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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal
Title: Above It All
Character: Durbe, Mach
Word Count: 299||Status: One-shot
Genre: General||Rated: G
Challenge: Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal Flash Bingo, prompt #84, wonder
Summary: [one-shot, Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal Flash Bingo, #84, wonder; Sir Durbe & Mach] Some sights are best seen from the air.
The sun hadn't risen yet when Durbe took to the air, fingers wrapped firmly around Mach's reins. Great white wings pumped, taking them higher and higher. The young knight breathed in the crisp pre-dawn air, looking around as they rose over the treetops. If all went well, they'd arrive back home later that day. He'd been far too tired the night before to continue, and so had Mach. A rest had been necessary. More than necessary, obligatory.
He tried not to think too much about why they were both so tired. He wanted to return to Nasch as soon as he could, to give what aid he could in the aftermath of everything. He had no idea of when he could do that. He needed to arrange it with his own king.
Inch by inch, the sun rose higher, and Durbe could not help but look that way. After the last few months, keeping an eye out for arrows and attacks from below had become second nature. All he saw now were just the glistening pure colors of the morning, violet and black shading into blue, the last stars fading into streaks of pale white clouds…
The blue drew his thoughts inevitably toward Nasch and Merag. His fingers tightened just a little on the reins and he fought the tears that stung his eyes.
I'll be back soon, Nasch. He forced his attention onto the sunrise as the first fingers of light swept aside the darkness. New beginnings, that was what morning was about. His mother had always told him that and he had to keep hold of it now. They would start over, somehow. Evil couldn't hold them down forever.
He'd watched many a sunrise with his friends. And he would watch more with Nasch. No matter what.
The End