Chapter 2: Reunion
Saya looked at them as they held each other and smiled.
"I'll leave you two alone," she said softly. She got up and walked around a bit. Misty pulled away and looked in his eyes.
"You left me for over a year. Where have you been?" she asked. Rasheed laughed a bit and placed his hand on her cheek.
"I'm sorry to leave you. But I had a reason," he said.
"What happened?" she asked; worried.
"You remember Vladimir? Well, he died. The heir of Farore," he said.
Tears started to run down her cheeks again.
"No...No it can't be!" she cried. He held her again and tried to calm her down.
"Don't cry, he died an honorable death," he said.
"But he can't be dead!" she said to him "But how?"
"Its hard to say. I found him, dead. Out in the desert. But he had some unusual battle wounds. But all I know is, he was a really good man. He wouldn't like it if he saw you crying like this," he said softly. Saya interrupted them,
"I hope this isn't the bad time, but we must hurry and get to the other shrines," she said.
"Shrines? What shrines are you two talking about?" he asked.
"Long story, but we can explain on the way, once you lead us to Din's shrine," Misty said. Rasheed looked at them with a confused look, but then nods in approval.
"Alright then. First lets go to the field," Saya said. Misty nods and follows. Rasheed follows behind Misty.
"So why are you two going to each of the goddesses shrines?" he finally asked. Misty didn't say anything. Saya sighed and spoke,
"Well I guess I can tell you know. But I'll make it as short as possible," she said. She then started to explain to him about the riddles, what happened to Misty, and so on. It only took her an hour to tell him everything that has happened but he just nods,
"So an evil spirit has over taken Misty, and you are going to the shrines to solve a riddle. Well I can live with that," Rasheed said. It didn't take too long to get to Hyrule field, Saya stopped as soon as we got out and turned to them.
"Well Rasheed, you lead the way to the next shrine," she said.
"Ok but it will require us to go to Death Mountain. It is somewhere in the crater. But much deeper," he said.
"No lava or fire can hurt us. No matter what, even if it is much deeper then the Fire Temple," Misty said. Rasheed smiles at her,
"You haven't changed a bit Misty, always fired up and ready to take the challenge head on," he said.
"Oh and as if that's a bad thing?" she said with a grin. Saya smiled,
"Are we going or are you two going to..."
"Saya shhh!" Misty said blushing.
"All right, lets go," Rasheed said with a laugh.
"I say we teleport, that way we can get there faster," Misty said.
"Aww come on, hun, lets just walk there. Lets just go on a nice hike and enjoy ourselves," Rasheed insisted.
"Oh, all right," she said.
"Why don't I lead till we get there," Saya said. Before they could say anything, she already started to walk ahead of them.
"Saya wait up!" Misty said. But Rasheed grabbed her by the shoulder.
"Like she said, she'll lead and we'll stay behind," he said.
"Come on lets go," Misty said. Together all three of them walked the long way to the village, which is at the foot of the mountains. That village, so peaceful in its ways, but also holds many secrets such as to the graveyard that is behind the village. This village is called Kakariko Village. All three of them crossed the bridge and walked up the two sets of stairs. There they reached the gate to the village. Misty looked around and smiled,
"This place hasn't changed a whole lot. More shops but that's it," she said.
"Things haven't changed in Hyrule, everything the same," Saya said.
"It's a wonder on how long we haven't been here," she said to Saya. All three laughed and they continued on to Death Mountain trail. They passed by a guard, whom was "guarding" the gate to the trail. He let us go by, but never let kids through. Death Mt. Was pretty active lately, there was always a sudden rumbles once a while.
"I have a bad feeling about this. What if the volcano erupts?" Misty asked
"Well we should be fine. Once we get passed the big trail and climb the cliff, we will be at the entrance to the crater.
"Right," Misty said. She then started to walk a bit but then felt another rumble. Boulders rolled down the pathway. And this IS normal. It always happened, but it was such a head ach to get to where you wanted to go. At the end of one trail, was Dodongo Cavern, where the gorons, get their food. The gorons are peaceful people. They have a city at the end of the trail, thus they are the protectors of the mountains. They got to the top and walked to the edge, thus they climbed the rest of the way. Until they got to the cliff where they are about half way there.
"Ugh, how far until we get there?" Misty asked.
"Just have to follow this trail to that big cliff in the distance, then we are at the entrance of the crater," Saya said. They continued to walk, the ground rumbled again but this time it was much more stronger then usual. Without warning, the volcano erupted. Flaming rocks came flying to them.
"RUN!" cried Rasheed. All three of them started to run as fast as they could. Saya batted some of the rocks with a water spell.
"Damn, I don't think we are going to make it!" Misty cried. She fired some water spells too, but there were too many of them.
"Lets focus on the running then the spell casting guys," Rasheed said. He grabbed their arms and ran. Faster and faster they went. They jumped out of the way and slammed against the cliff wall. The rocks didn't hit them, for they were out of range. Misty breathed hard.
"It's going to be rocky going back down," she said.
"Well it wont be to soon neither," Saya said. She got up and help the two of them up.
"Come on, lets get a move on," Saya said. She then started to climb the cliff.
"Well what are you two waiting for? Lets go!" she shouted to them. Misty nods and starts to climb. Rasheed followed behind them. Misty grabbed a rock and pulled up and looked above her, her face froze and she screamed. A Skullwalltula was right in her face.
"Misty what's wrong?" asked Rasheed.
"SPIDER!" she cried. Rasheed fired a small fire spell (and I mean small) at the Skullwalltula, causing it to burn and fall to the ground. He climbed up next to her and had a sly grin on his face. Misty made a face at him.
"That wasn't funny, so you better not laugh," she said.
"Whatever you say," he said. She scolds at him and climbed ahead of him. Saya got to the top and waited for them. Misty grabbed the edge and pulled her self up. She then helps Rasheed up and they got to their feet.
"Well we're here," Misty said.
"That cave will lead us to the cave, so lets get a move on," Rasheed said. All three of them walked in the cave and appeared in the crater. Lava flowed from every direction. Below them was the entrance to the Fire Temple and on the other side is a passageway to the Shrine. Misty looked around and saw very little land for them to get there. There was another cliff, but it required them to climb above the flowing hot lava.
"So, how the hell do we get over there without falling in?" Misty asked.
"Well we could climb our way over there..." Rasheed said.
"Hell no! I say we teleport there," Saya said.
"We could do that, but you see there is a problem," he said.
"And what's that?" she asked.
"Fire demons are surrounding us," he said.
"What?" Saya asked. Both Misty and Saya looked around and saw thousands of fire demons surrounding them. There was no way of getting to the shrine, unless they kill all of them.
"Water and Ice spells should work," Misty said.
"Lets just get it over with!" Saya said. She then started to fire water blasts at them demons. The other reacted and an all out battle had started. Misty fired as many ice and water spells as she can. Rasheed, being the master of ice, he had already killed half of them.
"Woohoo!" cried Saya "Go Rasheed!" But with out warning more fire demons came out of the lava.
"Damn it! When will this end?" Misty cried.
"If you haven't noticed, the shrine is glowing. It must have summoned the demons in order to keep people away from the shrine," Rasheed said.
"Oh yay, so the only way to stop this is when we get to the shrine and take the artifact?" Misty asked.
"Guess so," Saya shouted in the distance. Her eyes then changed to red. Her eyes change every so often, it basically shows her mood. And right now you can say her blood lust just went up. She continued to fire water blasts, trying to hold them off.
"You guys go to the shrine, I'll hold them off!" Saya shouts.
"There's to many. Rasheed, you stay here and help her out. I'll go ahead and get the artifact!" Misty shouts back.
"Misty no! It's too dangerous. I'll go and you stay," Rasheed said. But it was too late. Misty had already run to the shrine. She began to climb the cliffs to the shrine.
"Rasheed, make sure the demons don't come near here!" Saya shouted. Rasheed looked at them demons and back at Misty. He then started to fire a water spell at the demons to keep them away from Misty. Misty looked down at the lava, sweat dropped and she was breathing hard. She was about half way there to the next platform. But without warning lava streams shot out and went for her.
"MISTY!" Rasheed shouts. He then started to run for her. The lava stream went away and barely missed her. She was a bit burned but was ok. She then continued to go for the next platform.
"Misty stop! The next time you wont be so lucky!" cried Rasheed. He then started to follow her. A section of the cliff had collapsed. Leaving a huge gap between her and him. Misty looked back at Rasheed.
"Keep going to that platform!" he shouts to her. She nods and goes for the platform. Soon that part of the cliff fell.
"MISTY!" Misty was hanging on the edge of the platform. Barely hanging on. Since it was hot, she has been sweating. And her hands were sweaty so she began to slip. Rasheed then lunged to the other cliff. He made his was to her, he grasped the end of the platform and pulled himself up. He then ran to Misty and grabbed her hand before she fell. He pulled her up and over. He was still holding on to her. Misty opened her eyes and looked up at him. He smiled down at her, she then grinned.
"So what took you so long?" she asked.
"Hey, at least I saved you from sudden death," he said with a sly grin on his face. She smiled back at him.
"Get off my sister you ape," said a voice. It echoed in the darkness.
"What? Who's there?" she asked. Both of them got up. Rasheed drew his sword.
"Who the hells out there?" he asked. A figure came out of the darkness. He has long straight blond hair in a ponytail. He was thin and about the same height as both Misty and Rasheed. He had sharp piercing black eyes that looked deep into their eyes.
"I said, lay off my sister," he said.
"Sister?" Rasheed asked. He looked at Misty for an answer but she didn't say anything.
"Who the hell are you?" she asked.
"I'm so disappointed in you, you're my sister and should know," he said.
"Look I have no idea what the hell you are talking about but you better tell us your name!" Rasheed said.
"If you wish to know my name, my name is Tokiya Mikagami" Fire and lava streams shot out from the ground; his face glowed as they shot out. Both Rasheed and Misty froze, but in her mind she said this,
"Who is this guy? And why does he think I'm his sister?"
Saya looked at them as they held each other and smiled.
"I'll leave you two alone," she said softly. She got up and walked around a bit. Misty pulled away and looked in his eyes.
"You left me for over a year. Where have you been?" she asked. Rasheed laughed a bit and placed his hand on her cheek.
"I'm sorry to leave you. But I had a reason," he said.
"What happened?" she asked; worried.
"You remember Vladimir? Well, he died. The heir of Farore," he said.
Tears started to run down her cheeks again.
"No...No it can't be!" she cried. He held her again and tried to calm her down.
"Don't cry, he died an honorable death," he said.
"But he can't be dead!" she said to him "But how?"
"Its hard to say. I found him, dead. Out in the desert. But he had some unusual battle wounds. But all I know is, he was a really good man. He wouldn't like it if he saw you crying like this," he said softly. Saya interrupted them,
"I hope this isn't the bad time, but we must hurry and get to the other shrines," she said.
"Shrines? What shrines are you two talking about?" he asked.
"Long story, but we can explain on the way, once you lead us to Din's shrine," Misty said. Rasheed looked at them with a confused look, but then nods in approval.
"Alright then. First lets go to the field," Saya said. Misty nods and follows. Rasheed follows behind Misty.
"So why are you two going to each of the goddesses shrines?" he finally asked. Misty didn't say anything. Saya sighed and spoke,
"Well I guess I can tell you know. But I'll make it as short as possible," she said. She then started to explain to him about the riddles, what happened to Misty, and so on. It only took her an hour to tell him everything that has happened but he just nods,
"So an evil spirit has over taken Misty, and you are going to the shrines to solve a riddle. Well I can live with that," Rasheed said. It didn't take too long to get to Hyrule field, Saya stopped as soon as we got out and turned to them.
"Well Rasheed, you lead the way to the next shrine," she said.
"Ok but it will require us to go to Death Mountain. It is somewhere in the crater. But much deeper," he said.
"No lava or fire can hurt us. No matter what, even if it is much deeper then the Fire Temple," Misty said. Rasheed smiles at her,
"You haven't changed a bit Misty, always fired up and ready to take the challenge head on," he said.
"Oh and as if that's a bad thing?" she said with a grin. Saya smiled,
"Are we going or are you two going to..."
"Saya shhh!" Misty said blushing.
"All right, lets go," Rasheed said with a laugh.
"I say we teleport, that way we can get there faster," Misty said.
"Aww come on, hun, lets just walk there. Lets just go on a nice hike and enjoy ourselves," Rasheed insisted.
"Oh, all right," she said.
"Why don't I lead till we get there," Saya said. Before they could say anything, she already started to walk ahead of them.
"Saya wait up!" Misty said. But Rasheed grabbed her by the shoulder.
"Like she said, she'll lead and we'll stay behind," he said.
"Come on lets go," Misty said. Together all three of them walked the long way to the village, which is at the foot of the mountains. That village, so peaceful in its ways, but also holds many secrets such as to the graveyard that is behind the village. This village is called Kakariko Village. All three of them crossed the bridge and walked up the two sets of stairs. There they reached the gate to the village. Misty looked around and smiled,
"This place hasn't changed a whole lot. More shops but that's it," she said.
"Things haven't changed in Hyrule, everything the same," Saya said.
"It's a wonder on how long we haven't been here," she said to Saya. All three laughed and they continued on to Death Mountain trail. They passed by a guard, whom was "guarding" the gate to the trail. He let us go by, but never let kids through. Death Mt. Was pretty active lately, there was always a sudden rumbles once a while.
"I have a bad feeling about this. What if the volcano erupts?" Misty asked
"Well we should be fine. Once we get passed the big trail and climb the cliff, we will be at the entrance to the crater.
"Right," Misty said. She then started to walk a bit but then felt another rumble. Boulders rolled down the pathway. And this IS normal. It always happened, but it was such a head ach to get to where you wanted to go. At the end of one trail, was Dodongo Cavern, where the gorons, get their food. The gorons are peaceful people. They have a city at the end of the trail, thus they are the protectors of the mountains. They got to the top and walked to the edge, thus they climbed the rest of the way. Until they got to the cliff where they are about half way there.
"Ugh, how far until we get there?" Misty asked.
"Just have to follow this trail to that big cliff in the distance, then we are at the entrance of the crater," Saya said. They continued to walk, the ground rumbled again but this time it was much more stronger then usual. Without warning, the volcano erupted. Flaming rocks came flying to them.
"RUN!" cried Rasheed. All three of them started to run as fast as they could. Saya batted some of the rocks with a water spell.
"Damn, I don't think we are going to make it!" Misty cried. She fired some water spells too, but there were too many of them.
"Lets focus on the running then the spell casting guys," Rasheed said. He grabbed their arms and ran. Faster and faster they went. They jumped out of the way and slammed against the cliff wall. The rocks didn't hit them, for they were out of range. Misty breathed hard.
"It's going to be rocky going back down," she said.
"Well it wont be to soon neither," Saya said. She got up and help the two of them up.
"Come on, lets get a move on," Saya said. She then started to climb the cliff.
"Well what are you two waiting for? Lets go!" she shouted to them. Misty nods and starts to climb. Rasheed followed behind them. Misty grabbed a rock and pulled up and looked above her, her face froze and she screamed. A Skullwalltula was right in her face.
"Misty what's wrong?" asked Rasheed.
"SPIDER!" she cried. Rasheed fired a small fire spell (and I mean small) at the Skullwalltula, causing it to burn and fall to the ground. He climbed up next to her and had a sly grin on his face. Misty made a face at him.
"That wasn't funny, so you better not laugh," she said.
"Whatever you say," he said. She scolds at him and climbed ahead of him. Saya got to the top and waited for them. Misty grabbed the edge and pulled her self up. She then helps Rasheed up and they got to their feet.
"Well we're here," Misty said.
"That cave will lead us to the cave, so lets get a move on," Rasheed said. All three of them walked in the cave and appeared in the crater. Lava flowed from every direction. Below them was the entrance to the Fire Temple and on the other side is a passageway to the Shrine. Misty looked around and saw very little land for them to get there. There was another cliff, but it required them to climb above the flowing hot lava.
"So, how the hell do we get over there without falling in?" Misty asked.
"Well we could climb our way over there..." Rasheed said.
"Hell no! I say we teleport there," Saya said.
"We could do that, but you see there is a problem," he said.
"And what's that?" she asked.
"Fire demons are surrounding us," he said.
"What?" Saya asked. Both Misty and Saya looked around and saw thousands of fire demons surrounding them. There was no way of getting to the shrine, unless they kill all of them.
"Water and Ice spells should work," Misty said.
"Lets just get it over with!" Saya said. She then started to fire water blasts at them demons. The other reacted and an all out battle had started. Misty fired as many ice and water spells as she can. Rasheed, being the master of ice, he had already killed half of them.
"Woohoo!" cried Saya "Go Rasheed!" But with out warning more fire demons came out of the lava.
"Damn it! When will this end?" Misty cried.
"If you haven't noticed, the shrine is glowing. It must have summoned the demons in order to keep people away from the shrine," Rasheed said.
"Oh yay, so the only way to stop this is when we get to the shrine and take the artifact?" Misty asked.
"Guess so," Saya shouted in the distance. Her eyes then changed to red. Her eyes change every so often, it basically shows her mood. And right now you can say her blood lust just went up. She continued to fire water blasts, trying to hold them off.
"You guys go to the shrine, I'll hold them off!" Saya shouts.
"There's to many. Rasheed, you stay here and help her out. I'll go ahead and get the artifact!" Misty shouts back.
"Misty no! It's too dangerous. I'll go and you stay," Rasheed said. But it was too late. Misty had already run to the shrine. She began to climb the cliffs to the shrine.
"Rasheed, make sure the demons don't come near here!" Saya shouted. Rasheed looked at them demons and back at Misty. He then started to fire a water spell at the demons to keep them away from Misty. Misty looked down at the lava, sweat dropped and she was breathing hard. She was about half way there to the next platform. But without warning lava streams shot out and went for her.
"MISTY!" Rasheed shouts. He then started to run for her. The lava stream went away and barely missed her. She was a bit burned but was ok. She then continued to go for the next platform.
"Misty stop! The next time you wont be so lucky!" cried Rasheed. He then started to follow her. A section of the cliff had collapsed. Leaving a huge gap between her and him. Misty looked back at Rasheed.
"Keep going to that platform!" he shouts to her. She nods and goes for the platform. Soon that part of the cliff fell.
"MISTY!" Misty was hanging on the edge of the platform. Barely hanging on. Since it was hot, she has been sweating. And her hands were sweaty so she began to slip. Rasheed then lunged to the other cliff. He made his was to her, he grasped the end of the platform and pulled himself up. He then ran to Misty and grabbed her hand before she fell. He pulled her up and over. He was still holding on to her. Misty opened her eyes and looked up at him. He smiled down at her, she then grinned.
"So what took you so long?" she asked.
"Hey, at least I saved you from sudden death," he said with a sly grin on his face. She smiled back at him.
"Get off my sister you ape," said a voice. It echoed in the darkness.
"What? Who's there?" she asked. Both of them got up. Rasheed drew his sword.
"Who the hells out there?" he asked. A figure came out of the darkness. He has long straight blond hair in a ponytail. He was thin and about the same height as both Misty and Rasheed. He had sharp piercing black eyes that looked deep into their eyes.
"I said, lay off my sister," he said.
"Sister?" Rasheed asked. He looked at Misty for an answer but she didn't say anything.
"Who the hell are you?" she asked.
"I'm so disappointed in you, you're my sister and should know," he said.
"Look I have no idea what the hell you are talking about but you better tell us your name!" Rasheed said.
"If you wish to know my name, my name is Tokiya Mikagami" Fire and lava streams shot out from the ground; his face glowed as they shot out. Both Rasheed and Misty froze, but in her mind she said this,
"Who is this guy? And why does he think I'm his sister?"