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Hawke Fade Away	By : HunterOpera Category: +A through F > Dragon Age (all) > Dragon Age (all) Views: 22975 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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“What?” Orsino asked.
Hawke could see the cracks in him now, the little flaws that came from a world that conformed to expectation rather than to itself. She grinned, gripping the burning lyrium in her hand and crushing it with her palm. It shattered into black flakes that spun around them all in a slow circle, caught in the breath of her enemy.
Orsino gasped, the mages around her backing away as Hawke stood and stalked towards him, shoving him backward and looming over his fallen frame. Meredith paled where she stood, crackling away; both of them were long dead and no threat to anyone, especially not to her.
She was the Champion of Kirkwall and this was so far past all of this. Laughing, she took a step forward as he stumbled and lost his balance, falling, his body shattering into billowing ash as he hit the stone beneath them.
“I know this is the Fade!” Hawke roared. The ceiling and walls and city began to crumble, revealing the green miasma above as she lifted her hands above her head.
The Gallows spiralled into ash around her as the magic answered her call, the Nightmare's mandibles frozen in shock. Some of the Gallows-ash she called to herself, turning it into her armor, her staff, her eyes blazing with an intoxicating power that was unlike anything she had ever felt before.
“What is this?” the Nightmare howled, scuttling back a step.
Hawke grinned.
“You only know what people fear,” she grinned fierce, eyes narrowing as light danced along her fingers, “not what people learn when they're not so scared, and I know so many things.”
“You knew and you let that happen to you?”
“I'm in love with Fenris and Anders.” Hawke swept her hands wide, self-deprecation in her smile. Lightning scoured the sky, slamming into the massive spider, searing its flesh into a smoking ruin, its cries of pain louder than her moans of ecstasy had been. “You might say I'm a bit of masochist.”
She raised her hands and closed her fists, the shattered earth rushing forward at her command. It closed around the spider's legs, holding it in place as she reared back her magic, gathering her forces and pushing outwards.
The entire world rose up and slammed the Nightmare in its face.
It staggered.
“Do you know who I am?” Hawke roared. “You think you can scare me? I lived through my worst fears, you dumb fucker, and you're nothing but the Blight I already lived through, the family I already lost, the city I failed to save! You think you can scare me with memory?!?”
The Nightmare shook off her assault, chittering curses and calling upon its own power, howling in sudden pain as cold steel pushed down into its thorax.
“What...?!” it gargled, poisonous ichor spilling and steaming from its carapace as a blue glow rose from its back.
“I did mention my lovers, right?” Hawke cooed. “They'd like to have a word with you.”
Fenris pulled his sword free from the massive spider, spraying blood, carving down again and again and again, his own rage howling loud enough to rival the Nightmare's agony. A familiar blue glow surrounded him, brushing off the Nightmare's attempts to defend itself, as a similar but different blue warmth enveloped her, seeping into her skin and caressing her to the marrow, easing her many pains away.
“Are you alright, my love?” Anders asked, coming up beside her.
She looked at them both, human and elf, each achingly beautiful in his own way. The Nightmare lashed at them but Anders pushed forward his staff, sparks raining down on them as the Nightmare was held at bay by Ander's magic and Fenris was still attacking, still hacking, when he leaned down, his lips finding hers, his fingers wrapping around the small of her back and pulling her close.
She wanted to devour his every breath, eyes shut tight as she took him into herself, a low moaning growl building in her throat. The kiss broke and their eyes met, glistening, cheeks flushed.
“Never better,” Hawke whispered, then laughed. The sound was hysterical even in her own ears. She tore her eyes from his and lifted her staff, directing more raw force at the monster, enough to level cities, enough to level mountains, her magic unconstrained as she taunted the monster that had tortured her. “Hey, fucker! I'm a bit of a sadist, too!”
"Fenris...!" Anders called, blue light snaking out from her human lover and covering her elven one. The elf pulled the carapace he had split over himself, letting Hawke's magic wash over him when it slammed into the Nightmare. It faltered, pushed back and away as Hawke howled unending defiance.
The creature was still shaking, smoking, as Fenris released the flesh he had peeled off and leaped down to where Hawke stood, wrapping his arms around her and spinning her, dipping her, his lips on her throat, his need pressing against her.
“Merrill is holding the gate open with her stupid mirror thing,” her elven lover reported his tongue on her throat. He paused, shuffling his feet as he stepped back from her, eyes glossy and cheeks wet. “It's good to see you.”
“Varric came and told us what happened,” Anders added. “We mourned you, but then Fenris saw you in a dream and Merrill said she'd seen you, too, and..."
"She said you might be alive," Fenris whispered, holding her cheek. His voice broke. "I can't... I can't..."
"We thought you were dead." Anders was looking at her in wonder, then pulling her close, holding her, she losing herself in the wonderful scent of him. "We kept each other alive when we thought we'd lost you, but..."
"I'm okay," she said. "I was... learning. How are you here?"
"Merrill met with two mages from the Inquisition," Anders answered, Fenris looking away. "A... a Magister named Dorian and another elf named Solas. His studies with the Inquisitor made him think there might be a way to use the mirror to-”
“A Magister?” Hawke interrupted, staring at Fenris. “You let a Magister help?”
“Anything to get you back,” Fenris answered.
She could hear the pain in his voice.
Leaning up, she kissed him, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling him close, the two of them losing themselves in one another. Anders was saying something, flickering blue sparks raining down around them.
The Nightmare had recovered enough of itself to renew its assault.
Breaking her kiss with Fenris, Hawke lashed at the creature again, another bolt of pure force pushing the monstrosity back one scuttling step, then two.
“Eyas?” Hawke yelled at the monstrosity. “You had me answer to baby hawk?”
“Kinky,” Fenris said.
“Clever,” Anders added.
“Later,” Hawke promised.
Demons poured over the horizon, armies bound to serve the Nightmare and gathered by its great power. Hawke laughed, low and mocking.
“Anders? Fenris?”
The two of them began to glow, searing ozone burning the Fade as their twin unleashed powers painted the world into azure silhouettes, Justice and Vengeance unified by their love of her. They turned to face the slavering horde of demons that was coming to the call of the ancient Nightmare, leaving her to handle the wounded atrocity that towered above them all.
Hawke watched the twitching mandibles, the hesitance as she stepped forward, hands alight with a lyrium glow.
“Are you scared, Nightmare?” she asked, remembering Flemeth's promise to her on the top of Sundermount: The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment... and when it comes, do not hesitate to leap. It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.
Laughing mania and leaking more power than she had ever thought possible, Hawke leaped towards her enemy, waiting for her apex - that moment when gravity would try and claim her. She felt it, natural forces trying to assert themselves in this unnatural place, and she pulled the Fade inside of herself, whispering a single word as her shoulders exploded in delicious pain, her body expanding, skin and armor leaking into unified sapphire scales.
She took to the air, circling the spider below her, and roared.
“I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A DRAGON.”
The Fade rippled at her words, the beating of her wings tearing rivers of leaking silver rain in the sky. Her lovers fought an army and she circled, breathing a massive bolt of lightning that crackled the ground and shattered the horde.
The spider below her scuttled and shook, still larger than she was – but that just meant there was more of it to attack. Grinning, diving down, she drove her talons into it, slicing through the heavy carapace with ease, laughing as its agony echoed into the Fade around them.
It fell back from her assault, limbs pulling its withering bulk back towards a cave. Hawke didn't care – she kept ripping, prying, tearing open the monster that had haunted humanity's dreams for a thousand years and more. It screamed in agony, begging, and she found she liked the sound...
... but then webs began to pull at her wings, the cave deepening, darkening. Webs of silver lyrium circled around her, pulling her off the Nightmare as it scuttled away from her, adding to the webs as she tore them apart. They began to glow, the Nightmare whispering words to a spell she didn't know.
“NOTHING YOU DO CAN STOP ME,” she said, serpentine tongue licking the bitter black blood of fear itself off her serrated teeth.
“Perhaps,” the Nightmare said, still moving away from her, “but this will slow you down.”
The webs began to glow, the Fade slithering away from her, the physical world and lands unfamiliar rushing up to meet her. Human, she fell to her hands and knees, smiling, sucking in a great gout of fresh air as figures slowly closed in around her, their mingled fear and awe seeping into her mind.
“You lose,” she said, laughing, facing the earth as shadows stood over her, as the sun warmed her bones. “I win.”
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And that's it for this part of the story. I've got a sequel and a prequel in mind that I might do when I have time and depending upon what people think. What do you think? Like what you read? Want to read more? Let me know. All reviews, comments, and questions are answered on the forums over at http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/36931-metroid-the-bergman-affair-feedback-comments-and-workshopping/?page=14, so go there and join the discussion. Thanks for reading~!
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