Legend of Zelda : Council of mages.
Chapter 6 : Mage powers.
Zelda let out a great whoop of exhilaration from atop Epona as the mare surged out over the field beyond the cover of the torrential rain. Above her in the sky the stars were shining beyond the cloud, blanketing Hyrule in a soft blue light.
Link directed Epona to the south east toward the lost woods. The meeting place for their small attack force.
The surprise attack had gone well, with no casualties to speak of, yet. They still had to receive news from the others.
Four hours later before the sun could rise link slowed Epona's stride as they entered the lost woods. Under the cover of the canopy of green was as silent as the grave. Only the occasional rustle of the leaves showed any hint of the life deep with in the earth as link navigated the magical forest.
Eventually they arrived at the koriki village just a little before sunrise. Zelda woke from her nap her head still resting against links back as he rode slowly to his own home by the edge of the flourishing little town.
Out the front of the tree house standing on the balcony was a rather large group of people. Among them was the king who link had sent ahead to meet them. Koriki village was to become the Hyilians command post away from the castle. It was easier to defend as well as remote.
Their entire defence force was hidden within the temples of the land and their leaders where all stationed in the village within the newly made sub- levels of the tree house.
Link had designed them to act as a defence system for the escape tunnels into the smaller lands branching off the lost woods. But while he had been creating the maze he had stumbled on a strange door that glowed green with an unearthly light.
He had showed it to Saria in hope that she might recognise or open it but she had never seen anything like it in her life.
He mentally shook himself from the thoughts and studied the group of commanders. All the sages where there as well as his friends whom he'd sent ahead with the faerie ocarina and the minuet of the forest to where Saria had met them.
"About time you got here." there was a yell from Cleo as they climbed the ladder. "Did the surprise work or what how did it go?" Although she was a Sheikah, she didn't know it. It had been Link and Impa's secret to keep her away from the lights of those unfaithful to the royal family of Hyrule.
"We managed to kill a fair few of the bastards before you left and only a few went down after but they were forced to strand their mounts and their armour is under all the mud in the field." small cheers went up from around them but link went on. "That was not the attacking bulk, just the advance force, but worst of all Baldor survived the attack."
This announcement did little to banish the hope that had been released inside them. "But still," said the king "Now I know I made the right choice when I made you my son." Link blushed a brilliant red at the king's favourite subject to tease him with.
He escorted the king inside to meet the sages. His five friends followed them in with Zelda and instantly went to shift the log table on the side of the room. They'd been instructed by link on the layout of his house. They pushed it aside to reveal a long very thin spiral stair. Cleo went down first to look at the rooms.
The first was so obviously link's, but further down there where empty rooms with bunks attached to the walls at accommodate more people. There were three of these rooms after the two large ones at the top. They explored further while they waited for link.
At the bottom of the stair case they found a large circular room that had many tunnels leading away from it. Each was marked by a mask on the wall and probably only link knew the way through every one. Climbing back up they found link, the king and Zelda all waiting for the five of them.
"Did you find the room's you can stay in?" asked link, they all nodded. "Good, you'll have some guards in the bottom room but they won't bother you." He changed the subject quickly. "Now this is the village of the koriki, children that will never grow up. You are welcome here for now and don't worry about the boss koriki mido. He's just nasty but I've talked to him and he'll give you little trouble. The koriki are very curious so don't tell them to much of the out side world they might want to leave."
With that he let them alone and went off into the village with Zelda and the king to check on how their disguised army was fitting in with the forest folk.
"So what do we do now?" asked Cleo. She was standing off to the side of the group with her hands against the back of her head. "Why don't we explore the cave's at the bottom of the stair." suggested Aquillmie in a watery voice. "If we use a bit of string we can't get lost."
Her idea was readily exepted and they descended the winding stair once more with a short stop at their room for Pleadies to get the string. Down at the bottom they tied it to the stair case with a hundred knots and went exploring.
At first all they would hit was dead ends but they soon worked out the mask system that link had set. They went deeper and deeper into the maze without a conscious thought to their safety. All they felt like doing was talk, but just before the string ended they came to a glowing door that seemed to glow brighter the closer they got.
"What is that?" asked Electrete in his usual gravelly voice. Alexandra was the one to answer him. "It looks like one of the magic doors from the desert colossus of my people."
"How do we open it?" he started to ask reaching out to touch the wood but it slid smoothly open under his fingertips. The room beyond was dark but as they all stepped over the thresh hold it was lit up a little from tiny multi coloured lights.
"What is this place." murmured Cleo in a small whisper that still echoed around the rather large room. The air shimmered around them like the inside of a faerie fountain as they looked around the room, their eye's falling to the dais in the centre where the main light was rising.
"It might be bobby trapped." warned Pleadies but Alexandria just flipped her pony tail over her shoulder and walked in. "Their are no traps here she commented crisply. "If there were any I would not have stood there in the door as long as I did."
She walked strait for the dais and stepped up to the next level to study the small table on which stood a brazier. Fire crackled inside the brazier's stone belly. "Green faerie fire." gasped Alexandria as she ran her hand through it but as she did it turned a vivid orange and as if she had swept away a curtain revealed the exterior of Link's house. It was night she realised before the picture swept through the door like a bird would glide. The scene moved over to the table that hid the stair and went straight through it like a ghost to stop before the first room, Link's room.
She squeaked and put her hands over her eye's as it looked through the door to reveal him and the princess in the bed that stood against the far wall. He was laying atop her with his lips to hers...
Alexandria wrenched her eye's away from the vision in the brazier to see the others doing the same. "Arr, Cool. How did you manage to make that appear it was so realistic." Cleo was looking from Alexandria to the brazier "Look it's still there." The nineteen year old bent over the faerie fire to look at the scene unfolding above.
A little way away where they could no longer see the content's of the flames Aquillmie, Electrete and Pleadies were all laughing at Cleo as she watched with so much interest.
Alexandria's cheeks where bright red as she made another sweeping motion through the flames to banish the image. "I don't know how I did that but I was not intending at looking at that!" she said angrily. The others smiled, "We don't doubt that you would not want to see that anyway, but still it's rather funny that, that happened." said a twitching Pleadies.
"Where you thinking of link or just the house when you ran your hand through the fire." Asked Cleo from the dais where she was trying to get the image to reappear. Alexandria shook her head, "I was wondering why the faerie fire was green and it gave me that picture."
Cleo tried again but failed, "Oh well, We'd better get back to the main house. I'm tired."
______________________________________________ So I definitely have to get thinking outside of my twisted imagination and start writing what I set out to write.
(That might be a little hard, if only my next story weren't on my mind.) ^- ^
Chapter 6 : Mage powers.
Zelda let out a great whoop of exhilaration from atop Epona as the mare surged out over the field beyond the cover of the torrential rain. Above her in the sky the stars were shining beyond the cloud, blanketing Hyrule in a soft blue light.
Link directed Epona to the south east toward the lost woods. The meeting place for their small attack force.
The surprise attack had gone well, with no casualties to speak of, yet. They still had to receive news from the others.
Four hours later before the sun could rise link slowed Epona's stride as they entered the lost woods. Under the cover of the canopy of green was as silent as the grave. Only the occasional rustle of the leaves showed any hint of the life deep with in the earth as link navigated the magical forest.
Eventually they arrived at the koriki village just a little before sunrise. Zelda woke from her nap her head still resting against links back as he rode slowly to his own home by the edge of the flourishing little town.
Out the front of the tree house standing on the balcony was a rather large group of people. Among them was the king who link had sent ahead to meet them. Koriki village was to become the Hyilians command post away from the castle. It was easier to defend as well as remote.
Their entire defence force was hidden within the temples of the land and their leaders where all stationed in the village within the newly made sub- levels of the tree house.
Link had designed them to act as a defence system for the escape tunnels into the smaller lands branching off the lost woods. But while he had been creating the maze he had stumbled on a strange door that glowed green with an unearthly light.
He had showed it to Saria in hope that she might recognise or open it but she had never seen anything like it in her life.
He mentally shook himself from the thoughts and studied the group of commanders. All the sages where there as well as his friends whom he'd sent ahead with the faerie ocarina and the minuet of the forest to where Saria had met them.
"About time you got here." there was a yell from Cleo as they climbed the ladder. "Did the surprise work or what how did it go?" Although she was a Sheikah, she didn't know it. It had been Link and Impa's secret to keep her away from the lights of those unfaithful to the royal family of Hyrule.
"We managed to kill a fair few of the bastards before you left and only a few went down after but they were forced to strand their mounts and their armour is under all the mud in the field." small cheers went up from around them but link went on. "That was not the attacking bulk, just the advance force, but worst of all Baldor survived the attack."
This announcement did little to banish the hope that had been released inside them. "But still," said the king "Now I know I made the right choice when I made you my son." Link blushed a brilliant red at the king's favourite subject to tease him with.
He escorted the king inside to meet the sages. His five friends followed them in with Zelda and instantly went to shift the log table on the side of the room. They'd been instructed by link on the layout of his house. They pushed it aside to reveal a long very thin spiral stair. Cleo went down first to look at the rooms.
The first was so obviously link's, but further down there where empty rooms with bunks attached to the walls at accommodate more people. There were three of these rooms after the two large ones at the top. They explored further while they waited for link.
At the bottom of the stair case they found a large circular room that had many tunnels leading away from it. Each was marked by a mask on the wall and probably only link knew the way through every one. Climbing back up they found link, the king and Zelda all waiting for the five of them.
"Did you find the room's you can stay in?" asked link, they all nodded. "Good, you'll have some guards in the bottom room but they won't bother you." He changed the subject quickly. "Now this is the village of the koriki, children that will never grow up. You are welcome here for now and don't worry about the boss koriki mido. He's just nasty but I've talked to him and he'll give you little trouble. The koriki are very curious so don't tell them to much of the out side world they might want to leave."
With that he let them alone and went off into the village with Zelda and the king to check on how their disguised army was fitting in with the forest folk.
"So what do we do now?" asked Cleo. She was standing off to the side of the group with her hands against the back of her head. "Why don't we explore the cave's at the bottom of the stair." suggested Aquillmie in a watery voice. "If we use a bit of string we can't get lost."
Her idea was readily exepted and they descended the winding stair once more with a short stop at their room for Pleadies to get the string. Down at the bottom they tied it to the stair case with a hundred knots and went exploring.
At first all they would hit was dead ends but they soon worked out the mask system that link had set. They went deeper and deeper into the maze without a conscious thought to their safety. All they felt like doing was talk, but just before the string ended they came to a glowing door that seemed to glow brighter the closer they got.
"What is that?" asked Electrete in his usual gravelly voice. Alexandra was the one to answer him. "It looks like one of the magic doors from the desert colossus of my people."
"How do we open it?" he started to ask reaching out to touch the wood but it slid smoothly open under his fingertips. The room beyond was dark but as they all stepped over the thresh hold it was lit up a little from tiny multi coloured lights.
"What is this place." murmured Cleo in a small whisper that still echoed around the rather large room. The air shimmered around them like the inside of a faerie fountain as they looked around the room, their eye's falling to the dais in the centre where the main light was rising.
"It might be bobby trapped." warned Pleadies but Alexandria just flipped her pony tail over her shoulder and walked in. "Their are no traps here she commented crisply. "If there were any I would not have stood there in the door as long as I did."
She walked strait for the dais and stepped up to the next level to study the small table on which stood a brazier. Fire crackled inside the brazier's stone belly. "Green faerie fire." gasped Alexandria as she ran her hand through it but as she did it turned a vivid orange and as if she had swept away a curtain revealed the exterior of Link's house. It was night she realised before the picture swept through the door like a bird would glide. The scene moved over to the table that hid the stair and went straight through it like a ghost to stop before the first room, Link's room.
She squeaked and put her hands over her eye's as it looked through the door to reveal him and the princess in the bed that stood against the far wall. He was laying atop her with his lips to hers...
Alexandria wrenched her eye's away from the vision in the brazier to see the others doing the same. "Arr, Cool. How did you manage to make that appear it was so realistic." Cleo was looking from Alexandria to the brazier "Look it's still there." The nineteen year old bent over the faerie fire to look at the scene unfolding above.
A little way away where they could no longer see the content's of the flames Aquillmie, Electrete and Pleadies were all laughing at Cleo as she watched with so much interest.
Alexandria's cheeks where bright red as she made another sweeping motion through the flames to banish the image. "I don't know how I did that but I was not intending at looking at that!" she said angrily. The others smiled, "We don't doubt that you would not want to see that anyway, but still it's rather funny that, that happened." said a twitching Pleadies.
"Where you thinking of link or just the house when you ran your hand through the fire." Asked Cleo from the dais where she was trying to get the image to reappear. Alexandria shook her head, "I was wondering why the faerie fire was green and it gave me that picture."
Cleo tried again but failed, "Oh well, We'd better get back to the main house. I'm tired."
______________________________________________ So I definitely have to get thinking outside of my twisted imagination and start writing what I set out to write.
(That might be a little hard, if only my next story weren't on my mind.) ^- ^