So, throughout this little series I will be covering three key moments in the relationships of different heroes. Each moment will be titled with a theme, and the moment will be based around that theme.
Now, I will happily take requests for this series. Send them via PM if you have an account. But no more detail than the three themes and the two heroes. Lucario, I've done your request preemptively, via my amazing foresight... and also your pairing grew on me, a lot. Update: Moved this text to the top of the page, added the pair in question as a title.
Brightwing and Dehaka
First meeting: Essence
Brightwing was napping in the boughs of a tree in a forest. Emphasis on was. Said tree had suddenly fallen over, dropping her neatly on top of the perpetrator- Dehaka. The Primal pack leader had burrowed underneath, undermining it completely. She was less than amused. "Ooh! Why bother Brightwing, I do not like to be woken!" she chirped, rolling off Dehaka and taking flight.
"I wish to collect essence. There is much to be collected here." Dehaka trailed off, not really focusing on the irritated reptile to his side.
"Brightwing does not care about essence! I care about dreaming!" She made a point of fluttering around Dehaka in her best attention-grabbing way.
"You do not care for essence? You are foolish, and lucky. Essence must be diligently collected. Always must be hunted." The zerg turned to face her, leaning on his larger arm. The essence he'd come here for eluded him.
"I do not know what you are talking about, not-friend, but it sounds like food. Is it food?" Brightwing had forgotten her anger, as her curiosity shone through.
Dehaka began to walk off, and began to explain a little. "Essence can be consumed. Used to change, used to survive. Essence can be found within life. I collect essence so I may change and survive."
"Brightwing will find essence! Think it sounds fun!" And she promptly blinked away to some unknown location.
Dehaka stopped, suddenly no longer sensing a trace of his goal. "She had the essence I came here to collect." He growled a sound of frustration.
Development: Hunting
Dehaka was now sure that Brightwing was the source of the interesting essence. He'd felt it in battle whenever she was near. But at the time, he couldn't kill her and take the essence, since that would mean his team would almost certainly be overrun. Now he'd stalked her to a small cave, on a hillside. He followed her in, feet altered to make nearly no sound on the stone floor and all limbs readied. A few extra zerg had been lent to him by Kerrigan to hunt his prey, and surrounded the area. He turned the corner and stopped. Most humanlike heroes would have been ill. Brightwing was sleeping again, this time on top of a pile of assorted corpses. There were a few pigs, a half-eaten bird, a lane minion's helmet, one of Azmodan's warriors and the fragments of a baneling. Brightwing sleepiliy opened her eyes.
"Hm, it is better that you did not wake me up, friend. That is good." Said Brightwing.
Dehaka surveyed the room. "what is the purpose of this?" he croaked, though he knew already.
"Brightwing tried to collect essence... smells not nice, but very good for lying on friend! How do I get it out?" She stretched out, then flopped back down onto her macabre bed.
"Essence requires zerg abilities to collect. You cannot collect essence. You can only give essence." He began to analyse the corpses to see if he could salvage any essence from them. Then decided there was a better being to get essence from right in front of him. He stepped forwards "You have a strong and unique essence. I will collect it from you."
Brightwing giggled. "I do not think so."
Dehaka fired his Isolation biomass at Brightwing. It harmlessly splatted into the rest of the mess, Brightwing having cast pixie dust on herself and risen two meters above it's flight path. The two began to fight, and though Dehaka undoubtedly would have won a direct fight, luck was not on his side. Emerald wind slammed him into a wall, and while he was easily tough enough to withstand it, the two seconds he spent getting back up were enough for Brightwing to Phase Shift to somewhere far, far away.
Friendship: Mercy
Brightwing was enjoying a nice, breezy glide through the haunted mines when she saw something. An indistinct black dot at first, she then saw it was a certain Zerg, dragging himself out of a close skirmish. He retreated, limping and on the point of collapse, with at least a dozen types of wound. Brightwing hovered next to him as his strength failed, and he slumped to the floor in front of a devastatingly empty healing well.
"Frieeeend, you are dying. Why do that?" She dispersed some healing magic around herself, and was pleased to see some of Dehaka's wounds mend a little.
"Why are you not afraid of me? I have tried to kill you." Dehaka was genuinely confused. And in a lot of pain on the floor.
"You are not very scary to me, friend. You failed at killing me." More mist washed over the two.
"Yet you aid a threat to your life. You could easily have slain me and assured your safety." Dehaka was a little more relaxed now, and sat on his haunches.
"I would like to have friends more than dead things, apart from dead bad things. I Have a thing to ask you, friend." Brightwing beat her wings, blowing cool air over the burns a mage left.
"What is that?" Dehaka felt oddly calm. He didn't even want to seize this opportunity to finally get his kill. It would be so simple. Her entire underside was exposed. He could easily leap up and drive a claw into her. Yet he resisted the urge. She... made him feel motivated. Encouraged. Maybe even... empowered?
"Why not take essence from alive things? Then they are alive to take essence from again." Brightwing kept healing.
"I must slay them to gather their essence. Essence can best be taken in death." Dehaka looked at a gash in his skin shrink.
"Oh, that is a shame. But we can still be friends, right friend?" She finished healing.
"..." Dehaka hesitated. He didn't want to give up on collecting her essence.
"I can help you to collect essence!"
"Yes. We can be... friends. Whatever those are." Dehaka said.
"Yay! I will come and visit you, friend!"