The Lord Of The Forest | Nature Deku Au

Treating A Wound | Chapter 20

"Speaking" 'Thinking'

Izuku stared the beast down as he readied himself. He ran at it quickly and jumped onto it's back once more, lunging his teach into it's neck and biting as hard as he could. His teeth ripped through it's tough skin and tore easily with the use of his teeth. It growled in pain and once again started thrashing around. Throwing him off of it's back as it staggered. Izuku landed on his feet in front of the beast and received harsh claws to his right arm. He growled and lunged at it once more. His claws dug into it's side as he ran passed it and kicked at it's feet to knock it over. He jumped over the creature and went for it's belly. His claws dug into it's stomach and tore through it easily. His jaw clamped shut onto it's neck once more and the creature found it hard to move. 

Izuku's face and claws were drenched in deep red blood that seeped from each of it's wounds. He lightly staggered from the pain of his arm being torn up. The wound was deep and almost incapacitating. He growled once more and staggered closer to it. The monkeys howled up in the trees as yet another unfamiliar beast was concurred. 

Izuku fell on his knees before the creature as it breathed heavily and showed clear signs of pain. It's eyes still held strength though. There was no way that he could keep it alive. It'd never submit to his rule.

The baby tried it's best to growl from within the bushes, it ran for it's mother and stood in a protective manner. Izuku glared and placed a hand on the small beast's head. The mother's eyes softened as he didn't attack her offspring. 

He looked around into the trees, almost his entire clan was here, his eyes fell onto the horrified rodent's however. He looked it over and noticed that it was looking at his arm. He couldn't help but hide his wound from it's line of sight. He stood up, staggering slightly. Inuit ran forward and supported him so he wouldn't fall. 

He huffed and stepped away from the mother. Inuit sat in front of her and spoke in it's natural tongue. The beast's eyes widened as they began to speak. Monkey's fell from the trees and ran towards Izuku to check up on him. His body held minor scrapes and large bruises all over, especially on his back. 

"I probably should have been more careful." He told them. Inuit huffed as he overheard Izuku speak. Izuku smirked at the wolf's annoyance.

The monkeys quickly looked around and found themselves more pine sap and leaves to cover the wound. No doubt he'd end up with a fever or something after this. He staggered once more and grabbed hold of a tree with his tail. He whistled and made a circle with his finger to tell them all to wrap things up. He looked back at the small baby of the beast he'd just taken down. He looked at the mother, but she seemed to have already passed on. He huffed and pointed toward the child. Inuit nodded and nudged at the small one with his snout.

Two bears ran out of the forest and towards them. The rodent up in the trees looked on in worry, he knew that bears were dangerous, and they seemed to be in their territory as well. However he looked stunned as the two stopped right in front of the boy and pawed at his body. Izuku quickly fell onto one of their backs and snuggled into their fur. He felt tired, but he knew it wasn't a good idea to fall asleep when his wounds haven't been fully treated yet.

He used his crow whistle and the black birds flew down to him once more. Each of them lightly pecked at his wound and took out anything that could cause infection. It hurt of course, but it was better than him losing his arm or dying because of it.

The animals all ran toward their territory. The rodent of course was brought along, not only was it injured, it was also no doubt an outsider that probably had no idea how to survive out here. He couldn't help but think that it got lost out here or maybe even was brought here by someone else. It was a disturbing thought, but it was best that he got out of the forest where something could potentially kill it.

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The bears hurried toward their territory and flew through the wooded land. They'd finally crossed the first pond and ran toward the stairs where their home was. Monkeys howled and shouted loudly which caused the rest of the animals that had stayed back to be on high alert and look for their leader.

All of them gathered at the bottom of the steps and made their way up to find their leader. Izuku was placed onto a small table that grew from the ground. His eyes clenched shut as pain once again fell over him. Against his better judgement, he'd grabbed one of the mushrooms that a crow had thrown at him. 

Of course, it was a sort of poisonous ones, but these only made your body feel tingly and numb..., he didn't have a nice time discovering those. He'd pretty much locked himself in his home so that he didn't do anything stupid. They at least made the pain manageable. (Japan has a native hallucinogenic mushroom called Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata which has psilocybin &/or psilocin. Pretty much a hallucinogenic. Not entirely sure if they still grow there or not however.)  The monkeys had the two bears hold him down as they cleaned the wound and placed sap plasters over each of the wounds.

He felt as his body grew tingly all over after only a few minutes of eating them. He closed his eyes and clenched his teeth as one of the monkeys tied something around his arm tightly. He'd taught them this after he'd had to amputate one of the monkey's arms. It cuts off the blood flow, but it can't be left on for too long or else the limb will lose all feeling and die. 

He screamed through his clenched teeth as they tied it even tighter and placed tree sap all over the wound. The rat-like creature was finally taken to the second pond and flinched as Izuku's scream rang out. He looked around and noticed him placed on a strange stump like table. He hurried over and noticed them trying to treat the boy. 

"病院が必要だ！" The mouse shouted out. The monkey's ignored him since they couldn't understand him. They continued to treat him and after awhile the mushrooms kicked in properly and lessened his pain. He grew groggy as he could no longer feel his body properly. (He needs a hospital!)

The monkeys conversed with one another. It didn't sound like what that other monkey had spoken. It was like they all spoke the same language that even that boy could understand..., He looked around at the surroundings, the large pond with the waterfall falling down to the first. The huge tree that held cloth like swings all over the place, it was no doubt hammocks for the animals to sleep in. He noticed on the tree there was a hatch like door. This wasn't something normal animals could have done. Not only that, that tree didn't even look native to this area...

Something was off here, all these animals, bears, monkeys, wolves, all of them came together and lived here with that boy. What exactly has he done here.

( If I haven't explained before. Pine tree sap is used as a type of glue/medicine. It can act as an anti-septic and is applied to wounds to stop the bleeding, the soft sap can be chewed like gum and helps get rid of sore throats and colds. Izuku uses multiple different types of tree sap while living out in the wild, a lot of sap is useful while in the wild, however the Japanese cherry tree's sap can make you sick so that is one that shouldn't be ingested or used by either human or animal.)