TRC – Oni and the Farmer Chap 12 (Male x Monster Girl) by BluDraygn
Attraction. Abducted. Sacrifices. , Rain pelted Kal and Ikuno as they made their way carefully along the thin mountain trail. They left Ikuno’s home earlier that morning to return to Aradelle’s forest and crossed over the first mountain without incident. However, as they descended into the valley on the other side, dark clouds rolled in and a smattering of rain dogged them during their ascent of the second peak. As they approached the apex of the trail the weather turned even fouler, devolving into a full-blown downpour with screaming winds and lightning illuminating the sky every few seconds.
Ikuno!” Kal yelled above the howling wind, “Do you know of any caves nearby that we can wait this out!”
“If there are, they aren’t on this trail!” she called back from just ahead of him.
“What about if you made us one the way you made your pool!” he yelled.
“I can’t!” she answered partly turning to look at him, “Using magic during a… Kal!” she shouted as she saw him slip on a particularly smooth rock slickened further by the rain. falling too quickly to catch himself she watched as his head bounced off the stone below. Groaning as he tried to get his eyes to work again Kal rolled over onto his back and instinctively pushed magic into the healing rune. The oni had only taken a step back down the path to check on him when she saw the rune light up.
“Kal! No!” she screamed.
Lightning arced down from the sky striking a short way up the rocky slope above them. Like a shining serpent the column of electricity slithered back and forth as it made its way downward, drawn towards the magical energy from Kal’s healing rune. A boulder only a couple of paces up the mountainside from Kal caught the bolt and held it, the slightly higher elevation overcoming its attraction to the magic. Raw electricity poured through the large rock, instantaneously heating up the gasses and moisture trapped within.
The stone detonated.
The concussion picked Ikuno up and threw her to the ground further up the trail. She could only watch as Kal’s body was thrown from the path, bouncing limply down the rocky slope before sliding over a ledge and out of sight. She screamed his name again in panic but couldn’t hear her own voice, only a high-pitched ringing.
Ignoring the intense pain all over her body the oni picked herself up and quickly made her way back to where Kal had been lying after the explosion. Stepping off the trail, she began sliding down the slope toward the ledge Kal had fallen over, her claws leaving deep gouges in the rock as she used them to slow her descent. Holding her breath, she peered into the blackness below.
A flash of lightning illuminated Kal’s body lying on a rain-soaked shelf a little more than ten paces down. Breathing a sigh of relief, Ikuno swung her legs over and hung by her claws for a moment before dropping to the ground next to the unconscious man.
Kneeling next to him, she checked Kal over in between lightning flashes, the flickering sky making her night vision almost useless on the shadowed ledge. The oni could immediately tell that he was in very bad shape, in multiple places he was bleeding where shrapnel from the boulder had struck him and both of his legs broke from the fall, but thankfully he was still breathing. However, even as she watched his breathing was becoming shallower and shallower.
“No, no, no, no, no!” she said in alarm though she still couldn’t hear. She knew she would have to work fast, and it was going to be difficult to save him with the lightning storm still raging above them. Though the outcropping above offered some protection, she would still only have a few seconds to heal him before the energy in the lightning sought out her magic. She had to be certain she canceled her spell before it reached her. Moving quickly, she set the bones of his legs in place, so the spells would have less to do, then waited for a particularly long string of flashes hoping it would drain some of the energy from the clouds.
Magic circles appeared in front of both hands as her healing spells went to work, for a moment she was envious of Kal’s ability to pump more and more magic into a spell.
Two seconds went by.
Kal’s legs lined up and the bones joined.
Three seconds.
Shrapnel began pushing its way out of his body as the bones in his legs just barely began to mend, he breathed deeper as a portion of his chest seemed to inflate.
Above her lightning struck the mountainside, once again making a jagged path towards the source of magic.
Four seconds.
Kal’s entire body straightened and Ikuno realized he had broken his back. If the lightning could hold off just a moment longer.
Ikuno knew she had waited too long when, as if in slow motion, a tiny, dimly glowing feeler of electricity split in two just above her healing spells and connected with both of them.
The spells shattered as the full power of the bolt slammed into them, flaring as bright as the sun and followed by a crash of thunder that nearly threw Ikuno off the ledge into the abyss below. As she flew through the air, the oni could only watch in anguish as the blast bent her fingers back, stripping some of them down to the bone.
Noise assaulted the blue woman’s senses as the thunder bounced among the mountain tops. Sitting up she peered about in surprise that she could see or hear anything at all after the lightning strike. Looking down at her mangled hands, her surprise turned into astonishment as flesh grew and bones mended before her eyes. Light coming from where she had been standing caught her attention. Still floating where the lightning touched them, her healing spells illuminated the stone shelf around Kal as they surged with power. Ikuno hissed in pain from her fingers as the magic circles grew dimmer and winked out, the spells fading before she had fully healed.
Cradling her injured hands, the oni stood and made her way back to the injured young man. His legs and back were now straight, and his chest was no longer dented in on one side as it rose and fell normally. Small pieces of shrapnel from the boulder still stuck out of him in places, but the rest had been pushed out and healed over.
Using her feet, she slid Kal further up the stone shelf, pushing him up against the rock face under the overhang he had fallen from and getting him out of the worst of the rain. Sitting down next to his unconscious form, she leaned back against the stone.
Ikuno looked from Kal to her unresponsive and severely aching fingers.
“Worth it.”
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Hours later, Kal was still lying on the ledge unconscious. The oni had wrapped him up as well as she could, but his clothing was soaked through and the weather had turned much colder now that the warm air from the storm had passed on. Rain turned into flurries, then into a steady snowfall that was common for these elevations, but the dropping temperatures now had Ikuno worried that if they didn’t get off this ledge her young lover may end up freezing to death. To make matters worse, the sun was going down.