Whumptober Day 30
digging your grave
major character death | left for dead | ghosts
kingdom come - corrupt!zelda au finale
warnings: blood, stabbing, ...major character death (duh)
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Hyrule Field was burning. It was an odd sense of deja vu, of dread and of grief and of helplessness. Link had seen this before, the chaos and the smoke, and standing amongst it a second time is no easier than the first. He had no idea whether the Calamity’s destruction reached as far as those civilizations he’d grown to love, and he didn’t plan on finding out. It would be far better if he didn’t, because then, his weary mind could rest. It wasn’t as if the Calamity took issue with the other races–it was with Hyrule that the problems lied. At least, that was what he told himself when he was aching for comfort.
Link fisted the Master Sword tighter, digging the tip into the ground as he forced himself to stand. His free hand clutched his bleeding side, filling him with a fear he was well acquainted with. It was hard, even for one as familiar with death as him, to not be afraid. He’d been in this position before, many times, but nothing could compare to the first. Scared and hurt and ever with her, holding her hand as they ran across decimated fields—that was a feeling he would never quite shake; his body screamed and all he could think about was protecting her. This time, however, there was no protection. There was only decay as far as his eyes could see, and it was set onto the kingdom by their own hands.