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All of you who were waiting for action; the time has come!!!! So hold on tight! This chapter goes fast!
Early warning: there are a lot of POV switches in this chapter so be aware.
Disclaimer: I do not own Zelda: Twilight Princess! If I did, I could buy Fanfiction! I do own my characters: Zerah, Mach, Ojan, Riko, and Kia.
Before my Sun Fades to Twilight
Chapter Four: Encounter with the Dark One
Zerah's POV
I knocked on the door of a Kakariko home.
"Yes?" answered a woman with a child on her hip.
"Your family is in great danger." I said calmly. She clutched her baby girl tighter.
"Ojan is planning to relocate everyone in Kakariko and Death Mountain. We need to evacuate you- now." I pointed to the caravans of people that were running out of Kakariko in a panicked rush. Her face turned a pale white and turned around and started yelling at her family members in the native language of the Kakarikos.
"That is the last house Mach." I called to my boyfriend.
"Good. Most of them have already made it to the underground shelter in Hyrule Field." Mach sighed in relief.
"You can't make us leave, brother." A rough voice commanded. Mach turned his head to the huge Gorons. The five teen Gorons had refused to leave until everyone from both villages was evacuated into the shelter.
(POV switch!!!!!) Mach's POV
"I ain't your brother and they'll be fine." I restrained my anger while answering this question for the zillionth time!
"We not just stay for villages. We help protect you and your lady-friend." The Goron protested.
"We'll be long gone before O-jan and her minions git here." I argued.
"But what if they come? What if they see you? You head be on pike! No, we don't go." I was trying to avoid the reality that if we were caught, we could die. Especially since Zerah was here with me.
"Look, just keep-a movin' or stay out of my way!" I thrust my way past the Gorons. The evacuation moved faster then expected. I guess it was the fear of their past experience with the Twilight. The last wagon full of people and supplies had moved out of sight, and Kakariko was silent once again. We began to follow the refugees, until I heard a loud windy noise. I thought it was just a storm brewing until I heard Zerah scream.
(Another POV switch) Kia's POV
After a while, I finally got use to the horse's swaying and rhythm of its hooves. "Look." Riko yelled as a couple of strange beasts disappeared around a boulder close to the village of Kakariko. Riko changed his heading and galloped toward the monsters. He slowed and dismounted once we got close to the boulder. Riko stealthfully crept up, but I kinda spoiled it by falling out of the saddle. I caught up to Riko, and turned the corner to see one of the weirdest sights I thought I would ever see.
(Yet again, another POV switch just to keep you on your toes) Riko's POV
In front of me was the mighty bridge of Eldin and the roaring Zora's river beneath it. That bird-beast we saw earlier was there happily hopping behind a woman dressed in black like a dog. The woman was cloaked and had dark hair down to her ankles. Following her was a man and a woman about twenty, and a few Gorons! They had been to Kakariko! An anger and fear made me feel light-headed. I mouthed "Follow me." to Kia and we crept up behind the dark maiden. We worked our way up to the two teens. The boy saw us first. He looked confused, but he then looked at Kia. I saw an anger flair up in his eyes. Kia waved shyly. I took out a knife and attempted to cut the rope binding the boy's hands together. Then the cloaked woman whipped around,
"Do you really think that I am that gullible?!" The maiden turned and her orange monster-eyes narrowed at me. Then I felt something tugging at my knife, but there was nothing there! I gripped both hands on the handle but the mysterious force kept pulling harder. Then the blade slipped out of my hands. It then hovered over to the Evil One. She chuckled.
"You seem amused by my powers boy." She curled her voice like a seductive black serpent.
"Oh, who's your friend?" She gracefully stepped over to Kia. She was obviously evil, but everything else made her seem beautiful. Kia tried not to look at the dark one and turned her head away.
"You are a Zora?" She chuckled and she put her grey finger under Kia's chin and lifted it. "Look me in the eyes! Even poor Empress Ojan needs some courtesy." Kia's eyes were bugged out.
"Don't deny it. I am right. You are a Zora. You are a fish out of water. One of the lowest life forms on this rock. You belong at the bottom of the river!" She then lifted Kia up off the ground by her neck! Kia began to choke and gasp for air. Then she was thrust back off the bridge by the dark maiden's voodoo powers, but instead of falling, she was being held up by her wrists. She was pinned to an invisible wall. Kia looked down to the rapids and her face turned a shade of white, like a dead fish.
"This is not your conflict Zora, so you are of no use to me."
Suddenly my right hand burned. I looked at it to see there was a bit of the Triforce glowing on my hand! It burned harder and harder. It felt as if someone were pressing coals on my hand. A single thought popped into my head. It felt as if it was more grafted into my head. It didn't seem to belong.
"Stop her." The thought rang in my head like a gong in my subconscious. It grew worse until I didn't know which hurt worse, my hand or my head. Ignoring it was impossible and I sank to my knees, shaking my head, trying to clear it of the thought.
"Get it out of my head!" I pleaded to no one. Then I finally succumbed to the thought and the pain. (Which all these events in my head took about two seconds)
"Stop!!!!!" I charged at the sorceress. Ojan simply hurled me off the bridge alongside Kia. The thought still rang like a horse was running over my brain. Ojan then turned to those on the bridge and shouted over the rapids below,
"Let this be a lesson to anyone who defies me!!!" Kia and I fell. Falling to our inevitable painful death.
If this was confusing to some people, don't worry. A lot of new stuff was poured into that chapter. You will understand it later. Riko has a part of the Triforce? Well, bet ya never saw that one coming. The next chapter has humor, romance, and a crazy fisherman. Please review so I can post this next funny chapter! Please?
