ArtyQ50
Rise Of The Snows
Chapter 10:
A/N: Sorry for the loooong wait. But anyways I'm banished from my friends so now I'm going to finally write….yaaay for you guys.
Disclaimer: I don't own them..so there
"Phsycotic moron" She mumbled. "Now lets get back, before someone notices!" She said pulling his hand and then getting on her horse. The trotted to where the other horse was. Amia thought. "I shoul've tried to protect you to horsey.."
Then they took the long journey home, which was double the hours cause they wern't on seperate horses.
There ride was quiet except for when the went fast and Ayden said 'ow'.
But then Amia stirred up the silence, "I think Hyrule is going to fall..." Ayden shook his head yes.
"So that means...everybody...Everyone who obeys by Hrule law, and soon people around that area will be taken over by there growing numbers...that means death. Blood. Murder." Amia said mumbling the last few words.
"Your one very pessimestic person you know." Ayden had managed to say.
She only laughed, then they finally seen sightings of there base camp. It was midnight when they reached home, oddly it was quiet when they walked there horse in and went to there room.
The next morning
They were abrubtly woken up by knocking at the door, Ayden asnwered, Amia was still asleep. Ayden had to be in his armor to stay undiscovered, just in case.
A man was there...the Captain of this whole war...Ayden's eyes grew wide.
"Sir?" He asked trying to sound as un-nervous as possibly.
"Took you long enough to answer your door, anyways since you have one of the biggest rooms in this place, heh heh that I built, wow I did some good work in this place...oh right...you have an extra room don't you, soldier?" He asked, he seemed to like to run-off with himself in his sentences. Clearly he was stuck on himself.
"Yes! Err- yeah one room...why?" Ayden asked, He just wanted to strangle his fat stump of a head right now and punt him out the window.
"Well, we treat our...lets see...our 'new soldiers' with deep graditude." He said, with a smug smile.
Ayden shook his head 'yes', cautisiouly.
"All right, here he is, I havn't got his name yet, if he speaks or anything tell me, if he speaks to much or doesn't answer your questions...cut out his tounge." Right when he said that, he pulled a chain real hard, apparntly for a fat lard he's pretty strong.
Then the captain shoved the 'new soldier' in the doorway and slammed the door.
Ayden's jaw dropped, he was amazed just to see him alive. Link had a black eye, a cut up face, and multiple cuts on his chest. His hair was blood-tinted, there was a deep cut in his arm still bleeding badly.
Ayden didn't want to blow his cover right away, so he just pulled Link and put him in the spare room, then locked it. He didn't know what to do. He ran to Amia's room, throwing off his helmet and armor. He opened her door and jumped on her.
"Amia get up!"
"What...why the hell are you on me??" She said looking at him then got up.
"Link's here!" Ayden said.
"He's alive? Oh thank God! Where is he?" She said, she seemed fully awake now.
"Do you not get the meaning of he's here?" He asked here.
"Oh, in the one room?" She asked.
"Yeah, you go talk to him, I don't know him as well as you do, so...it's your turn...I'll be out thinking of ways to get him out of Temar!" Ayden said running out of her room and leaving.
Amia shook her head yes, then she got out of her pj's and changed into armor, she didn't want to scare him about her being here. But she would tell him, sooner or later.
She walked to the room he was in...it was locked with the board on it. She unlocked it and opened the door. She didn't see him maybe he was just-
BANG! "Ahh!" She screamed as a chair came out and hit her in the face. Thank goodness for helmets. But then Link flew out of the darkened room and tackled her to the floor. She tried to push him off of her, and tried to get around of saying his name. But his hands flew right to her throat, and started choking her.
The only words that came out were Li and Pink.
Link remembered this in one of his dreams he had a long time ago, he was beating one of these soldiers up, but in the dream there was a lot more blood. Then finally he ripped of the helmet, leaving a nice red line along the person's face.
He still sat on the soldier, it didn't move. Did he finally kill it? Then it coughed, it started to same something but Link punched it in the face.
Until he noticed that, that it became a she and that she became an Amia.
"LINK!" She screamed. She started coughing and gasping for air. Link rolled off of her.
"Sorry, holy crap, Amia...what are you doing here? Sorry, If I knew it was you, oh Amia...sorry!" He said again.
"Ow." She mumbled "Zelda seemed to have forgotten about her spies, Ayden and me, we've been working for her, only when ever we go to Hyrule we never seem to see her and tell her these things. We never told you because I didn't want to get you involved, only apparently you are now." She said sitting up and holding her bruise where Link punched her.
"I swear I thought you were a guy and was going to kill me!" Link said.
"I guess your rubbing off on me..." She said laughing, they both got up and started walking around.
"So what is it like living here? Wow, if I knew you were a spie...wow, so wheres Ayden?" Link asked.
"He's planning things, right now we're in the most amount of trouble, we need to think of excuses on why we're gone so much, otherwise they'll suspect us of being traitors. I don't even know why I'm doing this, when I came that day, I was supposed to tell you about the scout team coming to Hyrule. But then they got you and now we are here." Amia said, then the door opened, they're heads turned to it.
It was Ayden, he shut it and locked it. "Link?! Few..." Ayden raised one eyebrow at the two of them. "Link, is Hyrule down in soldiers?"
"Yes." Link said nonchalantle.
"Weapons?" Ayden asked.
He shook his head yes, "Extremely."
"Good, Shayd said she knows a few people up in Snowpeak who'd be willing to fight. And I think I know how we can get you extra wepons" Ayden said with a causual grin.
"Whose Shayd?" Amia asked.
"A girl I met in Castle Town."
"Oh...were exactly are we going to get weopons from?" Amia asked.
Ayden's eyes started moving up, so did his head, Amia and Link followed his gaze. It was to the room above them.
"Are you serious?!" Link said with excitement, thinking that these people would be dumb enough to put a weapon room in the same tower.
"Yes, I heard some soldiers overtalking about the weopenry room, its locked though, the only person who has the key is the Captain." Ayden explained.
"We need to go to Hyrule to pick up this Shayd person, then to Snowpeak to get the people Shayd knows..." Link demanded
"Okey Dokey!" Ayden said with his hand up on a salute, Amia rolled her eyes.
"So how exactly are we planning on leaving this joint?" She asked, looking at Link.
They looked around the room for a propper disguise for Link. Amia's eye cought on a wooden crate that said Apples. A grin stretched across her face.
"Jeez! Your heavy!" Ayden said his hands holding the bottom of the box.
"Yum, Apples!" Amia said grinning through her helmet at soldier. He only rolled his eyes. For apples this was a rather large box, but for Link it was tiny.
"Ugggh...could you two walk any faster!" Link groaned.
"Shut up! Your gonna get us killed!" Amia said to Link, but looking at her brother.
"My foot is about to break through!" Link said louder this time. Then there was a large bang, and Ayden seen a brown boot coming at his face, and it hit him in the forhead.
"Ow!" Ayden yelled, dropping his half of the box, Link slid downward and landed on his butt, Throught the force Amia dropped her half, Link slid back and his head broke through the other part. It was a funny sight, thankfully no one was around and they were back by the horses.
They rode back to Hyrule, Link ached every where. They talked and talked about being spies, and how dumb Zelda was, and the flirting Illia when they came to look for Link. There stories went on...for the whole ride. But the one Link remembered the most was...
Snow Story The New Beginning. (Amia telling word for word)
Everyone lives and ages and soon passes on But there are some who do not live...some who do not age and some who do not pass on there are only three of this kind but maybe through dark magic there is four. There cultures written down, there names passed through and through generations. Much like this story, passed through my time to yours.
I speak for the captain, the captain and leader of us all from the very beginning, we were first brought into this world and to the time we left.
It happend many thousands of years ago, when I was told to protect something of great given power, I and my family protected this great secret that I now tell you. But soon the blood will be spilled, one life made two, that same life shattered and only seen black. Yet I know I will not live to the day I see her face.
It was melting, the land around us, our homes were dying, my people dying. We needed to move to get out of this retchid heat. Our thick white fur meant to keep us warm were we live. But it did not, it kept us hot, too hot.
Our faces are cold and hard, snarls ripping from our very throats, cursing at the brightness in the sky. So we moved farther off, deeper into the seeping snows, we once never dared to enter. Even our keen sense of smell and eyesight that was excellent. We couldn't see. Even our bravest expertest hunter would never dare to go in.
But we moved forward. Few stayed back, which soon turned to many. The big clawed footprints in the snow started to decrease in vast numbers. Some of my 'new clan' died of starvation. I bare not to say it, but once they died, we turned ourselves to barbarians and ripped them appart, limb to limb.
I never thought my people would do that, but if you are on the urge of starvation, your mind will wonder and crave, when a once beating heart falters.
We finally made it, with about 500 of us still beating. I am on my death bed and still telling this to all you. We are wolves, wolves forged to protect the secret of...immortality...
I give it to one of my friends, to tell this story on and on, then you may give this power to to a boy, say the words that are cursed upon your lips, and it will go through that family, back home.
You decide if the next person is worthy for it. I can forsee that it will not be used for good. But that one can not help it. Because we will die. And we will not exist to others in this putred land. Land of the Snows.
--Amia stopped, Link was in a deep trance in listening this story, Ayden had his jaw locked and his eyes focused up ahead. Apparently he heard this story.--
"Link." Amia started.
"Yeah?" He asked.
"I'm sorry I can't go on...Ayden, can you please tell the rest? Ayden!" She said. It was night now, they could only see the small light from Ordon ranch, a few more miles.
"Sure." He said, he looked terrified, he wasn't as good a story teller as Amia was.
"If you didn't get it Link, we Snows are decendants from these creatures Amia speaks of, I don't llike thinking about it at all, but whatever. Some of us are cursed..." Ayden mumbled the last bit. Amia shot him a look of pain and 'I'll kill you right now, if I have to'
Ayden started off.--
Well these creatures are big wolves, there are some who stayed back in the heat, the snow was melting so it was harder to live, then there were some who left, left up towards Snowpeak. The Captain of that group is buried right under neath our Snow temple.
He was the commander of us all, we were meant to protect the secret of immortality, except it had a hatred beyond belief, it kept wanting us to use it. So we did. The captain couldn't help it. The spirits inside were like drugs, they wanted us to use it even though it was bad.
So we used very little, untill he realized it was used up. He had the wolves, his people, build him a temple on him, a huge gold and silver temple. For humans it would have been hard, for these wolves it was easy.
That is why the place is so big. But through evolution they started morphing, more human like every milennium. Until so human they could cross with humans.
Once there was a snow-slide, a few people slid and landed themselves at the foot of Hyrule. Then thats what created us, no wolf like behavior anymore, now we are just complete human. Thats what we have been for about a thousand years now. Complete human.
Ayden drew in a breath.
Kinda weird really. So we decended from giant white wolves, built a temple...and were told to protect the secret of immortality, that didn't work, so faar we can't exactly figure out the three...or four --Ayden shot a look at Amia-- people who have that given power.
"So this is like your whole life based story? Is this why no one ever knew you people, because protecting that secret menat having no people know?" Link asked. Ayden shook his head yes.
"Interesting." Link said.