Disclaimer- Again I don't own Zelda or any of their characters.
I think that this chapter is my favorite so far. I think it's because I just saw the movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." I also take great pride in the fact that I have a really good Yu-Gi-Oh deck and I loved mentioning it. But just so no trouble is aroused I don't own Harry Potter or Yu-Gi-Oh. Hopefully you will like this chapter as much as I did. In my next chapter there will probably be more of Twin Rova, Onox, and Veran (if you were wondering where they went.)
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Chapter 3: The Power of Fire
Late that night when everybody was asleep, Jay was still looking at the stars. This was a normal occurrence for him since he thought quite a lot about his past, his present day situations, and what will become of his future. I don't want to leave but I have to. He shifted positions, still looking at the stars. I have to carry out my original plans. These people have been too good; I haven't been treated so nicely in a while.
Jay sat up and looked around himself. Everybody was so peaceful, even the boys. Link, Chiron, Ty, and Nick, who never really got along during the day, always ended up sleeping in a pile. Ty slept with his head on Links boot, Chiron's legs draped over Ty's stomach, Nick's head on Chiron's stomach and feet on Link's stomach, and Link's head had somehow always ended up on Ty's tail. Kat and Kafei slept back to back, Kas slept upside down in a tree, and Timbre slept wherever he wanted. Jay smiled. At least they're all friends. Standing up, Jay rolled up the sleeping bag that the group was letting him borrow.
"Well, I guess it's time to go. I don't like goodbyes." He whispered.
He walked a little way from the group and turned back. This is why he didn't like goodbyes. They were too sad, and to carry out his mission to find any of his relatives, he had to hold back many of his emotions that could cloud his mind. There's no turning back now. I just have to go. Jay started to walk away when a loud whisper came from behind him.
"Hey! You're leaving now?"
Jay turned to find Kafei standing behind him with his hands clenched tightly around something shiny.
"Well, we really liked having you around and your performances were great. So to show you our appreciation I'm giving you a hundred rupees." Kafei held out his hands and there stood at least one of each colored rupee.
Taking the rupees carefully Jay put them in his side bag. "I'm really sorry. I just have trouble leaving people that I make friends with."
Kafei looked at him for a moment and smiled. "Don't worry, you can always come back. It's not really a goodbye anyway. It more like a mission that only you can do and we will always meet up again somewhere."
Jay thought a moment, "You know what. As a gift of departure, I'll disguise myself as anybody that you want. It's the least I can do to thank you for helping me feel better."
"I thought your impersonation of Kas was pretty funny. You should have seen his face."
"Than Kas it is." Jay spun around a couple times and stopped as a replica of Kas with brown hair right in front of Kafei. "I hope we meet again sometime soon." Jay turned and walked off into the mist that the night brought in as Kafei waved him a goodbye. What do I tell the group in the morning. Kafei thought still waving into the night.
Sond walked into the town with snow in her boots and tunic soaking wet. "This wasn't what I had in mind." She said as she looked around and saw that little boy near an entrance on the East side of town.
"Hey Miksou!" She yelled as she ran toward the little boy. The boy looked up and then looked back down at his feet. Sond tripped on a small rock on the ground and landed near his feet. "What's wrong?" she choked as she tried to get up.
"You hate me." He replied.
Sond got up and dusted herself off. "I don't hate you. I was just in a bad mood at the time." Cyrus looked at Miksou from behind Sond's hair. He was pretty cold and he wasn't going to catch any fairy influenza from being out in the cold with nothing suitable enough to wear on.
"You don't?" Miksou said as he looked up questionably.
"No I don't. I was just wondering what this gate was for and where it leads."
"That," Miksou said slowly "Is the Great Maku tree. He is very wise and powerful and maybe he can help you get to where you want to go."
"Really now." Sond looked at the great wooden gates that blocked the sight of the Maku tree. Walking up to them she gave a mighty heave and they squeaked open. "Wow. talk about your big doors. you could really make an entrance."
"Or an exit" Miksou said as Sond started walking in. She soon understood why. A magic barrier stood between her and the tree, and when she walked into it she was shoved forcefully backwards onto her back end in front of Miksou. "The only way that I know to get past the magic is to wake the tree." He said looking down at Sond.
"Hey tree! Wake up!" She yelled, but nothing happened. "Hello?? You alive?"
"I don't think that's going to work." Miksou doubtfully replied.
"I don't give up that easy. now." she said looking through her pouch. Sond pulled out various items while searching for the one that would serve her usefully. "An extra coffee mug from last Christmas? Nope." She shuffled through again. "A deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, a shiny rock, a video game controller, I was looking for that, but not what I wanted. or maybe it is."
Sond took the controller. It had been quite a long time since she used it. The controller could do anything that you could do in a video game. On many occasions in the past she had used it to change her friends into embarrassing clothes or to check their inventory without searching Timbre's pockets.
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The group had just entered an ancient house that looked like it should have been condemned. They entered and looked around. It looked like an antique shop with all of the realistic statues. Link walked over to a statue and poked it and to his surprise it moved.
"What do you want?" an old hag sneered.
Link jumped back in surprise. It wasn't often that an old lady looked like a crinkled old statue.
"I have many rare and valuable items for sale here. Look around,, what would you like to buy?"
The group split into groups an searched the store. Many artifacts reached out and grabbed them or heads floated in jars. There were skeletons, books, and everything else that could be considered ancient. Link looked at some weapons that dated back to the times of King Arthur while Kat and Kafei looked at magic spell books. Timbre poked at a couple heads in glass jars and Sond wandered.
Sond made her way to the other side of the store when she found a strange looking device. It had multi-colored buttons and small handles protruding out of it. The old hag walked up behind her and took the item.
"That is very rare and unusual. This item can make one's life easier by having the user of it have all knowledge of what one has and what one needs. It may seem like a tool from a god but it is a useful item that helps one organize and play pranks on ones friends. Watch."
The old hag took the strange looking device and pressed a red button and a floating hologram came up. Pressing a few more buttons she pointed the device at the unsuspecting Link. Link gasped in surprise as his once green tunic turned into his red fire proof tunic.
Turning back to Sond the hag replied, "You can do almost anything with this device. It is called a controller. If you buy it you must promise to use it sparingly and tell no one of it. One should use such powers carefully. You can take items from people or give them items. You can do almost anything." She once again pressed a button and pointed the device at Link, his tunic turned from fiery red to a brilliant green.
Link looked at his tunic and shrugged, "I guess it's just the light." He went back to browsing.
Sond reached into her pocket and pulled out three hundred rupees and bought the device. She hid it in her pocket as her friends came to tell her that they were leaving. Since then she had had that controller at her side every moment of every journey.
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"Humm." She pressed a bid red button and a small holographic screen popped up. If anyone hadn't known that this was real life, they would have thought they were in a video game. Pressing a few buttons brought up an item screen with an inventory list. "This is a lot easier than going through my pouch. Here it is. As long as I put it back no one will notice."
The morning had arisen and everyone was starting to wake up. Katherine drearily wiped her eyes and her vision cleared. She looked at the fire that had gone out and saw that Kafei was sitting by himself looking toward the north.
Getting up and walking to Kafei Kat asked him, "What's wrong. you look kind of sad."
"He's gone."
Kat looked at the sleeping forms strewn across the ground. All could be accounted for except that there was a rolled up sleeping bag. "You mean Jay left without saying goodbye?"
"He didn't know how to. So he left, but before he left I gave him a hundred rupees."
Kat stared at Kafei for a second and then checked her pockets. Everything was still there. "Where did you get the money?"
Kafei looked down shamefully for a moment or two and the smiled. "I don't think Chiron will miss it all too much. He never looks into his wallet anyways. I'll pay him back sooner or later."
Kat sat next to Kafei. How could she get mad at him he was just Kafei. "Let me get a fire going."
Kat steadied herself next to the dead fire. Kafei backed away and crouched behind Timbre who was still asleep. Putting her fist to the ground she aimed so it would get the fire and hopefully nothing else. Pulling her arm up from the ground and punching down she yelled, "DIN'S FIRE!" Usually that would send a flame in every direction but this time it didn't work.
"What?? Let's try this again." Kat readied herself once again and punched the ground screaming, "DIN'S FIRE!" But again nothing happened.
"I CAN'T USE DIN'S FIRE ANYMORE!!!" She shrieked. Everybody who was just asleep was just rudely awakened. The boys fell out of their heap, Timbre jumped up with a start, and Kas fell out of the tree, luckily he had good reflexes and landed standing straight on his feet.
Kat started to hyperventilate and Kafei tried to calm her down, "Maybe it's just too early in the morning. maybe it will come back later."
Kat sat down and started yelling, "I can't use it anymore!!!"
Sond put the controller back in her pouch along with everything else and she readied herself at the base of the magical barrier. Aiming her fist at the barrier itself she took a deep breath.
Punching down at the ground with her tightly balled fist she yelled, "DIN'S FIRE!"
A huge blast came from her fist and radiated around her in all directions. It extended over and around the barrier, heating it up. The barrier turned red hot and spider cracks spiraled all over. The persisting heat deepened the cracks until the barrier burst, scattering shards on the ground around the tree. Sond pulled her fist off of the ground and the heat decreased into nothing.
"Wow, you sure need to know how to aim this thing. At least Kat knows how to aim."
Miksou looked at Sond with a singed face and burnt eyebrows. He fell over onto the ground, charcoal dust flying into the air around him.
"I think I over did it." Sond said as she pulled the controller out of her pouch once again. "I'll just return it and nobody will ever notice."
Sond once again pushed and prodded buttons and re-equipped Kat with the ability to use Din's fire.
"Watch, I still can't do it!"
Kat had tried and tried to do Din's fire for the last ten minutes with no prevail. Kafei patted her on the back and reminded her that it was still early in the morning and her magical powers might be on the fritz at this hour.
"I'm going to keep trying until I do it!" She insisted.
Ty put his hand over his face. "She's going to wear herself out cold if you don't stop her Kafei."
Link looked at Kafei, "Monkey boy does have a point." He sternly said trying to keep a solemn face.
Ty glared at Link and was about to punch him in the side when Nick came between them. "'O 'e can' use 'er Din'z 'ire. tha's no' goo'."
Chiron looked down at them from a high branch in the nearby tree. "You just wait, when you're not expecting it she'll be able to use it and you'll all be torched. Excepting me, who is safely harbored in this nice tree."
Link, Nick, and Ty looked around them. Chiron was right if suddenly she got the power of Din's fire back they would be in the middle of the blast. At that exact moment Kat had once again tried to use Din's fire. As she punched the ground a crackling was heard and a huge flame leapt from the ground. It surrounded her as she yelled, "DIN'S FIRE!"
Everybody within a ten-foot radius of Kat was scorched and turned coal black. Chiron who had sat himself up in a tree was also in that radius. Unluckily for him it was an old tree and fell over when it's ancient trunk was burned. Chiron fell with the tree and landed on his back in the pile of charcoaled leaves.
"Maybe I should have gone with my first instinct and hid behind the rock." He coughed as soot fell from his hair.
Katherine leapt in excitement as she held her fist high above her head. "I told you I could do it! AND I lit the fire!" She looked around at all of her friends lying on the ground. "Maybe I put a little too much feeling into that one." She said putting her hand behind her head.
By then the sun was starting to rise farther into the east and it was reaching about nine o' clock. Sond walked to the slumbering tree that lie before her. It had huge outstretched branches and brilliant green leaves sprouted from every tip of every branch. Sond stretched her hand out in front of herself as she reached the tree.
Poking it lightly she asked it, "Excuse me Great Maku tree." Waiting a moment she stared at it but nothing happened. "Pardon" she asked again poking it a tad harder. Again nothing happened. Now, Sond wasn't one to get irritated very easily but when it came to being rude to one of her friends or herself she got mad quite easily. "EXCUSE ME." She hissed between her teeth but once more nothing happened.
Taking her coffee cup off of her head she took a wholehearted crack at the tree and clobbered it upside the face with the steaming cup. It wasn't only the cup that hit the tree, in the process of being hit, the coffee that resided in the mug was splattered all over the tree and most ended up in it's mouth. The impact of both the cup and its fillings jolted through the tree and he woke up with a start.
"Oh my!" He gasped swallowing down the coffee that had currently been in his mouth. "That was quite a shake. what is it that you need?"
Sond looked at her cup for a moment and watched it refill by itself. "I wanted to know what I should do to save the Oracle of Seasons and if that will get me to Lynnia."
The tree looked down its huge knotted nose and stretched its branches out wide. "Why my dear, you have to ask the Oracle herself." The tree's words started to come out quicker than before. Perhaps hitting the Maku tree with a coffee mug wasn't the greatest idea in the world.
"But how can I ask her if she was captured?" Sond asked with frustration building inside of her.
"Good point. I see that she has escaped and is now housing with the powerful potion maker Syrup." By this time the words that were spoken by the tree were almost a blur. Luckily Sond spoke that language often and she could understand what he was saying almost perfectly.
"Well, where do I start?" Sond asked.
"You should start down at the South Eastern beach and make your way from there. You should also find someone who can help you more than I can. I mean since following spoken directions is harder than following somebody and thusly speaking, I can't move out of this spot anyway."
Sond gave a short thank you and made her way outside of the big wooden gates. Miksou was not there so he must have been called by his mother to do some chores. Sond pondered over this for a second and walked out the Eastern exit of the city. From where she stood she thought that she could hear a small party going on. But she knew it was just a very hyper Maku tree after he had drunk coffee. Otherwise she would have checked it out.
The grass was thick and green as she walked southeast trying to find the beach. It was spring all around and she watched as a couple octorocks played a game of catch with a rock. Once or twice she threw it back at them when on or the other missed it. Finally after searching for an hour and a half she walked through a large rotted log and stepped foot on the sandy beach. The sun shone down brightly and Sond figured that the seasons had once again changed. A rock to her left looked all too inviting and she rested a bit.
"Boy, would I love to live here." She mused as the waves lapped at the shore. A slight breeze was the ticket to the prefect paradise where she was sitting.
Cyrus poked his head out from under Sond's hair and asked, "You think our friends are having a good time?"
Thinking for a minute or two Sond finally replied, "They're probably just fine."
Cyrus perched himself on her shoulder and laid back resting his head against the collar of Sond's tunic. This was surely the life. No nagging from Dink, no loud mouthed Tatl yelling at him, and no pyro, Pedro lighting his hair on fire.
Sond and Cyrus would have stayed on that rock forever if they hadn't heard a loud laughter coming from the ocean. They listened for a while and then heard part of a conversation that really wouldn't have want to be heard.
"Didn't you see it squirm? I'h was too funny!"
"Yeah, I don't think it could swim either. Hope it drowns!"
"Serves it right for not giving us a ride!"
"It can die for all I care!"
Sond listened in horror as over the waves came a small raft with two small boys, about the age of Miksou, holding the still disturbing conversation. Sond stood up and walked to the shoreline. Cyrus once again hid behind her hair. The two boys' raft drifted to the sand and they jumped off. Sond stood arms akimbo as if waiting for an explanation.
"What is this all about?" She said angrily.
The boys looked at each other and then back at Sond. The tallest of the two pushed by the other and pushed Sond in the stomach. "Don't ever question the Gold 'en Arrow gang!"
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Well, here is the end of this chapter! I really need reviews. Thank you sooo much for helping me Kat. This was a really fun chapter to write. I am working on the length of my chapters. I also have to take into mind that I have to hand them in for creative writing soon. I may take Thanksgiving to write a bit more on this, if weather permitting of course. If we have too much snow tomorrow than the power will most likely go out. I don't think this is much of a "cliffhanger" but if so than I'm sorry. I will draw some pictures to this if people ask me to. I hope everybody likes this story. And I need more ideas because mine are not going to fully fulfill my story needs. Plus, I like pleasing the reader. ^_^! Please review. Please??
I think that this chapter is my favorite so far. I think it's because I just saw the movie "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets." I also take great pride in the fact that I have a really good Yu-Gi-Oh deck and I loved mentioning it. But just so no trouble is aroused I don't own Harry Potter or Yu-Gi-Oh. Hopefully you will like this chapter as much as I did. In my next chapter there will probably be more of Twin Rova, Onox, and Veran (if you were wondering where they went.)
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Chapter 3: The Power of Fire
Late that night when everybody was asleep, Jay was still looking at the stars. This was a normal occurrence for him since he thought quite a lot about his past, his present day situations, and what will become of his future. I don't want to leave but I have to. He shifted positions, still looking at the stars. I have to carry out my original plans. These people have been too good; I haven't been treated so nicely in a while.
Jay sat up and looked around himself. Everybody was so peaceful, even the boys. Link, Chiron, Ty, and Nick, who never really got along during the day, always ended up sleeping in a pile. Ty slept with his head on Links boot, Chiron's legs draped over Ty's stomach, Nick's head on Chiron's stomach and feet on Link's stomach, and Link's head had somehow always ended up on Ty's tail. Kat and Kafei slept back to back, Kas slept upside down in a tree, and Timbre slept wherever he wanted. Jay smiled. At least they're all friends. Standing up, Jay rolled up the sleeping bag that the group was letting him borrow.
"Well, I guess it's time to go. I don't like goodbyes." He whispered.
He walked a little way from the group and turned back. This is why he didn't like goodbyes. They were too sad, and to carry out his mission to find any of his relatives, he had to hold back many of his emotions that could cloud his mind. There's no turning back now. I just have to go. Jay started to walk away when a loud whisper came from behind him.
"Hey! You're leaving now?"
Jay turned to find Kafei standing behind him with his hands clenched tightly around something shiny.
"Well, we really liked having you around and your performances were great. So to show you our appreciation I'm giving you a hundred rupees." Kafei held out his hands and there stood at least one of each colored rupee.
Taking the rupees carefully Jay put them in his side bag. "I'm really sorry. I just have trouble leaving people that I make friends with."
Kafei looked at him for a moment and smiled. "Don't worry, you can always come back. It's not really a goodbye anyway. It more like a mission that only you can do and we will always meet up again somewhere."
Jay thought a moment, "You know what. As a gift of departure, I'll disguise myself as anybody that you want. It's the least I can do to thank you for helping me feel better."
"I thought your impersonation of Kas was pretty funny. You should have seen his face."
"Than Kas it is." Jay spun around a couple times and stopped as a replica of Kas with brown hair right in front of Kafei. "I hope we meet again sometime soon." Jay turned and walked off into the mist that the night brought in as Kafei waved him a goodbye. What do I tell the group in the morning. Kafei thought still waving into the night.
Sond walked into the town with snow in her boots and tunic soaking wet. "This wasn't what I had in mind." She said as she looked around and saw that little boy near an entrance on the East side of town.
"Hey Miksou!" She yelled as she ran toward the little boy. The boy looked up and then looked back down at his feet. Sond tripped on a small rock on the ground and landed near his feet. "What's wrong?" she choked as she tried to get up.
"You hate me." He replied.
Sond got up and dusted herself off. "I don't hate you. I was just in a bad mood at the time." Cyrus looked at Miksou from behind Sond's hair. He was pretty cold and he wasn't going to catch any fairy influenza from being out in the cold with nothing suitable enough to wear on.
"You don't?" Miksou said as he looked up questionably.
"No I don't. I was just wondering what this gate was for and where it leads."
"That," Miksou said slowly "Is the Great Maku tree. He is very wise and powerful and maybe he can help you get to where you want to go."
"Really now." Sond looked at the great wooden gates that blocked the sight of the Maku tree. Walking up to them she gave a mighty heave and they squeaked open. "Wow. talk about your big doors. you could really make an entrance."
"Or an exit" Miksou said as Sond started walking in. She soon understood why. A magic barrier stood between her and the tree, and when she walked into it she was shoved forcefully backwards onto her back end in front of Miksou. "The only way that I know to get past the magic is to wake the tree." He said looking down at Sond.
"Hey tree! Wake up!" She yelled, but nothing happened. "Hello?? You alive?"
"I don't think that's going to work." Miksou doubtfully replied.
"I don't give up that easy. now." she said looking through her pouch. Sond pulled out various items while searching for the one that would serve her usefully. "An extra coffee mug from last Christmas? Nope." She shuffled through again. "A deck of Yu-Gi-Oh cards, a shiny rock, a video game controller, I was looking for that, but not what I wanted. or maybe it is."
Sond took the controller. It had been quite a long time since she used it. The controller could do anything that you could do in a video game. On many occasions in the past she had used it to change her friends into embarrassing clothes or to check their inventory without searching Timbre's pockets.
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The group had just entered an ancient house that looked like it should have been condemned. They entered and looked around. It looked like an antique shop with all of the realistic statues. Link walked over to a statue and poked it and to his surprise it moved.
"What do you want?" an old hag sneered.
Link jumped back in surprise. It wasn't often that an old lady looked like a crinkled old statue.
"I have many rare and valuable items for sale here. Look around,, what would you like to buy?"
The group split into groups an searched the store. Many artifacts reached out and grabbed them or heads floated in jars. There were skeletons, books, and everything else that could be considered ancient. Link looked at some weapons that dated back to the times of King Arthur while Kat and Kafei looked at magic spell books. Timbre poked at a couple heads in glass jars and Sond wandered.
Sond made her way to the other side of the store when she found a strange looking device. It had multi-colored buttons and small handles protruding out of it. The old hag walked up behind her and took the item.
"That is very rare and unusual. This item can make one's life easier by having the user of it have all knowledge of what one has and what one needs. It may seem like a tool from a god but it is a useful item that helps one organize and play pranks on ones friends. Watch."
The old hag took the strange looking device and pressed a red button and a floating hologram came up. Pressing a few more buttons she pointed the device at the unsuspecting Link. Link gasped in surprise as his once green tunic turned into his red fire proof tunic.
Turning back to Sond the hag replied, "You can do almost anything with this device. It is called a controller. If you buy it you must promise to use it sparingly and tell no one of it. One should use such powers carefully. You can take items from people or give them items. You can do almost anything." She once again pressed a button and pointed the device at Link, his tunic turned from fiery red to a brilliant green.
Link looked at his tunic and shrugged, "I guess it's just the light." He went back to browsing.
Sond reached into her pocket and pulled out three hundred rupees and bought the device. She hid it in her pocket as her friends came to tell her that they were leaving. Since then she had had that controller at her side every moment of every journey.
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"Humm." She pressed a bid red button and a small holographic screen popped up. If anyone hadn't known that this was real life, they would have thought they were in a video game. Pressing a few buttons brought up an item screen with an inventory list. "This is a lot easier than going through my pouch. Here it is. As long as I put it back no one will notice."
The morning had arisen and everyone was starting to wake up. Katherine drearily wiped her eyes and her vision cleared. She looked at the fire that had gone out and saw that Kafei was sitting by himself looking toward the north.
Getting up and walking to Kafei Kat asked him, "What's wrong. you look kind of sad."
"He's gone."
Kat looked at the sleeping forms strewn across the ground. All could be accounted for except that there was a rolled up sleeping bag. "You mean Jay left without saying goodbye?"
"He didn't know how to. So he left, but before he left I gave him a hundred rupees."
Kat stared at Kafei for a second and then checked her pockets. Everything was still there. "Where did you get the money?"
Kafei looked down shamefully for a moment or two and the smiled. "I don't think Chiron will miss it all too much. He never looks into his wallet anyways. I'll pay him back sooner or later."
Kat sat next to Kafei. How could she get mad at him he was just Kafei. "Let me get a fire going."
Kat steadied herself next to the dead fire. Kafei backed away and crouched behind Timbre who was still asleep. Putting her fist to the ground she aimed so it would get the fire and hopefully nothing else. Pulling her arm up from the ground and punching down she yelled, "DIN'S FIRE!" Usually that would send a flame in every direction but this time it didn't work.
"What?? Let's try this again." Kat readied herself once again and punched the ground screaming, "DIN'S FIRE!" But again nothing happened.
"I CAN'T USE DIN'S FIRE ANYMORE!!!" She shrieked. Everybody who was just asleep was just rudely awakened. The boys fell out of their heap, Timbre jumped up with a start, and Kas fell out of the tree, luckily he had good reflexes and landed standing straight on his feet.
Kat started to hyperventilate and Kafei tried to calm her down, "Maybe it's just too early in the morning. maybe it will come back later."
Kat sat down and started yelling, "I can't use it anymore!!!"
Sond put the controller back in her pouch along with everything else and she readied herself at the base of the magical barrier. Aiming her fist at the barrier itself she took a deep breath.
Punching down at the ground with her tightly balled fist she yelled, "DIN'S FIRE!"
A huge blast came from her fist and radiated around her in all directions. It extended over and around the barrier, heating it up. The barrier turned red hot and spider cracks spiraled all over. The persisting heat deepened the cracks until the barrier burst, scattering shards on the ground around the tree. Sond pulled her fist off of the ground and the heat decreased into nothing.
"Wow, you sure need to know how to aim this thing. At least Kat knows how to aim."
Miksou looked at Sond with a singed face and burnt eyebrows. He fell over onto the ground, charcoal dust flying into the air around him.
"I think I over did it." Sond said as she pulled the controller out of her pouch once again. "I'll just return it and nobody will ever notice."
Sond once again pushed and prodded buttons and re-equipped Kat with the ability to use Din's fire.
"Watch, I still can't do it!"
Kat had tried and tried to do Din's fire for the last ten minutes with no prevail. Kafei patted her on the back and reminded her that it was still early in the morning and her magical powers might be on the fritz at this hour.
"I'm going to keep trying until I do it!" She insisted.
Ty put his hand over his face. "She's going to wear herself out cold if you don't stop her Kafei."
Link looked at Kafei, "Monkey boy does have a point." He sternly said trying to keep a solemn face.
Ty glared at Link and was about to punch him in the side when Nick came between them. "'O 'e can' use 'er Din'z 'ire. tha's no' goo'."
Chiron looked down at them from a high branch in the nearby tree. "You just wait, when you're not expecting it she'll be able to use it and you'll all be torched. Excepting me, who is safely harbored in this nice tree."
Link, Nick, and Ty looked around them. Chiron was right if suddenly she got the power of Din's fire back they would be in the middle of the blast. At that exact moment Kat had once again tried to use Din's fire. As she punched the ground a crackling was heard and a huge flame leapt from the ground. It surrounded her as she yelled, "DIN'S FIRE!"
Everybody within a ten-foot radius of Kat was scorched and turned coal black. Chiron who had sat himself up in a tree was also in that radius. Unluckily for him it was an old tree and fell over when it's ancient trunk was burned. Chiron fell with the tree and landed on his back in the pile of charcoaled leaves.
"Maybe I should have gone with my first instinct and hid behind the rock." He coughed as soot fell from his hair.
Katherine leapt in excitement as she held her fist high above her head. "I told you I could do it! AND I lit the fire!" She looked around at all of her friends lying on the ground. "Maybe I put a little too much feeling into that one." She said putting her hand behind her head.
By then the sun was starting to rise farther into the east and it was reaching about nine o' clock. Sond walked to the slumbering tree that lie before her. It had huge outstretched branches and brilliant green leaves sprouted from every tip of every branch. Sond stretched her hand out in front of herself as she reached the tree.
Poking it lightly she asked it, "Excuse me Great Maku tree." Waiting a moment she stared at it but nothing happened. "Pardon" she asked again poking it a tad harder. Again nothing happened. Now, Sond wasn't one to get irritated very easily but when it came to being rude to one of her friends or herself she got mad quite easily. "EXCUSE ME." She hissed between her teeth but once more nothing happened.
Taking her coffee cup off of her head she took a wholehearted crack at the tree and clobbered it upside the face with the steaming cup. It wasn't only the cup that hit the tree, in the process of being hit, the coffee that resided in the mug was splattered all over the tree and most ended up in it's mouth. The impact of both the cup and its fillings jolted through the tree and he woke up with a start.
"Oh my!" He gasped swallowing down the coffee that had currently been in his mouth. "That was quite a shake. what is it that you need?"
Sond looked at her cup for a moment and watched it refill by itself. "I wanted to know what I should do to save the Oracle of Seasons and if that will get me to Lynnia."
The tree looked down its huge knotted nose and stretched its branches out wide. "Why my dear, you have to ask the Oracle herself." The tree's words started to come out quicker than before. Perhaps hitting the Maku tree with a coffee mug wasn't the greatest idea in the world.
"But how can I ask her if she was captured?" Sond asked with frustration building inside of her.
"Good point. I see that she has escaped and is now housing with the powerful potion maker Syrup." By this time the words that were spoken by the tree were almost a blur. Luckily Sond spoke that language often and she could understand what he was saying almost perfectly.
"Well, where do I start?" Sond asked.
"You should start down at the South Eastern beach and make your way from there. You should also find someone who can help you more than I can. I mean since following spoken directions is harder than following somebody and thusly speaking, I can't move out of this spot anyway."
Sond gave a short thank you and made her way outside of the big wooden gates. Miksou was not there so he must have been called by his mother to do some chores. Sond pondered over this for a second and walked out the Eastern exit of the city. From where she stood she thought that she could hear a small party going on. But she knew it was just a very hyper Maku tree after he had drunk coffee. Otherwise she would have checked it out.
The grass was thick and green as she walked southeast trying to find the beach. It was spring all around and she watched as a couple octorocks played a game of catch with a rock. Once or twice she threw it back at them when on or the other missed it. Finally after searching for an hour and a half she walked through a large rotted log and stepped foot on the sandy beach. The sun shone down brightly and Sond figured that the seasons had once again changed. A rock to her left looked all too inviting and she rested a bit.
"Boy, would I love to live here." She mused as the waves lapped at the shore. A slight breeze was the ticket to the prefect paradise where she was sitting.
Cyrus poked his head out from under Sond's hair and asked, "You think our friends are having a good time?"
Thinking for a minute or two Sond finally replied, "They're probably just fine."
Cyrus perched himself on her shoulder and laid back resting his head against the collar of Sond's tunic. This was surely the life. No nagging from Dink, no loud mouthed Tatl yelling at him, and no pyro, Pedro lighting his hair on fire.
Sond and Cyrus would have stayed on that rock forever if they hadn't heard a loud laughter coming from the ocean. They listened for a while and then heard part of a conversation that really wouldn't have want to be heard.
"Didn't you see it squirm? I'h was too funny!"
"Yeah, I don't think it could swim either. Hope it drowns!"
"Serves it right for not giving us a ride!"
"It can die for all I care!"
Sond listened in horror as over the waves came a small raft with two small boys, about the age of Miksou, holding the still disturbing conversation. Sond stood up and walked to the shoreline. Cyrus once again hid behind her hair. The two boys' raft drifted to the sand and they jumped off. Sond stood arms akimbo as if waiting for an explanation.
"What is this all about?" She said angrily.
The boys looked at each other and then back at Sond. The tallest of the two pushed by the other and pushed Sond in the stomach. "Don't ever question the Gold 'en Arrow gang!"
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Well, here is the end of this chapter! I really need reviews. Thank you sooo much for helping me Kat. This was a really fun chapter to write. I am working on the length of my chapters. I also have to take into mind that I have to hand them in for creative writing soon. I may take Thanksgiving to write a bit more on this, if weather permitting of course. If we have too much snow tomorrow than the power will most likely go out. I don't think this is much of a "cliffhanger" but if so than I'm sorry. I will draw some pictures to this if people ask me to. I hope everybody likes this story. And I need more ideas because mine are not going to fully fulfill my story needs. Plus, I like pleasing the reader. ^_^! Please review. Please??