The Broken: Chapter 8

~He let out a sigh of relief when she agreed to a test run and looked around for something close. the closest thing was a slightly charred rubber duck from the blast earlier. He leaned over and grabbed it up and held it in his hand. “This will be your target.” he stated as he sat it outside of the circle so their test run would not affect their main goal.

He thought for a moment, pondering the perfect practice spell. Something easy, but something that took focus as well. Once he settled on one, he looked at her. “It’ll be a simple levitation spell. It will show just how focused you can be and how steady.” he stated then looked at the duck. He took in a slow breath and didn’t blink. “You don’t have to speak it, but for beginners it helps trigger the spell. Once you learn how it feels, you’ll be able to pull it off without the trigger word.” he advised. “Wihsirm.“ he stated in a soft tone. His gaze was unwavering on the duck as he focused his own energies on the object as it slowly began to rise in the air. Slowly but steadily, it made it’s way over to blu, gently setting upon her head. Doc smiled and blinked, breaking contact with the duck and looked at her. “It won’t take much energy, so you won’t be tired after-wards. You try. Try moving the duck somewhere.” he requested and watched hopeful.

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Blu watched and listened as he showed her how to perform the levitating spell. She took that moment when Doc spoke to her to let it sink in. “OK.” She stated as she gave a nod, quickly catching the rubber ducky before it fell to the floor. Pedran tilted his head as he stared at her from the floor.

“… Wihsirm…” she whispered as she focused on the little rubber duck. As she focused, the duck slowly began to float off her hand.

Doc gave a small smiled as he seemed relieved that she could perform the spell with no trouble. He watched as the rubber bath toy was slowly floating back to him. He looked back to Blu to find she was starting to struggle with the floating toy and his smile faded.

Blu felt her vision was starting to weaken as her body was struggling to stay awake.

Pedran gave a squeak in worry as he then bit her leg to gain her attention. “OW!” she immediately lost focus and the bath toy fell to the floor. She herself knelt down to the floor to grab where she was bitten and looked over at the small dragon “You know that hurt right?” she stated to him.

Seeing the ancient dragon biting her, Doc was quick to react “Blu!” he ran over to her “Are you hurt?” he gingerly reached out for her bitten leg. Blu lifted the pants leg to reveal no bight marks but a small red blemish. “I don’t think so…” she felt the mark “It just startled me more than I thought… I guess.” She looked at the dragon only for said dragon to nuzzle up to her arm. “Pedran must have had a good reason for doing that…” she stated.

“… But why?” Doc asked as he reaches out to Blu’s leg, just to make sure that she wasn’t really hurt. Upon contact with her leg he felt a weak flow of energy coming from her. “!… I think I know now…” He stated as he looked over to the white dragon “Your energy is dangerously low.” He looked over to Blu as she gave him her undivided attention. “If you had used any more of your energy you would have died. The medi-gun can’t heal low magic.”

He gave her a small smile “All I can tell you is that you will have to rest before casting any spells anytime soon.”

She was feeling a little tired… maybe Blu did use up to much energy that day. “… Sure. A nap sounds good right now.” She gave him a smile.

The medic placed an arm underneath her shoulder and helped her up to her feet “You can sleep here till you are feeling well again…”

“No, no…” she waved it off as she stood by herself “… I know I snore quite loudly and I would hate to keep you up.” She smiled “I think I will try to make it to my camper…”

When she stated that, Doc began to worry once more “No, you will sleep here. That way I can keep an eye on you…” He let that sink into his mind for a moment before adding quickly “… In case something goes wrong.” Trying not to blush in front of the female sniper.

Blu’s tired mind let it slide for now. She nodded her head as she let him guide her to one of the still up right medical beds. Once she was lying down, she let her eyes close and she drifted off to sleep. Pedran jumped up on the bed and nested next to her neck and head, now looking at the medic elf.

“*Why is it that you bit her? Couldn’t you just have told me instead…*” Doc stated to the dragon.

“*She was losing too much to fast… I had to act quickly.*” Pedran proclaimed as he stared the elf down.

Doc shook his head as he knelt down to pick up a fallen book “*Still, now we know her limits… I think.*” he stated more to himself than to the old dragon.
There was a knock at the entrance of his lab as scout opened the door “Are you in there Doc?”

The elf looked at the open door “Hm… Oh yes, I’m still here. Come in Scout.” He smiled, putting the books and papers that he had picked off the floor on to the oak desk.
The BLU Scout entered and looked around “Wow, old Murasmus did a number in here didn’t he?” he picked up a fallen chair and sat down.

“That he did…” Doc stopped to look around at his wrecked lab. “It’s going to take days to get this room in order again…” he sighed.

“Well, why not just use your magic to fix it?” Scout asked him as he looked at the elf pick up another paper.

“Using magic like that is irresponsible.” He stated.

“Well why can’t old Blu help ya… she can use magic right?” the scout stated questioningly.

“She is weak right now… If she even tries to preform even a small spell she could kill herself.” Doc stated as he knelt down to pick up a few more papers.

“So… she would just come back through the re-spawn.” The scout smiled, holding his arms in the air like it didn’t matter.

“…” he gave a sigh and set the papers he had picked up onto the desk. “Scout, do you believe in souls…” he turns to the scout.

“Uh… Is that a trick question?” Scout questioned.

“I mean the human spirit.” The medic started “Her spirit is almost drained from all the times I had to borrow her power and the few spells she cast herself. She needs to rest.”
The elf tried to explain to the scout.

The BLU scout was sitting there letting it all sink in… “… I think I know…” the scout walked over to Blu, now resting on a medic bed at the moment as he gently placed his hand over her cheek.

‘Scout is acting a little weird… not his usual hyper self…’ Doc thought to himself as Poe flew next to the elf medic with a pair of his old spectacles. The old pair of glasses had a simple spell, revealing red spies on rival teams… it was to keep him from healing enemy spies… he looked at his familiar before switching his spectacles. As he looked he gave a gasp… It was a RED spy in disguise.

The red spy was unusually dressed for the typical French man… he had on a pair of blue jean pants with the usual suit top. He wore a pair of sandals instead of the official shoes recommended for the spy class. The disguise mask hid most of his face but he seemed to be gentle rather than tactical… so unusual for a spy of the RED team… but it was when he glanced at Blu, Doc’s ears drooped…

She had faded scar marks across her arms and one extended along the side of her face. His glasses revealed what was hidden by magic, or in a spy’s case; his cloaking device. For a moment Doc had forgotten he had just discovered a spy standing not a few feet away from him. It took a shake of his head to bring him back to the moment at hand.
He quietly grabbed for his needle-gun.

“I wouldn’t if I where you…” the disguised spy stated in scouts voice. Doc stopped reaching for his gun. “I’m only here for a visit, I’m not going to hurt anyone…” he stated as he gently rubbed the back of his hand to her cheek. He then proceeded to move his hand to rub her belly in a calm loving gesture.

Doc didn’t know what to make of the spy’s actions. His ears perked up when he heard “I think I’ll return to my room now…” the scout stated as he turned to leave.

“Wait!” Dock stated as he watched the false scout heading for the door “… Why where you here in the first place?” the elf questioned him.

“…” the scout turned to him just as smoke revealed the RED spy’s true appearance. He indeed wore blue jeans and flip-flops… his face was now more noticeable, with stubble around the mouth and his grayish blue-eyes. “Just to check up on her...” he gave a smile before he vanished.

The medic didn’t know what to say or do about what had just happened… all he could do was take off his glasses and looked over at Blu after putting on his usual spectacles. The light scars on her face and arms where not there anymore. “… whoever did this to her must have used magic to hid the scars.” He had stated to himself as he walked over to her. Then something came to mind…

“Why isn’t she snoring as loud as she had before?!” he questioned the quietness around himself.

“*That is because I used a quieting spell… I know how sensitive your kind’s ears are to the loud noise.*” Pedran grinned at the elf medic.

“*Thou I am grateful for the quietness… I would like to keep the use of spells to a minimum…*” the BLU medic stated with a returning grin.

The dragon tilted his head to the side as if saying ‘are you sure?’ and then craned his head over to her throat as he released the spell, causing sound to admit from her. The sound was quite loud.

The poor medic had to cover his ears from being so close to the noise source.  “OK! OK! YOU HAVE MADE YOUR POINT!” Doc tried to yell over the loud sound towards the little dragon. Pedran smiled as he placed the spell back on Blu.

Once he was sure the sound was gone, Doc lifted his hands off his ears. “*I guess that spell will be ok while Blu sleeps indoors.*” he gave a sheepish grin. He returned to picking up papers that were scattered about in the room.

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After some time Blu woke up and began to stretch her arms. Pedran, who was sleeping on top of her, fell to the side as she sat up. She looked down to the poor dragon and began to say she was sorry for disturbing him… “…” there was no sound coming from her throat and she began to panic.

Doc had left the medical bay to relieve himself just moments before. As he returned to his office area, he heard Padran give a squeak. ‘Oh, she must be awake.’ He thought as he entered the room only to find a panic stricken Blu. He quickly rushed to her side as he patted her shoulder…

“Blu! Blu! Its ok…” he patted her shoulder, gaining her undivided attention. “You just have a silent spell on you right now… Pedran can remove the spell.” He gave her a smile. After hearing the explanation Blu returned the elf’s gesture of kindness and began looking for the dragon… only to find that he had disappeared on them.

“Um, I’m sure he is around here somewhere…” Doc tried to state as he began looking around for the fluffy dragon, Blu joining in not long after…

They searched everywhere in the medical bay but found no trace of the dragon. The BLU sniper was beginning to get upset at the silent spell she was now cursed with.

“Hey now, it’s going to be ok…” Doc gave her a gentle pat on the back “We’ll find him…”

“Find Who?”  Came a voice from the entrance as there BLU scout entered the room “It’s
time for supper and I find you two in here talking… What’s wrong with her?” Leon asked.

“Oh, you know that pet dragon Blu has? Well, he put her under a silent spell and now she can’t speak… or make a sound in general.” Doc stated as he looked at the BLU sniper.

“Really…” Leon walked up to her. He looked her in the face before grabbing her breasts. In surprise she gave a silent gasp and punched him in the face. “OW! Ok, I believe you…” he stated grabbing the bruised spot. “Do you know how to remove the spell?” he asked the elf medic.

“I don’t know what spell he used and it will take forever to find the right spell to remove the current one.” He stated.

“… well, I might have an idea…” the scout smiled…

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“A True Lovers Kiss?” asked the BLU Demoman as the entire team seated themselves in the cafeteria.  

“Yeah, my mom read all the stories to me when I was a kid, A True loves kiss will break any spell.” He smiled.

The remaining team looked at the scout and then to the medic who only shrugged his shoulders. They then look back to Leon. “Kid, what makes you think any of us can break the spell?” came the southern draw of the team’s engineer.

“Well, it has to be one of us~” Leon smiled

“Riiiiight, you just want to get a kiss from the lass.” The Demoman smirked as he upped his bottle of homemade whiskey.

“T-that’s not true!” the scout gave a blush.

Blu was sitting next to Doc in between Leon and the rest of the team. Doc looked over to Blu as she gave a silent sigh of sorrow.

“If we do this, who goes first?” asked the teams heavy.

They all began to think…