Chapter 11: The second and the last
Man… how do I get myself into these situations. Edward stood in the middle of a giant floating round-shaped arena.He had his feet planted firmly so that he wouldn't fall over, he panted heavily.
This round of the competition would be an all out fighting match, or matches, anyone in the audience was aloud to come in and fight, thankfully, it was one person at a time. He had already fought…. He had lost count at twenty. They had said that he needed to fight 50 people, but there were so many people being dragged out of the water, Edward had thought that he had fought the whole crowd.
Link was watching eagerly from land. He was giving encouraging barks and trying to tell him how many he had fought. But he failed miserably. Edward glanced around at the crowd, no one else was coming to fight him. Finally one figure came out of the crowd and swam to the arena. There was an explosion of gasps and murmurs as they realized how it was.
Edward was so surprised that he staggered backwards. "R-Rumon! What are you doing?" Rumon shook the water from her fins and smirked. "I wanted to get to see you up close again. I won't hold back on you, you know. And guess what, I'm the last one, your last opponent" Edward looked up at the king, expecting him to disagree with his daughters decision. But he just smiled and waved and encouraging hand at Rumon.
"You've got to be kidding!" Edward yelled, looking back at Rumon, who was holding up her fists. "You ready, Ed?" She came forward and threw a punch. Edward dodged it. "WOAH! Rumon, come on! There's no way I can fight you!" She ignored him and kept punch while Edward kept dodging, trying to talk her out of this.
"What's the matter, Ed? Afraid of me?" Rumon laughed. "Hell, no!" Edward yelled. "Are you sure, cus you're acting like a little cry baby!" "LITTLE?" "Yeah! Little! OW!" Edward finally got the guts to give Rumon a good whack on the head, everyone of the Zoras stood up and howled curses and threats at Ed.
The King stood up and told everyone to shutup because it was part of the game. But he did shook Edward a glare. Edward ignored them and glared down at Rumon. Royal or not, no one got away with calling him small. "You win," Rumon whimpered. "Eh?" Edward was surprised. "Come on, the spunky, fun girl I know wouldn't give up that easily." Edward knelt down to her and put an arm on her shoulder.
Edward could help that he did this, no matter how much he denied it, he couldn't stand tears. And the princess looked like she could flood all of hyrule. "Maybe your right." Suddenly, the princess jumped up and kicked Edward right in the face. He went flying across the arena and flat on his face at the other end. He laid there for a minute, recovering, then he stumbled to his feet.
"You double-crossing, lying little, fish-face!" Edward growled, a little shocked at how extremely strong she was. "Aw, you're so cute when you're mad Eddy. But I'm not going to let you win that easily." She stuck her tongue out at him. "I gonna make sure we get married!"
"What the hell is the matter with you!" Edward screamed, shaking is head. "Maybe I can beat some sense into you!" Edward came at her, she dodged the first couple punches, but Edward got her a couple times, but she also managed to land a few punches. Soon, they were both panting heavily, and it was just a completion to see would could stand the longest.
Finally, after what seemed forever, Rumon finally fell back into the water. There was loud cheering as Zora soldiers raced into the water to retrieve the princess. Edward sat back on the wood, panting. "Finally." he gasped. Link swam threw the lake and jumped up to the arena. He held out a bottle of water in his jaw.
"Thanks." Edward grabbed the bottle and drank the hole thing with out a break. "Gezz, I hope the next round is a drinking challenge. You'd win that hands down." Midna laughed. They sat together resting for a while, soon a Zora came and told them it was time to set up for the next round. Edward shakily stood up and swam back to shore. The princess was already sitting back in her chair, waving at Edward with a big smile.
Edward gave an apologetic wave, seeing the bandages that she wore. The King stood and silenced everyone once again. "THE CHALLENGER FINISHED THE LAST BATTLE WITH GREAT COURAGE! IT TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE TO TANGLE WITH A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY! BUT IT IS KNOW TIME FOR THE FINAL CHALLENGE! THIS CHALLENGE WILL BE A TEST OF WIT, SURVIVEL, AND COMPOSER. THIS WILL BE A MAZE CHALLENGE!" The king pointed to the lake. Edward jumped and saw that the entire lake was covered with a large floating platform that had extremely tall stone walls on it that created a maze.
When will this time make any sense? Edward ground in his head. "THE CHALLENGER WILL GUIDE THE PRINCESS THROUGH THE MAZE AND TO THE OTHER SIDE. THIS CHALLENGE IS SO INCREDIBLE THAT WE CAN'T SEE IT! ONLY THOSE INSIDE CAN SEE WERE THEY ARE! SO, IF YOU WILL, RUMON AND EDWARD, STEP TO THE MAZE! THE CHALLENGE STARTS NOW!"
Edward rolled his shoulders and groaned. "Geez, I'll never understand this place," He jogged to the entrance of the maze, he saw Rumon heading in the same direction out of the corner of his eye. He rolled his eyes when Rumon jumped up and down in excitement.
"Isn't this going to be fun, Eddy? We'll be all alone!" She said when he approached. Edward sighed when he reached her. "You're really starting to annoy me, you know?" He grumbled. "Oh, come on! Loosen up!" Rumon slapped him hard on the back. "OW!" Edward yelped. That was one of the places he had gotten kicked by her.
"Sorry.." She shrugged and they started the challenge.
Rumon clung to Edward by the arm as they traveled though the maze. They had been walking for a while now, and seemed to be in the middle of the maze. Edward could hardly remember how they had made it this far. "Lets go this way!" She pointed to the right at and intersection. "Oh no, you don't want me to win this! So I can't trust you!" Edward pulled her straight forward.
"Why, Hello again." Edward world his head around to see were the voice came from. Rumon gasped and tightened his grip on his arm. Edward glared. "It's you, You Pig!" Edward pointed and accusing finger at Myron. "Aw, your back to being an annoying runt," Myron sighed in his creepy voice.
Edward roared and ran at him, fist raised. Myron flipped back, smirking. "Well, this should make you pretty again." He held up a ball in his hand. Edward gasped and jumped back. It was the twilight bomb that he had used before.
Myron held it up, threatening to throw it. Edward turn and ran in the opposite direction grabbing Rumon by the arm and dashed as fast as he could in the direction away from Myron, but Rumon wouldn't shutup, and he knew Midna had plenty of the same questions. "Who is that guy? What does he want with you? Why are we running? What was that thing in his hand? Do you know him somehow? What did he mean, 'back to being an annoying runt'?" Which Edward answered to all of them "Not now, I'll explain latter!"
I can't let Rumon get in the twilight bomb blast, but I can't let her see me like, like, like.. That! Suddenly, Edward got an idea. He looked behind him, Myron was following slowly. Edward ran around and corner and stopped, making Rumon bump into him. "Ow! Hey!" Rumon grumbled.
Edward spun to face her. "Rumon. Don't. Freak. Out." He demanded. "Midna, come out and lead Rumon away from here." he looked down at his shadow. Midna popped out and stretched. Rumon's eyes nearly popped out of her skull and she opened her mouth to scream. "Please don't freak!" Edward hurryingly said. Rumon's face turned from shock to anger.
"You have got some major explaining to do! Why is there a women living inside your shadow! That's disgusting!" "Wha- EW! You Zoras always think of things in a totally disgusting way! Plus- Midna isn't a women." "HEY!" Midna glared. "Whatever! You two need to leave! Now!" Edward snapped. "I'm not leaving!" Rumon pouted.
Edward sighed, he wished it wouldn't had come to this, but- "If you go with Midna, I swear I will give you a kiss on the cheek." He recoiled as he said this. Rumon's eyes sparkled. "Really! OKAY!" Rumon skipped off and beaconed for midna to show her the way.
Edward shook his head, how is it so easy to make women happy? "Found you!" Edward jumped and spun to see- blackness. Myron had thrown the twilight bomb. Edward coughed and sputtered as she tried to back out of the smog. "Damn you!" She wheezed.
The smoke cleared and there stood Myron, smirking widely. "That's more like it, now hold still." He pulled out a rope from behind his back. Edward took a step back. "What are you doing?" Myron unwound the rope. "I told you last time, my master wants your power, so I'm gonna have to kidnap you." He stepped toward Ed. "You sure are casual," Edward backed up to the wall. "You work for Zant?"
Suddenly, Myron burst out laughing. "Zant? That wacko? Now way! I would never work for that creep!" He kept approaching and Ed kept retreating. "Then who do you work for?" Myron wiped a laughing tear from his eye. "My dear, Zant's only a pawn in my master's plan, I work for a man called ganondorf. Ganon, if you prefer. He' s the one behind all this. And he want's your power. So, you're going to help him learn." He leaped forward but Edward jumped out of the way.
"Why would he want my power? It seems to me he's got all the power he needs." Myron gave a smirk. "He may not like to admit it, but your power is much greater. He's be studying it ever sense you stopped the curse on Mr. Dogman." Edward jumped back. "He was the one who sent that poe?"
"Yes, and soon you will have a curse placed on you, so that you will have to do everything Ganon tells you. Can you image it? You will use your power to repair weapons and make hind outs for soldiers. And the best part, you can bring Ganon back to life if he dies, he will be eternal, and when you long gone, Ganon will use the power himself to do what ever he wants-"
SMACK! Edward had run up and slapped. Myron right in the face. This shocked him so much he staggered back and put a hand to his cheek. "Bastard," Edward growled. "You think alchemy is so sort of game? Alchemy is the flow of nature, the flow of the world! If you abuse that flow, you will pay the price. Alchemy is equivalent exchange, if you don't give some thing in return, you will give something from your own body. You want that power? Learn it! But don't complain to me when your dead!"
Edward drew her sword and dashed forward with a battle cry. Myron jumped back again and again, avoiding each swoop of the sword. "Whoa, chill out! Hey! You could kill some one with that!" "What do you think I'm trying to do!" Edward grunted with each swing. Finally, Myron jumped back and crouched low enough to trip Edward. She yelped and fell on her face.
"See ya babe. I don't feel like dying today." With that he bent down and kissed Edward's ear and ran away. But as soon as she was kissed Edward jumped up and cursed at him tell she could hear nothing. I would tell you about it, but I would bleep it out any way.
Sorry this one took so long to make, But I hope you enjoyed it. Next time, it's up to death mountain! If you have any questions, please fell free to leave some, I'll defiantly answer them! Thanks!