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Chapter 31: 1v1

Adri's POV

I chased Zant into the tunnel, ignoring Logan telling me to wait for them. Zant was right in front of us, so there was no way I was going to let him go! He was hiding Din and the last person we were looking for somewhere in here, and with any doubt, he would lead me straight to them. I could regain my powers, then I could take Zant head on!

The tunnel wasn't that long, but it heated up quick! When we were in the room where Darbus was killed, it felt about as hot as sunbathing in spring. But just a couple steps into the tunnel, and I felt like I was being roasted in an oven, full blast! But it wasn't too bad, I've had worse. In fact, I liked the heat, I found it comforting.

I stopped running when I got into the mines. The heat made it kinda hard to breathe, but I would be fine. The pipes on the walls were quiet, and the glow from the lava hurt my eyes. And floating above the hot, glowing lava, was Zant, just staying still.

He was too far away for me to jump at him, but he was looking the other way, probably thinking to himself about something. It was a clear shot, he was floating in mid-air right in front of me, not even paying attention. I could shoot him down right there, so I took that chance! I conjured up what magic I had left after the Fire Tornado attack, and made a flame in my hand, then skidded to a stop to aim.

He still wasn't paying attention, and I winded up for the pitch. A wide grin spread across my face, and I whispered, "Goodbye you disgrace."

"ADRI!" Logan yelled behind me. I hesitated, and Zant turned around. I quickly threw the fireball before Zant could fly away, but he barely flew out of the way, and it was only able to hit his hand. Zant screamed in pain and held his charred hand. I turned to Logan, fuming.

"Logan! He was RIGHT THERE! I could've got him!" Link skidded to a stop behind Logan, catching up with us. They both seemed pretty angry at me.

"Adri, you can't just run off like that! You need to"- I jabbed a finger in his face before he could finish.

"Do you really think I'm just going to let HIM"- I turned and pointed at Zant, but stopped talking. He was flying away as we were arguing. I grumbled "God dang it!" and started to run again. But Link grabbed my arm before I could.

"Adri, think! Zant isn't teleport'n away, he could be leadin' ya into a trap!" Link was right, normally Zant would just teleport away like back at Castle Town. But thinking about Castle Town, and what Zant said to me. He mocked me about losing my friend, how I couldn't save him… 'No. Not this time!' I pulled my arm back and turned around, hopping down from the high ledge. I wasn't going to let him get away this time, no matter what! 'Zant dies, TODAY!'

I jumped from platform to platform, leaping over the lava beneath me. I looked at Zant, he was still flying to the other end of the room, running away. After landing on the ground after the third jump, I ran into the metal walkway. Logan and Link were right behind me, I could hear their footsteps on the metal floor.

I looked in front of me, there was a big column of fire bursting out of a large pipe! There was a switch on my right that would stop it if I pushed it down, but instead of doing that, I kept running! Looking back at it, it was really stupid thing to do. I didn't know what was going to happen next, so I could've been running straight into death! But I kept running, at full speed!

"Adri! What're ya doin'?!" Link yelled behind me. I ran faster, and I was barely even touching the ground! I was only running on the tips of my feet! When I was about to reach the flames, I put up both of my arms in front of my face to try and protect my face from the fire. Then I jumped off of my right foot, and leapt through the flames!

...Completely unharmed.

It didn't even hurt when I jumped through, no blisters, no burns, nothing! After I got to the other side, I checked myself to see if there were any burnt parts of my clothes or skin, but there wasn't a single one! I touched my skin, it felt a little warmer than usual, but that was it! I was really confused!

Until I looked at my right hand.

My Triforce Mark was glowing, that meant that Din knew I was here! She was giving me more of her power to help me through the fire! I grinned, and looked ahead. There was another pipe shooting out flames, and a big jump from the platform to the door. For somebody like Link, this would take a while. But with Din's power, I could do it in about five seconds!

I started running again to the other side of the room. Zant was almost there, if he got through, then he would hide again and use up Din's power! I couldn't let that happen! I ran through the next fire column, still burnless, as Zant reached the end of the room. But when I got to the other side of the flames, I took some long steps, and leapt off of the

floor!

Since I was filled with Din's power, I leapt MUCH farther and faster than I regularly would! If I tried to jump that gap without Din's power, then I would probably be nothing but ashes right now. But since I WAS, I managed to clear the gap without breaking a sweat! But, I overdid it. Not even halfway through the jump I cleared the gap, and I was heading straight for Zant!

So instead of ramming into him, I punched him right in his back!

Zant flew forward into the wall, and it cracked as he hit it. Then, the wall completely crumbled, and he still went flying into the next room! I could hear his scream get from loud to faint as he flew! The pieces of the wall broke down, flying down into the lava or rolling around on the iron floor.

I grinned, looking at my fist as I clenched it. 'Now THAT felt good!' I thought. I looked back up, and ran into the next room. It was a big room with a gigantic crane and the opening of the volcano on the top. The air was a little bit cooler in here thanks to the hole in the top. But the thing that caught my interest the most here, was the large group of monster archers (what were their names again? I forgot.) standing on top of the giant crane.

And they were all aiming right at me.

It looked like Link was right about the whole trap thing.

Zant flew off from the wall he hit, it still had some cracks in it. His helmet was bent and out of place, so he tore it off his head and threw it into the lava! He looked completely fine even though he was just slammed through a stone wall!

"Well, my helmet may be broken, but I can at least take pride at seeing you end right here! ARCHERS, FIRE!" He yelled. I could hear the sound of all the archers letting the arrows fly. I tensed up, and tried to think of something quick, but there were too many archers, and too many arrows. I couldn't jump up it was too late to do that, and while I was able to go through that fire back there, I didn't think I was able to block about fifty arrows. So I put up my arms and tried to block the arrows.

But before they hit, I felt a gust of wind go around from the back of me to the front, and heard multiple TINKs over my head. Around me, I heard the arrows clatter against the grate floor around me. I lowered my arms and looked around around me, arrows were all around me, laying flat on the iron floor. 'What blocked them?' I thought. Then I looked up.

Link's shield was floating in mid-air! Logan must've helped me by using the Wind Waker to block the arrows! The wind calmed down, and Link's shield clattered to the ground in front of me, not a scratch on it as always. I looked behind me to see Link and Logan, but they were both behind the second fire column. But I could still see them sigh in relief.

"FIRE AGAIN!" Zant yelled, and the monster archers fired their arrows again. I picked up Link's shield and ran up the ramp, holding the shield above my head. The arrows were blocked by the shield, and I could hear Logan and Link yelling again behind me. "I'll give it back later!" I yelled over my shoulder. I crouched down, then jumped up all the way to the top of the crane!

I landed on the edge, then kicked the nearest monster archer in the gut! It stumbled back, then hit the one behind it, and it continued like a line of falling dominos. The monsters all fell down to the floor, or kept bouncing into the lava. I laughed, turned to Zant, and stretched out my arms. "This is REALLY all you have Zant! This is really…" I stopped talking when I looked at Zant. He was EXTREMELY mad, his orange blank eyes were twitching, and he was biting his lip so hard that I was pretty sure I could see some blue blood.

"FINE, I'LL DO IT MYSELF!" He yelled. He took out one of his blades, and flew towards me at lightning speed! I tried to put up the shield before he hit me, and managed to block him with only the VERY top! But Zant was more powerful than he looked, when he hit the shield, it made me fly back to the wall behind me and break straight through it!

My head broke through the rock like a drill, and it wasn't at ALL pleasant! It felt like I was inside a spinning dryer, and my head kept banging against the sides! I didn't feel like I was going to slow down, and I didn't even know where I was going! If I kept going like this, then I would probably shoot out of the side of the volcano!

Eventually, I broke through the thick stone wall, still grabbing onto Link's shield. My head still felt like it was going through a dryer, but the feeling started to go away. But I was still going too fast, I would just keep going and going! But suddenly, I got pulled down to the ground by the shield! I fell down onto the ground like a cannonball and landed on my chest.

I groaned in pain and got onto my knees. I could partly breathe after I landed because the shield handle jolted into my stomach, knocking the wind out of me. I coughed a little, and held my head, feeling something hot and wet. I took my hand off and looked at it. 'Yeah, that's blood.'

I started to look at the shield, but then the floor I was on caught my eye. It was a large round piece of some weird floor. I peeked over the edge of the floating floor, and there was a lot of lava! The piece of the weird floor was floating on top of it!

The floor itself was smooth and was glowing a light blue. It also looked like it was in fragments from the way it was, but it was still perfectly smooth. It was like some sort of magic floor, but even if it was, I didn't feel anything.

I tried to pick up the shield, but when I tried to pull it up, it wouldn't budge! 'The hell?' I thought. I tried again, harder this time, and it popped right off! I stumbled back, holding the shield at my chest. A little curious, I brought the shield a little closer to the floor. But when I did, it almost felt like it was being pulled right from my hands! So I brought it back up to my chest. 'This isn't a magic floor, this is a magnet floor!'

Suddenly, the ground jolted up into the air, and I was sent flying again! But I wasn't thrown too far this time, just around to the top of the ceiling. I managed to control myself in the air, after waving my arms around a little, still hanging onto Link's shield. 'What just happened?!' I thought, looking down to find out the answer.

Zant was down there, kneeling in a big crack on the magnet floor. It didn't really take a genius to figure out what happened. I started to fall back down to the floor when Zant looked up at me with a crazy look on his face. He looked like a serial killer who was about to go in for the kill. And that was probably what was going to happen!

Or so he thought.

He bent down further, getting ready to leap up and kill me. So I brought the shield above my head and held it tight with both hands. I channeled some of Din's energy, focusing it to my feet like back at Snowpeak, and aimed my body down to the ground. Then I shot flames out of my feet and rocketed down to the ground! Zant leapt up at me at the same time, then we collided in mid-air!

When Zant hit the shield, pain jolted into my arms, and I heard a CRACK! My arms bended and my grip loosened, and Zant pushed me up farther up to the ceiling. I panicked, and used more of Din's energy to push him back. At that rate, we weren't going to get anywhere! We would just keep pushing against each other until one of us…

'Wait, that's it!'

I pulled the shield back and flew to the left, out of Zant's way. He flew up a little past me before he knew what he was doing. But before he could, I put Link's shield handle around Zant's blade, flew above him, then kicked the shield as hard as I could! (using a little of Din's power too of course) Zant was down on the ground in an instant, making the big crack from earlier even bigger!

I dropped down to the magnet floor, landing on the tops of my feet with a hand on the floor to keep me balanced. I looked at Zant, both of his blades were stuck on the magnet floor and the shield was still stuck there too. And it didn't look like he was just going to leave one there, he couldn't really do anything up close without them. I laughed a laugh that was kinda real, but also a little fake.

Zant looked at me straight in the eyes with the same fury as ever. I smiled again, practically grinning from ear to ear! 'This'll feel good!'

I sprinted right up to Zant's unprotected head, and winded up for a kick like in a football game! I channeled some more of Din's power and-

A surge of burning pain cut through my left ankle, and I screamed! My raised leg fell down flat, and I tried to lean on it to get some pressure off of my other leg. Zant managed to get one of his blades loose with both hands and lodged it into my ankle before I could do anything to him. I could feel hot blood coming out from the wound, and when he yanked the blade out of my ankle, I screamed again as I felt a waterfall of blood on my foot.

Zant stepped back and pulled his other blade off of the magnetic floor, along with the shield. He grinned as he held it, and said "Good riddance to this!" Then, he tossed the shield into the lava. 'Shit!' I screamed in my head. I tried to stand up, but I barely went an inch before my ankle bone snapped, sending knives straight up my left leg! I screamed again, and Zant turned around with a devilish smile.

I fell onto my back and started to crawl away from Zant, dragging my left leg on the floor. He walked slowly and menacingly towards me, obviously savoring the moment. I flung some fireballs at him, but he easily dodged them by just stepping to the side. But I kept throwing them, one after the other as I backed up away from Zant. I finally stopped when I was right up against the ledge.

I brought my hand back again to throw another fireball, but Zant brought his foot up and stomped on my arm! Then Zant brought one of his blades up high, ready to stab me right in my chest. Panicking, I used more of Din's power, and swung my right leg up, blocking the blade with my shoe! The tip of the blade dug deep into the shoe, and it started to come apart when Zant pushed harder. My knee bended back, so I used what was left of the power Din gave me and pushed against Zant's blade with all my might!

The blade was right next to his face, and Zant kept looking back and forth from the blade to me. When he looked away from me again, I grabbed the edge of the magnet floor and kicked my leg to the left, sending the blade right into the lava! Zant stumbled back a little, so I brought my right leg back, used more of Din's power, and kicked Zant as hard as I could in the stomach, sending him flying through the walls again! He left a large hole behind him as he flew. I smiled the same smile Zant had.

I stood up, leaning as much as I could on my right leg to not break what was left of my ankle. I limped over to where Zant tossed Link's shield into the lava, and dropped down at the edge. I looked in the lava for any signs of Link's shield, and saw a tiny pointy piece of metal poking out from the surface of the lava. Then I pinched the top of the shield with my left hand, and pulled it out of the lava.

It was glowing and it was very hot! If I pressed it onto my arm, I would probably mark myself with another Triforce mark! So I tossed the shield onto the magnet floor, and it stuck there with a CLANK. I looked at the hole that Zant left behind him, It was wider and bigger than the hole I made coming here. And it was where I was going. I didn't care that my right hand was crushed, and I didn't care that my left ankle was almost chopped in half.

All I cared about, was finishing this!

I used up the tiny bit of what was left of Din's power to fly through the hole. Flying actually didn't use up that much power, but I was barely able to make it all the way through without collapsing. Using all of that magic made me exhausted, and I was just about ready to throw in the towel and sleep right then and there in that hole! But I strained my eyes to keep them open and kept flying.

After what seemed like forever, I made it to the other side of Zant's tunnel. I fell out of the hole and landed on my hands and knees, making me wince and maybe shed a tear or two. I wiped them away, stepped up onto my right foot and looked around. I was in a large round room filled with strange pillars surrounding another magnetic floor. The walls were different than the other rooms, they were smooth stone walls instead of the natural volcano walls. It also felt a lot cooler than the other rooms!

I looked around for Zant, and found him when I looked up. But there was somebody else there too. Zant was floating right next to Din above the center of the magnetic floor, she was chained up in glowing dark purple chains by her hands! She looked like she was tortured for weeks, and was barely moving, it almost looked like she was dead!

"It's obvious now that I won't win with just my current abilities." Zant said, looking down on me with a dead serious expression. He shifted one of his blades around in his hand.

"So perhaps it is time for an upgrade!" Zant took his blade and stabbed Din right in the chest! Din barely reacted, I wondered if she could even feel anything! Zant's blade started to glow a bright red as he kept the blade in Din's chest longer. He was forcing energy out of Din and into himself! He would be as powerful as the Fierce Deity at this rate!

I looked around for something I could use. There was no way I could leap up and drag him down, my ankle was still broken! And I couldn't fly up or throw a fireball because I was all out of energy! But I left Link's shield back in the lava room, and I couldn't get all the way there and back in time! 'Come on, come on, come on!'

I saw another crack in the magnetic floor, like the one Zant made in the lava room. It was bigger this time, and it looked like one large chunk of the floor could be picked up. There was nothing else I could use, so this would have to do.

I limped over to the large crack and bent down. The chunk of the floor was about as big as a gallon bag of sand, so it was small enough for me to pick up, but it was still pretty heavy! Plus, the openings for me to hold the chunk were really tiny, so I had to dig my fingers in deep to even hold it! The edges of the chunk were sharp like glass, they dug into my fingers, making them bleed after a couple seconds! The floor around me started to turn purple.

My bad hand hurt like hell trying to hold the chunk, like somebody was stabbing each of my fingers individually. I straightened my back and pushed myself up with my good leg. The entire chunk was finally out, now all I had to do was throw it. I bended down and back, holding the chunk close to me, then chucked it up into the air at Zant!

It was a direct hit, Zant got knocked back down to the ground, and the blade that he stabbed Din with fell right down to the magnetic floor and stuck there. Zant wasn't crushed by the chunk, sadly, but he was stuck under it trying to get up. It wouldn't take long for him to get back up.

The blade Zant stabbed Din with was still glowing, so I went down and picked it up, grabbing it off of the magnetic floor with a strong pull. Then, I could feel another burst of energy flow through me! It was much smaller than the last one, but it was just what I needed! Now I had to get Din unchained.

Using the little bit of Din's power, I grabbed on tightly to the blade and leaped up to Din's height with my good leg. I grabbed onto one of the glowing purple chains, but immediately regretted it! The hand I used to grab the chain surged with pain, like it kept getting stabbed with multiple needles over and over ag ain! I screamed, but kept holding on.

I used Zant's blade to try and break the chain, slashing at it with my free (yet bad) hand repeatedly. After about seven slashes, the chain link snapped, and one of Din's arms was free! The purple chain disappeared after it broke, vanishing completely. I swung to the next chain and grabbed it, feeling the same pain I felt with the first chain.

"W-who…?" I heard below me. Din was snapping out of it, it was working!

"Din," CLANG!

"I'm helping," CLANG!

"You out," CLANG!

"Of" CLANG!

"This" CLANG!

"MESS!"

CLANG!

The chain broke, and disappeared like the first. We both fell to the ground, hard. Din was a couple inches away from me. She was fully awake now, since she was out of those purple chains. Zant was still struggling to get out from under the magnet chunk, but he was almost out. I looked at Din.

"Din, please, give me more of your power. There's no way I can fight with one good arm and one good leg. If you give me more of your power, we could have a chance! So please," I held out one of my hands to her in front of her face. "Give me"-

Before I could even finish my sentence, she grasped my hand and held it tight. My Triforce mark started to glow brightly, and I could feel a large amount of energy flowing right into me! Din looked up at me with an angry grin, her body starting to shimmer like TV static. Before she completely faded, she nodded and told me three words.

"Give 'em hell!"

Her body transformed into red clouds, like Nayru and Farore did before they disappeared. The clouds shot into my right hand, and completely faded away.

I felt a familiar feeling inside of me, one I didn't feel in what felt like a long, long time. I looked at my left hand, then pressed it on my right hand. I took a deep breath, and saw a bright sparkling green glow come from my left hand. The pain from my crushed hand died down until it was nothing. I flexed my hand, and bent my wrist. No pain at all.

I pushed myself up from the floor, doing the same thing with my left ankle. The large cut that was there because of Zant sewed itself back together. I stood up on both feet, once again not feeling any pain. I smiled feeling the familiar warmth.

I heard a THUNK to my left, Zant got out from under the magnet chunk. I looked over at him, and he looked back at me with an expression of pure hate.

"Great. Just great." Zant said sarcastically. I laughed a little, and cracked my knuckles. I got into a battle stance, clenching my fists and staying on my toes. I channeled the warmth inside me.

"Why don't we just get started?"

Hey, I'm really sorry for the people who like this story (if you guys even exist). I got sidetracked with a different project I was working on and, you know me, I had to get that done first before I could get back to work on this! Once I get started, I can't stop! What was that project? Well, here's the link.

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(Hint: It's a little cute story about Midna and Aden and it's very long).

I had to butcher some things out for this so I could post it sooner, once again I am SO SORRY! Well, I'm at least on summer vacation now so maybe I'll get more chances to write. Who knows. Anyways, R,R&S guys. Later!