Intrépide ~ Will Byers X Reader

Y/N's POV:

Eventually, El and I both calmed down enough to tell the rest of the party what had happened.

"He said he was building something," she told them.

"He said that it was all for me and El," I added.

"Building something? Is he talking about the flayed?" Max asked.

"He must be," Nancy answered.

"So, he is building an army, just like we thought," Lucas said.

"Yeah, but he's not building this army to spread." Mike corrected.

"He's building it to stop Y/N and El." Will frowned.

"Last year, El closed the gate on him. This year Y/N helped beat Billy. I have a feeling that really pissed him off." Mike said.

"Like, Royally." Lucas exaggerated.

"And the Mind Flayer now knows that they are the only things that can stop him. But if they're out of the way--"

"Game over."

"He also said he was gonna kill all of you," El told them.

"Yeah, well, that's nice." Max

We all sat there quietly for a moment when Nancy suspiciously walked up to the window.

"Do you guys hear that?" she asked.

"It's just the fireworks," Jonathon said.

"Billy... When he told you this, it was here, in this room?"

El and I both nodded. Everyone began to look around the room in fear. Will put his hand up to his neck and I knew the worst thing imaginable would soon happen.

"He knows we're here," he said.

We all ran outside to see the monster, at least tripled in size, barreling towards us. We went back inside and tried to prepare. We grabbed every weapon we could find, closed all the doors, and put the heavy furniture against any openings. We stood in the middle of the room preparing for the attack.

"It's close," Will told us.

The house began to shake and things fell off of the walls. Everything went quiet for a moment when suddenly one of the creature's tentacles came flying through the wall. We all scattered and ran from it. Jonathon was quick to attack it with an ax before being flung to the side, Nancy started shooting at it but she ran out of bullets. The monster tried to attack her but El stopped it. She ripped its hand off and it pulled the rest of the tentacle away.

"Holy shit," Max exclaimed.

The monster then sent another tentacle in which El stopped, shortly followed by another on the other side of her. I did the same thing as before in the hospital. I slowed time and tried to attack it, I had it distracted when she destroyed both of these tenacles as well. I tried to catch my breath when two more came through the wall. One grabbing El and trying to pull her out of the house, the other flinging me to the side knocking the wind out of myself so I couldn't stop it from hurting Eleven.

The party all tried to help bring El back in. Mike, Will, Jonathon, and Max all tried to pull her back in, and Nancy started shooting at it. Lucas ran up with the ax and started to chop the tentacle in half. He finally got it off and El fell to the ground screaming in agony. I forced myself up and ran to stand beside her. She used her powers to rip its head in half. As soon as it pulled away slightly, we all ran out of the house, got into Nancy's car, and drove away as fast as possible.

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We ran into a grocery store to try and find supplies. We started in the medical aisle and Nancy grabbed rubbing alcohol and some gauze.

"Okay, get her down," Nancy told Mike and Max who were helping El walk.

"Wait let me try," I told them.

Nancy nodded.

"Alright let me see," Nancy said pulling up her pant leg.

"Holy shit." I gagged turning away for a second.

I placed my hand above the wound and started to concentrate. I focused all of my energy on her leg, but nothing was happening. The cut closed very slightly, and the bleeding slowed down a little bit, but nothing else really changed. My nose was bleeding a lot, so I knew it wasn't my powers that were the problem.

"It's not working." I gasped. "There is something wrong."

I continued trying but Will pulled me back.

"Y/N, it's clearly not working, you tried your best."

"I'm sorry." I frowned as I sat on the floor to comfort her.

"It's fine, but we don't have time for this," Nancy said opening a package of gauze.

"What-- What-- Hey, what are you doing?" Max asked.

"I'm cleaning the wound," Nancy replied.

"No, first, we need to stop the bleeding, then clean, then disinfect, then bandage."

"Why do you know that?" I asked her.

"I skateboard. Trust me," she said. "Mike, hold this. Keep the pressure on it, nice and firm, okay? We're gonna need water, soap."

Nancy and Jonathon ran off for the water and soap, then Max sent Lucas and Will off to find a dishcloth and a bowl. I tried one last time to heal her but I had no success. I tried some more when El grabbed my hand.

"Y/N... Stop."

"I can't, I need to try," I told her.

"Y/N. You need to save your energy. It's not working, it's okay." she told me. I frowned and went off with Max to find Lucas and Will.

"That doesn't look like a bowl," Max told them.

"No, it's way better. There is a reason this warning label says '18 or older.' This sucker is filled with 150 grains of black powder. AKA gunpowder. Strap two of these together, and it's bigger than an M-80. Five of them, we've got ourselves a stick of dynamite." Lucas responded.

"You wanna kill that thing with fireworks?" I asked.

"Do you have a better idea?"

"Uh, yeah. Y/N and Eleven." Max told them.

"Against that thing? They're gonna need some backup."

"Oh my God." Max sighed as we walked to find the bowl and dishcloth ourselves. We then went and dealt with El's wound, and got her all bandaged up.

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