Young and Beautiful [ Druig ]

seven

"Centuries later and that's the first thing you say to me? You've hurt me my dear." Druig says, Narcisa stops walking and turns around, Druig right in front of her.

"Trust me, that was one of the nicer things I have to say to you," Narcisa stares blankly at him.

"And the other things? Don't go easy on me, you were never a pushover." Druig grins at her, and slowing begins to touch her side. "I've missed you, my beautiful, beautiful Narcisa, did you miss me?" His hands slither underneath her shirt, working his way to her waist.

It took everything in her to not melt to his touch and just start ripping off his clothes. Snapping out of the daze that was Druig, she yanks his hand away from her and pushes him back. She looks him in the eye, "Not. At. All." She says, turning her back to him but Druig grabs her wrist, pulling her to him, chest to chest. "Druig." She says but he just stares at her, her eyes get watery. "Druig," she whispers.

He slowly lets her go and Narcisa walks off but stops, and looks around. She slightly chuckles and turns back around to Druig. "I told you I love you at this very spot and you broke it here too." She waits for a response but Druig doesn't say anything. She scoffs, shaking her head, "And that's exactly what you did that broke it, nothing. Seems like it's still your specialty thousands of years later. I was just something you played with, wasn't I? Didn't want strings attached?" She turns around, Druig calling her name but she doesn't look back, instead raising her middle finger. She arrives back at camp, taking a seat at a random porch. She brings her knees to her chest and lays her chin on them.

He didn't love her and it took years to be okay with that, okay that he so easily walked away after she put her heart out. It wasn't okay but it was livable, she could live, move on. But that thought always came back to her, that she was just a plaything for seven thousand years and he didn't want strings, and she was a string. She wanted love, wanted someone to spend her life with or well technically lives, stupid Arishem.

"Ikaris!" Narcisa hears Sersi yell. Ew, those two having make up sex already?, she thinks. Narcisa scowled, ew.

It wasn't until she tilts her head to the side that she sees a villager get thrown by a deviant. "Shit!" She yells, scrambling up and running go Sersi.

"Clear the camp!" Sersi yells.

Narcisa's skidding to a stop to help Sersi up, "Get behind me," Kingo yells.

"One of them took Icarus," Sersi said.

"Its an Ambush," Kingo says, shooting a deviant into a building.

"Very nice sir!" Karun cheers on, filming it.

They whizz around to him, "Are you mental?" Kingo says. "Hide!"

"We need action sequences," Karun says and looks towards the building to see its rumbling. "Sir!"

"Sprite, get Karun out of here," Kingo instructs.

"How many cameras did you bring young man?" Sprite says, moving Karun away.

A deviant jumps onto a roof of a house, tearing the wall off, a family inside. "Get them to safety." Narcisa instructs, running to the deviant.

Using her hands to create a pull motion, sharp minerals start shooting at the deviant, knocking it down the roof, roaring.

It jumps to her, Narcisa quickly generating a ball of rock to hit it, knocking it to the ground. Whipping the ball around, she lets it drop on its head, killing it. A few other deviants approach her, jumping roof to roof towards where the humans are.

She runs to them, coming in time to see one of it using its tail to hit Sersi to a building. It pounces at her, she ducks and slams her fist to the ground, creating a pit with the bottom of sharp rock daggers, just a few feet in front of her, the deviant falls in it, impaling itself to death. Narcisa goes to Sersi, yanking her out of the debris of the building.

Gunshots are heard and they look to see Druig using his control with the humans, to have them fire at a deviant. It uses its tail to swipe at a few, Druig picking up the gun and firing at it. Sersi gets water from a tree and uses it to freeze another one, having it fall and trap the deviant.

Narcisa runs over to Druig, "Let them go,"

"Now is not the time, Na-"

She quickly cuts him off, "Let time go." She looks him in the eye.

He stops his mind control, " Go! Get to the river!" He yells and they obey.

The deviant loosens itself from the tree, Narcisa pushing Druig out of the way, it stabbing its tail through her leg and dragging her. The pain in her leg makes her yell loudly. It throws her in a building. Her body breaking the house, she groans from the impact, the deviant jumping to go top of her but she rolls back to the dirt ground.

Narcisa taps the ground, quartz sprouting around the deviant to trap it, she pushes herself up and grunts as she morphs the quartz to impale the deviant through and through, killing it.

She catches her breath, bending over slightly, "Whew," she breathes. "It's been awhile."

Another deviant joins in, growling at them. Sersi uses her abilities to use the wood planks into metal and smacking it away, Druig using the gun to fire at it. As the deviant runs back, it uses its tail to knock down the both of them. Narcisa raises two globs of rocks in the air, changing them to crystal daggers. She grabs them and runs to the deviant, sliding on her knees to swipe at it from underneath. It screeches, charging at her, she jumps up, landing on its back. Using both daggers to impale it's back and keep her on it.

"Narcisa!" Druig yells at her.

"Give me a second!" She yells back. The deviant goes on it's hind legs to shake her off and she uses the chance to pulls out the daggers and plunge them to the side of its throat. It falls to its back, Narcisa falling with it. She pulls herself from underneath it, coughing harshly from the impact. She rolls to her back, turning her head to side to a another deviant running to her. She rolls her eyes, "Really?" She yells in disbelief.

It goes to attack her and she uses her arms to shield herself but Druig grabs her, and shields her. The both wince, ready to get attacked but Ikaris flies over and hit it with his lasers.

Druig looks down at her, Narcisa gaping slightly watching the deviant and Ikaris. He touches the cut she has on her cheek, she slightly winces, looking at him. "You alright, my dear?"

"Truthfully?" She says and he nods, "I've been better." He slightly smiles at her statement, he helps her up, having her lean on him.

They see Sersi grabbing a branch from a tree and turning it into a sharp piece of metal, she stabs the deviant, stopping it from attacking Ikaris. The deviant knocks Sersi into a body of water and jumps in. Narcisa gets ready to jump in after Sersi but she jumps back when the deviant transform into a tree.

"Sersi," Ikaris says as Sersi comes out of the water. He goes to her. "Are you all right?" He looks at the tree, "How did you do that?"

Sersi looks over at the tree, "I don't know."