Sorry for the long wait everyone, I've been swamped with stuff for the last couple weeks, but before they chapter, I first must take care of this, how could you suggest me doing something like 1 and 2 Magicsprite? I like bugs! Yeah, I know some people right now are probably thinking, wait a minute, this author is a girl, and she likes bugs? I can't help it, I think bugs are cute. Anyway, there is some reasoning behind why the last chapter ended like that. While I was writing the last few paragraphs I was drinking a glass of ice water. And just as I was getting one last sip the whole lot of crushed ice fell right on my face, getting freezing cold ice in one's eyes is not fun. But then I thought, hmm, this chapter was a little sad, maybe if I add something like this it could end on a light note. Anyway, moral of the story, never tip one's glass too far toward one's face unless one wants their face full of ice, or something like that^_^
Legal stuff: The Legend of Zelda and its characters belong to Nintendo, not to me. Self-made characters however, do belong to me, so no copying.
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A dark figure stood in front of a window, staring out at the clouds, sunlight seemed to periodically shine through him for brief moments, like holes had opened up in his skin. Folding his hands behind his back the figure turned its head to look at the black Gerahk cowering on the floor behind it.
"I am starting to get irritated Zannat, you told me that girl would be in my hands by now."
"I am sorry Master, the girl has proved to be more powerful than I thought."
"Indeed," the figure turned back toward the window, "perhaps she is too much for you? I could just as easily kill you and go after her myself."
Zannat's head snapped up. "No Master! I can get her! Give me one more chance, I beg of you!"
"Very well, one more chance, but only because I don't want to hear you begging for mercy. And bring some of the Soarans with you this time, a few are growing violent with the lack of victims, they might be of use to you."
"I will not fail you Master, I assure you."
Zannat flapped his wings, eager to get as far away from his Master as he could.
"Ah, Zannat, aren't you forgetting something?" The figure turned and walked to a nearby basin of water. Waving one hand over its surface the water began to shimmer and seethe, forming an image in its depths.
"There is the matter of that boy with her, there is an odd aura around him, one I have not felt before. But he is skilled, making your task more difficult," he traced a finger in the water, "we will need to separate them."
"How do you suggest I do that Master?"
"Leave that to me, just be ready to attack when she appears, she will be in the rainfall shrine."
"The rainfall shrine? Are you sure that is wise Master? With what's in there?"
"You will do as you're told Zannat, do not question my reasoning."
"Yes Master! I will be ready for her, and I will send one of the Soarans to tell you when I have her." With that Zannat quickly turned and left before any more faults with his plan could be found.
The figure turned and went back to the window. Gazing out at the clouds again he stretched a hand toward the open window, only to pull it back when a large bolt of electricity arched toward him.
"You'd better get her this time Zannat, I grow increasingly tired of this prison."
*****
Zyte shook her head, clearly frustrated.
"This is ridiculous! How far does this stupid hallway go?"
Link had to agree with her on this one, they had been walking down the same hallway for the past twenty minutes. No doors lined the sides, otherwise they would have taken one by now.
"You tell me, it was your ancestors that built this place."
Zyte gave him a look that clearly told him not to provoke her on this, she was still livid from the drenching she had received earlier and was now extremely irritated with this.
Link quickly held up his hands in a sign of defeat. "Alright, alright, no big deal, just don't go psycho on me."
"Ha, very funny."
Link stopped, "okay, let's think about this, would it be better to keep going down this hallway even though it has no end in sight or turn around and try one of the other halls?"
"Right now that second option is looking good." Zyte went to lean against the wall but ended up plunging straight through it. Link heard a groan and something scrap across the ground as Zyte stood up. Poking her head through the illusion she looked at Link with a look close to bewilderment on her face. "Umm… you have an explanation for why I just fell through a wall, right?"
Link could have smacked himself, "of course, invisible doors, why didn't I think of that?"
Zyte watched as Link turned and looked down the hallway, one of his eyes was red while the other was blue, he turned and looked down the other way.
"Wow, pure luck you fell through, this is the only door in the entire hall." His eyes abruptly turned back to normal.
"Explanation please," Zyte said, gesturing first to the door and then to Link's eyes.
Link stepped forward and stuck his hand through the wall. "A simple illusion, but very effective for keeping someone out, you wouldn't know to look unless you knew it was there," he raised his hand and pointed at his face, "as for these, lens of truth, let's me see through trickery and illusions like that, also very useful when dealing with invisible monsters." He stepped through the wall and took a quick glance around with his red and blue eyes. "Another hallway, least this one has some direction, but with one illusion door there're bound to be others, and having to check all the time will be seriously draining on my magic supplies."
"Well, I might be able to help, it's not infallible, but it might help, and even if it is successful some my other senses might be a little dulled."
"And what would that be?"
Zyte stuck her hand into the illusion and twirled her fingers through it, as if she was trying to feel the illusion itself, Link of course thought it was a little absurd, but if Zyte knew what she was doing, he might as well let her do it, whatever it may be. "Light Soarans are very sensitive to changes in the atmosphere, if I can hone in on the energy this gives off I might be able to tell when we're getting near one, just give me a second."
Zyte felt around the edges of the wall, looking for anything that might speed up her focus. Finding one particularly strong spot she cupped her hand around it and closed her eyes, focusing as hard as she could to memorize the energy it gave off.
Zyte stood that way for nearly a full minute, and just as Link was about to tap her on the shoulder her eyes snapped open. "Got it, that was a tricky little energy pattern, likes to fluctuate a lot." She gazed at the wall, her eyes moving from the floor to the ceiling. "Yep, gives off a very faint aura, but I can feel it." She turned back to Link, "ready to go?"
"If you are, all your senses okay? Or did you weaken one?"
Zyte held up a hand to Leyann's floating form. "I can't feel the energy given off by living things quite as well, just hope we aren't ambushed."
"Then I guess I'll just have to pay more attention," Link said, flashing a smile at Zyte. Zyte managed to keep her face straight and smiled back.
"Well if that's over with can we get going now?" Leyann suddenly said, the slightest hint of a whine in her voice.
Zyte shot her a look of impatience, "very well, your majesty."
Zyte's teasing was met with a slight glow of red from Leyann, "that's not funny, I don't pick on you."
"Oh really? Then why'd you throw seeds at me that one time when I was practicing, or did you think I'd forgotten about that?"
Laughing at the oddly colored glow that Leyann now emitted, Zyte started walking down the hallway, her hand touching the wall every so often.
"Throwing seeds at her while she was practicing? Leyann, I'm appalled," Link said, his eyes twinkling with mischief.
Leyann gave an annoyed sigh and hurried to catch up with Zyte. Link quickly followed, falling in step beside her.
"Anything else you want to tell me?"
"Huh?"
"You shock me more and more often with one thing or another, so why don't you just tell me now if there's anything else I should know."
"Okay, what do you want to know about?"
"Anything, your history, monsters that live only up here, even the Dark Soarans, just tell me about them."
Link listened patiently as Zyte talked, interrupting only when he had a question. Zyte was just starting to tell him about the Dark Soarans when she stopped suddenly and backed up against the wall, fear lining her face.
"What is it? What's wrong?" Link exclaimed, slightly taken aback by her sudden change in behavior.
Zyte started looking around wildly, "there is something evil here, very evil," she murmured.
Link unsheathed his sword, "can you sense where it is? Anything at all."
Zyte shook her head, "nothing, just a radiating evil."
Link kept his eyes and ears open, alert for the slightest sign of movement.
Zyte suddenly gave a small gasp, turning her head to look down the hall. "It's down there, that's where the evil is coming from."
Link readied his sword, "wait here." He started to move down the hallway, switching his view to the lens of truth, he wasn't about to be ambushed by an invisible enemy.
"Link, what's that noise?"
He stopped moving and strained his ears to pick up what Zyte had heard. It was a soft sort of whooshing, along with a click like claws on stones. Link suddenly realized his mistake.
Link whirled around, "Zyte! Move!" he shouted, rushing back to her.
Zyte took a step backward, but it was too late. There was a loud whoosh, and a Wall Master fell from the ceiling. Zyte screamed as the disembodied hand pinned her arms and wings to her body in its fist and disappeared.
"Zyte!" Leyann screamed, and started weaving in the air frantically, desperate to find out what had happened.
Link slammed his fist against the wall. "Damn it!" he cursed.
"Ohhh, Zyte, where did she go, I can't sense her at all, I feel so helpless," Leyann sputtered out.
"Navi! Can you sense her? Anything at all?"
Navi was silent for a second. "Barely, I can just make her out, I might be able lead us there, just maybe, but she is hard to pick out among everything in here."
It took Link a second to understand what Navi had said. "Everything? Exactly what else is in here Navi?"
*****
The Wall Master that had grabbed Zyte deposited her roughly onto the floor before skittering back up the wall. Zyte quickly staggered to her feet. She winced as she moved, that thing had left several gashes from its nails on her arms and she could feel bruises starting to form. Glancing around the rather large room she noted the abundant amount of broken and shattered statues, many missing heads, arms, even entire torsos. Shelves lined the walls, many large enough to sit on. She then noticed the shrine on the other side, it was set up so that rainwater fell from hole near the top of the ceiling and trickled down several rocks to a pool below. A stone walkway led across the pool to a platform in the middle. On that platform was a pedestal, which upon it sat a shimmering blue-green crystal that almost seemed to be moving on the inside. It was radiating a very odd form of energy, and Zyte longed to get closer and see what it was.
But just as Zyte had taken a step toward it a sudden snarl stopped her in her tracks. Whirling at the noise she faced one of the shelves to find a Dark Soaran hissing at her. She was suddenly aware of all the snarls around her, as each Dark Soaran made itself aware to her. Then the black gerahk settled onto to one of the headless statues and smirked at her.
"Master has been very interested in you my dear, very interested indeed…"
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I know, I'm evil. I now await your protests against the evil cliffie^_^
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