His Fake Marriage

•The Promise of An Archon•

~(Y/N)~

Being tasked to protect Paimon and the literally God of Wisdom was a nerve-wrecking job, but one that the young girl would accomplish to the best of her abilities. The main thing to focus on was to dodge and slice incoming debris from the massive fight between the Traveler and Scaramouche. Nahida was able to shield some smaller debris away from her and the flying pixie, but (Y/N) did majority of the work as the group was position in a spot where a lot of rubble or electro energy was being tossed at. 

Focusing back on the fight, (Y/N) realized that her fiancé was indeed having trouble fighting Aether. She thought that with his new power-up, Scaramouche would be able to defeat the blonde hair man, but to her surprise he was losing. The Traveler kept dodging attacks that nearly swept her off of her feet, and he was doing it with ease- like those attacks were nothing but tickles coming from Paimon. Aether was smiling as he was succeassfully winning the battle, and turning the tides. He looked like he was proud of how this fight was turning out.

The Traveler attacked head on and managed to strike the mechanical robot's chest, damaging it to the point that it made the puppet kneel. After taking hits from the swings of the Traveler, Scaramouche's mask started to crack and bits and pieces began to fall. Inside the face of the robot, (Y/N) can see her fiancé hooked up to those electro-infused tubes once more. His eyes glowed purple as if he was being controlled against his will, she made eye-contact with him and she noticed the anger and hatred in his eyes.

"You- YOU FILTHY HUMANS-" he yelled, with his tone full of desperation.

Even (Y/N) knew this was the end of the battle. The all-mighty Scaramouche, Sixth of the Fatui Harbingers, would fall due to the Traveler's sword. She could hear how desperate he sounded, and her heart ached for his cracked voice. Yeah they may have just argued, and yeahhh did he just fling her across the arena, and yeahhh this is a toxic relationship... she needs help. Anyways, not important right now, (Y/N) can have a chat with a therapist once she gets back to Natlan. But right now, she needs to focus on saving him from a death she doesn't want to happen. She feared this fight would end badly, and she feared right. 

Nahida wasted no time and floated towards the kneeling mechanical puppet. She lifted her hand and a ray of green energy leaked out of her fingers, like it was reaching into the robot's chest. A concentrated amount of dendro light gathered around the huge electro symbol on the chest area, so much so that it broke the chest plate, revealing the electro gnosis. It seemed she was trying to pull out the chess piece and she was succeeding. 

Scaramouche seeing her actions started to panic, he ran forward, trying to get outside of his robot. "No! Wait! Anything but the gnosis..!" He tried reaching out for Nahida to stop, breaking out from the puppet's broken face. 

He kept struggling and using all his might to inch closer to pushing Nahida away from extracting the chess piece, his actions felt so desperate. (Y/N) couldn't take it anymore and ran closer to where Nahida and Scaramouche was, hoping to catch him if he ends up falling. 

The harbinger kept inching out of the mechanical robot's face, and everyone could see that the electro-infused tubes were starting to break apart from the amount of tension because of the constant pulling from Scaramouche. As Nahida finally extracted the electro gnosis out of the chest area of the puppet, he kept reaching out for it. "No! That's mine- don't even try!"

He's now nearly out of the robot, and barely connected to the tubes that controlled him so well. "I'll never...- I'll never go back!" 

The electro gnosis was now in the hands of the Dendro Archon, and he realized that as he stopped trying to reach for it. His eyes began to darken and lose their light, the tubes finally gave in and completely snap themselves away from his body. Scaramouche started to fall out of the puppet, slowly closing his eyes as he slips into the unconsciousness. (Y/N) could only stare in shock as that whole scene was happening, but she quickly regain her thoughts and held out her arms to catch her falling fiancé.