Chapter Three: Quest for the Gold Crystal Quasar Saber: Part One; Scaling the

Golden Crag

The golden mountains of Mirinoi are the most beautiful mountains in the Galaxy of Forever. The quasar saber was located at the summit of the tallest crag; the one that was impossible to get to. At about three miles high, it was dubbed the Golden Crag. It was Zelda who was supposedly the only one who would be able to scale the crag and gain the powers of the gold quasar saber. So the legend says.

She finished getting the last of her instructions and supplies she would need to help her stay alive on her long and dangerous journey to her destiny.

"Well," Zelda spoke with determination. "Here I go." She then took her first steps up the crag. She grabbed a jutting gold carbon stone hanging out from the side of the crag and slowly, but surely, she made her way up.

Several hours passed and she had only traveled up the crag only a few hundred meters. Exhausted, Zelda let herself hang a moment as she caught her breath. Traveling to Mirinoi used a lot of her energy and she barely had enough left to climb. She would have waited a day to gain back her energy back, but she only had a day to reach her destination.

One day to reach her destiny.

"Not exactly the way I remember it." Kendrix spoke.

"Not at all." Maya mourned. "Everything is destroyed."

"And still rock." Kai shot Damon a warning look and whispered something in his ear; something the others couldn't hear.

"Sorry Maya." Damon apologized looking sheepish.

Leo was the only one who was silent. Mirinoi had too many sad memories of his brother.

Trey then spoke abruptly.

"This way." He had picked up Zelda's trail and he hoped against all odds that it would lead them to her. They crossed the woods of the sprites and followed it until it stopped about one hundred feet from the base of the golden mountains still within the woods.

Leo had remained silent for the whole trek through the Sprite's woods, the only thing that was not rock on the entire planet of Mirinoi.

"Leo," Kendrix asked. "Is everything all right?"

"Huh?" Leo replied. Kendrix had come up behind him without knowing. "Yeah, I'm okay." Kendrix nodded and ran ahead a little ways in front of him. Leo had lied to her. He was not all right. His brother died here. The memories of that day had been buried deep into the back of his heart but had just resurfaced a few hours ago. The truth was he wasn't sure he would do the group any good. He insisted that he stay on the Megaship. Trey, though, insisted that he come. I guess Leo's heart gave in to Trey's insistence because there he was. That was when his soul felt something it never had before.

Zelda was about to give up climbing for a few minutes when her soul felt something that it hadn't felt for almost eighteen years.

Both Leo and Zelda felt their souls being embraced by the High One, whomever it was.

Leo felt a surge of courage and strength while Zelda felt a surge of determination. Both fueled by the others presence not knowing the other was there.

Trey had sensed something too, but his sense came from fear.

"Careful," He spoke. "I think we're being followed. Watch yourselves." Everyone nodded in response.

Zelda now had less than an hour to reach the saber. She had only seventy-five meters left to scale, but she had no energy left despite her increased determination to reach her goal. Her eyes drifted dangerously close to being closed but something inside her kept her from doing so. Both her feet slipped out from under her but because of her tremendous upper physical strength she had, her arms kept her from falling.

Leo felt Zelda's sudden accident but did not know that at first. That was when he figured out where she was. He secretly ran off to find her himself. Something in his heart told him that he had to do this on his own