Chapter 9
Broken
It is almost noon and Rakasa is sitting down writing and re-writing peace terms that will be soon delivered to Hyrule Castle. It listed off many things about how the Kin of Monkin city were just ordinary citizens wanting a normal life. And about how it was practically the same thing as being Zoras or Gorons.
A few days ago over at Zora's Domain, Varrik hands the letter from Princess Zelda over to Mipha. Mipha reads the paper and says, "What is this? I did not expect the Princess to do something like this…The Princess wants me to act at noon in two days." Varrik still kneeling on the ground says "I believe that the city can be negotiated with… and with such an order… please…" Mipha stops him and says "I understand… i know what could happen if we do not do as instructed… but also it could end badly if we do…" Varrik looks at Mipha and says, "Please, i beg of you… do what you believe is right.."
Rakasa takes a quick break from writing, he stands up and begins to stretch. He looks out the window and sees that is roughly noon. When he sits back down, he notices a small red dot on the wall, Rakasa brushes it off thinking it is probably just a splotch. Less than a minute later he happens to look again, but this time there were two red dots. Rakasa Slips the letter into his pocket and walks up to the dots, but they disappear. He moves around a little and they reappear, he moves his hand over the dot. The dot is now on his hand. Rakasa knows what this is, he runs over to his window and sees two small shapes quite a distance off. Rakasa begins to tremble, he jumps out his window and runs to the city bell in the center of the city near the Goddesses statue. The emergency bells are ringing and the city is in panic, Rakasa is shouting at the top of his lungs, "Run! Get out of the City Now! Move! Take nothing and go!" he then thought to himself, ' i never even anticipated this, how could this happen'.
Three Divine Beasts, Charge, and fire upon Monkin City.
Rakasa sees the beams coming in at a fast rate. Time seems to slow down. He begins to run away himself now. Kohga is on the ground crying, he hurt knee from falling over. Rakasa notices him, he takes a quick glance behind him and the beams are already impacting Rakasa's Personal home. Rakasa grabs Kohga and holds the child in his arms protecting him from the blast that is about to hit.
Mipha is walking up the steps of Hyrule City, when she hears a whooshing sound. She turns her head and sees the Divine Beast's beams and rushes to a ledge. Mipha witnesses a large explosion far off in the Akkala Region. Mipha slumps down and says, "I'm too late." Varrik places his hand on his forehead and begins to shake his head back and forth.
Sir Gregory is holding a cup in his hand and gives a large smirk at the explosion.
When the Beams of light hit Monkin city, the entire city is obliterated in the one blast. The pressure from the blast caused Rakasa and Kohga to sail over 300 feet in the air. Rakasa lands on his back with Kohga in his arms. When Rakasa lands, he coughs up blood and falls motionless. Kohga rolls off of Rakasa's body. Kohga is badly bruised, but he is alive. A fourth of all of the Kin in the city that day, burned alive. Rakasa opens his eyes and sees the city set ablaze. "No!" he gurgles with blood dripping out of his mouth. Rakasa pushes himself up against a rock, and then stands.
Rakasa pulls out the letter from his pocket. He stares at it, then looks up at Monkin City. Rakasa crumples the letter in his fist and drops it into the pool of blighted blood. Rakasa trembles and growls "If… This…. Is how you want to play…. Then so be it."
Rakasa's skin begins to shift and change colors, he begins to turn into blight himself. Kohga sees what Rakasa is turning into, Kohga is laying on the ground unable to move still, he rasped out "Rakaaa… You're Scaring me…" Rakasa then turns into a large Blighted-Darknut shaped Beast just as tall as Hyrule Castle itself. He starts to run to Hyrule City.
A large force of Guardians are on their way to Monkin city to clean up whatever didn't die. Rakasa sees them and forces his blight to make a large broadsword in his left hand. With one fell swoop, half of the guardians are crushed and the ground beneath them split open. The living guardians begin to fire their beams as fast as possible, Rakasa is constantly being pelted with their shots. Rakasa raises his arms and comes straight down on the guardians, destroying the rest of them, but also breaking his large weapon in two. The top half of the sword fell to the ground and became a large mass of the blight. After a few minutes of constant running, Rakasa came across Hyrule City. All of the Hylians below begin to run and scatter. Rakasa had no interest in the common folk, he walked over the Walls of Hyrule Castle and impaled his broken blade into the side of the Castle. Rakasa turns his monstrous head and sees Link standing in the courtyard.
Rakasa gives out a mighty roar, unable to control himself in his rage, he raises his left hand and begins to draw in negative energy for a blast that would instantly kill anything near him that was alive. Link looks up at the beast, there was nothing he could do to stop what was about to occur. However, fate led to another calling. As Rakasa is charging his blast, he happens to see someone else. Rakasa sees Mipha Trembling at the sight of RakaBlight. Rakasa's Mind begins to play out.
-The scorched Book opens, and from a child's voice reads:
Mipha… The kindest person that i have ever known… I am about to end her life… She doesn't deserve this… But neither did my Kin deserve to be killed and kicked from their homes. Then i looked down and saw myself, Link… 'I do not want to kill myself, the true version of me…' after i thought that, i heard a voice, it said "Just finish it, you have lost everything. Burn with Rage, Take Your Revenge!" No… this is not right… i have not lost everything.. We may have lost a city, but Kohga… "Rakaaa… You're Scaring me" i remember him saying this… i still have Little Kohga, and plenty of my Kin. We can always just rebuild… The voice grew louder and shouted out "No! Kill, Kill Everything! Everyone! Hate hate hate…" I finally realize that what is talking to me is the calamity. In the Depths of fighting my soul against its soul, My soul unsheathed a mental sword and plunged it deep into the Calamity. Everything around us seemed to stop. I Drew my blade from his chest, and roared as loud as i could. The entire battlefield seemed to pause as I, the RakaBlight, began to slowly disappear.-
All of a sudden, The RakaBlight stopped. The energy it was charging in its hands dissipates, and the beast looks like ashes are blowing off of its skin. The beast said in a soft faint voice, "Remember… We did not start this war…" Mipha stops trembling and watches the beast walk in the direction of Akkala.
Every step Rakasa took, he got smaller and smaller. He went from the size of Hyrule Castle, to the size of a Stone Talus, by the time he reached where Monkin city was. All of the Kin watch as the RakaBlight shrank, then it fell over and disappeared entirely. Zalfon Ran over to where the beast was and found Rakasa Lying on the ground barely conscious. Steven carries Kohga over to Rakasa, and Rakasa says "I'm sorry… I'm sorry little Kohga…" Kohga stands and slowly shuffles his bruised body over to Rakasa. Kohga puts his hand on Rakasa's shoulder and asks "What are we going to do now Raka?" Rakasa then replied "I Don't Know…. I Don't Know…" Tears begin to roll down Rakasa's cheeks, he then Weeps loudly, and in Kohga's eyes, the tears well up.
Zalfon places his hand on Rakasa's other shoulder. Zalfon starts to Howl. Bokozho, Bokolio, and Bokotalo all place their hands on Zalfon and Kohga's shoulders. One by one every single Kin places their hands on one another's shoulders. They all begin to howl together in unison. The Howling echoes throughout all of Hyrule. Urbosa, Zelda, Link, Revali, Durak, Varrik, and Mipha, they were all able to hear it. The entire world, felt the Cries of mere monsters, echo in their hearts.