Chapter 2

The sound of the alarm bells, mixed with the sound of Bulblin War horns, filled the air as Natalia and I ran down the stairs towards the armory. The whole camp was in a state of panic, having not expected an attack of this scale. Upon entering the armory, I quickly ran towards the weapons rack and grabbed a set of scimitars, and then proceeded to the armor stands and grabbed a chest plate, some fingerless gloves and some leg braces, before heading out and meeting Natalia, who was battle ready and waiting for me.

Following the standard procedure in case of an attack, I got on top of the small podium made especially for the purpose of speaking to the warriors. Once there, I waited before most of the inhabitants of the fortress had gathered in the fortress courtyard, before quickly giving out orders. "Nasheen, You and three volunteers go and protect the younglings and the elders. Mary, you're in charge of the sick bay. The rest of you, follow me into battle! They may not be Moblins, or Goblins, but they aren't all that smart. Based on previous Bulblin attacks, we know that they don't follow any special attack patterns. So, we will just go and wipe them out like we always do. I will leave the attack strategy to Aveil. Aveil, if you mind...?"

She then took over, climbing onto the platform and starting to explain the plan of attack. I walked off towards Natalia. She glared at me, which I didn't notice at first, until I looked at her and saw one of the most scary things in the world. And not the army of Bulblins, but the murderous glare she was sending me. "Why...Why are you glaring at me like that? What did I do?" She simply walked off to the top of the walls. I hesitantly followed her, and was instantly given a good look at the 'unorganized' army of Bulblins. Rows upon rows of fully armored Bulblins, with huge amounts of archers and even a few catapults and ballista's, as far as the eye could see. "Oh goddess..." I muttered. "Oh Goddess, We're going to get massacred!" I panicked, looking at Natalia. "Congratulations, you moron. You just hyped up a bunch of bloodthirsty Gerudo, to go and do something suicidal." Again, I felt the voice in my head. "Not so tough now, are you?" followed by some maniacal laughter. "What are we going to do now? What am I going to do now?"

"It's a trap! It's a trap! It's not just a horde of Bulblins, it's an army! A whole, organized Army! Abort the Attack! Abort!" Screaming and yelling, Me and Natalia ran up to the stage, where Aveil was explaining the attack strategy. "Ganondorf, what are you doing? I was preparing our army for battle!" "No time for a strategy, we have to run! There's a huge army out there, and we're going to get slaughtered if we don't do anything!" Aveil turned towards me, furiously. "Do you think we haven't noticed the giant army at the front gates? We know just as well as you do that going out there is suicide, and so is running. All we can do is defend ourselves, and hope our defenses hold. There is nothing else we can do." She then turned back to the group of Gerudo gathered in front of us, and started giving orders.

I got off the stage and walked back to Natalia, who had gone off to the same wall she was leaning on earlier. I stood next to her and I sighed. Natalia simply looked of into the distance. "Natalia... hey, Natalia!" When she didn't respond, I looked in her direction, and saw why she wasn't responding. She was crying. "Natalia, look at me." Natalia never cried, so I didn't really know what to do. I sighed once more. "Natalia, I'm sorry for leading us all into this mess. I'm sorry for not caring enough about attack or defense strategies when I was younger. I'm sorry..." I was cut off as Natalia turned towards me. "Don't be." She said. "What? What do you mean? All this, all this stuff, It's all my fault. And you're telling me I shouldn't be sorry?" Natalia looked at me silently for a moment, before leaning back against the wall.

"You shouldn't be sorry, because there is nothing you could've done. You couldn't have known there was this huge army marching up to our front gates. You didn't do anything wrong." "Natalia?" "Yes?" "Why are you crying?" She just sighed, her shoulders sagged, and to my surprise, she leaned on my shoulder. "I'm crying, because... because I'm afraid I'm going to die. I'm afraid you're going to die, and that I'll lose my best friend. I'm crying, because we're all going to die, all of us, all of our family, all of our friends, everyone. Everyone is going to die and I just... I just..." She cut off and started sobbing. "I'm scared, and that's not the Gerudo code. That's why I'm crying."

There were a few moments of silence, only interrupted by Aveil's commands and Natalia's sobbing, before I spoke up again. "If you believe that being scared isn't the Gerudo code, you are wrong. I know that's a really cold thing to say, but nowhere in the Gerudo code is it said that being scared isn't allowed. It is not bad. Being scared is a superpower. it heightens your awareness, your mobility, and in some cases allows you to do things you never knew you could do. I need you to be scared, because that might just be the only thing keeping you and me and everyone else in this fortress alive."

We were interrupted by the sound of another Bulblin war horn, and the sounds of our own alarms. The attack had begun.

Author's note:

Hello there! since I forgot to put one of these at the end of chapter one, I'm just going to put one here! Now, first of all, I'd like to say that I'm not actually from an English speaking country, so if you happen to come across some grammatical errors, please point them out to me in the comments and I'll try to fix it. Just in general, Comment! I'd love to hear all the things I'm doing wrong, so that I can fix them and prevent them from happening in the future

also, did you notice the little Doctor Who reference near the end of the chapter? I thought some of you might like it.

Now, I'll be off, working on writing chapter three. I'll try to make it longer this time, as I have a lot of things planned for upcoming chapters!