theblueintheday | Something They Become

Prompt #: 111
Title of your fic: Something They Become
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 12,405
Warning/s: blood, character death, language, violence
Summary: Zitao understood and embraced his duty as a protector. All he believed he needed to know was that Elder Bairns must be destroyed.
Author Notes: I really loved the anime this prompt came from. I watched it all as well as the off-shoots from other studios, because they're all roughly based on the same animated story, which is honestly pretty amazing. It had been a long while, though, since I watched it, and I wanted to keep the general idea but not just rewrite the anime. I did take some quotes right from the anime that seemed key and/or important. Otherwise, this is me working out my frustration over oblivious anime characters and their dumb decisions.
While writing, I mostly watched the Die Hard movies, so there may be less Saya and more Bruce Willis.

This was written by

canadaphile for the

animexodom fest.

Tuesday morning, Zitao dragged himself out of bed, blindly dressed himself, and tripped out of the house with his shoes on the wrong feet, shirt untucked, and bag unzipped.

For this fest I wrote 星光.