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Chapter 28: Attack and Defence
Lora's POV
I grumbled, these guys were harder to deal with than I thought! It was a three against two game, and we were still losing! One of the enemies sniped at me, so I dodged left to avoid it. I saw my two friends, and they were fighting the other person. For some reason, I was the only one who brought their gun to the match on our team, so they were dealing with the other person with their bare hands! Had to give them some credit though, they were doing pretty good!
I shot my light green ink at my opponent, he must've been using a blaster, no ink was on the ground. 'Weird' I thought. Some ink grazed his shoulder, and he clutched it painfully. My teammates were starting to get the upper hand, one swung the person against a wall, but my guy shot over at them before they shot her. Then he turned to me.
The blaster wielder rushed towards me, so I stumbled back, but tripped on something. I landed on my back, quickly pointing my gun up at the enemy. But I stopped, I saw what I tripped on.
A creepy silver helmet. Zant's. How was-
I was too slow, the person knocked my gun out of my hand and out of my reach. The person then got on top of me, pinning me down by my shoulders. He wasn't that strong, but having somebody put their entire weight on top of me made it hard to move. He raised his hand up high into the air, and the last thing I saw was the opponent's orange eyes.
Before I woke up with a slap in the face.
I bolted up and looked around quickly, seeing what was happening or who slapped me. It was still dark, but there was a little light from the moon outside. What time was it? I looked up, two figures were standing above me, waiting for me to get up.
"Come on Lora, we gotta get moving." It was Logan, who sounded very annoyed and tired. I rubbed my eyes, getting some of the sand out of them (What was that stuff anyways?) as the two walked away.
"Must you do that every time?" The other one was Zelda, I never really heard her talk that much since I got here, but the way she spoke, it was so formal. So it had to be her. I started to stand up, and I tried to walk quietly with all the other people sleeping around me.
"Well, she always wants us to." He was right there, a slap in the face is what I always need to get ready for something. Anyways, I followed the two out of the house and into the small clearing. It felt cool, like a nice crisp cold. It looked like they woke everyone else up too, Aden, Adri, Midna, even Link! Hopefully they didn't wake him up the way I did back in the forest. Zelda and I walked over to Midna, who was the most awake out of all of us surprisingly. Although, she did look a little, upset about something.
"Midna, might I ask, how are you the most awake out of all of us?" Zelda asked. Without looking at her, she just sighed and said, "bad dream, I woke up first and got Logan up."
"Okay everyone, listen up!" Logan yelled. We all did.
"I was trying to figure out who would stay and who would go. And while some of you might not like it…" A sharp breath from Adri. "I think that it'll be our best chance at ending this all, today. So let's get started."
"Link. You, me and Adri are all going to go to Death Mountain to find Din, and whoever the last person is. You've been there before, so you can help us get through the volcano."
"Log'n, that was two years ago! I don' think I can remember all've it!" Link yelled.
"Even if you don't remember the volcano, it can still help us if you came with us, you're the only one here that could let us into the mines if the gorons don't let us!" Logan explained.
"What about Zelda?" he jerked a finger over at the princess. Logan waved a hand in response.
"She's way too important to bring along Link, she's the princess of Hyrule! She needs to stay here, it's the safest thing for her. Plus, she can get all the soldiers from the castle ready to fight (even if they are too scared to)." He mumbled the last part. Link settled down when he finished.
"We need to get there and back as fast as possible, if we can get Din, and whoever the last person is, on our side, we might be able to take the Fierce Deity head on. We might even get Adri's powers back too, and trust me, they'll be extremely helpful!
"Now for the other group, who'll be staying behind getting everything ready before the Fierce Deity arrives. Lora, Aden, Midna, and Zelda. Get as many people ready to fight as you can, the more the better. And Lora, you also might want to explain to them what your Inkling form is, so we can avoid some, complications." He sounded hesitant saying that last part.
"But why can't Lora come with us? We just found her, so shouldn't she stay with us?" Adri blurted out. Logan pinched the top of his nose, saying with an annoyed voice, "We went OVER this Adri, she can't come because we need one of US to defend this place! Besides, Lora is one of the best in fighting between us, it would be better if she stayed here." That made me feel a little better, assuming he actually meant that. Adri stayed quiet, figuring out it was no use arguing with him.
"Adri, Link, you two get ready, we're going to go right now."
"NOW?!" Link and Adri yelled."We barely have anything prepared, you JUST told us the plan and you want us to go NOW?!" Adri seemed pretty mad, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the entire village was awake at this point.
"Yes we need to go now! Like I said, the sooner we save the last two people, the better! Unless you WANT people to start dying!" Adri froze and immediately shut her mouth. That was a touchy subject for her. After a couple more seconds of silence, Logan said "Okay. Link, get Epona. Everyone else can do their own thing now."
Link did as Logan said, and went off to get his horse. Midna, after just standing around for a few seconds, went over to talk to Logan. Adri sighed and went to go get breakfast from the food cart. Zelda went to follow Adri and Aden stayed with me. He stayed quiet though, maybe he wanted to talk about something?
"Hey, Lora?" he asked. I looked over to him, and said "yeah?"
"Logan seemed, pretty strict just now. Is he always like that?"
"Not all the time." i answered. "but i guess he's just nervous. I mean, who wouldn't in this situation?" I looked down at the ground, Logan and Midna's shadow was stretched wide by the moon, which was almost gone behind the cliffs. Aden sighed.
"I hope this can all be over soon, I just want to stop all the fighting and, just try to stay with Midna. She really missed me, and I don't know what happened back then, but the least I can do is try and make up all the lost time.
'Wait what?' I thought. What did he mean? We came all this way for him, but he wants to stay here?
"Aden, what do you mean? You aren't going to come back with us?" I asked. He seemed upset, like I was going to say something like that.
"Lora, I'm sorry. I know you guys are my friends, but I don't know you guys at all. Midna, even though I don't remember her either, it really seemed like she missed me. When I first, met her, she was crying really hard, like she thought I was dead." His voice started to get shaky. "We both already risked our lives for each other, and I promised her that I would remember her. I can't go back on that promise. She, makes me feel…" He stumbled on his words.
"But Aden, you have to come back with us! We came here to get you, to bring you back home, with your friends and family!" I knew he didn't remember us, but I still had to try.
"Family? Why would I have a family there? This is my home, why would"-
"Midori." I cut him off, and grabbed his shoulders. "Midori, don't you remember your own last name Aden? That's your last name, your family's name! Don't you remember them at all?!" I didn't know why I was saying these things, but I wanted Aden to come back with us! He was one of my best friends!
"Midori." he repeated. He looked at the ground, lost in thought. He then shook his head. "No, no that's not my name. I"-
"Steven! Aqua! Callie! Marie! You can't remember any of those names?" He looked scared now, scared of me. He held my hands and gently took them off of his shoulders.
"Lora, I," he went silent again, with his mouth slightly open, lost in thought again.
"No. My last name, is Borgue." He said that with a soft voice. I stopped, he found out his real last name?
"I just remembered, it's Borgue, not Midori. I," he let go of my hands and stepped away.
"I'm sorry. I have to go." he turned around and ran off. I just stood there, watched him run off behind some houses. The moon finally disappeared, and the sun started to rise.
He was gone now, there wasn't a way we could get him back.
Midna's POV
"So if you ever want to store things, just chant 'Naka Shuki' and you can use the power I gave you." I had just finished teaching Logan a way to store things without a basket, or a bag. Instead, i used a spell that would allow him to use a type of "pocket space" to store things. It was one of the more useful spells I learned when I was young. "And if you want to take things back out, say it again, but focus on what you want to take out."
Being a little curious, he took a piece of bread from the food cart and said the chant. Then, the piece of bread disappeared in an orb of shadow. He smiled.
"Thanks Midna, now we can bring a bunch of food with us to Death Mountain." He said. But before I could talk to him some more, I saw Aden run away from Lora, and behind some houses. I knew right away that something was wrong, so I told Logan "I'll be right back", and ran after him.
It wasn't that hard to find him, he was in a small space between two houses, but it was pretty dark. I could barely see a thing, but I did see something move in the dark. It had to be him. I could hear him slide down the wall, and sit on the ground from the small pebbles, something was definitely wrong.
"Aden?" I asked. I walked through the darkness, my hand sliding on the wall to know where I was.
"Borgue." I stopped, he was certainly here. But, he said his last name. Was he finally starting to remember? A dim light appeared, he lit up a Memory Orb so I could see him.
"That's my last name, right Midna? Borgue?" He was staring at the ground, and he looked panicked. His eyes were almost completely wide, and I could almost see his chest beating from his heart.
"Y-yes. Yes! You're finally starting to remember! You"- he cut me off.
"If Borgue is my last name," he looked over to me. "then why would they say my last name was Midori?" My happiness then turned into confusion. Midori? What kind of last name was that? What did that mean?
"Um, I don't know." I said slowly. Aden breathed out a sharp panicked breath and ran his hand through his hair again.
"Exactly. Listen Midna," he looked around to see if anybody was listening, then leaned in for a whisper. "I don't think we can trust these guys."
"What?" I said. What did he mean we couldn't trust them? Was there something he knew that I didn't? Sure, for the other two I had some doubts, but Logan was a good friend of mine, why wouldn't I trust him?
"Think about it Midna. Impaz is sick with some disease nobody knows about. Adri was the only one with her before we got here. The strong gust of wind that split us up on the bridge, that could've been Logan! And Lora just lied to me about my last name and about, 'my other family!' These guys are lying to us, I don't think they're on our side!"
Aden was getting really paranoid, and I started to feel the same way too. "But Aden, that's ridiculous!" I yelled.
"Think about it!" he said quietly. I only then realized that I yelled, so I covered my mouth with my hands. So I did. And the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Adri was with Impaz first, and Logan with his Wind Waker would be strong enough to make the wind. But why would he do that?!
"Midna? Ad'n?" A light appeared in the entranceway, tt was Link, he must've heard me yell. He had his lantern with him too, so that explained the light. Aden quickly got rid of the Memory Orb, and I quickly stood up, saying "Yes Link?" a little too quickly.
"We're just about to go, and I didn' see you two anywhere." Link explained. 'about to go, huh?' I thought. I looked down at Aden through the darkness. He didn't say, but I could feel that there was still some more to talk about. If we stopped now, then we probably wouldn't be able to pick it up again later.
"Could you give us a couple more minutes?" I said, trying to buy more time. He gave a funny look, but nodded and walked off. Aden created another Memory Orb before it got too dark again, and I sat back down.
"Aden, even if you don't trust them, we have to keep going. It's the only way we can save everyone, and get your memories back!" I tried to calm him down. Although, it didn't seem to work.
"You don't understand Midna, you may not be, but I'm scared! Scared of what's going to happen!" His eyes started to glow from tears. He stopped staring at me and looked at the far wall. "All of this had to have happened, because of me!"
"What?!" I was caught off guard, why in Hyrule would he think that this is his fault! "Aden, none of this is your fault! Zant would've killed me if you didn't show up, you're stopping this, not starting this!" He didn't respond for a couple seconds, he was choking back the tears.
"I'm more scared of not saving someone than I am fighting something! I'm scared of being betrayed more than I am dying!" The Memory Orb disappeared, but Aden's tears let me see him through the dark. He had both hands on the back of his head, pushing it down. "But m-most of all…"
He turned his head to me, letting his hands push on the ground. Then, he burst.
"I'm scared of not keeping my promise! I want to remember you Midna, I want to remember all the fun we had when we were kids! I want to remember meeting you for the first time! But if I die, then I won't keep my promise! That's the only thing that keeps me going, trying to keep my promise and remember you!"
When he said those first words, I covered my mouth with my hands. 'He's doing all of this, for me?' I didn't know how to explain how I felt, it was like I was worried, yet happy at the same time. Aden kept on going.
"I am scared of dying, but I'm scared of losing you more! I just keep going! Midna, I," He was crying so much now, our little dark space was now almost blinding. Snot was droling from his nose, he squeezed his eyes tight, and started to try to squeeze the ground. Dirt started to get into his fingernails. My throat started to get clogged up, before Aden wrapped his arms around me.
"I love you Midna, I love you!"
I sat there in shock, and just let him cry on my shoulder as he squeezed me tightly. I couldn't even think straight, the only thing that I could think of was, 'I, he, wh-". Once it finally started to sink in, I let all my tears flow. I couldn't believe that he felt that way about me, he had only known me for a few days, but he still loves me?
We were both crying so much, that it began to glow as much as a small moon. I hugged him tightly back, and we both let all of our tears flow. We stayed there crying for who knew how long, until we both went quiet. Aden had his forehead on my shoulder, trying not to get his snot on my cloak. Then, even though my voice was shaky, I answered him.
"I love you too."
Logan's POV
I watched Midna run off and chase Aden behind a building, while I stayed behind and tried to use the spell she taught me. I closed my eyes, and held out my hand. I focused on an image of the bread I just stored, trying to get it back out. Then I chanted "Naka Shuki".
I felt something fall into my hand, so I opened my eyes. The piece of bread I had earlier was back in my hand! 'This will really be useful!' I thought. I took a bite of the bread as I followed Adri, who was walking into one of the buildings. It was still dark, so it made sense when I saw her light up a tiny flame on her finger.
I stayed outside the building as I watched her. She was tiptoeing around some sleeping people, and over to the far wall. Agitha was sleeping there, next to the giant Clayman. The Clayman was sleeping too, surprisingly. Once Adri got over to them, she squatted down to her level. I could see Adri shake her a little by the arm, and Agitha's eyes started to slowly open. I could see Adri's mouth move, but since she was whispering, I couldn't hear her from here, and I certainly couldn't read her lips, so I just watched for now.
Agitha looked up at Adri and smiled, then they both talked for a little bit. Adri pointed back to something, then Agitha frowned and looked down. Agitha looked back up and whispered something else to her, and after some more talking, she smiled again. Adri then handed her some food, then stood back up and walked back, after waving her goodbye.
She tiptoed around the people again, and stumbled out of the house as Agitha went back to sleep. She looked back at her when she almost ran into me, and gasped a little. Then she relaxed when she saw it was me.
"I was just telling her goodbye, don't worry." I nodded, and walked back to the food cart, with Adri following behind me. Link came back with Epona, guiding her along by a rope. Epona's hooves clacked on the dirt ground as she walked step by step. When we got over to him, he jerked a finger behind him and started to talk.
"Ad'n n' Midna are talkin' right now, so they'll be a while." he said. I raised an eyebrow, what were they talking about? I looked at the spot they were talking in, and the space was, glowing really bright for some reason. Link saw my suspicion, and looked back too. He didn't know what was going on either, because he said, "That wasn't like that when I talked to them."
I decided to see what was going on, I walked over there while the glowing was starting to get brighter. I slid my hand along a building wall as I walked to them, and when I stopped when I started to hear them, cry?
I looked in, and squinting through the bright light, I could see Midna and Aden, hugging each other and crying like they just lost somebody. Their tears was the cause of the light, so I guessed that it was something big that they were crying about if it caused them to cry this much.
After a while, they calmed down, and I could hear Midna say to Aden, "I love you too."
'Yeah, I think I should leave them alone for now.' I thought. So, I started back to the others.
"I love you too." she said. Did that mean that Aden said it first? In that case, I was happy for him! But on the other hand, what did that mean for us? Was he going to stay here? No, he had to come back with us. He will eventually, we just had to wait.
Walking back, I saw Adri talking to Lora, probably just saying goodbye to her too. Lora was facing me, and Adri was facing her. Same thing with Link and Zelda, they were talking to each other too. Zelda had her hands together at her chest, but I wasn't sure what they were saying from here.
Lora saw me, and Adri followed her gaze. Lora seemed a little, pale for some reason. Although, I decided to spare some time and get down to the chase. I sighed a little.
"Link was right, they're busy. But we should really just go now, if we wait for them to finish talking, it's going to be a while." They didn't exactly like the idea though.
"Logan, come on! I know you're a little mad but do you really think that you have to go this far? We should at least say bye to them!" Adri said. I was tired of arguing with her at this point, so I just said, "Alright, then go say bye really quick."
Adri, although still a little mad, ran off over to them to say goodbye, while Lora stayed here. I looked at Lora, and she looked at me. Lora decided to be the one to say bye.
"So uh, good luck I guess Logan." It wasn't the best goodbye, but I was okay with it. So I said "You too" and gave her a nod. Adri walked back over, she must've decided to leave them alone for now. She put her hands back in her pockets, and looking away from me, she said, "Yeah, I'm ready now." I could hear the guilt in her voice.
Link hopped onto Epona's saddle, and looked over to us. He heard us talk, he would let Lora say goodbye to Midna for him. Adri walked over to him, and tried to get onto Epona's back, but it was hard since Link was already on her. Link held out a hand for her, so she took it and let him pull her up. She sat right behind Link, holding her hands around his waist.
"Logan," Zelda said. I turned over to her, and she looked curious.
"How will you follow Link and Adri to Death Mountain? It does not look like there is much more room on Epona's saddle." She was right, but I didn't worry. I had my own personal way to get around. I took the Wind Waker case out of my pocket, and took the baton out of the case too. Sure I could use my "Pocket Space", but it honestly felt more comfortable feeling it in my pocket. Plus, I already stocked up on food, so I didn't want to put more stuff in there.
I held the baton gently, as I put the case back in my pocket. Focusing, I slowly twirled the baton around in a circle pointed at the ground. Slow at first, but slowly getting faster each second. The wind began to swirl with the Wind Waker, following its movements around me. I kept twirling the baton, and the wind kept swirling around me. I started to rise up into the air, and the others stepped back to watch, including Epona.
Then, I quickly flicked up the baton, and the wind got to its fastest point! You could almost see the wind swirling around me, like a little cyclone keeping me up in the air. I breathed out, satisfied that it was able to work again. Zelda and Link were amazed! Link just let out a "woah". Zelda said the longer answer.
"Logan, that is amazing!" She said, astonished. I smiled, then I faced the tunnel leading out of the village. We had to get moving, even though the sun was rising, we were losing daylight every second. I looked over to Link and Adri, and Link nodded. He was ready to go.
"Good luck you three, try to stay safe!" Zelda said as a goodbye.
"Yeah, be careful please." Lora said. Adri smiled, and nodded, and so did I.
"Alright, let's go!" Link yelled. He lightly kicked Epona's sides, and she bucked up and neighed. Then she landed back down and started off fast out of the tunnel. I pointed the Wind Waker forward, and the cyclone carried me along through the tunnel to follow them. I heard Lora yell one last "Goodbye! Good luck!" as we left, and she faded out.
I got out of the tunnel, and followed behind Link and Adri, hearing the clacking of Epona's hooves all the way to Death Mountain.
Well, here we are! I hope you all liked this one. I honestly can't believe that I finally met my two week quota for this chapter! I just hope you guys'll all like this one. Well, I'm gonna go play some Fire Emblem, so R,R&S everyone! Later!
