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His cub hates him.
His little brother, his cub, wild.
He hates him.
He saved him, he did the only thing that he could to keep him alive.
He broke his trust. He betrayed him.
He had too. He had too.
Twilight couldn’t let his cub die, it would destroy him. He lost Midna he didn’t want to lose his cub too. He loves him too much.
Wild hating him hurts worse than anything he’s ever experienced before. His heart hurts constantly, every beat feels like it’s trying to escape a too small box. A small fist fit in an even smaller box. Ordonna it hurts.
His other brothers (friends now he guesses), won’t even let him near him. Not even to talk to him. Even if they had wild won’t let him near without freaking out.
After they leave wild with flora and go through that portal that takes him away from his cub, he thought things would get better with his brothers. It doesn’t. Some still ignore him, others don’t but they aren’t as friendly with him. His relationships are forever changed and it kills him inside. His mentor, basically father figure in this group, even changed how he treats him.
When they got to times hyrule malon greets him the same. It helps a little but the aching heart tearing pain is still there. He doesn’t say anything to her, he’s gone quiet again he doesn’t really talk to anyone now adays, just walks to the back of the house to the barn to be with Epona. She greets him the exact same as she always does.
As he’s grooming her the ache he feels becomes overwhelming and he breaks right there with epona. Crying silent ugly sobs, his ribs hurt, his eyes and head ache. He feels like he’s being torn apart by all the things that have happened in the past month since he saved wild.
He’s lost everything.
Everything.
Epona knickers softly and shoves her face into his shoulder. Trying to comfort him. He knows she doesn’t know what happened. Can’t understand what happened.
He stops crying abruptly. Would his emotions dull if he was Wolfie? Could he escape this emotional and physical pain? He hasn’t shifted as much recently, not feeling a need as his secrets out and the others still don’t treat him with the same kindness they once had. Was it worth a shot?
He thought so.
He felt the change immediately. He still hurts, but it’s not heart rendering like before. He’s just tired, he has no desire to do anything.
So he curls up next to Epona and sleeps.
—
He wakes when his name is called from time who’s standing at the stable door. He looks over lethargically not wanting to really move but knowing he has to.
“Foods ready twilight. Come to the house.” Times tone is neutral, not filled with warmth like it used to be, it doesn’t hurt as much, it still hurts and he just feels more tired.
He gets up and walks behind time as they go to the house. When they get in time looks at him, twilight knows he expects him to change back and eat with them but all he does is walk past him and lay on the floor behind his chair at the table. He sees time frown but in the end time just sighs and sits in his own seat.
The others glance at him, malon is the only one who actually looks concerned. He hurts more. He hoped it would help, at least he can’t cry, that’s a plus for him. He closes his eyes and sleeps.
It goes on like this for days, he stays a wolf so he doesn’t talk to anyone. It’s not like they want to talk to him anyway. He doesn’t have an appetite and doesn’t eat full meals, he just sleeps.
Legend has yelled at him more than once accusing him of avoiding his consequences by being an unfeeling animal. It hurts. He can still feel, he feels strong but he just doesn’t have the energy anymore to do anything. So he just huffs and closes his eyes sleeping some more.
It’s not healthy he knows, being a wolf for this long but it helps. He never wants to go back if it means he doesn’t have to feel like he’s dying at the meer thought of his cub.
Time eventually starts to grow concerned, Twilights been a wolf for three weeks. Twilight can see his mentors worry but he has grown so lethargic recently that he can’t even find it in him to care. He just wants his cub, he can’t have his cub ever again.
He’s in pain, agony, over that fact. He hates himself more.
It comes to a head one day, they’ve had to start carrying twilight and they get ambushed by strong monsters.
By they he means warriors and time, legend won’t touch him, he’s still angry and thinks twilights being a terrible person. The others, sky, wind, four, and hyrule aren’t strong enough to move his slowing dwindling weight of 260.
It’s been days since he’s eaten anything, he’s just been to tired. A few days ago when he didn’t eat anything at all for the first time the others started to visibly worry. He doesn’t know if they were worried before hand as they probably hid it but he’s just been sleeping so he doesn’t know for sure.
It had finally sank in that his cub will never forgive him and he’s lost his whole family over it. He’s surrounded by people he loves with all his heart but he’s alone.
When the monsters show up time, (who had been carrying him at the time) has to put him down so he can fight. He stands over him protectively.
He doesn’t deserve it.
He does nothing.
There’s a sharp tug on his tail and it hurts enough he lets out a high pitched yelp. Times too slow. Twilight gets dragged away into the trees, the others shout.
He still does nothing.
He deserves whatever is coming. He knows he does. He just closes his eyes and waits for death.
Nothing happens.
He opens one eye and sees his cub.
Alive
Healthy
Wild glares at him after he dispatches whatever had grabbed him in the first place.
Twilights hope that his cub would forgive him dissipated as fast as it had come on. His tail, which had started to thump the ground at the site of his cub, stops and lies still. His ears droop and he feels his heart break. It shattered as the small slice of hope he had left that wild would still love him, that he might have forgiven him is shattered with that one glare from his cub.
He wants to die.
His cub hates him and he doesn’t know how he can go on.
He closes his eyes and doesn’t move. He hopes a monster gets him so he never has to see his cubs hate filled glare again. His only solice is his cubs alive.
—
The others find him and wild a few minutes later. They are all over joyed to have wild back. Wild tells them what happened recently but twilight doesn’t pay attention. He just lays there.
His ear twitches when he hears wild ask about him, a small hope trying to take root, but it’s dashed when after the others tell him what’s been happening with him all his cub does is hum and change the subject. Eventually time picks him up again and they set off.
They go through portal after portal, dropping twilight below trees when they need to fight, trying to force him to eat anything, to drink anything. Even wild has started making his favorite food trying to get him to eat. He still does nothing and after two days of wild being back his breathing becomes labored.
He knows what’s happening, he’s seen it before in one of the villagers old dogs.
He’s dying.
He’s relieved. The others can trust each other when he’s gone. No longer worrying about being betrayed. He won’t be here to betray them. They’ll be happy.
His cub will no longer be forced to be in the same group as the one who betrayed him.
He drifts, not paying attention to anything. Time passing in untrackable amounts. He hears frantic voices. Yelling, some crying? No they wouldn’t cry over him.
He can’t breathe.
He hears his name, he knows this person.
He’s surrounded by those he loves, those whose trust he broke..
He dies feeling more alone then he ever had before.…