LoZ Triforce of Twilight Chapter 2 Page 1:
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The woman stiffened, seeming like she did not know what to do. The frightened golden eye changed to a fearless determined glare. With that she pulled down on the staff and tightened her grip on it. The silver wind swirled quickly around the top of the staff.
"AER IONSAIGH!" She yelled, not seeming at all frightened. The orange stone of the staff began to glow brightly. A sudden serge of air bursted from the swirling pocket of wind. Twisting like a miniature tornado, it blasted upward and stricken against the cracked mask.
More blood bursted from the mask and the beast jumped back, a bit dazed. It looked back at her, its runes looking more red and angry than ever.
"I'll do that again ye beastie! I've got a lot more magic were that came from!" She yelled.
"You do? Or are you bluffing?" Link spoke quietly in her ear, not taking his eyes off the beast as it grasped angrily at its mask, ripping off chunks.
"Somewhat . . . I have limited power like this."
"Wait- Wha-" Link was abruptly interrupted. Their attentions were both taken when the beast let another cry, the noise boomed in their ears.
"Help me up lad, I canna do this on my own." She whispered back. Link shifted behind her, pulling her up from under her arms, they both stood.
"Can you stand on your own?"
"No" She said flatly. Taking the staff, Link quickly helped her get her right arm around his neck. Which it slightly surprised Link, since she was shorter than him, the top of her head just barely touched his chin.
"What are you going to do?" He asked, a bit embarrassed that he was out of ideas.
"I dinna know, I cannot move the left hand."
Link looked at her. Confusion covered his face like a blanket. " 'The' left hand?"
"Yes, 'The' left hand. It's not my left hand!"
"Then whos hand does it belong to?" He asked in a bit of a fright.
"The lass!" She exclaimed. Link just looked at her oddly.
The beast cried out once more. Link and the woman both looked at it as the beast turned and look at them. Blood poured from the missing pieces of stone from the mask, tentacles still ripping at others. A huge, pupil less, dark crimson red eye stared at them both. Fury and aggravation slithered though its intelligent eye. It wanted and was ready to kill them. It ripped another chunk of the mask off its face and the eye winced in pain. Done, it wiped some blood off of the mask with a tentacle and rubbed it against the dirt. First it pawing at the ground, next it took off toward the two of them.
Quickly hitching his working arm around her waist, Link tried to jump away. The beast only missing by a few inches as it flew past them. They landed on the ground, stomach first. They both winced in pain, but it was the woman that was first to get up. Frantically she pulled the staff out of Link's hand and quickly shoved it into the ground and began chanting again.
The beast skidded around turning to them, it stopped. Suddenly the woman's left eye opened wide with confusion and horror. She let go of the staff and she stopped chanting. She jumped to her feet, confused and frightened, not knowing what was happening. And just as quickly as she got up she fell back to the ground, unable to move her right side of her body. She cried out in fright, and quickly tried to stand up again. The beast began to charge.
"Lass, calm down! It's me!" The first woman called, trying to reach the panicking woman. She just stood there. The beast saw an opportunity, and changed his stride after her. Before the knew what was happening, a tentacle scooped her up off her feet. Terrified, the woman tried to move, but her sudden fear kept her immobilized.
"No!" Link yelled out. He may have lost Midna, but he was not going to loose this woman, even if he did not know her. He scrambled to his feet and ripped the staff out of the ground. He pleaded to the goddesses that this would work. He thrust his right-hand forward and let the staff fly. It whirled through the air toward the beast as it ran. Link watched, anxious. The staff came down and landed spear ended into the beast's leg. It dropped the woman and its giant body tumbled to the ground.
The woman did not move, and Link panicked. He bolted like lightening to her, dropping down next to her, he shook her gently with his hand.
"Are you ok?" He asked, worried.
She did not move still, until she slowly nodded and opened her eyes. Those two sapphire blue eyes looked up at him, tiredly and questionably. Wait! Two blue eyes, I thought one was gold! Link thought to himself. "Yeah, I think so." She said quietly, it did not sound like the woman he was talking to before, but the other woman. She shifted uncomfortably, folding her left hand closer to her, she winced and tears started to build in her eyes.
"Did you do something to your hand? Are you ok?"
"You're the one to talk. You can't move your arm, and you're covered in blood! She paused "It's nothing, my hand just hurts."
The beast stured, placing its hands firmly on the ground and tried pushing itself off the ground. The woman and Link both looked at it, shifting all of their attention to the thing. It tried again to get back up, but failed again and slammed back onto the ground. It let out a fustrated, weak growl.
"Oh you are so DEAD!" A man's voice roared. Link turned to the voice, the woman looked away and put her left hand behind her back. "I don't know what the Hell you think you are doing!" She slunk more to the ground. The man walk over to the side of Link and the woman.
His hair was a brownish-red. Eyes were a mellow dark orange. You could tell his skin was a gray white, despite the lack of proper light. Just as he should be, he was taller than Link. He wore a white and black short sleeved shirt, open at the throat. And black blacksmiths' pants. A brown belt kept it at his waist. It also held up a few large, old blacksmith hammers. Black gloves on each hand. His runes were a dark blue.
Staring down a her, he crossed his arms. Fury sparked in his dark orange eyes. "We told you to wait!" He shouted even louder. Link stood and went to say something, but the man interrupted him, without looking at Link. "Don't you say a word boy, this is not your place!"
Link camped his mouth shut, knowing he was right. The woman slunk even closer to the ground. Still hiding her left hand and trying to bat away the tears.
"What were you thinking?" He yelled, extending his arm out "You were supposed to wait for your brother and me!"
Quickly, the woman got up on her feet and stood defensibly close to the man. "That would have been too late! If I had shown up any later," She pointed to Link "He would of been dead!"
"Ugh! Just look at you," He touched her face, rubbing off the dried blood with his fingers, she winced. "Blood! . . . Are you crying?" He took a quick glance at Link.
"I only hurt hand. Ok! Thats why I'm crying. But the blood you see isn't mine!"
"Which hand?" He demanded to know.
She was silent.
"You didn't!" He roared, very furious "I can't believe you did th-"
She abruptly interrupted him "I did NOT! I did nothing!"
"Riiiight! Hmm, your face looks pretty well bruised up, how'd you manage that?" He tilted the right side of her face to face him.
"Got smacked in the face, what else do you think could have done that." She shouted oddly.
"OK! Enough you two! I've had enough listening to ye bickering!" The first woman entered the argument.
"Mage, stay out of this! This is between me and my sister!" The man snarled.
"I will not! This concerns me too! I was here with the lass. She would have been fine!"
"She was the one fighting! Not you!" He yelled, once again throwing his arms in the air.
"I would have switched if needed!" Mage snorted.
"You would have gotten her killed if you tried!"
"No, I wouldn't have!" The other woman shouted, insulted.
"She woulda been fine. I wouldna let anything happen to her." Mage growled.
"You have no control!" He shouted back at Mage. "Oh you are so lucky our brother isn't here. To say it out plain and simple, you would be dead!" He then jabbed a finger at the woman's left hand "You try doing that again to another Elite, and I'll be the one that rings your neck! UNDERSTAND!"
"I DID NOT!" She pointed at the beast "Do you think I'm that stupid? Not again, not ever again on an Elite!"
"No, you're not, and thats for damn sure!"
"Just go take care of the beast," The woman hissed, rubbing her eye. "Before you kill it, give it a good look. You will find something interesting." She began to walk away.
Link looked at both of them, a bit bewildered. Rubbing his head, he searched for his sword. Then sat himself on the ground as he suddenly felt nauseous. The man walked in front of the beast, staring at its broken mask and one angry eye. Confused, he called out to the woman "It has eyes?"
"Apparently." She responded.
"Gezz, what did you do to it?" He questioned, kneeing down, he got closer to the beast. And examined the chunks of mask missing and the blood that still poured from its head.
"Don't get too close!" Link shouted, moving too quickly for his mind could take. He cradled his head in his hands as a sudden spinning ache came to his head.
"I'm not worried. This beast is harmless," He stood, placing a hand on its mask. "Its lost too much blood, its no longer a threat. It will die soon" He looked at the beast as it let out a weak growl. Now looking beyond Link "Hey! What did you do to the beast?" The man called to the woman. Traces of anger was still in his voice.
"The guy threw bombs at it. We used some magic." She replied. She was gone, somewhere hidden along the large hills.
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Beyond the hearing for normal talk, the woman let out and angry sigh. She silently walked over to a small stream that wove its way around the hills. She dropped to her knees and looked at her reflection in the water. The steam's current was calm, and its lukewarm water greeted her fingers as she cupped some water into her hands. She brought the water to her face and looked into it for a second. Staring into her blue eyes through her blood-covered face. Letting out another sigh, she splashed the water in her face and rubbed her fingers over her skin.
She repeated this a few times until she got most of the blood off her face. She looked at her reflection in the water again, staring at the big bruise on the right side of her face. Gently she touched the black and blue skin with her hand. Suddenly her right eye changed to a gold red.
Mage spoke "Ye ok?" She asked, concerned.
She took a long moment before answering "I don't know." She said softly.
(Editing page two of this. Will have it up in a while.)