A heroes purpose [Shio,Steiner]

"How does it look, doctor?", Steiner said as he sat in front of a physician on the bleeding edge of medical science. Steiner, who had been experiencing more, and more pain each and every day since he had saved that kid in the wastelands. That alone was enough for him to want to come visit this particular doctor, who now was busily looking over his test results for whatever was causing him this sort of pain. For a while there was a palpable silence between the young man and the doctor, but after a while the doctor lowered his clipboard and took off his glasses. For a few moments he didn't say anything and Steiner wondered just what was going on, this was a medical professional, and he was told he was at the top of his class. So, why the silence, and why the look of dismay crossing his face? "Mr. Franz, the doctors who you went to before told you to not overdo it. The test results show me that your 'condition' is rapidly progressing and that means you are ignoring the doctors that you went to before.", the doctor said this calmly, but he could tell that the physician was not in a good mood.

"So, are you asking me to stop what I am doing? To just sit down and die slowly instead of do what I can for everyone else? News flash doctor! There is a lot of bad things happening to good people out there and if I can help even one person...well you bet your ass I'm going to do it.", Steiner shouted, clearly upset over the fact that the doctor was so frustrated over what he was doing. Once again silence returned as the two of them sat there staring at one another, it was clear that neither of these men were going to back down from their stances. "You keep doing this, Steiner...you will die. I can't guarantee how much time you will have left if you don't stop, but you could live a few more months if you do.", the doctor said calmly, watching his words to make sure not to offend the young man any more than he had to. Steiner was silent, looking down at the floor, and trying to collect his thoughts as to what was going on in his life. Months, he had months if he stopped, and to him that meant that he was resigning himself to failure before he had even tried to succeed. He clenched his fists and bit his lip, all he had ever wanted to do was the right thing, and now because of that he was going to die.

Was he ready for death? "Look, I know it is hard to accept that you are going to die, but no one has any answers to what is plaguing you. We've never seen something like this before and what is worse is it is only going to get worse as time goes on. As many doctors have stated....its a miracle that you are alive at all." the doctor continued calmly, but to Steiner the words were just mute. He didn't want to die, he wanted to continue to help people as much as he could, and if he died who knows what would happen to him. Just as Steiner was about to say something, air horns went off in the distance, causing both the doctor, and the young hero to turn their attention to outside of the hospital window. Steiner's eyes went wide as he saw a giant hollow just lumbering about, so close to innocent people, and they were almost blissfully unaware. A young nurse ran in and began to shout at the doctor. "We need to evacuate the hospital, that thing is....getting close!", she shouted as she ran out of the room to warn the other rooms on the floor. The doctor turned back around to find himself alone in the room, the window open with drapes fluttering in the wind. The doctor scowled, before getting up, and exiting the room.

It didn't make Steiner feel good to have bolted on the doctor, especially after he had been told to call it quits on all of this or to meet his end sooner, but Steiner couldn't help it. Heroics was hardwired into him and in the face of a rather large Hollow such as this one, people's lives were in danger. People who didn't have a rapidly approaching expiration date. So, Steiner kept jumping from roof-top to roof-top, putting his agility and athleticism to good use as he found himself nearing a location where he could dip down into the streets below. Once he had descended a flight of stair on a roof top somewhere, Steiner found himself in the streets, and he also found the chaos of people trying to evacuate. Children screaming, innocent people running around with no place to go, and that is when he caught sight of her. A brave young lady jumping up a step of platforms that she herself had created, Steiner didn't have time to worry about that, and instead had to assess the situation with a calm mind.

That is what he would have done if not for the young child now standing straight in front of the Hollow barreling toward the young lady. Steiner gritted his teeth and without a second thought blew through the street, dashing through, and grabbing the child in swift motion. The hollow, who was preoccupied with the young lady who was getting distance from him, didn't even seem to notice Steiner, and that was a good thing as he doubted he could put a dent into it even he tried. After all, as of that moment Steiner was unarmed. After telling the kid to go find his parents in the opposite direction of the conflict, Steiner turned his attention to find something suitable to take on a creature such as this. "Something sharp...", Steiner whispered under his breath as he looked around for something that would suit his needs. To his right a store selling arms caught his attention. No one was inside and though Steiner felt bad about it, he needed something to fight with, and without hesitation busted the door open to the store to get inside.

Searching around he would come across a pretty decent looking sword, it was almost reminiscent to the sword he had before, you know before it was shattered. He gave it a practice swing and then rushed back out the door, but not before leaving what little cash he had left to his name on the front desk to pay for the damages and the blade. It probably wouldn't cover it, but it would at least help. So there he was, armed with a sword, no powers, and just his skills to help him, staring down a massive hollow that probably would kill him before he could even do any damage. "Wasn't going to live forever anyway...", Steiner said darkly before charging out of the alley he had been hiding in to begin his attack on the monstrosity. Only to receive, for his heroics, a quick dismal by a back tendril.

Steiner skidded across the pavement, scraping skin, and hurting himself as he did so. He still clutched on to the sword and got up rather quickly to see more tendrils coming at him. Steiner used his speed and skill with the blade to cut and slash his way through the assault, but still he was drawing too much unnecessary attention to himself. One of the Hollow's eyes turned to look at him and Steiner froze in place. "Not good...", he said as he readied himself for whatever was about to happen.