Chap. 7 the mystery behind the cloak

The group walked down a dark and damp cave much like the one they were in before only this one was slightly cooler, and had engravings carved on the wall and on the floor. Y-Link and Katie walked side by side, staying in the very back. "hey Katie I have been wondering where do you come form?" said y- Link looking curious.

"well I come from a land call Senideeian it's a beautiful place were only fairy's can go." Katie paused.

"what's the matter?" said Link concerned.

"oh, well you see when a fairy is born, that fairy can only stay in the place that he or she was born only until that fairy is 5 years of age and after that..." Katie looked down and a tear trickled down her cheek.

"after that what?" said y-Link as he wiped away her tear.

"after that, you have to leave Senideeian and never return." Katie finished her sentence in a soft, sad tone of voice as a second tear rolled down the side of her face.

"hey, Katie, you don't have to cry I know your mother misses you--,"

"mother? What is a mother?" Said Katie looking confused.

"what! Are you kidding?" said y-Link with his eyes almost popping out of his head.

"about what?" Katie said as she folded her arms.

"about not knowing what a mother is."

"no why would I kid, about that?" said Katie smiling as she took this as a joke.

"come on every one knows what a mother is, you know the person who had you since you took your first breath." Y-Link paused, "I never saw mine, but I know she's out there some where." Katie looked at him and screwed up her face trying to search for the meaning 'mother' but nothing was there.

"I.I don't think I have ever had a mother," she said staring into nothing with the same strange expression on her face.

"what! That's impossible, you have to have a mother, I have never seen mine but I know I have one." Y-Link said trying to break Katie out of her trance (but sadly to no prevail). Katie snapped out of her daze but was still quite lifeless,

"I wasn't born from a person, I came out of a flower." Katie said staring at y-Link like a body that lost its soul, "that's all I remember.it's all I know" she looked down at the floor again. Y-Link looked at her with the same expression Katie had, had just a while ago.

"you.you came out of a flower?" he paused to think of how that is possible, "how?.how do you come out of a flower? How is this flower made? Why." y- Link was stopped by Katie when she placed her finger on his lips.

"listen, y-Link, it's.to hard to explain but I will give it a try. Its takes a human and a fairy to make another fairy, other wise it would not work. Don't ask me why because I don't know." Katie stopped and looked at y- Link, who made a motion to go on, "well any ways the human and the fairy connect their sprits, and from this connection a seed is made. Both human and fairy plant this seed, which will not bloom for 100 years." Katie played with her fingers and y-Link nudged her arm to tell him more, "um, well you see as I already said it takes 100 years for the flower to bloom, and the fairy to be born. By the time the fairy is born the human, and fairy parents would be dead." Y-Link raised his eye brow's,

"really?" he said astounded.

"ya, what amazes me is that a fairy can live to be a million, (gasp)" Katie covered her mouth, "you didn't hear that did you?" Katie said muffled by her hands.

"what, you can live to a million? What's so wrong about that?" y-Link said smiling

"no you don't understand, you see fairy's don't age by one year." Katie said freeing her mouth.

"what? What do you mean you don't age by one year?" said y-Link totally confused.

"ok, I am so breaking the rules but (sigh) oh well, every 100 years a fairy will grow one year older, and when the fairy hits a certain age group a new set of wings will replace the old one's. So say is I were to turn 1,000 then these old dragon fly wings will be replaced by butterfly wings!" Katie stopped and looked up at the sealing of the tunnel with shining eyes, "oh I can't wait for the day that I get my butterfly wings," said as she walked into the back of Latrice, "oh sorry," she said embarrassed.

"Oh don't worry it's ok," said Latrice, she smiled and walked on.

"Katie?" said y-Link sounding depressed.

"What's, wrong?" Katie said with a lot of sympathy in her voice.

"Well I thought you were my age." Said y-Link still depressed.

"What! Of course I am your age may not be in human years but I am in fairy years."

"So how old are you.in both kinds of years?"

"Well if you must know (she ran in front of y-Link and had her back turned to him) I am 999 in human years, but 9 in fairy years." She slowed down, "young promise me that you will travle with us till we find R.S."

"I promise," he said smiling. Katie looked back at y-Link and smiled at him but then looked over his shoulder and saw the same young girl she saw at the base of the mountain. Her eyes were still glowing red which sent a freezing chill down Katie's spine, and she couldn't see the expression on her face because of a cloth that was placed over her mouth. The red eyed girl reached her hand out to the wall of the cave and pressed in a tile that had a picture of a snake on it, and again before Katie could say anything she vanished.

Shortly after the red eyed girl left the walls of the cave shook furiously and the tile's crumbled and fell off exposing the bare rock. "come one every one! Run, now!," said Eli loudly. The group ran as small bits of rock hit ever exposed inch of them. The walls of the cave seamed to expand and get wider the deeper they got into the cave, and this was good because they had more room to run freely. Everyone was running at full pace until they were stopped by both Eli's and Danielle's out stretched arms,

"don't move," said Danielle standing perfectly still.

"why?" said Katie moving slightly forward. Danielle darted her hand right in front of Katie face, her sharp claws almost touched her nose,

"look what is between my fingers Katie." Said Danielle quite calmly. Katie look in-between her sharp claws and saw a vary small dart that was dripping a yellow liquid.

"wha-what is that?" said Katie trembling.

"it's a poison dart, and this kind of poison (Danielle sniffed the dart) could have killed you before your pretty little face hit the ground." Danielle flicked the dart and walked to Eli and talked to him in an intense debate. The group didn't say a word until they made up their minds and decided to keep going. They walked slowly down the dark, damp, and suddenly chilly cave. As they walked a small sound started to emerge, that got louder the farther they walked.

"is it me or do I hear snakes?" said Oscer frightened.

"awe is wittle Oscer scared'a snake-ees's?" said Leah tying not to laugh.

"no I just was concerned for Katie that's all." Said Oscer with a weak smile.

"oh thanks for being so watchful Oscer," said Katie (not really meaning it). The walls started to shake again only this time small 6 inch doors opened and hundreds of snakes poured out of each door. The group didn't hesitate to run. Each person tripped and stumbled as they tried not stepping on any of the deadly creatures that seemed to come out of no where. Y-Link tripped and fell hard, the whole left side of his face bled. But he got up and ran, hurt and tired, but he would rather have a little suffrage then get bitten by a snake. Danielle stopped and spun around and stared right at y-Link,

"STOP!" she shouted at him but it was too late. Y-Link was struck with a dart in his right arm, and he fell to the ground almost instantly. Danielle ran to the compulsive breathing nine year old elf, and quickly took out the dart and sniffed it. "it's.it's a strong poison. It wont kill him as fast as the other one, but...it will kill him if we don't have any antidote." Danielle seamed to have watery eyes, but maybe it just was the lighting. Katie ran to y-Link and looked at him for five seconds before bursting out into tears. The rest of the eight walked over all with grim expressions on their faces, only they were not alone. Behind the group was a person in a brown cloak with a large hood covering the face, Katie did not stall in telling the group they had a visitor. Everyone looked at the person,

"who are you! What do you want?" screamed Oscer as he looked like he was about to chop the person's head off. The person in the cloak held up its hand, walked past the standing members of the group, and stopped right where y-Link lay motion less,

"do not worry I am of no harm, I come for the boy," Said a shrill voice from under the hood. Katie looked at the person and stood abruptly,

"you're not taking him any where!" shouted Katie.

"why? I am of no harm, I want to help him. Do you wish for him to die?" said the voice slightly stronger.

"I.I don't know. No I don't want him to die but.I don't want any thing else to happen to him either." Katie said with watery eyes. She stared at the cloaked person for five seconds before finally remembering where she saw this person before. "I remember seeing you at the base of the mountain!" she said enlightened, "you took away older Link didn't you?" said Katie as her voice got louder.

"yes I do recall a cloaked person dragging away Link," said Eli rubbing his chin in deep thought, "I thought I was seeing things" he said smiling.

"what did you do with him?" said Latrice as she walked up to see what was happening.

"he is fine I am healing his wounds, and treating his scars. he has not yet woken up, but he will in due time. This little one will heal faster then his older self because he is younger and the air doesn't have much effect on younger bodies, but it will still take some time And I can provide it." Said the cloaked person reassuringly. Katie looked up at the cloaked person with eyes filled to the brim with tears,

"I want to see your face, only then will I trust you with his life." Said Katie as she looked bleakly at the floor, and drops of tears fell onto the ground.

"I understand," the person lifted its arms exposing small hands, depicting that of a woman's. Then the person pulled off the cloak to revile the face of....

who is this mystery person? Is it a girl or a really skinny guy? Find out next time on. A CASTLE FAR AWAY.

Now you will be reading my version of a soap opera.

"oh Drake I hate you"

"I hate you to Melinda"

"kiss me you fool"

Ha, ha just kidding!

The person pulled back the hood of the cloak, the greenish hair and purple like eyes caught every ones attention as they saw the one person that no one would have guessed it to be: sailor Pluto.

Chap. 8
The maze of ice

Pluto told the group about why K.S. sent her and where she would be; which was in a small cave like house located at the base of the mountain. y-Link had just enough strength to tell Katie good bye and sorry for not keeping his promise, Katie just smiled and told him she would come to see him when she was finished. The group now had only seven members but this was ok because they only really needed these seven to open the seal. All seven walked through the rocky cave, that seamed to get colder the farther they went. After 30 minuets the walls went from being damp rock, to cold icy crystals. The cave got wider and they were soon in a huge cavern with 6 foot stalagmites and stalactites jutting from the ceiling and the floor. "I would sure hate to get hit in the face with one of those." Said Oscer as he stared up at the ceiling,

"well you wont, if you just shut up." Said Danielle with an attitude.

"hey that's not very nice!" said Oscer folding his arms.

"don't take it as offensive ok, the spikes might fall by sound vibrations so if you don't talk you won't have to worry about your amazing complexion." Said Danielle as she finished sarcastically. The cave lead to a wall that had seven doors leading who knows where.

"well this sure is a pickle." Said Katie folding her arms as if thinking really hard on what to do. "hey! Why don't we split up? You know one to each door." Said Katie.

"no way! Big mistake. Think about it if you got hurt who would rescue you?" said Danielle. The group was completely quite as they thought of a way to do this with out having to split up.

"hey wait, cant Latrice sense these kind of things?" said Oscer breaking the silence.

"hum, ya I think so." Said Leah as she looked at Latrice who was playing with her pet totally oblivious to what was going on. Leah called Latrice over to them,

"Latrice, do you think you could find the correct path to take?" said Leah smiling hopefully.

"ya sure, I'll give it try." Said Latrice as she walked in front of the group. She faced the doors, raised her arms out in front of her and closed her eyes. Not to long from that a low pitch sound echoed through the cavern and slightly shook the ground and walls, which made everyone nervous about the huge tooth like spikes that came out of the caverns ceiling. Latrice was soon surrounded by a blue light that came off her in waves that got brighter as the time passed. She opened her eyes and the shiny aqua blue eyes were replaced with a blinding white light that filled every inch of the cave and a rush of wind almost blew the group off their feet. After the light dimmed down, the wind stopped, and everyone's sight returned a small light was shining under the crack of the correct door to take.

"that's it?" said Oscer motionless, "you scared the hell out of us for a small light to shine under a door!" he yelled.

"ha, ha I am sorry it's a habit of mine to show off," Latrice said with an innocent smile.

Behind the door was a 10 foot high cave made completely out of snow that was frozen solid, and very cold. the whole group walked close to each other to keep warm, even though they brought extra clothing the cold air of the cave seemed to seep though it like water. Danielle stopped and held out her arms on both sides to stop the rest of the group, "I hear something, and its coming this way...fast," said Danielle almost at a whisper. All seven of them stood and waited for what ever it was that seemed to be following them to show it self. "I have sensed this thing ever since we got in the door, I just didn't say any thing because it always stayed a distance away," Said Danielle shivering while she stood in a fighting position. Just about five minuets later a small part of the floor started to rise a few feet in front of them. They watched as the ice formed into the shape of some kind of strange creature.

"WWWEEELLLLL HI THERE INTRUDERS, IIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE'M ICE-TITE!" said the creature quite loudly as he bounced around the cave (imagine sweat drops on every ones heads). "I AM THE BROTHER OF ICE-MITE THE GUARDIAN OF THIS MOUNTAIN WWEEE! AND I MUST SAY THAT HE IS REALLY MAD!!!," Tite said as got really close to Danielle's face, who pushed him away after the initial shock of an ice monster almost colliding heads with her. The group just stood dumbfounded watching Ice-tite as he bounded around and yelled at them playfully. "you know as a serious note," he said as he vanished then reappeared on princess two seconds later, "I am pri-he-he-ty impressed that you seven got this far." He then vanished and reappeared floating up-side- down on the ceiling, "and even more impressed that, the extra person didn't die Brava! To you I say BRAVA!" he stared clapping and spinning around in place.

"how do you know about y-Link?!?" shouted Katie.

"weeeell, Huh, lets just say I have (he vanished and appeared right behind Katie and whispered in her ear) inside info." Katie spun around but found out that Ice-tite was again behind her, and back on the ceiling laughing insanely.

"get down here and start being seiorus!" yelled Danielle furiously.

"why go down there? When I can stay up here?" said Ice-tite as he folded his arms and stuck out his tongue, Danielle just growled and clutched her fighting pole just waiting to attack.

"by the way meanie cat, girl, person, lady, I was being serious," he said folding his arms and looking away from her.

"um Ice-Tite you said that you brother is mad do we have to fight him?" said Katie walking in-front of Danielle.

"hum-dee-doo that's a good question, but I am sorry to say...yes." Every looked at him with a frightened expression on their faces.

"Ice-tite, um how big is your brother?" said Leah shriving now with fear.

"oh I would say....about 50 feet." Every ones faces turned pale, if his brother was anything like Ice-tite than they were going to have a big problem trying to defeat him.

"um can't we just ask your brother not to fight us?" said Katie smiling.

"NNNNOOOOOPE, you see your trespassing and my brother really doesn't like people who he doesn't know come into his home."

"so how far is your brother away from us?" asked Eli as he walked up to the front of the group.

"before I tell you that I have to tell you a secret, the thing is that....I CANT TELLLLL YOUUUUUUUUUUU!" Ice-tite grabbed his stomach, fell to the floor, and laughed uncontrollably. The group watched as he melted back into the ice, and all that he left behind was the chilly echo of his disturbing, insane laughter.

The group walked through the maze turning left and right, taking three way forks that soon turned into five, trying not to fall through holes, and on. The maze seemed round and tunnel like, but the turns were perfect edges. Every one by this time was almost frozen, each person was shivering, and it was worse for Katie because she had no way to cover her wings. They were completely frozen. Not that it was major because they can be warmed and return to normal it's just that it hurt her because of very sensitive nerve endings that were in her wings were being squeezed by the parts of her wings that were frozen. She tried warming them every 5 minuets by rapidly flapping them but this had a major effect on her energy. Katie walked in front of the group shivering wildly, she stopped abruptly as she saw a hole that looked like the mouth of some sort of slide. "hey.wh-whats that?" Katie said trying to talk with out shivering. The group walked up and looked at the hole carefully,

"looks like a slide," said Eli as he walked next to Katie.

"ya I know, b-b-but should we go d-d-down it?" said Katie shivering.

"I would think so," said Danielle walking in front of Katie.

"so were do you think it leads?" said Latrice.

"where ever it leads, I have a felling that it will bring us much closer to that ice creature." Said Danielle as she folded her arms. Katie stared at the hole and walked up to it,

"w-well t-there is only one w-way to f-f-find out," Katie then jumped into the hole and slid down with lighting speed, "whoa, this is so fuuuuuun!," was the last thing heard by Katie as her voice faded.

"ok I heard that." Said Oscer also walked to the hole, "well come on, you heard her the only way to find out is to check it out. So lets go check-it- out," said Oscer as he got ready to jump in, "well guys, if your scared stay here, but if you think your ready follow MEEEEEEE!" he jumped in and also slid out of sight in seconds. The rest of the group lined up and went down one by one, each waiting five seconds after each person. The slide was very fast, so fast that even the freezing coldness of the ice seemed to have disappeared for just this moment. The turns were quick as well as the dips and rises.

The slide let out about five feet from the ground but had a nice landing spot of soft snow. Every one at first was talking about the slide but stopped when they noticed they had landed in an immensely large room lined with huge ice crystals that jutted from the wall, "where are we?" said Leah as she got up from the snow. Before anyone could reply the ice in the middle of the room started forming into something very familiar.

Eli walked in front of the group and looked at the rising floor intensely, "it is as I feared........we have entered Ice-mites lair.

Oh no! not Ice-mite! What will happen? Find out next time on a castle far away. (chap. 9, and 10)