Life at Romani Ranch
Chapter 7: The fight
Link took a leap towards Phomant, while Phomant got ready to defend himself from Link's attack. As Link passed Phomant, sounds of flesh being cut could be heard, a scream was let out by Phomant, Link had cut Phomant in the chest. Phomant fell on his knees, he put his hand on his chest, and then he looked at his hand covered by blood. Phomant let out another scream, and started shaking. Romani fainted in Cremia's arms, it was too much for the young ranch girl.
"Am I not good enough?" The wounded boy, Phomant, asked Link. The blue eyed boy glared at the green eyed boy and said:
"The battle isn't finished, get up!"
Slowly getting back up, Phomant had managed to get back on his feet, however he was still shaking.
Link smiled and took a few leaps backwards, Phomant slowly walked towards Link, with his hand on his chest. When Phomant gotten close enough to Link, he slowly lifted his sword, Link stuck out his tongue out and shouted:
"Too slow!" Link then cut Phomant in the leg, which caused the green eyed boy too fall. Again he screamed, but this time tears appeared… Link stood before Phomant and said:
"Two hits, one to go!" The green eyed boy, just used his hands to cover his eyes.
"Don't worry I'll be gentle." Link said and cut Phomant gentle in his back, Phomant screamed again, this time his eyes went blank. Link looked at the older men, Folion ran over to Phomant and shouted:
"Is there a doctor in this ranch?" Nobody gave an answer, Folion shouted again:
"Is there a doctor in this ranch, please, somebody help my brother!"
"We don't have a doctor here, but I do know a little of medical." Cremia said.
"You do?" Folion asked.
"Yeah, I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up, but I ended up giving it up."
"Well then, can you carry him to the house?" Cremia said and carried Romani herself.
"Cremia!" A small voice called, it was Link, Cremia stared at him for a while, and then finally answered:
"Yes?"
"Why are you helping them, they tried to burn down the ranch!" Link shouted.
"The battle is over, you know, they will leave soon since you won." Cremia answered, and continued her way to the Ranch House. Link looked at his bloody sword, and took a piece of cloth to clean it. A gray eyed man stared at him while he cleaned his sword, it was Romoz standing there. The much taller man suddenly grabbed Link's arm, and threw him across the field. In the process, Link had lost his sword.
"Looks like someone doesn't agree, that the battle is over!" Link said as he got up and spit. Romoz walked towards Link, and kicked him in the lower part, which caused Link to lose his footing. Romoz started to kick Link in the stomach.
Mean while Folion and Cremia along with Phomant and Romani, had gotten inside the ranch house.
"Just put him in the bed in that room, and I'll be there in a minute!" Cremia said while pointing at Link's room, afterwards she went upstairs and laid Romani on her own bed. Cremia then found some bandages and a needle and string. She came down stairs and went into Link's room.
"First we'll have to remove his cloths." She said, Folion and Cremia got Phomant's shirt off, revealing a deep cut on his chest.
"You might want to leave the room, I'm going to close his wounds now…"
"It might be better to get a real doctor," Folion said.
"Are you saying I'm not good enough for this job?"
"Ah no! Well then I'll pray everything goes well!" Folion said as he got out of the room.
Back in the field, Romoz was beating Link. Link had now gotten a lot of bruises all over his body. Romoz stopped kicking the blue eyed boy, and whispered:
"Because of you… because of you, Phomant might have gotten a permanent scar on his chest…" Romoz was breathing loudly and uncontrollable, he slowly pulled out his sword, and kicked Link so he lay on his back.
"Revenge… I will get his revenge by giving you a permanent scar…" Romoz said as he had one foot on the defenseless Link. Romoz lifted his foot of Link, and gave him a deep cut in the chest, Link had now lost his conscious.
The same time inside the Ranch house, Folion sat with the table praying.
"Could you check on Link for me?" a voice from Link's room called, it was Cremia.
"Alright!" Folion called back, and got off the chair. He then went to the door, afterwards he put his hand on the handle and turned it around, the door opened and he left.
When he got out, he saw Romoz standing there with a bloody sword, under him was a wounded Link.
"Romoz! What the hell?" Folion yelled and ran over to Romoz and Link.
"Because of him… because of him…" Romoz whispered.
"I got Phomant's revenge on this kid…" Romoz said, Folion lifted his hand and gave Romoz a slap.
"Phomant would never ever want revenge! I'm sure he would want everyone here unharmed, because he lost to the bet!"
"Because of this kid, Phomant can't have a good future, you know that!" Romoz shouted.
"I know… but, I won't let you hurt this kid any more, I won't let you hurt Phomant's pride!"
"What pride!" Romoz shouted rather than asking.
"The pride of keeping a promise!" Folion shouted.
"I don't care! He needs that money, we need that money! Do you know why Phomant has no experience in sword play?" Romoz had on grabbed onto Folion's chain tunic.
"Yes, I do." Folion answered.
"All because he's a shoe polisher! In our land, shoe polishers are looked down on!" Romoz yelled in Folion's ear.
"I know that! Now put me down!"
"Do you know why he is a shoe polisher?" Romoz whispered.
"I do, I know everything!"
"No you don't! Your father had a huge debt, but he died, so it all went on your mother, Phomant wanted to help, but the only job a 14-year-old kid could take was being a shoe polisher, that's why!"
"I know my family problems better then you, so shut up!" Folion yelled.
"Phomant's dream was to be a royal knight like you! But, guess what? He was told he had to be 15 and have a year of experience, just to be a normal guard, however when you finally go ahead and teach him, some royal guards came with a message from the king, do you know what it was?" Romoz said as he lifted Folion higher.
"That he wasn't allowed to use a sword, or be learned about swords." Folion answered.
"That's correct, and because of this, he can't become a royal knight, however you and me were requested by the Gorman track to threaten this ranch, we demanded 1000 rupees each, plus that Phomant could come with us, that would make 3000 rupees. And that is more than enough to pay off your mother's debt, and Phomant would be free from this nightmere!" Romoz yelled and threw Folion down.
"Still I won't let you hurt anyone in this ranch!" Folion shouted and got up.
"You know I'm much stronger then you, why not just give up!" Romoz shouted and gave Folion a hit in the back of the head, which caused Folion to lose conscious. Romoz walked over to his horse, and took out an unlit torch from a bag on the horse. Romoz lit the torch, and walked slowly to the ranch, when he almost reached the ranch house, a big fat hand held his leg.
Romoz looked at the hand, and then continued until he saw a goron with a hat similar to Link's lying there. Romoz tried to kick his leg free, but the goron was to strong. The goron pulled Romoz's leg so he fell, the goron then got up. The goron had a deep cut in the chest, because it was… Goron Link.
A/N: I'm sorry for being late, again! So this time it's not because I was being lazy, it was because, sigh, because I accidently spilled some water over my laptop, (don't ask why) so it isn't working, however I still had this crappy old family computer, but it didn't have any decent writing program. So I went ahead and brought Microsoft Word, and then I installed it. Afterwards, I kept getting a lot of home work to do, so I had almost no free time to write. But, finally I got a week holiday, and could finally write this chapter! I have never really had so much fun writing since I wrote this chapter, so I'm really happy with it, and thanks for the reviews! It really encourage me to write this chapter in one day!
