I LOST MY PLACE IN MY ANIME! NOOOOOO!

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Chapter 14

Campfire

"Let- me- go!" Green shouted as he tried to free himself from his bounds. Branches and brambles scratched his defiant face and tore his tunic. My surge of excitement had long gone, and once again I felt sickly of what we were going to do to him, what we were doing to him. I watched as Shadow ruthlessly tugged Green along by a rope bound to his wrists like a dog. Me and Shadow had quickly taken green after Violet Link and Green Link had fallen. We were now going back to the meetup point all four of us had agreed on.

Stumbling across the forest floor, we finally arrived in a small meadow. The sun had gone down a few moments ago, so no sunlight touched the pink and yellow flowers scattered across the lush green grass. To the side a cliff of stone towered above the trees. I walked to the cliff, and pulled back a bush to reveal a cave. Inside was a small home, and admittedly Shadow told us used to live here so he could keep an eye of the four Links. There was a bed, a chair and a small candle. It would provide a perfect hideout until the others got here. Letting Shadow and Green in first, I looked back to see if anyone was there. Seeing no-one I entered the cave.

Shadow tied Green to a rock jutting out from the wall, and lit the candle. Green struggled against his bounds, but Shadow tied him down tight. Quickly giving up his struggle. He stared at us with a cold glare. I tossed this thought aside and sat on the chair. When would Jasmine and Raven get here?

"Why are you doing this? What are you planning in those sick minds of yours?" He hissed at us with defiance, yet Shadow just laughed and sat on the bed.

"Just following orders from lord Vaati." He threw Green a smug look, and I noticed Link's face turn pale and go stiff. Did Vaati's name strike fear in this hero? Was he even the hero the legends foretold of?

"Vaati? He's back?" He said shocked, and I did detect his voice quavering. Shadow however was enjoying Green's fear, his face twisted into a crude smile.

"Damn right he is! And this time, you can't stop him! You want to know why?" He stood up and pointed at Green, "You'll have to end three innocent lives to get to him!" He laughed, and was oblivious to the fact that he may be letting slip of the plan to me.

"Who are these so called innocent lives?" Green declared, his fear gone from his sky blue eyes.

Shadow then turned to me, and just as he was about to speak, the curtain of leaves across the mouth of the cave opened and a ragged Jasmine and Raven came in. Their dresses were torn yet hair strangely perfect. Jasmine immediately ran over to Shadow and gave him a huge hug. Stumbling backwards, Shadow blinked in surprise.

"I missed you." She whispered. I made a gagging face to Raven, and we both laughed.

"What the blazes happened to you, Raven?" I exclaimed, looking at her dress. Raven looked at me, and then realising what I was going on about, the explained.

"Oh. We had to create a convincing image for those other Links. That angry one and the really cute one." She replied, and shrugged. She then poked her head round Shadow and Jasmine who were tearing away from each other. I looked too, and saw that Link was still sitting there, hopelessly confused at the two newcomers.

"Shadow, I didn't know anyone actually liked you." He smirked, and his punishment was Shadow punching him in the face.

"You better watch what you say, your days are numbered." Shadow growled, his red eyes mimicking the rage of fire. Green was still defiant, and he just spat out the blood from his mouth at Shadow's feet.

"You think you have won already, but Vio, Blue and Red are still out there, and will hunt you down. And anyway, she's not innocent" he then looked at me, and then back at Shadow, "She's a creature of darkness, nothing more nothing less!" What? I thought. Who did he think he was, picking on me? In the state that he was in, he should be whimpering like a small child! How dare he think of me as just a creature of darkness!I am much, much more, and he is only just beginning to realise my full potential!

I was furious now, and I felt a chill breeze sweep through the cave and swirl around my ankles, the wind extinguishing the small candle. The smoke circled round the cave, and everyone turned their attention to me. The cave was dark, and the wind was now blowing my hair in all directions. I clenched my fists causing the wind gave a sudden burst of energy, making goosebumps rise on my arms.

"Who do you think you are, judging me like that?" I glared straight the blue eyed hero, fear and shock penetrating his defiant face yet again. I walked up to the crouching boy, and looked down at his face. "You don't know anything about me. Do you think I wanted to be part of this scheme? I didn't choose this as my life, I was stolen from my family! All three of us were! And yet you seem to know enough to call me as a creature of darkness? I wasn't born in the dark realm, Link! I am just like you!" Green still looked at me, his blonde hair whipping around his face.

"You are nothing like me. You may be a light dweller, but your heart has been tainted black." His face was pitiful, as if he could relate to me. "You wouldn't know the difference between right and wrong even if you looked at it in the face." I was just about to reply when we heard distant calls from outside the cave.

"Green! Green! Where are you?" It was the other Links, their voice were identical to Green's.

"I'M RIGHT HERE!" Shouted Link, and I immediately covered up his mouth. However the job had been done, and I could hear the others shouting, their voices growing louder by the second.

"Time to go!" Shadow said, and casted a teleportation spell. But I wasn't done with Green yet.

We all appeared where we had started off, on the border of that field and the dark forest. All of us had fallen on the impact of the teleportation, unlike the times I had teleported with Vaati. I saw Shadow help Jasmine up, and I caught that fleeting glance that me and Vaati used to have. A twang of pain and jealousy shot through me, but the feeling had gone as soon as I saw Green trying to get away through the dense thicket. It appeared he had twisted his ankle or something of the sort, as he was limping to an extreme extent and hadn't even bothered to pick up his trailing rope that so happened to me passing me by. Grinning, I grabbed the rope and gave it a yank. Green fell over from the unexpected pull and gave a howl of pain as he fell to the ground of his injured ankle.

"Goddesses, Violet!" Jasmine exclaimed, and ran over to Green. She immediately started to check his wounds and ankle, finding many from his fight with Shadow. Raven gave me that look saying 'what is wrong with you?', and went to help Jasmine. Green was now crying, and I stood up and walked next to Shadow who was smiling at me with a totally different look from Raven's saying 'Nice'. He then held out his fist, and I bumped it with my own. We laughed to ourselves as Green was unable to stop crying, tears rolling from his eyes.

"Look at you! You've twisted you ankle and cut it with goodness knows what! You could die from infection!" Jasmine busied over Green, whilst Raven sat watching. Suddenly Shadow entered panic mode.

"WHAT? He could die?" He ran his fingers through his hair, and started pacing. Being the closest to him, I heard all that he mumbled in his frantic pacing. "Not good not good. He needs to be alive! But we need to set for the next destination as soon as possible...but my teleportation powers, they don't work anymore! NOT good. Damn, and I need to teach them things from the book!" HE then froze. "THE BOOK! AWWWWW!" The book? Did he mean the one that Vaati gave him? The one that he left on the stump of the tree...damn he was unorganised. He threw his hands up in frustration, and then turned to me.

"I need to go. Set camp up here, don't light a fire. Get food. Keep him quiet!" Shadow then looked at the wailing Green, and then disappeared in the forest once again.

"That scatterbrain." I sighed to myself, and then went over to Green. I grabbed his wounded ankle, and as a result he cried out even more.

"You shut your trap hole or I will make you feel even more pain than you are experiencing right now? Got it?" Still he cried. I tightened the grip on his ankle. He screamed out in pain. "GOT IT?" I let go, and Green's wails turned down it's volume substantially. He looked at me with watery eyes, and I noticed Raven and Jasmine looking at me in horror. "What?" I shrugged them off, and thought of what to do next. Shadow said to set up camp here, so I would.

"Violet, this food is delicious!" Jasmine complimented me as she dug into her third fish. Good thing there was a river nearby. I looked round the camp that I had made since Shadow had gone. The sun had long gone down, and the fire I made was the only light left.

I had cleared an area for us to sleep in, and made a fire pit in the middle to cook the food on. Using hay from the fields, I made five slapdash beds. It wasn't five star, but it would do for the night.

"Jasmine, how could you eat that? That is another being that you are eating!" of course, Jasmine being the person she is, she would never eat meat. My mum once called her a vegetarian. She was still hunched over Green, healing him with urbs that she made previously.

"Because I can." Raven replied between a mouth of fish. I laughed, and took a bite out of my fish. I looked over at Green, who was sitting on his bed, a rope around his torso leading to a tie around the sturdiest tree I could find nearby. he ate first, as I remembered from Shadow's mumbling at he needed him alive. So to heal, he needed food. When I gave it to him, he looked at me like I was going to be nice from now on. I simply gave him the food and walked away.

I took a drink of the water I retrieved from the river also, and could say I hadn't eaten such a decent meal as this in a long while. Suddenly there was a rustle in the thicket behind me, and a very worn out Shadow appeared at last. He saw Green tied and quiet, the camp sat and the fire. "YOU IDIOT! I SAID NO FIRE!" He immediately ran up to it and started putting it out by stomping on it, throwing the book to the side which he had trekked so long for. I got up, splattering my fish on the floor. I grabbed Shadow and hauled him away from the fire. "Get off me! I have to put it out!" he ordered.

"Shadow! Shadow, listen!" Shill he tried to put out the fire. Sparks flied from his repeated kicks at the fire, and at last I dragged him away from the fire. "SHADOW! I used nostlia wood! NOSTLIA WOOD! IT DOESN'T SMOKE!" I shouted. He immediately stopped struggling, and looked at me.

"Nostlia? How on earth did you know how to use that? And how did you know why I didn't want there to be smoke?" I sighed, and looked at the dying fire.

"Shadow," I patted him on the shoulder. "You have yet to realise how clever I am." I shook my head, and passed him the food I had saved for him. "Look, you eat this while I get some more firewood." he looked at the fish on the makeshift plate of leaves Raven made and sat down. He suddenly groaned in agony, and immediately clutched his right foot. With concern, I sat down next to him. "What's wrong?" Shadow put the food to the side, and slowly removed his boot. I gasped as I saw burn marks sketched across his foot.

"Shadow, my baby!" Jasmine squealed, and ran over to him. But Shadow stopped her as soon as she got up.

"No Jasmine, you need to heal Green. He is priority." he said matter-of-factly, and gently touched his foot. He recoiled in pain. I looked at Shadow with concern.

"Can't you use your magic to heal yourself?" I asked.

"My magic is severely limited right now for some odd reason. I could barely manage the teleportation." I breathed in, and suddenly an idea hit me.

"Why don't I heal you?" He looked at me with an eyebrow raised.

"You have magic?"

oh.

my.

goddesses.

"HOW FUCKTARDED ARE YOU?" I exploded. "I CANNOT COUNT HOW MANY TIMES YOU HAVE SEEN ME USE MAGIC! EVEN VAATI HAS SEEN IT!"

...

Nobody moved. Shadow looked at me with shock. I facepalmed myself, and looked at Raven. "Gather the nostlia wood. We need fire to survive the night." I then looked at Jasmine. "Keep doing what you are doing, it seems to be working." I then looked at shadow. "Is there a spell in that book to teach me how to heal you?" He looked over at the book that was strewn aside in the dust.

"Yeah, there is actually. Page 66." I went and picked it up, and sat back next to Shadow. It was hard to read in what little light there was, but I could make out the words. After revising the page, I looked at Shadow. "I'll give it a go." Shadow looked at me in a way that even I couldn't translate, but I looked at his foot instead. I put my hands above it, and read the spell from the page.

"sanare conflictus super hanc pauperi animae!"

Shadow's skin started glowing blue, and under my hand I started moving the light too all the areas of the burn. Soon enough, his foot was as good as new.

"Vio-I-," Shadow stuttered.

"Shut up and eat your fucking dinner already." I was still pissed. When will this boy learn how to stop being so...difficult? I spun round and looked at the fire's glowing embers. Suddenly I realised that he called me Vio. Since when did he start calling me by my nickname? I looked at him from the corner of my eye. he had started eating his dinner in silence, and I glanced at Jasmine hunched over Green still. Raven cam back with more wood, and I put it on the fire.

This was going to be a long night.

I shivered. The fire had long gone out, and even the moonlight refused to shine down on me. Everyone had gone to sleep, but I couldn't. Finding peace up in the trees, I had spent who knows how long of the night up here. I found it calming to watch the hayfield shimmer in the granted moonlight, swaying in the night breeze.

Suddenly I heard a rustle from below. I looked down at the four, and saw Shadow turning in his sleep. he was lucky he could even catch some shut eye. I turned back to the scene.

Again there was a rustle. I snapped my head in frustration, and saw Shadow actually getting up. Could he not get any sleep too? He looked round and saw my vacant bed.

"Vio?" There he was again, saying my nickname. "Vio?" He looked around desperately. I rolled my eyes.

"Up here." he looked up in my direction, and his expression softened.

"What are you doing up there?" He asked, and in a flash he was sitting next to me, being a Shadow and all he could move that quick.

I shrugged. "Couldn't get any sleep." I was unusually calm, I didn't know why. Usually when I am abound this dufus I am always on edge. But now was different.

"Ah." He said. Our feet angled from the branch we were sitting on. "So. How long have you had your powers?" He asked.

"No idea." I laughed. "It seems that whenever I am angry, wind seems to erupt around me. Don't know why." I swept back my hair. "not that it matters. This is a clear advantage, I could learn how to control it from Vaati."

"No, this is different. Vaati commands his power from raw power and complete control. Yours is more...free, in a way." He pondered on the fact. I could see what he meant though.

"Hmm. Well, we don't know for sure." No-one talked. Nature's song filled the silence. Suddenly the wind perked up, and Shadow's hat fell off.

"No you don't!" Shadow exclaimed, and caught it just in time. He put in back on, and put his hands back down on the branch, and he accidentally put his left hand on mine. "Oh. Sorry." And then he took it off. "Well I'm going back to bed." he then jumped down and soon was back in bed, sound asleep.

I looked at him lying there. He reminded me so much of Vaati. he was kinda cute, like Vaati. No, not like Vaati. He was cute in his own way. I liked how he was so calm and confident...

"Shit!" I caught myself in my train of thought. What was I thinking?

More important, what was I feeling?

drrraaaaaaama booooooomb!

well, night peoples of the earth.