CHAPTER 4

"Right, Jumping…" GhostKing began. "It's basically like teleportation and the thing in Harry Potter. But you've got to jump into it." She gave a little hop in demonstration, nearly landing on a fork and ending up sprawled on the floor. "I MEANT TO DO THAT!"

"Basically all Authors can do this, even without power. In fact…I think you guys could too." Sarah took over explaining, facepalming at her friend. "Just hold onto us, because we'll be leading you to the Council."

Everyone held hands awkwardly. Then GhostKing and Sarah nodded at each other and jumped forward, the others doing the same. It felt as though they were flying a million miles an hour through the ocean, everything was blurred and distorted until they found themselves lying on a hard, stone floor.

"Hey! That worked! Awesome!" Sarah said happily, springing up.

"MMMF!" Silver shouted, because Link was sitting on his head.

After that teleportation thing was sorted out, they walked through the halls to see Authors from all over the universe. It was pretty cool, but they had to stick to the situation at hand and not make small talk. They came to two huge stone doors with all sorts of designs and statues carved into them.

"This leads to the Author Council. We'll go and negotiate with them while you guys just stay here and not get in trouble." Sarah growled, stressing the last part.

With that, she and GhostKing entered the two huge doors.

"Now what?" Zelda asked.

"I don't know. Where exacally do you guys live, again?" Silver asked.

"Hyrule." Zelda said.

"Oh, yeah, that's right. And you're a princess? Cool! What else do you guys do?"

And so Zelda and Link explained to the two hedgehogs the awesomeness of Hyrule and the lands surrounding it. Link boasted about how heroic he always was and Zelda had to slap him. But overall they got the story mostly true.

"Your whole lives sound like one of my days off." Shadow muttered.

And so he and Silver explained to them what their lives were like.

"Wow, it seems like no one gets a quiet day anymore, right?" Zelda sighed once they were done.

"Nope." Silver said.

That was about when the giant doors opened again and Sarah and GhostKing walked out, both of them looking really worried. "Well, we've got our Author Power again." GhostKing said.

"Hi-ya!" Link said, stating that was good.

"But the bad thing is we have to return it once this is sorted out. We now have to go without Author Power for nearly two full months after this!" Sarah growled.

"Hi-ya." Link said, stating that wasn't good.

"Well, we need to get this done as soon as possible! Come on! I think they went back to the abandoned house!" GhostKing gathered everyone in a circle and snapped her fingers, and they vanished from the great Author Hall and appeared in the main room of the abandoned house, the one with the blood/grape juice.

"They might be in the basement again, just for show. Villains…I'll never understand them." Zelda shook her head.

They found the basement door again and opened it into the unknown. Luckily GhostKing and Sarah could light up the surroundings now that they had Power, so it was less dark.

"GhostKing!" came a shout. One of her brothers, DinosaurKing82—but she just calls him Dino—came running up to her. "What's going on?! Why is Ganondorf and Mephiles after Ghostbuster?"

"Where's mom and dad?" GhostKing demanded.

"They're back at the house, asleep! Ganondorf cursed them to sleep and when they wake up, never know what happened! They'll think that we're not their kids!"

"On one hand, that's awesome, I can go live with Sarah…but on the other, it's kinda bad. Come on…where's Ghostbuster?" GhostKing said.

"I don't know! I think they're still in this house, though!"

"Silver, take him back to GhostKing's house. Then come back, ok?" Sarah said.

"Ok. Come on, kid." Silver said awkwardly.

"I think they're back in the attic." Zelda said once the two of them were gone.

"I think so too. Come on, everyone! Be on guard!" Sarah revved a chainsaw she got out of nowhere. Everyone facepalmed.

Turns out that they weren't in the attic…but standing at the top of the stairs. Ganondorf was holding his pink sword to Ghostbuster's neck and Mephiles was lazily spinning the purple Emerald around his head.

"GhostKing! Help!" Ghostbuster shouted.

"Like I didn't plan on that before!" GhostKing growled, a long saber appearing in her hand.

"Perfect. The Iblis Trigger and the Sheltering Spirit are finally together." Mephiles laughed. "Now…let's finally free him."

Link drew his sword. "Hi-ya!" He growled.

Sarah revved her chainsaw. "Bring it, demons!"

Much to their surprise, Ganondorf just let Ghostbuster go. He ran down the stairs and clung to GhostKing, terrified.

"…What was that about?" Shadow asked.

"All part of the plan." Mephiles promised. The Emerald that was nearby covered GhostKing and her brother in a light purple glow, lifting them into the air. A golden mist separated from GhostKing and she made a wild swipe at it, shouting, "MY AUTHOR POWER!"

"Yes! Every bit of it! You will be completely human once again!" Mephiles laughed as the golden mist seemed to melt into Ganondorf's sword. It turned bloodred and evil looking.

"No! Give my sister her Power back! Right now! Or I'll kill you!" Ghostbuster shouted, punching and kicking at the purple glow that held him in place. "I WILL KILL YOU!"

There was a flash of light. Fire seemed to swarm the hall, nearly destroying it and sending everyone falling down the stairs.

"Yes! Iblis!" Mephiles shouted over the noise of everyone screaming, "OW!"

"Crap," Sarah muttered.

There was an epic explosion and the roof was blown off the house as Iblis left, spreading fire over the entire neighborhood.

"Sarah, 'crap' hardly covers it!" GhostKing shouted, leaping up and attempting to punch Ganondorf as his back was turned. Mephiles knocked her to the side and the two demons leapt out of the house, landing on what appeared to be the only intact patch of grass in the entire place.

"Well, then! Shi-"

"SARAH!"

"Well, you said-"

"We have bigger probablems, here!" Zelda shouted.

The group surveyed the area, which was not in good condition. How the hello would they be able to stop this?

"Hi-ya?" Link suggested.

"No, we can't freeze it." Shadow said. "Iblis covers too large an area."

"Then what do we do?" Zelda asked.

"Where the heck is Silver?" Sarah shouted.

A portal opened and he fell on her head. "Sorry!"

"Ok, now that everyone's here…WHAT DO WE DO?!" GhostKing shouted. "I have no Author Power… probably for good now… and how do we defeat my worst nightmare?!"

"Hi-ya!" Link said smartly, pointing to the sky.

"WE CAN'T MAKE IT RAIN!" Sarah and GhostKing shouted at the same time. "It's against the Author Rules!"

"You can't do it…" Shadow said. "But what about us?"

"What do you mean?"

"If I get the Emerald from Mephiles and Zelda gets the sword from Ganondorf…we may just have a chance at this. It's a long shot, I know…but it's better than nothing."

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard." Sarah said. "But it is better than nothing. And technically because the Author Power isn't behind used by GhostKing…hey, it could work."

"So how do we do this?" Silver asked.

"I have an idea." Sarah smiled evilly. "But you're not going to like it."

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SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN?! WILL THEY DEFEAT GANONDORF, MEPHILES AND IBLIS?! WILL GHOSTKING AND SARAH GET THEIR AUTHOR POWER BACK FOR GOOD?! WILL OBAMA WIN THE NEXT ELECTION?

Who knows…

Hasta la Vista, Readers!

Lordoftheghostking28

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