Legend of Zelda : Council of Mages.
Chapter 5 : Attack.
"Well this puts a new twist on things." The slightly spiteful voice that had made the comment was that of princess Ruto of the Zora. She had received the official notice long after Impa had arrived to tell her of the new enemy but it was the news that had come with it that made the Zora's blood boil.
"Oh how dare he go and marry that...that, grrrrrrrr..." She remembered that day almost seven years ago when Link had come for the sapphire with scorn.
"Oh come on." her father pleaded from his seat. "It's not that bad he married one of his own kind, what's the big deal?" Ruto spun round to confront her father but came to look into his wide wisdom filled eye's. She broke their hypnotic spell with a jerk of her head and went on ranting.
"But father he took my sapphire. That meant he had to marry me like my mother said." The king Zora gave her a baleful look that clearly told Ruto that he was quickly running out of patience. "I know he had the sapphire but you know I'm not lying when I tell you he was destined to take it all along."
Ruto knew the truth when she heard it but she was not finished on the subject, but before she could restart her argument her father sent her to organzine their domains defences.
When she was gone the king Zora groaned. "She better not let pride get in the way of her duty to the king and Hyrule."
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The five staying in the soldiers barracks woke a full twenty four hours later in time to start planning on how to defeat Baldor. "He's regaining his strength while he goes." Link told them, "At the moment he's weak but at this time he is to well guarded to attack. His army would have to be neutralised first but that will take to much time and even if we were to succeed he would have regained all use of his magic."
The situation looked grim as most of the rooms occupants all tried to think of a way to counter the vicious problem headed their way. "What we need is the element of surprise but as long as he or anyone with him have magic they can sense us." Mused Alexandria.
Surprise...Surprise. The words echoed round the heads of link and the five. Pleadies flung his head up like a startled horse to hear thoughts that weren't his own. A sudden tinkling sound filled the room as a small light shone in the corner. It faded away as suddenly as it had come to reveal two faeries, One a delicate blue the other a wispy yellow.
"Hi thought you could need some help."
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Baldor Looked across the field through his spyglass. There was his first target the fortified castle town. That is where he had felt the summons of the evil one. The one with the power he hungered for but he was trapped, locked away by the pure hearted sages and their toy hero.
The spy glass almost cracked under the pressure from his hand as his fist clenched around it. "I will not make the same mistake in underestimating you boy, not like the evil one did."
One of his lieutenants disturbed him from his deep thinking. Baldor turned his head slightly before the lieutenant spoke. "Will we be sending an advance force, sire?" he asked in a quivering voice.
Baldor appeared to think about this before he nodded his head. "Yes, we will have a mounted advance force." He said in an oily, evil voice. "Mount up now and tell the men I'm riding with them."
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Link was trying to sleep. He could feel Baldor getting closer to the castle with every passing minute. Beside him Zelda slept peacefully with only the tinniest of twitches to tell that she was dreaming.
When he did sleep it was to fall into disturbing nightmares where he would see Baldor's haunting face.
He was back out side the castle at night, thunder ripped the sky and rain fell in torrents drowning an empty castle town under six feet of water. Link looked at the scene before him in horror as the rain parted to reveal Baldor riding on a tall stallion followed by men in heavy armour that weighed them and their mounts down...
Link was rushed from the dream and woke at the same time as Zelda, Both sitting bolt upright in bed. "That's it." said Zelda triumphantly as Link silently thanked the goddesses. "You had the same dream didn't you." he more said than asked. Zelda nodded joyously and clapped her hands.
"That's how where gonna' get them." she said quietly her voice heavy with excitement. "We'll drown the bastards in a storm." Link finished her plotting, "Evacuate the town and fill her to the brim so that they can't swim and they have to go round the hills into traps."
They were going over the fine details while they paced the room when Aquillmie and Cleo both smashed in through the door. "Alexandria felt something and went outside to look but Baldor is coming with an advance attack force."
Link and Zelda were not surprised at the news. "We know." they said in unison and then went on to explain the plan they'd come up with.
Very soon the town was deserted and the castle empty of all but Link, Aquillmie, Alexandria, Pleadies, Electrete, Cleo and Zelda. Link put the ocarina of time to his lips and played the song of storms loud enough to call a tempest to their side. The wind blew strong carrying the magic filled notes through the turbulent air from the calm eye that held the player of the melody.
The job done link an the others waited.
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Baldor felt the first stinging drops of rain hit his exposed face and hands as they topped the last small hill before the town's great gate. He looked to the black sky above him then back to the drawbridge which strained against the weight of a hundred tons of water.
"Take off your armour." he yelled to the mounted soldiers over the squall of the wind. They obeyed his orders quickly and remounted leaving the heavy pieces of metal to rust in the mud. Baldor knew that any attempt to open the gate would lead to disaster so instead he ordered his men round into the hills that surrounded the town.
The going was hard but they pressed on eventually abandoning their baulking horses for the town walls that just showed under a layer of black water pouring from the half submerged roof tops. They were just climbing into the hills on the other side when they heard the draw bridge give way and the water rushed out in a wave to soak to field before it and over flow the moat.
An arrow whizzed through the air and landed in the chest of a solider just to Baldor's right. It was followed by others as the soldiers were picked off one by one. Baldor ducked for cover as her looked for the shooter.
He spotted three young men and gave the orders to retaliate with no mercy. Music echoed as Baldor reached for the components of a spell and a flash from the position of the archers gave them away. But as his men climbed the ridge they found them gone.
Baldor yelled out with a great line of colourful words that almost blocked the sound of hooves splashing through the shallow water that covered the paved ground of the market place. His archers swung round ant let fly a volley of arrows but they missed with a clank as it hit metal. He strained magically enhanced eyes and saw the great chestnut and white mare running for the safety of the field baring two riders. Then it was gone in a rush disappearing beyond the edge of the rain.
Then and only then did Baldor realise that he and his men had been set up from the moment that they set foot into the cover of rain. Baldor felt his rage bubble up from the very bottom of his crafty mind.
Thwarted by a teenager!
*************************** Now we're getting into the swing of things. Their Little surprise did the trick but what will happen now that Baldor has the drowned castle to himself? Find out in Chapter 6 : Mage powers.
Chapter 5 : Attack.
"Well this puts a new twist on things." The slightly spiteful voice that had made the comment was that of princess Ruto of the Zora. She had received the official notice long after Impa had arrived to tell her of the new enemy but it was the news that had come with it that made the Zora's blood boil.
"Oh how dare he go and marry that...that, grrrrrrrr..." She remembered that day almost seven years ago when Link had come for the sapphire with scorn.
"Oh come on." her father pleaded from his seat. "It's not that bad he married one of his own kind, what's the big deal?" Ruto spun round to confront her father but came to look into his wide wisdom filled eye's. She broke their hypnotic spell with a jerk of her head and went on ranting.
"But father he took my sapphire. That meant he had to marry me like my mother said." The king Zora gave her a baleful look that clearly told Ruto that he was quickly running out of patience. "I know he had the sapphire but you know I'm not lying when I tell you he was destined to take it all along."
Ruto knew the truth when she heard it but she was not finished on the subject, but before she could restart her argument her father sent her to organzine their domains defences.
When she was gone the king Zora groaned. "She better not let pride get in the way of her duty to the king and Hyrule."
*************************
The five staying in the soldiers barracks woke a full twenty four hours later in time to start planning on how to defeat Baldor. "He's regaining his strength while he goes." Link told them, "At the moment he's weak but at this time he is to well guarded to attack. His army would have to be neutralised first but that will take to much time and even if we were to succeed he would have regained all use of his magic."
The situation looked grim as most of the rooms occupants all tried to think of a way to counter the vicious problem headed their way. "What we need is the element of surprise but as long as he or anyone with him have magic they can sense us." Mused Alexandria.
Surprise...Surprise. The words echoed round the heads of link and the five. Pleadies flung his head up like a startled horse to hear thoughts that weren't his own. A sudden tinkling sound filled the room as a small light shone in the corner. It faded away as suddenly as it had come to reveal two faeries, One a delicate blue the other a wispy yellow.
"Hi thought you could need some help."
*******************
Baldor Looked across the field through his spyglass. There was his first target the fortified castle town. That is where he had felt the summons of the evil one. The one with the power he hungered for but he was trapped, locked away by the pure hearted sages and their toy hero.
The spy glass almost cracked under the pressure from his hand as his fist clenched around it. "I will not make the same mistake in underestimating you boy, not like the evil one did."
One of his lieutenants disturbed him from his deep thinking. Baldor turned his head slightly before the lieutenant spoke. "Will we be sending an advance force, sire?" he asked in a quivering voice.
Baldor appeared to think about this before he nodded his head. "Yes, we will have a mounted advance force." He said in an oily, evil voice. "Mount up now and tell the men I'm riding with them."
**********************
Link was trying to sleep. He could feel Baldor getting closer to the castle with every passing minute. Beside him Zelda slept peacefully with only the tinniest of twitches to tell that she was dreaming.
When he did sleep it was to fall into disturbing nightmares where he would see Baldor's haunting face.
He was back out side the castle at night, thunder ripped the sky and rain fell in torrents drowning an empty castle town under six feet of water. Link looked at the scene before him in horror as the rain parted to reveal Baldor riding on a tall stallion followed by men in heavy armour that weighed them and their mounts down...
Link was rushed from the dream and woke at the same time as Zelda, Both sitting bolt upright in bed. "That's it." said Zelda triumphantly as Link silently thanked the goddesses. "You had the same dream didn't you." he more said than asked. Zelda nodded joyously and clapped her hands.
"That's how where gonna' get them." she said quietly her voice heavy with excitement. "We'll drown the bastards in a storm." Link finished her plotting, "Evacuate the town and fill her to the brim so that they can't swim and they have to go round the hills into traps."
They were going over the fine details while they paced the room when Aquillmie and Cleo both smashed in through the door. "Alexandria felt something and went outside to look but Baldor is coming with an advance attack force."
Link and Zelda were not surprised at the news. "We know." they said in unison and then went on to explain the plan they'd come up with.
Very soon the town was deserted and the castle empty of all but Link, Aquillmie, Alexandria, Pleadies, Electrete, Cleo and Zelda. Link put the ocarina of time to his lips and played the song of storms loud enough to call a tempest to their side. The wind blew strong carrying the magic filled notes through the turbulent air from the calm eye that held the player of the melody.
The job done link an the others waited.
***********************
Baldor felt the first stinging drops of rain hit his exposed face and hands as they topped the last small hill before the town's great gate. He looked to the black sky above him then back to the drawbridge which strained against the weight of a hundred tons of water.
"Take off your armour." he yelled to the mounted soldiers over the squall of the wind. They obeyed his orders quickly and remounted leaving the heavy pieces of metal to rust in the mud. Baldor knew that any attempt to open the gate would lead to disaster so instead he ordered his men round into the hills that surrounded the town.
The going was hard but they pressed on eventually abandoning their baulking horses for the town walls that just showed under a layer of black water pouring from the half submerged roof tops. They were just climbing into the hills on the other side when they heard the draw bridge give way and the water rushed out in a wave to soak to field before it and over flow the moat.
An arrow whizzed through the air and landed in the chest of a solider just to Baldor's right. It was followed by others as the soldiers were picked off one by one. Baldor ducked for cover as her looked for the shooter.
He spotted three young men and gave the orders to retaliate with no mercy. Music echoed as Baldor reached for the components of a spell and a flash from the position of the archers gave them away. But as his men climbed the ridge they found them gone.
Baldor yelled out with a great line of colourful words that almost blocked the sound of hooves splashing through the shallow water that covered the paved ground of the market place. His archers swung round ant let fly a volley of arrows but they missed with a clank as it hit metal. He strained magically enhanced eyes and saw the great chestnut and white mare running for the safety of the field baring two riders. Then it was gone in a rush disappearing beyond the edge of the rain.
Then and only then did Baldor realise that he and his men had been set up from the moment that they set foot into the cover of rain. Baldor felt his rage bubble up from the very bottom of his crafty mind.
Thwarted by a teenager!
*************************** Now we're getting into the swing of things. Their Little surprise did the trick but what will happen now that Baldor has the drowned castle to himself? Find out in Chapter 6 : Mage powers.