...and I nearly lost it the day I found out I have it.
Dr. Lord took us to the rainforest wanting us to find out who or what was tampering with his research stations. Easy peasy right? Nope not for Scions it's not.
I sent Tepini out to scout and eventually we came upon the first station where a curupira showed up. It knew Dr. Lord and thought we were trespassing but after smelling him on me it knew we were ok. While SOnia talked monkey to it and the others listened I gathered the samples Dr. Lord wanted, while Dave sat down sorting out whatever it is that's bothering him.
All of sudden Dave goes flying and this huge harry creature bursts out of the trees. The Curupira screamed Mapinguari. This thing was big, bad and angry. Our first hits on it landed but most just bounced off it doing little to nothing to it. When I finally got to scan it I nearly ran screaming into the forest right then...we were so out of our league it isn't funny. I mean one hit from this thing COULD be deadly to almost any of us. It hit Alex a few times but that boy has some set or armor that just seems to absorb every blow he takes. Dave somehow got lucky and managed to clinch it but that didn't last long and when Alex finally landed a solid blow on it...it got madder. When it started looking weaker I charged in and took a swipe at it but by then it was free. I missed and it seemed to sense it couldn't hurt Alex (OH FUCK! It's intelligent) and it took a swipe at me. Let me tell you the last time I felt pain like that was when I tried to kill myself. Someone finally took it out and I just fell to the ground. Liam come over and was able to do something to help stave off the pain and as I get up Dr. Lord comes flying (like he was thrown) into the clearing and 2 people walk into it.
These people are Dr. Lords...best enemies. As there is some back and forth Jahi tells us to get the liver from that thing and as Liam does that I go for it's heart. Now I don't know what came over me but as I prayed to my father asking for his help I didn't ask to heal me...I asked him to protect Dr. Lord. Whatever I did worked as Dr. Lords bandmate showed up as did a herd of those wild pigs and together the two took out his enemies. I had a freakshow moment, there were introductions and Dr. Lord healed me and took us all home.
Jahi informed us she is leaving and it breaks my heart. I really liked her and felt close to her. But her father is missing and while I cannot sympathize with her I understand others do have strong ties to their families. I don't know if we will see her again but I pray she finds her dad safe. Dr. Lord made Miyet a nemean before sending them both on their way.
When everyone cleared out I stayed to talk with Dr. Lord. He looked so drained I asked if he was ok to which he replied (and I quote) "I was better when I didn't see you nearly dead," Dr. Lord says, "You said you see me as family, something no one outside my Band has ever done, then you nearly die. I can take a beating, no matter who it's from." I was shocked. I didn't have an answer to that. No one cared the last time I nearly died (except Tez but then he had his own reasons for that.) he told me then that Tez did answer my prayer and I would likely regret it later but to be honest it was worth it. No matter the cost being sure Dr. Lord was safe was worth it. At this point I needed to change the subject before things got too uncomfortable and informed him that even though he wanted me to think more on it, I was sure I wanted to meet my nargual. The idea that there is a part of me I do not know is a little infuriating. So tomorrow he will do the ceremony for me, and told me to bring my friends as it can be educational. I told him to say hi to Catherine for me (his fiance) and was about to leave when he actually called me by my first name...got myself some family it seems.
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