Garou's Rival

Chapter 7 - Lily of the Collapsing Blossom

Silver Fang defeated that monster with one punch! One punch! I struggle to stand as Silver Fang watches the monster rain down. It's been completely destroyed. No regenerating from that.

He turns to me. "You have some nasty wounds. Go get yourself to a hospital." With my energy draining away and the shock starting to get to me, my body's starting to shut down. The darkness is closing in on my vision.

Genos gets here first. "I'm here! Where's the monster?"

Bang points to its remains. "There. There's not much left of it now."

"Who defeated it?"

I want to explain it to Genos. "I-" But Bang interrupts me.

"Alpha defeated it. I got here late and he had already finished it off." Why would he do that? I can't defend myself, because it to tired to talk. Blood drips from my head, my hand and my clothes. Really, really need to get to a hospital. "You need to get him to a hospital, now. Left in his state, he could die here."

I can't move my arms and my legs are burning. My hand is throbbing and the pain is just an unbearable ache. It attacks my consciousness from all sides and is closing in on me fast. Everything is fading out now and I feel like I'm falling. I hit the ground and realise I was falling. The last thing I see before I lose is Saitama running towards me.

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Waking up in a hospital is weird. You have to lie there until someone who's meant to look after you walks by and notices you're awake. Then they take your temperature, say you have a fever, check your hand, say it's a miracle it's healed, and say that if you'd come here a moment later you likely would have died. Yep. Awkward.

"What the hell were you doing?!" I'm hit across the face by an old friend. Lily. She's Class B Rank 74 because the Fubuki Group pressured her into joining. She's cute, chatty, loud, confident, can't keep a secret, thinks we're best friends, persistent, stubborn, petty, never leaves me alone and never shuts the hell up. She also wears a lily in her hair, which seems like a lot more effort than it's worth. "17 broken bones and 4 more fractures! You'd have came off better shooting yourself! We're you trying to kill yourself?!"

"Just because I'm injured doesn't mean I'm hurt. Also, a lot of people would have died if it weren't for me."

"Really? Because I've been talking and someone told me an S class hero brought you here. If you were the only one fighting, why did they bring you here?" I may be dead. All I really heard was talking, hero, fighting bring. My vision's swimming and my head's foggy.

"I have to go." I get out of bed and almost collapse on the first step. Unfortunately the second step isn't better. Well, if I can't walk on my legs, I'll have to walk on my hands! Thinking this is genius, I turn upside down and do a handstand, which sends all the blood to my head and a lot of pain to my arms, which I now notice are both bandaged. Perhaps... this wasn't the best idea. I go back on my feet and fall back into my bed, while Lily just watches all this with disbelief. "Are you ok?"

"Well, I just watched you get out of bed on two broken legs, sway around for 3 minutes while you muttered something about hands, do a handstand, immediately stop and fall back down. So that question should both be altered and asked to you. Are you high?" Am I high? My hands look weird. Hands are weird. They look like smaller feet but with longer fingers. Why do fingers have so many sections- oh yeah I'm definitely high.

"Possibly. Who knows what they gave me to make me feel numb everywhere. You're annoying. I've always thought that but never said it. Why do you always talk? Can't you stop? Like, you just go on and on and on about one thing. If there were an olympics for talking, you'd be terrible because what you say never makes any sense. You just find one random thing to say and repeat it in varied ways for a few minutes. It's like there's a hose in your mouth and it's always on so you just spray nonsense over everyone. You just never stop. If... What am I doing?" What's wrong with me? I must be high. I'm going back to sleep." With that, I immediately fall asleep, as if on command.

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I wake up in a hospital. Lily's sat in a chair next to me, reading. She hits me again. "Why didn't you tell me you know Genos?!" she shouts.

This is unexpected. "Why should I? I've only met him a couple times before. Besides, how do you know that?"

"He's the one that brought you here, dumbass. What, you thought you came here yourself? Your legs don't work," she says.

I think for a moment. "Ok, so what your saying is that you hit me because I didn't tell you about someone who I've only met a couple times and I was unconscious at the time. Ok, that's enough reason for me to hit you back." So I hit her back. "I'm leaving. I have to talk to Silverfang," I say. With that, I get out of the bed and walk to the window.

"Watch your back, Alpha," she says behind me. "Fubuki's on the lookout for you, and you know what she'll do if you don't join the group. I can't protect you from her any longer."

I sigh. "If she wants to recruit me, then she'll have to fight me. And if she wants that... well then she'd better come herself instead of sending some Class B heroes or you. Besides, I'm catching up to you now. Soon enough, I'll be the one protecting you." I jump out the window and land on my injured legs, which nearly buckle. I'll return when I'm done with this, but for the time being, I have to meet Silverfang properly.

Lily of the Collapsing Blossom
Age: 17
Ranking: Class B Rank 4
Power: Low Demon