I may have mentioned this but I LOVE HALF TERM. And yeah, please don't kill me anyone. I'm too young to die...TT^TT Thanks to everyone who reviewed, favourite, followed. You be awesome people.
The Twilight King: HELP! –cowers under rock-
Gojira Geek: He's an evil dude.
Eptastic Girl: Hello, oumpf –her cat sits in front of the screen and she can't see- ikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkcxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx My cat says hello. ZANT! What have I told you about stealing! Can't wait can't wait! –runs round in impatient circles- I'm proud of you. –follows Eptastic Girl in search of the missing horse-
Flyer21: I'm sorry but all will be revealed now. Well, I say all…
Spy of Influence: Yep, most people use a glass, Silver jumps in a lake. It works. Thanks! –the cupcake disappears in a matter of seconds- Nom! Thank-you!
Grandshadowseal: Dun dun duuuunnnn!
Sparxthehdgehog: I'm sorry! TT^TT Thanks! I'm glad you like him.
Anonymous: Yeah! Though my friend stole it. Did I do something wrong?
So many reviews! ^-^ -grins like a mad hatter and does a happy dance-
Link groaned in his sleep and rubbed his eyes. His instincts were ringing like hell's bells. Groggily, he sat up and looked at Silver's cot. It was empty. The teen leapt out of bed. This was bad. Outside, he heard a splash. Pulling on his zora armour, Link ran outside to the balcony. There was a white bloom on the surface of the lake. No.
Pulling down the helmet, he leapt from the balcony after Silver.
Zelda bent low over Zoran's neck, rain pelted down, blurring her vision. The stallion was soaked and so was she. The field was now a mud bath and Zoran kept slipping. Zelda was cursing herself. She had only learnt how to warp home, she had no way of getting to Zora's domain quick enough.
"Princess!"
Over head, a seagull circled.
"Silver! The lake! Hurry!"
Zoran put on an extra burst of speed, fear lending him new strength.
Link dove into the water, barely making a splash. Through filmed eyes, he scanned the dark water. There was no sign of Silver. A dark cloud rolled around him. Link swam frantically, searching for the wolfos. Suddenly, something hard and scaly sent him flying. With a strangled cry, he was thrown out of the water. Link impacted on the cliff face with a sickening thud.
Epona bolted awake. Something was wrong. Getting up, nudged Ilia awake. Then while the girl got herself up, Epona trotted out to the balcony. What met her eyes was a horrendous sight. The mare reared and screamed in fear and horror.
Zelda heard Epona's scream. Zoran too heard it for his stride lengthened and he struggled to gain more speed. Mud was flying around them, kicked by his hooves, splattering both horse and rider.
Zelda closed her eyes and prayed, prayed to the goddesses to buy her more time.
Eponas scream snapped Link awake. With a groan, he staggered to his feet. He climbed up the ridge and looked down into the water. He backed away in horror.
Silver was thrashing on the surface, her mouth open in a strangled scream. The cloud around her, was dark blood. Around her, long armoured snake-like tendrils thrashed. Trying to break fre from inside her.
Zelda couldn't get the images out of her head. She knew what was wrong with Silver and it horrified her. The thing inside her was a demon parasite. The cut Silver had received on her face from the fight with the demon horses had acted as an opening for one of the horse's hairs to get inside. Now inside her, it begun to to grow. The bigger it grew, the more it would crush her organs and soon run out of space. When that happened, it would begin to break through the skin and as it reached the end of its growth cycle, drive Silver to water. Once in the water, it would break free from inside, where it would destroy the one it ordered to and drown Silver in the process.
Link could only watch as Silver was thrown around by the…the thing as it crawled from inside her. There was blood everywhere, staining the water the colour of dark wine.
The creature finally flicked its tail free of Silver, throwing her into the mother and child rocks. She floated there by the pier.
Link snarled, around him, the mist shimmered. It also shimmered around Epona, then in a ghostly cloud it darted to Silver. The mist surrounded her, keeping her together as much as possible. But it would only buy time. Link felt it struggle to keep the wolfos breathing, she didn't have long.
The creature reared up out of the water, it was giant, 30 times Silver's size. Its head was a grotesque teethed hole with mandibles on four sides. It had no recongisable eyes, but black dots covered its head. On its tail was a vicious looking hooked barb with a serrated edge. Its body was covered in plated armour the colour of dark swamp sludge. Its head snapped towards the hero. It threw back its head and roared, around it, the water's swirled into whirpool and mini tsumanis. Link risked a quick glance at Silver, the waves had washed her up on the pier. He just prayed Ilia could get to him in time.
The parasite shrieked and slapped its tail into the hill. Pulling his mask over his face, Link leapt into the water. Behind him, the area where he'd been standing was reduced to rubble. The parasite swiped his tail at him. Not good. Link dove down, narrowly missing the spiked barb. The wave created however, sucked Link in. The parasite dove forward, catching Link in the chest. It swam down, Link trapped in the mandibles of its mouth. The armour was holding out against the teeth for now…for now…
Ilia saw Link disappear under the monster's attack. Epona was rearing in fright, completely spooked. Collin and the other children were hiding in their rooms.
"No…this can't be happening…"
Ralis ran up to Ilia.
"Ilia! What's going on?" he asked.
His eyes took in the blood in the water, Epona's fear, Silver's body and the frightened screams from below in one quick sweep of the area.
"I don't know…Epona woke me…I heard her scream…then…I saw Silver…that…that thing came out of her."
She pointed to the faint shadow of the parasite.
The prince nodded.
"Where's Silver?"
Ilia pointed to the mother and child rocks. Ralis turned to the zora soldiers behind him.
"Go down and protect her. Don't try to move her, we don't know how badly she's hurt." He turned back to Ilia. "Where's Link?"
"That thing attacked him…he went under…"
Ralis nodded.
"Uh…Prince Ralis…"
The young zora turned to see Collin, he had the master sword in its scabbard and the double clawshot.
"They were by his bed."
Ralis' face blanched.
"If they're here, then…what's Link fighting with?"
The answer to that of course, was nothing. He was pinned to the lake bed by a giant armoured parasite, held down by its serrated mandibles while it tried to gore his stomach open, with no weapon. He was so deep under water, turning into a wolf was suicide, and alert the zoras to his secret. Not good either. Link snarled and tried to worm his legs under the creature's head to try and push it off. His arms were uselessy pinned to his body by the mandibles. Any time soon, the armour would give way and he would either drown or be mauled or both. Neither really appealed to him.
The crushing weight of the parasite was squeezing the air out of his lungs. Link couldn't get enough air and he could feel the teeth now, pressing against his stomach. Spots began to dance before his eyes.
Suddenly, the creature screamed and let go of Link. It reared its head up, realsing him and turned to face some unknown opponent. Shaking his head to clear his vision of spots, he swam back out of the way.
"Link!" He turned to see a Zora knight swim up to him. "Here, courtesy of King Ralis and the children."
Link took the clawshots and sword from him. Perfect, now the odds were even.
He nodded is thanks to the zora, and with a powerful kick of his legs, swam in pursuit of the parasite.
For the moment, the zora soldiers were keeping the parasite occupied. However, they were no match for it and they knew it.
The parasite drew back its head to maul a trapped zora when suddenly, its head was wrenched back. Something heavy hit into its head. Then, pain exploded in its head as something very sharp was drived between the protective plates on its body and into the soft skin underneath. It shrieked and thrashed. On its head, Link stabbed down again, and again and again. The parasite bucked, knocking Link off. With a spin, it smacked Link in the chest, sending him flying out of the water. He thudded into the cliff face behind the waterfall with a strangled cry. Link snarled against the pain and pushed himself off the cliff. He fell back into the water, shuddering as the water seeped into his wounds.
Link fired his clawshot again, pulling himself onto the parasite's back. With a cry of rage, he stabbed underneath its armour. The creature threw him off. It swiped with its tail, but Link was ready this time, with his clawshot, he moved to the other end of the lake before the tail could hit him. Using the clawshot, he pulled himself to the parasite's back and dealt another devastating attack. The parasite knocked him off. However, instead of trying to knock Link out of the water, using its tail, it hooked Link, its hook digging into his back and spun him round in the water. Link cried out, thrashing like a fish on a hook. In a devastating last attack, the parasite smashed him into the ground. Link didn't move. The creature grabbed Link in its mandibles and swam up out of the water.
Up in the safety of the balcony, Ilia saw the parasite break the surface of the water. Epona reared and screamed ears flat against her skull. With a strangled sob, Ilia realised why the mare was screaming. Link was trapped in the insect's mandibles and worst of all, he wasn't struggling. Not even moving.
The parasite dove back into the water, using its weight to crush Link against its mouth. Its teeth tore through the armour, tearing lines across his exposed chest. They both rammed into the ground. The parasite swam up again and dove, more deep lines were scored across the hero's chest. When the parasite went for a third time, it was stopped mid air.
Zelda stood on one of the islands, hand outstretched before her. A blue glow emanated from her hand. Around the parasite, shimmering blue chains held it up.
"Let. Him. Go." Zelda snarled.
The parasite screamed and thrashed.
"I said: Let. Him. Go."
THe parasite screamed in protest and bucked. Zelda tightened her hand into a fist. The parasite shrieked in agony but refused to let go. Suddenly, a light arrow materialised in front of it and rammed it in the throat. With a strangled shriek it spat Link out.
The hero, barely awake, managed to slowly back flip and land on the mother rock, knealt down. The parasite shrieked and advanced towards him. With an angry snarl, he fired his clawshot at its head. The chain pulled him towards it. As he went flying towards the parasite, Link drew his sword. He landed on its head and drove his sword into the largest black eye on the parasite's head. It shrieked and thrashed, its tail beginning to explode into ash. With a shrill scream, it leapt into the air and exploded, showering anyone near the lake in ash. Link landed on an island and let the mist change him into a wolf. Link's eyes fell on Silver. With a despaired whine, he noticed the mist had left her. On shaky legs, he ran over to her. He nudged her head gently, whining. No response. Zelda held her hand over the wolfos, she couldn't feel anything.
Suddenly, golden light filled the domain. Link snarled, protecting Silver. A woman dressed in green with long forest green hair loosely tied in two pony tails and the rest of it left hanging. She wore a mid-length green skirt and half sleeved top. She knealt by Link and embraced him.
"Shhhh, its ok."
Link's wounds glowed green and closed. Leaving no scar, except the sun shaped bloom on his chest caused by the insect's mandibles. A pale scar was left on his skin, even the fur in the area was peppered white.
On his paw, the triforce pulsated franticallyas if it couldn't believe what was happening. Another woman, with long blue hair dressed in a long pale blue dress walked over to Zelda.
"You have done well. But there is yet more for you to learn."
Zelda looked down.
"I'm sorry, I…I was too late."
The woman shook her head, and opened her arms. Zelda accepted the hug and sobbed softly into the other woman's shoulder.
The third women, dark skinned with fiery red hair tied in a high pony tail and dressed in a short red dress knealt by Silver.
"I'm sorry I didn't come sooner." She whispered.
She put a hand on Silver's chest, a long curved gash where the parasite had burst from. The other hand, her left hand held Silver's left paw. Above them, a single triangle spun, glowing red. Silver's wounds began to glow bright red and close. The triforce floated above Silver's paw and gently lay down on it, fusing with the canine's body. Once it was absorbed, a triforce symbol flashed on her paw. The red woman smiled and blew on the wolfos' face.
"Look after them, your power is needed."
The woman stood and gestured for the others to follow. Then they disappeared.
Silver's eyes flickered and she whined.
Link yelped and ran over to her. Crouchin gnext to her, he helped her stand.
"What happened?" she muttered, shaking her head. "Link? You're back!"
The wolf yelped in surprise, he'd been back for ages.
"Come on you two, bed."
Link nodded, he changed back into a hylian and picked Silver up, despite her protests.
Up in the balcony Epona trotted over.
"Silver! Link!"
She nuzzled the wolfos and hugged Link in her own horsey way.
"LINK!"
Ilia stormed over to him.
"How dare you nearly die! You scared us all half to death! You inconsiderate little nothing!" She then burst into tears and fled.
Link stared after her blinking, not quite grasping what just happened.
Link carried Silver into the room Ralis had given them and set her down on the bed.
"Link?" The teen cocked his head. "I missed you."
The hero smiled, he had missed her too.
Zelda, using her power as princess, forbade anyone from talking to Link or Silver until the morning. Both had been through a great ordeal. Then Epona, using her power as an alpha mare, ordered Zelda to go to sleep. No-one argued. Scary mares are scary.
Who can guess who the ladies were? If you can't then…buggar… And look, Silver's better! See! She didn't die, can't say the same for Pat the Parasite though. He got owned! Anways, please don't kill me and keep reviewing! –hides behind a now healthy Silver, whimpering-
