Pain... that is all he could sense...

But even that was just a ghost of perception, in reality all there was to feel was a numb burning from everything below his head and even his head hurt, his eyes would not open and his mouth pulled no breath. He was in hell...

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Bö was taken by the demi-god’s leader, the maker and what looked to be “Bubbles”? towards a car to go home... they kept tell her that Nebel was just doing a job for them and would be back in a few short hours... as if that could be true...

Lucca was numb, sad and just wanted to go home but Bö was barely hanging on and Mitchell had been tazered and stuffed in a trunk to stop her from making a scene...

Lucca didn’t really agree with that but it’s not like she had any power to stop them, instead she woodenly got onto the seat that the demi-gods offered her on the dune buggy they had arrived on and she was driven to the place where the truck had finally stopped by hitting a large tree.

Getting off of the dune buggy, Lucca walks towards the smashed cabin of the truck and the last place Nebel was seen to be.

Walking forwards without looking at her surrounds, Lucca slowly makes her way over until a hand reaches out and grabs her shoulder... looking towards the owner of the hand, Lucca sees him looking at where she was about to step and gasps at the mangled sight of one of Nebel’s hands lying on the ground.

The demi-god smiles to her and says “Don’t worry we’ll patch him up!” to which she only stares in disbelief.

Looking around she sees, lots of demi gods picking stuff up and rearranging the scene of the accident, they were using a crane to pick up the truck and they had a tree scooping truck waiting nearby.

She noticed that some of the demi gods were carrying garbage bags labelled “NEBEL” and they were picking up pieces of him from all over the place, the accident seemed to have ripped him to pieces and it was a few minutes before one of them said “Found him!” and Lucca ran over to see his decapitated head sitting in a some kids sand box...

“Oh Nebel-sama...” she says tears coming out of her eyes but one of the demi gods laughs at her sadness “Come on it’s not like h...” he says trailing off when he sees her look of hatred, scratching the back of his neck the demi god places the head in his bag and grabbing her hand leads her to an ambulance that had just arrived with a demi god as its driver.

Getting into the back of the ambulance with the... bags full of Nebel... Lucca starts crying her eyes out on the way to the laboratories where Nebel’s parents work and she had her operation...

Leading her into the medical wing, the three demi gods that were carrying the shattered, smashed and scattered remains of her lord, show her the way to... one of the custodian cabinets.

Pressing some buttons on a number pad cleverly hidden behind a wooden panel, a full identity scanner reveals itself to them after spinning around and all three of the demi gods place their thumbs on it one by one before looking expectantly at Lucca.

Lucca raises her thumb up from where it was hanging lifelessly and places it onto the reader and a voice over a speaker says “Three Level fours and Visitor Lucca acknowledged.” A door sized panel slides away along with a foot thick stainless steel wall and the four of them walk into the darkness beyond.

“Why’s it so dark?” Lucca asks to which one of the demi gods respondes “Well... windowless rooms tend to be that way before you turn the lights on...”

Flicking a switch beside the secret door, light floods the small room revealing a single medical tank against the wall and one of the demi gods grimaces “Damn it! I hate it when level ones get hurt this badly... it’s always so disgusting...” to which the other two say “Grow a pair” and “Live with it!” respectively.

Moving over to the tank they take off the lid and start dumping Nebel inside, After seeing various bones, shredded organs and his head fall in, Lucca looks away and at one of the demi gods.

Noticing her gaze, the demi god leaves his job to the other two and comes over to Lucca “You’re lucky this happened this week!” He says placing his tanned hand on her shoulder and smiling widely “I was told to inform you and your sister about the news! Hell even Nebel doesn’t know!”

Taking his hand off of her shoulder he gives her a thumbs-up “We got the order to recruit him after he finished the second part of his university project! So the boss stuck him with the Level one shot and the two day incubation period ended! Nebel’s a demi god... well a weak one, scientist level... he can still die but that...”

He points towards the tank “Isn’t enough!” he scratches his head a moment but then nods obviously deciding something “The system only permits this injection when you’ve accomplished something like the creation of an invention or the discovery of something interesting... if we hadn’t been watching that area it might have been a problem but like this it’s fine... come take a look!”

Turning her head with his hand, Lucca sees blood flowing from all over the tank in the direction of his head and Nebel’s eyes and mouth open wide... “Why are his eyes and mouth so wide open?” she asks him to which the demi god winces.

“I was hoping you weren’t going to ask that...” he looks away from her and mutters the next bit and she grabs his shoulder and digs her fingers into a few choice pressure points “AWWWWW!!” He shouts “Alright, alright just please don’t do that... you remind me of boss’ boss...”

The man wipes his hair back and signs “Simply put he’s silently screaming... pain killers don’t really work for that much pain...”

She trembles a bit and looks over at Nebel “How is he even conscious?”

The guy signs again “Girl... he was conscious this whole time... it’s a side effect of being a demi god... the system was supplying him with oxygen and any nutrients it could to keep his brain alive and it also circulated his blood while rerouting it to stop it from leaking out...”

“The system can do that?” Lucca asks puzzled... none of what she had been taught about it, said anything like that... come to think of it, it never even mentioned how it worked at all!

“Well not the civilian version.” The guy replies to her “Only the demi god version can... well and the immortals command version...” the guy twitches and slaps his forehead “Oh yeah I nearly forgot!” he looks her in the eye and says in a most serious tone “If you tell anyone any of this, your brain will explode so keep it quiet alright?”

Lucca swallows and nods to his warning “What about Mitchell?” she inquires

“Don’t worry...” he tells her with a little laugh and a shrug “I just got a text, they’ve dumped her in the bathroom where the records say she showered with Nebel, put a large lump on her head and left a note in her hand saying “Lucca called for a pickup, so I’ll be back in a bit” in Nebel’s hand writing... and of course they destroyed any contradicting evidence!”

“You’ve sure got everything nicely arranged!” Lucca says crossing her arms and giving him a stare.

“The immortal had it down to a science; we’re just doing a cheap imitation.” He says with a wave of his right hand, the other on the back of his head and a smile...

Looking into the tube at the mess that was Nebel a question forms in Lucca’s head and she decides to ask the demi god “Why was he in so many pieces? I mean... a truck would have crushed him not severed him into bits...”

“Oh that...” the guy says flipping his hand to brush it off “The maker came up with a strange idea to make the extremities of a demi god pop off and fly away if they can’t recover on their own... something about making their head escape the greatest amount of damage possible... it kind of does but it sure is messed up isn’t it?”

“Yeah...” Lucca says as they watch the medical tube slowly piece him back together.

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A few hours later back in Nebel’s house, Nebel had been brought home along with Lucca and Bö was already there...

For some reason the maker actually told her what had happened and ever since she had been singing a song over and over...

“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall!” Bö sings while half laughing “Humpty Dumpty had a great fall! All the king’s horses and all the kings men, couldn’t put humpty back together again!”

She had been at this for a while and Nebel didn’t seem to mind, even if he was barely conscious.

His body was pretty much fine, or at least that’s what three doctors said after giving him a check up, but he was exhausted and he was going to be forced by Lucca into going straight to bed... hell anyone would be exhausted after screaming for nearly an hour... even if it was only mentally...

Along with his newly cleaned bill of health, the demi gods gave Nebel a pamphlet entitled “So you’ve become a demi god!”, a pamphlet to Lucca titled “So your family member has been recruited!”, a lolly pop to Bö and a slip of paper that read “Watch the news”

So before going to sleep between the two girls who had been moved by the demi gods over to Nebel’s room for some reason... damn perverts... Nebel, Bö, Mitchell and Lucca sit down and turn on their computer to get a live stream of the news.

After a few minutes of celebrities, an update on the lunar city and dogs wearing sweaters... they got to see an aerial view of the area were they had just been... Mitchell was just staring into space with a wide smile and drool coming out of one corner of it... so Nebel decided she wouldn’t even notice...

“Roughly an hour ago, this spot was affected by an attack originating from the minus sector...” the reporter said while on one side of the screen. “While the attackers are unknown, the truck has been found, thanks to the evidence of skid marks, to have come rushing out of the minus sector with its steering lock and a brick on the accelerator.”

Turning the ground camera to follow the skid marks, the reporter keeps on talking in the background “The truck was filled with explosives and was actually aimed to pass along the road all the way into the shopping district where it would then explode before anyone would be able to stop it.”

The camera focuses on a group of demi gods pulling explosives out of the truck “Luckily the old pavement of this road wasn’t as flat as the terrorists thought and instead the truck crashed into this tree soon after having crossed the border... once totalled, the demi gods were able to catch up to it before it exploded and were able to quickly disable it. There were no injuries or fatalities. Thank you!”

The news returned to mostly puff pieces and Nebel, with the help of Lucca walks into his room and fully clothed lays down, between the naked Stephanie and Andrea, and goes to sleep.

well here it is... i only put a single scene for shadowing this out come but i wonder how many people expected it...

ehh... all the version of nebel in that tube floating around in my fairly active imagination might give me nightmares...

hope everyone likes it! And yes the idea is there isn't even brain damage... just horrible horrible trauma!

thanks for reading!