The Fruit of Tito

Chapter 10: Curse

Tito thanked all the nurses and doctors that helped him through his recovery process. It had been nearly a month since Tito was hospitalized; even though he had been brought back from the brink of death that didn't mean his injuries were healed. Tito shivered uncomfortably as he recalled all the pain and agony he went through. As Indra wheeled Tito out of the sliding glass doors of the hospital and was met with a familiar face. It was the old man that saved Tito, he had a subtle smile on his face as Tito and Indra approached him.

"Oh-Ho! Well look at you, getting released early." The old man signaled Indra to wheel Tito forward and follow him. "Sir I never got to thank-." The old man interrupted Tito by raising his hand. "No need to thank me, if anything I should thank you! That was one of the best orientation fights we've seen." The old man said while letting out a hearty chuckle.

"Why did you save Tito? Answer now you old bastard." Indra stopped wheeling Tito and stared the old man down. He turned around and opened his mouth to speak, but Indra quickly cut him off. "The truth." Indra sternly said. Making the old man chuckle again.

"I wanted to see the extent of May's powers, we started with making her fulfill small wishes, but now we needed to push her farther. If you hadn't put on that amazing performance we would've left you for dead, but I reckon you have more potential alive than dead." The old man responded. He hummed a bit before he continued talking.

"I came to bring both of you your class schedules, also to tell you two that you have a fight next week. You two will be in the same team of course, but I do want your opponents to be a surprise so I won't tell you who they are yet." The old man laughed one more time before vanishing in thin air. Indra sucked her teeth and continued to wheel Tito to their dorm.

"I knew something was off about that old geezer." Indra said while gripping the handles on Tito's wheelchair.

"I ain't complaining, their little experiment brought me back to life." Tito shrugged his shoulders slowly while turning his head around to face Indra, she also shrugged her shoulders in agreement. Once back in their room Indra sat Tito on their bed, she turned around and walked towards a medium-sized and grabbed Tito's now fixed prosthetic limbs.

"I tried to restore them as best as I could but for the most part they're broken. Without the materials that were used to make these I can't repair this level of damage." Indra said plainly. Tito sighed in frustration before responding.

"So am I wheelchair bound?" Tito asked while rubbing his forehead. Indra smiled wide at Tito's question, she took a deep breath before speaking.

"No, not at all. Just manipulate your cursed soul energy to make and arm and leg, you've done it before." Indra stated while putting Tito's limbs back where they were. Tito exhaled and started to focus, he knew that once the cursed soul energy began to flow out of him he'd need to be completely focused to control it. Tito grunted as the cursed soul energy bursted out of his missing limbs, it took a minute or two for Tito to gain control of the flow of his soul and shape it into an arm and leg.

"That is some tiring shit." Tito wiped the sweat of his brow and sighed. Indra noticed Tito struggling to stand up from the wheelchair and lended a hand. Once on his two feet Tito began slowly walking around.

"Now that you have that down, the next step is to make it look like an arm and leg. You don't have to do it but if you want I can show you how." Indra said  while sitting down on their bed. She began looking through the schedules the odd old man gave them. "So we start class in three weeks." Indra said. "And we have all the same classes." Tito added while sitting next to Indra.

"Yeah, but that's not our main concern right now, we need to start training. I'm rusty and you lack experience." Indra said while standing up, she began taking off her lab coat and sweater. Revealing a long-sleeve compression shirt that was cut off right underneath her chest. Making her big chest even more prominent.