private Need for Heroes!

[Cherry Blossom 864]

"Let's go home Den, I just want to forget everything now." Cherry Blossom yawned and made her way out the hospital by trotting out. "If you want, I could buy you something to drink. You seem really tired at the moment." she gave Den a look of concern, he looked very exhausted.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

He smiled very faintly, "I have not slept one hour in the three days it's been since the bathtub incident," he said, walking next to her, "I went breifly back to my old apartment, and layed on some rags, but I was mostly staring at a bottle." He looked away, hoping she didn't remember just WHICH bottle.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

"Well let's go get you cleaned up and tucked into bed Den. I think you may want to sell that run down apartment of yours, it's not healthy to sleep in some place like that." Cherry Blossom gave Den a kiss on the cheek and put his foreleg over her shoulder to keep him moving. It seemed like Den would collapse after lack of sleep, for 3 days.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

He grunted, "You're making it harder; I can't really carry your weight right now," he was beginning to shake, and was walking as if overburdened. Just a few more blocks. A few more blocks, and then there's a nice featherbed. Best of all, it's your marefriend's featherbed, which means it's even softer.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

"What do you mean I'm making it harder? I'm trying to help carry you back to our house." Cherry Blossom gave Den a strange look, she was trying to escort him back to their home, but she ignored it and probably thought that Den was losing his concentration.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

He blinked a few times and shook his head, things were starting to swim across his vision, and the barriers he put up to keep his spirit energy from pooring out were beginning to crumble, he blinked and his eyes started glowing blue. I need rest, or else all of this spirit energy inside of me is going to become extremely painful as it exits my body all at once... He began trying to walk faster; their house was in sight.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

Cherry Blossom noticed his eyes turning blue, it was the same pair of blue eyes she saw when she was being choked bacl by Den. She gasped and collapsed to the ground asking, "Den? What's going on with your eyes? Is it the same thing that happened at the hospital?"

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Through gritted teeth, he said, "It's my spirit energy. It lends me strength, if I can keep it in check, but right now I'm so tired, it's trying to escape." He was trying to find little ways to use it; decreasing muscle fatigue, dispersing it outwards, small things that wouldn't use much, but would buy him more time. He used it to pick Cherry up, "We really, really need to go. If it comes out, it's going to hurt. A lot." He started to jog to their house.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

Cherry Blossom nodded and shrieked weakly when Den immediately carried her and started joggin to their house. "You are going to wash up first right? I mean you have a few bits of dirt on your mane," she said to him as she tried to brush off whatever dirt and grime that was on Den's mane.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

He blushed, but said nothing, still floating her on a cloud. He went inside and set her on the bed, going into the bathroom, and starting the water for the tub. He bounced up and down, and emitted his energy; thewater got hot enough fast, and he turned it off when the tub was full. Even as he slid in, he fell asleep.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

Cherry Blossom blinked twice, but she removed all of her police gear and uniform and set it to the side. She laid there tucked in the covers, waiting for Den. After a while she wondered why Den was taking so long in the bathroom, so she got off the bed, put on her sleeping robes and checked the bathroom. Cherry Blossom found her coltfriend 'sleeping with the fishes' or in this case, 'sleeping with the soap'.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Den was sleeping peacefully, oblivious to the world. It made him look years younger, and smaller; more innocent. If he'd been in a bed, he would've curled into a tight ball, but since he was in a tub, he was streched out, and it gave a good veiw of strong, tough, lean muscles, and all of the scars and nichs across his body. Across his back was a jagged, but thin scar that reached to both sides of his body, from when he took an axe for Nightfall, and his shoulder had a small scar from when Cherry had shot him. All up and down his body where the healing cuts from when he'd fought the demon with the others, and across his cheek was a scar from one of Cherry's wings when she'd been trying to kill him.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

Cherry Blossom sighed, grabbed a bar of soap and a scru, then started cleaning around Den's body. She was shocked at all of the scars he had, but she cleaned out some of his wounds. Cherry Blossom started rubbing shampoo on his mane and was surprisingly having fun from it.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Den hadn't been dreaming before, but he felt a soft touch, and sighed, beginning to dream about Cherry Blossom. His muscles relaxed further, and he slid deeper into the tub, mumbling. His facial features changed to very trusting, loving, and happy, suggesting similar dreams.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

She started ribsing him off slowly with some warm water and she smiled. Cherry Blossom kissed Den's forehead and proceed to drain all the water. She grabbed a towel and started drying him off, but she wasn't sure of how she was going to carry him out of the tub.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Den frowned, and rolled over. With the water gone, he curlled into a tight ball and snoozed, exposing the large axe-cut. It was thicker in the middle, suggesting it had been deep. He mumbled something else and curled tighter, muscles beginning to get tight again.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

Cherry Blossom left the bathroom and brought back a wooden chair, a pillow, and a few blankets and towels. She set the chair in front of the tub and rested Den's head on the pillow. Then she tucked in Den with a the blankets and the towels to keep him warm.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

He stirred, and his eyes openned slowly, looking up at her. He looked a lot like a foal at that moment, but then he ruined it and yawned, then looked around confused, "Wasn't I supposed to take a bath? And something smells really nice..." He sniffed the air quizically.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

"Well you fell asleep in the bath tub so I had to clean you up myself." Cherry Blossom just giggled and kissed him on the forehead. "I was going to stay here and watched you all night, but now you're awake!" she smiled at him and just put the wooden chair out of the bathroom.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

He blushed, smothing his pelt out, which hid most of the scars. It made the one on his back look like a thin line. He stepped out of the tube and walked out behind her, "Just sit there and watch? Wouldn't you get, I dunno, tired? Bored? Something?" He looked longingly at the bed.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

"Well I couldn't just let you sleep in the tub all night while I slept on the bed. How would I be able to sleep, knowing that my coltfriend was sleeping in the tub?" Cherry Blossom replied as she walked out of the bathroom and dropped onto the bed, staring at Den.

[Nightfall 3,950]

"I haven't seen him in years. I know how strong he used to be, but he has no doubt improved. There are five of the eight here, yes? Do you know how to contact the other three? I believe I know where he's hiding, but he will not allow us to even attempt to stop him unless all of us are there."

 

"The others are probably off resting, as I'm sure they should be doing. It's been days since I've seen them, and I would not have expected them to sleep much on duty while I was out. And Jack... Who knows where he is..?"

He looked around. His tired eyes gazing over the crowd.

"I need some rest myself. And that's where I'm going. Sapphire, go ahead and start training Speedy. Maven, you're welcome to stay here and help Wits."

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

He smiled, and crawled in next to her, pressing against her and resuming the ball/fetal position, "You could've climbed in next to me," he joked, sounding distant. The bed was working it's magic on him, Can't.. stay... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. He fell asleep before she answered.

[Cherry Blossom 864]

Cherry Blossom smiled and just cuddled next to him while he fell asleep. "Maybe I should have climbed in next to you." she thought as she yawned and went to sleep, while under the comfort of Den's body. She put his arms around herself and got herself comfortable in the bed, then finally fell asleep.

[Octavia's Bow 2,035]

Sapphire saluted weakly, she was still a little burnt out. Maven frowned at him, but said nothing. She looked at him puzzled, as if to say, "You don't want me with you?" but she also nodded her concent; she would stay if that's what he wanted, even if she didn't want to.