#river675

He refused to fall here.

A fierce gale roars to life aboard Vah Medoh, launching the Rito Champion into the air once more. Multiple shots ring in the air and rays of light follow close behind the Rito, singing the tips of his feathers as he does his best to evade them. He barely has enough time to draw his bow before another shot knocks it out of his grip. Now without a weapon for defense, all he can do is avoid the oncoming attacks below as he tries to come up with a counterattack.

Unfortunately, the Windblight is quick to follow up it’s attack, and this time one of the lasers hit it’s target. A sharp pain shoots through his chest plate, and Revali knows that he barely prevented the hit from becoming fatal.

He tries to force down the panic bubbling in his chest. It’s just a scratch. Diving down once more, he looks for any possible openings in the Blights defenses.

He’s a fool for not predicting something like this happening beforehand. For the Calamity to not only be able to take him by surprise, but also having the gall to do this on his own turf made things all the more personal for him. While rushing to board Vah Medoh, he had not come prepared for an ambush. Now here he was, being cornered while on his own ship. But he wouldn’t let himself fall yet.

He still had to make the damned Calamity and it’s prophet pay for what they did.

-----Before Calamity struck-----

The fucking wizard knew about your relationship with him.

Why else would he target you?

They made a hoard attack the village as a distraction. Their numbers were smaller compared to recent incidents, it was almost too easy.

He should have known better.

As soon as the village was secured, he shot off to your cabin in the mountains and prayed to the Goddess above that you were all right.

He arrived in time to see you get shot by a barrage of arrows, a crude shadow of him flying a few feet above you.

The Hollow didn’t even get the chance to react. In the blink of an eye, it was launched against an icy pillar before it began to rain explosions around its body. When the smoke cleared, all that was left of it was a few wisps of malice, before it was blown away in the wind. Revali immediately dropped his bow and rushed to your side, but you were already gone. He sat there cradling your body to chest for Hylia knows how long.

He threw himself into training for weeks afterwards, barely sparing a moment for food or rest in between. If not for Quill’s interference, he would’ve collapsed from exhaustion long ago. This only made him push himself harder, the image of his hollow watching as you took your final breath constantly haunting him. That thing was one of the damned wizards dark creations, and he would make sure the bastard paid a hundred times over for what he’d done.

----- Present time -----

He hears the creature charge its cannon for another blast. A part of him knows he won’t survive a second hit from the thing, but he still does his best to fight back, regardless. Rito village was his home, and he would go down protecting it until the very end.

It was all he had left now.

He hears the chirp signaling it about to fire, and he turns his final thoughts to you as he prepares for the incoming blast.

A clang of metal rings in the air and a beam of white-hot light shoots by just a few feet away from him. From below, someone could be heard roaring angrily like a rabid beast, and Revali almost falls out of the air in shock.

“GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HIM!!”

He knows that voice…

It wasn’t possible. Yet when he looks down, a familiar Hylian woman could be seen launching themselves on top of the Windblight. Using their limbs, they wrap their body tightly around the blight from behind like a deadly monkey, and proceed to stab it in the eye over and over with a ferocity that would terrify the Calamity itself. All Revali can do is stare dumbfounded at the scene before him, and a name he hasn’t uttered in weeks falls from his beak.

“...River?”