Reluctant Hero ✔️

Nineteen

"MINJI!"

THUD.

A dull thud could be heard as someone rolled to a stop near Haerin, the cat's thoughts running around in her head.

'M-Minji's here...? N-no I... ... I can't... move...'

"Do you really call yourselves their reincarnations? You three are the weakest of them all."

'The weakest... Minji... and Hyein... aren't... weak...'

"I suppose that's better for me, although this is a pitiful world to rule... You humans have really made a mess of this place."

"Haerin get up you shithead!"

'Hanni...'

"And I never knew why humans are so... obnoxious."

"Wh- Hey LET US GO."

Haerin's finger flinched from her best friend's yell, 'n-no... Hanni... Danielle...'

'Everything hurts... ... ... I really couldn't... save her...'

She slightly shook, struggling not to cry as she couldn't force her body to move.

"KANG HAERIN."

"Shut it little girl."

All Haerin could do was listen as Danielle yelled at her.

"HAERIN YOU BETTER WAKE UP."

All Haerin could do was listen as Danielle winced, possibly from Ganon tightly holding onto her arm.

She felt first-hand how powerful Ganon was, and she wished that Danielle nor Hanni didn't have to feel it.

"PLEASE, I KNOW YOU'RE STILL THERE."

'I'm... I'm... still... here...'

Danielle's voice grew desperate from Haerin's physical unresponsiveness.

"R-Rin please I know you're still alive, you have to still be alive..."

Although still covered in darkness, Haerin began to hear a new voice, someone she had never heard before.

It was an ethereal voice, soft and light...

It reminded her of Danielle.

"Get up... I know you can..."

'Is that... the goddess of time...?'

Her vision was still dark, but one by one, ghostly figures began to form in her vision, many of them wearing similar outfits with similar hairstyles, some of them boys, some of them girls.

At first it was just the ethereal female voice, but soon the others began to chant to her, all of them telling her to get up.

One of the figures with a gray and green tunic walked up to her, and he rested a metallic hand on her head.

And the voice that Haerin heard all this time, the voice that helped her defeat the monsters...

Spoke through him.

"Fight... Protect Zelda."

'It's... him...'

The figure disappeared alongside the others, and Haerin's vision faded back and forth from darkness, to the ruined real world.

"LINK!"

Haerin's eyes abruptly opened wide, and she gasped a breath of air.

"When will you learn to SHUT UP."