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Chapter 12: Out of the Swamp

After collecting supplies and staying the night at Arysia's home, the four heroes and angelic companion proceeded out of the deep bog of Onatia. Climbing up the thick, almost quarter-mile long branches of the 'trees' and approaching the pathway above the canopy of dense forest. It was still very early morning, but Arysia cringed at the sun. They five chatted about how safe this journey could be made if they tryed to be as safe as possible, but rather unlikely. "Would Arysia make it back safe?" was a reoccuring question. They would try their hardest, but there was no gaurantee. It was up to time to reveal their fate.

"So, Arysia," Red said, leaning over to ask her his question, "What else did you do with your time besides being a messenger?"

"Well, our family trade is blacksmithing, so naturally i picked up on that. My father taught me most of what I know."

"What about you mother-" Red asked, but realized how foolish this question actually was. It was too late, though.

"Oh." Is all she said in reply. She suddenly looked very troubled. "I don't want to talk about that... well, not right now, at least."

What is she hiding, Green thought, Only some tragic backstory could leave some sort of impression as that. How long will it take her to tell us? Am I just being nozy? Green pondered on that thought some more before coming to the conclusion that, yes, he was being nozy. He came to the conclusion that it most definatly was not his business and decided to change the topic.

"Say... where are we going, anyways?" Green asked the group.

"I... I hadn't thought about it much, myself, actually." Blue responded. "At least it's out of the forest, that's for sure."

"Some port-dock-dipple-doo way to the who-knows." Red said, balancing himself neatly on an old log.

"Are we even heading in the right direction?" Vio asked.

"MAP!" Red exclaimed, pulling out his conventient map, "Oh wait... Hey, vio? How do you read maps?" Red questioned, handing over the map to Vio.

"Wasn't i supposed to be holding onto this?" Vio asked.

"Oh... I got bored and wanted to look at it for a whil-"

"Red! You're holding my bag!" Vio exclaimed.

"Oh... so I am. Now how did that happen?" Red said confusedly.

"Where's Blue? Wasn't he just here?" Green asked surprisedly.

"Oh my! Is this normal with your group?" Arysia asked. "You don't seem very organized."

"Meh... We try." Red said with a shrug.

Arysia sighed and looked to her side, only to notice Blue clinging onto her arm.

"Shhhh," Blue hissed, "Don't tell 'em I'm here!"

"Blue?" Red called, searching under a small rock, "Nope. Not here."

"If he isn't under a rock, where is he?" Vio said sarcastically.

Green, who had already noticed Blue's "Hiding Spot," giggled to himself in the back of the group.

As the hike across the tree-top bridge continued peacfully, a dark force amassed in Hyrule. The kingdom was just out of veiw for the heroes, but what they would've seen wouldn't have been much. The kingdom was almost entirly covered in darkness and wrecked badly. Hyrule castle wasn't any different except for a small beam of light directly above the four-sword's chamber. That very light was the only reason why the kingdom wasn't completly covered in the shroud-cloud [Creative title!]. Held in that light were tens of thousands (if not millions) of monsters scratching and clawing at the protective forcefeild held by the grace of the Goddesses of Hylia who were growing weak quickly.

The heroes stood on the edge of the forest, staring down into the massive trench that borders.

"There's no way we can cross this easily. Could we possibly find someone to take us across?" Green asked the group, hoping they might offer some help in their dillema.

"We would need an escort from Hyrule. I can't think of any other way. Could there be bridges or maybe a way to the bottom?" Vio offered.

"I think I know a way" Arysia offered, pointing towards an old, overused, and quite badly battered. It seemed as if many battles had taken place between it. After all, it was one of the only ways that Hyrule branched into it's neighboring kingdoms. They made their way around to the bridge and made sure the ropes on their side were fastened, then prepared to cross.

"You you guys can give me a toss, I'll go fasten the ropes on the other side!" Arysal offered, soon having her request completed, "I'll wait over here for you!"

Blue gathered four sticks of equal size (except for one), then held them out in his fist.

"Oh, it's a strawpull, huh?" Vio questioned.

"Y-yeah." Blue mumbled.

Everyone pulled a straw out, then held them out to compare. Vio noticed quickly that Blue had his fist suspiciously higher than the others.

"Look's like I'm going, seeya guy- AGH! Vio- What are you doing?!" Blue yelled as Vio grabbed his tunic's collar

"Oh no you don't" Vio said angrily, "If anyone's going to go, it's me! I won't have you be some sort of crazy hero-figure and get yourself killed out there!"

"Fine, you can go Vio. We'll wait for you to cross." Green assured.

Immediatly as Vio prepared to step onto the bridge, he regretted his decision. He stared down at the massive chasm below him. Breathing in deeply, he took his first step and made sure his foot was stable enough to proceed. He repeated this act until he reached the other side with only as much as a few splinters as an injury. Red and Blue were the same as they crossed, but Red managed to trip somehow on a looses nail. Luckily, he was near the end of the bridge and Blue caught him just barely. This sudden jerk to the bridge caused a lot of the debre to fall into the chasm, leaving Green with a lot less boards than the other three. His first step was stable, but as soon as he stepped off the board and onto the next, it completly collapsed. The next two did the same and started to worry Green. Just as he ever so cautiously approached the middle, a bird flew down and landed on the rope behind him and slowly started trying to find something to eat inside the rope.

"Oh, not like this," Green whispered, "Not like this..."

The rope started to creek and the bridge boards all fell off (along with the entire bottom rope) leaving Green dangling from the top-most "handrail" ...or at least what was left of it.

The bird flew off, and the very light change in weight made the rope creak even more. A snapping noise was heard on the entering side. The 4 on the other side watched in horror as Green was just seconds away from death.

SNAP!

Green felt his stomach drop as he went swinging towards the side of the rock that th last of the rope was tied to, but it also snapped as he fell.

"AAAAAGH! HELP MEEEEE!" Green yelled, plummeting into the chasm.

Arysia swooped down as fast as her wings could carry her. She wasn't used to flying so quickly (Or flying at all) and swooped down and grabbed Green extremly deep in the blackness.

"Gotcha." She whispered as she grabbed Link's tunic and held him in close, pulling herself directly upward and flying out of the chasm and into the sunlight.

As Arysia fluttered down onto the other side with the others, she realized that she was flying on her own.

"Green!" The others yelled, running up to meet with the gracefully landing Rito girl.

"Is he okay?" Red asked frantically.

"He's all right, but he needs rest. We can camp here for tonight." Arysia said, setting Green down as gently as she could.

The sunset in front of the forest on the other side of the chasm was beutiful and shortlived as the group watched it fade out. The huddled next to the warm fire and fell asleep quickly from their exciting day.


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