Yay, new chapter! Though not many people read the last one yet *disappointed* and OJR hasn't read the last few chapters ~_~ and Princess Of The Pixies doesn't review until she has a holiday (is that right?) and I thank the rest of you for reviewing as well! I hope you like the way the stories going, I was thinking of doing a trilogy as I know the ending of the third one already, or I might just combine that ending with this story. Well, it depend how this story goes I guess!
So now we're in the sacred realm, the very beautiful sacred realm I might add, I have more ideas now *maniac laugh*
The Last Quarter Part I
We walked down the hill into the field and out under the stars. The grass almost buried us as it came up to my chest and the Zoras and Link's middle. It was further than it looked; coming down the hill took around half an hour when it looked like a five-minute walk.
"Can you hear that?" asked the Zora, he came along side me
"Hear what?" I replied looking around
"Listen"
I listened hard, well, all the hard listening you can do, "I don't hear a thing"
"Exactly" the Zora panned around, "No wind, no birds, no animals, no nothing, we're the only things making a sound"
He was right, I hadn't been paying attention but it was deathly silent out of our circle of sound we created. You needed an atmosphere for weather; the sky was space, so maybe there was no atmosphere here. But then how would they be breathing? There were no birds singing now and no rustle of leaves as animals foraged for food.
Link obviously was in front; he hadn't said anything since the top of the hill. I ran and caught up with him, stumbling through the grass and nearly having a heart attack over snakes.
"Are you ok?" I asked quietly, "You haven't said a word since the hill back there"
He didn't say anything.
"Have you noticed how quiet it is?" I whispered, fearing to break the silence properly
"Yes" he said at last, "But there wouldn't be sound anyway"
I stopped "Why?"
There aren't any properly living things here, this is the sacred realm, it's for magic and gods only" he looked at the sky, "Only they and the dead should be here"
"The dead?" I repeated
"Yes, these are the fields where the dead come to be at peace" Link carried on walking
"Where are they?" I scanned around, no ghosts, no bodies, dead?
"I don't know" Link said grimly
"Lucy should be here then?" I asked hopefully, "Lucy!" I called out over the field, my voice echoed on and on into nothing "Lucy are you there?"
Link spun round, raced back and grabbed me, shaking hard, "Do you want everyone to know we're here? You stupid child, the enemy is here and you're giving away where we are!"
His nails dug into my arm, hurting me, he was gripping tightly. If my shirt hadn't been there he would have drawn blood. I looked at him; his face was a cold mask of fury. What was the matter with him? He wasn't usually like this.
"You're...hurting me" I said and tried to pull away
"Nothing compared to the pain you'll get if I hear you shouting again" Link threw me away from him "Now keep moving"
He marched away.
I stared holding my arms where he'd gripped them. The pain ached dully.
The Zora walked up and helped me up.
"Is he ok?" the Zora asked quietly
"I...don't know. He's never done that...before" I almost began to cry, but couldn't, it would be to hard on the land of the dead if tears fell here
"You ok?" Zora asked kindly
"Yeah, little sore, but ok" I looked at the Zora and smiled, viewing him properly for the first time, he seemed familiar "Do I know you from somewhere?"
The Zora's face melted into what looked like a smile "You do remember me. I didn't kill you when you attacked us"
My mind sped back to the Zora who could have killed me in Zora's domain when we were trying to escape. The Zora guard who'd run away from the opportunity.
"You! You are the one who could have killed me" I pointed surprised, "Wow, definitely a small world"
"Yes, it certainly is, now let's catch moody up" he said
We began to trot after Link, but not close enough to tread on his heels or have him hear us. After all, he'd bitten my head off at talking.
"So what's your name?" I asked quietly
"I told you, you can't pronounce it" the Zora replied "And I can't teach you Zora phonetics in an hour you know"
"Fine" I thought for a moment, "But I don't like you having no name I can call you, how about I give you a temporary name? Well until you find time to teach me anyway"
The Zora didn't reply, then said, "Well, I guess that would be ok"
"Great" I grinned, "Now..."
I ran through a list of names in my head:
George. No.
Thom. No!
Mary? Girls name stupid.
Michael. No.
George. You said that already. Did I? Oh.
Bob. You must be kidding.
Spot! Maybe you should just shut up. Me? You're the one who was gonna name him!
Hmm...Chester. That sounds like a horse.
John. No
Austin. Hmph. Guess not.
I looked at the Zora, he didn't seem like a George or Thom.
All right, how about Will? Hmmm, Will Smith is nice...Forget it.
I'm out of ideas. Give the right side of the brain a go.
I listened to the voices in my head arguing and then decided to go with the bimbo at the ranch's way of thinking. A simple nature name.
"Alright" I said to the Zora, "I name you Kestrel"
"What's a kestrel?" the Zora asked
"A bird where I come from" I replied
"Wouldn't a fish be more appropriate?" he said looking at me intently
"I guess, but Kestrel sounds cool"
"Fine, for a little while I shall be Kestrel" the Zora silenced as we came up behind Link
Link had stopped.
I stopped a little way off behind him. No way was he shouting at me again. The Zora stood next to him.
"Look." Link pointed ahead. We all looked where he was looking.
I almost screamed.
Rows and rows of bodies lay across the valley from here on in. Lines of Zoras, Gerudos, Kokiri and other species of people from Link's world lined a metre wide path. The rows of dead went on for as far as the eye could see. Perhaps this was where the dead had been.
I fought the urge to be sick. I didn't succeed; luckily I could hide it behind a bolder at my feet.
There, right in the centre of the field of dead was a black castle. A replica of the one Gannondorf had built in Hyrule. With the black swirling clouds and all. The path ran right up to it, through the millions of dead.
"I know this guy" the Zora seemed unfazed by the spectacle and was leaning down next to a Zora's body "In the army, a real patriot. Disappeared when the...when the armies...right. I should have known" he straightened "I guess we solved the riddle of the missing armies. Too bad, some of these were buddies of mine"
"I have one thing to say" I stumbled forward to the edge of the field
"What's that," Link said not looking at me
"Ick"
The Zora burst out laughing "Ick? What kind of word is that?"
I shot him a look that silenced him, even though he was smiling still "It is a word where I come from. Like these two are: f*** off"
"Ooooooh scary" The Zora mocked and threw his head back to laugh again
"Hey!" I drew the bow I'd been carrying and aimed it at the Zora "Shut it or I shoot Kessy"
The Zora eyed me "I could take you"
"Yeah, whatever you say fishy"
"Quiet" Link snapped, "Look at the castle"
We looked at the castle, slowly but surely a cloud of dust was heading towards us over the field of the dead.
"What is it?" I asked
"Looks like..." the Zora began but didn't finish
As the dust cloud drew nearer it became crystal clear what was coming.
"Run!" Link cried as the troop of men came even nearer
"Where the hell are we supposed to run?" I cried in frustration "We're in a b***** flat FIELD!"
"Looks Like we're fighting" the Zora brought his spear glaive thingy up and took a fighting stance "Nothing else to do"
"I hate fighting" I whined as the men were ten metres away "And why are they attacking us?" I lay the bow and arrow quiver carefully on the floor and drew Lucy's broadsword
"Obviously someone doesn't want us to get to the castle" Link commented dryly as the first wave of the troop attack.
After the first five struck and had been killed by Link and the Zora, it became hazy and confusing as I drew my sword up barely to parry blows and strike men down.
The men we were fighting looked strange. As each one came, their faces looked stony and unseeing. They were dead, I realised.
"These guys are dead!" I screamed at the top of my lungs to the other two as I dodged a sword slicing down on me
"I noticed" the Zora cried back fending off six of the zombie men at once
I barely heard him as a bulky fighter brought his staff heavily down on my collarbone. Something cracked.
"S***!" I collapsed in pain, clutching the sword I'd buried into the zombies stomach. I clutched my shoulder carefully.
But the fight was still on. Three men loomed over me.
I stared up at them, the agony in my arm dulling as the fear in my stomach realised they were going to kill me. Except they didn't. Two leaned down and grabbed an arm each. Colours splashed themselves over my sight, blinded and almost fainting from the pain they dragged me up and carefully through the battlefield.
"NO" I heard the Zora scream, he was close by, but I couldn't see him
My stomach rolled and tears fell down my face, as my collarbone kept up its relentless piercing pain.
I appealed to Link and the Zora, not sure whether they could hear me or where I was.
"Link!" I screamed, my voice cracked and rose above the battlefield "KESTREL! LINK! HELP ME PLEASE! Help...ah" I shuddered as searing white heat flashed up my arm again
I didn't hear Link. Only the Zora yelling battle cries and the clash of metal and the silent thumps of the zombies falling.
Something it the back of my head, it may have been a mercy blow. But the pain of my collarbone doubled with the strike knocked me out.
The sounds of the world faded out to the black nothing.
So now we're in the sacred realm, the very beautiful sacred realm I might add, I have more ideas now *maniac laugh*
The Last Quarter Part I
We walked down the hill into the field and out under the stars. The grass almost buried us as it came up to my chest and the Zoras and Link's middle. It was further than it looked; coming down the hill took around half an hour when it looked like a five-minute walk.
"Can you hear that?" asked the Zora, he came along side me
"Hear what?" I replied looking around
"Listen"
I listened hard, well, all the hard listening you can do, "I don't hear a thing"
"Exactly" the Zora panned around, "No wind, no birds, no animals, no nothing, we're the only things making a sound"
He was right, I hadn't been paying attention but it was deathly silent out of our circle of sound we created. You needed an atmosphere for weather; the sky was space, so maybe there was no atmosphere here. But then how would they be breathing? There were no birds singing now and no rustle of leaves as animals foraged for food.
Link obviously was in front; he hadn't said anything since the top of the hill. I ran and caught up with him, stumbling through the grass and nearly having a heart attack over snakes.
"Are you ok?" I asked quietly, "You haven't said a word since the hill back there"
He didn't say anything.
"Have you noticed how quiet it is?" I whispered, fearing to break the silence properly
"Yes" he said at last, "But there wouldn't be sound anyway"
I stopped "Why?"
There aren't any properly living things here, this is the sacred realm, it's for magic and gods only" he looked at the sky, "Only they and the dead should be here"
"The dead?" I repeated
"Yes, these are the fields where the dead come to be at peace" Link carried on walking
"Where are they?" I scanned around, no ghosts, no bodies, dead?
"I don't know" Link said grimly
"Lucy should be here then?" I asked hopefully, "Lucy!" I called out over the field, my voice echoed on and on into nothing "Lucy are you there?"
Link spun round, raced back and grabbed me, shaking hard, "Do you want everyone to know we're here? You stupid child, the enemy is here and you're giving away where we are!"
His nails dug into my arm, hurting me, he was gripping tightly. If my shirt hadn't been there he would have drawn blood. I looked at him; his face was a cold mask of fury. What was the matter with him? He wasn't usually like this.
"You're...hurting me" I said and tried to pull away
"Nothing compared to the pain you'll get if I hear you shouting again" Link threw me away from him "Now keep moving"
He marched away.
I stared holding my arms where he'd gripped them. The pain ached dully.
The Zora walked up and helped me up.
"Is he ok?" the Zora asked quietly
"I...don't know. He's never done that...before" I almost began to cry, but couldn't, it would be to hard on the land of the dead if tears fell here
"You ok?" Zora asked kindly
"Yeah, little sore, but ok" I looked at the Zora and smiled, viewing him properly for the first time, he seemed familiar "Do I know you from somewhere?"
The Zora's face melted into what looked like a smile "You do remember me. I didn't kill you when you attacked us"
My mind sped back to the Zora who could have killed me in Zora's domain when we were trying to escape. The Zora guard who'd run away from the opportunity.
"You! You are the one who could have killed me" I pointed surprised, "Wow, definitely a small world"
"Yes, it certainly is, now let's catch moody up" he said
We began to trot after Link, but not close enough to tread on his heels or have him hear us. After all, he'd bitten my head off at talking.
"So what's your name?" I asked quietly
"I told you, you can't pronounce it" the Zora replied "And I can't teach you Zora phonetics in an hour you know"
"Fine" I thought for a moment, "But I don't like you having no name I can call you, how about I give you a temporary name? Well until you find time to teach me anyway"
The Zora didn't reply, then said, "Well, I guess that would be ok"
"Great" I grinned, "Now..."
I ran through a list of names in my head:
George. No.
Thom. No!
Mary? Girls name stupid.
Michael. No.
George. You said that already. Did I? Oh.
Bob. You must be kidding.
Spot! Maybe you should just shut up. Me? You're the one who was gonna name him!
Hmm...Chester. That sounds like a horse.
John. No
Austin. Hmph. Guess not.
I looked at the Zora, he didn't seem like a George or Thom.
All right, how about Will? Hmmm, Will Smith is nice...Forget it.
I'm out of ideas. Give the right side of the brain a go.
I listened to the voices in my head arguing and then decided to go with the bimbo at the ranch's way of thinking. A simple nature name.
"Alright" I said to the Zora, "I name you Kestrel"
"What's a kestrel?" the Zora asked
"A bird where I come from" I replied
"Wouldn't a fish be more appropriate?" he said looking at me intently
"I guess, but Kestrel sounds cool"
"Fine, for a little while I shall be Kestrel" the Zora silenced as we came up behind Link
Link had stopped.
I stopped a little way off behind him. No way was he shouting at me again. The Zora stood next to him.
"Look." Link pointed ahead. We all looked where he was looking.
I almost screamed.
Rows and rows of bodies lay across the valley from here on in. Lines of Zoras, Gerudos, Kokiri and other species of people from Link's world lined a metre wide path. The rows of dead went on for as far as the eye could see. Perhaps this was where the dead had been.
I fought the urge to be sick. I didn't succeed; luckily I could hide it behind a bolder at my feet.
There, right in the centre of the field of dead was a black castle. A replica of the one Gannondorf had built in Hyrule. With the black swirling clouds and all. The path ran right up to it, through the millions of dead.
"I know this guy" the Zora seemed unfazed by the spectacle and was leaning down next to a Zora's body "In the army, a real patriot. Disappeared when the...when the armies...right. I should have known" he straightened "I guess we solved the riddle of the missing armies. Too bad, some of these were buddies of mine"
"I have one thing to say" I stumbled forward to the edge of the field
"What's that," Link said not looking at me
"Ick"
The Zora burst out laughing "Ick? What kind of word is that?"
I shot him a look that silenced him, even though he was smiling still "It is a word where I come from. Like these two are: f*** off"
"Ooooooh scary" The Zora mocked and threw his head back to laugh again
"Hey!" I drew the bow I'd been carrying and aimed it at the Zora "Shut it or I shoot Kessy"
The Zora eyed me "I could take you"
"Yeah, whatever you say fishy"
"Quiet" Link snapped, "Look at the castle"
We looked at the castle, slowly but surely a cloud of dust was heading towards us over the field of the dead.
"What is it?" I asked
"Looks like..." the Zora began but didn't finish
As the dust cloud drew nearer it became crystal clear what was coming.
"Run!" Link cried as the troop of men came even nearer
"Where the hell are we supposed to run?" I cried in frustration "We're in a b***** flat FIELD!"
"Looks Like we're fighting" the Zora brought his spear glaive thingy up and took a fighting stance "Nothing else to do"
"I hate fighting" I whined as the men were ten metres away "And why are they attacking us?" I lay the bow and arrow quiver carefully on the floor and drew Lucy's broadsword
"Obviously someone doesn't want us to get to the castle" Link commented dryly as the first wave of the troop attack.
After the first five struck and had been killed by Link and the Zora, it became hazy and confusing as I drew my sword up barely to parry blows and strike men down.
The men we were fighting looked strange. As each one came, their faces looked stony and unseeing. They were dead, I realised.
"These guys are dead!" I screamed at the top of my lungs to the other two as I dodged a sword slicing down on me
"I noticed" the Zora cried back fending off six of the zombie men at once
I barely heard him as a bulky fighter brought his staff heavily down on my collarbone. Something cracked.
"S***!" I collapsed in pain, clutching the sword I'd buried into the zombies stomach. I clutched my shoulder carefully.
But the fight was still on. Three men loomed over me.
I stared up at them, the agony in my arm dulling as the fear in my stomach realised they were going to kill me. Except they didn't. Two leaned down and grabbed an arm each. Colours splashed themselves over my sight, blinded and almost fainting from the pain they dragged me up and carefully through the battlefield.
"NO" I heard the Zora scream, he was close by, but I couldn't see him
My stomach rolled and tears fell down my face, as my collarbone kept up its relentless piercing pain.
I appealed to Link and the Zora, not sure whether they could hear me or where I was.
"Link!" I screamed, my voice cracked and rose above the battlefield "KESTREL! LINK! HELP ME PLEASE! Help...ah" I shuddered as searing white heat flashed up my arm again
I didn't hear Link. Only the Zora yelling battle cries and the clash of metal and the silent thumps of the zombies falling.
Something it the back of my head, it may have been a mercy blow. But the pain of my collarbone doubled with the strike knocked me out.
The sounds of the world faded out to the black nothing.