Two Survivors [Lara Croft x Male Reader]

Aren't You A Little Short

"Roth, are you there?" Lara asked.

"I'm heading towards the palace. The others are being held there too."

"I'll catch up to you and we can go in together." Lara stated as she found another camp.

'Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse. Y/N is captured, and what were those things In the monastery? They were dressed like the Stormguard, and the sounds they made, almost... inhuman? Shit, just listen to yourself, Lara. You sound like Dad. It's like they're the remnants of some lost civilization. Okay, now I really sound like Dad.' Lara wrote into her journal as she sat by the fire.

"Y/N's being held captive, suffering god knows what, I need to move." Lara thought to herself before standing up and moving on.

Y/N was moving through the forest, running as fast as he could through the brush as he tried to escape pursuing mercenaries.

"Stop running kid!"

"Stop chasing me then dipshit!" Y/N yelled back as he ran before looking over his shoulder and seeing that he had managed to break the line of sight with the soldiers, he climbed up into a tree and waited for the enemies to pass, he felt something slither over his shoe he saw that it was a snake, and remembered reading up on Japanese wildlife, this one was the Japanese Mamushi snake, Japans deadliest snake. The fact that it was slithering across his foot was not exactly something that brought him comfort, and below him were mercenaries, he looked at the snake as it was still for a moment before swiftly kicking it off of his shoe and sending it onto the head of a guard, the snake bit the guard as Y/N used his whip to swing away from the scene.

When he was away Y/N relaxed slightly. Climbing down from the tree and taking cover until he felt something crawl onto his shoulder, he looked and saw a huge spider, he used his rolled up whip to brush it off of him before moving from the cover and looking around to find the mercs had all decided to return to their base, leaving their friend to die from the poison from the snakes bite. He looted the dead corpse and stole their bullet bandolier, putting it on over his jacket.

Y/N started walking through the forest when he saw a campfire up above him, not so far away, out of earshot maybe, but not exactly far away.

He decided that he would rest up there, catch his breath and take a stock of his supplies before continuing to head towards where he thought Lara was being held prisoner.

As he rounded a corner he saw a group of mercenaries.

"Oh shit." Y/N remarked as they all looked at him, he ducked into cover and drew his rifle, peaking over cover and taking out five men, a bullet grazed his right arm, cutting a small incision in his denim jacket sleeve, he ducked down behind cover and reloaded his rifle before peaking out once more and killing the other five mercs.

He slung the rifle over his back before moving onwards until the door to a hut was opened and out walked a man dressed similarly to the mercenaries, but he was wielding a katana.

The Mercenary started to perform tricks with the sword, showing off his skill with a blade as Y/N watched them.

"Fuck this." Y/N thought to himself before he calmly drew his revolver and shot the mercenary dead.

He continued onwards towards the campfire.

Eventually, after a short trek, Y/N had reached a mountainside he had to climb, he took a run up and jumped over a deadly drop into a foggy abyss. He held onto some rocks which were offering hand holds to him when he felt something pull on his foot, he looked below and saw a mercenary hanging onto his foot, he tried to shake them off of him but they started to climb up his leg, they reached to grab onto his arm but his movement threw them off slightly, they grabbed onto the hole in his jacket sleeve, caused by the bullet grazing him earlier, Y/N managed to climb up to a small ledge and lay his body on it while grabbing his knife and cutting going to cut the mans hand but the man kept moving to throw his aim off, Y/N looked at his sleeve and smirked at the man before using the knife to cut the sleeve off approximately two inches from the shoulder, causing the man to fall to his death while Y/N took a moment to breath, he looked at his leg and saw a small cut on it he cut the other sleeve off in much the same way as he had with the other one, only this time he used the sleeve to fashion some make shift bandages, he wrapped them around his thigh before beginning his climb once more.

"Oh god, that was close. Are you there?" Sam said over the radio.

"I'm here. Sam. Are you okay?" Lara answered as she was looking at a map to get her bearings.

"What do they want with me, Lara? A fire ritual? This is so fucked up!" Sam said, she was clearly terrified.

"Listen. I'm coming to get you. I'm going to get you out of there!"

"Please, please help me, Lara."

"I promise. I promise. Sam."

"Hey! She took your radio!" A Mercenary's voice said over the radio.

"Oh no!" Sam said with alarm.

"Sam!? Sam!?" Lara said with alarm.

"Aaah! Aaah! Help me! Please!"

"Stay away from her, you bastards! Stay away!" Lara yelled into the radio.

"No! No!" Sam's voice cried out over the radio.

"Fuck! Okay..." Lara cursed to herself before regaining her composure and finding her bearings, she went to start moving when she walked towards where she was going to climb down, only to see a hand appear, it reached over the edge and was soon followed by the top of a familiar hat. Lara looked down at Y/N who looked up and gave a smirk before he climbed up.

The movement knocked his hat off and onto the floor.

Lara went to help Y/N stand up but he did it himself, climbing to his feet, he bent down and picked up his hat, Lara looked at him as he put it back on, she had to admit, the look suited him...