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[dawnedon]

Calamity Emissary - BOTW Verse

Dawn grew up in Castle Town, immersed in the bustling life of the close-knit town. Her mother, Ayako, ran a sizeable store towards the central hub of the town, while her father, Oliver, was a Sheikah researcher that worked directly in Hyrule’s castle. He worked tirelessly to uncover the secrets and mysteries of the guardians and Divine Beasts. This meant Oliver was away from home quite often, and spent countless hours in the castle working with other researchers.

Ayako often tried getting Dawn to run the store, or to help her out. She would always talk about how Dawn would be the one to inherit her mother’s store, but Dawn was a restless child and preferred to run around the streets of Castle Town with the other kids her age instead of being tied down by responsibility. It wasn’t like Ayako needed the help, having managed the store just fine before Dawn was born, even. It created some animosity between them, Dawn eagerly clinging to her father’s side when he was home and taking interest in his research.

As time passed, things in the world began to shift more. There was talk of monsters getting closer to the protected town, and attacking people on main roads even. Something was beginning to happen, and researchers speculated the Calamity, once sealed long in the past, was beginning to come back and grip Hyrule in its influence. Oliver had taken a trip up to Zora’s Domain to help with some tweaks on Vah Ruta, when he was ambushed by monsters on the way back. Those who left a day after him found no trace of the researcher, and knights from the castle went looking for him upon their return. They found nothing at the time either, beyond a set of cracked glasses that belonged to him.

The disappearance, and likely death of Oliver pushed Dawn to leave home, being much older now. She and her mother got into a heated argument, which involved Ayako throwing objects towards Dawn. A shard of glass sliced across her hand, and Dawn left in a huff afterwards.

She lived in some stables near Castle Town for a while, leaving every now and then to explore despite the looming and growing dangers. For the time being, Dawn helped out at the stables where she could to earn some rupees, wanting to use them in order to travel and perhaps find her father.

Everything came to spiral downwards, however, when the Calamity struck. It resurrected with a great, earth-shattering ferocity, and it became clear to Dawn something was going wrong. The Divine Beasts, the Guardians, they should have been enough to push it back... but once glowing blue lights on the Beasts were a deep red, and the Guardians were in a similar state.

Dawn immediately ran back to Castle Town, not because she was worried for Ayako, but because she recalled her father had some research that might be able to help turn the tide. She wasn’t sure what was going on, but something was clearly very, very wrong. The town was overran by Guardians, the very mechanisms that were supposed to help aid Hyrule in the fight. Buildings and homes were collapsed and burning, and those that survived the initial onslaught fled the city in droves. The center of the city took the worst hit, around where Ayako’s shop was, and even their home that was situated in the residential areas was collapsed.

The door was jammed shut with debris, and Dawn couldn’t even enter through the window either. Plumes of smoke rose into the sky, choking out the sun. She could hear the screams of her neighbors as everything around her burned and was destroyed. Guardians roamed the streets, moving through the wreckage with ease. The noise of the metallic claws on the pavement rang out in her mind, and Dawn could hardly react before a laser tore through her chest and abdomen.

By all rights, Dawn should have been dead then and there. The strike missed her heart, fortunately, but the blood loss was already too much. The last thing she remembered was trying to hold it in, and collapsing.

The Calamity was her end, though it was her savior. Malice had grown across Castle Town, and that Malice was what healed her, invading her body and lingering there. She rest among the Malice, in a comatose state, as it slowly healed her over the following years.

With the damage to her body being negated, Dawn would awaken years upon years later. She rest in a great sea of Malice, pulling herself out much to her horror. The wound to her chest was completely healed, only a nasty scar remaining in it’s place. Streaks of red and purple flowed from the scar, from the influence of the Malice, and she could hear whispers of the Calamity in the back of her mind. It had healed her, and found a place in her body, yet it could not corrupt her wholly.

Dawn left Castle Town in a hurry, finding the corrupt Guardians that still roamed the decrepit town did not attack her, even when they looked her way. It was the same story for the mobs that roamed the lands of Hyrule. They left her be, and if anything, were amicable and friendly towards her. They looked to her as a leading figure, in a way, and Dawn realized they would fight for her.

This garnered her negative attention from the citizens of Hyrule, and rumors began cropping up about her. About the Calamity, and what dwelt within. She was a vessel for a piece of the Calamity, and Dawn withdrew from Hyrule’s society as much as possible.

On the flipside, the infamous Yiga Clan set their eyes on her. Many members tried approaching her, trying to kidnap her and draw out whatever pieces of the Calamity rest within her.

She went towards Mount Lanaryu, finding solace in the harsh mountain, and surprisingly, in the dragon that resided there. For one reason or another, Dawn could communicate with Naydra, and found companionship in the dragon. They were in a similar state, both weighed down by Malice and corruption. They both suffered the same pain and agony. Naydra shared a piece of their power with Dawn, the power over ice. It meant she could survive upon the harsh chill of the mountain, Naydra not having to worry about their one and only friend perishing from the elements.

Dawn spent many hours meditating in the cold waters of the Spring of Wisdom, feeling animosity and strangely enough, pity, from the goddess statue. She vowed to find a way to save both Naydra and herself from the Malice, and promised she would be back to the mountain.

During her travels across Hyrule again, she heard legends of the Hero of Hyrule being awake once more, and soon began to see the Divine Beasts were back under control. The red lights that one shone as harbingers were blue, beaming down upon Hyrule Castle.

And then, the Calamity was no more. Dawn had thought with the Calamity now gone, that it would have been eradicated from her as well, but.... it wasn’t. She still heard the disembodied voice of Ganon in the back of her mind, and the Calamity truly wasn’t gone. Just as it was ten thousand years in the past, pieces of it still remained, within Hyrule, and within Dawn too.