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I love u anon. Great Hawk and Alex in one request?? I must be in heaven. you've blessed me i love them both sm they're my favorites
Thanks for participating in my ask event! I don't think I'll get the last two done before next week (busy weekend) but I'll try to at least get one! :) Anyways I love writing abt bad things happening to characters I don't particularly enjoy (Remy) <3
The event's ended by now, but I'll finish the current requests I've gotten!
Synopsis; attack bird
Prompt: Great Hawk & Alex (Wholesome) / CW: GH got an ouchie :(, Remy getting what she fuckin deserves - Alex = GN, GH = female, and GH is a beastperson + bonus F! Remy (only mentioned)
A Phoenix Downed
Alex didn't get visitors at their farm often, and when they did, it usually wasn't a good thing. The only people they liked to see were their business partners and the very rare kind stranger just stopping by for directions. So, when a giant harpy crash landed in the middle of one of their fields, they were hesitant. She was massive, even for a beastperson, and one of her wings was bent at an odd angle that Alex couldn't possibly imagine was natural. They were a bit scared of getting close to her, but their concern won out when they heard her painful cried echo through the air.
"You alright, miss harpy lady?" They frowned as they carefully approached, a hand on their sunhat and a hand on the phone in their pocket. They'd call animal control if they didn't already know what the bastards would do to her, but they wouldn't be capable of fighting off such a huge bird, even if she was already wounded. She looked up at him from where she was splayed on the ground, clearly getting ready to growl or swat at them. "It's okay! I ain't here to hurt ya. Or touch ya at all, really." They kept their distance from her and she seemed to calm down, at least to a manageable degree. She moved to sit up and subsequently winced, though she kept her eyes trained on Alex. She must not be very trusting of other people. Or, at least not humans.
"You gotta be in a lot of pain, right? I know you don't trust me, but I can help ya." Alex gently coaxed, crouching down near her feet. They were terrified of her lashing those talons out at them, but she didn't seem eager to do so either. She didn't move when they rummaged through their pockets and pulled out a bottle, shaking out some pills from inside. They were pain meds that were safe for both them and the various beastpeople on their farm to have, so they just kept some on them at all times for emergencies. And, well, it was probably safe for the harpy to have some too. Wild harpies couldn't be too different from their centaurs or cowgirls, right? "This is will help with the pain. It's stuff ya gotta swallow whole, since it don't taste good." They explained, holding out a couple pills to her and frowning when she glowered at them. With a sigh, they pulled another pill out the bottle and swallowed it in front of her. It was only then that she reached and took the pills from them, swallowing them just like Alex did.
The next few weeks were... interesting, if nothing else. They had let her room in the upper attic of the barn, though the cows weren't all too pleased with the new dangerous roommate that was constantly over their heads. At the very least, she knew how to pay a person back for their kindness. She would hunt down the lurkers hiding in the fields and eat them, letting Alex clear the weed-filled ones many times easier than they could before. She also let them tend to her wounds, and, after a while, began to hang around them more. She would perch on the fence they freshly rebuilt that morning and watch as they tugged at weeds or watered the various plants in their field.
"Great Hawk." She said out of the blue one day, and they paused, confused for a moment. Then it clicked and they smiled at her, tipping their hat. "Alex." They felt accomplished when they witnessed her first smile, and they felt equally bittersweet when she was fully healed and ready to head off to her home again. While they wouldn't call her a friend, per se, she had definitely endeared herself to Alex somehow. She was intelligent and oddly kind, and they thought they finally managed to get past her reserved nature. "Will be back to help." She promised softly, before taking off into the moor.
They didn't see her again until a week later, though they'd heard, and seen, a surprising amount of destruction had gone on at Remy's estate. Barns burnt down, cows and centaurs fleeing in all directions whilst terrified, and fields decimated. Alex was curious how they managed to escape being directly affected by whatever was going on just down the street, but their confusion died when they saw Great Hawk perching on the fence again. "Working on revenge. Dislike the cruel human that tried to kill me." She'd explained when Alex asked if she had any role in it, and they chuckled at her. At least they had a common enemy, right?
Over the next month, Alex watched, and vaguely helped, Great Hawk as she tore the Remy estate apart and brought it to its metaphorical knees. Surely the first hit they'd gotten on her, the one that started this, must have been a fluke, because no matter how many times they shot at her now, they never so much as grazed her flight feathers. Each unrelenting siege left them with half the land and possessions that they did the day prior, and considering Great Hawk attacked them every single night, they were running out of supplies much faster than they could get new ones in. Alex knew they had no right to feel such a way, but they were very proud of her regardless.
When Remy finally admitted defeat and abandoned her once-thriving farmlands, Great Hawk visited Alex again. She moved closer to them than she ever had before, at least without being injured and needing her wounds checked up on, and hugged them tightly. They hugged her back with a light laugh, glad to have such a weight off their shoulders, and even more glad to have made such a companion.
the end '^' words : 977