Sidlink prompt please! Blood Moon!
warnings: animal death, violence, gore
It had all escalated so quickly.
One moment, they were riding comfortably side by side, enjoying the coolness of the night paired with the starry sky, the next moment they were surrounded by lynels.
Link didn’t even know that they hunted in… packs.
Whenever he had encountered them before, he had fought single individuals. Red-maned, blue-maned… never against one in a colour like this one, whose attacks he desperately tried to deflect with his master sword.
When Link had visited Zora’s Domain as a final preparation for his fight against the Calamity, Sidon had proposed to follow Link to Rito Village - opening up new trade options with the whole of Hyrule was the next big step to nurture Zora’s Domain back to its former glory. Link – stupidly infatuated that he was with the Zoran prince – had not been able to deny the proposition as he himself had to seek out Harth for his help to repair the Great Eagle Bow. A weapon, he was sure he needed during his final fight.
The road so far had been long, but the Titans were finally tamed.
The fights had been vicious, but Link had been able to come out victorious through each and every single one.
With the Titan’s reconquest, more and more villages and cities were able to send out troops aiding the fight and eliminating anything that lay between them and peace. While defeating Ganon was only a task the Hero himself could take over, the troops of the different races did whatever was in their might to aid.
It was a shift that had decimated the numbers of the different monster species’s successfully, but with this decimation also came the monsters’s desperation.
Yes, the attacks had lessened, but their severity had increased.
And now Link and Sidon were confronted with not only one, but three lynels at once.
Another blow hit Link’s sword. The hero slipped and almost lost his footing; the ground underneath him slippery with the blood of one of their horses.
His mare- he couldn’t think about her fate now.
His leg muscles quivered under the strain of keeping the body upright under the force of the attack.
Behind himself he could hear the scream of a dying creature; momentarily distracted Link looked to the side and saw one of the two silver lynels collapse to the floor – a grave mistake.
A sharp blade hit him in the shoulder and incapacitated his left arm – reigning his shield arm useless. The heavy metal of the Hylian shield hit the floor, followed by the spilling of his own life essence.
One step forward, two steps back – everything around him became blurry and unfocused.
A golden shadow moved towards him – the golden lynel - how had he never seen one of this colour before? – and Link clenched his teeth together, awaiting the fatal blow.
A red silhouette moved with a speed between Link and the lynel that even the Hero would have found difficult to replicate; being thrown back onto the spoiled grass in the process.
In a daze, Link watched the spectacle in front of him.
Sidon’s teeth were bared; his usually friendly and kind demeanour had changed into the caricature of an animalistic creature.
Watching Sidon take on the beast was like watching two ancient giants fight – awe-inspiring and terrifying at the same time.
The battle in front of him had no similarities left of the fighting tactics he had learned as a knight and used ever since – it was brute strength against brute strength.
Movement behind him distracted him from the spectacle in front of him – it was one of the collapsed silver lynels. Its side was bleeding heavily – Link guessed that Sidon had pierced one of the beast’s two hearts.
Pushing past the dizziness that overcame him, Link sprang up to his feet and buried his sword with a forceful thrust inside the creature’s torso. The lynel’s sharp claws wrapped around Link’s hand gripping the sword’s hilt, leaving painful claw marks in his skin.
It collapsed to the ground with nothing more but a dying grunt.
Silence filled the space and after a while, and Link dared to look back and check on Sidon.
The prince was on his knees, clutching his side, the white patterns on his scales darkening with his own blood.
The monster lay motionless in front of the Zora, parts of its torso missing, its bared ribs glistening like a gory piece of art.
Link stood up on unsteady legs and went over to Sidon, gently pulling away the prince’s hand and examining the wound. The Zora’s blood was hot underneath his hand - a stark contrast to the chilly wind blowing around them.
The wound was deep but non-lethal. Link couldn’t believe that they made it out alive.
Slowly, Link’s muscles relaxed. The worst was over.
Link let the relief of victory run through his body until-
Suddenly, Sidon grabbed Link’s arm and held him in a painful clutch.
Before Link was able to ask, Sidon gestured towards the sky behind him, clear fear visible even in the dark.
A sick and heavy feeling spread in Link’s pit of the stomach.
Already knowing what he would see, he turned.
The first rays of crimson light started to paint the surface into a nightmarish image. And with the arrival of the moon, the lynels corpses began to change.
Link knew that they only had fractions of moments to react.
His voice, rarely used, was raspier and more silent than he had intended, but the urgency still came through.
Together, they ran away from the battle scene and towards a cliff.
They looked down the ravine and Link’s heart dropped to his stomach.
He had lost his paraglider in the midst of battle, and while there was a river running underneath, jumping would mean his sure death.
Collecting all his courage, the Hylian made a decision.
He couldn’t let another loved person die. He wouldn’t.
Readying the master sword, he never let go off inside his hand, Link turned to Sidon with a determined gaze.
“Go. I will fend them off and give you some time. I have the protection of the former champions – you don’t.”
Sidon looked at him, unbelieving.
“I am not going to leave you here!”
Link gritted his teeth in stress and frustration.
“There is no other way, we won’t make it otherwise!”
Even with the champion’s protection, Link wasn’t sure he would make it. He didn’t voice the concern.
Sidon gripped the hero’s arm once more. While it was less forceful, it didn’t lose its intensity.
Sidon silenced Link by placing his free hand on Link’s cheek. It was so big compared to Link’s fine features.
“I know. I will take the impact; my body can handle it.” Sidon’s facial expression became more serious than he had ever seen it before.
Before Link could protest, Sidon asked a question that rendered him silent.
Link stared into the golden irises in front of him. His throat felt tight with all the anxiety he felt, but –
The lynels started rising once more and after sheathing his sword, he closed his eyes, surrendering to Sidon’s ministrations.
The enraged roar was the last thing he heard before Sidon wrapped his arms around the smaller body and jumped over the edge.
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