﹁ᵗʰᵉ ʳᵃᵛᵉⁿ - Ben Hargreeves﹂ ✔

thirty seven

ARIYA WAS woken from her slumber where she was bleeding out cause of the wave surge made by Viktor and Lila.

Ariya tried to make noise so that they would find her.

All she could do was grunt.

Thankfully they heard her.

"Did you hear that?" Lila asked as they walked towards her.

What Viktor and Lila found was heartbreaking.

Especially for Viktor.

They found Ariya, whose eyes were barely open, with a slashed stomach and a chopped off leg.

"We... we ha-" Viktor started, but Lila didn't waste anytime.

She quickly made her way towards Ariya and picked her up bridal style cause she is hella strong. (lol)

and made their way towards the lobby.

Ben, Allison, Five, Diego and Klaus were already there.

"Klaus?"

"Oh my God, Klaus. Are you okay?" Allison asked.

"We thought you died." Five patted Klaus' back.

"If only. Hey. You look like hell." Klaus told them.

"Why don't you try killing a guardian?" Five said.

"We just did." Viktor told them.

"So did we." Ben answered as he looked for Ariya.

"Where's Ari?" he asked.

"Here." Lila said as she brought a barely conscious Ariya back.

Ben ran towards her and grabbed her from Lila and gently placed her on the ground.

"What happened?" Ben shouted.

"Guardian." Lila answered and spotted Diego and ran towards him.

Lila slapped Diego and conveyed her "I love you." to him.

"Ari?" he slowly shook the girl.

Ariya's eyes were fluttering, "Ben." she mumbled.

Everyone was shocked, and felt horrible.

Allison had it the hardest.

It was hard for her to watch Riya die in her arms, she didn't know what she would do if it happened for a second time.

"Does it hurt?" Allison asked and Riya nodded.

"Take it away please." she begged.

"I heard a rumour that it doesn't hurt anymore."

The scene played in Allison's head over and over again.

And again, this time... she couldn't help but blame herself.

"Stay with me." Ben told his wife as he tried to stop the bleeding from her stomach.

"Wher- where's my leg?" she cried, "wha- what do I do? I ca- can't" she rambled, her brain not processing anything.

She was bleeding out.

But she would survive thanks to her accelerated healing.

Ben held her in his arms as he stroked her hair, "It'll be fine. I'm right here. I'm always here."

Ben looked down at her sweatshirt which one covered crimson and her legs... well the lack of it.

"You guys need to know, Dad killed Luther, and he locked me out of the tunnel, and he rang that stupid bell!"