[closed] i want to slay my demons

[skyglider]

Who: (botw) Link, (botw) Zelda, and those who signed up to fight their Blights
Which: closed log
Where: just outside of town
What: the Malice distortions come to a head,
Warnings: Fight! Fight! Fight! (violence, death of the Blights) possibly also some body horror - the Blights are pretty gross


Note: after this log, Link and Zelda will be gone until July 1!


A stormy evening gives way to quiet dawn. To say the past week has been chaotic would be an understatement; strange distortions remain present in Reverein even now, causing monster attacks and disorienting illusions. The morning is quiet at first, with two longtime citizens of Reverein disappearing quietly from their home. They appear near the edge of the town, encased in two large crystals, still seemingly fast asleep. These crystals are visible for all to see, but those who dare to approach will find strange versions of Link and Zelda standing guard, unwilling to let anyone pass.

In fact, rather than let you pass, and risk waking the sleeping souls, they stand their ground, brandishing weapons and magic, prepared to fight.

[individual top-levels in the comments!]

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[sagesurvivor]

[It hurts.

Unlike any pain Sheik's ever felt before, it hurts, his eyes watering as this festering hatred fermented for millennia sears his flesh-- but pain can be endured, and fortunately, enduring happens to be one of his specialties. Images from his vision of the Princess' Champion's arm being consumed by vile darkness flicker across his mind's eye, and as he hisses through clenched teeth, he lifts his leg and stomps on the Blight's shoulder where it lays dazed on the ground. He expects to find some satisfaction in returning a modicum of his pain, but instead he realizes what's beneath it.

He's being drained.

It knows what he is.

That fact should strike fear in the heart of the girl who fled the castle that day. That is, after all, the one thing she absolutely had to avoid at all costs ever since that triangle appeared on the back of her hand. Terror should crash over her like a wave, urging her to run from this place as fast as she can, for the sake of the name she sacrificed upon the altar of survival all those years ago. It should, but it doesn't.

Because that name doesn't just belong to her.]

... You haven't changed at all.

[Zelda's ancestor sneers at the creature wearing her face as she lifts her free hand, golden light coalescing around her palm. The knife was useless, so it was discarded, and so there's no reason not to do the same for the disguise that no longer serves its purpose. Not when there's something so much more important on the line. The radiance dancing between her fingers shimmers and stretches, brightening with her desperate desire to protect the girl - her family - trapped in that crystal--]

But I am never letting you take anything else from me!

[--and, with the Arrow of Light in hand, she tears at the Malice clinging to her so hungrily, before kicking the Blight away with disgust.]

[multidisciplinary]

[ Being stomped on the shoulder gets a grunt and a wince out of the Blight, but not much more than that. Even the parts of its flesh that aren't black are still tough as hide.

But when Sheik uses the Arrow of Light to cut the leeching Malice from his arm, the Blight lets out an inhuman howl of pain, as though it is the one that has just been cut. The Malice shrivels up with a high pitched hiss and vanishes into smoke before it even hits the ground.

The Blight stumbles back to its feet, its chest heaving. Tiny lines of golden light splinter outward across its two black hands, originating from the places where its Malice touched Sheik. Even though the Malice had been detached, its host still suffers its stinging wound.

But a little pain isn't enough to stop a monster—just enrage it, really. Puppetblight shrieks in anger, baring sharp teeth. The red magic of its master flares in the Blight's hands, curving fingers into daggers.

Once more, the monster lunges at its target, prepared to sink its claws into Sheik's chest. ]