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He glares at the so-called knights guiding their strange group.
He does not trust them. They’re hiding something.
“Are you sure this is a sighting of black blood monsters?” Lily asked them.
“Of course, they’ve been grouping around this cave.” One of them answered.
Hy- no, Aster, he remembers Lily's Hyrule insisted when they were refiguring out nicknames.
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“I'm fine with Aster, there's a chance another version of me could appear.” Aster laughs as he points towards them.
“Hey! How were we supposed to know that we’re all the heroes of Warriors?” Lily said as they looked quite offended.
“I’m not just the hero of warriors,” Tracks grumbled, almost annoyed that he got lump with them.
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Silent still doesn't know why whoever picks these portals had to include three Hero of Warriors. This is practically a nightmare situation to be in.
This would have been like a dream for her
He shakes that thought away from him, as Tracks looks at him with a frown.
“
Deep down
.”
Silent is pretty sure he’s gotten better at reading Track’s expressions as his behavior is really similar to a certain hero of Legend he knows of.
“
Aren't you
a
quiet
one, or is it just
today
?” The knight next to him says. Trying to attempt small talk.
“Oh, he doesn't have
much to say
,” Tracks answered for him.
“Deep down,”
He's thankful that he doesn’t have to communicate with small talk; he just doesn't like it; it’s is awkward.
Because it's not his own voice
“
You hide a reason for shame
,”
He felt a tug at his arm. He turns to one of the knights and the knight leans into his ear,
“I’ve got a secret I can no longer keep,” The knight whispered, “but, I will follow your lead Cia’s Captain.”
“Deep down,”
He freezes in place. It can be.
“Leaving them feeling betrayed.”
How many of them are spies?
“Breaking the bonds that we make”
There’s still more of them. He needed to get rid of them.
He has too.
“
I'm so sorry
we haven’t informed you yet Captain.” The knight said.
“There is no price we won pay.”
The knight needed to die.
No his entire group needed to die, to protect them.
“
Forgive me
for saying this but, you won’t need those heroes anymore, ”The knight whispered, “You have us captain, we’ll take care of everything.”
“
We both know what it takes to survive
.”
“So,
full speed
ahead captain?” The Traitor asked.
He nodded. Gain his trust first, then get rid of them.
“Deep down”
He can feel the malice tingling on his neck, the whispers are stronger.
But he welcomes it because he has something he has to do.
“
We only care about ourselves
.”
“Ezar was it?” he whispered. The knight had flinched when he spoke.
Guess this was his luck only to be seen as her eyes.
“Light up six torches
,” He whispered.
The knight nodded, as he hurried along to light them up, handing them to his fellow knights.
There were seven knights.
Guess he just has to take care of the last one.
“Captain, something approaches,” The knight near Four announces.
Three malice eyes open, and the light from the touches shined on the creature's appearance.
He knows that face.
“Hello.”
The creature says with Hyrule’s face.
Six animal heads made of malice surround them.
And he leaves away from the light.
He knows his choices will make him a monster, so the best thing he should do is:
“
Run for your lives
!” He shouted.
“
DROWN IN YOUR SORROWS AND FEARS
!” It shrieked.
The malice heads went for the torches.
He can hear the crunches, of the first knight that got eaten.
“
AAAHHHHHHH
”
“
Choke on your blood and fears
!” It sang.
It’s mocking him isn’t it, as it ate the knights.
“
AAAHHHH
!”
He turns to see a glimpse of Aster with tears in his eyes.
Oh, right this is a version of him. Or a future.
He really shouldn’t let this thing be left too powerful for this version of heroes.
“
Bleed til you run out of years
!” It continued.
He lets her magic flow through his hands, as the memories surfaced from his mind.
He remembered laughing and crying that day.
Her own weapon was stained by her blood, because he finally snapped in his four years of being alive thanks to her.
And with the memories fading, the Guardian scepter was in his hands.
Her weapon.
And with her magic, he was allowed to behead one of the malice heads with her scepter.
“
We must do what it takes to survive
!”
The bitter feeling bubbles up again inside him.
“
Give up your honor and faith
!”
The screams of the fifth knight echo the cave as the malice second and third malice heads rip the knight in two.
“
Live up your life as a wraith
!’
He spots two of the heads falling off and Lily and Aster as the ones near it.
The Dark had forgotten about them in its assisted slaughter.
“Die in the blood where you bathe!”
More screams echo in the cavern.
He ignores the burning pain on his hand.
“We must do what it takes to survive!”
As the main body of the creature holds the fourth knight close in a hug before ripping him in two.
“We are the same, you and I.” It smiled at him, as the last malice head was blasted off by Tracks.
It's voice echos on from the cave, continuing, it wanted him to finish it, almost like a trade.
A song for six men.
He feels his wrist get snatched and dragged out of the cave.
“I,”
He whispered, as he came out of the cave covered in blood, with the Guardian scepter in his hand.