Hmph!~ A Xiaoven AU

04

"Evil Conquering!"

Using his burst, he made quick work of the busy hilichurl camp. Doing many plunging attacks and swiftly finishing off the last two Mitachurls. Xiao sighed and started demolishing the remains of the camp. The yaksha having finshed off one camp went off to find another one. That's really how all his night went, fighting monsters from the abyss.

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It was almost time for him to head home and the sunlight was peaking over the mountain tops. Xiao finally took off his mask and relieved himself from the pain and suffering his mask brought him. Putting away his polearm, he started to walk back home.

While walking through Dihua Marsh Xiao slowly looked around then leaned on a tree, crossing his arms. He gazed off into the distance and the clear blue water rippled as a small drizzle began.

Sighing once again, he held his hand out and started slowly collecting rain water in his hands. He splashed it onto his face and he hit his head on the tree trunk.

"I know my pain and suffering will never go away... yet why do I yearn for peace and happiness..."

He muttered to himself for a while which left him questioning himself endlessly. Turning to face the tree, he clenched his fists and punched the tree making his knuckles bleed a little. Xiao was almost on the verge of breaking down and crying yet he still held back his tears.

Not-so suddenly a soothing melody was played softly in the background. Drawn to the music, Xiao walked towards where the melody was coming from. Sitting on a rock, he saw a little green figure playing the Dihua Flute.

Walking closer and closer, he stood motionlessly behind the boy playing the flute and just stared at him. Closing his eyes for a bit, he starts to let out a few of his tears.

"You enjoying the music Xiao?"

The adeptus quickly opened his eyes after hearing his name being called. Looking at the boy who was playing the flute, Xiao quickly recognised him.

"Venti??"

"Yep hihii!!"

Venti jumped off the rock and flew to Xiao, surprising him.

"You can fly...?"

"Yeah I can!! After all, I am Barbatos, the Anemo archon!"

Keeping note of that, Xiao decided to question him later. Venti had a sheepish smile stuck on his face and Xiao glared at him.

"I seriously want to slap that stupid smile off your face... even if you are an archon"

He stuck out his tongue and was about to say something but he was hit with a ball of fire surrounding his feet. Xiao's eyes followed the trail of fire in the grass to come face to face with three abyss mages.

"Ugh you abyss monsters are a pain in the ass you know that?"

Putting on his mask again, he charged at the three of them with his elemental skill. He managed to hit both the Pyro and Hydro ones but the Cyro one teleported behind Venti.

"Venti behind you-"

"Think you can get away?"

Aiming his burst at the two abyss mages, he broke off their shields making them tumble around in his burst. Xiao quickly broke the Cryo abyss mage's shield and it got sucked in by the vacuum.

Sadly it didn't finish the Pyro and Cyro mages off, the Pyro mage was significantly weaker but they both regained their shields before dying

"Damn it..."

Venti sighed under his breath and used his skill

"Let's play!"

Venti backed away and started charging up his shots. Then Xiao quickly used his elemental skill to break the shield of the Pyro Abyss mage. A few more powerful attacks and it was finished. The Cyro abyss mage seemed to get riled up and it started blowing out cold mist straight at Xiao.

The cold started eating away at Xiao's strength, severely weakening him. Xiao groaned in pain as he tried to withstand the cold that pierced through him.

"Xiao jump out of the mist!!"

No... strength...

His eyes started to close, his body went limp and he sank into darkness . All he could hear left was the sounds of Venti defeating the abyss mage. When it finally died he could feel Venti pulling him out of the cold mist.

"Xiao? Xiao!! Wake up!!!"

Xiao gave a small, sad smile

Sorry Venti, but I'm too weak...

And then, he lost consciousness... letting the darkness seep into his soul.

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Aha erm I would write more but... ✨cliffhangers✨
Anyways, hopefully you enjoyed this kinda
Xiaoven-ish chapter :3

This is literally exactly how my co-op games went today-
I was playing with a Xiao and a Venti... Xiao died in the cold mist thingy and the poor Venti was left to deal with the Cyro abyss mage :') Ofc I had my Yanfei who broke the shield and did some damage but I also died ^^'

Ehe anyways-
Have a nice dayyyyy

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Date Written~ 27th May 2021
Word Count~ 838 (I know it's less then normal and I'm sorry😞)
Written by~ Saku._.kkura