Ouch. [Open; dated to after the second open KAIN post]

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

A silvery-white fog shot down from the City's sky to land in the midst of a street, where it reformed into the figure of one Remus Lupin. His first act upon Apparating was to cry out in pain and collapse as his broken leg buckled beneath him. His second act, which came some time later, was to marvel that he had not splinched himself in the course of his escape.

He could only hope that he had bought the other people on the ship enough time to mount an attack that had some hope of stopping KAIN. He had known from the beginning that he did not have enough magical might to repel the being... he would feel rather foolish if all he had done was get himself injured to no cause.

Rolling onto his back with a groan, he thrust his wand skyward and shot from it a cascade of sparks high into the air, in the hopes that someone might come to investigate, and perhaps render some aid.

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[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Karis, of course, spent most of her time in the city. The rather bright and garish burst of sparks a few blocks over piqued her curiosity and she meandered over. She turned the corner and paused as she caught sight of Remus sprawled on the ground. After a moment of consideration, she walked over to look him over, leaning on the haft of her halberd.

"What the Hell happened to you?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

Inferi! Of all the luck!

Lupin shifted to bring his wand to bear on the animated body, jostled his leg, and nearly dropped the wand out of pain. That was perhaps fortunate; it gave him time to realize that Inferi, as a rule, generally did not move with that sort of coordination, restrain themselves from attacking, wield weapons, or speak. As nightmarish as this sight was to a veteran of the war, he had no choice but to conclude this was yet another of the crew members.

He was never going to get used to all of this.

"A... being, threatening to kill a child on the ship," he said. "I did what I could to slow him down, but his strength was rather alarming."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Sounds rough," Karis replied dryly. She'd noticed the attempt to try and put the wand at him, but he didn't seem like he was about to blow her head off with it or set her on fire. She'd leave it be. For now.

"You hurt?"

Yeah, sucks for the kid, but she's not risking her unlife for them.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"I'm fairly certain my leg is broken," Lupin said, as wryly as could be expected through the pain. "I begin to regret never studying much in the way of healing."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

Right. She'd forgotten how troublesome the whole broken limb thing could be. Well, not really. A broken limb still sucked. Wasn't as painful, though. Fortunately (maybe), she does know some first aid.

"I can take a look at it, but I'm not a doctor."

She doesn't care all that much either. "You just want to get to medbay, yeah?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"Anywhere I might be fortunate enough to find a healer," he said. Then, a bit chagrined, he added, "Or whatever the ship has that serves as such, I'm afraid I don't know."

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"I know first aid, but that's not gonna help your leg much. And the medbay is a level or two up, I think."

She was being rather sedate about the whole affair, really.

"Too much to hope that you can walk, right?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

He certainly expected no panicking or worry on his behalf.

"Well. Let me see." He tapped his leg gingerly with his wand. "Ferula." Bandages immediately sprang up to wrap themselves around his leg, binding it quite tightly to a splint.

"A poor solution, but a necessary one," he said philosophically. "Shall we see if I can stand any weight?"

Herp, sorry.

[teethofneedles.livejournal.com]

"Might as well."

Karis extended a bony hand. Fortunately for any sensibilities that Remus might have, it's (mostly) covered in leather and plate. "C'mere, old timer."

[stormfall-aqua.livejournal.com]

Since returning from the battle, Aqua had begun searching for anyone else who might have faced KAIN. What had happened to Negi and Ronnae was enough to make her worry about others' conditions.

The sparks caught her attention, and she flew her glider over, searching for whoever had set them off.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

It must be admitted that whatever form of help he anticipated (and on this ship, such forms could be varied indeed!), Lupin did not anticipate it from the sky. So he was easy enough to spot, sitting there in the middle of the street, but he had not looked up after firing the wand sparks.

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

(Sorry if I end up slower to tag. Caught a cold)

Aqua saw Lupin quickly and swooped down, dropping to the ground on her feet while transforming her glider back into Keyblade form.

"Are you hurt?" she asked, already giving him a once over. The way he had his leg didn't look good to her.

Slow tags never bother me.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

Please forgive him for the way he starts upon her descent. For a brief moment he feared KAIN had followed him, and he doubted his own ability to Disapparate under these conditions a second time.

However, the person who had appeared was most certainly not his foe. His wand, briefly raised in defiance, now dropped back to his side as he breathed raggedly out. He wore that sort of ragged grey cast to his skin with odd familiarity. It looked somehow natural.

"A broken leg, I'm afraid," he said with a rough attempt at good humor. "I was fortunate."

Re: Slow tags never bother me.

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

Aqua held up her hands (though still holding her Keyblade) to show she was no threat, and when she saw him drop his wand, she lowered her arms to her sides and approached.

"Let me see," she said, noticing the pained pallor of his face. "How used to you to magical healing? Any resistance?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

Aqua needn't worry; she was not KAIN, and so Lupin had no concerns about her hostility.

"Before I woke on this ship," he said with an effort at good humor, "I had never stopped to consider any other sort of healing."

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

(Massive storms over the past two days. Internet got knocked out)

Aqua found it in her to smile, despite the grim circumstances.

"That's a relief, then," she said, holding her Keyblade over his leg. "I'm going to try a mild healing spell. I don't want to try anything stronger if we've got doctors who do a better job than I can."

Cure alone would be enough to at least set the bone properly and begin the mending process. The rest would be left to the professionals. Green light came from the Keyblade, moving over Lupin's leg.

Yuck. Also, why do I always botch the HTML on this one spell?

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

He let out a slight gasp as the magic went to work, but it was from relief from pain rather than an increase.

"Madame Pomfrey could not have done it better," he said, cautiously turning the leg. "But best not to take chances."

Muttering "Ferulo," he tapped his leg with his wand, causing bandages to bind it tightly to a splint.

[sniping-meister.livejournal.com]

Sparks? That was odd.

"Haro," Lockon ordered softly. Obediently, the little orange robot glided over to Lockon's shoulder as they walked a little more cautiously towards the site.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

Lupin had shut his eyes, leaning back to take all the pressure off his leg that he possibly could. At the sound of someone approaching, he cracked one eye open to look that direction, quite hoping it was help.

[sniping-meister.livejournal.com]

"Who's there?" Lockon called, pausing briefly.

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

That question earned a dry chuckle. "That would be Professor Remus Lupin," he said to the sky, but loudly enough to be heard. "And since you are clearly not the person that injured me, I wonder if you might be so kind as to alert a Healer of some fashion for me."

[sniping-meister.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Lockon replied easily as he approached. "Haro, go find someone to help, okay?"

Haro flapped his ears twice and then drifted off the way they'd come.

"Everything going to be all right until then?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"It isn't the worst I've felt but I don't think I'd recommend it," he said, lowering his back to the ground once again.

[sniping-meister.livejournal.com]

Lockon crouched nearby, holding up a small pocket light. "What happened?"

[myboggartismoon.livejournal.com]

"I made an effort to delay a rather nasty creature who apparently wishes to take the life of a young girl aboard the ship. It fought back." Lupin was aware that he'd been fortunate, but he also knew he could not have failed to interfere and lived with himself.