(A/N: Ah a little comic relief never went astray. It's getting to serious,
hee hee, maybe it's time I let Avelia have a bit of influence over a
chapter. Although that might get dangerous. Oh yeah and I was doing some
research on my family and I found out that Stephanie's weapons (the twin
scimitars) are on my family crest. Cool huh. ^_^)
Legend of Zelda: Next generation
Chapter 17: magical spies.
Sir Quinden, one of the knights on duty, fidgeted. He couldn't keep his mind on being watch sergeant if the people to his right stayed there. As newly appointed military commanders Link and princess Avelia had stayed out on the walls with the watch all night. The knight revised his thoughts as he picked up a small telescope and held it to his eye keeping a general look out for the enemy that was supposed to be coming. But his eyes drooped, he shook himself awake and wished that the next watch sergeant would come and relive him from duty. As far as Quinden was concerned if he didn't see a lavatory with in the next ten minutes they'd have to hose down the walkway.
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"So are you going to share your plans or are all of them going to be secret?" Link asked has we heard the captain of the last watch run down the stairs. He'd recovered from his glum spell as had most of the others. "No, you'll find out what they are soon enough but I'll tell you this much. Tactics formed under pressure usually work better." I looked back out over the hills with my magic enhanced vision while Link just shook his head. There was silence for a few minutes before something flickered far on the horizon over Hyrule field. I turned my attention to the place and saw the confirming sign just as a magic manipulated wind brought the sound of unsynchronized marching and the terrible roars of the hideous resurrected monsters that made up the bulk of his army. Closer to home was the sound of a horse heading for the walls as fast as it could go. It sounded exhausted.
"So it begins." I said somberly before it turned to face down the wall and roared, "Sergeant!" The man came running over and stood at attention. "Sergeant get you men to direct that horse to the stable entrance and send out the general warning for all stations to be ready to roll out of bed at a moments notice." Link asked, "Where are you going?" as I walked to the back off the platform and started down the steps. "To greet the messenger that's coming in and inform Zelda that I'm going to go out to the town entry and then out to the lookout in the west."
"But why inform her?" He got confused too easily. As not to panic the guards on the wall to soon I stretched up and whispered to him what I'd heard. His eye's widened, "I'll get the extra's to take down to the outer walls." He said quickly and rushed off. I found my sister awake in that room again. From the look of the picture in the scrying ball she'd been watching the wall where Link and I had been standing. She looked up at me, a guilty look on her face. "Ah that's not what it look's like." she said rather flustered. It didn't take a detective to put the pieces together and know she'd been watching for a while. I let it go and got strait to the point reporting what I needed to say before I left for the armory to get the crate of extra arrows the gate soldiers would need.
Our chances would be better if we could wipe out as many as possible before they reached the castle, even if we had to risk men on ground level. But so far our highest security was on the temple of time. A good chunk of Hyrule's elite fighters where stationed there to keep Baldor or anyone from getting to close. To me the whole set-up gave me an intense feeling of deja- vu when I told Link about it he said that a similar defense pattern had been employed like this before. I didn't doubt that.
We took the extra archers down and I rode hell for leather over the hills to the base of the look out tower. Climbing up I had a perfect view of what I hadn't seen to well from the castle walls. Baldor was indeed coming and his army, or at least the size of it, scared me, well almost. "They won't make it tonight." Link said. He'd followed me to the look out and was gouging the distance between the castle and the enemy with a trained eye. "They'll have to stop and hole up during the day but at the speed their going they'll get to the castle very late tomorrow night, maybe after mid- night."
I had to agree with that. I pulled my cloak tighter around myself as the wind picked up. There was the smell of rain in the air, it would start around dawn and finish by nightfall if they where lucky. That would keep the ground bogged by my reckoning, that would slow them down a bit to. I turned to point this out to Link but when I did the words I wanted to say never came out. I felt suddenly aware of everything and realized that we where standing to close. I felt the same thought's come from Link and there was just that moment.
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"So anything happen yet?" Alex asked Zelda again for the seventieth time that hour. Every other time he'd gotten a 'no' from the queen but this time. "Quick come look at this." She said and the new sages all crowded around the crystal ball peering into it Alex's eye's went wide. "Oh great blackmail stuff." he said but before he could add anything else the Goron found himself pounded face first into the floor with Darunia's fist sticking to the back of his head. "Oh look at the preeetttty stones." He said in a daze and fell unconscious.
"That's no way for a Goron to behave." Darunia lectured the air where Alex had been. As he noticed what he'd done the others noticed what looked like Ruto with bandages all over her face looking into the globe held by Zelda shouting "Oh stop them, stop them someone. Free my love from that vile temptress. Two hundred rupee's for the one that does it," Ruto tried to bribe. Debbie grinned evilly, "I call it..."
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We got closer and closer, *just an inch more.* I thought...
All of a sudden a glowing orange ball of light appeared right between us level with our eye's. Link jumped back as if nothing had happened while my mind span off cursing. *Bugger, Bugger, Bugger, Bugger...*
"What do you want." A asked the speaking spell rather peevishly and Debbie replied. "Uh I just thought... you... ah... should come back to the castle now ...ah...yeah..." Debbie dropped off speaking as she was drowned out by laughter. The ball of orange light disappeared in a snap,
just before it started to rain.
"Bugger!"
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"Okay fish lady fork it over." Debbie held out her hand, the job done. The others where still laughing. Zelda had a tiny smile twisting her lips where as Alex had missed the whole thing. (A/N: Hey do you think I'd let him get away with something like that.) Ruto reluctantly handed it over and went back to her skeaming. She'd had to pop every pimple on her face with a fish bone since she didn't have any nails and more often that not she made herself bleed.
"I'll get you back for that." she said with a smirk but she winced as it pulled on one nasty scar that ran over one eye. She was about to celebrate when she was suddenly hit into the wall by a thick rock hard arm. Darunia, felt a tug, turned around and saw Ruto entangled with the wall before saying, rather stupidly, "Opps."
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We rode slowly through the rain on the way back to the castle, there'd been no use in staying at the lookout. I was swearing oath's and curses at Debbie under my breath for a long time. Link got the gist of my angry mutterings. "Oh was it really that bad?" he asked, "Yes," I said, "that proves that they've been spying on us magically all day."
"Do you mean you, me or both when you say that?"
"I mean both."
"Oh no."
I pulled my horse to a stop and looked at him. "That did 'not' sound good." I said putting emphasis on the not. "What where you doing that you don't want anyone to know about." "Ah don't ask me that." He pleaded in a strangled voice. I couldn't help myself it was to good an opportunity to miss. Link started Epona into a trot to try and avoid the question but I caught up easily and persisted to make him squirm. "So come on you can tell me." I goaded him on. "No I can't." he said sounding a little stubborn. "Well then it's not fair. I had to tell you about the reaction test after I slipped. Now you have to tell me something." I was rapidly backing him into a corner, so to speak.
He must have realized this because he suddenly garbled, "OhIwaslookingforsomthingthatIwantedtogivetoyouandnowIthinksomeonescallingme soi'mgonnagonowbye." and kicked Epona into a run for the final stretch to the gate. It took me a good five minutes to work out exactly what he'd said and when I did I grinned to myself. Hey it wasn't that bad. I mean the reaction test was definitely worse. Then I remembered how scared men became when it came down to this kind of stuff, such cowards.
That thought made me giggle but as I handed my horse to the stable hand I remembered the messenger that had arrived after I'd left. Enquiring about it the man was sent for as I found out where the watch sergeant was and went to tell him about the enemy's status. "Keep an eye out for anything that comes ahead of the main force, expect a disturbance but not after dawn." I warned him but then other things needed my attention and I left.
"Oh hell what a lovely time for Link to decide to go hide." I muttered making the near-by guards smirk. I was sorely tempted to just use an amplification spell I'd found in my book to yell at him to get onto the wall now but if I sulked about the reaction stuff then there was no doubt that he would be to. Men, so predictable. I launched a bright green speaking spell to find him. A few minutes later Link's voice came over it. "What do you want now?" he asked in much the same way as I had asked Debbie. "Um, I'm you haven't already noticed the night's not over yet and you need to be on the wall." "But I want to sleep." the spell cut out. "Grrrrrrrrr."
The messenger was one of the men that had been sent to the Gerudo fortress as a just in case. Not that the gerudo's needed any help but in paid off to have the extras. He reported the Baldor had taken the time to go out of his way and attack the fortress. That was bad. If Baldor had been determined to stop the Gerudo forces then he'd probably cut off just about a quarter of our army. I let off with a string of curses from my world, the soldiers where impressed at least. (Hey I've lived around sailors and Monty python all my life what would you expect.)
By the time the hour was out I'd lost my patience with link. He was worse than me, at least I had the decency to do my sulking when I wasn't needed. A pin point spell from the book showed me his exact location and I went looking for the room. Sliding to a stop outside I pounded on the door and yelled through the door that I'd tell what he'd said if he didn't come out right now. There was a frantic scrambling from the room on the other side and a thump as something hit the ground, then Link was standing at the door. I smiled at how well the threat had worked.
(A/N: Ah the things you learn in high school, Blackmail, blackmail and more...you guessed it... Blackmail. ~_^)
Now I had his attention I told him, "Forget about sulking and get outside and help me." He was about to complain when he saw the little vapor lines hovering over my head like in a cartoon. "Ah okay why don't you go and lie down for a while and I'll take care of stuff out here." he suggested. I suddenly went all nice, which I think scared people more than my angry side did. I said thank-you and wondered off down the hall to my room with a little cat like smile on my face.
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The atmosphere in the castle the next day was tense. Word had spread of Baldor and the town had been evacuated, no where was really safe now. What little sleep I'd had revived me long enough to find and endurance spell in the book. According to the book the side affects of this spell would cause me to fall into a coma like state until the collective exhaustion had worn off. This worried me because if I dropped the spell prematurely I would be useless. I put that thought aside and spent most of the morning getting wet while I rode around watching the Goron's dig up the path to the town leaving no easy way for Baldor to reach us. But that was just a vain hope. The creatures under his command would easily maneuver the bogs of mud that ran between hills.
It was as twilight fell that the scouts sent to watch the enemy returned. They'd all been chosen for stealth abilities so they could get close enough to count the numbers. They estimated that there were over two and a half thousand creatures of all different species and at least two minor demons under the mad man's control. That news hardly cheered me up but it did spark something inside me. The feeling had gone soon enough though and I'd thought nothing more about it. Night fell to see us making the final preparations. Not that you could ever be ready for anything such as war.
Most people tried to sleep in the peace time before midnight but few succeeded in doing so. When midnight finally arrived the soldiers where silent as they took their positions on the walls with bows and small catapults as well as in the area before the castle. We had nothing to fear from behind. On two sides a rock wall backed the castle grounds so we only had to deal with the front and one side. We spoke in whispers on the wall as many did. Riders signaled from below the gate as they finished assembling horses. We were ready as the first enemy broke the skyline. The dark man on the horse snickered and his eyes scanned the walls and our other defenses. He signaled to something behind him and pointed to the town. The sound of clanking Armour, padding feet and crackling flames rose from behind the hill and I prayed that those men stationed at the gate would realize how to defeat them in time. But all attention was centered on the hill again as the army was finally revealed.
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Oh I wouldn't want to be there now. So the main threat to all is finally there and how will they cope against the full barrage of Baldor's power.
Find out in chapter 18 : Heart of battle.
Debbie- Oh yeah, bring it on. I want to fight with the Goku powers.
Mage Alia- Wait will ya. I've barely finished this chapter.
Stephanie- Oh why did you have to butt in like that Debbie?
Debbie- Butt in on what. (Fake innocent look)
Stephanie- But I was just about to kiss him. (peeved)
Debbie- Hey money is money. She paid I delivered.
Alex- (Dazed from Darunia's blow to his head) What did I miss?
Legend of Zelda: Next generation
Chapter 17: magical spies.
Sir Quinden, one of the knights on duty, fidgeted. He couldn't keep his mind on being watch sergeant if the people to his right stayed there. As newly appointed military commanders Link and princess Avelia had stayed out on the walls with the watch all night. The knight revised his thoughts as he picked up a small telescope and held it to his eye keeping a general look out for the enemy that was supposed to be coming. But his eyes drooped, he shook himself awake and wished that the next watch sergeant would come and relive him from duty. As far as Quinden was concerned if he didn't see a lavatory with in the next ten minutes they'd have to hose down the walkway.
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"So are you going to share your plans or are all of them going to be secret?" Link asked has we heard the captain of the last watch run down the stairs. He'd recovered from his glum spell as had most of the others. "No, you'll find out what they are soon enough but I'll tell you this much. Tactics formed under pressure usually work better." I looked back out over the hills with my magic enhanced vision while Link just shook his head. There was silence for a few minutes before something flickered far on the horizon over Hyrule field. I turned my attention to the place and saw the confirming sign just as a magic manipulated wind brought the sound of unsynchronized marching and the terrible roars of the hideous resurrected monsters that made up the bulk of his army. Closer to home was the sound of a horse heading for the walls as fast as it could go. It sounded exhausted.
"So it begins." I said somberly before it turned to face down the wall and roared, "Sergeant!" The man came running over and stood at attention. "Sergeant get you men to direct that horse to the stable entrance and send out the general warning for all stations to be ready to roll out of bed at a moments notice." Link asked, "Where are you going?" as I walked to the back off the platform and started down the steps. "To greet the messenger that's coming in and inform Zelda that I'm going to go out to the town entry and then out to the lookout in the west."
"But why inform her?" He got confused too easily. As not to panic the guards on the wall to soon I stretched up and whispered to him what I'd heard. His eye's widened, "I'll get the extra's to take down to the outer walls." He said quickly and rushed off. I found my sister awake in that room again. From the look of the picture in the scrying ball she'd been watching the wall where Link and I had been standing. She looked up at me, a guilty look on her face. "Ah that's not what it look's like." she said rather flustered. It didn't take a detective to put the pieces together and know she'd been watching for a while. I let it go and got strait to the point reporting what I needed to say before I left for the armory to get the crate of extra arrows the gate soldiers would need.
Our chances would be better if we could wipe out as many as possible before they reached the castle, even if we had to risk men on ground level. But so far our highest security was on the temple of time. A good chunk of Hyrule's elite fighters where stationed there to keep Baldor or anyone from getting to close. To me the whole set-up gave me an intense feeling of deja- vu when I told Link about it he said that a similar defense pattern had been employed like this before. I didn't doubt that.
We took the extra archers down and I rode hell for leather over the hills to the base of the look out tower. Climbing up I had a perfect view of what I hadn't seen to well from the castle walls. Baldor was indeed coming and his army, or at least the size of it, scared me, well almost. "They won't make it tonight." Link said. He'd followed me to the look out and was gouging the distance between the castle and the enemy with a trained eye. "They'll have to stop and hole up during the day but at the speed their going they'll get to the castle very late tomorrow night, maybe after mid- night."
I had to agree with that. I pulled my cloak tighter around myself as the wind picked up. There was the smell of rain in the air, it would start around dawn and finish by nightfall if they where lucky. That would keep the ground bogged by my reckoning, that would slow them down a bit to. I turned to point this out to Link but when I did the words I wanted to say never came out. I felt suddenly aware of everything and realized that we where standing to close. I felt the same thought's come from Link and there was just that moment.
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"So anything happen yet?" Alex asked Zelda again for the seventieth time that hour. Every other time he'd gotten a 'no' from the queen but this time. "Quick come look at this." She said and the new sages all crowded around the crystal ball peering into it Alex's eye's went wide. "Oh great blackmail stuff." he said but before he could add anything else the Goron found himself pounded face first into the floor with Darunia's fist sticking to the back of his head. "Oh look at the preeetttty stones." He said in a daze and fell unconscious.
"That's no way for a Goron to behave." Darunia lectured the air where Alex had been. As he noticed what he'd done the others noticed what looked like Ruto with bandages all over her face looking into the globe held by Zelda shouting "Oh stop them, stop them someone. Free my love from that vile temptress. Two hundred rupee's for the one that does it," Ruto tried to bribe. Debbie grinned evilly, "I call it..."
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We got closer and closer, *just an inch more.* I thought...
All of a sudden a glowing orange ball of light appeared right between us level with our eye's. Link jumped back as if nothing had happened while my mind span off cursing. *Bugger, Bugger, Bugger, Bugger...*
"What do you want." A asked the speaking spell rather peevishly and Debbie replied. "Uh I just thought... you... ah... should come back to the castle now ...ah...yeah..." Debbie dropped off speaking as she was drowned out by laughter. The ball of orange light disappeared in a snap,
just before it started to rain.
"Bugger!"
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"Okay fish lady fork it over." Debbie held out her hand, the job done. The others where still laughing. Zelda had a tiny smile twisting her lips where as Alex had missed the whole thing. (A/N: Hey do you think I'd let him get away with something like that.) Ruto reluctantly handed it over and went back to her skeaming. She'd had to pop every pimple on her face with a fish bone since she didn't have any nails and more often that not she made herself bleed.
"I'll get you back for that." she said with a smirk but she winced as it pulled on one nasty scar that ran over one eye. She was about to celebrate when she was suddenly hit into the wall by a thick rock hard arm. Darunia, felt a tug, turned around and saw Ruto entangled with the wall before saying, rather stupidly, "Opps."
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We rode slowly through the rain on the way back to the castle, there'd been no use in staying at the lookout. I was swearing oath's and curses at Debbie under my breath for a long time. Link got the gist of my angry mutterings. "Oh was it really that bad?" he asked, "Yes," I said, "that proves that they've been spying on us magically all day."
"Do you mean you, me or both when you say that?"
"I mean both."
"Oh no."
I pulled my horse to a stop and looked at him. "That did 'not' sound good." I said putting emphasis on the not. "What where you doing that you don't want anyone to know about." "Ah don't ask me that." He pleaded in a strangled voice. I couldn't help myself it was to good an opportunity to miss. Link started Epona into a trot to try and avoid the question but I caught up easily and persisted to make him squirm. "So come on you can tell me." I goaded him on. "No I can't." he said sounding a little stubborn. "Well then it's not fair. I had to tell you about the reaction test after I slipped. Now you have to tell me something." I was rapidly backing him into a corner, so to speak.
He must have realized this because he suddenly garbled, "OhIwaslookingforsomthingthatIwantedtogivetoyouandnowIthinksomeonescallingme soi'mgonnagonowbye." and kicked Epona into a run for the final stretch to the gate. It took me a good five minutes to work out exactly what he'd said and when I did I grinned to myself. Hey it wasn't that bad. I mean the reaction test was definitely worse. Then I remembered how scared men became when it came down to this kind of stuff, such cowards.
That thought made me giggle but as I handed my horse to the stable hand I remembered the messenger that had arrived after I'd left. Enquiring about it the man was sent for as I found out where the watch sergeant was and went to tell him about the enemy's status. "Keep an eye out for anything that comes ahead of the main force, expect a disturbance but not after dawn." I warned him but then other things needed my attention and I left.
"Oh hell what a lovely time for Link to decide to go hide." I muttered making the near-by guards smirk. I was sorely tempted to just use an amplification spell I'd found in my book to yell at him to get onto the wall now but if I sulked about the reaction stuff then there was no doubt that he would be to. Men, so predictable. I launched a bright green speaking spell to find him. A few minutes later Link's voice came over it. "What do you want now?" he asked in much the same way as I had asked Debbie. "Um, I'm you haven't already noticed the night's not over yet and you need to be on the wall." "But I want to sleep." the spell cut out. "Grrrrrrrrr."
The messenger was one of the men that had been sent to the Gerudo fortress as a just in case. Not that the gerudo's needed any help but in paid off to have the extras. He reported the Baldor had taken the time to go out of his way and attack the fortress. That was bad. If Baldor had been determined to stop the Gerudo forces then he'd probably cut off just about a quarter of our army. I let off with a string of curses from my world, the soldiers where impressed at least. (Hey I've lived around sailors and Monty python all my life what would you expect.)
By the time the hour was out I'd lost my patience with link. He was worse than me, at least I had the decency to do my sulking when I wasn't needed. A pin point spell from the book showed me his exact location and I went looking for the room. Sliding to a stop outside I pounded on the door and yelled through the door that I'd tell what he'd said if he didn't come out right now. There was a frantic scrambling from the room on the other side and a thump as something hit the ground, then Link was standing at the door. I smiled at how well the threat had worked.
(A/N: Ah the things you learn in high school, Blackmail, blackmail and more...you guessed it... Blackmail. ~_^)
Now I had his attention I told him, "Forget about sulking and get outside and help me." He was about to complain when he saw the little vapor lines hovering over my head like in a cartoon. "Ah okay why don't you go and lie down for a while and I'll take care of stuff out here." he suggested. I suddenly went all nice, which I think scared people more than my angry side did. I said thank-you and wondered off down the hall to my room with a little cat like smile on my face.
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The atmosphere in the castle the next day was tense. Word had spread of Baldor and the town had been evacuated, no where was really safe now. What little sleep I'd had revived me long enough to find and endurance spell in the book. According to the book the side affects of this spell would cause me to fall into a coma like state until the collective exhaustion had worn off. This worried me because if I dropped the spell prematurely I would be useless. I put that thought aside and spent most of the morning getting wet while I rode around watching the Goron's dig up the path to the town leaving no easy way for Baldor to reach us. But that was just a vain hope. The creatures under his command would easily maneuver the bogs of mud that ran between hills.
It was as twilight fell that the scouts sent to watch the enemy returned. They'd all been chosen for stealth abilities so they could get close enough to count the numbers. They estimated that there were over two and a half thousand creatures of all different species and at least two minor demons under the mad man's control. That news hardly cheered me up but it did spark something inside me. The feeling had gone soon enough though and I'd thought nothing more about it. Night fell to see us making the final preparations. Not that you could ever be ready for anything such as war.
Most people tried to sleep in the peace time before midnight but few succeeded in doing so. When midnight finally arrived the soldiers where silent as they took their positions on the walls with bows and small catapults as well as in the area before the castle. We had nothing to fear from behind. On two sides a rock wall backed the castle grounds so we only had to deal with the front and one side. We spoke in whispers on the wall as many did. Riders signaled from below the gate as they finished assembling horses. We were ready as the first enemy broke the skyline. The dark man on the horse snickered and his eyes scanned the walls and our other defenses. He signaled to something behind him and pointed to the town. The sound of clanking Armour, padding feet and crackling flames rose from behind the hill and I prayed that those men stationed at the gate would realize how to defeat them in time. But all attention was centered on the hill again as the army was finally revealed.
********************
Oh I wouldn't want to be there now. So the main threat to all is finally there and how will they cope against the full barrage of Baldor's power.
Find out in chapter 18 : Heart of battle.
Debbie- Oh yeah, bring it on. I want to fight with the Goku powers.
Mage Alia- Wait will ya. I've barely finished this chapter.
Stephanie- Oh why did you have to butt in like that Debbie?
Debbie- Butt in on what. (Fake innocent look)
Stephanie- But I was just about to kiss him. (peeved)
Debbie- Hey money is money. She paid I delivered.
Alex- (Dazed from Darunia's blow to his head) What did I miss?