A/N: And moving right along with all the stuff I need to take care of today. I'm hoping to be able to play a game tonight, whether it be more Vampyr or Dark Souls 3 I'm not sure yet. Either way, I'm gonna get started on this chapter!

Disclaimer: Newp

Fire and Ice

Dante swallowed around the sudden lump in his throat, this was a lot to get around, how many of them were stuck down there…? How many innocent lives had been taken…? He looked to Midna

"How…" he paused for a moment "how many of them are there down there?" Midna looked at him and then back to the ice at their feet and glanced around, appearing to count.

"Roughly two dozen…" she said, she worried her lip, she didn't like this any more than the half devil did, who would do such a thing… Well, she knew the answer to that question, but she was more shocked that her own people would do such a thing rather than that they could. Link had lay down on the ice, lost in his own thoughts, probably just as dark and gloomy as her own.

"What now…" Dante said, looking down at the ice, he couldn't see the bodies but it wasn't hard to imagine them, trapped, frozen solid. "There's an entire town's worth of people gone…" Midna looked up at him and then paused, an idea slowly sparking in her mind.

"Not necessarily…" she said "The Zora's are an aquatic people."

"Fish people?" the hunter didn't look convinced but he had seen giant rock people already, what were some fish people at this point?

"Yes, not to mention as spirits it's harder for harm to come to them. They can likely still be saved but we should still act fast." she said. Link perked up at this, they could save them? His tail slowly began to beat against the ice, he would do what he could. He looked down at the ice, he was pretty sure that there was no way that he'd be able to dig through this, it was frozen solid. Dante was also inspecting the frozen floor.

"I'm not sure what you're thinking but I don't think that we can just dig them out…" he said, Midna paused, considering.

"No, that won't work but I think if we had something big enough and hot enough it would be able to melt through the toughest of the ice and we might be able to break the rest of them out." she said, the hunter leaned back against the wall with a sigh.

"Okay, and where are we going to get something big and hot like that?" he asked. They all sat in silence for a few minutes, pondering. Link started barking then, suddenly and Dante jumped at the sound after the eerie silence.

"What?" he asked, Link barked again, sounding impatient. Midna listened and translated.

"He said that he has an idea." she said "He said that we should head back to Death Mountain." Dante wanted to facepalm, of course, the freaking volcano. Then he paused.

"Wait, how are we going to get there, I thought we couldn't walk out of the Twilight, also, how are we going to transport lava or rocks or whatever, here before they cool?" he asked, Midna gave a very impish grin then, a single fang peeking out as she did.

"We teleport." she said "I can get you out of the Twilight with very little difficulty, though both of you will remain stuck in this form until the Twilight here is lifted. Dante sighed and pushed away from the wall.

"Alright, then let's go." the half devil said, standing next to the other two. Midna smirked again and then there was the spinning in his head that indicated teleportation.

-Legends-

Dante took a couple stumbling steps as they exited out of the teleportation to Death Mountain. He put a hand on the wall of the canyon and took a very large breath.

"I'm never going to get used to that and it's never going to get better." he muttered before standing upright.

"Don't like teleporting?" Midna asked with a giggle, it was nice to see the hunter so out of wack, it made him seem more… human? Dante looked over at her with a cranky expression.

"No." he said "It was never something I got the hang of and Vergil held it over me when we were kids." he grumbled. Link had a wolfish grin and Dante gave him a gentle shove.

"I can't understand you but I can tell you're laughing at me." the hunter said "C'mon, let's get what we came for and get out, I don't need to be freaking people out like this." he gestured to his demonic form. Link gave a bark of approval and darted forward and circling around a huge rock, its surface glowing dully in the heat. Midna floated up and held a hand up to the air near the rock and nodded.

"This should work." she said. She took a deep breath and then energy sparked from her finger to the stone, crackling over its surface. She backed up, eyes closed, seeming to strain against the weight of the stone before giving a yell and flinging her arms up in the air, the stone rising with them. The stone started to disintegrate into the small black flakes that the half devil had seen before when they had teleported. He steeled himself against the feeling and then between one breath and the next they were back in the cave, the massive rock crashing down into the ice, breaking and melting it with an explosion of steam. The force cracked the ice holding back the waterfall and the water burst forth violently. Dante had grabbed Link and yanked him out of the water before anything could happen to the canine. Midna drifted down to the ground and settled on the floor, panting.

"Well I'd say that worked about as well as could be expected."

A/N: Alright, that's a wrap!

Till next time,

-Winged Element