JP - Five Years Ago - Right up the Nose - VC pt 5

Riley tore through the hive monsters like a madman, hands passing into their bodies and trying to rip them apart as he fought his way to Megan.

Tzeitel stared in horror at what the hive monsters were doing to Megan for a moment before Colt’s words snapped her out of it. “Stop them! Make them stop!” Tzeitel charged at Cain, giving off pheromones.

Cain looked down his nose at Tzeitel. Tzeitel could see that inside his nostrils was coated with that black substance he used whenever Tzeitel had to use her powers around him. He always made a big show of doing that while hinting how she and Frisk were redundant whenever he was around. Nevermind how often there were female patients not wanting to be touched by a male after being assaulted, much less this asshole with the bedside manner of a victim blamer.

“Go away Tzeitel and take your friends with you, you aren’t needed here.” Cain still talked like he expected Tzeitel to care what he was saying and obey him. “We’ll be raising Cody and your sister from now on, your hysteria has almost ruined Cody. If you want to have kids you should just let Colt fuck you, maybe you won’t be hysterical all the time.”

What Cain was saying pissed Tzeitel off, but she noticed bloodstains on Cain’s pants that had her enraged. His hive monsters weren’t the first monsters to hurt Megan today. Tzeitel did not just want Cain to die, she wanted him to suffer. She wanted him to feel like Megan was feeling until he wanted to die. She had a gun but even a gutshot seemed too quick and merciful for him. Tzeitel rubbed her arms, touching her power. “I used to try to be nice to you. After I learned that my power triggered you because of what Esther did. I always avoided using them around you and would warn you before I used them around you when I needed to use my powers. You paid me back by kidnapping my son and mocking me for being angry about it. Fuck you!”

Tzeitel pounced on Cain. Her hands were coated in oil from her arms. Tzeitel still did not entirely understand it, but Frisk had told her that the oil she had collected from Tzeitel’s arms that day had the same effect as her calming pheromones. So the oil must have pheromones in it. Tzeitel hoped she triggered the bastard. She roughly shoved her fingers up Cain’s nose until he screamed nasally and his blood began running down her hands. Her hands became too slick with his blood to keep her hold on his face and he managed to shove her off himself. Tzeitel could see that Cain’s eyes were full of despair, Tzeitel’s attention on Cain kept her from noticing, but he lost his hold on the Hive. He wailed a heart rending wail and crawled, smacking his head repeatedly on the ground. Tzeitel stood up, following him, she kicked him so hard in the nuts he somersaulted. He was not going to die easily.

The hive instantly responded by following what Cain did - the staggered and tumbled, screeching and hissing in pain before hitting their heads on the ground repeatedly. Some did this so hard they broke their skulls and bled out, the strange green oozing out like slime.

Megan could only lie there, her entire body hurting as she watched Tzeitel. Tears kept blurring everything for her, but she silently thanked the other woman for what she’d just done. “It…it hurts…” She choked out, voice raw from screaming. “It hurts…hurts…” Her body shuddered and she mewled in pain. There was far too much blood pooling beneath her from between her legs…

Colt laughed darkly at what Tzeitel did to Cain and walked over to him, pressing a boot clad foot to his neck as his wind kept any pheromones from affecting him. Instead, he aimed it all at Cain - so much so that he would not be able to block them out - they were so focused on the monster. “Keep it up, Tzeitel…Make this bitch choke on his own vomit…”

Cain gave a choking wail as Tzeitel changed pheromones making the still suicidal Cain vomit. He could not stop throwing up, or clawing at his own face, excreting something so toxic from his own pores it burned through his skin. He died trying to scream. Tzeitel spat on him, then spun around to check on her kids and Megan.

Colt gave Tzeitel an appreciative pat on her shoulder, sheathed his sword, and rushed over to Megan. “She needs a medic! Badly!” He yelled, all the blood horrifying him. “It’s gonna be okay, sis…you’re gonna be okay. You hear me?!”

“Oh god…” Tzeitel whispered when she got a better look at the shape Megan was in. She gave off the calming nursing cat pheromones she had used on Megan back when Canestone had hurt her. “How do we get back to the village from here?”

Riley knelt down and gently picked Megan up, memories of the last time this happened back in the woods. "I'm sorry Megan" he whispered feeling as though he failed to protect her again. Standing up with her in his arms he looked to the others. "I'll get her back and then I'll have the others come for you" he said, still recovering from fighting the hive.

Tzeitel scrubbed Cain’s blood and snot from her hands on her shirt which was destined to get burned after this. She swiped some oil from her arm and gently touched Megan’s hair with it. “Get her to Frisk quickly Riley.” Tzeitel urged, then ran over to her son and Ami. She instantly began checking Ami over for injuries. “What did that fucker do? Did he hurt either of you?”

“Swear jar.” Ami said shakily.

Riley nodded before disappearing in an afterimage.

The entire time they spoke, Megan kept fading in and out of consciousness, too shocked and broken to do much else.

Colt walked over to them with Tzeitel and looked around at all the dead, keeping silent.

“He didn’t hurt us,” Cody said and kept Ami held in his arms. He knew she was still a bit out of it and shaky. “He used a lot of that freaky gel on Ami, though. I got all of it off the best I could…I think she’ll be groggy for a bit, but otherwise fine.” His eyes glanced toward his father’s corpse and he went silent. What had happened…he’d have to explain it later.

Tzeitel felt her eyes filling with tears, if her kids had been harmed… she could not take it. She wrapped her arms around Cody and Ami, hugging them tightly. “I love you both so much.” She said, noticing a corpse that was not a hive monster, it was a human, a meta. Orion. She held her kids a little tighter.

“Dad…Dad did something, Tzeitel. I don’t know what, but my power isn’t aging me anymore…” Cody admitted. “Cain, he…he made me heal Megan every time they…” He couldn’t say it or he’d vomit.

Tzeitel looked at her kids and hugged them again. She did not know if she wanted to know exactly what Cain forced Cody to heal, but she knew she did not want Ami hearing this. She tousled Cody’s hair. “We can talk about it later… let’s try to get out of here.”

Cody nodded and looked at Colt, who gestured to the portal that was still miraculously there. “Lets get back before that closes up forever.” The wind user said.

Tzeitel glanced from Orion's body to the portal. It didn't feel right to leave him behind but she did not know how long the portal would stay open. She hurried Cody and Ami through.

Colt followed close behind, using his wind to pull Orion along with them.