Chapter 2 the Invasion Begins

An: Hey readers here's the new chapter. Sorry it took so long will try and get the next one up quicker next time. Hope you enjoy.

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3 weeks had passed since Cia had recruited Wizzro and Volga to her army and Cia had not been sitting idly. Her forces had grown since taking control of Volga and Wizzro. She had added the remains of Volga's lizards and more monsters came through the Gate of Souls everyday. Her army had been training in combat techniques. The Chieftains had been overseeing the training and had reported the results to Volga. Her army had also been scouting through Hyrule, hunting down fairies on Wizzro's advice.

He had warned Cia that the fairies would provide aid and comfort to their chosen warriors. Cia didn't want that happening. When she captured the hero and took him for herself she didn't want any fairies helping him. She would show him that she will be the only one that'll he need. Walking out of her room she went to inspect her garden. Filled with roses and statues of passed heroes from different eras. From the very first to the wolf he had been turned into in the twilight era to the child he had been in the great flood. She admired her roses, waving her hand to brighten them, making them an even more vibrant red.

"Mistress Cia" her General called, "the scouts have returned from the forest." "Excellent. Tell them to meet me in the main room." And she headed off to meet the monsters who had been killing fairies for her.

She walked in and addressed the Lizalfos and Dinolfos. "Well did you eradicate them all?" "Mossssst of them Mistress. The few survivors have fled to the castle." Cia smiled. This had been the same for the other areas she had pillaged. "Did you have any trouble with the Gorons?" She had had some problems with the Gorons trying to protect the fairies, and while they had been repelled she still hadn't found the person leading them. "Then I don't see any reason to wait any longer. We can wipe out the fairies, take out the Goron's leader and I can finally have the hero to myself with the stupid princess dead at my feet!" Shouting the last part at her minions, who moved back in fear of their mistresses temper. Turning to Volga and Wizzro and ordering them to ready the army, she headed to her room and looked at herself in the mirror. "Soon" she whispered to herself. "Soon I will have everything I want."

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The sorceress's army was marching to Hyrule Castle. She was in the middle surrounded by monsters and with Wizzro and Volga at her side. Deciding to get to know her allies better she started a conversation. "So what are your stories? Surely you must have some interesting stories about yourselves." Wizzro clacked at this and shot the dragon knight a look. "Well dragon boy over here can go first." Volga glared at them both as they both smirked at him. Sighing in defeat he launched into his backstory.

"Well I was born in a dragon community. I lived my life. And I trained as a warrior for the last 400 years." He was interrupted by shouts from Cia. "400 YEARS! How the hell are you 400 years old!" "Dragons live far longer than your short human lives. We can live for a thousand years and we usually live in isolation. We don't mingle with humans." "Until you got your ass kicked and here you are with us." Wizzro laughed. Volga just stared at him. "I seem to remember you also losing to the witch" which shut Wizzro up. "But why do you have a human form?" Cia questioned. Volga looked at the ground with a look of shame. "I was banished from my community when I broke our most sacred rule." "Which was?" Asked Wizzro. "I killed another dragon. We had been sparring and I burned his wings, to the point where they were damaged beyond repair. He fell from our community and crashed to the earth. I was cursed into this human skin and I can only turn back into a dragon for a short period of time." "And you've lived out your exile in those caves ever since." Wizzro finished. "Yes." Said Wizzro. Cia turned to Wizzro and asked him "Well, Volga's split his guts. What about you one-eyed werido? What's your story?" Wizzro glared at the witch "Why have I got to talk? I assure you that I'm not interesting at all." Cia wasn't buying that reason for a second. "You were imprisoned in a ring for who knows how long. How can you not be interesting?" Wizzro's face went dark at the reminder of his imprisonment. "So who trapped you inside that ring?" Wizzro still trying to get out of telling his tale replied with "it's a long story." "We've got time" the dragon knight smirking as he says his piece. Sighing as Wizzro realised that he wasn't getting out of this his eye turned into his mouth as he started his story. "Well I had the normal boring life and then one day I trained and became a hylian knight." Cia and Volga turned to each other, then to Wizzro, then back to each other before they burst out laughing.

"HAHAHAHAHA! YOU were a hylian soldier?!" Cia chortled.

Wow. They really will let anyone join, won't they?" Volga smirked. Wizzro just gave the 2 a dark look. He attempted to protect his dignity be coming up with an excuse but was drowned out by the laughter of the sorceresses and the dragon knight. "Hahaha, thanks for being so honest Wizzro." Volga chuckled, clutching his side. "I think it would be rude to keep Wizzro's honesty to ourselves. After all sharing is caring." Cia still laughing and wiping a tear out of her eyes. "I think you're right." Said Volga. Turning to the army he shouted "HEY everyone! Guess who used to be a hylian knight!" Pointing at Wizzro as he said this. The reaction was instantaneous. All the monsters burst out laughing. The Lizalfos doubled over, as they were overcome with giggles while the Bokoblins were rolling around on the ground laughing their heads off. Even the chieftains were chortling at Wizzro and making snide comments. "Well they musssst have been desperate to let thissss pile of rags join their ranks." The Dinolfos chieftain hissed. The Lizalfos replied with "well they certainly didn't pick him for his skillsssss with a sword" the Lizalfos retorted. Wizzro finally had enough of the humiliation at his dispense put his hands together and shot a laser beam at the chieftains, who had to dive to the side to avoid it. "Are you done now?" Wizzro seethed his eye narrowed to the point where it was a slit. Cia and Volga sobered up from their laughter. "Yes we are done mocking you." The dark witch muttered. "Now get back to your tale. How did you go from being a hylian knight to... well that." Pointing to the dark wizard. Scowling the dark magician continued. "Well for a number of years a was just an ordinary hylian knight. Until one day I found a magic ring. The power I gained from it was incredible. I felt invincible. But I changed. I became... less hylian and more monster-like the more I used the ring. Until I became this. Wizzro the dark magician."

"So how did you get trapped in that ring? Cia mused. Wizzro scowled again at the question. "I was trapped inside by some stupid shiekah spell, when I apparently became too 'destructive' and to 'violent'. I was stuck until someone released me. And to make it even worse they also put a spell of loyalty on it to try and make sure I would do 'good' if I was ever freed." Making quotation marks in the word good. "The more pure-hearted the person who freed me was the longer I would be forced to obey them." Cia pondered this. ' Well at least this explains why that rotting eyesore had been so quick to double cross me.' Knowing that she would be the least pure-hearted person in Hyrule after removing the light from herself. Before she could think more on this a Lizalfos came up to her and kneeled before her. "Mistresssss. We have arrived." "Excellent. Let's go and kill some fairies." However the voice had its own thoughts.

'After this I'll be one step closer to my ultimate goal.'

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The dark forces were at the fields north of Hyrule castle. The green surrounding them made for a very different change of scenery compared to their last fight in the Eldin caves. The soldiers of Hyrule seemed to be either in the castle or in the field in front of it. "Perfect." Wizzro cackled. "We can surround them and kill them all at once." "We can't. Look." The dragon knight pointing to the fields. The army had dismissed the fields as empty at first. Now them were filled with Gorons. Cia snarled. "What are all these idiots doing here? Surely the surviving fairies would have gone to the castle." Volga snorted, causing some small flames to come out his nose. "Perhaps they think they can stop us now." Wizzro laughed, finding this amusing. "How? Their past efforts have proved futile. And considering that all the Hylians are in one place I don't think they know they have a bunch of rock munchers on their doorstep." "I think you're right rag boy." Said Cia. "And if the Gorons are here then I wonder if their mysterious leader is as well. Who wants to find out?" She asked, a smirk on her face as she summoned her sceptre. In response, Volga gripped his dragon spear and Wizzro just cackled. And with that, the sorceresses army charged at the Gorons, the witch leading the way while flanked by her 2 generals.

The Gorons immediately attacked the dark forces. Cia's army spread out from the mountain keep, which they were using as their base and went to battle against the Gorons. The 2 army's clashed against each other, but it was clear that the monsters were pushing the Gorons back. Despite this Cia felt uneasy. She could feel a presence on the battlefield. She had never felt it before and yet it felt familiar. Ignoring it for the moment she hit a Goron over the head and continued on to the rockface checkpoint.

Volga had infiltrated the rockface keep. Seeing as both this keep and the east keep had been shut so the only way to advance would be to take the keeps. So while Wizzro was dealing with the east keep, he would capture the rockface keep. The Gorons in the keep went for him as soon as he had stepped in. Turning his right hand into a dragon claw while holding his spear in his left hand he meet the Gorons head on. He stabbed a Goron in the gut while decapitating another. Some of them threw rocks at him while the rest tried to punch him. Volga just sucked in a breath and exhaled. Flames went everywhere. The Gorons that weren't roasted alive fled to avoid the fire. Having taken control of the keep, it opened up. Advancing onwards to the centre field with the smell of burning Gorons in the background.

Wizzro was having a blast as he blasted another Goron against a wall. He smacked another against the ground and took sadistic glee as the Goron crumpled. "This is more like it. Killing these foolish rock eaters is certainly more than sitting around waiting for minions to kill fairies." Spinning around a sending dark magic at the rest of the Gorons and opening up to east keep. Immediately more Gorons came forward to attack Wizzro who just smirked at them before charging at the Gorons.

Cia was massacring the enemies in front of her. The power difference between the two armies was clear. Not even the Goron captains were a challenge for her, as she dodged him rolling towards her and then whipping his back, then following it up with the butt of her sceptre by hitting him over the head. She hadn't encountered any fairies yet, but she wasn't too worried. Most likely they would have fled to the fairy fountain. Her forces would destroy the Gorons protecting the fountain and then she would break into the fountain and kill all the fairies. Having cleared out the area with only Goron corpses keeping her company she continued on. When suddenly she bent over. Grabbing a nearby fence to stop her from falling over she put a hand to her head, a look of fury on her face. That presence she had felt earlier. It was clearly stronger than before and that fact that Cia was being hindered by it gave her a new objectdiv

Find it and destroy it.

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Volga and Wizzro had cut a path through the Gorons and had met up. The north field had been cleared and was being guarded by the chieftains while the dark forces advanced towards the Gorons. Wizzro on his way had captured the central keep and both him and Volga when to capture the west field keep to spawn more allies and to get rid of the Gorons in the keep. It was empty in a matter of seconds as Volga turned into a dragon and dive bombed the keep while Wizzro summoned some one-eyed fish that knocked out the stragglers. The gate that would have taken to the field in front of the castle stayed close but the rest opened up. Heading back towards the central fields they headed south by crossing a small bridge (taking down a few Gorons on the bridge) and started to advance to the south field keep, to capture it. While Wizzro when to take the keep, Volga engaged the captain in the keep. Dodging the punches from the captain, Volga retaliated by turning his hand into a dragon claw. He caught the Goron captain's next punch and threw him back towards the bridge. The captain rolled to Volga and slammed into him, knocking him back. Taking advantage the captain punched Volga in the face, sending him to the ground. Jumping into the air and turning into a ball he dived towards Volga. Volga rolled out of the way grabbing his spear, which he had dropped when the rock eater had smashed into him and stabbed him in the stomach. Removing his spear from the captain he turned to see Wizzro floating a few feet away a smirk on his face. "Well that was entertaining." Volga just looked at him. "Would it have killed you to help?" Wizzro chuckled. "Well you had it handled." Before Volga could retort, both him and Wizzro heard footprints. Turning towards the bridge they saw 5 Goron captains heading towards them with some Gorons wearing what looked like leather helmets trailing after them. "Head for the castle brothers. We need to warn the Hylians." "We can't take on the whole Hylian army yet! Those Gorons have weakened our forces!" Volga yelled. "Then we crush them." Wizzro clacked. And both of them once again charged towards the Gorons.

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Cia reappeared near the abandoned fort. The presence was here. She could feel it. "Come out were I can see you." She shouted. A blue flash appeared in front of her. A girl appeared from the flash. The girl looked to be about her age, maybe a year or 2 younger. She had blue hair with a sort of ribbon tied into it so she had a ponytail. The ribbon had a red feather attached to it. She seemed to also be wearing a cape, for some reason. Her arms were covered in a white material and she was were bracelets. The girl was wearing a blue jumper that covered her breasts but exposed her stomach, with a necklace over it. The same white fabric covered her legs and she was wearing a short skirt, that was tied with a brooch on the hip. The boots she was wearing were slightly heeled. What really surprised Cia was the purple eyes the girl had. They were exactly the same as Cia's. "Who are you?" The girl glared at her. "It's you." She breathed, in disbelief. "It's actually you." Cia gripped her sceptre and continued to stare down this person. "You seem to know who I am. And yet I don't know who you are." The girl walked a couple of steps closer. "You haven't figured it out yet? Guess you're not as smart as you think you are then, are you? Shrouded in darkness and yet unable to recognise the light that you are fighting! Is that because the darkness blinds you or because you're so imbalanced from pushing out the light?!" Cia was confused. What was this person talking about? How did she know about her pushing the light from herself. Unless...

"That's impossible." Cia gasped. "You've taken form." The dark sorceress had never expected this to happen. She wouldn't have even considered it a possibility in a thousand years, let alone a few weeks. She'd just assumed that the abandoned light would have just floated away. And yet here it was. Here she was, standing in the flesh just a few feet in front of her. "How do you have a body? How did you know I would be here? What are your plans? ANSWER ME!" Cia screamed at this person. "I'm a part of you just as you are a part of me." The girl responded. "If you can exist with no light, then I can exist with no darkness." "I see" mused Cia. "So we are each a half of a whole." "Yes." Confirmed the girl. "And now we're both here we can merge back and fix this mess." Cia scoffed at this. "Merge back. Why would I do that. I don't need the light for my plans. I will have Hyrule under my control with the hero at my side." The girl had a horrified look on her face. "You can't be serious." "Of course I am. And that fact that you don't think I would means you must be missing a few details. Because you should know that I desire him more than anything. And seeing as you're a part of me, I wonder?" Walking round the girl, she rested her chin on her shoulder and whispered into her ear.

"I wonder if you desire him as much as I do?" The girl looked away, guilt written all over her face. "Aha so you do. And yet you look so ashamed of your feelings about it." The girl pulled away from Cia, a tear in her eye. "My feelings don't matter. All that matters is that I do my duty and merge back with you and stop this insanity!" Cia scowled. This girl was talking exactly like the clan would, preaching about duty as if the world depended on it. The conviction that she spoke with. It was as if she had seen the clan. "You have been talking to them haven't you. That's why you're talking about duty and ignoring your feelings." The girl didn't seem surprised or concerned that Cia had worked this out. "Yes I went to see them, when I first appeared my own body. I journeyed to the valley and told the elders what had happened. They gave me a spell to use that merge us back, and told me what my duty was." Cia snarled at this. This was unacceptable. "So the clan use you to stop me, but they don't even have the guts do fight me themselves. They don't even care that new magic has happened, that a soul has split in 2 and given people freedom to do what they want with life." "The clan knows what needs to be done, that you have to be stopped." Cia was tempted to wipe this clan loving idiot of the face of the earth, but she had another idea. "Tell you what, I'll stop my whole plan if you can answer one question. What is your name?" The girl paused. The hesitation on her face said it all. This girl didn't have a name. "How typical. The clan will use you to stop me but they won't even give you a name." The girl opened her mouth (probably to defend the clan), but Cia kept going. "You have been wondering around for weeks without a name." The girl looked defensive. "I don't need a nads a name. As annoying as I'm suo everyone needs a name. As annoying as I'm sure you are, you need a name." Walking around the girl she started voicing her thoughts. "Hm, not a Sophie, maybe a Megan." Raising the girls head slightly and glanced at her. "Perhaps not. What about Rose? That would suit you." Her light counterpart glared at her in disagreement. "Ok not Rose then. How about Lana?" The girl smiled at the name. "La-na" she murmured, sounding it out. "I like it. But it changes nothing. I will still stop you." A scarlet book appeared in her hand. She then jumped back and launched a ball of lightning at her.

Deflecting the ball with her sceptre, Cia looked to see 6 walls, 3 on each side of her. Lana suddenly started bouncing from wall to wall, kicking her a couple of times. The walls then shattered, the shards going straight for Cia. Waving her sceptre the shards halted and pointed outwards. They then went flying, forcing Lana to project a barrier to protect herself. When she lowered it, Cia was nowhere to be seen. "Stop hiding." She yelled at the wind. "Ok." And out of nowhere, Cia came flying straight for Lana and knocked her aside with her staff and causing Lana to drop her book. Before Lana could get up, Cia's heeled boot was resting on her throat. Both knew that Cia only needed to add the tiniest bit of pressure and her heel would be through the light witches neck.

"You talk about stopping me and yet you've lost today. So go on, tell me how you plan on stopping my plans." Asked the dark sorceress with a mocking smile on her face. Panting with the effort to draw breath Lana answered. "I will find a way to defeat you Cia." Chuckling at the answer, Cia's smirk only grew. "Well good luck with that." The sarcasm clear as glass in her voice. Pointing her sceptre at Lana's face she said the last words the blue haired girl would ever hear. "It was nice meeting you Lana. Goodbye." And the sceptre lit up and Lana closed her eyes.

And then she fired.

"MISTRESS!" Wizzro's screeching voice echoed over the battlefield. Cia brought her hands up to cover her ears, causing the laser meant for Lana to hit a rock, which exploded in pieces. "What have I told you about THE VOLUME OF YOUR VOICE?!" Cia screamed at him. "Sorry mistress, but I-I b-b-ring news of the battle." Wizzro quivering as he spoke, knowing she probably wasn't going to be happy with the news. "Well? Speak." Cia snarled. "W-wel-l some of the Goron captains got past me and Volga and made it to the castle. The Hylians know we're here." "And that means that upstart princess does as well. How could you have let this happen?!" She yelled, walking over to Wizzro and jabbing a finger in her face. And that gave Lana a chance. Getting up instantly, she sprinted to her book, picked it up and muttered something before she was surrounded in blue light. Before she vanished from the field, she caught Cia's eyes, and the 2 pairs of purple eyes stared down each other before one pair disappeared. Wizzro, however was confused. "Who was that?" "That was the woman leading the Gorons." "What should we do? Should we hunt her down and kill her?" Cia sharply turned to him. "No, she will come to us sooner or later to try to take us down. And besides, we now have to take on the Hylians. Where's Volga?" "He's at the north field organising the troops." "Right let's go then." And both magic users disappeared from their location to meet up with Volga.

Volga was ordering minions around when the other 2 commanders appeared. "Well are we ready for the Hylians?" Questioned Cia. "Yes. Our forces have taken over the surrounding fields and our awaiting your orders." "Good, but I'm leaving you and Wizzro in charge of this next fight." Both Wizzro and Volga shot her a strange look. "I have to go back to the base, but I'll come back. Knowing you 2 I'll have to too make sure you guys don't muck this up." And Cia warped to the base, while Volga and Wizzro prepared for the next battle.

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Lana headed up the stairs to the summit of the valley, where the clan lived. Reaching the summit she saw the council of elders was already set up and in motion. Upon her arrival all discussion ceased and all elders were looking at her. "Well? Did you accomplish your task girl?" Kneeling down Lana looked to the ground. "No elder Agnes I did not." Angered whispering took place following this statement. Lana couldn't make any of it out. "Why did you fail?" Elder Gorum questioned. "I wasn't strong enough." Lana replied softly. "That's not good enough!" Elder Madi yelled causing Lana to flinch. "Now everyone calm yourselves. Arguing over what has happened changes or solves nothing." Said the head elder Doran. Looking directly at Lana, he spoke his proclamation. "Young witch we shall give you another chance to right your wrongs." Emphasising 'your' as he spoke. "We shall give you a spell which will bring the 2 half's back to one. But be warned, should you fail again, the consequences will be dire for you. So for your sake don't fail. We don't want to have to interfere." "I understand Elder Doran" responded Lana. "Good, you are dismissed." And as she left the valley, she looked up to the clouds and thought 'Cia, I will stop you. For Hyrule's sake.'

Back at Cia's home, the temple of souls Cia had been looking through all her magic books. "There's nothing!" Shouted Cia sending her books flying off her desk. "Nothing that explains how she exists, how she lives. All magic laws claim it's impossible. And yet I see her, fight her and she fights back. How?" Before she could ponder this more, Wizzro's face appeared. "Mistress the Hylians have started their assault against our forces." "Crush them all and keep me posted. I'll be back shortly. Oh and Wizzro. If the hero appears, I want him alive and unharmed. Is that clear?" "Yes mistress." And Wizzro's face faded, back to his body. Walking to the window she looked to the clouds. 'Lana' she thought. 'I will find out how you exist. And I'll crush you into dust.'

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Well there's chapter 2. Lana and Cia have finally meet and I hope you enjoyed it. They were my favourite part of this chapter by far. Next time we finally get to the good guys in the Armies of Ruin. See you next time.