The clinic is a small dingy building cobbled together by the nearby garbage. There's a hastily-sprayed sign nailed to the front of it proclaiming, "No monster zone pickups." Below the sign at the door, which is a simple, spray painted red cross.

Inside, the building is again, dirty and looking like it was pounded together scrap metal.. which it is. There's only the front reception, which takes a handful of people at a time. The front desk is a nicked and stained old desk. Perhaps once nice, but now nothing you'd put in a study. On the desk is an old pen and a clipboard.

There's really only a few other rooms. The door on the left wall near the desk leads to the emergency room. Here, there's an attached, open garage type area where one badly dented ambulance rests. It's not much larger than most of the street vehicles get, only room for 3 people. the driver, one patient, and an paramedic. It's loaded with the cleanest equipment the hospital could find.

The only other rooms are a single operating room, directly connected to the ambulance mechanic area, and a few exam rooms. None are greatly equipped, though. All the equipment seems either old, or greatly reused.

Zane leads the newly expanded party into the clinic, still not slowing down, despite that his arms are now very tired. He didn't even have to call for service before they had a clutch of nurses around them. This must be pretty commonplace..

One steps forward and tells another to go get a doctor. After that, she turns to him
"Set him down, I'll take it from here.. What's the injury?"

Zane sets his half down, and pants for breath before responsing. "Uhh. Poison I think.. He met one of those wolfscorpionthingies.." He says. The nurse looks a bit surprised.

"This is a very advanced case.. I'll need an antidote.." She looks around at the three still-conscious party members.

Ravik sets his end down, and purposely avoids looking at any of the nurses. This whole place just drives him crazy. The smell, the white coats, everything reminds him of... something. What, though? Ack, if I think about that too long I really will crack. I'll just take a step outside...

Without a word to anyone, Ravik turns around and walks out the door, then leans on the wall outside. He'll stick around for when people come back out, but he's not ready to stay in there, not for the world.

Kiwi comes in, bumping against Ravik on his way. He looked up at the guy. This guy was different than the others. He was just as cool looking, but there was something scary about him. Something that said 'stay away or you'll be caught in trouble'. But he soon disregarded that as was weird thoughts. For now, the kid needed to save that one guy who saved him.. Last time! From the scorpianwolf cyborg things!

So he runs in, looks from Zane, to the nurse, to the savior on the ground, back to the nurse, and hands her his newly found antidote.

Of course, during all this time someone should've noticed the wound on his chest and his bloody, cut up shirt.

The first nurse gratefully takes the bottle, despite that it's her job anyway, and carefully tips Laith's head back and slowly pours the solution down his throat. It would deal with the poison in his blood stream, IF it wasn't too late yet.

A second one returns to report that someone was on their way. She turns and notes the second newcomer and his large gashes. She pulls Zane aside for a moment and takes a look at him, noting that he only has the one bruise. For dragging in two casualties, he was in pretty good shape.

"We're going to clear the lobby, but I think it might be best if you come with..." She turns to Kiwi, still lacking names. They'll definitely recording all three of our names at some point, Zane thought as he nodded, following the nurse and the kid. The nurse takes a small piece of clean gauze and presses it evenly on the larger of the gashes.

Kiwi felt so happy. For the second time today he's actually helped someone! He HAS to get to know his savior. To at least get an autograph.

But there was still worry about Laith. "He'll be ok, right?" he muttered quietly while they take the man off. Course, by now the nurse checked Kiwi out. "ano..." and told him to come in back with her (after she checked out the scars), "EH!?"

Being just like any kid, Kiwi was not expecting to be pulled into the backroom of a clinic anytime soon. Places with white coats and doctors were scary! And yeah, he did put up a little bit of a fight. But it was futile. Kiwi was dragged in a back room, had his shirt removed, and had that gause pressed on his gashes.

The gashes, thankfully, were not life threatening. The critter that attacked the kid just seemed to press the claws down with the 4 deep punctures, then lightly dragged the paw down his chest when taking it off again. Sure was bloody, though. And his shirt was ruined!

Not only his shirt, but his Wutaiian ninja-suit! Ho shit, what was Kiwi going to tell his mother?

"GAH!" Was his next thought, which he said aloud, when the gause was pressed more strongly against the wound.

Laith emerged from his deep dreams to see that he was in a hospital room, hooked up to 2 IV's. One was a detoxifying IV, and the other a regular IV to keep him hydrated. Laith was in a drugged stupor as well. Seems as if they doped him up with valium or vicadin. The room was bright, almost completely white, with a sink and a bathroom. Feeling his side, he noticed that he was opened up from his left side of his stomach, to more than likely pump out the poison from his body. After finally regaining his eye focus, he mutters some words.

" Whe....where....am I? Who....brought me here? Ohhhhhh, man I feel like crap...."

Laith's mind was scrambled, his thoughts scattered everywhere, and he could not piece them together.

" What....happened to me? "

The nurse that took Kiwi in a room to be treated leads the child by his hand away from Zane. He shrugs and turns to the unconscious, unnamed fighter and notices that he seems to be stabilizing slightly. He drifts over to a seat and takes it, being the only person with the party to have been unharmed. He sighs and lets them take care of the other two. He wonders a little where the other stretcher holder took off to idly as he waits.

Kiwi's nurse leads him into the boxy exam room and quickly removes his ninja suit, much to his dismay and sets it aside. It has a couple of bloody slashes through, and is likely quite ruined without any sort of repair. Despite his fighting, she just continues to work on the claw marks. She first disinfects the wounds with alcohol. They're not too deep, but it still stings quite badly. Once done with that, she puts a handful of fresh gauze on the wounds and tapes them down with medical tape. To this end, it appears that stitches would be unnecessary.

Meanwhile, Laith's lightly breathing, but unconscious form is taken to another exam table, and the nurse takes a blood sample. After a moment, they figure out how badly he was poisoned and set an IV drip of a secondary, and slightly more powerful anti-toxin to complete his recovery.

Zane, while waiting, wiggles a bit nervously. He wonders how much this is going to cost..

Sounds can be heard from the waiting from via Kiwi's general area. Stuff like, "GWAAAA!!!" and, "AHHH!!" and, "ACK!" and. "Noooo!!!" ... Along with many worded stuff such as, "Not the ninja suit!" and, "My wounds are fine!" along with, "What are you going to do with that needle!?!?!?!"

Definately a loud and active time over there.

Now as far as what's going on inside the room, it can easily be breifed. Kiwi the kid is being the most squeemish little bastard the clinic has yet to face, specially since they don't give booster shots down in the slums and are only use to treating adult injuries. Being that his ninjasuit was in 2 peices (that were currently on the floor a ways away, leaving the kid without weapons and in his underware), he was Just as paranoid as everything around him. It was only unlucky for him that the sadistic evil, Huge nurse of Sadation was taking care of him. Her strong hands easily pinned him down as he was brushed up with alcohal...

Of course, it was the alcohal he gave most of the noise about.

Once he was bandaged the Nurse went off talking about needles to give the kid anti inflamitory shots (you can guess where those would be injected). It was during this time that Kiwi rushed to get his things back on. Or, well, at least the pants and boots. He looked at his ninja undershirt with a very upset look and, with a sigh, took it under his arm (along with the Midgar shirt).

He passed out of the doorway slowly, looking down a short hall as a big evil smiling shadow snaked into view holding a VERY long looking needle. Poor Kiwi grit his teeth and snuck into the waiting room.

Once there, he looked at Zane (almost with an 'oh no' expression). Of course, right now he's shirtless with bandages all over him - which signals that he's ready to leave. Without the needles.

"We gotta go! Now!"

At the same time a receptionist came to the front counter, addressing Zane, "Excuse me. If you could fill out these papers to pay for the work on your friends.."

Zane sighed as the kid zipped past him. In all the hurries he's been in, no wonder the kid had been in trouble six ways from today. He'd have to run to catch him if he signed and paid. He doubted he could, so, with a bit of regret, he leaps up and makes a dead run to the door

"Sir.. SIR!" Some frantic doctor hollers. He could hear vague threats being shouted at his behind, but he didn't care. It wasn't until after he hit the door right behind Kwi that he forgot about Laith.. Sorry, man. You or me..

He chased after Kiwi's retreating form, not looking back to see if some horrible threat is waiting behind.

After a long overdue rest, Laith was FINALLY able to recollect everything that happened before he got poisoned. He fought to save a kid....got poisoned....and ripped a weremech's head off....and that was the last he remembers before he passed out.

Muttering under his breath " Man....I gotta get the hell outta here. " Then he noticed a piece of paper on him. He sees that it's the bill for his care. In his mind he freaks

" ( WHAT?!!! THIS MUCH TO PUMP POISON OUT OF ME?!! I REALLY GOTTA GET OUT OF HERE!!!! " )

With that, he quickly removes all his IV's, and shut off the machines to prevent them from beeping to not attract attention. He gathers his clothes and without a moments hesitation storms out at full speed out of the hospital. He was able to escape, while the nurses and doc's were dumbfounded as to what went down.