Chapter 10: Gladius Dead?! Link Reaches the Palace Gates!
Ossa shuddered as he observed the hundreds of super soldiers approaching the town. Link, Gladius and Medli stood over Russell's knocked over body as Aeron and Blaze took their swords and pistols and prepared to fight. Aeron had a pistol in his left hand, and in his right hand he wielded a two-hand sword, showing his strength off. Blaze separated himself into five other copies, making six Blazes total.

"Hey, Medli, take Russell and carry him back to where Navi is. Try to get doctor's to check up on him…I may have hurt him too much." Link said, slightly guilty. "OSSA!" He shouted, catching the sniper's attention. "Provide cover for us! Makar and I are going to try and push through the army and make it to the palace! You got that?"

"Yes, captain!" Ossa said, sniping a couple people down already. Blaze's copies ran forward and met with a few dozen soldiers, taking multiple out immediately. Link and Makar watched as Medli flew away with Russell. After a few seconds, one of the copies was stabbed in the stomach, falling over. Link ran forward to help, but soon witnessed the body dissolving into nothing.

Blaze divided into another person again, sending him into battle. It seemed like he could control them, but it didn't look like he felt pain when they were hurt. Link, seeing that he was perfectly fine, ran into the battle on his own. Makar stood by Blaze's side as Aeron also ran out to fight. Aeron shot a few soldiers as well as slicing. His swordsplay matched that of Gladius when Link first met him.

Link, taking out his sword, decided to show off a few moves he had learned these past few months. Running quickly ahead of roughly 15 soldiers, Link stopped after he passed all of them. Suddenly, dozens of slices appeared on their bodies, killing half of them and leaving the other half of them completely wounded and out of the battle. Taking a few lessons from Gladius, Link's swordplay had grown much more than it was before.

While the fighting below continued to unfold, Ossa was holding his ground, sniping many enemies, leaving them dead or useless. His lightning speed sniping was great help, all up until a few soldiers realized this. Bringing out a canon they had brought down from the castle, they started aiming for Ossa. Ossa, not noticing the canon, continued fighting. The canon shot off its ball, smashing into the building and causing an explosion.

Ossa's bones flew across the area, scattering everywhere. Link looked back, tears slowly swelling in his eyes. "Os—Ossa?" He said, his voice cracking. Even though he was new to the crew, Link had already bonded with him a lot. Losing a friend was probably the worst thing that could happen to Link in his mind. Nearly losing it, he began to take out his rage on his enemies, taking out thirty in only a matter of seconds.

In the midst of fighting, a boney hand fell on the ground. A soldier ran forward, shooting at a Blaze clone, when suddenly the hand slowly flew up. Tapping the soldier on the shoulder, the soldier turned around immediately. The hand formed a fist and smashed straight into the side of his face, knocking him over. It then flew to the guard's waist, picking up a pistol. The hand then proceeded to shoot at the soldiers while it floated around, searching for its other parts.

Makar shrieked as he witnessed about thirty bones floating around and connecting to each other. The bones made up one hand and some of Ossa's skull. Suddenly, the jaw flew in and connected onto the body. "Crap, I should have dodged the explosion but I missed it."

"THAT SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU!" Makar screamed. Blaze turned around, noticing the two. It was very comical, actually, and it made Blaze laugh for the first time in a while.

"Oh well!" Ossa said as a full formed rib cage flew toward him, reforming. "That fairy's magic sure is something. I can break my body apart and reform at will!" As Ossa was explaining, Link noticed Ossa's well being. Smiling, Link ceased his intense killing and started fighting with a clear mind. He was reminded of the moment from the Forsaken Fortress when he thought that Navi, Gladius and Makar had died and shuddered.

Quickly shifting focus, he began to battle once more. The battle raged on for about ten more minutes, as Link, Aeron and Blaze clones took out, roughly, 250 soldiers. Ossa, even after reforming (however his clothes were now completely incinerated so he was just a walking skeleton), took out a fair 30 or so soldiers. After taking out so many soldiers, the others fled and ran away to fight the other rebels or ran back to the castle. Link's crew, excluding Ossa, ran after them and toward the castle. Ossa took some clothes and clothed himself, and then ran to help the other rebels fight against the soldiers.

Gladius, on the other hand, was getting his butt handed to him. His enemy was far too strong and fast, giving Gladius an awful time trying to attack. Gladius had received a rather nasty cut on his left leg, and had been punched multiple times by the gorilla man Dask.

Finally, Gladius had enough. "I'm done playing games with you!" He shouted. Dask laughed as he raised his sword.

"You've been playing this whole time? Swordsmanship isn't a game you moron!" Dask shouted. As he went in to slice with the sword, Gladius jumped forward, preparing to attack. Gladius landed on the other side of Dask, his swords extending to his right and left. His chest started to bleed, his eyes turning white. Dask managed to dodge the attack from Gladius and sliced across his chest. Gladius fell face first, blood running from his mouth.

"Silly bokoblin. Weaker than the weakest man, still attempting to be strong! Those who are weak should remain weak, like you!" Dask taunted. It was around this time that Medli flew in to the area where they were, carrying Russell in her talons. She witnessed the very end of the battle as well as Gladius' fall.

"GLADIUS!" She cried with a loud shriek. Dask turned around, smiling.

"Ah! I see he had more pathetic friends for me to kill!" He laughed. "Maybe after I destroy this camp as well as the friend he claimed he had inside, I'll kill you!"

"Gladius!" She shouted again, hopelessly. "Gladius…!"

Meanwhile, Link and everyone else made it to the top of the mountain. After facing countless soldiers along the way, and dozens of Blaze's clones dying, they finally made it up there. However, the moon was now beginning to fade. Dawn would soon come, marking the final hour of Navi's life.

"Navi…please don't worry." He thought to himself. "As your captain and friend… I will definitely save you!"

To be continued…