Hi guys, I'm back again! Hopefully I can finish this chapter before my school starts again, or else it's going to take a REEEEAAALLY long time for chapters. Anyways, I think there should be some more people here that are from Tumblr checking this out (hopefully), so hi to anybody here from Tumblr! Anyways, BACK TO THE ACTION!

Chapter 23: To The Mansion!

Adri's POV

Ahh, this felt really nice! On the Kaga-whatever's back, wind in my face, and not being squeezed to death! I hope Aden is doing ok down there. The more I thought about it, the more I was interested in my thoughts. 'Was this what it felt like to ride a Loftwing?' It was pretty similar to that, flying in the sky on a giant bird. Speaking of sky, it was getting really cold now. We were getting higher and higher up into the mountains, so I guess this would make sense.

We were actually going pretty fast, since I had to keep my hands gripped to the bird's back pretty hard. But it was still awesome either way! We were really getting up high n-

BOOOOM

SQUAAAAK!

"WHAT THE HECK?!" I made my grip tighter around the bird's back, it suddenly just jumped a little in mid-air. Why? I wasn't looking at it, but when I saw it, I flipped out.

"THERE'S A FLIPPING HOLE IN THE WING!"

Logan and Zelda could only stare at me with extremely pale faces before we started to spin out of control. The bird was literally spinning, and heading straight for the side of the mountain! I held onto the back as hard as I could, or else I would fall off and die. But I knew that nothing would be different if I kept holding on.

Suddenly, I had an idea. I remember in Avatar, some fire benders used their flames to make them fly, maybe it could work here too! I just hope so, I only have one shot at this. I won't lie, it was terrifying to just jump off for a leap of faith, in me, but I had no other choice! So I did a countdown in my head.

'3. . . 2 . . . . 1 . . . . . JUST JUMP ALREADY!'

So I did. I leaped off of the bird, either delaying my death or preventing it. I channeled my power into my hands. Not all of it, but just enough to be as powerful as those fire benders. It wasn't working, so I focused more. I still kept spinning, and spinning, and trying to keep myself steady. Then, I did one final burst of energy, and I was not spinning anymore.

"…heh, haha. hahHAHAHAA! WOHOOO! I DID IT, I CAN FLY!" I couldn't believe it, I actually did it! I was flying around all over the place, having much more freedom than that gigantic bird.

"Ah, the bird! GUYS!"

I completely forgot about everyone else! "UGH, I'M SUCH AN IDIOT!" I yelled at myself. How could I forget something that JUST HAPPENED?! I flew around, looking along the mountain. I couldn't see them anywhere, where were they?! But then I saw it.

A flash of white light! Was that from Aden? Or Zelda?! I had to be sure! I flew straight down to where the light was, I had to be sure they were ok! Were they ok? 'No, of course not, they crashed into the mountain!' I told myself. Part of me refused that, but the other part was about to be right in a couple seconds.

I flew down, and what I saw made me stop in my tracks. The bird was lying in a big patch of snow, dead. Its body was half in the snow, right up to a wall in the mountain. The hole in the side, it was glowing some sort of purple, no blood was coming out. It was obvious that this was something from Zant, or the Fierce Deity. They both shared the same power, so I couldn't be sure.

But then, there was the others. Logan was to the left, his upper body was buried in the snow. Normally I would laugh because I would think this would look funny, but he wasn't moving. It was the same for Zelda too, who was on the other side. Thankfully, it didn't look like anything bad happened (from here.)

But then there was Aden.

He was being carried by the bird, and I couldn't see him from here! I flew down there as fast as I could, canceling out my flames so I could get back down on the snow covered ground. It was deep and thick, obviously cold. It would be the kind of snow you would find on the coldest winter day, with the temperature being somewhere below 10 degrees. (Fahrenheit) The snow went up past my ankles, and I had regular shoes for this, with SHORT SOCKS! This made me automatically jump back up out of the snow and begin flying again. Because holy hell, that was COLD!

But my flames were melting the snow, even though it was really thick. So using this discovery, I constantly used one flame to melt the snow, that way my legs wouldn't go numb. I kept my right hand low, to melt the snow while I walk. So, I quickly ran over to Logan, put out my flame, and pulled him out of the snow.

He was soggy from the snow, but that was the least of my worries. He was knocked out, and ice cold! I checked his pulse, and it was really slow. One beat every three seconds, and I know for a fact that his pulse being THAT slow was no good! So I made another flame, and brought it around him to warm him up, but I knew that I couldn't just put him back down, or drag him along with me. He would just get cold again!

So what do I do? I put him on the bird's giant wing. What else could I do, I'm not strong enough to straight up carry him, and if I try to drag him, he'll get cold again! I do the same for Zelda, I warm her up the best I can, and put her on the wing.

But then there was Aden, he was under the big bird, so I had to pull him out and get an up close look at him. And as soon as I did, I accidentally dropped him in shock. His eyes were rolled to the back of his head, a trickle of blood coming out of his mouth like a bad paper cut from a finger. One of his arms was in a way that it was DEFINATALY shouldn't be right. His stomach had long scrapes on it from the talons, and those were leaking blood too!

After I dropped him, I dropped myself to the ground from shock. All of this, brought back memories that I always tried to keep locked away in the back of my mind and forget. But because of this, they broke out and came rushing back to me.

"Tch, is this your hobby now? Just letting every single person close to you die?"

I slowly looked up from my new fettle position, and there she was. The woman I tried to save, and haunts me to this day. I couldn't see her face, but she had a dark red outlined smile, staring down at me. Matching her red motherly dress. Her voice the same as it was so long ago, but bitter and angry, like some sort of wicked witch. Just the sight of her, made tears streak down my face as quick as they could.

"H-hi-inawa-a?"

"SHUT IT!" she yelled, and I went back into my arms and legs. Why was she here now? I wanted to ignore her, I wanted to help my friends, and get them to safety out of this storm! But her just, being here, made me unable to move a single part of my body in this freezing storm.

"I don't know how your friends could still trust you, even before you told them about me!"

"please, my"-

"You are a sorry excuse for a friend, you are a sorry excuse for a hero!"

"i-I re"-

"HOW could you be called a hero if you can't save everyone?! HOW?!"

"I tried to save you! I"-

"DON'T TALK BACK TO ME!" that yell pierced every single cell in my body, and made me tense up. She was right, I really wasn't a hero, all of those people were counting on me, and they still died. Maybe she really was right about me.

"You want me to be proud of you? Then end your suffering, right now." I wasn't looking up, but I knew what she meant. She wanted me to jump, off of the mountain, and kill myself.

No. I couldn't. Who would help my friends? Who would help these worlds?! I HAD to help them!

"What are you waiting for?! JUMP!"

I stood up. I'm not going to take this anymore. "no. I'm not going to listen to you, I'm NEVER going to listen to you!" I could feel my hand heating up, a fireball was forming and I didn't know it.

"JUST DIE!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" I threw the fireball right at her black face. I wasn't going to take this anymore, and I never will again! When the fireball hit, she faded into black mist, and went away with the wind. She was gone.

At least, for now.

I turned back to the others. I wanted to cry, but this wasn't a time to be afraid anymore, this wasn't a time to be weak. This was the time, to be strong. To be powerful, and live up to the piece I was given. My Triforce mark began to glow red, Din was helping me out with this one now. I looked back to the others, Logan and Zelda were on the wing, Aden was still in the snow. I walked over to him, the snow melting beneath me with each step I took.

I knelt down, and picked up Aden, then putting him beside the others. Even with my Triforce piece, I know I won't be able to carry all of them at once. But, they were already on the wing, and it was already dead. I got a flame ready. So powerful coursing through me, both the flame and the rest of my power. I raised my hand up into the air,

And cut off the bird's wing. It went off easily, and because of the flame, there wasn't any blood. It felt strange, but right at the same time. I felt evil, and that was the feeling I hated the most. I was doing this to help my friends, not to cut off bird limbs!

I grabbed both ends with both hands, getting some restraint at first from the bones. But I soon heard the satisfying CRACK from the bones breaking from my strength. I gripped them tighter for what I was going to do. But how did I know how to do these things? One simple explanation.

Din was telling me, without me realizing it.

I simply accepted this thought, as I began to focus more and more. The technique I did with my flames and the hands, I decided to transfer that over to my feet. I made my power flow below me, and slowly lift off of the ground. I laughed a little, was this what some superheroes or robots felt like while they were flying? Must be.

Anyways, I kept flying up, even though I was going really high up into the air, I kept a steady breath. Why, because magic that's why! I looked down to the wing pouch thing, all of them were still there. I was still really worried about all of them, and just looking at them all unconscious made me sick to my stomach. I thought back to what that, "thing", said. 'You are a sorry excuse for a hero'

Well I was going to prove her wrong, here and now.

I looked back up, and I was reaching the top of the mountain. Flying through the clouds and past all of the rock. I could already see the big tree at the top, with all of the ice parts hanging there like a chandelier with diamonds. I half expected for Yeto to be up there, or somebody to be up there. But nobody was, not even a bird. (at least, nobody I could see from here) 'Don't worry guys' I thought to myself. You'll all be better in no time.'

Finally reached the top, it actually didn't take as long as I thought, only a couple minutes. But it was REALLY starting to get cold up here! I got to an even spot, and set down the wing. They were all still there, and still the way they were when we lifted off. I landed myself, and suddenly felt weak, falling to my knees.

"This is all I can do for you now." Someone whispered. I already knew it was Din, because she was the one that gave me those powers, and who else could it be? I have the Triforce of Power after all.

"I can only do so much with where I am. Especially because"-

"Wait," I asked. "Tell me where you are, my friends and I can find you!"

"From what I can see, I am in a Volcano. Which could only mean I am in Death Mountain."

Of course it had to be Death Mountain. It actually seemed cliché, for a god of power/fire to be in a volcano. It really did seem cliché, the author really needed to think of something else.

((Um, sorry. But I can't think of anywhere else she could be held. That was the best I could do.))

Ugh, fine, we'll go to the stupid volcano. But there at least needs to be all of us there, and there better not be some sort of gigantic plot twist while we're there.

((*sweats nervously*))

Authoooor?

((Uh, HEY LOOK, SOMETHINGS GOING ON! *bails*))

DANGIT AUTHOR, GET oh wait, something is going on. But right at that time, Din's power gave away, and the glow from my Triforce mark faded. Great, now what was going on? I heard a noise of some sort of footsteps, but it was very faint. Far off, and it was easy to hear because this high up in the sky, there wasn't any wind.

I decided to investigate, looking along the mountainside. Nobody was there, and I didn't really expect someone to be all the way up here. That's why I was surprised when I saw some sort of white blob waddling up the slope across the big gap. It was hard to see from here, so I focused even more. It wasn't just plain white, I saw a couple other colors there too, like some light blue and some pink dots here and there. And up around the top, was a dark blotch.

After seeing those things, I automatically knew it was that cute creature, Yeta! So I immediately tried to get her attention.

"HEEEEY! UP HEEEEERE!" I yelled at the top of my lungs to her. The blob stopped where it was, but I couldn't hear anything if she was talking to me. I had to get down there, but looking back to the others, I couldn't leave them here either! So I had to improvise, looking back to Yeta, I yelled, "WAIT THERE, I'LL BE DOWN SOON!"

I ran back to the wing, and automatically started to work. The only way across that gap was to jump it, and I couldn't send all of them down separately on an ice piece! So there was only one way to get across it with everyone with me. I had to turn the wing, into a gigantic sled!

I bended up the back of the wing, getting that CRACK from the bones again. It stayed up there, but the bones were poking through the skin, no blood there either. (Is there even blood in bird wings?) It kept folding back down, but when I put it up a fourth time (and angrily mind you), the bones broke through the skin. Surprisingly, it stayed there, and didn't fold down again! Now I knew what to do. The bottom of the wing was folded up as well, but this time I knew to get the bones to break through the skin to stay, and they did!

In the end, it ended up to have the back folded up the most, with the sides slightly folded at the sides and getting smaller as it got to the point. My three passengers were laying at the back, that's the reason why I folded up the sides. That way, they wouldn't slide out as we were going down the slope. The middle part was where I would be, at the back using my flames to propel the wing sled down the mountainside. I would only have one shot at doing this, if I fall down, we all die. If one of us fell to our death, there would be no way to help this world and save it. If the wing sled broke apart while we're going down, I'm not sure what would happen then.

I got into the sled, stepping over Zelda and into my position. I then used my flames to push us along, using lots of power to push us along up to the tree, and the top of the slope. Right before I got to the big jump, I yelled "OK, GET OUT OF THE WAY, I'M GOING TO TRY TO JUMP!" I could see Yeta waddle as fast as she could out of the way. After she got as close as she could to the side, I got ready. This would either save or kill all of us, a major risk I was about to take! So looking down with a MASSIVE bug in my stomach, I used most of power to propel myself.

I had to be brave and fearless. Like Lora, she would do this without hesitation. So I had to be like her right now, fearless! So,

I did. I used almost all of my power, and pushed with all of my might! I gained speed, going faster and faster every second. Then I was at the end. If this was some sort of action movie, this would be the part where either it would go freeze frame and the camera would spin around me, or there would be three different shots of me as I was in the air. It really did feel like that, time slowed down for me as I was in the air! Right as I lifted off of the ground, I held on as tight as I could to prevent myself from flying off. As for the others, I'm not sure what was going on with them. I just thought they were slightly floating in mid-air until we landed.

Let me repeat that. UNTIL WE LANDED!

WE. LANDED! ON THE SLOPE AND DIDN'T DIE!

SWEET BABY JEASUS THAT WAS STRESSFUL!

After we landed, I quickly put my arms up and pushed myself with my flames to try and stop it. The least I could do was slow it down a little. I looked behind me, everyone was still there! I did a triumphant "YES!" and put my hands up into the air, which lead to the wing sled spinning out and me freaking out trying to even it out again. By the time I did, I was halfway down the big open part of the slope, with a visitor tagging along by my right.

"Who you, uh?" Aw, her voice was like an elderly woman, without the shaky voice. She was sledding down next to me, for some reason. Why was she coming up the mountain though?

"My name is Adri, who are you?" I already knew who she was, but I didn't want to seem suspicious to her.

"Name is Yeta, why you on bird's wing?"

We were both in a narrow passage now, but it wasn't too narrow, so we both still had enough space.

"It's a long story, but I have to help my friends" I made a motion with my head to say that there was some living cargo in the back. "and I'm looking for someone, who I think is supposed to be somewhere up here."

She looked back to the others, and said, "Friends not look good."

"No, they aren't. They got in a pretty nasty fall, and all of them are in really rough shape. That's why I thought I could take them to this, um, place I've heard about up in the mountains." Like I said before, I couldn't say too much, or else she would be suspicious of me knowing too much.

I think she was going to say something, but she looked forward, and bended back slowing her down. I looked ahead, and there was the bridge. It still had that dreaded gap, but no ice bats there. So I once again used my powers to try and get across the gap. I didn't use them right away, but rather, store up my power for a big burst to leap across! If the tip went below the edge, we would all go down. So at the last moment, I did a little explosion to do a jump, and I made it with the reassurance of a little THUD on the ground.

Yeta followed up behind me, before saying, "Might want to hang tight."

I wasn't sure if that meant, "stay there" hang tight or "Hang on tight", but I found out soon enough. It was the hang on tight, as there was I gigantic drop to the tree area! As soon as we fell off, we started to fall forwards. So I quickly leaned to the front and used some power below the sled to make us even again, landing with a harder THUD, and a CRACK! It must have been one of the wing bones, but I didn't have time to check because I had to weave through the trees. Trust me, it was harder than it sounded, as I constantly make bursts of energy from the left and the right. But I managed to get through it, with only bumping into one thing with minimal damage.

We were in an open area again, but this one was filled with ice crystals everywhere. Yeta was close behind, getting right back up close to me again.

"If I help friends, then you help Yeta?"

"What do you mean?" I asked, throwing a fireball at an incoming ice crystal, making it shatter.

"Fire magic, that help. My Yeto, something gone bad. Bad monsters come, and Yeto help Yeta escape. Not sure what happen to Yeto, must be bad things." She sounded sad now, she must have been really worried about Yeto. I was about to say yes, but then an ice crystal needed a splodin'.

We were now at a sort of big opening, with there being no mountain wall on the right side.

"So you're saying if I help you find Yeto, then you'll help my friends?" I asked. She responded with a nod with an "uh". Why did she do that? Oh whatever, I still had a couple more jumps to deal with! So while I was going down the side building up my energy, I said to Yeta, "Ok then, I'll meet you at the bottom!"

Yeta then slowed down so I could go first for the two big jumps. I was building up as much energy as I could, there was no way I could get across both jumps separately, I wouldn't have enough time to get enough power for the second jump. So I made one last risk to try and jump both of them, at once.

I was going to use all of the power I could use, because I knew this wouldn't be easy. Building up speed once more, I did a gigantic explosion under us, to jump over two seemingly bottomless pits! I was floating in the air again, and we were starting to flip over. I tried to use my powers, but I used all of it up at the big jump! I only had a couple seconds to react, I had to do something before we all fell to the snow. I could only catch one person, and we were all floating at the same time. I of course, grab onto Aden. He's been through the most and saved me, so it was time I gave back and saved him from falling into the snow again.

We fell, and let me tell you this. It hurt, but it was about a, "plank of wood slamming into your back then breaking, then landing in a foam pit" kind of hurt/experience. It was quick, painful, but then I fell into the soft part on my back. I was holding onto Aden, since if he fell into the snow like this, I'm almost certain that he would die.

It hurt getting up, in a soreness kind of way. I was also tired, since I used up lots of power sledding down here. I sat up, and both Zelda and Logan were in rough shape. I could see it from here. Zelda didn't land like I did, but skidded along the ice on her stomach (face included) until she got to the cement. Logan landed in the ice, but in a sort of, sitting position, like he sat where someone forgot to put the toilet seat down.

Yeta kept stomach sledding until she got to the cement, since she couldn't stop on the ice. I got up, and trudged through the icy snow, with Aden gliding as we were walking in the direction of the mansion. I didn't even notice a large purple outlined hole in the roof.

THANK GOODNESS I WAS ABLE TO DO THIS BEFORE SCHOOL STARTED! This chapter was to show how determined Adri can be when she's put in a risky/dangerous/extremely bad situation, and how far she'll go, even breaking the 4th wall from time to time. Anyways, imma go to bed now. Goodnight everyone, and make sure to R,R&S!