Catatonic

"Catatonic" is a [SEASON NUMBER] thread written on [IRL DATE].
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"What did you do!?" Storm screeched, making a swipe at Tael, and barely missing the other Night Fury's nose.
Tael backed away, startled. "I just talked to him! I don't know what happened!" He yelped.
"What did you say to make him like this?" Storm demanded, pacing and gesturing to Indigo.
Their leader was placed gently against one of the stone walls, staring into space.
"I don't know! I was just honest with him and at some point he just shut down!" Tael cried, shrinking back.
Storm snarled with frustration and turned to Phantom, gently nudging him. "Indigo, come on, say something! Are you okay? Can you hear us?"
Indigo didn't respond, his stare vacant and spooky as though he wasn't even there. He was breathing fine, could even sit there normally. But he wouldn't respond to anything.
Storm sat down and turned to the rest of the flock, what little they had left. Everyone looked very worried, murmuring among themselves.
"What do we do if he doesn't snap out of it?"
"Is he gonna be okay?" 
"What's happening to him?"
"First we lose so many Furies, now this!" 
Storm lifted his tail for silence. Everyone turned to him, silent and waiting. Tael and Storm were Indigo's most trusted Furies that were still here.
And of course they'd look to Storm, because of the way Tael had been acting.
Storm looked thoughtful, a deep scowl on his face. He looked up at the others.
"Bolt, Nimbus, look after Indigo until he snaps out of it. Until then, we wait for our next orders and continue as usual. Indigo is our friend and our leader. As much as I want to continue our mission, I deem it unwise to move without him. That means no attacking human villages." He snorted. "That means you, Scarface." 
A massive night Fury more scarred than the others growled disappointedly and scraped a furrow in the stone. At Storm's intense gaze he relaxed and huffed softly. "Fine."
Storm nodded and smacked the stone with his tail. "Dismissed."
As the Furies moved off in different directions, Storm walked up to Tael, who hadn't moved.
"You still haven't told me what you said to him." He snapped coldly. "Was it some nonsense about humans? You know how he feels about them. You know what he's been through. Not even I know the full story, and you go and blather on about that stuff? Since when did you go soft to humans, Tael?" 
Tael shrunk miserably. "It was lots of stuff. But mostly humans, yeah." 
"Idiot!" Storm snapped loudly.
Tael stiffened and stood up. "I don't have to defend myself to you! I know Indigo better than you do! He's miserable all the time, but he needs a wake up call! You all do! Since when does genocide have any reasonable justification, no matter what side it's on? I supported you rescuing our kin, but murder like this is horrible and I want to stop it instead of just leaving like the others did!"
Storm was completely flabbergasted, then bared his teeth, pupils thin. The two Furies snarled, snout to snout.
Storm shook his head, disappointed and disgusted, and started to walk away. "You're a traitor to your kind, Tael. Indigo is on our side, he always has been. He's trying to help us. Either you're with us, or against us. Maybe you should leave." With that he slipped around the corner.
Tael shook his head. He wasn't going anywhere. He decided to join Bolt and Nimbus in caring for Indigo.
He'd make this all right. And then maybe Furi wouldn't hate him.
Category:BOTGD 2
Category:Events
Category:Act I
Category:Tael
Category:Storm
Category:Indigo Phantom
Category:Nimbus
Category:Bolt