Daylight Through the Darkness (A Redemption Story)

by Celestial-Lorekeeper

One day Jim asks Blinky a question that in answering reveals a story of the past, when Darkness threatened the world and a war was fought. And how when night was darkest an unexpected ray of daylight, meeting an understanding heart and listening ear, would turn the tide of everything. (Blinky/Aaarrrggghh! meeting, no pairings, rated T for battle scenes but no gore)

16. The Taste of Peace was Sweet Indeed (B)

The taste of peace was sweet indeed. Blinkous tipped his head back in those first few moments after Deya closed the bridge, eyes closing as he basked in the feeling. The war against the Gumm-Gumms was over, he'd somehow survived, and he would go home.

Wherever home ended up being, as Gunmar's birth had destroyed the Heartstone, but they'd cross that bridge when they came to it.

Looking down he scanned his amber eyes over the army, and after a brief, heart-stopping moment finally found Kanjigar among the warriors and also looking around rather hurriedly. Blinkous smiled and waved with one hand to get his friend's attention, calling out as well.

"Kanjigar! Up here!" Kanjigar looked up and even at his height Blinkous could see his relieved grin.

"I thought you'd hide in the caverns, not on them!" the warrior laughed. He was limping, Blinkous noted, and holding one arm close to his body as well as showing other minor wounds. But he was standing and walking under his own power so the injuries couldn't be too serious.

"Well, the situation being what it was I was forced to improvise," the other laughed back. It felt like everything was finally right with the world.

"Hey! There's one left!"

The call had Blinkous' gaze snapping towards the source, where he saw the general being surrounded by no less than a dozen warriors, each with weapons drawn. They weren't attacking him, rather with prods to the back and unspoken threats moving him towards the Bridge and Deya. Given that everyone knew about the general's actions, the scholar could hardly fathom what their intentions were.

That is until they reached the Trollhunter. The general had been passive through all this, as if unafraid or unconcerned with it. From his vantage point Blinkous could hear what Deya said, and the calls from the other warriors clearly told their opinions. A look at Kanjigar reassured him that the warrior echoed his own sentiments as he was trying to push through the press, but his injuries were hindering him.

"Now, what in Merlin's name am I to do with you?" he heard Deya muse aloud, and after everything that had happened Blinkous realized he couldn't stay silent in the face of renewed cries for imprisonment and death.

"I am appalled at what I am hearing!"