In the Beginning pt. 2 ((Simone & Yi Sing))

[Ayumi Yokomura R1]

The air was still chilled, but the view was much more darker than last. Before her eyes she saw a dark gray background and some unidentifiable metal-like objects that slowly came into focus. She tried to take a deep breath expecting the blunt pain on her chest, but instead she felt some form of restriction that held her lungs from extending any wider. From what she can feel on her chest was something soft, yet thin and possibly wrapped around her chest. She can hear voices within the dark gray background, but it was distorted and almost unidentifiable.

Suddenly, a large white figure came into her dazed view and it was holding a cup of some sort. Ayumi, in a state of vulnerability, easily took a drink of the unknown liquid from the gentle white figure as it lifted her head. After guzzling down the liquid it left a harsh and bitter taste that almost compared between a mix of raw lemon juice and rubbing alcohol. She choked and coughed from the flavor's strong after taste. Ayumi wanted so much to grab the white figure and knock the living daylights out of it for giving such a horrible thing to taste to someone who was in excruciating pain levels that only be compare to her Ninja Grandmaster grandfather's painful strikes from her routine sparring sessions with him.

Ayumi's movements and reflexes were very weak and before she could reach out the white figure, it quickly turned around and walked away. Feeling agitated from the restriction and the weaknesses of her movements she quickly exhaled her breath and allowed every tensed muscle in her body to let go, causing her lifted arm to crash right beside her.

Since she can't fully rely on her body, she at least tried to refocus her eyes to see where she's at, for she couldn't remember a thing what happened or how she got to where she is at now. All she remembered was being held up by Yi Sing and then now, in this strange, gray scene.

Slowly, but surely, the pain started to fade away. She felt as if though a cloud had formed below her and slowly lifted her up into the gray air. Though Ayumi had been confused, she relaxed from the comforting rapture. She guessed that it was the nasty tasting drink from the white figure that was taking affect. Ayumi laid there, wherever she felt she was resting at and allowed this cloud of comfort to take her away from all of the negative energy she had been to throughout the day.

[Yi Sing Han H1]

Yi Sing walked inside the hospital wing after waiting in the empty hallways of the school. She winced for a moment as she watched as Ayumi tried to lift her arm with every effort she had, but was so exhausted that she let it fall next to her. Yi Sing never saw her in such pain before, usually Ayumi was the type to take any hit without giving in to the pain.
Yi Sing sighed with relief the moment she saw Ayumi's expressions showed signs of the pain erasing away and finally relaxed herself on the bed. Yi Sing walked to the nearest chair next to Ayumi and sat there right by her side. She sat there, with the look of thankfulness in her face.

"I'm so glad that Simone made it in time to call for help."

She said to herself as she remembered what almost happened to them on their way to the hospital wing from the Hogwarts Grounds. There she was, with Ayumi relying on her strength as they carefully rushed their way back to the school. Yi Sing wasn't as physically strong as Ayumi, come to think of it, she wasn't a very strong nor athletic person at all! Just carrying ten pounds of dead weight in each hand was enough to exhaust her after carrying it for 2 or 3 minutes. And since that was so, and the fact that she's had someone almost 10 times heavier than she can bear, Yi Sing grew very tired as her arms and some parts of her leg muscles numbed and burned from the over-strenuous activity.

"I've tried my best, my very best to keep myself going...but, but..."

She said to herself once again as she slowly wrapped her arms around herself and made a soft yet saddened expression. She also recalled when her body lost balance and fell from the hill-like pathway and took a rather steep fall that also brought Ayumi with her. Before she was about to recall more of what had happened, her attention was reverted to the large white bottle that has a figure of the human rib cage carved on the top of the bottle. She moved closer as she read the label.

"A remedy for bone...oh no! Skele-Gro?!"

Yi Sing knew very well what this potion was and what it can do. Being the daughter of a healer, she had watched her mother administer such a potion to many of her bone-fractured patients and later heard their grim stories on how slow and painful the process was to feel their very bones re-mend or grow inside their flesh. The worried look on her face came out once again as she watched the peacefully resting Ayumi next to her.

"I know that you've already been though enough, Ayumi, but I'm afraid it isn't over yet."

Yi Sing repositioned herself to where she'll be in touching distance to Ayumi but in a way that she won't be hit by her before the Skele-Gro took into effect.

"You're going to have one heck of a bloody time with this one, so I'll be here with you."

She sat there as she waited and was ready for the expected moment of the potion's side-effects.