The Great Eight

by TwilightPrince101

Two years after the Twili Invasion, a boy named Aden wakes up in the Great Fairy's Cave, knowing nothing but to seek out his allies, and quickly! Join Aden, Midna, and all their Triforce bearing friends as they try to stop a vengeful deity, save the goddesses and win a battle that Fate never destined. (Please read it gets better as it goes on I started it over a year ago)

35. Grief and Escapes

Alright people, we're in the home stretch here now! Just about five more chapters (hopefully), and we got ourselves a finished story! Now there may be some times when I don't update for a while, the reason being because I don't know how to write a certain event in the story. When that happens, I'm going to try and improve some of the first chapters, making them a little easier to read and cleaning up some plot holes here and there. I already did the first chapter if you all want to take a look! Well enough stalling, let's get to it!

Chapter 35: Grief and Escapes

Lora's POV

We may have fought off all of the Twilit Beasts, but now wasn't the time for celebrating. There was a lot of cleaning up to do, and I don't mean just the rubble.

While we did save about a handful of people during the raid, all the others were killed, and their bodies were littered across the village. Some of them were crushed into different ways; some had almost no necks and died from suffocation, some… I'm sorry I need to skip this part I'm starting to feel sick.

The survivors obviously didn't take it well. Almost all of the survivors were crying or throwing up from just the sight of the bodies, mourning their friends and family or even just random strangers. Those who weren't doing that were having full-on panic attacks! They were hyperventilating and clutching their heads, some were punching themselves to try and wake themselves up, like this was all just some bad dream. But when they realized they couldn't, they curled up into a ball and cried. The children took it the worst, they cried over their parents and friends, clinging onto their corpses and refused to let go, clinging onto them as if they would disappear forever if they let go.

Working together with the Resistance group, we helped clean up and help the survivors. Telma, Zelda, and Agitha tried to help comfort the people who lost their loved ones, giving both children and adults some well needed hugs. They didn't help much, but they at least got some of the people to stop bruising themselves. So that was a start.

Mr. Clayface, Midna, and the rest of the resistance helped clean the rubble out of the way, and see if there were any survivors left. They didn't find one. They all took the debris and threw it into a pile next to the entrance of the village. They probably had the easiest of the jobs.

Then there was Aden and I, who volunteered to do possibly the worst job there was. We took all of the corpses and lined them up in one of the clearings around the village. We couldn't just leave the bodies where they were, and the people agreed that if they live to see tomorrow, the people should have a funeral. We tried to convince them that everything would be better when we got the entire Triforce, but after looking at some of the people's faces, we decided it was best not to argue. When… Whenever I had to carry a child to the line, I just wanted to fall down and join the rest of the crying people.

At first, Aden and I didn't dare speak a word to each other. We could both tell that if we even tried, it would not end well. So we continued to work in silence, carrying body after body. We had cleared out more than half of the houses, but then Aden and I found something in the farthest house that would make anybody feel absolutely terrible. Under a large pile of rubble that was below a newly made skylight, we found a family of three. Two parents and their infant son, laid on the floor without a single sign of life. Deep wounds and cuts were scattered across their bodies, so they likely died from the falling rubble.

But even in their last moments, they all were holding hands with each other and smiling. They decided that they would spend their last moments together, and that made them happy. From looking at them, it would seem like they died without a single regret.

They seemed, happy.

I couldn't take it anymore, I squatted down and let out the waterworks. All of these people, all these innocent, loving families, just gone. My eyes stung, and the ground beneath me started to get damp and salty. All this because what, one person said so? It made me feel absolutely sick. I've seen people die, but never on this scale.

This was a complete slaughter.

Aden, next to me, held his hand near his mouth, his eyes starting to glow with a light like a lightbulb. I could faintly hear him whisper "oh...dear god…". He turned away from the family, starting to walk away to get some fresh air, maybe take some deep breaths. 'He always did that when he was stressed back'-

My head snapped up as a thought came to me. 'Aden, his parents. He's not going back, his parents will never see him again! He doesn't even remember his parents, he doesn't even remember us he's never going to go back! He'll never go back with us!'

I suddenly became desperate, and my body acted on its own. I sprinted to Aden as fast as I could, my hair flying behind me as I ran, and my cloak falling off my back. Aden spun around quickly, his face pale, looking as if I was running up to him with a knife. I threw out my arms, wanting to hug him and plead to him to come back with us! But a green speck of light shimmered around him, and right as I brought my arms back in, he vanished.

He ran away from me.

I stumbled from my sprint and fell onto the ground, bracing my arms on the ground to make sure I didn't land on my face. About a foot in front of me, Aden reappeared, coming back in another shimmer of green light. My arms started to shake, and my eyes stung even more. Aden bent down, starting to show concern for me.

"Oh my gosh, Lora, are you alright?" He tried to get his face down and look at me in my eyes, but as my tears started to flow again, I didn't want to face him. I rested my head into my hands, my forehead barely touching the pebbles on the dirt ground. As I continued to cry, Aden tried to comfort me again.

"Lora, please, are you okay?"

"Why don't you believe us?" I said, the words flying off of my tongue. Aden, along with a handful of the people around us, went still and silent. I could hear him gulp down spit.

"Why don't you believe us Aden? Why?" My tears were dripping off my eyes like water from skin after a shower. My breathing became quick and sharp, as I kept thinking 'He has to come back, he has to! He has to!' over and over again. I could hear Aden sigh, in frustration I think.

"Lora…" Aden said with a slight tone of sympathy. He didn't know what to say to me. He didn't know if he SHOULD say anything. Vision blurry, I snapped my head back up to look Aden dead in the eyes. I remembered from last night, before we all went to sleep, Zelda had explained to me what happened to everyone before I rejoined the group. She explained not only the events before Link saved her, but Aden's first moments in Hyrule.

"You trusted Midna in a heartbeat when you met her. You even trusted the Great Fairy." Aden's eyes widened in surprise, and he slowly started to rise up and step away from me. He was afraid of me, afraid of me having a point.

"Well why not US?! You trust Midna with your life, and you only met her a couple days ago! And I know you don't remember her, just like how YOU don't remember ME!" My fists tightened, digging dirt into my fingernails. When I rose up to my feet, Aden put his hands up to protect himself, just making my heart sink even further.

"L-Lora, calm d"-

"Just look at your CLOTHES!" I pointed to his green, Legend of Zelda shirt under his cloak. "Keep Calm and Have Courage" it said, along with a picture of the Triforce. It was slightly dirty and some sweat stains were littered here and there. He never took it off, ever since he woke up in Hyrule. Aden quickly pulled his cloak tight to not have people see it, afraid that they might ask too many questions.

"You KNOW what that SAYS, and it is IN ENGLISH! Not HYLIAN, ENGLISH! HOW DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW THAT?!" Aden looked down at his shoes, but I just kept screaming.

"AND WHERE DID YOU GET THE REST OF YOUR CLOTHES?! The PANTS?! The SHOES?! YOU GOT THEM FROM US, FROM YOUR PARENTS!" Aden put up his hands again, like I was an injured animal, and he was scared to even step a foot near me. He carefully took a small step forward.

"Lora, please stop. Everyone is staring at you." I didn't bother looking, I could feel all of their gazes piercing into my skin. My heart was beating like a drum, and my tone lowered. I looked at my shaking hands, then wrapped my arms around myself. I shivered, like the air suddenly became cold.

"You don't know how it f-feels Aden, to be al-lone. To-o have nob-body to be there for you when, when you need a per-erson to cr-ry on. Back at h-home, you were one of my closest friends! One o-of my ONLY friends!" My knees went weak, and I fell to the ground again. Tears and snot were running down my face like a waterfall. Aden stopped, staying where he was, afraid to even move. The animal was getting desperate, and Aden had no idea what to do.

"Please A-Aden, I-I don't wa-ant to be a-alone again. Ju-ust please, come back. I-I don't want to be a-alone."

The entire village was dead quiet, as if the raid had killed all the remnants of Hyrule. The only sounds were my own sobs, echoing throughout the small town. I sat there and continued to wail, only the tiniest of breaths escaping through my sobs. My head only kept running the same thought.

'He has to. He has to. He has to. He has to. He has to.'

I would have continued to stay there for the rest of my life if not for the explosion.

Link's POV

"Adri! C'mon, snap outta it!" I grabbed her by the shoulders and shook Adri as hard as I could, but the same blank stare stuck where it was. Ever since she saw the Triforce mark on Zant, she went into some sort of shock, unable to move on her own. Her mouth slightly hung open, while her eyes seemingly never blinked. She was completely out of it.

The entire volcano had started to shake violently back and forth, the ceiling dropping rocks all around us! We were lucky that one of those boulders didn't even land near us yet. To make matters even more desperate, we could all hear and feel the heat of the lava behind us! The entire volcano was erupting, we had to get out as fast as we could!

"ADRI COME ON, WAKE UP!" Logan yelled from behind me. He was having some struggles of his own, wrestling with our, apparently new ally. 'Ugh, just the thought of that makes me sick.' Zant was weak, but he still wasn't going down without a fight. All of his movements were slow, and he could barely even stand straight. This made it easy for Logan to slam his face onto the ground.

"I *huff* will not *huff* go ANYWHERE with *big huff* the likes of *huff* you!" Zant wheezed out. Logan easily made a solution.

"Yeah, well nobody asked you." He put both of his palms onto the Twili's back and whispered "Naka Shuki" under his breath. In a lightning quick flash, Zant blinked out of sight. I knew Logan didn't kill him, we still had to figure out what to do with him first. He picked himself off of the ground, grabbed his baton, then jogged over to me.

"Adri, come on! We have to get out of here, the whole place is coming down!" Logan grabbed my shoulder and yelled to her. But still, she didn't move. Behind the three of us, I could hear a splash, and spun around. Outside of the room, the glow of the lava was now clearly visible, we were cornered! Before long it would come in here and burn or drown us to death! Whichever came first. If we didn't wake up Adri soon, we would ALL be goners!

"ADRI, SNAP OUTTA IT, WE GOTTA GO NOW!" I screamed right into her ear, shaking her as hard as I could. But she refused to snap back to reality. Getting desperate, I tried to think of something that I could do. I tried to think back to times where Adri showed a big weakness, like being very short tempered by insults or something similar to that. But then I realized.

I was that weakness. She swooned over me so much when she first met all of us, to the point where it would seem like she was obsessed with me! How she tackle hugged me off of the cliff in the Zora's domain, and how she had to be held back when she first saw me. It disgusted me with every fiber of my body to do this, but in an effort to save our lives, I did it without hesitation.

I brought her close and kissed her, right on her lips. I could hear Logan behind me mutter "oh gross!" under his breath; I couldn't agree more with him. The kiss certainly worked, but it didn't end the way I thought it would. The kiss lasted about two seconds, but then Adri quickly, and forcefully, pushed me away from her and onto the ground. She got on her hands and knees and spat on the ground, wiping her lips.

"Oh my GOD WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! That was FUCKING DISGUSTING WHAT THE HELL?!" I stood on the ground a little shocked myself. 'I… Did not see that coming.' I thought for sure that she would try something different, like keep me in the moment and try to savor it or something like that. But she seemed completely disgusted with me even trying to kiss her. Not that it mattered anyways.

Logan ran right up to her and grabbed her shoulder, lifting her up onto her feet with all of his force. Adri waved her arms in circles to regain her balance.

"Adri, we need to leave! NOW!" Logan pointed back to the approaching lava, which was now completely visible right outside the door! It looked like we were completely cornered now! But I calmed myself down, Logan would come up with a plan to get us out of here. I knew he would, Midna had confidence in him and so will I!

"Where are we supposed to go? There's lava coming from everywhere right now, we're"-

More rubble came crashing down next to us, the ceiling was a crumbled mess right now! Before it looked polished and smooth, but now it looked like the inside of an extremely old cave! Adri and Logan put their hands over their heads to try and protect themselves from the falling rubble, and so did I. But after most of the rubble fell, we saw a small ray of hope. It came through a tiny crack in the ceiling, the smallest ray of sunshine. Just above that ceiling was outside, our way out!

Just keep in mind that Logan realized this first, not me.

When he saw that ray of sun, he turned to Adri and pointed up. "Adri, use your powers to break open a hole in the ceiling! It's our only way out!"

"Logan, I'm all out of power from the fight with Zant! I barely have enough to even shoot a fireball!" To prove her point, Adri held out her hand and tried to make a fireball. The only thing that came out was a tiny little spark. Logan pulled his hair and paced back and forth for a few seconds, before taking out his baton again. In one fluid motion, he waved the baton from the ground then pointed it up to the crumbling ceiling.

The most we all felt was a slight breeze.

Logan lost it, he paced back and forth and pulled some of his short, black hair. "FuckfuckfuCKFUCKFUCK FUCK! WE'RE ALL FUCKED!" More lava poured in from all entrances, and the room became like a cooking fire! Adri and I started to back up to one of the far walls, trying to stay away from the oncoming scalding liquids.

While Logan continued with his rant, stomping his foot on the ground and yelling the same thing over and over again, some sort of green light started to stand out throughout the red glowing lava. It wasn't too bright, but it shined right into my eyes for me to notice it. Adri saw it too, and helped point out where the source was, pointing down at my left hand. My Triforce mark was glowing with the green light!

Right as I figured that out, my head forcibly snapped back up to the air, and I was shot out of my own body! I flipped back through the air and floated weightlessly like a ghastly Poe! Waving my arms to regain control of my flight, my clear body finally managed to stop. After panicking for a little, I stopped myself, looking in awe at what was happening to my actual body.

It was walking all on its own, completely unphased at the lava surrounding it. It looked at its hands, then its surroundings, then began to walk towards the lava without a single trace of fear. Adri and Logan both stopped what they were doing to look at it, in awe at what was happening. I tried to float around to see what was going on on the other side, but I couldn't force my new form to fly around and have a look. I just stayed where I floated and watched my body go on its own.

My body kept walking towards the lava, and both Adri and Logan did nothing to try and stop it. I tried to yell at them to do something, but my screams were all silent to them, just whispers on the wind. When my body was just a couple feet away from the approaching lava, it stopped. The scorching liquid was only a couple seconds away from touching my boots. My possessor gripped the Master Sword tight, then spun it around to where it was facing downwards. Grabbing the sword with both of its hands, my body raised the Master Sword up high, then plunged it into the stone at its feet!

A pillar of blinding green light surrounded my body right as it plunged the sword into the ground! I tried to close my eyes and just look away from the light, but I could see right through my eyelids anyways! Adri and Logan put up their arms and shielded their eyes while Logan got knocked back from the shockwave that came from the blast.

The pillar of light shot up through the ceiling, completely obliterating the stones overhead with a BOOM! The volcano shook and swayed back and forth from the sudden explosion, and both Logan and Adri almost fell down on their stomachs. The pillar of light grew larger and wider with each passing second, vaporizing any more falling debris overhead! And when it finally shrunk and died down, the volcano now had one gigantic overhead view of the sky! Midday sunlight beamed into the room, and a cool refreshing breeze flew in from overhead

Seeing past the bright green light, it looked like most of the lava got vaporized too! Either that or it all got pushed back by the force of the pillar. But after the large surge of energy died down, all of it started to flow again, thankfully at the same pace from before. Whoever, or whatever was using my body bought us all some time! 'But there is still the problem of actually escaping through the hole.' I suddenly thought. 'The two still don't have any energy to get us out of here!'

"Oh quit your complaining!" A small, familiar voice rang out, echoing throughout the room. I searched for the source, but found nobody except for my body taking out the Master Sword and putting a sassy hand on my hip. I could see it peek up at my new ghostly form, obviously annoyed at my mental complaints. "I'm working on it, so just be patient for once!" It seemed to speak directly to me, but my body's mouth barely moved a muscle.

My body spun around to face Adri and Logan, who were still stumbling around and trying to regain their balance. My Triforce mark was glowing light green again, and with an outstretched palm, green clouds of energy came bursting out of my hand! They swarmed around the room like buzzing bees, looking for some flowers to pollinate. Those flowers were my two allies.

The two saw the clouds of energy at the last second, and as they regained their balance, the energy flew all around them as if they were searching for something. After stalling for about a second after hovering over their hand, it shot into their Triforce marks, like the Goddesses' remains did the day before. Once the last green cloud went in, their Triforce marks glowed their respective colors.

"Alright, I'm done here. Go ahead and have your stupid body back, we'll talk again soon." The voice said, staring up at me again. As the voice faded away, my Triforce mark dimmed back to its original skin color, and my head tilted down. But then like some sort of vortex was pulling me in, I started to float back to my own body at an unexpectedly fast pace! I waved my arms again, not prepared to get shot right back into the action.

'WoahwoahwoahWOAHWOAH WOAH WOAH!"

I stumbled forward when I finally regained control, and was way too close to taking a dip into the scorching hot lava! I managed to stop myself and fall backwards, hastily crawling back to Adri and Logan. I bumped into Logan's legs, and he offered me a hand up. I took it as he started to make out a new plan with Adri.

"Adri, boost up all of our strength as much as you can, now!" Adri complied, doing a couple weird hand gestures while facing the both of us. She waved her hands out horizontally from her center to her sides, stretching out her arms as much as she could. Then after flicking her wrists up quickly, a brief shimmer of orange light surrounded all three of us. I felt, different, but I wasn't sure how. But one thing I did realize was that the lava was approaching us even faster now!

Logan got ready his baton again and faced the both of us.

"On my three, try and jump as high and as powerful as you can! We're getting out of here! Ready? One!"

Adri and I bent our knees to get ready to leap.

"Two!"

The lava sped towards us, eager to swallow us into scorching death. 'Well not this time!'

"Three!"

All three of us sprung up as hard as we could, and we soared into the air! It was like being blasted out of the Ooccoo canon all over again! The volcano below us became smaller and smaller, until we jumped over the clouds! They were all so thick that we couldn't see the ground at all from up here! But I actually was able to see the Oocca's flying city! It… Well, let's just say that they had it just as bad as we did down in Hyrule.

As we began to fall back down, Logan made some circular motions with his baton. The clouds below us started to wave and shift, becoming a swirling cyclone of white and grey! The clouds spun faster and faster, and when we finally landed in them, it was like a full scale tornado! The winds were fierce and strong, and it blew us all over the place! We spun around and around for a little while longer, and then we were all spat out into another direction!

I was gripping the Master Sword as hard as I could to make sure that it didn't fly off on its own, while all three of us plummeted to the ground! I could hear Adri whooping with glee, like she was actually enjoying this, making small somersaults in the air! Meanwhile, Logan stayed silent, trying to figure out what to do next with a determined look on his face.

When we dropped past the clouds and rocketed back to land, Logan yelled over to the giggling daredevil "Alright Adri, Defence Up and brace for impact!"

"Wait WHAT?!" I screamed to Logan, but he ignored me and started to swing his baton up and down in a U formation. The breeze from below us slowed our descent, but it wasn't enough to help us survive the landing! Then Adri did the same motions she made back in the volcano when she helped us escape, waving her hands then flicking her wrists up. An orange light shimmered around her and Logan, but nothing came around me.

"Uhh, Adri? I think ya' forgot somebody!" Adri wasn't listening, she was using some of her flames to try and control her fall so she could land on her feet. I looked over to Logan, he was now swirling his baton in a circular motion, creating a personal cyclone for him to use. He drifted up and away from me and Adri, making sure that he would have a safe fall.

"Um, guys?!"

"BRACE FOR IMPACT!" Adri screamed, pumping her arms in the air excitedly. I spun my body around and looked at the oncoming ground. The good news, we were right above the Hidden Village! But the bad news? We were barely even a second away from the ground! Closing my eyes and clutching my sword, I did as Adri warned and got ready for the crash!

But before my body could splatter on the ground, I could hear some sort of chime, and I instead landed on something soft! It bobbed back and forth when I hit, and it felt strangely stringy. I took a look, and found myself in Midna's giant hair hand! I breathed a long sigh of relief, extremely thankful that I could walk another day!

A couple feet in front of us, somebody else landed in the center of the village in a big CRASH, sending dirt and rocks flying in a bunch of directions. When it cleared, we could all see Adri on the ground, kneeling and a fist planted into the dirt! It looked really cool, but that all went away when she got up and started to hold and shake her fist in pain.

"Ow ow ow ow ow! How do they even DO that in the movies?!"

Logan floated down behind her in his personal cyclone, clearing away some of the dust and dirt that was scattered everywhere from Adri's landing. Sliding down from Midna's hair, I put my sword back in my sheath and turned around to thank her. But Aden was already talking with her, complimenting her skills with my catch!

"Nice catch Midna, that was really close!"

"Well I couldn't have done it without you teleporting us to the right place. You did good too Aden!" The two shared a good high five.

I started to feel good and accomplished, but then I took a look around the village. Most of the houses were destroyed, their roofs and walls having wide open holes everywhere. All of the villagers came out to see our arrival, but I noticed that there was a major difference in the amount of people now. And when I smelled something that made me nauseous the moment I breathed in, the final piece clicked into place. I turned to Zelda and Telma, who approached us all from our left. Their sorrow filled expressions even further confirmed my suspicions.

"Things… Didn't go well here either, did it?"

"Zelda put a hand to her chest and looked away, ashamed to think about the past events. Telma held her arms, and looked down at the dirt, shaking her head slowly. Then I heard some crying nearby, letting out short and quiet sobs, clearly trying to conceal her emotions from the rest of us. I quickly found the source of it, right next to my feet. It was Lora, on her knees and hugging her arms as hard as she could

I started to kneel down to try and comfort her, for whatever was going on, but Adri beat me to the punch. She gasped and hastily ran over to Lora's side, sliding on the ground to do so. She gently held Lora's arm.

"Lora, are you okay? What happened? You're not hurt are you? I have my old powers back, I can help heal you now"-

"Adri…" Lora looked at her, tears still in her eyes as Adri made a soothing green light over some of her injuries. In her eyes, Lora looked desperate for some sort of comfort, like some sort of shoulder to cry on. But for reasons I couldn't describe, she instead pulled away from her, saying "My arm is okay. Thank you." It was to the tone of a mumble.

Logan approached Aden and Midna, putting his baton back in his case and stuffing it into his pocket.

"Midna, Aden, we need to talk privately. Right now." He pointed behind him to the entrance of the Hidden Village. Just from the look on his face, it did not look like he wanted any more surprises.

"Is, something wrong Lo"-

"Just." he interrupted Midna. "Please come with me. This is something both of you really need to see right now.

"Logan, can this wait until a little later?" Aden asked politely, only to be greeted with a death stare in response. Aden seemed unphased, and made some hand gestures as he talked. "There are a lot of other people here who need some help right now, they lost so many loved ones. I'm sure this can wait until, a little… later….."

Aden's hands dropped down as he looked overhead, where the sound of high winds could be heard circling. I backed up and looked up into the sky; Dark purple clouds were appearing out of nowhere, and was swirling together into one big mass, almost like the Goddesses from earlier. The remaining villagers scurried back inside to their houses, scared at what would appear overhead. Zelda and I prepared our weapons, and I tried to switch to a two-handed sword style. It didn't feel comfortable.

The large purple mass of clouds grew more and more and blew harder winds at us, and when it finally stopped, the mass exploded in all directions, leaving the fierce deity floating in the air in all his glory.

Any other survivors who were still outside booked it to a hiding place as soon as they saw the demonic being! Telma ran over to Agitha and brought her inside one of the houses so they could hide together. "Come along now honey, come in here. Quickly now." The remainder of us got our weapons ready, preparing for the final battle! But Lora stayed on the ground where she was, still needing some time to recover. So Adri got up and stood in front of her, blocking off Lora and the Fierce Deity in case he tried to attack her. The Deity crossed his arms with an expressionless stare.

"And so the eight wielders of the Triforce come together at last. I must commend you all for surviving for this long, you all have truly proven yourselves worthy of your respective gifts."

Adri tried to nudge Lora to get up, yet she still stayed sitting on the ground, despite possible death looming right above her. A couple feet next to me, Midna slightly lowered her hair fist, slightly confused. "Wait, eight?" She mumbled under her breath.

"However, this shall be the end of your journeys. While you have been fighting amongst yourselves and my creations, I have been biding my time, steadily gaining more power from this world's pitiful goddess. I believe," he looked down to Aden, getting a Pointed Shockwave ready just in case, "you have already been acquainted with each other?"

I glanced over at the Twili, who was digging through his memories (or what little there was) to try and find an answer. It did not take long, he gasped and murmured "Hylia." From the shock on his face, it looked like for him, the final piece of the puzzle clicked into place. His face turned from shocked to rage-filled.

"So YOU'RE the "He" Hylia was talking about!" Midna and I looked at him, having absolutely no idea what he was talking about. We both just shrugged and got ready again for a fight! The Fierce Deity lowered his head in a disapproving form.

"I suppose you could state it like that; yes, I am "he.""

"Well what're you going to do? Just kill us all out in the open like this?" Adri stepped forward. Logan stared at her with an expression of both worry and anger, as did the rest of us in the group. "Don't you think that's a little cheap for somebody like you?"

"Adri please, stop tr"-

"I mean, you've built up all of that power all on your own, you've basically become a god! But if you just killed us all right here right now, well, I don't know about you but I'd say that's pretty boring! Like, here I was thinking that we were going to go all out against each other, battle to the death! But you're here thinking"-

"Adri, stop, no"-

"-that you could just end us right here! Well then go ahead Mr. Deity! Do your worst!"

The village went silent in astonishment and fear from Adri's bravado. I took a quick glance at Logan to see what he was doing, and he did not look happy! He was glaring swords right into Adri, having a look that said "If we die, I'm gonna kill you!" My head flicked back to the Fierce Deity, who I expected to be completely fuming with anger! But instead, he seemed to be lost in thought.

"...You have an interesting point. Very well then." The Deity unfolded his arms, then continued to stare at us all with his emotionless stare. "I am not a being to kill people on any form that may seem, how you say it, "cheap". It may seem that I am a ruthless being, who slaughters this world simply because I have the power to. But once, long ago, I was an honorable man. I shall uphold my previous values, and stand by your proposition, Adri Hunning."

The Fierce Deity forced out his palm, and more dark purple clouds spat out from it. They swirled around all seven of us, swarming until we couldn't see a peek of the village around us! I still got my sword ready just in case! The sound of howling wind was all around us, going so far as to sound like an actual wolf at one moment! I looked at the others, they all seemed just as prepared as I was. Which was not that much.

When the howling faded and the clouds dispersed, we all lowered our guard to look at our surroundings. We stood in a large, nauseating room. The walls looked misty, but they were all completely solid, and they morphed into different colors every couple seconds. The air seemed to be normal too, so we weren't in some sort of death trap. It seemed like the Fierce Deity stood by his words.

Speaking of him, he suddenly appeared above us!

"Take as long as you need to heal your wounds." The deity spoke. "When you are all prepared, come into the next room." He gestured towards a large door on the far side of the room, it was smooth and from polished wood. It was like a needle in a haystack compared to the rest of this weird room.

"I shall be patient for exactly one hour. If you decide not to fight, or make an attempt to flee, then I shall find you, and swiftly snuff out your life." Crossing his arms once more, he floated over to the polished wooden door and landed on the ground. He looked over his shoulder to us, leaving with one last remark.

"I expect a worthy fight, coming from The Great Eight that you are."

The Fierce Deity phased through the door, and disappeared to the other side. After standing where we were, gawking at Adri's successful attempt to buy us some time, we all got to work, preparing in any way we could.

The final battle was upon us all.

We're almost there people. Just be patient a little while longer, and you'll all have your ending! Well, you know what to do. R,R&S everybody! See ya later!