Healing And Explanations With a Sarcastic Tsundere Fae Healer
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So, ahem, anyway, here is the much anticipated second chapter! Part two of A Traveler's Tale.
Healing And Explanations With a Sarcastic Tsundere Fae Healer
“Hey. You. Up. Now.” I cracked an eyelid open. Ow— it was bright. Where was I? I definitely did not normally sleep in the middle of the day on a bed of grass, flowers and other plants. The same sarcastic, biting voice said
“Up. Off my flowers. Now.” I sat up, looking around for the source of the voice, remembering as I did— rumors, hiking, ankle got hurt. Eris. I reached up around my neck and felt the the pendant was still there. Well that was something. I turned my head and finally caught sight of the person who had been talking. I just barely contained a “holy shit” at the sight of her. She looked like something out of a painting. Pale skin, rosy cheeks, massive almond shaped eyes framed by long lashes, perfectly defined freckles— and she had long, pointy ears. The only thing not very picturesque about her was her expression, which seemed distinctly murderous.
“What are you doing here, human?” She almost sneered. “You shouldn’t have even been able to get in these woods, let alone my clearing.” I stood up, (ankle— ouch) partially to be squashing as few of her flowers as possible, but also partially to be more on level with her. Wow she was tall.
“I don’t know what you mean about getting into the woods, there was a trail and I walked right in. As for the clearing, I didn’t find my way here. Some… apprentice guided me here.” Her eyes widened.
“Eris? Oh fuck, did he let you in the pathway?” I bristled.
“Hey, don’t blame Eris for this! He was just as surprised to find me here as you are. I got my ankle caught and hurt in some dead branches in a dried up creek bed, and he found me and helped the pain go away for a little while, and then said he would take me somewhere that I could get proper healing from somebody.” Realization dawned on me.
“Was that supposed to be you?” She smirked.
“Well don’t sound so surprised, human. Yes, I’m a healer. Eris is my apprentice, though I guess he probably already told you that.” I nodded.
“In not so many words, but I could’ve guessed.” ‘Though not because of any similarities in personality, that’s for sure,’ I thought. She sighed.
“Well. Okay then. That explains what you’re doing in my clearing, though not in these woods.” I shrugged.
“I heard rumors about paranormal activity around here and wanted to check it out. Specifically I heard something about a ‘fae trickster’.” She scoffed.
“Oh don’t pull that on me, Eris and I are the only fae that frequent these woods and neither of us are tricksters.” I glared at her.
“I don’t know, I heard what I heard! Stop glaring bloody murder at me like you think I'm the one spreading the rumors or something,” I grumbled.
��Bloody mur—“ she sputtered, then took a deep breath.
“Okay. Whatever. Your ankle's pretty badly hurt, do you want me to heal it or not?” She muttered something under her breath that sounded like “you piece of shit” but I decided to let it pass.
“If you’re willing to do that, then yeah. That would be helpful.” She sighed and waved her hand, humming quietly under her breath.
“What are you doing?” She frowned at me and didn’t answer, continuing to hum until the flowers, weeds, and grass parted like the Red Sea into a space big enough for me to lie down on.
“I’m not going to try to heal your foot while you’re standing up, I’m not going to let you do any more damage to my meadow than you already have, hence, magic. Now lie down. Or sit. I don’t really give a fuck, just get your foot off the ground so I can have a look.” I gladly obliged, sitting down with my legs stretched out in front of me. She knelt beside my ankle and blew out a breath.
“Yes, that’s pretty bad…” she looked up at me.
“Okay if I touch?” I nodded. She took a gentle hold on my ankle and slowly twisted it to the side.
“Does that hurt?” I winced.
“A little bit,” I nodded. She carefully replaced it in it's original position and then gently turned it another way.
“Ow— ow, ow, ow—“
“Okay, okay, I get it. Shh, you’re… you’re gonna be okay, I can fix it.” I blinked back tears and mentally cursed myself. ‘Acting like a complete baby about a little pain in front of the prettiest girl you've ever seen. Great job, me!’
“I'm gonna start the healing magic now, and it might feel a little… different, but it won’t hurt. Okay?”
“'Kay…”
Humming again. Suddenly a rush of warm, heady pleasure shot up my leg from my ankle and I gasped. She looked up.
“All good? I can slow down, if you need me to,” I shook my head.
“No— you don’t have to— slow down—“ the closest thing I can liken the feeling of being healed to is a massage, but an extremely intense one. And at the same time, it was too strange to be quite like a massage. Warm and cool at the same time, tingling, and similar to the way I had felt when Eris had “healed” me as well. I tried to breath deeply, counting slowly in my head.
“There. You should let it rest and set for an hour, maybe, but then you can head back to wherever you came from.”
“Are you gonna want me to wait somewhere else and get out of your meadow?”
“Of course not!” She glowered at me. “You shouldn’t move or put any weight on it at all!” I held up my hands.
“Okay, okay! You know, your bedside manner could use some work,” I joked. She sputtered. “Usually gentle magical beings aren’t supposed to cuss, either,”
“Oh, racially stereotyping the fae! We love that!”
“I'm just kidding!” I laughed. Her face actually got red when she got angry.
“You and Eris are the only fae I’ve ever met, it would be a bit hard for me to start stereotyping y’all just yet.”
“Oh trust me, I can tell we're the only fae you’ve ever met.” She sighed and shifted. “I still don’t understand how you got in these woods in the first place. There’s a distraction spell, a fucking good one, too. You don’t smell like magic, and you certainly aren’t a commander.”
“First off, you can smell magic? Secondly, what is a commander?” She groaned.
“Not exactly how I wanted to spend my afternoon, but whatever.” She held out her hand to me. “Before I explain a bunch of things that you probably shouldn’t know, let’s introduce ourselves, shall we? Oversharing is always better when it’s with someone that you know. My name is Hedera.” I introduced myself and took her hand. Soft fingers. Oh wow.
“Hm. Not a bad name. Now, to answer your questions, yes of course I can smell magic, I eat magic.”
“You eat magic??”
“Yes! And you eat dead animal carcasses! Instead of arguing over who has the weirder way of consuming energy, do you want more answers? Good. That’s what I thought. A ‘commander’ is a human who can do magic without any aid. Some humans wouldn’t be able to do, say, what I just did for you, unless they had a diagram, or some magical reagents, or—“
“Reagents?”
“Do you ever run out of questions? Ugh. A reagent is a… a component for magic. Say, herbs, or a jewel, or a specific type of sugar or salt, or paper that’s intentionally made of rice, or whatever. Commanders don’t need those things, they just do magic like the fae do.”
“Well, I’ve never shown any ability in that area, but how would you know I’m not a commander?”
“They give off a magical signature. Every being that can directly connect to magical force does. But even if you weren’t a commander and were just using something other than natural command to reveal the distraction spell, you would still smell like magic. Which you don’t. Which is why I still think someone must have let you in.”
“Okay… makes sense… wait, y'all eat magic—“
“We’ve established this—“
“— So that’s what Eris must have meant when he talked about foraging!” She pinched the bridge of her nose.
“Honestly, I love the child, and I know it’s not true, but sometimes it feels like he couldn’t keep a secret to save his life. Yes, a foragers job is to seek out volunteers of legal age and capacity to consent to donate some of their magic for the consumption of fae who, for whatever reason, cannot currently feed from the fae realm.” She droned like she was reciting from something. “It grows back, as long as we don’t take too much, but that’s part of the reason why we always need foragers, to constantly be looking for new volunteers. So we don’t ever even risk taking just a little bit too much.” I nodded.
“I see. Why are you so mean to Eris?” She spluttered angrily.
“I'm not mean, he's my apprentice. I have to be a little tough on him sometimes.”
“Hmm. Okay… next question, what are access points?”
“You know, you’re taking this remarkably well for someone who clearly has no prior knowledge of the magical world.” She said suspiciously. I shrugged.
“I’ve always known there was something else out there, you know? I guess I went through a brief phase as like, a twelve-year-old, where I wanted to be a skeptic and a cynic and all that good shit, but by the time I was around thirteen I realized that that just wasn’t going to cut it when it was as obvious as could be that… we weren’t alone in this world. I mean, I’ve read and researched enough paranormal, cryptid shit that this is really just confirming what I’ve suspected for years.”
“Huh. Okay then. To answer your question, access points are… like gateways, I suppose, between your realm and the realm that Eris and I hail from. In order to get from one realm to another, you have to find an access point and enter it with intention. No-one just accidentally slips from one realm to another, that way. It’s a whole lot safer.”
“Don’t tell the fantasy authors that,” I joked. She snorted.
“Sure. Not sure I quite get the reference, but whatever.”
“How do you find an access point, then? What do they look like?”
“Well, access points are created when the energy from one realm, or one layer of a realm, touches the energy from another realm, or another layer of that realm. That’s really the only qualification. They can look like anything. So most people find them using finding spells, though Eris has taken to trying to detect the difference in the energy of an area instead. Which I think is very admirable of him, honestly. That’s nowhere near as easy.”
“Then why is he doing that?” I queried. She chuckled. Oh. Pretty laugh.
“Because he doesn’t know when to let well enough alone, the little shrimp.” That was the most affectionate I had heard her sound the entire conversation.
As we continued talking she softened somewhat, though she was never what you’d call amicable. Eventually she looked up at the sky and raised her eyebrows.
“It’s uh. It’s been enough time, now.” She coughed. I looked at my watch.
“Oh, shit, it’s been three hours! …I guess we were both enjoying ourselves,” I tried, awkwardly. She scoffed. Did her cheeks get a little pinker or did I imagine it?
“E-Enjoyed is a strong word, but… sure,” she waved her hand. “Whatever floats your boat.” she stood and held out her hand to help me up. My ankle was still sensitive, tender-feeling, but no immediate pain when I stood up. She nodded, looking at my ankle.
“No tangled pain, and your stance is balanced. That’s good. Go easy on it for a couple days. You shouldn’t be here after dark, so let’s hurry back.”
“Why shouldn’t I be here after dark? I thought you and Eris were the only ones who frequented these woods?”
“The only fae. Now less talking, more walking.” So I stayed silent for the rest of the hike to the driveway. When we reached my car, she turned awkwardly.
“Get— ah, get home safe, Traveler,”
“Both you and Eris called me that. Why?”
“Maybe I’ll tell you some other time.” ‘Some other time?’
“Does that mean I’ll be seeing you again?” She started walking away.
“Maybe.”
And that concludes chapter two! Eris will pop up again in the next one, so I'm sure some of y'all are looking forward to that. Except for getting hit with writer's block for a while at the end there, this was really fun to write, and I'm going to enjoy exploring Hedera's character more! I hope you all enjoyed!!
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Hello people!!! So happy you wanted to stop here. The name's El, but you can call me crazy. This blog is mainly TMNT (specially 2k12, but others versions too), but I also love Heroes of Olympus. Here you can find my works and some notes after the cut. Thank you!!! My ao3 here.
TMNT:
The Light
Leo thought he knew what pain was.
He was wrong.
My first story written in English, please be kind. There's also a version in Spanish if you want.
The Fire
Leo watched the fire take everything.
He watched it burn with such intensity that it forced him to squint. It danced to the intense beat of his heart and climbed up to the dark sky, which that night had decided not to paint a single star.
This is more of a drabble, part of a story that didn't see the light. But I really liked so I decided to post it. Will see if I ever come back to that.
Don't go to sleep, stay with me
What if Leo was conscious when he felt throught the window? What it there was no coma? What if he was still hurt and weak but still aware of what was happening?
This is a multichapter on that take and how it would change the Farmhouse arc.
*Based on the drawings by @hasello*
This is a multichapter on progess that I hope you like, very angsty, but full of brotherly love. Honestly, I just love to put this turtles into the most horrible situations and them make them comfot each other.
HoO:
Just a little bit sick
Leo knew something was wrong.
Not with something around him, which was partly a relief, but rather with himself. There was something wrong with him. It was a common feeling, but this time, also different.
This one is in SPANISH ONLY, but I'm planning to post it in english soon enough, right now is going through an hiatus and I'm really sorry about that, but it is what it is. A story post heroes of olympus, ignoring completely what comes after that, really angsty.
(More to come soon! I promise)
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