Sgt Vandingo

The Room

*Zeta finishes, with the help of Xan after a while, and especially after Vaseraga made sure Eustace was out cold with a couple fierce hits to the head to keep him out, and he assumes Eustace will forgive him when he wakes up. Zeta drops whatever tool she was holding in her shaking hands, and leans over to plant her forehead against Eustace's chest, cause she was in a kneeling position. She likes him a lot, btw, but he doesn't exactly share those feelings, sadly. Vaseraga leaves her for the time being, knowing about young love, cause he was once a young whipper-snapper himself. He stands and waits against a wall, watching Zeta and Eustace at the same time. He doesn't worry about Beatrix cause she's probably more capable than Zeta in the wild(Eustace and Vaseraga beat the shit out of the wild so they don't count in that technically), and easily sneakier than Eustace or himself, so she wouldn't have much trouble running from something.*

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*Beatrix gives Jilial some space, because having to carry your lover is obviously a hard thing to go through.*
Beatrix: ...Gomenasai...

The Room

*Beatrix can't even try to pick up Horus, so she hangs back and looks around for any threats. She isn't really that hurt, but her ears have a little bit of blood inside them, but nowhere near as serious as Eustace and/or John.*
Beatrix: I hope not. We still have our mission.

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*Zeta looks up at Xan with fear in her eyes which say everything she can't. She nods once, then goes back to tending to Eustace, who despite all his pain, manages to to keep a straight face. Vaseraga is the same, exhibiting very few emotions, and helps Zeta with whatever she needs to try to save Eustace's ears. Should Xan try to help, his ears aren't really of normal anatomy, so she'd probably struggle helping. Zeta is still super worried btw.*

The Room

*Beatrix doesn't really want to have anything to do with a mourner, so she hangs back, slightly guilty about her outburst, though she won't admit that.*

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*Vaseraga gets back to the room and instantly looks for medical equipment.*

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*Zeta stares at Vaseraga for a little bit, before she drops literally everything and runs after him. No words are exchanged, but they put aside their hatred for the moment to help Vaseraga's friend, and Zeta's crush. She's super worried for his safety in general, and although Vaseraga also cares about Eustace's health first and foremost, he also knows that he'll be less than useless in battle if he's deaf. They both start working, Zeta acting as the surgeon, and Vaseraga as the assistant in this case.*

The Room

*Beatrix grunts at John, then looks down at Horus. She sighs and turns away to give Jilial mourning space. She knows what loss feels like, so her mood softens a little bit.*

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*Meanwhile Vaseraga is still trekking back, completely unaware of his wounds which are fucking horrid on a lot of levels. Eustace is worse though, and may permanently go deaf, considering he has better and more sensitive hearing than almost every cat ever.*

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*Zeta cooks like a good woman and sneakily puts a couple burnt bread pieces in front of Xan for when she wakes up, and sneaks off to the little girls room.*

The Room

*Vaseraga utters a few words to Beatrix, whose face is grave and quite worried, and after a few seconds of arguing, she sighs, and turns around to run back to the group. She's speedy so she gets there fast, and instantly goes towards Horus.*
Beatrix: Eustace is really hurt. Vaseraga sent me back here to help you but if he dies while I'm helping you, I will literally tie all of your intestines together and make you a congo-line of almost dead people.
*She then does what she can to help Horus, though he looks dead to her.

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*Vaseraga is super worried about Eustace, who hasn't been able to say anything properly ever since his ears popped like balloons.*

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*Zeta wakes up, stretches then starts making some burnt bread with fire cause she doesn't know toasters exist. Her wounds have also healed a fair bit thanks to Xan's healing, so she's making extra pieces of burnt bread for her and probably Jillian if she ever finds her.*

The Room

*Beatrix eventually recovers well enough to do things again, then looks down at Horus, and sees his eye open. She sighs at the overdramaticness cause she's seen Vaseraga walk off worse.*
Bea: Yo, lady, he's fine...

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*Vaseraga nods in approval of the big boom, then notices Eustace still on thenground clutching his ears, because he has the sensitivity of a cat, so his ears are absolutely busted for a long time. Vaseraga strides over to him and simply picks him up, throws him over his shoulder, then starts heading straight towards the room. Beatrix also sees this and runs to Vaseraga's side, ignoring John and Jillwhatever.*

The Room

*Zeta is still sleeping*

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*Eustace and Beatrix are slowly recovering, Beatrix moreso cause her ears aren't bleeding like Eustace's, though they might as well be cause she can't hear shit.*

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*Vaseraga flies away for quite some distance, before landing hard with a grunt. He extends his hand, and his scythe enters it cause it was already floating towards him. Once it gets to him, he just plain old flings it at the worm, not aiming for its head, more aiming for its body to try to pin it to the ground, cause his scythe is definitely big enough for it to go through most of the worm, though to get the angle of the throw is a completely different story.*

The Room

*Beatrix, who has really good hearing, falls to her knees clutching her ears in a desperate attempt to ward off the loud scream, though she doesn't do a good job doing so. She's still close to Horus, and she WAS making sure he didn't get stabbed, but now she can't do much.*

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*Vaseraga doesn't even flinch at the roar, and steps between the worm and John, and since he still doesn't have his scythe, tries stopping it like he did the giant centipede from a while ago.*

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*Eustace is writhing in pain cause cat ears.*

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*Zeta fell back asleep.*

The Room

*Vaseraga gets thumped in the centre of the chest by the massive maul, crushing the majority of his ribs and sending him hurtling back towards Eustace, who drops his gun and attempts to catch or lessen Vaseraga's fall, which results in him getting totalled by the flying Draph warrior. They both lay on the ground, before Vaseraga gets up and leaves the dazed and battered Eustace on the ground. Vaseraga starts running back, and throws his scythe horizontally towards the leviathan, likely splitting anything else that is in the way in half. Although Eustace is completely fucked physically cause he just took a half tonne Draph to the face, he still manages to pick up his gun and shoot through Vaseraga's legs at the leviathan, though he can't headshot it anymore cause Vaseraga is in the way.*

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*Beatrix wipes the blood off of her sword in the nearest corpse, and turns to John.*
Beatrix: You managed to not hit me while I was in there. Nice shooting, dude.
*She giggles and winks at him, before moving towards Horus so she can keep him safe while he's out, cause she has to assume he's sleeping and not dead.*

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*Also Zeta wakes up cause she's been sleeping a long time.*
Zeta: Whuzzawhere?
*She groggily wipes her eyes of sleep, and looks around through squinted eyes.*
Zeta: Anybody alive?

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*Vaseraga roars back at the Leviathan, and lunges at it, barely giving a fuck about the size difference, or how scary the giant beast is. He either parries or avoids as many attacks as he can, but he's barely focused on defense, and would rather take some hits to dish them out just as hard.*
Vaseraga: Great Scythe Grynoth! Feast on my blood and let it shape your soul!
*Vaseraga roars even louder, amplified by pain, something he isn't meant to feel, as his scythe bleeds him and pulls his life essence into it. He's enveloped in a red-purple light, which clears soon after to this. He one scary mofo who is probably gonna get whacked.*

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*Beatrix is still super casual about her slicing things up, and again, only focuses on disabling and painful attacks, rather than lethal ones.*

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*Eustace is shooting the Leviathan, but probably isn't doing much cause he isn't using his explosive/corrosive/magical bullets for a reason.*