"All right then," the bruised boy agreed, lifting his longsword from a skull. He slung it over his shoulder. "Let's go."

The Shadow-race mage and the Hylian swordsman calmly walked to their exit; a stairway full of lights. The Hylian was just about to converse and talk about the first lights he's seen in years, when suddenly all the lights went out.

"What was that!"

Nothing good,they both knew.

"Shade, do you see anything suspicious?" the Hylian asked, back to back with the mage.

"No, I don't," she nervously replied to Gold.

A hideous laughter echoed down to them. Shade and Gold jolted up at the same time. They were in battle position, weapons drawn, shivering. "I-I can't move!" They were surrounded by faced gasses and floating lanterns. Shade closed her eyes and focused, saying something in a foreign language. Almost imminently, they both stop shivering off the dark magic.

"No idea of what you said... but thanks," Gold halfway chuckled. He swung his sword through a gassed monster with ease.

"Of course," she modestly replied, summoning another magic spell.

Even though they'd breeze through these creatures, there was far too many of them. They were completely surrounded, even after a few good minutes.

"There's too many of them," Gold remarked. "Lets make a run for it."

Without any more words, the two dashed off towards the stairs and climbed their way up. They never stopped for breath. The stairs was the shape of a spiral, while they felt like they were getting no where. One misstep and they could start from the beginning again. The gassed creature floated up, catching up to the both of them at ease. Out in the distance, did they see something besides stairs, that was actually a door? That encouraged both of them to keep running, even if their feet were sore.

Shade and Gold both charged out with the last of their strength, and imminently collapsed down to their knees, panting heavily. The monsters were forced to be kept in the other side of the magic.

"Bah. You made me run more when I was already running," Shade laughed between the gasps for air.

"Heh...heh... Not much of a... choice, hn?" Gold pointed out, clutching his heart.

Shade intended on rolling over and getting up. "Gold! Behind you!" she screamed.

He jerked his head over his shoulder, to see a huge reDead staring right at his eyes. Both Shade and Gold stared back at its eye sockets, wide-eyed. They were both paralyzed in fear, unable to move at all. That was one of the effects when a reDead noticed you. Shade couldn't even speak words to free themselves. Her lips only trembled. Unlike Shade, Gold's stunned eyes stared at it like a statue.

Suddenly, the reDead was caught in flames, and then by ice. The ice didn't melt, and the fires kept burning the alive dead.

The two paralyzed partners were pulled out of the way as the fire and ice exploded at the same time.

Gold looked around him. He knew where they were very well. They were in the Graveyard behind Kakariko Village, the village that probably saved his life. To his surprise, they weren't surrounded by poes, ghost-like figures similar to the ones he and Shade fought a little while ago. Then Shade screamed, "Fire! You little sneak!" A laugh answered to that.

Gold spun around on his heels. "Fire?" I believe that Fire is Red's Shadow. I could be wrong.

"Gold! That's you? I didn't even recognize you!" Fire laughed, slapping his face.

He wanted to laugh with her, but that somewhat hurt... "Nice to see you too," he tried to respond enthusiastically.

After a small silence of waiting for Gold to say more, Shade nervously added, "We probably should go fix him up."


I need to rephrase each sentence Shade said, I swear. =_=;; By the way, this story is only of friendship, all right? I suppose it sounds more like romance than I intended. =_=;;