Chapter 2: First Day

Installment two, enjoy.

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She surveyed her surroundings, surprised and getting a nervous feeling in the pit of her stomach. A large dark castle stood ahead of them; behind seemed a large gate that happened to be open and a town beyond it. A manor rose in her vision over the gates to the left. Over the gates she could also see other providences she became familiar with over the years… Faron, Eldin and Lanayru. She had heard of an evil realm in the middle in a book but never saw it in her rare travels with Selena. Perhaps guarded by magic?

It was cold, snow blanketed the new realm, Natalya had never seen snow before, it was beautiful in her eyes. It gave her a slight chill but she wasn't too bothered by it; she did swim in the cooler waters of Faron after all. She also adorned a long black scarf accompanying her white vested shirt and dark pants.

She put her knowledge together and figured this realm in which she's read about was the Arcadia that 'Lord' Ghirahim had mentioned before.

"Is this Arcadia?" she asked, just to be sure. Ghirahim was watching her overview the surroundings from beside her.

"Yes, Kyra, this is the realm of the demons and monsters," he answered, sweeping his arms out dramatically with a wide smile. "But only a demon can get in or out—unless he wants to bring someone along, that is." He looked at Natalya as he said that last part. She tried to say something, but he continued talking before she could. "This here is my Master's castle. Behind us..." He turned to the town. "...is Creastero, where most of the demons live-" Natalya cut him off.

"Creastero, like the name of the place Lucifer is kept? That's not it is it?!" She asked, recognizing the name.

"Yes, actually, and no... just named after it." He was a bit curious as to how she knew this, but he brushed it aside and continued, "Behind the castle is where some of the monsters live in an unnamed town. Around the right side of the castle when facing it is the garden, where we raise hundreds of various Deku Babas. Last, but certainly not the least, that..." he pointed to their left, where the manor was visible over the gates, "...is my manor." He finished.

"Oh! Cool…" she said, slowly. She began to inch backwards slowly while Ghirahim was distracted, looking over at something with which he was obviously displeased. He sighed.

"Take another step and I will have to take further measures," he said calmy, taking notice of her motions. She jumped slightly, but that was her cue. She took off, running towards the open gates, with high hopes to make it through and find a place to hide before she made her escape attempt. She managed to run a small distance, then heard a snap and ran into the wall of a translucent diamond dome that appeared from seemingly nowhere, she fell yet caught herself. With her injured arm, then fell the rest of the way to the ground anyway because of the pain that suddenly made its presence known. She now realized the blood that had dripped in the white snow.

"Damn it!" she seethed through her teeth. "Damn Bokoblin..." She inspected her arm. "Great... it's probably broken." She was not happy with the situation at all, and while she was poking and prodding her arm in an attempt to diagnose what kind of condition it was in, she wasn't paying attention to the man standing behind her. When she noticed him, she stood and glared at him sharply.

"Now, I thought I said not to go any farther—did you not here me? What, was that your plan to escape from this powerful land? A mere child such as yourself?" Ghirahim smirked a little.

"I was working on it," she said, putting her chin up a little and attempted crossing her arms, but instead supporting her injured one. "It's better to try than become a slave. Pointless or not." She answered.

"Aw, no need to upset." He said. He then looked back over to where he had been looking before she began to run. She was about to protest, but decided against it realizing she had already put herself in a bad enough situation and simply sighed, looking to see what he was very clearly angry about.

Five Hylians, beat up and dirty rounded a corner of the castle and killed the Bokoblin that spotted them, trying to be quiet. Natalya guessed that they were slaves trying to escape.

Uh oh, she thought. This won't turn out well.

Ghirahim sighed, "Since you've only just arrived, I'll leave you off with a warning, but cross me again and I may not be so generous. Now, if you will excuse me, I have some business to attend to. Wait here," he said, he snapped his fingers, and disappeared in a cloud of diamonds.

"Yeah, because there are SO many other places I am able to go, like, oh yeah, maybe three feet over to my left. Hmph." She spoke to nothing after he left her in the dome. She looked at her arm again, took off the black scarf she was wearing and wrapped it around the wound, it gave her a sudden chill but it's better than bleeding out.

She looked back to the Hylians and saw Ghirahim screaming at them, furious, and they couldn't move—she could see they were couldn't move, their bodies covered in a transparent slate of diamonds. She couldn't make out what he was saying; she could only hear a jumble of words. Then she watched as he stabbed the stomach of the one nearest to him with a sword he pulled out of the air.

Her heartbeat rose and she began to worry about the people as he continued to yell at them. She was wondering how he could be so cruel to them, but then remembered that he was a Demon Lord, and therefore evil. She cast her thoughts aside when she saw him summon daggers and begin to throw them at the group.

"STOP IT!" she screamed. No one heard. She pounded against the wall of the dome with her good arm, trying to see if she could break out. "Come on-LET ME OUT!" A white light shot from her hand and shattered the cage into millions of diamond shards. She stared at them for a few seconds in wonder at what had happened, then shook her head and ran to Ghirahim, grabbing his arm as he raised it to backhand someone who looked to be an older man.

He whirled around, backhanding her so hard as there were scratches on her face from his nails. He noticed who it was and looked back to where the cage had been.

"How did you get out?" he asked venomously. She saw the line of purple below his eyes had changed to pitch black, and there was something there in eyes that she couldn't quite name but she decided not to think about it. She was scared, but refused to back down.

"Stop hurting these people!" she exclaimed, ignoring his question.

"Why should I do what you say—the last time I checked you were in my Master's land!" He snarled.

"What did they do to deserve this—besides, I'm guessing, trying to escape?" she asked, her tone a little harsh. He was probably the one who kidnapped them in the first place like herself, they had every right to take their chances.

"Their escape and the monsters they killed are of little consequence—but somehow they managed to kill a demon who happened to be of dear acquaintance to me!" he growled, pointing to a corpse that had previously been blocked from her view by the corner of the castle. The demon had red skin that seemed faded and short, curly black hair that covered part of his left eye, and he wore a black shirt and pants. He was battered and bloody from multiple stab wounds. She realized that the hidden emotion in Ghirahim's eyes was sadness, and the realization left her speechless.

"W-well..." She knew how she would feel if Selena were murdered. "I'm sorry for your loss, but...I-I will take their punishment for them," she said softly, quietly.

"Foolish girl! These Hylians are to be put on a death sentence!"

Her eyes widened at that. "All of them?!" she asked. Stupid question...

"Yes. All of them!" He answered. "Starting now!" He stabbed the older looking man in the heart. He unfroze as they all watched him drop dead. He dropped something and Ghirahim picked it up. "A demon blade…" He said quietly, "One of the only weapons capable of killing a demon, they must have snagged it from one of the guards." He said. She didn't know what to say, hands on her mouth and eyes wide in terror.

She thought of her previous words, she couldn't die thinking of Selena—but she couldn't let any more people die either. She gave up on the arguing as tears ran down her cheeks as a result of the whole situation. She felt terrible about everything.

"I'm so sorry," she whispered, and looked up at him. He was watching her, as were the Hylians. Some gave her looks of gratitude for her efforts to help them. She began walking to the demon. She looked back, noticing that the spots under Ghirahim's eyes weren't black anymore, but still a very dark purple.

She noticed he was holding back as he distressfully closed his eyes.

"Punishing them with death won't change anything," she said softly.

"I can't just let them get away with their crimes, Kyra," he said.

She sat next to the fallen and felt to see if he was really dead. He wasn't! There was faint breaths and a very dangerous pulse.

"He's alive!" She exclaimed.

"What?!" Ghirahim snapped his head up and ran to his side.

"Very feint…" She said. Hand still on his neck to feel his pulse. Dear Goddess, why did this have to happen? At this rate he'll die! She didn'tknow why but she cared. Please be okay, Dear Goddess let him live… She wished in her mind. At the moment, the same light from earlier shined from her hand she stared at it, Ghirahim looked at it confused before his eyes got a complete look of realization. The demon that layed barely alive shone with the same light that dissipated quickly, the light from her hand gone too. Ghirahim and her shared a glance before looking to him.

He suddenly sat up, gasping for air. The demon turned to his side and coughed up blood violently before laying back on his back and breathing heavily. Everyone was shocked, but she smiled to herself. Good or evil, she was happy he was alive, for whatever reason that was. She was also completely shocked at the way it had happened.

"Gh-Ghirahim, what the hell just happened? I remember seeing black, then I saw a white light and just woke up! What's going on?" He was just as surprised as everyone else. Ghirahim said nothing, just pulled his friend into a hug, and spoke when he pulled back.

"You'd be surprised." He said. He thought for a second then looked at her. "What happened?" He asked hoping she would give a side to her story.

"I-I have no idea! Wh-what was that?!" She was genuinely scared and he could tell she didn't know. He sighed and looked down and smiled genuinely at the red demon.

"Thank God your alive." He said, "We should get you..." he paused and glanced at Natalya briefly, "...both of you inside." He snapped and then all three of them were in a bedroom. Leaving the frozen and dead Hylians behind.

"ADAM!" Ghirahim yelled. Another demon appeared in front of them. He had bright yellow eyes and faded yellow-tinted skin and short brown hair, wearing dark blue jeans and a plain white shirt.

"Yes Ghira-" he paused as he registered the demon, "-holy crap is Romeo ok?" he asked, bending down and looking at him. He must have noticed the dried blood and tears in his shirt that bore no wounds. Natalya realized that the now known 'Romeo' had fallen asleep, but was still breathing so she knew he was still alive.

"I think so, he was just holding onto life moments ago. I'll explain later, but I need you to go to fetch the slaves frozen on the left corner of the castle with Damien and take them to the dungeons, understood?" He asked.

"Yeah." He noticed Natalya there and smirked, then winked at Ghirahim and disappeared in yellow smoke.

"Is it just me, or did he get the wrong impression of why I'm here?" She asked. Ghirahim just looked at her.

"Oh, he most definitely got the wrong idea." he said, smiling as if it were a regular thing with him.

Natalya rolled her eyes and said, "Well, we should get him onto the bed; it's probably better than the floor." She gestured towards Romeo.

"Yeah. You get the feet." He took the back and arms as Natalya picked up his legs with an arm, and they set him on the bed and stood off to the side.

"Now, how did you get out of my cage?" he asked.

"Um...I screamed 'Let me out!' and a bright light came from my hand and it just... completely shattered," she said. He blinked, but nodded.

"Interesting." He said, then realized that no Hylian would have been able to do that. "What are you, exactly?"

"I-I don't know. I've been different ever since I can remember…" She said.

"You said you were a teenager, correct?" He asked.

"18 on the 1st of April." She explained, what harm would it do?

Ghirahim noticed her arm was covered in blood and bent at an odd angle.

"What happened to your arm?" he asked.

"Oh...when I was fighting off the Bokoblins one of them managed to bash my arm in… then another one managed to do the same thing and I'm pretty sure it's broken." she said. He nodded, then snapped his fingers and a potion appeared, and handed it to her.

"Here, this should fix the bone and heal it, but it will be sore for a few days," he said. She eyed it carefully. "Its okay, wouldn't want any slaves in harm on their first day now would I?" He said.

"I wouldn't know. It seems like a legitimate excuse though…" She took it and drank it slowly, savoring it's refreshing taste.

"Thank… you." She slowly said as she felt the potion work it's magic. She walked to the window, and saw the castle and judging by the angle, realized she must be in Ghirahim's mansion.

"You know, this is insane. I just went for a walk to relax and enjoy a day, then a Demon Lord kidnaps me to make me a slave after I was ambushed by Bokoblins, then I shatter a cage with—I don't know—magic I never knew I had… I guess. To top it all off a demon comes back to life after that light appeared again. Not that weird things haven't happened before but I mean, seriously, what a day." she said, still taking in everything, staring out the window at nothing in particular. Ghirahim was about to say something when Adam appeared. Natalya turned and saw he was shielding his eyes.

"We're finished, Ghirahim, am I interrupting anything? Can I look?"

Natalya smiled slightly. Well he is certainly a character… She pointed out to herself. She looked back and saw Ghirahim roll his eyes.

"Did you do what I asked?" He asked.

"Yeah, those people are waiting in a cell for the verdict." He said, unshielding his eyes. "I'll check up later, gotta thing to get to." He said, transporting away. I looked back out the window, noticing the darker skies.

"Well...this has easily been the coolest, longest, most confusing and terrifying day of my life, but now, Lord Ghirahim, I need to sleep—anywhere will suffice, really—and maybe get a snack," She said, yawning at the end as she waited for an answer from him. Arrogantly speaking.

"Well, tell you what. Since it's late, and Master hasn't seen you yet, you may take my guest room tonight and we can get you situated tomorrow, sound pleasant?" He asked.

"Thank you." she said, and then ran out of the room. Ghirahim stood there and waited, and as expected she poked her head through the door again and said, "Where-" she was cut off.

"At the end of the hall there are two large doors. That would be my room. Look to your right from there and the door you will see is the guest room, understand?"

She nodded and went off down the hall. Before she got to her room, Ghirahim snapped his fingers, supplying her with a nightgown and a black dress for tomorrow, then he went to his room for the night. When she walked in she saw the clothes and put on the nightgown and placed the black dress on her temporary night stand and said, "What no snack?" then just brushed it off. She whispered "Goodnight, Selena," then climbed into bed, pulling the covers to her face. Over thinking the day tears ran down her cheeks followed by sobs. She eventually cried herself to sleep… Alone in a new world.

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