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Spirit: The force within

Chapter 6: battle of the heart

Liea sat there stunned and dumbfounded. She picked up her plate and started eating again not saying a word to Link. They both finish their meal and then headed out on the quest. Link and Liea exited the dark forest and entered the dazzling field with Liea riding Epona and Link walking beside her.

"So what exactly are we going to do on this quest to save Hyrule?" asked Liea looking around.

"Well, I defeated all of the major enemies in the other temples and have gotten this far. Now we have to go to Hyrule castle to face Ganondorf and save Hyrule and Zelda--" Link began to state.

"Zelda? Who's Zelda?" Liea broke in acting interested.

"Zelda is the princess of Hyrule who lives with her father, the King, and Impa, her keeper. Zelda is the fairest lady in the land, treasured by all who come by her; I guess you could say. She has kind heart, aura of honor, and a fierce sense of justice towards all. Now Ganondorf has captured Princess Zelda and her father and took over Hyrule somewhat. Him having two out of the three pieces of the Triforce, the Triforce of power and wisdom, he's very powerful right now. It's when he gets the third piece, the Triforce of courage, he'll take full control of the Triforce and destroy Hyrule altogether. What gets me is why he was in Gerudo Valley and not at the Castle. And this is where you come in; you have something very important to defeat Ganondorf that both Zelda and I don't have, and that's what we're going to find out." Without warning, a loud pounding sound started to come out of nowhere and getting louder and louder by the second. It seemed to quickly crawl towards Link and Liea try to devour them.

"Uh, Link, what's that noise?" Liea stuttered holding tight to the rein of Epona.

"I have no clue, Liea, but I don't like It. I want you to stay on Epona and be careful!" Link said pulling out his sword and shield ready to fight and protect himself.

All of a sudden a huge moblin ascended from the ground in front of where Link and Liea were. It stood very tall and had a piggish complexion. It held out its long spear determined to fight. Liea rode off to the side and dismounted leaving Link to defend for himself.

The fighting started when the huge beast swung at Link and barely missing him. Link then swiped at the monster hurting him in the arm. The moblin stood there for a couple of seconds then struck Link throwing him to the ground. Link got back up and lunged for the monster missing it altogether. The monster swung at Link again, but he just rolled underneath the monster and struck its leg. Liea screamed at the mortality of the battle wishing it would stop. The battle seemed to last for hours with blood everywhere and the clanging of metal echoing throughout the land.

Liea sat contently yet aggravated by the combat. She bent over when her stomach began to hurt immensely. An energy build up of something was churning inside of Liea; waiting for the moment. Unconsciously Liea lifted up her arms and formed a large, blue energy ball. Liea held it like a basketball and threw it at the moblin. It hit the fiend causing a bright flash of light and instantly killing it. The light consumed the air and Link and Liea were momentarily blinded.

Once Link regained vision, he quickly turned around looking at Liea puzzled and noticed that she was very exhausted. Liea was breathing heavily. Link jogged up to her wondering what happened.

"Where in the world did that come from?" Link asked bewildered and helping Liea off of the horse.

"I, I don't know. I was just sitting here on Epona and had a huge stomach ache. For some reason I just all of a sudden felt some sort of an energy rush and threw that energy ball without even thinking about it. But I think there's more to that than what happened here." Liea looked up into Link's eyes seeing that he was defiantly baffled by the freak occurrence.

Link looked down from catching Liea's glance and mounted Epona waiting for Liea to follow. Liea mounted with the help of Link's lending hand. After she mounted, they then rode away into the golden sun to their first destination of their quest.