Check Up [David]

[Arianna Barrial]

Arianna followed, and about her only relief was that he’d taken her seriously and wouldn’t let her go alone.

So, with the question, Arianna looks around to see if she could spot the guard that helped her!

[David B.]

She does not!

[Arianna Barrial]

”...fudgesticks...” Arianna murmured. “...she isn’t.”

[David B.]

David spoke to the group.

"There was a woman here who gave my friend and brother medical supplies. She's gone now. Where is she?"

The guards looked at each other before one cleared it's throat.

"Reassigned."

David stared at him.

"Who was she?"

The guard glanced at another one, who spoke up.

"Um. Abigail Wolfe. Abby."

David nodded.

"Abby. Thank you."

He'd turn and start up to the room of the Warden, the door opening as the man behind the desk gave an easy smile. His eyes were on Arianna as he stood, the smile broadening into a full grin.

"Welcome back, Storm Dragon. Arianna. Pleased you decided to come."

He approached, taking David's hand in his grasp as the Dragon looked over the five guards in the room. Harry would approach Arianna and give a little whisper.

"Own grave, indeed."

He'd laugh, and give a little flick of her hair. He turned around and walked back behind his desk, placing his hands on it.

"How can I help you."

David, however, was shaking his head. His face, downcast and oh-so-incredibly disappointed, would slowly come back up to aim his ice cold gaze on the man. His body started to vibrate for a second before the windows exploded inward, air blasting up around his body with purple lightning exploding off it, only deflecting away from Arianna if it came near. He'd beaten his brother, and David was forced to pretend it didn't matter. He threatened Arianna once, and he was forced to overlook it. Now, he scared her, and in front of him, decided to make her feel small.

"You fool."

The five guards whipped out their batons and surged forward, but David would seem to shimmer and vanish, appearing next to the desk. The guards would suddenly be facing the opposite way- or rather, their heads were. Twisted around on their bodies like a top, then pitched forward, dropping their objects as the Dragon grabbed Triweek by the face with an iron claw and lifted him off his feet like a rag doll. He screamed, jabbing the electro-guard into David's arm, but it seemed to have absolutely no effect. He did it twice. A third time. A fourth. The crunch of bone could be heard as David's fingers shattered his cheeks, earning a curdling scream from him.

"Where is Abigail Wolfe."

"AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHH ARRHHHHHHHH FUUCK AHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHH-"

David's eyes flicked as he jerked the man close.

"WHERE IS SHE!?"

Harry started to sob as David released his face, blood leaking from the mans lips as she sobbed against the desk on his knees. He shakily pressed buttons on his keyboard, a screen coming up to show the woman naked, in a solitary confinement cell. She was sobbing. Using his knee, David smashed it against the back of the Wardens head, shattering the mans teeth and jaw on it like a curb stomping. As he fell back, David mounted his chest and grabbed his hair, screaming at him over the roar of wind and lightning crackling off him. It would sound....like it came from a Dragon.

"YOU THREATEN MY SISTER! BEFORE MY EYES!?"

A punch burst the mans left eye, popping it like a grape.

"YOU ABUSE MY BROTHER, WHO HAD MY PROTECTION!?"

He reached inside his mouth and ripped out his tongue.

"I WILL RIP YOUR BODY APART AND SCATTER IT'S BONES TO THE WIND! YOUR NAME WILL BE SCRATCHED FROM EVERY RECORD! YOU WILL BECOME A STAIN ON THE FABRIC OF TIME! YOU IGNORANT, INSOLENT FOOL!"

David grabbed his lower jaw and ripped it off, peeling the flesh from it after and then embedding it in the front of his skull like an axe through butter.

He'd stand, breathing heavily, hands coated in the former wardens blood. His face and chest were flecked with blood as well, and his fists clenched. When his eyes turned to Arianna, she could see the pulsing reality there.

Rage.

[Arianna Barrial]

She had a sinking feeling; apparently she wasn’t the only one. Her hands tucked into her lab coat pockets as they moved on to the Warden’s office, and the awaiting Guard-turned-Warden. The tension cooled itself tighter but she didn’t slump her shoulders or tuck in behind David.

“Doctor Barrial, actually.”

His approach caused her pulse to quicken and skip to racing as he approached, and the only thing that saved him from a swift slap was her passive nature and the clenching of her hand. The colour drained from her face, and she could feel a shiver crawl up her spine, like a coil of worms, unearthed.

What happened after David spoke was too fast for her to dream of perceiving, and by the time she registered the collective crackling snap of five necks, the bodies hit the floor. Her stomach immediately rolled and heaved, and panicked honey-hued eyes swerved to the currently still image of David with Harry in his grasp. Though the lightning seemed to stray away from her she backed off a couple steps, a hand clasping over her mouth to stop either a scream or her hyperventilating. Either way, it couldn’t spare her from the rest of the brutality, and she turned and took a stumbling step before she threw up.

Considering her profession...this must have been horrible thing if the usual sights and smells didn’t bother her.

In fact, she wound up retching several more times after that. Wiping at her lips she turned back and froze. Despite all his power and his titles - and even her disdain for him at times - Arianna had always treated him as a human and was never bothered to be afraid of him.

Right now?

She felt terror, and froze, her heart in her throat.

“D-David..? You...need to calm d-down.”

God.

Please calm down.

[David B.]

"Don't worry, Arianna. Now, I am calm."

His voice had a slight echo to it, but he looked down at the computer. He saw the cell, and would take a slow deep breath.

"Come, there is more we must do."

He'd walk around the desk, ignoring her terror. She had seen David the human. She'd seen him for the person he was. This was not the David she'd ever been confronted with. This was the Fallen Knight. This was the Warlord of the northern territories. The cold blast of death that had signed on with Sudeki and Amtrum to rip the western hemisphere apart.

This was the Storm Dragon.

They'd walked down, guards getting out of the way or getting blown out of the way by jets of wind. As he reached cell 1182, he grabbed the handle and ripped it off it's fucking hinges, tossing the metal to the side.

"Abigail Wolfe?"

Backing deeper into the cell, she seemed terrified....so the wind around David died down, the lightning vanished and his hair settled. He closed his eyes and took another deep breath before stepping inside and crouching to lean against the wall on the inside left of the door.

"I am so sorry for what you suffered on my account. What happened to you is a travesty. Today, I am sending Cabalan soldiers to watch over this place until you can root out the evil in the hearts of those meant to watch over the people here. But if you can find the strength inside you...I'd like you see to it that this place has a Warden it can be proud of."

[Arianna Barrial]

Arianna exhaled shakily and advanced, moving to look at the screen and then she made a quick check of the office for a first aid kit.

If she found one she would hastily grab it and flee the gore and death, wondering if the removal of the shackles was a good idea. Either way she tailed him, heart still in her throat with apparently no intentions of crawling back into her chest cavity. Upon reaching the cell - wincing all the way for the guards, corrupt or not - Arianna groaned at the high pitched squeal of metal hinges coming apart...and shook her head. It was only a moment after David started to speak that Arianna moved into the cell.

Slowly, so as to not alarm her.

She shifted her lab coat off and moved to drape the fabric over the woman’s shoulders.

“I’m so sorry, Abigail.” It wasn’t David’s account, no matter what he said. The woman made the choice to give her the supplies, yes. But she was well aware that her asking to have them and Abigail giving them up regardless made her a target.

“Will you let me help you..?”

[David B.]

The woman seemed to soften, Arianna having success in finding the first aid kit.

"Storm Dragon....I had hoped you would come."

She looked up at Arianna, and gave a smile and a nod.

"Yes. Please."

David looked down at his hands, and began to wipe them off on his shirt.

Nothing new to him.

[Arianna Barrial]

That was all Arianna needed to set straight to work, diving into the kit and arranging things as needed before going to work on both examining and helping.

"Why did you hope David would come..?"

Reputation aside, anyway.

[David B.]

She wrapped the blanket around herself.

"I had heard that David was coming back. The old David. The true one. When I saw his brother here...I knew that helping him would result in punishment. Nothing as bad as...what happened, but it was a necessary sacrifice. It was only a matter of time."

She stood.

"I will gladly lead Pier 14. And accept Cabal's help."

[Arianna Barrial]

Arianna frowned and simply remained where she was. She could guess at what transpired...and she wasn't about to leave without giving her a complete once over and help where necessary, but for now she let things be.

[David B.]

She looked to Arianna.

"I had hoped he would come so this would happen."

She smiled.

"Thank you for bringing him."

[Arianna Barrial]

Arianna sighed softly, but managed a slight smile all the same.

"You're welcome... I'm only sorry we didn't come much sooner. I'm going to give you a complete once over...preferably before we do anything else."

[David B.]

David nodded, and stood.

"Right then. I'm heading to the bathroom. Call out if you need anything."

He'd leave, one of the guards having overheard and coming over to watch the door with his back to them so they'd have privacy.

"What happened....to Harry?"

[Arianna Barrial]

Arianna nodded, and eyed the guard's back a moment before exhaling slowly.

"...dead."

Massacred.

Same thing at the end of the day, apparently.

Arianna turned back to the kit, and then looked back at Abigail.

"I'm sorry to have to ask this, but, I'm assuming you were sexually assaulted?"