Thread by @Daine_93

#ZhongChi #鍾タル
CW: angst, graphic, miscarriage
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"Baobei?"
Zhongli dropped his spear when he saw red lines flowed on Ajax's legs.

The ginger's standing before him, with two water blades on his hands, a broken golden shield around him, and a sword went through his spine.

His golden eyes stared blankly at the attacker who's buried half of his sword into his lover's stomach diagonally, making the pointy tip peeking through the ginger's coat.

Zhongli couldn't think anything but his Ajax.

Yet, his limbs were frozen by the shock.

"Argh!" Ajax screamed as the culprit stabbed him again as chantings roamed around the Mingyun Village, the place they now stand. People from all ages came and surrounding the scene with torches on their other hand.

They chanted: "Usurper! Usurper! Kill that damned usurper!"

But to Zhongli, he only heard his own heartbeat.

And the next thing he saw was Xiao landed from the sky with the Traveller to fought the culprits, waking him up from his own shock to dashed and hold his beloved before he landed on the ground.

"Huk!" Zhongli took his hand away

from Ajax's stomach as liquid flowing hardly from his wounds. The ginger was shaking in his arms, with tears falling down his cheeks, and fear in his eyes.

Something that Zhongli knew exatcly not a piece of Ajax.

"Baobei. Baobei, you're safe." the brown haired man sat

the Snezhnayan man on his lap and gave his energy to healed him. His hands were cupping Ajax's abdomens to stopped the liquids flowing out from there.

'Till he sensed something else was beating on Ajax's vein. Faintly, among his lover's heartbeat that gone rapid by his stress.

Zhongli blinked his eyes in disbelieve as another faint beat resonated to his palm, this time was followed by the leak of pure adeptus' energy. Making the former god hold his breath in shook as his beloved had opened his voice.

"My child.. Baby, baby, please stay."

Thus, another wave of pain came as the wounded man arched his trembling body with shaking legs & hands that holding on his lovaer's glowing arms, before flenched when a lump engraved on his pants with a massive flow of red liquids pooling beneath him.

Making him sobbed quietly.

While Zhongli watched with his darkened eyes.

He turned his head to the culprit that now kneeled by Xiao's force on his shoulder and looked around the people who do the same around him.

His own people. Who he had protected for centuries dared to returned the favour by attacking

his unborn child and the mother.

His previous mission to calm a riot is no more.

It's now vengeance.

"Arrghhh!" loud cry of pain streamed in the air as thousand of spears landed on the body and limps of the culprits, stabbing them deep as some of them hanged while running

with spears stucked on the chests shoulders. None of the spears gone for their heads or spines, leaving them breathing hardly as their former god rose from the ground with his beloved and warm red lump that hugged dearly by the person in his arms.

"You seek for help my help,

you begged for my wisdom, and I gave you anything to keep you safe in my gaze. I gave you lands to live, foods to eat, and cool air to breath, just to be lied by your plea to assist you killing the mother of child?"

"Consultant, the hell you saying? Why are you attacking us?"

One of the culprit shouted from a far. "He's the one who attacked first with Osial, and how can he's a mother when he's a man?"

Xiao and the other youngsters quickly flew back and stood behind Zhongli with horror in their faces. Their eyes locked at the darkened sky that

rumbled above, followed with shaking ground beneath them and high tides berserked from a far.

The people's shock was final as Zhongli let his horns and adeptus' self revealed before his subjects, making them gagged in disbelief. The person they knew as Zhongli is no more.

Before them is their Prime Adeptus, their sole protector, and the god they've worshipped with respect wholeheartedly who's now floated in the air with children behind him in golden shields.

No one make a sound.

No one grunt in pain

All of them looked at him in fear as they've

realized what they've done, but no one could even bowed and chanted their plea as no one is free from the spears.

Their lips crying their regret, "Rex Lapis, Rex Lapis, have mercy", yet its far too late.

And a gigantic golden meteorite entered the atmosphere to turned the

remaining life on the ground into ashes. The impact didn't eliminated who's the wrong and good, all lives were whipped from the once green plains and changed it into a land of dirt.

No more trees growing green, no more prey to be claimed, and no more people to live there.

An eye for an eye.
A son for son.
And a life or a life.

The debt has been paid.

Zhongli hugged the unconscious Ajax dearly as he flew above the dead plain with the others, ignoring the reek of damned that has starting to lingered in the air.

And with regret, he glanced at the red lump his lover's hold dearly in his hand. A red bundle he just knew and must let go in the same time.

He bit his lips as guilt weighted his heart down. Making him flew slower than the rest of the group, as he mourned his child's passing

and his incompetence in protecting the people he loved dearly.

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Fin
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I know there was no casualties during Osial's awakening but I wanted to took the perspective from the civilian who understood only the surface of the event.

Other than that, Mingyun Village is no longer in the map. 👊💥🔫