Icarus and the Wolf
By: Aya Anderson
Storyline
If this was the way life was going to be, then one would have to adjust accordingly. Not that anyone had any trouble adjusting, but being a loner had it's disadvantages. Perhaps they could be swayed with a new acquaintance, not that he has any intention of making a friend.
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Before You Read
Man, I'm running out of old sayings for chapter titles. What do I do? And is it just me, or is Pit really OOC? I dunno.
On with the story!
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Too Many Irons in a Fire
Pit lost to Link once.
It was during a tournament, when the top was open and they let the rain in on the stadium. The spectators remained dry but the competitors didn't. Pit had a problem with this, for if his wings got wet, he could not fly and they were nothing but heavy weight on his back.
He entered the tournament anyway, even though he didn't expect to win. He just did it for fun, either way he won.
It was the fifth battle of the third round, and Pit was proud he managed to make it this far. They both walked onto their stadium and prepared for battle.
Pit couldn't remember how the battle went exactly. He remembered finding Link's shield annoying and that they both once shot each other's arrows out of the air at the same time, to which Pit could always find himself smirking about when he thought of it once in a while.
It was the very end of the battle Pit remembered most. How it was he lost.
Link had a very powerful downward strike, one that was strong enough to knock Pit off the stage if it connected. Pit brought up his Palutena Bow and blocked the attack, but it wasn't enough to transfer the strength into the swords.
Pit slipped and his back foot slipped off the edge. He had barely any time to think as he grabbed onto the edge. He had barely any grip between his sword, his fingers, and the stage. He reached up with his second hand and tried to pull himself up, but it was impossible without friction.
He tried to use his feet to push himself up and try to drag himself up with his arms, but he only slipped and slid as he tried in vain. There was a gasp and the clinking of his sheath and a shield and Pit looked up. Link held out his arm, offering Pit to take his hand.
The angel beat his wings and tried to grab onto Link's hand but he was a touch short of the warrior's fingers and Pit slipped off the edge. Link tried again for Pit's hand but failed and Pit fell off the stage, down into the darkness where he would land a soft landing.
Link was declared the winner.
He lost in the next round to Luigi's Negative Zone.
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Pit's eyes followed the swaying of Link's tail as they walked. It was distracting, so he just focused on that. It was better than staring up at the sky for Kargarok's or down at the Twilight seas, but when it came to fights, his eyes tore from the pendulum-like appendage and focused on the battle.
They walked up the winding path towards the top of the black mountain. He had a feeling it was there, too. Whatever rested up at the top of the mountain held Link's sword, and that would be the only thing that could transform Link back.
So, when they reached the mouth of the cave at the top of the mountain, Pit was surprised to find that there wasn't really anything there but a few Kargaroks and some Shadow Beasts. "Just a hide out," Zelda whispered. "but we'll need to kill the Kargaroks before we can kill the Shadow Beasts."
Pit couldn't see Link's sword, but he could see a small room where it was probably hidden. "I could kill the Kargaroks," he suggested, connecting his Palutena Bow. "and you and Link can take of the, uh, Shadow Beasts."
Zelda glanced back at the angel, almost wondering how planned to follow through with what he said. She looked at the bow then back at Link before nodding. "Don't leave the ground," she said and motioned for Link to lead the attack.
The wolf looked at the two of them inhaled, then charged into the den. Pit took no time to charge up a celestial arrow and shoot down a Kargarok before it even saw Link.
Link jumped up and bared his fangs to bite and chew the Shadow Beast he claimed as Zelda began a few high level spells to back him up from the others. The Great Spin was no longer useable as Midna was no longer joining them in the world of light, and therefore Link needed aid in killing the last two simultaneously.
But that wouldn't be for a while.
Link attempted to focus on only one Shadow Beast and take care of each of them one by one, and if it wasn't possible, he would bite the one that wound up the next attack. It worked in his defense and in his offense, leaving him with little wounds, if any.
Zelda's tactic was to use spells with wide range, hoping they would damage more than one Shadow Beast at a time. She switched between flame-based attacks and ice-based ones, and occasionally just used the tiny spells she used in the Tournaments to gain distance between her and her enemies.
Pit left his job to firing arrows at the Kargarok that planned to attack either of his friends before picking them off at random. It wasn't a hard tactic, with the three of them combined, and Pit thought they were going to win soon.
The angel didn't even have time to blink when a Kargarok burst out of the mouth of the cave and took to the air without even a flap of it's wings. Pit fell over backwards and landed on his back. Link howled and Pit pushed himself up, just to find that the Kargarok not only carried a rider on it's back, but Link's sword in it's claws.
Pit couldn't keep the gasp at bay. He turned back into the cavern, where Zelda and Link were still holding off the Shadow Beasts, then back to the retreating Kargarok. "Dammit," he whispered and he broke his Palutena Bow in half again. Using the half in his right hand, he quickly cut the bandages that wrapped tightly around the wound on his left wing.
He leaned up on his toes and beat his wings. His feathered appendage throbbed and groaned in protest, but it managed to lift him off the ground a few feet. When he was prepared, he pushed himself forward and took to the air, using his Miracle of Flight to chase after the Kargarok, it's rider, and Link's sword.
He knew for a fact that he could fly faster than this damn bird, but the injury made it hard to move too quickly. If he moved any faster, he would lose control and most likely fall to the Twilight sea below.
The rider spotted the angel and kicked it's Kargarok to move a little faster, flying in a circle around the black mountain. Pit followed it just as quickly, matching speed as he tried to shoot celestial arrows at the bird while the rider did the same thing back to him with flaming arrows.
Link found it difficult to keep on his feet when being tossed between hits, but he knew if he lost his footing for just a moment and collapsed, the Shadow Beasts would have him in moments. Zelda suffered a similar issue across the room, trying to find a medium between all three of the Shadow Beasts she held off.
The Princess had hoped that Pit would join the fight as soon as the Kargarok's were killed off, but he had taken off somewhere. She did not object. He was not in the way, and therefore she pushed it to the back of his mind. She wouldn't figure out where he wandered off to if she was dead before she saw him.
The battle hit a short stalemate as Link attempted to change his tactics, dodging and moving until he found an advantage point in the situation. He leapt off the rock wall and used his teeth to slice down a Shadow Assassin before it had the chance to turn. Now between only two Shadow Beings, Link found it easier to take down the second one, before jumping onto the last and glancing in Zelda's direction.
Zelda had managed herself an advantage by retreating to the mouth of the cave and used an area-based attack to knock them off their feet. She took no hesitation to take a final blow at all three simultaneously. Link did not miss a beat by killing his own trapped Shadow Beast.
The wolf met with Zelda at the mouth of the cave and sniffed the air. "He's gone off somewhere," Zelda said quietly. "I think I see him."
Both Pit and the rider had managed a few arrows into the other, but both passed with minimal damage. A loud howl caught Pit's attention and he stopped right in his tracks, allowing the Kargarok a chance to retreat.
His gaze turned down to the mouth of the dark mountain, where Link was barking loudly and Zelda was waving her arms. "Don't worry about the rider! Just retrieve Link's sword, and we can leave. Do you understand?"
The angel beat his wings an extra time before he nodded and saluted her. "Understood!" he chirped, then wound back his arm and threw the Palutena's Bow in her direction. "Cover me! I'll go straight for the sword!"
Zelda reached up and caught the bow with one hand, nodding once. Pit smiled, then looked around and spotted the Kargarok with the Master Sword.
He flew as fast as his wings would let him, which was not as quick as he would have liked to have gone, but it was slightly faster than the Shadow Kargarok could manage. He chased it around in a circle, twisting and spinning to avoid the arrows that was fired at him from the rider. His eyes were focused solely on the prize; Link's sword.
Zelda made the motion of drawing an arrow on a bow, and the celestial arrow and string magically appeared on their own. She smiled, enjoying the magic that came with Pit's weapon, and fired away at the rider on the Kargarok.
Upon the contact, the rider was struck and fell off the side of the Kargarok. The Twilight bird screeched and flapped it's wings in panic as it tried to decide what it was to do now that it was on it's own.
Pit saw it as his time to strike.
He wasted no time and reached out for the blade just as the Kargarok burst off in a random direction to avoid contact with the angel. Pit yelled in frustration, pushing himself a little faster to keep up with the bird. He was not far now behind it. The sword was so close, he could taste the metal.
Wait, metal?
The angel coughed and he beat his wings harder, trying to keep up with the bird. The Kargarok seemed to be going so much faster all of a sudden. Or maybe he was slower. He felt a burning sensation creep up in his wings and he stopped where he was. This feeling... What was this feeling?
He paused to stop for a moment. Something was wrong. He was feeling sick and dizzy, like his heart has stopped pumping blood to his brain. He tried to speak but he was unable to speak, and it wasn't long before his wings failed on him as well.
Pit collapsed from the sky, falling head first towards the Twilight sea that was below him. He found no energy to stop himself from descending to Earth. He shut his eyes and lost all feeling in his body. He could hardly breathe. Why...?
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He had been so close. At first, he had lost his speed, then he hovered for a moment, confused and unmoving, and finally collapsed.
Link's ears perked as soon as Pit's wings no longer moved to keep him in the air and the angel fell to Earth. He was too far away for him to do anything. Link couldn't save him, and Zelda couldn't either.
There was no choice but to watch him fall from the mountainous height. Link ran to the edge and howled, hoping it would wake him – but it only got worse. For a moment, the wolf thought Pit's entire body was glowing but upon further inspection, it was just his wings.
They shined for three whole seconds and then shattered like glass.
Each feather broke off like a shard of white crystal that dissolved when left in the air on it's own in the air. One by one, the feathers faded to nothing and left Pit to fall on his own, without anything to aid him save himself.
Zelda brought one hand to her neck, and unconsciously stepped back. Link threw his head back and howled, desperate, and one could almost hear his human voice in the cry.
As though their prayers had been answered, a swift orange blur struck Pit from his fall and ascended to the sky, slowing to a stop. Zelda recognized the bulky, orange armor and she brought her arm back down to her side. "Samus."
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After Notes
Whoa! Finally! Shit is going down! Oooooooh! ...Okay.
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