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Chapter 10: The Dream

Drizzt looked around the area that they were traveling in looking for a specific land mark that showed he was going in the right direction. He had put the mark there during the first journey that he took with the dwarf king Bruenor Battlehammer. A hardy, stout red haired, grey eyed temperamental dwarf at that. The two plus the human barbarian Wulfgar and the halfling Regis had traveled to the now newly repopulated Mithral Hall. It had been a long and dangerous journey, one in which he had been reminded how harsh the sting of rejection still was for him. Though the Lady of Silvermoon had apologized for not allowing entry into her city and Drizzt had understood the reasons she had done so the sting still lingered even after the few years that had passed since the incident.

Pushing such thoughts away Drizzt spotted the mark and gave a shallow smirk. They were going the right way only a few more days of travel and they would reach the great dwarven hall. The drow was both excited and depressed at the thought of seeing his friends again. The group had grown closer to each other while he was away making him feel more isolated the last time he had gone to visit them. The closeness between two in particular was extremely apparent even to him. He almost wished that his nature didn't make him feel restless if he stayed in one area too long so that he may be able to stay longer with this friends then the few months that he allowed himself at a time.

His thoughts dissolved when he looked at his still huffing companion, and remember the morning's amusement. Drizzt had finally exacted his revenge on the playful elf for the jokes that he had been victim of. Needless to say the blond was not overly found of Gwenhwyer lying on top of him while he slept, nor when the drow just laughed at his pitiful attempts to remove the great cat from his person. After a few minutes of muffled cries and struggling the panther had begun to lick the one under her making the elf laugh. After a few minutes Drizzt had calmed his laughter and had Gwenhwyer move off the elf. Blue glared at him as their owner puffed for breath. When Link gain his breath back he shot like an arrow at the drow, and the two had tussled for a good few minutes each trying to fain the upper hand in their wrestling match. Drizzt had come out the winner as he had not been sat on by the great cat, thus was not so out of breath when the wrestling match started. The drow gave a superior look to Gwenhwyer as he sat on Link's back.

Drizzt chuckled lightly and was shot a glare by the blond. Link knew exactly what the dark one had been thinking about to bring about that chuckle and smirk. It had been several centuries before some was able to get the better of him in pranks or otherwise, and his pride stung a little. He had honestly thought that Drizzt didn't have it in him to pull such a prank. It was a new side of the drow and had at first stumped him. He was pleased though that the drow was now opening up a little more to him. He gave another small huff for Drizzt's sake and turned back to the journey ahead. The rest of their day was spent in companionable silence a little bit of playful banter at each other.

It wasn't until after their evening meal and as they settled into a light slumber that things turned for the worst. Or in Link's case it did. For the past few nights he had felt as if some presence was trying to enter his dreams. He had been able to fight off the intrusion for the most part, but every morning afterwords he had the lingering feeling that the presence hadn't completely left him. Even as he felt himself slip into a deeper sleep he could feel the presence reach for him again, and this time it was able to fully breach his mental barriers.

Link opened his eyes and looked as the Great Hyrule Field stretched out before his eyes. A place that he hadn't laid eyes on in over several centuries. It was just as he remembered off in the distance he could see Lon Lon Ranch and the old Hyrule Castle. Even though he knew he was dreaming he felt breeze that went through the field as if he was standing in the old Hyrule. He just stood there waiting for the one who had broken through his mental barriers. It wasn't a long one. The once cloudless blue sky turned dark and evil. The light breeze turned into a pounding icy wind that tore through his clothes and bit at his skin. It was when he felt the presence behind him that he noticed in this dream he had no weapons.

Turning slowly Link faced the one who dared to interrupt his dreaming. At first glance she seemed to be one of Drizzt's race. Elegant ebony skin glinted in the darkened sky as it flashed with lighting. Her white hair was streaked with black as it laid lifeless in the howling wind. Her dress gave off the impression that it was made out of some dark glowing webbing and crisscrossed her body in a woven pattern. Glowing red eyes looked at him with a look that he had seen in only one other. It was a soulless look as though her being was made up off nothing but the cruelties of the universe. One that he knew had seen countless beings fall at her feet in despair and gained a sadist pleasure at their eternal torment.

Red full lips smirked at him as he caught sight of the eight ebony spider legs that sprouted from her back twitching in anticipation. He refrained from shuddering but only just so. There was another flash of lighting and she disappeared from sight. Arms wrapped around him from behind and he twitched involuntary. Several of her legs came into his sight at the movement one extremely close to his left eye, and he knew another move would result in the end of his eye. Arms moved upwards as she sniffed at his neck.

"You smell of great power ancient one." Her voice seeped with barely controlled violence. "A Goddess's power." She whispered into his ear. His shock was evident even though she was behind him.

"Don't be so shocked. I felt it when your Goddesses sent you to our world traveler. You've come to repair the broken Law haven't you? No, don't bother answering I already know." He winced. "I won't allow such a thing!" His chest was bleeding as her nails pierced through skin and cloth alike. He frowned the wounds were superficial he had been through worse.

"What if I told you that I want to peel the skin off your still breathing carcass and keep your soul in my realm so I can derive pleasure from your screams of torment?" She hissed in his ear.

I would say that even for a Goddess you're a fool.

He regretted the words only after her leg scratched the outside of his left eye. That drove a cry out of him. He ripped himself out of her grasp blood flowing down both his chest and his left eye. He glared at her as he cradled the side of his face. Cruel laughter filled the air at the look.

"Don't worry ancient one I can't do too much to you here." She licked one of her bloody fingers and smirked. "Though my children will deliver you to me soon enough."

I don't think so Dark Goddess.

She laughed and he growled. "Fight it all you want, but your fate was sealed the moment your precious Goddesses sent you to our world." She sneered the word "precious" as though it was something vile. "Your journey will fail and the realms will fall into complete chaos, and as the chaos grows so does my power. You and your powers are just an added bonus to the end result traveler."

I will not allow myself to fail.

She snarled poison dripped from her fangs. "YOU WILL FAIL!" She crouched down as though to leap at him hissing like a deranged animal. The air turned more chaotic in her rage. "MY CHILDREN WILL MAKE SURE YOU FAIL!" She screamed her voice cracking as her rage escalated. His defiant glare didn't waver at all. His one good blue eye shouting lethal intent.

You have violated my dreams, mocked my Goddesses, and have threatened my quest. It is time that you've left me to my sleep Dark Goddess.

As his words filled the air, the hand cradling his eye started to glow. The triforce was pulsing with power. Light poured over the the field driving away the shadow's and causing the sky to return to normal. She screamed as the power of the triforce struck her dissolving the dream image. As she dissolved she gave him one last parting shot.

"You may run me from your dreams ancient one, but even now my children are on the hunt you won't elude me for long!" Her cruel laughter was the last thing he heard as the dream faded out.

Drizzt was having a hard time waking up Link it had been almost twenty minutes ago when the blond's thrashing woke him. The drow had been trying to wake him up ever since. He was shocked to see bleeding through Link's shirt, then equally shocked again as his left eye started to bleed.

"Wake Up!" Drizzt was growing desperate in his attempts to awaken the elf. "Wake Up Dammit! LINK!"

One blue eye and one bloody one shot open a gasp escaping from the owner's lips. Link clutched at his eye a low moan escaped his lips.

My bags please.

Drizzt lept to Epona. He quickly retrieved the bags and set them down next to the injured elf. Link quickly searched for the healing potion. Taking a quick drink he waited for the magic to take effect. He sighed in relief when his left eye and chest stopped bleeding.

"Link what happened? You were thrashing in your sleep." Link looked into worried lavender eyes. White hair was disheveled and worry was apparent in all of Drizzt's body language. "Link?"

A Goddess.

"What?"

She was in my dream. There was a Dark Goddess in my dream.

Drizzt looked at him in confusion still shaken from what had just happened. But, there was something that caught his interest in what the blond just said. Dark Goddess? His eyes widened. "Link this Goddess what did she look like?" There was a confused look given to him.

I at first I thought that she was kin to you. Her skin was dark and her air white. But the eyes were a very cruel crimson color as though she had no soul.

"Lolth! The Spider Queen!" There was hatred and fear mixed together as he said the name. "The deity of the drow! Why was she in the dreams of a surface elf? What did she want?" Haunted blue eyes looked at him desperately.

Me. She wanted me...

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