This chapter was requested by NixthesadbeanUwU. I love their username!
Slight angst warning!

Kays Pov
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I was running, as fast and as far as my legs would carry me. Not just me though, I was carrying someone else upon my back, my adrenaline was pumping and I was able to feel less pain from the slash that had made itself apparent on my torso. I could feel my blood gushing out from the wound with each thundering step I took. This was bad, really bad, I didn't know what to do, I wasn't used to missions like this, I wasn't used to feeling like this. To say I was scared was an understatement, I was terrified, I wanted to cry, I wanted to curl into a ball and let the earth below consume me. But I couldn't, I couldn't let myself die here, not with his life on the line. Not by these people, not without helping to do my job one more time, I'm a protector, and if I failed to protect the ones I love... What's the point...

No! I won't think that way! He was in worse condition than me if I was going to do anything to help him it was to get them to my guild for some proper healing, even if it kills me...

I ran and ran, branches hitting my now furry face. I had transformed myself into a large feline that could run very quickly and was good at camouflaging itself with the forest.
With each step, I took, the more my body screamed at me to stop, I was getting dizzy and it was getting harder to see clearly. I don't think I'm going to make it, but I can't give up, because it isn't only my life on the line. It was his life as well, I'll make sure that he makes it through this.

I ran till I finally met the edge of the forest and lept into the grassy plains and charged towards the direction of my guild. I was not going to let them die just because I was too moronic to dodge properly.

I ran until I reached the guilds doorway and transformed back, I let out a howl of pain, it felt like my body was breaking and my adrenaline was wearing off.

With one last scream for help, I collapsed onto the floor of my guild with him on top of me, blood pooling around me, and then everything was black.

Vipers Pov
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I woke up to murmurs and loud whispers. I could hear people and feel a bed beneath me, I tried moving my body, but all I could feel was the screaming pain. My head was pounding and my body ached.

I remembered that I had been thrown into a wall and beaten so that explained my pounding headache and aching body, but that didn't explain why I was in a bed. I recalled something though not without a decent amount of pain, I wasn't alone on that mission. I was sent out on a dual mission between my guild and the Protectors. Who was I with? Were they with me when the injuries occurred? My head was pounding and trying to think back on whatever the hell happened wasn't helping, but I wanted to know, who was the one that brought me here.

I tried to activate Jasper and failed miserably, my magic reserves were at an all-time low, and my body was in a scathing amount of pain. I let out a loud grown of discomfort and took in a breath, it was painful to even breathe, I could hear a voice but everything was going fuzzy.

Then it was black again...

When I'd regained consciousness once again, I hadn't expected the voices to be louder. I released a loud groan of pain as I tried to sit up. Everything hurt, I'm starting to see how Allumos felt when he had busted his ribs during the attack on Atlantide.

"Viper my boy, are you okay?" Speak of the devil, Allumos, I could understand why he was asking that question, but I couldn't respond immediately, I had activated Jasper, and it was taking me a bit to adjust.

"I'm okayish." My voice was course and it was hard to speak but I could manage that much.

"What the hell happened?"

"Well, my boy, you had a very nasty fight and are very lucky to be alive, hell if your partner hadn't gotten you here when they did you'd most definitely be in a coffin as we speak." From what I could tell Allumos's brows were knitted together in frustration, he was worried but what I wanted to know is what happened exactly.

"I know I got the life beaten out of me, what I want to know is what exactly happened!" I was getting frustrated at this point and trying to remember what the hell happened was giving me a headache.

"You don't remember my boy? Not at all?"

"Bits and pieces but the rest is an absolute blur." Allumos looked at me for a second then looked at the people around him. He let out a sigh and looked at me once more.

"You were heavily injured and your partner didn't come out unscathed either, hell their injuries may be just as bad as yours if not worse. No one is sure if they'll make it not even Lopho." He seemed kinda down at the whole thing and then it hit me, my partner, the one who I was forced to go on a mission, Kay.

I struggled with the idea of it for a second, and then another realization hit me, much harder than before.

She was hurt. She was dying. And I. Could. Do. Nothing.

There was nothing I could do, I didn't have the type of magic that healed, the only one who anyone knew that could heal in this entire city was that cat!
And he didn't even know if his guildmate was going to make it. He didn't know if She was going to make it.

Everything around me seemed to freeze, she might not make it, how did this even happen? How am I able to even sit up much less talk, and she is holding onto life by a thread? How is someone like me, someone that has hurt people time and time again is still able to move? While someone kind and determined to help others is laid down in bed fighting death.

I could hear someone shouting my name but I had tuned it out. I was stuck. I didn't want to move. I didn't want to speak. I didn't want anything.

I just wanted her.

I wanted her to make it out alive, I don't know what I'll do if she doesn't. My mind was racing at a hundred miles per hour and my heart with it. I knew this feeling, I was scared. And didn't know how to stop being scared.

I felt someone shake me but I didn't respond, I just wanted to lay down again, I wanted to pretend that this was all a bad dream, a nightmare.

But it wasn't. I was going to lose another person I love, just like how I lost Phantom, just how I lost my family...

It hurt. It hurt so god damn much. I wanted this ache to leave me but it wouldn't and I knew that it wouldn't.

I know I'm not a good person and I know that I've never been a good person, but please if there is someone listening to me now, please don't take her. She has so much more to give to others, so much more to give life.

"Viper!" Allumos was holding shoulders shaking me, he had a strong grip on me, and his eyes held nothing but concern.

"Are you alright my boy? I was calling your name for the last ten minutes." I looked at him, and then I looked at the people who were watching the scene unfold. Then turned back to him. I think he figured out that I wanted to have a little privacy.

"Everyone back away, me and Viper need to speak in private for a bit." And with that most of the mages backed away, giving us the space we needed.

"Now then, are you alright my boy? You seem a little shaken." I looked down at my lap and just shook my head. I didn't feel alright.

Allumos let out a light sigh and then took a few steps towards the bed.

"Viper, I need you to talk to me. I can't help if you're silent." His hand was settled on my shoulder, and his eyes held concern.

"How bad are her wounds?"

To be continued...

As it says it will be continued in a part two mainly because I got a second request for the same person and decided I wanted to write more on this chapter so a part two would be necessary. So I hope you enjoy and I will have part two done in a week. . . two weeks. . . maybe three. . .