Eclipse - Act 1 - The Healing

Chapter 17 - Broken Dawn

Neptune

His blue eyes gaze up at the black ship that hovers in the sky, just like that of the Atlesian ones that once protected Vale and Beacon from the Grimm that fateful day. Yet it is so different and not from the colour of the paint put across it, the weapons on it look extremely advanced and the thrusters used to keep it moving seem to be using some form of Gravity Dust.

Neptune sighs, lowering his head as he walks with his team down the pathway of the city that is still recovering from the attack of the Black Smog. Sun looks around as he hears and sees so many different after affects, some people are having to wear masks over their noses and mouths due to a plague beginning to spread due to secondary disaster. So many dead bodies undiscovered from the rubble of destroyed buildings, diseases are beginning to spread...and fast. Their aura has kept them safe so far, but soon they could have something else that could draw the Grimm in...so much death from sickness could be enough.

All that heartbreak and grief.

It is chilling to realise that the Black Smog are simply waiting to be triggered by one small moment of panic. Some children are left alone, crying for their families to come back from where they last saw them...despite that their parents are most likely dead. Killed by the Grimm or by the destroyed buildings that collapsed over them. Sage passes by a man sat in the corner as he whoops a heavy cough, most likely due to the diseases spreading across Vale from the corpses inhabiting the ocean of rubble.

Photographs of beloved family members stapled to Notice Boards with desperate pleas to find them, some families offering to pay everything they have to make sure they get home safe. Some are adults and...many...are children. There was a school in that district of Vale that was demolished by the Goliath Herd...only twelve children were found in the remnants of it...everyone else died...

Families having to sit out in alleyways for their homes have been completely demolished from the Grimm that buried them from their powerful bodies. Many of them with wounds that Field Nurses are going around the city to cure and help as many people as they possibly can. Binding their wounds up and giving them antibiotics, even the ones granted to them by the Atlesians.

But with so many people injured, or sick or in need of help across the city right now, those supplies are going fast. Soon they won't have enough resources to keep people alive...but as they walk through, seeing so many Atlesians and Valerians helping the civilians, Huntsmen and Huntresses helping people.

But not one Black Gallows soldier has even lifted a finger. "It's not right...it's not fair. These people never deserved what happened here." Scarlet says with a voice that is both angry and upset as he sees the children, hearing their cries echoing through the city. The coughs and vomiting, the one clean air of Vale has been replaced with that of thick diseased air.

"No...they didn't...what happened at Beacon should have stayed in there." Sun states with his eyes narrowed with anger, just wanting the people responsible for this attack to be punished for what they have wrought, the amount of death during and even after the attack. So many people have been found dead from many causes, either from disease or from suicide, there have even been violent fights that have sparked between civilians that fight for scraps just to survive.

They are acting like society has collapsed and it is every man for themselves...when they should be fighting together now more than ever.

Before their anger, terror and sadness draws the Black Smog in...and this time they will have no chance.

And it seems unlikely that the Black Gallows will help, from the little attention they have given the people, focusing on the school and the Huntsmen.