CHAPTER SIX
The Legend of the Plague
The baby's cries echoed throughout the forest, unable to be quieted by Jacob, the baby was passed to Derek, then to Sarah, who then was rocking the baby and singing softly, Anastriana came up behind Sarah and looked at the baby, her ears drooped when she realized what was happening.
"The baby is hungry. Someone is going to have to feed him." She said a- matter-of-factly.
"Don't look at me or Jacob," Derek said, "we're mammary-less. If you get my drift."
Jacob smiled, looking in Sarah's direction.
"Wait, no, uh-uh, not me. I can't do it, I don't even know what to do....."
"I'll do it, but you boys have to go on the other side of that boulder, Sarah, you can stay if you wish." Anastriana said as she pulled the baby from Sarah's arms and sat on a fallen tree.
They had just entered the boundaries of the Forbidden Forest when the baby began to cry and in fearing for being caught, they had hidden in an outcropping of rocks. Jacob and Derek both went and sat behind the rocks and Anastriana pulled off her cloak, then eased the straps from her robe, she wore a necklace that had the same symbol as the book and sword, the three triangles merged into one, she pushed the necklace aside and began. Sarah sat next to her, and talked to her while she fed the boy. -- ((Author's Note: I know a woman must be pregnant before her glands will produce milk, but she's a Hylian, we don't know their physiology, so use your imagination.))--
Derek and Jacob sat with their backs against a huge boulder; Derek leaned over to Jacob and started to talk silently.
"I know we've not even realized this, but we're not in our home." He said, he reached up and motioned to the moon. Jacob followed his gaze and realized that there wasn't one, but two moons.
"I know. I just didn't want to think about it. I wonder how Sarah is really taking this, she doesn't seem affected," Jacob sat with his back to the rock and listened as they could hear Sarah's and Anna's muffled voices.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Derek said after a few silent moments.
"Women stuff, you know, where to shop at the mall, what kind of makeup to wear. The usual." Jacob said, he had succeeded in lightening the mood and both shared a momentary laugh.
"We need to find one of those blue light thingies" Derek said after the laugh had subsided.
"Yeah, but where?" Jacob said.
"We could use the flute..... Oh, no, I forgot, breaking it is what brought us here. Shit!" Derek said.
"Are you guys all right?!" Sarah's voice called from afar.
"Yeah, we're just discussing about what to do." Jacob yelled back.
* * *
"So, tell me, I know you're not from around here, so where are you from?" Anastriana asked of Sarah.
"We come from a place far from here, called New York." Sarah said.
"I've never heard of it. I would very much like to see it." Anna said.
"Maybe you can, but right now we don't know how to get back." Sarah said, she shifted against the granite wall and watched the baby quietly suckling away.
"What brought you here?"
"I'm not quite sure, all I remember is falling and hearing that flute break and finding myself in front of a horse and Jacob saving me."
"Jacob, he is the blonde one?"
"Yes." Sarah looked up at the stars in thought, thinking about all the things that has happened thus far. She reached up and brushed her hand through her hair and then sat down against the wall.
"You care for him?" Anna asked,
"I..... I'm not sure. I don't know,"
"I was in love once....." Anastriana said, she shifted the baby in her arms and slide closer to Sarah, "You never know what you have, until you lose it. Remember that, child."
Sarah looked up in confusion to Anastriana and she only smiled and said: "You'll understand later in your quest. Trust me."
The baby pushed away and cooed towards Anastriana and she looked down and with one hand she pulled her robe back over her to cover her breast.
"Baby's done. You can call the boys back." Anna said to Sarah as she laid the baby on her shoulder to burp him.
Sarah went over to the boulder and called to the boys, "Jacob, Derek, you can come back now."
Jacob and Derek came from behind the boulder. Jacob noted how beautifully the moon shone into Sarah's emerald eyes.
* * *
Everyone was asleep, the baby was tucked between Anastriana and Sarah and Derek was next to Anastriana, his back to her, Jacob on the other hand, was up, and was sitting on one of the large boulders. He pulled the book he carried with him from his pocket and opened it up. He began reading to pass the time.
In the past, the sword of light, the Master Sword was forged, and in it was the sealed the power of the elements, Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth, but the fifth element, Plague, was not so kind. She destroyed all things and was murderous. Her sisters sealed her away with the help of a brave knight and the power of the Master Sword. They sealed her in the Goddess of the Sand. In order to revive the dark element, the Master Sword must be placed in as the key, and the four sisters will be confined to open the seal, releasing that which is destined to destroy.
"Jacob? Is that you?" A voice called from behind him.
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep." Jacob called back to Sarah.
"Me either."
"I wanted to tell you something Jacob." Sarah said as she came up behind him and laid her chin on his shoulder.
"What's that?"
"I wanted to say that....."
Jacob suddenly put his finger to her lips and she silenced. As they sat there in the silence, they could hear muffled footsteps in the underbrush. Then, something whizzed by Jacob's head and he instantly dove down dropping the book and taking Sarah with him. He looked to the tree where it had hit and saw an arrow, a long thick black arrow.
"We've got to get out of here. Derek! Anna! We'll under attack!"
Sarah helped Anna and the infant to her feet and Derek jumped up. The sound of many feet running was now upon them and they started running.
"Where are we going, Jacob?" Sarah yelled from behind him.
"Into the thick trees!" He called.
"But that's the beginning of the Forbidden Forest! We'll get lost!" Anna called to him.
"We have no choice!" Derek said, "I have no intention of becoming Swiss cheese!"
* * *
A large cloaked figured came to the outcrop and was looking around, he looked through the rocks and came across the book that was dropped by Jacob. The figure put the book into his robes and followed his guards deeper into the forest.
* * *
Jacob and company entered to forest and hid in a huge hollowed tree. They stayed there until they could hear the feet. They heard their pursuers stop right outside the tree and yell something to some large cloaked figure in their strange language.
"Whoo, that was close....." Derek breathed. Then, everybody startled when they heard their pursuers come towards the tree.
"Shit....."
The baby's cries echoed throughout the forest, unable to be quieted by Jacob, the baby was passed to Derek, then to Sarah, who then was rocking the baby and singing softly, Anastriana came up behind Sarah and looked at the baby, her ears drooped when she realized what was happening.
"The baby is hungry. Someone is going to have to feed him." She said a- matter-of-factly.
"Don't look at me or Jacob," Derek said, "we're mammary-less. If you get my drift."
Jacob smiled, looking in Sarah's direction.
"Wait, no, uh-uh, not me. I can't do it, I don't even know what to do....."
"I'll do it, but you boys have to go on the other side of that boulder, Sarah, you can stay if you wish." Anastriana said as she pulled the baby from Sarah's arms and sat on a fallen tree.
They had just entered the boundaries of the Forbidden Forest when the baby began to cry and in fearing for being caught, they had hidden in an outcropping of rocks. Jacob and Derek both went and sat behind the rocks and Anastriana pulled off her cloak, then eased the straps from her robe, she wore a necklace that had the same symbol as the book and sword, the three triangles merged into one, she pushed the necklace aside and began. Sarah sat next to her, and talked to her while she fed the boy. -- ((Author's Note: I know a woman must be pregnant before her glands will produce milk, but she's a Hylian, we don't know their physiology, so use your imagination.))--
Derek and Jacob sat with their backs against a huge boulder; Derek leaned over to Jacob and started to talk silently.
"I know we've not even realized this, but we're not in our home." He said, he reached up and motioned to the moon. Jacob followed his gaze and realized that there wasn't one, but two moons.
"I know. I just didn't want to think about it. I wonder how Sarah is really taking this, she doesn't seem affected," Jacob sat with his back to the rock and listened as they could hear Sarah's and Anna's muffled voices.
"What do you think they're talking about?" Derek said after a few silent moments.
"Women stuff, you know, where to shop at the mall, what kind of makeup to wear. The usual." Jacob said, he had succeeded in lightening the mood and both shared a momentary laugh.
"We need to find one of those blue light thingies" Derek said after the laugh had subsided.
"Yeah, but where?" Jacob said.
"We could use the flute..... Oh, no, I forgot, breaking it is what brought us here. Shit!" Derek said.
"Are you guys all right?!" Sarah's voice called from afar.
"Yeah, we're just discussing about what to do." Jacob yelled back.
* * *
"So, tell me, I know you're not from around here, so where are you from?" Anastriana asked of Sarah.
"We come from a place far from here, called New York." Sarah said.
"I've never heard of it. I would very much like to see it." Anna said.
"Maybe you can, but right now we don't know how to get back." Sarah said, she shifted against the granite wall and watched the baby quietly suckling away.
"What brought you here?"
"I'm not quite sure, all I remember is falling and hearing that flute break and finding myself in front of a horse and Jacob saving me."
"Jacob, he is the blonde one?"
"Yes." Sarah looked up at the stars in thought, thinking about all the things that has happened thus far. She reached up and brushed her hand through her hair and then sat down against the wall.
"You care for him?" Anna asked,
"I..... I'm not sure. I don't know,"
"I was in love once....." Anastriana said, she shifted the baby in her arms and slide closer to Sarah, "You never know what you have, until you lose it. Remember that, child."
Sarah looked up in confusion to Anastriana and she only smiled and said: "You'll understand later in your quest. Trust me."
The baby pushed away and cooed towards Anastriana and she looked down and with one hand she pulled her robe back over her to cover her breast.
"Baby's done. You can call the boys back." Anna said to Sarah as she laid the baby on her shoulder to burp him.
Sarah went over to the boulder and called to the boys, "Jacob, Derek, you can come back now."
Jacob and Derek came from behind the boulder. Jacob noted how beautifully the moon shone into Sarah's emerald eyes.
* * *
Everyone was asleep, the baby was tucked between Anastriana and Sarah and Derek was next to Anastriana, his back to her, Jacob on the other hand, was up, and was sitting on one of the large boulders. He pulled the book he carried with him from his pocket and opened it up. He began reading to pass the time.
In the past, the sword of light, the Master Sword was forged, and in it was the sealed the power of the elements, Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth, but the fifth element, Plague, was not so kind. She destroyed all things and was murderous. Her sisters sealed her away with the help of a brave knight and the power of the Master Sword. They sealed her in the Goddess of the Sand. In order to revive the dark element, the Master Sword must be placed in as the key, and the four sisters will be confined to open the seal, releasing that which is destined to destroy.
"Jacob? Is that you?" A voice called from behind him.
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep." Jacob called back to Sarah.
"Me either."
"I wanted to tell you something Jacob." Sarah said as she came up behind him and laid her chin on his shoulder.
"What's that?"
"I wanted to say that....."
Jacob suddenly put his finger to her lips and she silenced. As they sat there in the silence, they could hear muffled footsteps in the underbrush. Then, something whizzed by Jacob's head and he instantly dove down dropping the book and taking Sarah with him. He looked to the tree where it had hit and saw an arrow, a long thick black arrow.
"We've got to get out of here. Derek! Anna! We'll under attack!"
Sarah helped Anna and the infant to her feet and Derek jumped up. The sound of many feet running was now upon them and they started running.
"Where are we going, Jacob?" Sarah yelled from behind him.
"Into the thick trees!" He called.
"But that's the beginning of the Forbidden Forest! We'll get lost!" Anna called to him.
"We have no choice!" Derek said, "I have no intention of becoming Swiss cheese!"
* * *
A large cloaked figured came to the outcrop and was looking around, he looked through the rocks and came across the book that was dropped by Jacob. The figure put the book into his robes and followed his guards deeper into the forest.
* * *
Jacob and company entered to forest and hid in a huge hollowed tree. They stayed there until they could hear the feet. They heard their pursuers stop right outside the tree and yell something to some large cloaked figure in their strange language.
"Whoo, that was close....." Derek breathed. Then, everybody startled when they heard their pursuers come towards the tree.
"Shit....."