Nauseous
Chapter 2 - Light Headed
“The summon and Vei should be back by now.” Garpiloff says sitting in his study.
“You’d better hope that boy didn’t run off with Vei.” Says the short woman from Maito’s awakening.
“She wouldn’t allow it.” Garpilof smirks.
“Vei’s at that age.” The short lady grins.
“I’ll just ask her what’s going on.” Garpiloff searches through a bag attached to him for a rock and holds it out. Then he taps on it.
“Vei are you there?” A panting noise can be heard on the other end.
“You’re not doing what I thin-“
“He’s here!” Vei responds.
Garpiloff tosses the rock in a sudden surge of urgency.
“Naika, bring me my equipment!” Garpiloff yells.
“On it!” The short woman Naika runs off.
Garpiloff’s expression becomes very annoyed. Back at the field, Vei is running and a burst of energy lands behind her, sending mud and grass through the air. This causes Vei to stumble.
“Why now!” Vei clasps her hands together and focuses her fingers in the direction of the attacker at a distance. She then releases a beam of energy from her hands. The sound crackles and a delayed blast is heard in the distance where she was pointing.
“Ugh, Maito are you alright?!” Vei calls across the field with no response.
“Maito!” Again, nothing.
Vei starts running towards where she last saw Maito. She finds him but he’s still dazed. Maito grabs her by the leg.
“What is going… on?” Maito whimpers.
Vei shakes his hand off and reaches down to lift him up, but in the process quick footsteps in the grass are heard from the side and Vei drops what she was doing and holds up another field using her gauntlets.
“You’re really getting on my nerves!” Vei yells in its direction.
A figure is closer and leaps forward at Vei with what looks to be a dagger of some sort. He stabs the field and suddenly it collapses.
“You little-“ Vei kicks the figure who is cloaked in very dark green with black pants and shirt.
He grabs her by the ankle and groans in pain from the kick. Vei winds up a punch with one of her gauntlets and yanks her foot from the man’s grasp. She throws her fist forward sending a large burst of energy. The man had dodged with the assistance of some kind of teleportation, but he was caught off guard by another punch at a longer distance from Vei’s other hand. Miraculously the man just had enough time to put up a shield, but the strength of the blast threw him back and tore his clothes. It isn’t clear how damaged he was so Vei stayed put and readied herself for what would come next.
“Are you done yet?!” She yelled.
“I can’t believe Garpiloff would give you those!” The cloaked man yells clearly in pain grabbing his stomach.
“That’s not an answer!” Vei yells, throwing another punch of bursting energy.
The man dodged with what looks to be teleportation again, but stumbles afterward.
“Just so you know, my master made those. They belong to him!” The man holds his hand up and whips it toward Vei, sending what looks to be a fast ball of bright light that bashes on Vei’s bubble shield.
“If you’re gonna just spew out a bunch of malarkey, then I guess you’re not surrendering!” Vei sends a few punches, but somehow with each punch the man draws in closer, frightening Vei.
“You’re tough, but I didn’t come here without a few tricks.” The man is now within a range where Vei’s attacks could be dangerous for both of them.
So she throws a punch without activating her gauntlets. The man blocks them and jabs her in the stomach, making her fall to her knees.
“I’m here to see this new summon of Garpiloff’s.” The man grabs Vei by the neck and punches her in the face.
“So where is-“ The man suddenly stops and starts choking.
“Right here you piece of shit!” Maito blares in English.
He had jumped on the man from behind and started choking him he wrapped his legs around his waist and since Maito was larger than most of the people in this world, his weight brought them both down. The fall hurt Maito but he stayed latched on. The man kept reaching for something but Maito’s legs were blocking it.
“Gauch- Ah!” The man tries to breathe.
He struggles for a moment, then he bangs the back of his head into Maito’s face, knocking him off.
“You’re pretty sneaky for someone as big as yourself!” The man breathes heavily.
“You’re a bitch and a half to get to know!” Maito says in english again.
“What are you even saying, you animal!” The man gets up and throws a punch at Maito.
He blocks it with his forearms, but the man is wearing some form of metal knuckle bracing that hurts too badly for Maito to block. Maito tries to shove him away with his foot but he is exposed and is punched in the face by the man. Maito groans in pain. The man stands over him and wipes the blood off his hand.
“Cunt…” Were Maito’s last words wheezed in English pointing at the man before collapsing.
“So that’s his summon? He’s not like the others, that’s for sure.” The man chuckles.
“You’re coming with me.” The man reaches down toward the Maito, but his head suddenly bursts into a mist and splatters blood from an eruption of energy behind.
“Don’t you touch him!” Vei says behind him as the man’s body drops forward onto Maito, pooling blood all over him and the grass.
Vei falls backward out of exhaustion and is caught by Garpiloff who appeared wearing some kind of armor. He gently lets her down into the grass below.
“We were late Naika, but it seems they took care of it…” Garpiloff looks down.
“We should’ve known that he would send someone once news got out about the incident.” Naika says wheezing from the run to get there, she is also wearing armor similar to Garpiloff.
“Ugh…” Garpiloff pulls the limp body off of Maito.
“We can’t let Rech know why Maito’s really here.” Says Garpiloff lifting Maito.
“Let’s head back quickly.” Garpiloff calls to Naika who holds up Vei.
“What about the body?” Naika pants.
“Leave him to the Famhirs…” Garpiloff says as they both walk away with Maito and Vei in their arms.
Maito’s unconcious and left to his mind. He starts to speak to himself in his mind.
“Mom…” His voice in his head is very distorted, then becomes clear.
“I got into a fight today for the first time…” A pause of silence.
“Y’know, I wish you could’ve seen me. I looked really cool... I think.”
“You see, I never was able to get into fights since I was always in the hospital. You think I would’ve gotten into one if I ever went to school Mom?”
“I bet you would’ve really scolded me if I did… I don’t know what the punishment would’ve been though, I didn’t have anything to take away…”
“I said some harsh things to the guy too… I always cursed to myself out of hatred for what I couldn’t do, since I was stuck in the hospital all the time.”
“It felt really good though, it kinda helped numb the pain when he punched my face in…” Maito pauses for a short period once more.
“I miss you Mom… I know it didn’t look like it but I really wish I could’ve done more with you!” Suddenly Maito awakens with slight tears in his eyes inside the same bed as before, the room is empty this time.
“Hello?” He calls out in english.
“Ahem… Hello?” He says in the foreign language.
Maito looks around and sees a set of clothes at the end of his bed. He then checks under the covers and notices he’s completely nude.
“I’m just gonna hope whoever did it doesn’t tell me.” He says to himself in English.
Maito then stands and puts on the clothes at the end of the bed. It was very difficult to understand how it should be worn but Maito remembered how Garpiloff wore his clothes so he copied it in a way. It was a cloak of some sort and the shirt was loosely fit, probably made in its largest size since whoever got it didn’t know Maito’s size. The pants fit fairly well and there wasn’t underwear so it’s assumed that it doesn’t exist in this world Maito thought. A mirror was on the other side of the bed and so Maito walked around the bed to it and looked at himself.
“Now that I think about it… I wore that hospital gown the entire time, guess I just felt comfortable in it. But this doesn’t feel all that bad.” Maito talks to himself in the mirror.
He then looks closely at his face and arms and feels around them.
“I don’t seem to be bruised or anything…” Maito gives an internal thanks to the magic of the rocks in this world.
“I wonder how Vei is doing.” Then Maito suddenly has a delayed reaction to what happened.
“Wait, holy shit this isn’t right!” Maito has a slight crisis about the strange events that have happened.
“We almost got killed. I could’ve been killed, again!” He talks to himself feeling like he’s gone insane.
“Do I seriously not care if I die?! I should have totally pissed myself, I must have!” Maito starts quivering in fear at the realization of his near-death experience.
“What is wrong with me!” He squeezes his face between his hands. He then calms himself down.
“Man, I wonder how I got here though. Did Vei get that guy?” Maito walks over to the large doors to the room.
“How do you open these?” Maito examines the doors for a short while, they don’t have a clear way of opening.
In the middle of observing, the doors suddenly push toward Maito.
“Woah!” Maito jumps back in surprise.
“Oh, you’re awake.” Naika is revealed on the other end.
“Yes.” Maito scratches his head.
“How are you feeling?”
“I’m feeling alright, just a bit starved.”
“You haven’t eaten much besides the Ghatziel we fed you in your slumber when you were first summoned.”
“What’s Ghatziel?”
“Jugoa leg meat cooked and ground to a paste with additional flavorings, my special for nourishment of patients who are unable to swallow for themselves.”
“Doesn’t sound appetizing.”
“It’s not supposed to be, but since you’re awake you’ll be having my more tasteful meals from now on.” Naika grins.
“Your name?”
“Naika.”
“Mine’s Mai-”
“Maito, Garpiloff told me.”
“I never got the chance to ask for your name.”
“You couldn’t understand me at first anyways.”
“Yes, I was very rude at the time.”
“Every summon has their period of panic, it’s nothing new.”
“Huh…”
“I knew you were going to be hungry and so I’ve prepared food for everyone, follow me.” Naika starts walking and Maito follows.
They move across the hall into the garden area that looks to be in the center of the building. In the middle of the garden there was a square platform of what looks like black granite. There sits Garpiloff, Vei and a smaller boy who Maito had never met.
“Ah, Maito, over here!” Vei calls to him patting the ground next to her.
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