you let him work on you or I'll have to try and divide my attention and that'll prolong her suffering." His tone was stern, like he was talking to a 5 year old.

Riyo's look turned dismal when Atticus offered her an ultimatum. Mitsu didn't deserve to hurt like that... Even she knew that...

With a twinge of reluctance, Riyo glanced around slowly to make sure nobody else was there before letting the quilt fall off her back, pulling the material forward to hug it to her chest.

"Good." She didn't need to give a verbal answer. It was obvious what she'd chose. Turning back to Mitsu, he quickly wiped the fresh blood from her face. "It's gonna be okay." He said to her softly, running a hand across her cheek to help calm the poor girl. "I'm gonna make sure you feel better by the end of this, but just bare with me."

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Desmond's frustration reared its ugly head as Poke marched up to them, demanding some kind of answer that... As Klyde said, he just didn't have. "Screaming at people to get answers isn't going to help." He pointed out, glancing at the door to the cabin. "All we can do is wait."

Desmond was finding it harder and harder to keep his own cool, especially with people marching around like lunatics. When Shun emerged from the room, Desmond's hand went up to try and get the boy's attention, but it looked like he was long gone. "The ******** is his problem?" For a moment, it looked like Desmond was about to stand... But his eyes glanced back to the door almost immediately. He didn't want to leave if there was a chance he'd get news from the nurse.

Sighing as he exited the cabin, Bent-Tail glanced up at the two vampires that asked how things were going.

"Not so great. Not sure 'ow Riyo is doin' but they patchin' 'er up right now. Mitsu been 'urt pretty bad too. 'Uge bruise on 'er torso 'n she keeps coughin' up blood. Shun tried t'eal 'er some but Atticus didn' like dat so much," he explained while looking off in the direction that his friend had practically stomped off towards.

"I dunno wot 'appened t'Mitsu exactly but... I dun think it was an accident. A wolf was protectin' 'er in de woods so I dun t'ink it was from de wildlife either..." he elaborated. Unfortunately they didn't have many clues on who exactly was the culprit.

Once he was fairly deep in the woods, Shun stopped and looked around the trail. He wasn't sure if he'd find anything out around here, but who knows, maybe the attacker had ended up leaving something behind.

Watching Varn go off, Blade wondered if something was wrong, and hopped on off of the boulder. After some wandering around the campsite, he saw the cluster of people hovering around the entrance of the nurse cabin. Well that couldn't possibly be a good sign.