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It has been a long day, as Ion was walking down the streets of Eios on his way home. The air was cool and the rain was pouring down, Ion loved this weather. Being a lightning user, he could render the skies creating devastating storms against his enemies, becoming know as the Stormfox, he just felt naturally in tune with this weather. Walking down the almost empty streets, he would open his mouth and try to catch the raindrops on his tongue, it was refreshing and soothing to him. Feeling at peace, Ion couldn't wait to get home to finally unwind, he finished a bunch of long Contracts and had been away for a while, it was great to be back home he thought. Though as he continued along, his eyes caught something unsettling out of the corner of his eye, there was what looked like a young red fox lying face down on the side of the street. Ion walked over and turned him over, he could see that he was still breathing even though it seamed like the boy was trying to make it look like he wasn't. Ion placed his right hand on the boy's neck and could feel a pulse but as he did, Ion could feel the presence of two others approaching him, they were trying to conceal their presence but to Ion they were doing a poor job of it.
"So this is what they were trying to do" Ion thought, internally laughing that their pitiful attempt to mug him, well they didn't know he caught on, he might as well have a little fun with them. Keeping his hand on the "injured" boy neck, with his claws, Ion started to slowly swipe them down and onto his shoulder, making the boy wince a little, though Ion could tell he was trying so hard to keep up the ruse. As the two other figures came closer, Ion decided it was time for his surprise, he dug his claws deeply into the boy's shoulder, drawing blood and making him jolting his eyes wide open and making him let out a growl. The boy grabbed hold of Ion's bracer to attempt to lift Ion's hand off his shoulder but with his left mechanical hand, Ion fiercely grabbed the boy's arm and snapped it back, creating a loud cracking sound, fully breaking it. The boy now screamed out in pain and with their friend in distress, the two others he was with quickly tried to jump in and attack Ion but he just skillfully dodged. One was trying to make the comment that Ion would pay for what he did to his young friend but was cut off by Ion in a blink of an eye phasing just past him before slashes started appearing all over him, bleeding heavily and making him quickly fall to the ground, dead.
"Dam a Hunter" the other one called out as Ion turned his attention towards him. He called out to his friend that was still withering in pain and quickly asked if he was able to place it on the Hunter, to which he replied that he did, though not in his pocket as he wanted but attached it on the Hunter's bracer. Ion turned his right arm over to see a small runic medallion slid into the ties of his bracer but before he could remove it, the attacker yelled out the he hoped that was good enough as he threw an other medallion towards Ion. Ion tried to dodge but the medallion on his bracer started emitting a glowing light, reacting to the one that was thrown at him, pulling his body closer to it. As the other medallion hit the ground, it spread out a runic circle, Making Ion feel very heavy and pulling him down onto his knees freezing him in place. Ion struggled but couldn't move no matter what he did as his attacker walked over to him, laughing at Ion's useless attempts to break himself free. He grabbed onto Ion's hair and pulled his head up so their eyes could meet. "Pitiful Hunter, you do not know what you are dealing with" the attacker remarked as he pulled out an odd looking container. Taking off the cap, he placed the container in front of Ion before telling him "sweet dreams" as he attached the cap to Ion's coat.
The attacker stepped back and after muttering a small chant, a strange symbol appeared on the bottle's cap, as Ion started feeling a cold sensation throughout his whole body as he started to go numb. He felt that he was being drifted away but suddenly a warm presence started surrounding him and he felt like he was being pulled back. The numb and coldness feeling dissipated as Ion snapped back to reality, meeting his eyes back to his attacker's who now had a confused look on his face. Cursing at the bottle's failure, the attacker remarked the he would now have to try a more drastic measure. He pulled out a second odd looking container and a pitch black dagger that had what looked like small white pears embedded into the hilt. Ion recognized the design, it looked the same as the sword Virgil used to sever his arm and severely injure him, were these guys part of his group? No, he thought, Virgil's group dressed way differently then these guys and they were not known for going into any major cities what so ever, then who were these guys and what is this power they possess? The boy Ion injured told the other one he wanted to do it, as payback for what Ion did to his shoulder and arm. The boy grabbed the dagger and walked over to Ion's still frozen in place body and remarked that he was going to enjoy this before thrusting the dagger into Ion's gut.
Ion winced, though it didn't hurt as much as he though it was going to as he could feel his blood dripping down his body. The boy then pulled the dagger up making a slash up Ion's belly, pulling it out before it got to Ion's chest. The boy remarked that hopefully this would break it and make it easier to capture as Ion started feeling that cold, numbness feeling again, as if were being drifted away. But like last time the warm presence surrounded him, pulling him back to reality as Ion though what was going on? Sure he had been stabbed and slashed before, it come with the territory of being a Hunter, but he never felt anything like this. The two attackers were dumbfounded, why wasn't anything they were doing working against this Hunter? Before they could try anything else, they noticed that the streets were starting to fill with people, as the rain had stopped pouring down. The attacker told the boy to quickly grab all of their devices and not to forget the medallion in the Hunter's bracer, they could not leave any evidence of this stuff behind. The boy asked what to do about the Hunter, but the other just said to leave him as there was not time, plus judging from the pool of blood on the ground around Ion, the attacker said the he would just bleed out in due time. Once the medallion was removed from his bracer, Ion fell to the ground, he could move again but not well as he was very weak. The two attackers quickly left as Ion slid his right hand on his belly, this was bad he thought, he could feel a large deep gash there, with his insides trying to push out while bleeding at an alarming rate.
With the energy he had now, Ion couldn't transform into his dragon form to heal these wounds, he was unable to use his ace in the hole. Continuing to clutch his gut, trying to keep his insides in and slow the bleeding, he started to crawl up the street to look for help. Ion left a trail of blood as he went, but he was able to get some people's attention who quickly came over to his aid. helping Ion turn on his back, bystanders used what they could to help hold pressure on Ion's wound and a ambulance was called. Paramedics soon arrived and Ion was placed into the ambulance and after learning he was a Contract Hunter, they quickly headed for the Contract Hunter's special hospital to get him treatment. On the way there, Ion could feel the paramedics removing his clothes and starting a medicine drip for him, as one of them took a small blanket and pushed it hard on his gut to keep pressure, remarking that Ion had and is still loosing a lot of blood. Ion started to get real dizzy to the point where he had a hard time keeping his eyes open as one paramedic remarked that his blood pressure and heart rate were dropping. The other one cursed as she said to get the defibrillator ready just in case as now Ion had a hard time breathing. The light was starting to fade from his eyes as he felt something being placed over his muzzle for an instant before being removed, hearing one of the paramedics call out "clear" and feeling some pressure on his chest before fully passing out.
Faint light started entering Ion's eyes as he began to open them, he was groggy and as his senses started to come back to him, he could feel a sharp pain in his belly. Ion let out some soft moans before he could hear a familiar, cheery voice welcoming him awake. Meeka was standing over him, placing a hand on his head, gently petting him, as Ion mentioned to her of the great pain he was feeling in his belly. Meeka walked over to his medicine drip and expanded the dose which dulled the pain to a much more bearable level. Meeka turned back to him, as she told him that he was in the ICU of the hospital and that she had to operate on him to fix his wounds but he was expected to make a full recovery. She also told him that while the paramedics had a hard time keeping his heart beating, he never went into cardiac arrest, it was just a slight side effect of all the blood he lost and once he got to the emergency room and more blood could be put back into him, his heart started working normally again so he did not suffer any more damage there. Ion then mentioned that his throat was dry and Meeka, lifting up his oxygen mask for a second did give him a few sips of water but she told him that it couldn't be too much as his insides were still severed, she only stopped the bleeding and he had a second surgery scheduled in about half an hour to fully fix his injury. Meeka told him that she hope Ion would awake after the second surgery so he didn't have to endure the extra stress, but was still happy to see him awake and alert.
With this new information, Ion asked how long he was out, to which Meeka replied that he was brought in three days ago, basically took him into emergency surgery right away and has been in the ICU ever since that finished. Meeka told Ion not to worry as he was already prepped as he could still feel he still was not wearing anything under the blanket placed over him and that she was going to be the one operating on him anyways. As Meeka was preparing to transport Ion to the operating room, a knock could be heard on the door to Ion's room and after Meeka called back to come in, a rabbit wearing Hunter clothing walked in. The rabbit in question was Narche, the head of a special blacklist portion of the Contract Hunters, known as Ravager, the division Ion usually does Contracts for. Narche wanted to have a chat with Ion alone, to which Meeka told her that Ion was scheduled for surgery soon, but she insisted it would only take a minute. Meeka left the room and Narche got down to business, she asked Ion about anything out of the ordinary when he was attacked, to which Ion described the medallions, odd looking containers and the black dagger. "So it was them, I thought as much from the remains of the one you were able to kill, they are getting bolder especially attacking in a Hunter city" Narche replied, "and yet you are still with us, I know you are very skilled but you are just full of surprises." she continued seaming to know more then she was letting on. Ion asked him what that meant but Narche told him not to worry about it yet, there are things in this world that are suppose to remain secret, things that were suppose to remain unknown. She also mentioned that Ion being able to survive this attack was something unique and could prove useful to the more "specialized" Ravager Hunters which she hoped Ion would want to work with this group when he recovered.
Again Ion asked what this all meant but Narche still replied all in good time and asked him if he had any other experiences like this in the past. Ion did mention to him that when his arm was severed and he was severely injured, Virgil the one responsible used a sword that looked similar to the dagger that was just used on him. "That explains it" Narche said as she seamed quite interested in this information, asking Ion if he kept the sword after he was able to kill Virgil a few years ago. Ion replied to her that he destroyed it to which Narche said was good and probably for the best. Again Ion asked her what this all meant to which Narche still replied all would be revealed to him soon but first he wanted Ion to focus on his recovery, as she could hear a knocking at the door, telling Ion that is was probably rime for his procedure. As Narche went for the door, she told Ion that he would make sure he was prepared for the next time an attack like this would happen, as with his unique ability, Narche wanted Ion to help her deal with this group personally to which he needed to know how to defend himself against this group's unique abilities. Narche open the door and Meeka walked in, telling them both that she needed to take Ion to the operating room as they were already behind schedule.
Narche told her the they were finished with their conversation and she hoped Ion a speedy recovery, mentioning that he was in good hands before departing. Meeka walked over to Ion's gurney, unlocked the wheels and started pushing him towards the operating room. While he was being pushed down the hallway, Ion pondered all the information that Narche talked about with him, still wondering what was to come in the future, especially dealing with this group. Entering the operating room, Ion had to put these thoughts aside as he was lifted onto the operating table and all the equipment was attached to him. Meeka started Ion's anesthetic drip which caused Ion to get sleepy fairly quickly, closing his eyes he heard Meeka call out for a scalpel, feeling it pressed against his belly before dosing off into a deep sleep.
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