So, for the fic bingo, could you maybe do Four of Legend? They're my favorites :)
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Four? Dragon au!!
Part of a hoard (who's counting?)
While trapped in a blizzard you end up finding out your boyfriend is a dragon shifter....
Four hurt/comfort because he's quickly becoming a favorite, and you can blame Fyre.
(I LOVE Dragon AUs feel free to ask me about how anything works or request dragon au stuff)
Cw: blizzard, getting a little hypothermia, non-graphic nudity
NOT Proof read (will proof tomorrow)
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You never like getting split up from the group, but this takes the cake. Alone and lost thanks to a portal and a bombarrow incident, here you are in the middle of a blizzard.
Thoroughly unprepared and only half remembering tips from before you find yourself a cave and drag all the fallen branches and small trees that you pass into said cave.
You are under dressed, shivering again at the dropping temperature.
You would really like to have Four here. He's always so warm.
Actually anyone would do, sharing body heat and all....
You still want Four. He's warm and safe...
You find the cave ground to be fairly dry in the back, so you just start trying to make a fire. It takes too long, long enough that your hands are stiff and starting to lose blood flow. But you get a small fire started.
It's a spark of hope.
You place the wood near it, hoping it will dry this way.
You peel off your clothes because they are absolutely soaked and stealing your body heat. This sucks a lot.
You curl up, crossing your ankles and putting your hands in your arm pits to try to conserve your own body heat.
If this is how you go, you want a refund.
Time blurs, losing meaning but you are able to add more wood to the fire and lay your clothes out by it.
The fire is not enough to make the cave toasty, but it is enough to get the cave above freezing and dry out your clothes a little.
Hours pass and eventually you tug your clothes back on, damp and guaranteed to get soaked again but you need to get more wood now while the fire is going so you don't have to start a new one.
You go out and drag in all the wood you can find, amassing quite the stock pile before you peel your clothes back off and tend the fire some more.
Hours pass again, and you think you're starting to feel like you are on fire.
That's not great...
Feeling hot in the middle of dropping temperatures sounds like one of the symptoms of... Hypo- something.
The fire continues to burn, and it gets larger slowly but it grows. You get the temperatures high enough within the cave that you aren't fighting logic to keep the fire going.
Your mind is slowing, thinking like mollases in a... blizzard.
Your clothes don't freeze to the floor this time as they dry slowly.
You stay by the fire even as you start to sweat. You know you aren't free of the cold. You can still see the blizzard outside.
It's slow work but you survive the night and part if the day. You get the fire warm enough that your clothes dry out completely.
You put them back on, and you are still under dressed... but you'll live.
Your hands work well enough to finally get into your bag and pull out your bedroll to lay out and dry.
Ypu lay out all of your things to dry by the fire, adding even more wood.
It is nothing short of a miracle you lasted this long but you can feel your chanves of survival climbing upwards steadily.
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"If you growl at us one more time for trying to keep you alive I'm knocking you out," Legend grits out.
Four narrows his gaze at the veteran. "They are alone and there is a blizzard. They could be dead-"
"It been thirty six hours," Time adds unhelpful.
A low snarl bubbles out if Four, the need to find you burns him. The idea of you alone out there is unacceptable.
You're a human without emergency survival training!
You're his lover!
You're all but part of his hoard, the person he wants as his bonded -...
"If you want to have a shot at finding them, you have to wait until we can see!" Time says sharply, gaze narrowing.
"My partner is out there in little more than light fall clothes and is in a blizzard, you can't tell me this isn't an emergency." Four grits out.
"Or course it is!" Wild snaps, "But you can't see to find them!"
"I want to go look so they're alive when I find them!"
"We're all worried too!" Warriors snaps, "We know the odds!"
"Oh really?" Four snarls-
"I smell smoke," Twilight says, lifting his nose to the sky.
"What?" Wild gapes.
"Smoke from a fire." Twilight says.
Four sniffs the air, unable to smell the same thing but he believes the other.
"To the east." Twili announces.
"I'm going." Four says.
"Four..." Time sighs.
Four dosen’t wait for anything else, shifting to his full dragon form and rushing east.
He can't say what he expects, there is no claim he has on you that allows him to trace it...
But he has to find you!
Four flies until he smells a campfire. He veers towards that smell.
Time dosen’t make sense, seconds are hours and hours are days. He takes longer than he wants to arrive at the source of the smoke.
There's a cave, with smoke billowing out.
Four very nearly growls at the idea that this isn't where you are.
He dosen’t have the wits about him to shift back to the only form you know him in. He hasn't ever let you know he's a dragon shifter. He just stalks forward, sticking his head into the cave.
"Holy shit!" You shriek, scrambling out of your bedroll and grabbing your sword.
Four rumbles something, almost a purr.
You're alive.
You're well enough to grip a sword.
You're - leveling a sword at him?
"What are you doing here?" You demand.
Four huffs at that, unsure why you're upset at him. Smoke billows from his snout -
Oh.
Oh shit.
Four can't stand the idea of letting you leave his vision long enough for him to shift out of view. Besides he's been wanting to tell you!
He bites the arrow and shifts back to his hylian form. Bones rearrange and now that he's not panicking for you it hurts a little.
You gasp, jerking back half a step.
Four blinks as his vision clears.
"You're okay," he breathes out revrently.
You just stare at him for a moment. Blinking before your shoulders loosen.
Four flinches a little under your gaze.
The sword clatters from your hand before you launch forwards to pull him into your arms.
"You found me," You choke out.
The disbelief in your voice makes Four want to scream and bite and break. How could you ever think he wouldn't?
Four pulls you as close as he can, arms looping around your torso. "I was so worried."
There's half delirious laughter as you Shiver near constantly against him. "I'm so glad you're okay, Link."
"Me? I - you were stranded alone in a blizzard!" He grits our incredulously as he looks up at you.
You seem to have less blood circulation, but you are warm enough to be awake. You're alert enough.
"I have a fire," You eave off.
"Thank the stars for that," Four sighs.
"You're a pretty dragon," You muse easily, still shivering. "Warm too."
"I - are you okay?" Four frowns as he tries to make sense of your reaction. "You aren't mad?"
"Surprised... probably gonna process more when I'm not so dizzy and weird... but no, not mad," ypu assure as you press a kiss to his forehead.
"You're dizzy?" He blinks.
"Mh... maybe a little frost bite or something. Dunno."
"Let me take you back to the others?"
"No... it's still a blizzard. Just wanna stay here with my fire and you. You're warm." You give a little half smile. "Stay?"
"I'm not leaving you," Four says firmly.
You grin, "okay."
Four lets you lead him to the bedroll by the fire you've been spending most of your time in. He lets you pull him down to curl up by the fire.
He lets you pull him into your lap, arms around him.
He lets you set your head on his shoulder.
"You're brilliant," Four tells you.
You smile up at him, "I missed you."
"Oh, sweetheart, I missed you too."
"Can you half shift?" You ask.
Four nearly headbutts you when he jerks in surprise. "What?"
"Half shift? Oh... uhm... some people that are shifters have a form between hylian and animal?"
"No, I know what that is. I just didn't expect you to want to know?"
"I was just curious. Your scales are pretty."
He flushes at the tips of his ears. "Oh... Thank you. Did... Did you want me to half shift?"
"You don't have to."
"That's not what I asked," he says fondly, eyes a mix of moss and violets.
You smile a little, "I want to see but you don't have to."
"Let me up," Four says.
You let your arms fall away from him, and he mourns the loss of contact immediately.
Four stands up and steps away before he does transform.
He is taller in his half form, by about a foot or so. He has green scales that are iridescent and shine hues of blue, red, and purple in the dancing light.
His horns curve back a little...
"Oh my god," You breathe out. "Four - Link you're... Wow!"
"Wow?" He laughs a little.
You nod quickly. "Wow. You're so pretty."
Four flushes a little, "You think so?"
"Yes!" You grin as you push to your feet. "Can I hug you?"
Four steps closer and holds his arms out in invitation. He nearly laughs at the idea you think you have to ask.
If he has it his way, you'll be his bonded. If he has it his way, you'll let him spoil you forever as part of his hoard.