Dead Tribute RP
Out of the blue, Bimala woke up to a sudden, agonising pain. She shrieked, trying to get to her feet and run, and came face to face with Eternity and another Mirror. She felt blood drip down her body, no doubt from a slash wound, probably rather deep. As she scrambled and tried to run, the pair of dragons didn't relent in their attacks, slashing her countless times. As the pain eventually grew too much to bear, she collapsed onto the ground, the light fading from her eyes.
Teacher, please forgive me. I couldn't make you proud after all.
When Bimala awoke, she found she was in her own clan. Startled, she shot up. How did she get here? Wasn't she in the Arena? As she noticed the lack of wounds on her body, the realisation finally dawned on her.
I'm dead. This is, what, my soul? How did it get here? As she wandered around, planning to get her last look at her clan before finally going to meet the Windsinger, she noticed a sight that gave her pause.
Her mentor was before her. The scrying mirror broadcasting the Games had been thrown to one side, and it was clearly broken. Her mentor was curled up, and Bimala was stunned to see tears rolling down his face, the first time she had ever seen him cry. The only sounds he let out were stifled sobs and there seemed to be no one beside him, though a set of footprints leading out of thr area suggested another dragon had left the area.
What...? This wasn't what I expected when I died! Do I really...want this to be the last time I ever see him? As if answering her own question, Bimala's form turned around, facing the direction of the Arena, and sprinted as fast as it could.
This was the fastest Bimala had ever run in her life. Sights that normally took a while to reach were now blazing by, and in what seemed like a few minutes, Bimala found herself bordering the Icefields and before the vast stretch of sea leading to the rest of Sornieth. As she felt a wind beneath her wings gently push her up, Bimala flew as fast as she ran, not thinking about anything. Not the sight of her mentor crying, not how she got to her clan, not where the wind beneath her wings came from. All she could think about was how much she wanted to live, and as her corpse appeared before Bimala's eyes and she made contact with it, all she hoped against hope that she would wake up once more.
Windsinger above, everything hurt. Bimala wanted nothing more than to go to sleep and escape the agonising pain she fel-
Wait,
felt? That meant-!
The Mirror's eyes shot open, refusing to blink even as the sun temporarily blinded her. As her eyes slowly adjusted to the light, Bimala saw that she was back in the Arena, and never had she so badly wanted to cry before.
She was
alive! Something, deity or not, had shown mercy to her, and here she was, alive and breathing! The sight of the Arena before her, the feeling of the wind lightly brushing against her, heck, even the painful sting of her wounds were all the most wonderful things she had ever felt, all of them reminders that she wasn't dead. She slowly stood up, gritting her teeth as her wounds screamed in protest, and glanced over her body. Her wounds had stopped bleeding by a miracle, though the they hadn't started to close yet. They had yet to stop hurting too, a fact which was very obvious. Doing her best to ignore the pain, Bimala carefully took a step forward, breathing harshly as her wounds did everything in their power to stop her from wanting to take another step. Slowly, one step turned into two which turned to three, and eventually Bimala was going at a steady walk forward. She needed to do a lot of things now, find a way to escape, find her friends, find Magnus too, he wasn't there when she was attacked and she didn't see him when she came back. Well, for now, all she could do was continue moving forward one step at a time.
You tried your best, Bimala. Even though you didn't make it as far as Mela, I'm still proud of you.