-A Silent Lily- (A BoTW Fanfic)

~'Chapter 7'~

!! TRIGGER WARNING !!

Don't read if you're sensitive

Stars had started to form on the sky when Sidon decides that it's time to go since he hears the growling of goblins and other kinds of monsters waking up along with the rising moon. He gets up on his feet, but immediately freezes when he feels something cold being pushed against his neck. "Move one inch and I'll fire this arrow straight through your goddamn throat." a manly voice growls from behind him. Sidon's heart is pounding and his muscles is screaming for him to run, but he stands completely still. "Down on your knees." The man growls, but Sidon refuses. Every inch of his being tells him that following the mysterious man's voice is wrong but when the man spits out "Down on your knees!" And he feels the cold metal of the arrow being pushed against his neck he had no other choice than to submit. 

"Now... Many hylians have died, and your race stealing our only food source only makes life harder.. So therefore, since the queen won't do shit about it, we've decided to gather your little kingdom and let them help us" The man says with a sinister tone in his voice. Sidon takes a deep breath before he replies "Help of.. What kind..?" with a weakness he never thought he would hear himself with. "We need workers. Workers who can take care of the herbs and seeds. Workers who can build up the ruins of our town." The man explains. Sidon snorts "Calling it 'workers' is way to kind to explain such a cruelty.. Don't try and play with me, you're going to enslave my people!" Sidon growls out but lets out a wince in fear when he feels the sharp edge of the arrow push roughly against his scales. "If you raise your voice at me one more time, scum, I'll shoot. Now show me your people and I might spare you." The man snarls. Sidon lets out a light growl as he grumbles "Never. I know that you won't kill me. You haven't killed me yet for a reason.".

The man seems to be taken back by this as he goes silent for a moment. "Very well then.." He grunts. Sidon feels fear bubble up inside him like boiling water when he hears the man shift around, seeming to search for something. Only a moment later the man has Sidon's mouth covered with his hand and a needle of some kind sunken down into the flesh of his arm. Sidon lets out a weak scream as he feels how whatever potion was on that needle begins to take effect almost immediately as he falls down on his hands and knees and eventually on his side. The world is spinning in front of his eyes but he manages to get one last glimpse at the man before he faints. The pointed ears sticking out from the black mask made Sidon realize.. He's dealing with a hylian, and a strong one as well. 

*Timeskip*

The world's still spinning lightly when Sidon manages to get his eyes back open. He's laying on a cold metal floor, and heavy shackles were clamped around his wrists and ankles. Sidon looks up from the floor, and he's met by metal bars blocking off his only escape. He shakes his head lightly, gaining back more cautiousness after every passing second. "Good morning, sleepyhead~" a dark voice coos from outside the bars. Sidon has to focus to see the silhouette in the darkness. The silhouette tilts it's head to look at something just behind Sidon and orders out "Hold him."

Sidon barely has time to react before arms take hold of his waist, arms and head. All he can do is yelp in fear and struggle against their tight grips the best he can. A door in the prison bars opens and the man from before takes form in front of Sidon's eyes. He tries his best to act calm but can't help but to twitch when the man from before takes a steady grip of his hand. The man, who Sidon assumes is the leader, takes out a pair of pliers from the pocket in his black coat. The pliers takes a steady grip on Sidon's thumb claw and the man starts pulling. Sidon screws his teeth shut to prevent himself from screaming and squirms around with all his might, but the many hylians that holds him down has a too tight grip on him to make him able to flee. The first claw loosens from Sidon's finger and he lets out a small whine, feeling his eyes tear up as the bright blue blood drops down on the stone ground. The pliers grips another claw and pulls it out, then another, and another, and another. Sidon bit down on his lip to prevent himself from crying, even if his vision was as blurry as it can be from his tears. 

The leader leans down to gather the ripped off claws, and smirks when he sees the small puddle of blue blood. He leans closer to Sidon and whispers "Once we're done with you, the walls and floor here will be stained blue with your blood" in a sinister tone. "And I won't give up even then" Sidon snarls. The leader stands back up and looks at his companions "Knock him out, we're going on a little trip" He smiles as he walks off. Sidon just manages to see the needle once again before it's buried into his shoulder for a moment before it's pulled out. "Wait no no no!" Sidon yelps out in pure panic but it's too late and the world fades to black and the last thing he feels is when his head hits the floor. 

*Timeskip* 

Sidon wakes up once again, possibly even dizzier than before. He tries to move his arm but hits it against metal bars of a cage. He opens up his eyes and to his despair he notices how he's locked in a tiny cage, just enough for him to barely move an inch. He as well takes notice how the cage is placed on the town square of a town he've never seen before. He's stuck sitting on his knees and the way the hylians that slowly approach the cage is nothing else but frightening. "Dear hylians, we had once and for all managed to catch the thief that have been leading all of these terrible rampages. He've made us suffer to the point of hopelessness, now why won't we show him some hospitality and give him the same treatment?" The leader of the dark-coats spoke out over the crowd around Sidon's cage. The hylians around him cheers as some of the other dark-coats lifts him up on a little pedestal. "Now let's show these scumbags why us hylians shall be respected!" The leader cheers out. Sidon's eyes widens and he lets out a surprised yelp when he feels something sharp hit his back. he manages to turn his head, only to get hit by another sharp rock in the face. 

The sharp rocks came from all directions, it made cuts in his fins and bruised his hands and face. "Please, have mercy! Let me out and I shall explain!" Sidon pleads as he opens his seeing eye to look at the hylians before him. He notices how some hesitates before they get back into throwing rocks at him only some moments later. This goes on for god knows how long, Sidon tried to keep track of time but he lost count everytime a new rock made a painful cut in his hands. He has no claws to protect himself, or else he would've used them to smack the rocks away from his face and head. 

"Alright alright folks, we don't want to kill him now do we?" The leader calls out to stop the raging hylians. Sidon looks at the leader with a confused expression. "We're not done with you yet, prince.." The leader grumbles under his breath as he meets Sidon's eyes. The cage is lifted back down from the pedestal and a blanket is thrown over it. Sidon lets out a quiet wince as he leans his head against the cage and lets the blood from his cuts make tiny droplets on the ground below him. He hears the sound of a carriage and hooves clapping against the ground, and he's closer to crying that he've ever been when the sound reminds him of Link and his horse. His thoughts didn't manage to leave Link, as he could almost imagine Link galloping towards the carriage to save him from this misery. 

Only an hour later Sidon's back in the chamber he started in, once again chained in his wrists and ankles. "Sleep tight~" The leader said with a tone sparking with passive aggressiveness before he shuts the door to the chamber and leaves Sidon all alone. Sidon manages to get his bruised hand up to his head fin, where he gets reminded of the bandage Link wrapped around it some days ago. He carefully unwraps it from himself and holds it in his hands. He looks down at it, flashbacks flooding his memory just as fast as the tears filled his eyes. He lets out a choked sob as he leans against the wall of the dungeon and buries his face in the bandage. 

He've never felt so alone in his life.