( thx ) He sighed and pulled out a metal object from the pocket in his jeans, He began to lockpick her door. " you haven't eaten in day's I'm coming inside whether you like it or not- " Zian said while looking down, continuing to lockpick the regular lock of any other home. ( ones you can do with paper clips lol )

He successfully opened the door as the familiar scent hit him in the face, the bitter smell of blood.. " Swift..? " staring at his friend who was wedged into the corner of the room.

He slowly walked over to her making sure his movements were slowly and his aura was calm to not startle Swift in her obviously ' not okay ' state, keeping his eyes of her's.

When he got closer to her, he kneeled trying to seem less.. intimidating? " Its alright you can talk to me. "

He stayed still for a little bit when hearing the growl, he sat down about 3 feet away from her back against the wall.

Somehow he managed to not flinch at the sudden threat, but then again he was used to dealing with situations like these. he scooted a little nearer watching for a reaction to measure the problem.

He started up at her eyes, confirming the seriousness that he was hoping to measure without provoking her, but well surely that did not work. " what the hec Swift, what's wrong with you. " making sure not to raise his voice. (( he like well..crap, that didnt go as planned. ))

He blinked, before his eyes started to produce light. " Swift! " He grabbed her paw but just to prevent himself from being harmed and not intended to hurt his friend.

" hey.. calm down.. your okay I wot hurt you " he loosened his grip on her paw feeling her body shake.

He lifted his head off the floor, sitting back down to look at swift who was now as far away as she could get from him. He frowned trying to weigh his decisions.

" Swift, what happened..? " He looked at her not blaming her for anything nor scared of his friend's actions.

" who? " Zian said looking around the room confusedly. He senses a presence but couldn't Identify it.

" Death, who the he- " he felt that presence suddenly grow slightly stronger. spirit, Demon, Ghost.. what was this being..?

" h-hey shhh. " he headed over to he comforting her and glaring at empty space.

*her

Its alright just focus on my eyes, His eyes glowed as he waited for her to look up at him so he could hopefully transfer a wave of calm through eye contact. And also his ability to share emotions.

" shhhh, you have to try to fight this being, If you afraid you will lose this fight so you need to take a breath. " he began to rub circles on her back trying to untense her body.

your*

" you can win it back, You can still resist complete possession " Red wisps of magic came from where he was rubbing her back, making his demonic presence more powerful almost as if threatening the Being who had been torturing his friend all this time.

( Wooo ) He moved up to squeeze her shoulder confused of whether she had lost control or still there. The air was tainted with the smell of blood and the black liquid which was now coming out of his friend. He didn't care if the Being hurt him in the process but he was had a set focus on saving his friend.

* forget the word 'was' in the last sentence XD *

" Swift?? " he looked down seeing her appearance, before removing his hand which had left a glowing red spot on her shoulder.

" cmon Swift... I know you can keep it in "

as he inched away from his half possessed friend. *

He hissed at what the being said, keeping his eyes trained on Death/Swift. Before large amounts of black matter spread around the room, demonstrating his anger.

He laughed at that as red chains leapt out of the darkness he had released restraining the arms of Death. He growled and clenched his jaw " I don't care about what happens to me. "

He hesitated as that action had prevented but closely killed his friend, his brows furrowed in thought. (( gotta leave soon, we can continue later ))

He whimpered and hurried over to his friend. ( leaving in like 10 minutes- )

He never tried healing with his magic, but he knew he had to try. The palms of his hands glowed again as he also touched her hands which were wrapped around her neck sending little pulses of hopefully healing energy. he supported his friend from staggering. ( leaving now

Im back :D. ))

He watched as the wound slowly closed up, and hopped it wasn't to late. Lifting Swift off the floor and onto a bed pulling a blanket over her and just waiting hopefully.

(( also hes prob asleep honestly, because of the amount of magic and control he used ))

( ima just do a little cut into when he fell asleep when she was just about to wake up lol ) He closely his eye's tiredly it was 3:00 in the morning since he had walked in at late time, It was even later now. His thoughts slowly lulled him to sleep even though his brain argued against it.

He voice woke him up with a shake, sitting up quicker than he wanted before groaning at grogy feeling when he ever over stood his borders in magic use. He quickly thought a short explanation and maybe more detail after he was more conscious. " Death tried to kill me and you and almost succeeded " before slumping back into the chair.

( also I might go to bed soon anyways got highschool to deal with now besides its almost 11:00. )

( we can continue, im available for a little in the morning and then a little from 1:00+ but I might have a diff timezone than you. )

So if you ever wanna know my time zone is Eastern Daylight Time..

" yehhhh... " he said tiredly " so anyway how do you feel after all that? "

(( also Gm to you 2 lel ))

( ye, besides my cat meowing at the top of her lungs all night XD ) " you, uhh need anything like painkillers or something to eat? " he said ready to get anything to ease his friends pain or state.

" alright.. you sure? " he murmured just loud enough for her to hear. " Is Death still inside you? " He carefully picked up the Topic, afraid of what would happen to his friend if this went any farther then it had already gone. (( I have two cats one meows during the day another at night Lol))

(( I write alot so I love typing :> )) He frowned at her silence, before getting out of the chair to at least get her some water for her cough. A wave of dizziness went over him but he quickly pushed it down " I'll be back in a few " and began to walk out her room door.

He came back with the water and took her arm over his shoulder lifting her back onto the mattress " rest. " handing her a water bottle. He didn't know exactly what to do with the blood, was she starving and maybe that was why she was coughing blood or was it the being?

(( he is so bland rn- ))

He hissed at hearing her hunger confirming his thoughts. " stay. " before walking out again to cook her something ( He a mom now, also what do you want him to make :P )

He came back in with a bowl of noodles and handed it to he with a fork, before sitting down again.

HER*

" ya, sure? from the sound of it that's a lie " he laughed trying to brighten up the mood, " If your not gonna eat it just set it down on the night stand "

He sighed loudly walking away from her to sit down again on the metal fold up chair, trying to keep himself awake.

He just stared at her trying not to bring out Death again, because Of last night VERY close call.

nights* (( sorry about the long periods of no answers XD ))

He continues to observe Swift while internally smacking himself in the face every time his eyelids threatened to close.

(( sleepy head :P ))

He grumbled stubbornly, Keeping his concerned gaze on her.

(( lel ))

He paused " Fine, just promise to wake me up if there's a problem. " He closed his eyes finally eyebrows furrowed.

( gonna be offline for a bit )

( Im back TmT, Oml I hate school so much xD ))

Uhhh I guess continue with your POV because Zian Is well A s l e e p XD ))

(( he's totally not a light sleeper and heard that )) Zian's supposedly sleeping figure shifted and his eyebrows furrowed farther then what they already were.

His senses were alot slower than usual so he dismissed the small noise falling back asleep. ( :P, also Im expecting my internet to cut off soon -look at recent post to know why lol- )

He practically tripped out of the chair when waking up again with a jolt, he shook his head looking around for Swift. (( hah, nightmares UwU ))

(( backkk, from dinner :P )) He opened the door and saw that the bathroom light was still on, and then knocked on the door ounce or twice.

(( eeee its ok )) He knocked again, not wanting to intrude on her, because of well... ITS A BATHROOM / XD / If she was asleep, he needed to wake her somehow.

(( and doesnt she still have her shirt off? ))

(( aight xD )) He groaned " you alright in there? "

(( did u mean Razor? ))

(( hey, Im pretty sure everyone does )) He picked up a small clink noise of metal hitting the floor, his eyes widened This time instead of lock picking he just threw his body at the door multiple times which broke the weak lock a caused the door to swing open almost falling off its hinges.

(( he's thinking she attempted suicide so hes basically having a mix of mood swings and a panic attack ;-; ))

His entire body untensed when he saw her alive and awake. He turned around and walked back out from where he came from holding his head and shaking. (( prob like hugely relieved but still trying to put off the sudden change in emotion ))

He headed back into the room before leaning on the wall and sliding down the wall to the floor.

(( he like totally done with his over-reactive stress lel ))

(( ah, forgot to add that but prob because his vision was blurring from the panic attack / yeah ima just put it at that / ))

his eyes slowly settled on her beaten body, how had he not noticed earlier?.

" yeah, Immm fine.. " he extended the m's for some unknown reason.

" honestly you shouldn't be worrying about me at the moment.. " before reaching up to touch a recent looking wound on the outer side of Swift's arm which would've been hidden by her sweater.

" Oh, Sorry I didn't mean to startle you but do you need anything for those? " seemingly over his semi breakdown.

He got up and brought her into a hug hopping to not freak her out during this action since its kinda strange to randomly hug something especially for him.

He hummed trying to make her calm but he couldn't really do much because, well he was no therapist.

he hissed, but continued to hug her trying to not tighten the hug from the sudden pain.

" ey, no its fine.. it didnt hurt much. " trying his best to somehow help Swift.

He just sighed for probably the fifth time that day, kneeling down to sit next to her.

" ??? " He was confused by her words.

His face darkened with anger, he never knew anything about Swifts parents. but if Swifts father had left her, her father most definitely didn't deserve her. But he never really had any parents so.. He didn't know what I was like to love someone in that parental position.

His anger instantly smothered by sadness not knowing what to feel anymore, he just continued to listen to her mumbling.

" is- is she still alive? " He tried to harness the urge to just run out trying to find this woman who he not dare call Swifts mother. because from what he knew, mothers did not normally hurt their children.

If you dont wanna stay here you can come to my apartment for safety..." not knowing how recent these events were and if they were still going on.

Any way, he also needed to patch up his shoulder which were staring to bleed alot more then before.

shoulders* (( dam im full of typos today ))

(( hah just noticed another one as well *STARTING* )) " he walked to the door waiting for her to follow " -time skip to Zian's apartment?-

pretend that "" doesnt exist XD ))

He set down the apartment keys before leaving her to explore and also to put some gauze on his back.

he took off the spiked shirt setting it down to starting cleaning the clawing marks, not wanting to get an infection and be moody for another 3 days.

(( oml that makes me so sad for this character :< )) MEANWHILE Zian had successfully wrapped his back in gauze, quickly slipping into his room which was right across from the bathroom where he just was, he pulled out a new shirt which was just plain black and didn't completely cover the gauze but he was fine with that.

(( AFK ))

(( bac ))

He walked back out the room finding Swift asleep on one of his chairs, He laughed softly picking her up gently, not waking her he laid her out on a couch and put a blanket over-top of her. And headed into his bedroom to sleep as well. (( of course sweeping ounce or twice through his text messages before falling asleep ))

(( :> ))

-Is casually asleep with phone in hand- (( Like me! / I tend to fall asleep alot while on my phone at night xD ))

(( being lazy 2 honestly XDD )) He blinked groaning as his alarm went off, tapping the snooze button on his phone he turned to stare at the darkened ceiling above him forgetting about the sore spots on his back, hissing he sat up.

(( yaaas, this Rp is going so good Ima definitely read over it afterwards UwU)) he shifted to letting his legs hang over the side of the bed. Getting up shakily, walking over to the kitchen forgetting he had a guest before remembering when seeing Swift curled up on the couch, He began making a coffee.

He heard he purring and internally laughed deciding to make her a cup of coffee as well and if she didn't want it he could always turn it into iced coffee. He sat down on the other couch across from Swift sipping the hot drink while looking at some medias on his phone. ( :> )

(( hes easily startled XD )) He jumped his phone flying into the air as he grogily caught it before letting out a held in breath before just bursting out in laughter.

I say before alot :P ))

" you don't need to its like 7:00AM, If you wanna continue sleeping i'm fine with that. But if you plan on staying awake I made some coffee if you want it. "

He snorted and put the blanket back ontop of her before walking around to do some chores and replace the bandages on his back.

(( Lol thats me every morning but instead I have to get up XD ))

(( I used to have to get up at 5:15Am every morning for highschool but now that I have homeschool I can get up at 7:00AM instead :> )) He looked over his shoulder watching her sleep purring loudly. " oh my god. " he chuckled before continuing folding some of his laundry.

His brows furrowed when the happy purrs became sad whimpering, he sighed knowing there wasn't much he could do besides wake her up which wasnt a option he wanted to take.

(( k's

He just kinda yeeted his thought process and decided to wake her anyway because the nightmare she was obviously going through was getting worse. going over to her and shaking her.

(( ack Im being forced to sleep nu I may try to sneak it so if I come back online thats why XD ))

(( hey guess what, I snuck it ))

" hey, heyyyyy... you had a nightmare. " he said sitting on the couch and patting his hand next to him almost as like saying /need comfort?.. cause im willing to give you it/ (( awww he wanna help so bad ;-; ))

(( pfft using my screen keyboard because my attachable keyboard is to loud ))

(( ack that sucks )) " yep, just a nightmare. " he said lulling his head over the top cusion of the couch.

(( hey I do that when I get all Adhd xD tap my foot at high speeds )) He picked up the blanket putting it around her shoulders, "also, you haven't eaten thing since I got into your room. " he said having no clue of what else to say.

(( aw poor u ))

"ok." He wasn't going to argue with her seeing as hope its more her choice than his, he got up from the couch and began to head towards his bedroom "if you need anything ill be in here " pointing to the dark room he was walking inside.

hope just shouldn't be in the sentence why. ))

(( also that heccin sucks ))

" aight " the echo of his voice travelled down the hallway easily, the apartment wasn't tiny but was small enough that if you talked loud enough anyone in the living room could here you.

(( oof, and okies ))

Zian had taken off all the gauze thinking he was perfectly fine now, he wondered what Swift was doing, if was good that she was taking a breather. He was a little to clingy when if came to his friends in distress.

(( this is before time skip ))

((drastic change hhh )) He was worried sick it had been 7 hours exactly and still no sign of Swift. A noise of a door closing made him turn to look at who was limping "holy shi-" he ran over the her trying to support her, " what the heck happened to you?!"

"uhm, ok" he let her go and just stood back.

He had a look of pure confuse mixed with concern.

C o n f u s I O n ))

(( big oof )) Not this again he thought, as he looked into the face of Swift, he wasn't going to fight back this time because the last time he had almost lost Swift.

He coughed grabbing hold of her arms which were now around his neck.

(( aight im going to bed we can continue tomorrow ))

He raised his knees and snapped his heavier bodyweight to roll in turn being on-top of her now wedging her arms apart. (( Idk if that made sense lel , also im awake now- ))

( basically he rolled making him ontop on her because he has more weight giving him the ability to do that lel. ))

He wouldn't follow her commends, but just held her down but not to harshly enough to bruise.

Pff ' Commends ' I meant commands srry bout dat-

(( dude but its not stupid if you brain was like Yeah, that's a mistake and filtered it out :> / also you didnt sleep much so brain says Aaaa / He waited a few before getting off her, tracking if she decided to make another sudden attack.

He continued to watch her his eyes glowing / his eyes glow in most fight situations / ( honestly mine does 2 ))

(( awww lemme get a pic on my cat- Her sister is somewhere but I cant find her so have a picture of the one I named ' Nova ' https://ibb.co/MMxfYg3 ))

Didnt he let her go? )) He turned around quickly and started to back away.

(( Ikkk -w- )) He stepped back again, seeing the knife casually just appear in he right hand. / he like' ah **** no ' /

(( OoF )) Zian stared as Swift just kinda collapsed onto the floor, he took a few steps towards her and put her on the couch again. Casually discarding the knife, and sitting on the other side of the couch watching her. (( xD this sounds so casual / my friend tried to stab me, Oh ok let her sleep a little its fine right? TmT / ))

He noticed the change on her arm band and relaxed a little even though it was bed it was still better to move up then down.

(( hah thanks for correcting that xD, I swear my autocorrect hates me ))

He just continued to watch her in silence.

(( srry was making a playlist ))

He just avoided her gaze, trying to recover from the headache he got from well being cut off from his air supply for a certain amount of time. (( HHH ))

(( OOfF, Honestly he has no idea what to do at the moment besides just watch until she got a hold on herself.

(( sounds like a certain dragon character me and my friend have in a book we are writing lel )) " what?. your voice is all glitchy. " He stated sitting on a chair one leg up on his lap.

(( xD just, SHut UpP. )) " aight!, dam " he crossed his arms turning away from her.

He just continues to stay quiet. (( weeeee, silence ))

He turned back to the hallway which Swift had disappeared into, at least this time Swift hadn't got her throat gouged out.

(( srry for not telling U I was AFK XD ))

He fell asleep on the couch. (( idk what else to do but make him fall asleep xD ))

(( uh nuuu ))

(( I just started Gosh darn geometry 1 and.. I wanna die XD ))

(( and honestly idk what else to put down ;-; ))

(( Im ThInKinG A aA )) the clang from the bathroom woke him up, getting up to investigate.

he knocked on the door like before. (( so many repeated actions oof ))

" oh uh, sorry if I scared you " He said hearing the sudden rush of wind and and a small gasp.

" hey, you alright? "

" sure- " he said leaning on the wall near the door.

He looked down at a red droplet on the floor and dismissed it because she was throwing up blood anyway so he would clean it up later.

(( rapid mumbling of math equations continue ))

(( he doesn't know it came from her arm all he saw was a few drops on the floor but hell figure out later though )) He followed her but instead sitting on the couch across from her coffee table between them.

he smelled blood again strangely because he had cleaned up most of the blood from before.

He eyes her arm, almost like he had a good idea of where it was coming from.

eyed*

" lemme see your wrist. " He said firmly.

" It's bleeding isn't it. " narrowing his eyes.

" Sure right... like the smell isnt obvious. " he grumbled

" do you want me to bandage it for you?.. " he said, with some sort of tone in his voice.

" stop lying.. "

" then pull up you sleeve "

YOURRR*

" mhm right.. ' no wound ' " he said going to fetch some alcohol ( good for cleaning wounds ) and smaller bandages then the ones he had used.

he came out after a few loud banging noises, (( because HAH where do you think he keeps the alcohol? )) coming into the room. " so you ok with me treating it..? " he said moving to set the items in his hands onto the table.

He went over and dabbed the cut on he wrist with some cotton and alcohol before putting a piece of cotton cloth on and wrapping it tightly with the bandages.

(( hes just over here like - I ****ing smell blood, his little heccin-

more* -.-

He pointed to her other hand to make sure she wasn't hiding anything else " show me your other wrist. "

" aight " He walked back to but back the items he took.

he came back into the room face blank. " need some time alone? "

He hissed, seeing the blood. He sighed " give me whatever sharp object you have.. and go clean yourself up in the bathroom "

(( Im watching someone raise a giant mantis :> ))

(( mantis are cute )) He took the blade from her hand.

(( and they hunt spotted lantern fly :000 )) " theres an aid kit in the bathroom, because that's going to bleed alot " (( hes acting like a doctor now ))

( ima gonna go somewhere for a little bit )

(( srry Im back now, Was watching fireworks ))

(( oml I am so sorry my family despises electronics and I have to take a shower, I still smell like creek water from almost flipping my kayak twice. ))

He was looking at the blade she had given him, which had most likely came from one of the cabinets in the bathroom.

His eyes were glowing a little, thinking again without notice of it. Turning the blade back in his hand and chucking it into a disposal bin.

He looked up finally noticing her, the glow dissipating.

He shifted his legs a little, trying to ease himself and the random surge of energy that had gone through his body (( that's why his eyes were glowinggg ))

(( O crap my computer needs updated bad XD also its like 12:20AM rn.. Oof ))

" eh, your fine " he said looking back up at her with a assuring smile. (( :000 ))

His smile faded when the and turned a sudden orange. " oh, shit. "

" that lasted not for long.. " he said instantly tensing up.

He got up slowly, paying attention to her band as it rapidly got darker in shade.

His began to glow again, mentally trying to stop that from happening. He continues to slowly back away from Swift.

EYES**

He saw that she was trying her best to control it, but sadly enough doing a bad job at it. ((xD lucky, typo brain filter ))

(( my let brain rn, I wanna get stabbed. My right brain Get your character to somehow calm her down. )) He stood back not wanting to make things worse.

LeFt*

((whoop )) He walked a little bit closer to her, until what she said made him pause. I he was killed in the end at least it would've caused a little relief for his friend (( he cares little about his life but still wants to live but he usually would sacrifice alot for the people he likes or loves \closely\ ))

He tried to reach for the door knowing she might hurt others outside but failed to being so far away from the door. So he ran after her.

Same, Im worrying about sleep hours rn but yet im not tired. ))

He grabbed her shoulder, pulling her back as that someone got up and ran.

Yyeahs ))

He flinched back, before chasing after her and seeing her kill the person who had recently escaped. "Swift!"

(( Its one and to avoid anxiety im going to bed, continue when were both online next? ))

" Swift, stop! " he said pushing her over and pinning her arms and legs with his own.

Gmm )) He said nothing, continuing to hold her down as the other person had gotten up screeching and running down an alley way near them.

" **** " noticing her band he let her go.

(( XD

(( he used the correct word for the situation then! )) He ran after again, Watching her kill another person AgAiN. (( he like GOD DAMMIT ))

(( he gonna have to use his magic again lel )) " SWIFT STOOOP " As he jumped on her using his whole arm to pin her down as red chains of some sort came from the ground clicking to wrists.

He hoped his magic would hold out and hold her in place, he slowly got up.

He hated doing this to her but It was better then her slaughtering everyone nearby.

(( does the taste of blood calm her or something? ))

(( like she a lil vampire xD ))

He lifted his wrist which was the one with a bite already on it. " just do it "

He clenched his jaw, not making a sound.

He relaxed a little when he band level slowly increased in brightness.

" aa.. little better? " He slurred a little.

" you ready to go back? " he went to get up leaning on the ally way's brick walls.

" alright less go " As he began to trace the side of the building, shaking his head now and then.

(( wait she can teleport- )) they appeared in his apartment, his body shaking. (( he's really tired, bc of the magic drain and the blood loss. ))

(( ahhh, srry forgot XD, also yes Poor Zian T-T)) His vision was getting blurry, he guessed from the amount of blood he lost. But he didn't remember losing that much?

He honestly didn't know where he was but he definitely laying down.

His body shook, " yeah, Imm Gud- "

"mhmmm.." closing his eyes halfway.

(( srry for late-ness lol )) He curled his bitten wrist into his chest to hug it, to stop it from bleeding anymore.

" thankss.. " He clumsily wrapped it around his one wrist.

" this isn't your fault you know. " he said finally beginning to see clearly again.

" oh- ok. " He looked a little hurt.

(( hes rlly dazed rn soo idk )) " ok. " he said plainly

(( Ikr ;-; )) His brain suddenly clicked.. / that didn't sound like Swift... /

(( b o n g He just burryed his head into his mattress, still conscious.

(( gettin spicyyy, / I got Chinese food :000 / )) His body finally gave up staying awake and he passed out face down on his mattress (( funny looking position XD ))

(( pfft Ok XD )) A loud groan was heard as the alarm went off again but this time it wasn't his phone, so he reluctantly smashed the alarm clock with his fist. forgetting about the bandage. (( he prob forgot alot XDDD ))

" what, the **** is your problem " he snarled. (( he not in good mood XD ))