Chapter 4. A Long Journey

Alex was standing on top of what seemed like a mountain. It was raining so heavily he could barely see. He was on his hands and knees and in front of him stood a man holding a sword. It was dark out so his face was hidden.

As Alex attempted to stand the man hit him hard on the side of the face and Alex hit the ground hard. He immediately stood up quickly and unsheathed his own, they faced each other as lightning flashed in the sky. As the lightning glared lighting up the whole sky. He looked into the man's face and what Alex saw made him gasp.

"ALEX!! Alex are you alright!" said a voice.

Alex opened his eyes and in front of him Ian stood still with a worried look on his face. As Alex sat up he realized he was covered in sweat.' "Alex are you alright" He said again. "Ya, I'm fine" Alex said "You kept tossing and turning and shouting" "I'm fine, really"

With that Ian left, after Alex ran away with Ian he had taken him to there camp. It wasn't much, just a few tents and a cooking fire. Ian had said his group (which he often referred to as the last hope) was constantly on the move since they almost always had a patrol of moblins after them.

It was late afternoon but it certainly didn't look it in the dense forest. Alex had talked with Ian almost all night and most of his questions were answered. It turns out that Ian had made it out of his shop alive and took off looking for Alex, but failed. Ever since then Ian had sworn to help in the fight against Leon.

The men and women who now fought along side him where much fewer in numbers then Alex had expected. It turned out there was only twenty others. Ian explained that they had practiced special techniques to make them seem much bigger. For instance, when he was rescued there was about eight archers shooting arrows, but each had about five arrows on there bow at a time.

When Alex asked how Ian had found him he told him Alex's reputation was much better then he thought it was. "When you were captured news of this spread from town to town like a wildfire. It only took us four days to find you." "Four days!" exclaimed Alex "I though I only blacked out for a number of hours"

Alex finally stepped out of his tent and into the center of camp. Ian and about four others were talking together. As Alex approached them they all looked up at him.

"So this is the great Alex you've talking about" exclaimed one of them. "Yes this is him, Alex this is Will" Ian said pointing to the one who was just talking. "Alex, its time we told you why you are here." Ian said "You'd better sit down". "We've been trying to rally support, like you, from the other races. But as you've noticed no one seems interested. You remember those Goron's and Zora's back with the moblins and iron knuckle?" Alex nodded his head. "Well, it turns out that Leon has been training sorcerers that have figured out how to control the minds of others.

That's why they all had that odd look on their face. They realize what's happening, but they can't control themselves." "How do you know all this?" asked Alex "Because one of my men had this spell put on them" Ian said. "He's never been the same, he's always nervous, and looking behind his back like someone s watching him." "But how can we stop them?" said Alex "There is one way, but it will be a long journey, it is almost certain that we won't come back alive."