Blaze lands his ship just on the border of a lush forest. He had recently heard rumors of something living in the forest attacking people, sometimes even towns, and that survivors said they looked like a hero. Of course, nobody had really cared about checking this out, so Blaze decided to. Not like he was doing much else. He trudged through the forest, the ground muddy from rain the night before, hearing the sound of birds, and the constant splat of his cane on the mud. Sunlight streamed through the branches, keeping all but the areas most condensed with trees lit up. The large forest eventually gave way to a grove in the center, where a man with green armor, helmet off, stood. The man was surrounded by bodies, and stood next to a smoldering fire. It almost seemed like the man was standing in what was left of the fire. He stood facing away from Blaze, with black hair matter against his head...... that hair seemed familiar. Blaze stood just outside the grove, before taking his rapier out of his cane, and sneaking up on this man. This man had to be the one attacking people, so end it fast, and he could get on his way. Once he was three feet away from the man, they suddenly turned, maybe due to good hearing, or just luck. Whatever it was, after he turned, Blaze stopped immediately. It was.......him? But, he was missing an eye, the socket instead filled with a black lotus. His face seemed scarred up, and it almost looked like from the neck down, he was fused to his green armor. The armor was also weird, it seemed like it was twisting and moving. Before Blaze had a chance to attack, the man quickly jumped back before speaking. “Oh,hehehehehe.” The thing starts laughing. “It’s you! ow, i guess i shouwd say me!” The thing laughs harder, almost doubling over. “You wook wike you’ve seen a ghost!” “I...... what?” Blaze looks confused. “Why are you me?” His grip loosens on his rapier. “Hahaha! do you not wemembew the faww? thewe was stiww a body. A body to use.” The thing chuckles. “It was not easy fow him to make me, you wewe bawewy mowe then a paste. Aww that couwd be sawvaged was the head and an eye.” The thing leans against a tree. “But.......I am here! I’m not dead! Whatever. I’ll deal with you then head back to my ship.” Blaze said, regaining some of his composure. “Ha.” It’s laugh, upon listening, sounded husky, almost with the sound of dry, dead grass rubbing against itself. “Thewe’s one thing though. I am you. That incwudes memowies, but i feew no emotions. Hopefuwwy you can piece that togethew.” “That..... why would that matter?” Blaze takes a few steps towards him. “It means this!” The thing says, a large grin forming on his face. A vine plunged itself into the ground, before many more appeared a few feet away. They twisted and tangled themselves together, slowly forming a humanoid looking creature. “What is tha-......” Blaze’s blood goes cold as the creature begins to take shape. It’s shoulders broaden, eyes form, and soon it looked..........it looked like Dink. “I......w-what?” “Yes. It’s youw good owd paw dink! i can even......” The thing stops speaking, and then the creature’s mouth begins to move. “Why did you abandon me?!” It yelled. “Why did you leave me behind!?” “I......” Blaze almost drops his rapier. “Tell me!?” The same husky laughter comes from the thing. “I... I didn’t.....” Blaze falls onto his knees, mud staining his clothes, and he starts to cry. The laughter gets louder.....or has it gotten softer? He couldn’t tell. All he could hear were the same words, again and again. “Why did you abandon me? Why did you abandon me? Why did you abandon me?” Slowly, everything but those words were drowned out, and slowly, another place was brought into focus. [url=https://youtu.be/NlKxO0iwI_8]0:00-30[/url] Slowly, where there was trees became sandstone pillars. The ground beneath him became sandstone, and where the campfire was, rose, with steps leading onto the new podium, and embers formed together to make a glowing tablet. The thing seemed to know what Blaze saw, and the creature that looked like Dink walked up to the podium, smiling. He touches the tablet, and seems to absorb it, absorb the embers. Blaze hears a slam, and chunks of sandstone begin to fall. “BLAZE!” He hears Dink’s voice. “PLEASE, HELP ME!” Blaze runs forward, but sandstone falls in front of him, had it been closer, he would have been killed. He.......he starts to run out of the temple. “BLAZE! PLEASE!” Pain and loss start to be heard in Dink’s voice. Blaze keeps running. He can’t look back. When he gets out, the temple fully collapses. Blaze keeps running, not wanting to deal with what just happened. When he is leaving the planet, he sees news of Dink attacking the capitol, and runs again. He ran, and hurt Dink badly. He hurt Dink. He ruined their friendship. Soon, the scene melts away again, and the trees begin to form together, and start to look silvery, along with the ground. He grabs his rapier......or was it handed to him? The creature was standing across from him, embers........no, magic at his fingertips. Blaze quick pushes in, wanting this to end, but he is grabbed by his throat. He......he can’t stab him. “Why did you abandon me?!” It says. There’s the sound of that husky laughter...... or maybe it’s doors opening. “I.....I didn’t..........” Blaze can barely breathe. He was back with his failiure. He was back, back where he screwed everything up, like he would do again eventually. His vision starts to go black in the corners but......he hears something. Someone yelling at him. It’s Six....... What is she be yelling at him for? But then, Blaze remembers. [url=https://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/256010255/0/0/1]He remembers what she told him[/url]. He....... he screwed up. But...... he can’t not fight. Dink is gone......but.......he can’t make another Dink. He might not be able to save Dink........and he might have to kill him......but...... he just can’t run away. Blaze’s grip tightens on his rapier. The doors opening..... no, that’s the things laughter. The floor looks......tarnished. Blaze grabs his rapier, and stabs it into the creature. Quickly, the walls split apart, and look like trees. The ground becomes more and more tarnished until it looks like dirt and mud. He’s dropped, and feels the mud on his legs again. He gasps for air. The thing is still laughing. It hasn’t seen..... it hasn’t seen that it’s creature has turned back into vines. Blaze picks himself up, and holds his rapier tightly. [url=https://youtu.be/NlKxO0iwI_8]00:38-end[/url] He dashed towards the thing.....no, Bwaze. That’s what it’s name is. It’s still laughing. It gets a cut on its arm, and recoils. “What? you’we ovewcome with sadness by Dink?! how awe you....” it jumps back. “You are me, before I met people here. Mostly, before I met someone named Six.” Blaze keeps pushing in while Bwaze is confused. “Oh, so it’s the powew of fwiendship?” Bwaze pulls out a rapier of his own. It is Blaze’s, but the rapier is made of sharpened grass. “No. Well, partially, but its also your friends telling you when you’re an ass. It’s your friends.... or anyone, really, telling you that you screwed up, but that you can be better, as simple of a lesson that is.” Blaze goes right through a part of Bwaze’s armor, stabbing their torso. Bwaze recoils at the cut, making space. “You had nobody! you stayed awone fow two yeaws! thewe is no way you couwd have gotten even hawf decent fwiends in a few months!” They stab, and cut through Blaze’s thigh, but he doesn’t care. He wants this to be over. “Sucks you don’t beleive that, but you aren’t half as smart as me, even with poly helping you!” Blaze sends one last stab, electrifying his rapier, and hits right in its lotus eye. While he does, Bwaze hits him with a stab to the same leg as before. “........” Bwaze goes silent. It slumps to the ground, with its armor quickly withering. Soon, only the head remains, but it splits into pieces, like it was being held together. Blaze stomps on the black lotus, making sure it’s fully dead. He feels his leg throb, and all the pain rushes to him. He grabs his cane quickly, and makes the trek to his ship. (End music) He could barely remember the trip to his ship, only that he bandaged his leg before sleeping. He wakes up, leg throbbing like after his fight with Dink. He didn’t mind remembering. It hurt, but now, Six’s words were engraved into his brain. He limped into the other room, and grabbed his cane. He worked for an hour, after thinking for its own hour, and finally made something. On his cane, right below where he held it, was a engraving of a tablet. Something to remind him of his mistake, but that he was also better now. “Is that good enough Six?” He says to himself. [spoiler] So, thank you Aifos for that great thing of Six yelling at Blaze, both for writing it and letting me use it![/spoiler] [spoiler]Please leave criticisms![/spoiler]