Gowther x Reader || Phoenix Heart

Chapter five || Saving a friend

⚠️ another gore warning!.. y'know if you're sensitive to gore, I'd suggest maybe not reading my book. I like to get descriptive. 😅

"Another lighting strike, how many is that?"

"That has to be Gillthunder, and I'd bet anything he's fighting the captain right now." Diane says confidently.

King floats up beside her. "Yeah, I agree."

Gowther lifts his head from your shoulder and looks toward what you're all talking about. "I don't sense Ban's power."

You jolt almost dropping him. "Jesus fuck!" Your heart hammers in your chest and Howzer whips around.

"Heh?! So you're not dead?"

"I wonder, where did he go?" Gowther thinks out loud not taking notice to the commotion he's caused. You laugh and shake your head.

You're stood a little bit away from the group, a content smile on your face. "Glad you're ok Gowther."

"Why?"

You pause... 'Why do I care so much?' You ponder.

"Well if you ask me, it kind of sounds like you're developing feelings for me."

"Eh?" You feel your face heat with- with... Anger! Anger, that's it! You set him down hurriedly. 'Who does this guy think he is?!'

You can feel the slight buzz of one of his light arrows in your neck, you swipe it away. "Well I didn't ask you, besides that's absurd and didn't I tell you to not go rooting around in my head?!"

"Well you said, "I would appreciate if you didn't go through my mind and spill my secrets, as there are some things I'd like to keep to myself to save face." And I had no intentions of sharing this information with anyone else."

"Ok from now on you can't look in my head without explicit permission. Got it?"

"Got it."

You're glad everyone else is too preoccupied with watching the electricity arch through the air to witness your embarrassment.

"Those shockwaves are getting pretty intense." Kings voice is slightly strained to show his worry.

Gowther walks up to stand next to them all. "From what I can gather it seems like the Captain is facing three opponents."

"King, with the way things are looking you'll have to go help the Captain." Diane says using her Gideon as a crutch.

"Wait, I can't just leave you here!"

"Just go!"

King turns toward the fight that we can't really see with a serious look on his face. "I think he'll be alright. For some reading I feel like he purposefully took that hit. I wonder what he's waiting on?"

You hum and sit on the ground. "Probably something stupid." Suddenly the ground quakes and your eyes widen.

"Hey! Y/n, that's not nice! The captain always has a good reason behind letting himself get tossed around." Diane defends.

"Ahh, ok, ok, OK!" She stops stomping her foot and you let out a sigh of relief. They go back to quietly discussing the fight so you close your eyes again.

You can still feel a light aching in your bones, like with everyone else Kings healing orb or what ever didn't heal you fully. Just made it so you didn't feel like death would be the better option... Not that you could die, even if you wanted to. Hell did you want to sometimes. All the late nights thinking about Linnette, and all the people you killed. A long time ago you convinced yourself that they were all monsters because of what happened to her.