#zelvol

Fire. All Volga could see was fire. This would have been routine for him, had he not heard the screams of help from tormented innocent people. He quickly went into Dragon Form and flew to where he had heard the screams of the innocents, only to find they had been ReDeads! Even still, they each looked unique; he saw knights, villagers, nobles, maids, even ReDead children! The entire horde of them turned to Volga as he turned human, shambling towards him. He had drawn his spear, but it turned into a giant snake in his hands; winding around his body and rendering him completely immobile. Volga struggled and strained as the ReDeads shambled ever closer to him, but one by one they took their turns dogpiling him and dragging him beneath the ground.

When Volga had been dragged below, all the fire he was was replaced with a blank, empty, dark void. He looked around, when he heard a woman's voice. "Do you think they've forgotten what you've done?"

"No...I know they haven't..." Volga looked apprehensive.

The voice cackled. "Yet you've gone on so long without paying the price of your sins. You've torn apart so many families, so many lives, so many...lovers."

Volga's eyes widened. "Don't you dare! Leave Zelda alone!"

A spotlight shone a distance away, revealing a bloody figure laying on the ground. Volga ran over, seeing his worst fear laying before him. Zelda was dead.

Volga woke with a scream, breathing fire as he nearly went into his Dragon Form right then and there. Had his room not been completely fireproofed, it would have been utterly reduced to ash.

Footsteps pounded outside his bedroom, and the door flew open to reveal an alarmed Princess Zelda. "Volga!" She moved closer to him, more able to see his tear-stained face.

Volga looked up, seeing Zelda. "Zelda...you're alive..." he sobbed, pulling her into his arms.

Zelda laid her head on Volga's shoulder. "Of course I am...it was a dream, nothing more. I'll always be here, Volga." she crooned, leaning up to kiss his jaw. "Did you want to talk about it?"

Volga nodded, taking a deep breath before telling Zelda of his nightmare. Zelda listened intently, soothingly rubbing his cheek and wiping his tears away. When he was done, Zelda leaned up to kiss him. "Volga...your sins are behind you. And you work tirelessly to atone for them. You are no longer a dragon knight of darkness, you are the dragon knight I've fallen so deeply in love with."

Volga looked more calm, smiling at his beloved. "Zelda...I love you."