Hello everyone again, it's me, V-fanfics! Chapter two is now up, yay!
Anyway. The Links have met the four Elemental Princess, Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, and Amethyst. After a little attack with the chancellors of each kingdom, they escaped to the cottage given to the Links as a present for saving Hyrule. However, the girls have something much more serious to deal with, and they need the Links' help.
Without further ado, let this chapter begin!
Chapter 2: The Ball of... Chaos?
"WHAT?-!" The four Links say in unison.
The girls nod slowly, and Ruby says, "I don't wanna partner up with… Sir Moldarch"
The girls look at Ruby and Sapphire places a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, that jackass won't hurt you as long as I'm around. I'll knock his ass to the ground and make his lights go out faster than you can say my name." The Links pause and what Sapphire said. Their partners… hurt them?
Green shakes his head slowly, saying, "They hurt you? Why would they do that?"
"Yeah, but my partner is a wimp. He'd never hurt me himself, knowing what'll happen if he laid a finger on me. Only, he lets me get hurt." Sapphire responds. She rolls her eyes and tries to comfort a crying Ruby.
"My partner has no courage at all, same as Sapphire's, but not as bad." Emerald says as she turns away from the Links, mumbling something inaudible.
Amethyst shudders, as she knows it's her turn to say what her partner does, but she'd rather not. Instead, she contemplates her surroundings carefully. 'What a quaint home this is. I wonder if they have anything to read here… But I just don't feel like-' She was cut off from her thoughts from a calm voice that, of course, is expected from him.
"What about you, Amethyst?" The violet Link asks. The other three direct their attention to Amethyst, but the other three girls look at each other, wide-eyed and worrisome.
"Uhh… I'd rather not talk about it, actually…" Amethyst mumbles, of course it is barely audible. She looks down to the ground, not wanting to lift her head.
"Are you sure?" Green asks.
"Lets just say that it was her past teacher she was supposed to go with..." Sapphire says, earning a sharp pinch from Amethyst's strong nails.
Green shrugs and sits on a big leather couch in front of a fireplace. Blue does the same with Red following suit. Amethyst picks her head up and notices that only Vio is left. She asks, "So, do you have anything to read by any chance?"
"Actually, yeah we do. It's in the living room." Vio responds as he leads her to the room, which he mentioned. The girls follow them in and sit on the couch, nice and comfy. Amethyst is reading a very large book, as is Vio. Sapphire is poking the fire next to Blue. Red and Ruby are laughing and playing tag. Green and Emerald are dozing off
~Later~
"…Green… Green… Wake up…"
"Five more minutes…"
"GREEN, GET YOUR ASS UP!"
An annoyed Blue, who is standing next to Emerald, shakes poor slumbering Green awake. "Gah! Okay, okay I'm awake! I'm awake! Stop shaking me!" Green yells at Blue, who stops shaking his green alter-ego. "Why'd you wake me up so urgently..?" Green asks, still groggy from Blue's little shake fest.
"The festival's ending, the ball is close to starting." Emerald states. She points to the stairs, asking Green, "Is there a place we can… change into our ballroom attire?"
"Yeah, just head up the stairs and on your left." He answers, trying to regain his line of vision from Blue's shaking. The girls thank him and head upstairs.
"Now they're gonna take forever to get dressed." Blue complains. Oddly enough, the girls take just a couple of minutes… with a few thumps and yells.
The girls go down the steps and enter the living room. Emerald is wearing a lime green flowing dress with what looks like leaves at the edges, which are just touching the floor. Her dress, like the other girls, has no straps. There are also vine looking designs going around the dress to make it look like she was a plant. Her tiara is replaces with some sort of laurel headdress.
Sapphire's dress barely touches the floor. Also strapless, the color is a deep blue, like the sea. The edges have white swirls, most likely resembling the top of a wave. The dress has little light blue lines that make the dress look like it was water. A gold headdress similar to Emerald replaced her tiara, but it had a teardrop shaped blue stone in the middle.
Ruby also had a long dress, but it was red and orange. The edges were jagged, like they were flaming, but not animated of course. Her little pigtails were tied together by smaller bows than before, but they looked like flames were coming out the middle of the bow to the outer sides. She had nothing but a little clip with a small flame thing on her head.
Amethyst wore a lavender dress with bigger swirled endings than Sapphire's, most likely resembling the wind only it had gold edges. Oddly enough, she was the only one to wear gloves, and they were light lavender with golden edges. A smaller tiara type thing rested on her head. It had gold swirls going towards the middle, holding a diamond shaped amethyst.
"May I ask what in Din's name happened up there?" Green asks the girls after staring.
"Sapphire couldn't get her dress on correctly, so she yelled at us for help." Amethyst answers, earning a glare from Sapphire that could rival that of any evil villain. Amethyst smirks and says, "Of course, her dress wasn't easy to help her put on, due to her not willing to cooperate."
"Sounds like someone I know." Vio says, smirking and looking at Blue. Blue glares at him and Vio looks away, still smirking.
"We should get going, though. I can hear the bells." Emerald says, alerting everyone. She looks at Amethyst, and after a second Amethyst nods and heads back upstairs. Moments later she comes back down with a big leather bag. "Nice work. Now keep that and make sure no one gets it okay, Amethyst?"
"Of course I won't let anyone touch them." She responds. "Okay lets head to the castle, quickly."
"Yay!" Ruby exclaims as she runs out of the house with everyone else tailing behind her. They all rush to get to the ballroom as fast as possible without being seen. They all head through the secret entrance at the back of the castle that, of course, only the Links would know. Right. Left. Center. Center. That was the pathway of the halls to get to the ballroom. They end up seeing Zelda on the way to the ballroom.
"Oh! Links! Nice to see you came!" Zelda says. She looks at the girls and immediately knows who they are. "Oh my goddesses! You came! I'm so glad you could make it, girls!" She hugs the girls and they all get in a group hug. The girls hug back. All but Amethyst, who has a scowl on her face. "So, who are your partners?" She asks. The girls freeze. They forgot to choose whom they would go with. The Links look at each other wide eyed.
"Uhh…"
"Y-You see… W-We…"
"Umm… W-Well…"
"Oh, I'm with Vio." Amethyst calmly says. Vio looks at her wide-eyed, but she looks back at him with a 'Just go along with it' face. Vio nods and returns his calm and collected façade.
"Y-Yeah. I'm with Blue here." Sapphire says, knowing what Amethyst is doing. Blue has no idea what's going on, but he goes along with it anyway, even if it is unlikely for him to do so.
"I'm with Red." Ruby says softly, taking a step closer to Red. Red blushes slightly, but it's unnoticeable.
"That leaves me with Green." Emerald said calmly. Green nods.
"Oh, okay then. I thought you had pre-arrangements for partners, but I guess not. Have fun, you guys!" Zelda says. She walks to a huge door and goes inside the room. The sign above it reads "Ballroom", so the eight head inside. They step inside a gargantuan room with a huge chandelier in the center of the ceiling. People are all talking, eating, laughing, and dancing. Children were also at the ball. Little children. Probably five years and up. They were there and not very happy about it either, most were whining and complaining about how boring it was. That is when Ruby saw someone that she dreaded seeing.
"Uhh… Girls..? We've got family." She muttered, loud enough for the girls to hear. They looked in the same direction and saw them. Their fathers, the 3 kings of the elemental kingdoms, were standing next to the king of Hyrule, talking to him. Most likely about their daughters and trying to compare to see who's the best. Amethyst recommends that they ignore them and try to keep out of their sight. It works until someone spots poor little Ruby…
"Well, well, well… Look who it is. The four Elemental Princesses." A person says. The person spat at the word "princess" as if showing complete disgust for their royal status. The person in front of them is a man with a long and thin moustache that is blacker than the night sky outside the windows. His eyes were a piercing blue, and beady. His smirk-like smile had consisted of yellow, rotting, and overall disgusting teeth. He wore a dark brown tuxedo and his feet were long… very long and narrow. He was a very tall and lanky man, but also had a head full of dark black hair. "If it isn't my little Ruby." He says as his face grows sinister. He grabs Ruby's hand and pulls her to his side. Red isn't really happy about it, but he isn't fast enough to react.
"GET YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF HER, MOLDARCH!" Sapphire yells loud enough for everyone in the room to fall into silence and look in their direction. "Oh for the love of Nayru." She mutters. Ruby struggles to get away from Moldarch, but he has a tight grip on her. She then notices that her fingers are in a pinching position in his hand, so she pinches using her long fingernails. Moldarch lets go quickly, forgetting he was holding Ruby with that hand. Ruby yanks her hand away and runs back to the four Links and three princesses.
"What is the meaning of this screaming?-!" Someone yells. The eight adolescents look to where the shout came from. The king of Hyrule stands. His staff of Hyrule is in his hand, Zelda next to him on the other side. The girls see their fathers, scowling at them. Sapphire scowls back, not caring. Ruby starts tearing up, but tries to hold them back. Emerald stands still, angered at everyone in the room. They all thought the same thing, all but Amethyst were very much screwed.
"Young lady, you shouldn't scream if you want to be a good little princess." Moldarch said, giving Sapphire a patronizing and insulting smile. Sapphire's face grew red with rage. Blue snickered, but had his jaw agape at what happened next.
"You dirty son of a GARO!" Sapphire yelled as she slapped him across the face. Moldarch quickly staggered backward, as if he was punched instead of slapped. "That outta teach you to not to mess with me!" She yelled.
"Ugh, you disgust me so… someone like you should never have been born in the royal family of the Water kingdom. Such a disgrace." Moldarch spat. Sapphire had enough of this idiot, and she was gonna take him down one way or another. Either by brawling right there or get her father to help. Of course the second one wouldn't happen in a million years. She balled her fists tightly, making the knuckles white. Amethyst saw it and held her "punching arm" back. Sapphire looked at Amethyst, expecting a good explanation.
"It's not worth it," Amethyst whispered, "He'll get his other 'friends' and gang up on us. We can't fight him without revealing our swords." Sapphire sighed angrily and nodded, knowing why. The swords were taken from their castles to protect themselves. They couldn't show anyone them until the time was right.
"Do you think we should help?" Green asked Vio, whispering. Vio thought for a moment, then nodded his head.
"Not yet, though. When one gets attacked, then we'll help." Vio said quietly. He watched as Ruby cowered behind Emerald for protection.
Then something happened.
They appeared.
Crashing from the windows came a bunch of monsters, as if the castle were under attack. Screams were heard from everywhere, blending with the moans and groans of the monsters. They were what looked like dark stalfos, but huge and more frightening. The people were running towards the exit, screaming and carrying their kids. Moments later, the only people in the room were the princesses, three other men that looked similar to Moldarch, and the four heroes.
And Moldarch himself.
Moldarch stood, with a huge, sinister smile upon his face, as if he wanted this to happen. The other three men who looked like him stood close to him, and they had evil smiles plastered upon their faces. The only things that were different were the tuxedos. One was brown, another was blue, and another was dark green.
"What are they still doing here?" Green asked. "Were you four behind all this?"
"Why, yes we were." They answered in unison. Their smiles grew wider, and eyes became narrower. "We are the four anti-heroes, persay."
"Amethyst! The swords!" Sapphire yelled. Amethyst quickly dropped the bag and emptied it. Inside were four long swords. Golden hilts and in the center of the hilt had a diamond shaped jewel. Each sword had the jewel of their names. The sides of the hilt depended on the element. Emerald's sword, which was handed to her, had leaves on the sides of the hilt. Sapphire's sword, also given to her, had wavy sides. Ruby's had wispy, spiky edges, like a flame. Amethyst's sword, which she took out last, had swirls resembling wind. The four Links unsheathed their swords and got into a battle position.
"Foolish children. We shall annihilate you for so foolishly standing up against something which none of you can defeat." The four "men" say in perfect unison. They take out long, black swords from nowhere. They strike the closest person: Green.
Green immediately sees that they are attacking him and does a backflip to get out of their way. Emerald quickly attacks one of the guys, but misses just by a little bit. Amethyst stays in one spot, calculating every movement anyone makes, looking for weak points. Vio gets out his bow and shoots at Moldarch. Moldarch starts to go to Vio and attacks. Vio quickly dodges and keeps shooting. Red and Ruby are both trying to fight, but somewhat failing, so they stay behind to help anyone injured. Blue and Sapphire already have one of the guys down, the one in blue. Blue and Sapphire both have their swords in hand, but Blue also has his hammer. They both swung at the man in black and man in dark green.
After a while of the same thing going on, only Moldarch is left standing. He looks at his fallen clones and, instead of getting angry, laughed maniacally. His laugh grew louder and made him look like a madman. Red and Ruby were almost on the verge of tears from how scary they thought it was. Once he stopped laughing, he spoke in a darker and deeper tone than before, "You do know my partner is now released? Using your swords dulled the blade. What fools."
"W-What?-!" Green exclaimed. He was really worried about the whole situation from the start.
"Who the hell's your 'partner' in crime, huh? TELL ME!" Blue shouted, taking a threatening step forward.
"…Heheh… I think you four boys know him very well…" Moldarch said.
"Uh-Oh…" Red said. He had a hunch, and hoped it wasn't right. Vio's normally calm face was twisted with worry.
"'Uh-Oh' is right, young hero in red. His name…" Moldarch started, "is Vaati."
DUN DUN DUUUUUN!
Again, probably predictable.
Hopefully I'll have some unpredictable stuff when I finish this. I do plan on finishing this, trust me. I'm not letting this story go! Anyway. Chapter will most likely be up today as well, so we can have one good chapter. Yay! Anyway, ta ta for now!
~V-fanfics