Fictif Last Legacy: x reader oneshots

You need to team up with Rime to save Felix

And you realise with horror what he's about to do, what you can't let him do, not before realising who he's truly facing.

Felix's stare travels right through Rime, because the only person Rime is tied to in this world is you. The Astrolabe resides in your heart, you're the only one who can see him.

And while Rime may have underestimated Felix, you haven't.

"Felix, stop!" you shout. You leap to your feet, throwing your arms around his chest as you try to drag him back toward the writhing portal, tendrils of black now whipping from its edges. But Felix doesn't miss the terror in your voice, and the necromancer has infinite more experience with incorporeal beings than you.

"Stop!" you scream, "it's-"

But Felix's hands are already tracing a sigil in the air, the room darkening as every particle of light seems sucked toward Felix's fingers. With a final, relentless gesture, Felix releases his invocation, a tangled welt of lightning that streaks toward Rime's chest.

You catch the small, almost surprised expression on Rime's face, before the magic sends him reeling backwards, he trips over his own legs and curses ungracefully as he tumbles into the bookshelves.

"Felix!" you yell incoherently as Felix goes down too, the spell seems to have gutted whatever energy he had left, his body already weakened by poison. Rime sounds like he's in enough pain that he's being sick, but Felix starts trembling on the floor, the unstable portal slowly beginning to collapse in on itself.

"I've got you! I've got you," your hands are feverishly clasping at Felix's shirt. But you don't, even with your power returned, every time you reach for Felix's lifeforce it seems to twist away, intangible as threads of smoke and fading fast. He's damaged himself too badly, everything that's left of his spirit seems to be slipping, bleeding out of him like some horrible, intangible pool. Your nails are digging so deeply into Felix's shoulders that you fear you'll draw blood. But you're not near experienced enough, you're pouring all your magic into him and it's dispersing just as fast.

He's stepped too deep into the void, and the void holds on to nothing and no one.

Then Felix stops shuddering, and for a moment you can't breathe. You're suffocating as you no longer have control of your power, you can feel yourself draining but nothing on this earth will make you pull away. Maybe if you go far enough you can reach him.

Maybe you can tell him... that you don't think he's ridiculous, or not tall enough, that you never thought him self-absorbed. If he dedicated the last five years to never giving up on someone, then he's the most selfless person you know.

Vaguely, you can hear a sound, swiftly echoing footsteps behind you. Then far less vaguely, you feel a blinding pain explode in the middle of your chest, as if someone was reaching through your heart with a hand of ice, wrenching you back to your knees. A surge of white hot power alights every sense in your body, as if every sound or breath was a living being, heat and cold bursting over your skin.

"Don't give up!" a voice snarls sharply, and with searing clarity, you realise that this is Rime's power. He can't touch Felix but he can touch you, and now he's lending you the whole of his strength in order to save him. The force of it is nauseating, his ability overwhelming you and the broken seams of Felix's body no more than ideas to be tied together.

...to think the Astrolabe would choose another healer... Felix once told you.

...Rime was the best of us... Anisa's voice now.

...the first to earn a Relic... you hear Sage's fond laugh.

You feel Rime's other hand at your shoulder, keeping you steady. Bringing you back.

Felix's chest rises off the ground as his spine arches unnaturally, the darkness clearing from his eyes as he starts choking and gasping for air.

Rime gently removes his hand from your back as you whip around to face him. You see he's struggling to draw each breath too, his inhale a ragged, guttural sound and his strawberry hair plastered to his face with sweat.

Rime looks into your eyes and you see bitter sorrow, something there so haunted that you can't look away. You see a captain who'd never stop believing in you, a teammate who'd take the worst jobs when you were a member down, the last medic to leave sick bay of an evening. The Astrolabe tugs within you as Rime gives an involuntary sob, his expression once again seizing into something hungry and sublime.

Rime raises his hand, but instead of the blow you're expecting, he aims a bolt of energy toward the last sputter of Felix's portal, opening it wide and spinning. With everything he has left, Rime seizes you with one hand and Felix with the other, throwing you both inside the portal.

The last thing you see as the portal closes is Rime laughing viciously, tears streaming down his face as he collapses to his hands and knees, his anger ghastly and his despair wrung taut.

And as the sun alights from its lofty zenith... the fortune Rime once shared with you echoes in your memory. ...the sea and streets shall run red as the sky above.

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