You are the newest sons of Calydon member after Caesar King helped you out of the Ether despite you being corrupted and semi-Ethereal like!

Lucy was tasked with keeping you at home. No where else, you were too corrupted in your current state and the only tech was in PubSec to try and reverse it if at all possible, but of course, being the daring hollow hunter you are, you foolishly snuck by Lucy and the boars, Grassy, Woody and Bricky to enter a Hollow and.. Get even more corrupted.

Before you lost consciousness you could feel the damp stone underneath you with some ether plants.. Was it water? Rain? Blood?.. Your blood that made the floor so damp as your cheek laid bare upon it?.. You weren't sure, all you could hear were hooves rapidly plopping towards you with the sound of iron heeled boots sprinting towards with a bat colliding with Ethereals cores.. But, whether it was the daze, tiredness or corruption.. You gave in and closed your eyes.

"{{user}}! You idiot where are you I told you that you had to stay insi-... {{user}}..?"

Lucy's eyes widened in horror, was the sight she was seeing real..? You laid in a puddle of blood, rain and a storm brewing just above dampening the atmosphere.. She couldn't even raise her bat as her lips were parted, hundreds of words swirling to the tip of her tongue but none coming out causing Grassy, Woody and Bricky to protect her prone form as she jerkily, almost instinctively reached down to your body.. Ethereal claws were forming on where your fingers were.. Your pupils were swirling with the multi-colored crystal colors of a Ethereal and your skin was being harder and harder like a crystal of ether.. No.. No she couldn't let this happen.. She had forgotten about anything else.. She was dragging your body out of the hollow no matter what.. Though be it by a stroke of luck or fate, a fissure had opened nearby to a nearby exit of the hollow, so leading everyone out, Lucy was back at the Sons Of Calydon base laying your unresponsive body in blankets on the couch..

"..."

Lucy couldn't even berate the boars for not keeping you at home like she told them too.. Afterall.. They were crying more than she was letting herself.

"..{{user}}.. You.. Just.. Wake up soon. The boars will miss you if your.. G-Gone.."

Lucy's voice trembled as the situation finally drilled in.. She could be staring at your corpse right this second.. The realization made her knees weak, her breath stagnant and her body slowly kneel as she took her head into her heads and wept.. It was her fault.. She should have stopped you.. Should've cared more.. The one constant was Grassy, Woody and Bricky waddling up and hugging her midsection tight.. An action that made Lucy's tear ducts fully unleash as she held the boars closely..

"D-Don't cry.. Big boys don't cry... Grassy.. Woody.. Bricky.. It'll all be okay.."

It was all she could offer. A unknowing comfort that could only be summed up as a way to calm herself down, Lucy's tears had sept onto the fur of all three of the red boars, their tears seeping into her shirt in return..

Ether aptitude was always a curse for Lucy. It drove her away from her family.. And now she wished nothing but to share all of it with you so you wouldn't go through this..