Chapter Eight (WIP)

The sound of a rooster crowing that morning startled me as it woke me up. I mumbled and sat up, still covered.

"What's going on?" I said as I noticed at least a hundred villagers surrounding me with pitchforks and torches, classic peasant revolt.

A man walked up close to me and poked me with the prongs of his pitchfork.

"Hey!" I said as he dug into the bare skin on my arm, causing it to bleed slightly.

"Who are you?" He said as if afraid of me, but knowing to have the advantage.

"Uh, I'm Link." I said wondering who had put them up to this.

"What are you doing in our village?"

"Passing through." I looked around and didn't see any sign of either of my two companions.

"Where have you taken them?" I asked, letting a hint of anger show in my voice.

"They're safe" He said taking the pitchfork away from my arm, sticking it into the ground and leaning on the pole.

"Where?" I raised my voice and showed more of the anger

"You'll be with them soon enough." He said as he beckoned me to get up.

"Where are you taking me?" I calmed down some at hearing I would be with them.

"You'll see soon enough." He said as I stood up and walked along behind him, still surrounded.

I walked with the men back down into the village and towards a small outhouse sized building near the middle.

"And what is this?" I asked looking at the old wooden shack

"Your new home, Link"

"You've got to be kidding!"

"I'm not. Your friends are in there too." A man stepped from behind me an opened the door.

"I don't see them."

"They're in there" I stepped forward and he pushed me the rest of the way until I was standing an inch from the door.

"Well, go on in then!" he said as he prodded me with his pitchfork, making me leap forward and fall down into the covered hole. After falling about 10 feet I smashed into the ground with a deep thud.

"Why am I being held?" I screamed up as he closed the door.

"Link!" I heard a female voice from one of the darker corners of the room.

"Zahra?"

"So good of you to join us" It was unmistakably Roy's voice coming from the other corner.

"And Roy too, it's a party" I said sarcastically

"Do you still have any of your weapons?" Roy asked

"I still have my sword. What do you have?"

"I have some daggers they didn't manage to find."

"And what about you, Zahra?"

"I don't carry any weapons"

"Ok, this is going to be interesting"

We, together, formulated a plan of escape. We figured they'd have to let us out sometime, right? And seeing as how the walls were crumbling dirt, climbing it without caving the place in wasn't going to be easy.

Even with my eyes adjusted to the darkness, I never noticed any changes in the amount of light coming through the cracks in the wooden door in the countless hours we were down there.

"So you've caught them, have you?" We heard a voice coming from the world above.

"Yes, I have" Another voice answered.

"Let's see then" The door opened and a ladder fell down.

"Come on up" Zahra moved quickly towards the ladder, Roy was just standing up and I stayed seated in the corner.

"Why?" Zahra stopped when she heard me ask this.

"Aren't you hungry?" He asked as though he were actually going to feed us.

"Play along, wait for my signal." I whispered to the two who now moved toward the rope ladder.

Zahra got out first and was quickly snatched by two guards, one on either side.

Roy next, being taken by the same number in the same positions.

I last, also two, also on the sides.

"Are we going to eat these guards?" My question was ignored.

"Well?" The jailer asked the man standing next to him.

"Let me talk to you in private" he took his shoulder and walked toward a nearby house which they entered.

I, seizing the opportunity, gave the signal by kicking a stone into a tree nearby.

Roy simply half flipped and kicked the guards detaining him in the face, knocking them both out instantly. Zahra's jaw dropped when she saw him do this.

I, on the other hand, slid my right arm out of grip and hit the guard on the left in the face, freeing that arm which quickly to knock the other guard unconscious

About the time this was over, the guards holding Zahra realized they should do something. They chose to Run towards Roy an I with drawn swords.

"Go get the weapons!" I yelled at Roy, as we had left them in the dirt-locked prison cell.

He dashed towards it, jumped down the hole and was back up before they got to me.

I quickly jumped over the guards and dashed to my precious sword. Picking it up and lunging at them holding out for them to be impaled upon. I stopped about ten feet from them.

"You sure you want to do this?" I asked them out of politeness. They of course ignored me and the one on the left swung high as the right swung low, I hopped back a foot and held my sword out, tip down, for them to hit. I didn't position it low enough and sadly the lower swing went straight into the unprotected waist of the other guard.

He pulled his blood coated sword out and took another swing at me, which I blocked and smacked his head with the flat of my sword.

"Poor guys" Zahra said, still standing in the same place, her hands slightly out from her thighs.

"Roy, go get your sword" I yelled to him, and he quickly dashed toward where the two men had walked off to, presumably to 'ask' them where it is, more with his fists than with words.

I noticed another six armored soldiers walking down the road we had come down days before.

"Hurry up Roy!" I yelled in the direction he had ran off to

"Just a second!" I heard muffled screams. Seconds later I saw my partner emerging from the front door of the house they were behind.

"Got it!" He said as he jumped down the stairs.

"Look" I said, pointing at the soldiers now running towards us.

"Great, Takkinites" He sighed

"At least they'll be worn out by the time they get to us"

"Yeah. Hey Zahra, can you go find out horses?"

"Sure" She started walking around the village looking in the houses as if she had no idea what she was doing.

The soldiers, surprisingly enough, completely ignored us and headed straight for Zahra, running straight past us.

"That's strange enough" Roy said turning around and running towards them. I quickly joined him.

Roy, of course, got there first, jump kicking the rear left Takkinite in the head, knocking him on the ground unconscious. I quickly joined with my sword, denting the side of the rear right one's helmet. The rest turned around and drew their swords

Next, the second row. Roy was already on top of that as the repeating sound of steel against steel signified a swordfight going on between him and the two on the left.

I pulled out my bow and quickly hit the left leg of one of the two charging at me, sending him to the ground, bleeding and screaming through his mask of bronze. Next, I quickly blocked the overhand swing and put a nice gash through the arm of the one of my attackers left standing, who was now joining the other in writhing and screaming.

Noticing a slight break in the battle, I quickly joined Roy in fighting the two he had previously been taking himself. I joined with the smashing of the flat of my sword against the armor on the back of one of them, who retaliated by swinging sideways at my gut. Which I threw back, knocking him off balance, this opportunity couldn't be missed, I took an overhand swing at his head, knocking him to the ground, the sound of his armor clinking together ringing in my ears.

By the time I was finished, Roy was leaning on his sword watching Zahra ride towards us on her unnamed horse, tied to Epona and Lon.

We hopped on, made sure we had everything and rode out of the town quickly.