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*~*Chapter 7*~*
The Zen
Saige peeled open her eyes and saw Sakura and Ivan standing impatiently over her. The sun was blazing down onto the desert-like Pass, and the heat was already excruciating. "what..?" Saige mumbled, rolling over to hide from the sun. "Get UP!" Sakura snapped, grabbing the end of Saige's sleeping bag and yanking, so that Saige was left on the ground, and Sakura had the bag. Saige spat out a load of dry dust that was in her mouth and groaning, stood up. "Its way past dawn!" Sakura said with growing impatience. "We'd have already cleared this miserable Pass by now if you two lumps took care to actually wake up! I swear, I thought you were dead!" With that Sakura stormed of to roll her own sleeping bag, and hoisted it onto the top of her pack. Ivan threw a bewildered glance at Saige, she smirked. "get used to it" Saige whispered so Sakura couldn't hear. "she's always like this" The two scrambled to roll their sleeping bags, and stamp out the glowing embers that was once their fire. Once packed, the group headed out. The sun beat down on them, and there was no life for miles on all sides. "how much longer..?" Sakura complained "we have no idea! So shut your trap!" Saige yelped back at her. She was getting very sick of Sakura's complaints. Ivan rolled his eyes. The two girls obviously weren't getting along very well...but he had to admit, the heat was getting to him too... "I'm so thirsty!" Sakura whined, rubbing her parched throat. To this Saige said nothing. She couldn't blame Sakura, it was VERY hot. She looked upwards and shaded her eyes with her hand. She cursed the stupid sun for being so harsh, and the dumb Pass they'd been lost in for almost a week. They were already clean out of food, and water, and Saige's stomach was growling. She felt as if she was going to collapse any minuet, she was so dizzy... "How far is it anyway?" She groaned to Ivan. "About an hour or two" he sighed. "are there any watering holes or something between here and the ocean?" Sakura asked. "nope. Nothin'" Ivan reported. This sparked Saige's curiosity. "Hey" she began "you said you've been in this Pass for weeks, but you ain't got any water" she said. Sakura looked slightly taken aback by the information. It was true, Ivan had no pack. All he had was a long blue cloak, and it's pockets surely weren't large enough to hold a canteen. Even if they did, where would he fill it? Ivan looked blankly ahead of him. "yeah...? So...?" Saige smirked. She had him now. "So?!" she asked "You'd be dead by now? And what on Avvia are you doing out here all alone anyway?!" Ivan took a deep breath. "I told you, I'm from Western Ocean" Saige was getting impatient. "So are the Zoras." She snapped "But they aren't in this horrid Gem Mountain Pass!" Ivan looked back at Saige and Sakura. "I was...exiled should you say... because I have this...abnormality.." Saige crossed her arms over her chest. "yeah, so do we. We told you that. I can talk to animals, and Sakura here has wind powers. How more "abnormal" can you get?!" Ivan sneered at her. "Well, where I come from, It was considered a disgrace. I was banished, since I have...water powers" Saige grabbed him by the collar of his blue robes, holding him even to her face, (which for him was a foot off the ground) "WATER POWERS?" She yelled "AND YOU'VE LET US COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING THIRSTY FOR HOURS NOW?" Ivan looked thoroughly taken aback, and Sakura took this chance to pry him from Saige's grip. "I-I can only m-manipulate it! Not create it!" He stammered. Saige seemed to be calming down now. "alright...can you make more of it? Like make it expand?" She asked dryly. "yeah.." Ivan said. "where is this going, Saige?" Sakura snapped. "Yes, learn to control yah' tempah' and take a breather Hun' Now tell us all, what's goin' on? Kyra said soothingly. "Kyra...spit for me.." Saige ordered. Kyra gave her a quizzical look, but spat anyway. "EEW!" Sakura yelped, jumping backwards. "I'm not gonna drink THAT" She pointed at the spit on the cracked floor of the Pass. "don't be stupid" Saige snapped. "Ivan can manipulate WATER, so I guess the spit part will be left there, and the water will be extracted, then multiplied" she turned on Ivan "can you do that?" She said it as if it was more of an order, not a question. Ivan nodded numbly and set to work. He held up his finger, much as Sakura did with her powers, and closed his eyes. Sakura, Saige and Kyra watched as the bubbling spit-like foam split away from the clear water, and rose into the air. It flung a few yards off, and the water part began to jiggle. First slowly, then faster, all the while getting bigger. It was now a foot long block of water, floating in the air. Saige, Sakura and Kyra dove at it, but it leapt from their grasp. It moved towards a hollowed out crack atop a boulder, and kept doubling itself until the crack was full with glittering water. Ivan put his finger down, and strode towards it. He smiled. "there" he said proudly. The girls didn't wait for an invitation, but flung themselves at it, sipping the water greedily. It felt good on their coarse thoughts. "Thanks So much Ivan!" Sakura gasped. He surely was going to come in handy. Then she remembered what Sheik had said, that he knew of the magic that Xieon used. She abandon the water and walked towards him. "erm...Ivan? " She asked slowly, choosing her words carefully. "I was told...that you knew about this magic that Xieon is using..?" Saige looked up from the water and walked casually over, taking her place next to Sakura. Ivan nodded. "yeah...I know a bit about magic, dunno if it's the type your looking for. Not much though. The Zoras knew a lot, all I know is what I managed to pick up from rumors and such" "well, you gonna tell us or not?" Saige snapped irritably. Ivan decided she was not a morning person. "yeah, I guess." Ivan shrugged, mostly to annoy Saige. "This is hard to explain.." Ivan admitted, furrowing his brow, searching for a way to put it into words. Normally, he just understood, but teaching what he knew to others, that was harder. "well, imagine this." He said "times are bad, really, really bad. Dark Wizards, like this Xieon of yours, are everywhere. They strike towns, cities, continents too fast, no one can retaliate. Almost no one has a home, people dieing this way and that. That's how the world used to be, about 1000 years ago. It was then that Zelda's family overthrew the dark wizards. No one really knows how, but they did. Some say that they overthrew the wizards, using their own brand of magic against them. A gem so strong, it could destroy, or create, worlds...no galaxies in a second. This gem, is called the Zen." Ivan paused for a breath. "The Zen was worshipped for the sun god, Sol, and the moon god, Luna. Legend has it that their power is in the Zen. Of course, this is all rubbish, since the Sun and Moon are not gods, but at the time it was believed they were. Anyway, the Zen is an object of massive power, but if it falls into the wrong hands, you might as well kiss your butt good-bye cuz' there's little chance your gonna live for much longer. But, I suspect, that since the moon and sun are opposites, this represents how Zelda's family turned the world around with the Zen, and fixed it all up. Many have searched for the Zen, and as far as I know, many have failed. The Zen was considered gone for good." Ivan finished. Saige and Sakura looked awed. No one spoke for a minuet. "well why didn't we learn that in history class?" Sakura smirked. "I always knew that class was useless!" For once in her life though, Saige was looking very serious, and appeared to be deep in thought. "c'mon Saige" Sakura said, punching her playfully on the shoulder. "Its rubbish, and has nothing at all to do with Xieon, so lets go. I'd like to get to West Ocean before sunset" She walked gaily forward, and Ivan and Saige followed her. "Don't worry Sakura, not far now!" Ivan smiled. The team walked for about an hour, keeping a steady pace. The sun beat down on them, but the growing smell of salt in the air, and prospect of all that water kept the group going. Suddenly Sakura stopped. "Hear that?" she asked excitedly. Saige and Ivan listened hard. A soft roar reached their ears, like a far away freight train. "yeah.." Saige mused "wonder what it is" Ivan listened for a few more seconds. "I don't know... I didn't pass any train tracks on my way here. Then again, I walked on top of this gorge, not in it." He pointed to the top part of the canyon. The group hurried forward. The sound was getting louder now, so strange, yet so familiar. It beckoned them on and... "OH MY GOSH!" Sakura shrieked from far ahead. Saige and Ivan caught up and gasped. They were on the edge of a fifty some-odd foot high cliff, and a yard or so below them a gigantic hole was broken into the side of the pass. Crystal clear water sped from it and plummeted down into the vast ocean below. Saige nor Sakura had ever seen an ocean before. They watched it's waves reach up onto the shore and lap against the rocks of the cliff. "I have never seen so much water in my life" Saige breathed softly, as if one loud noise would shatter the beauty of the moment. "Its so..." Sakura searched for a word "wonderful!" Ivan was staring at the hole in the wall below them. "odd.." he began "I didn't know Gem Mountain Pass had an underground spring below it! In fact, I don't think I'd ever been to this part of the beach before!" The girls snapped out of their daydream. "what?!" Saige yelped, taking Ivan by surprise. "You mean to tell me, that you have NO IDEA where we are?!" Ivan stepped backwards a bit. "well...no I have an idea, we just go that way" he pointed back down the pass. "what do you mean, down the pass again?!" Sakura yelled. "no!" Ivan smiled. "I mean we climb down, and go a ways that way. I'm sure that's where the Zora Temple is, and we can search for clues there" Saige and Sakura nodded. "Lets go then" Saige smiled, and dove from her spot, landing a few yards below, right next to the waterfall. "Saige that's not safe!" Ivan yelped, a second too late. Saige had already jumped, and with a whoop was heading down into the ocean. She knew how to swim, as she had a lake near her house, but skydiving was another thing. She felt like her stomach was doing back flips with her, and she couldn't help but smile as she plummeted downwards. The moist air felt great against her dirt-covered face. As suddenly as it had started, it stopped, and Saige hit the water hard. She sank a good dozen feet, and paddled up to the top. Her ponytail was now out, and her shoulder length blonde hair was fanning out in a circle around her. "COME ON!" She yelled up. "UNLESS YOUR CHICKEN!!!" Saige made little chicken sounds and flapped her arms. Kyra looked down the cliff, and stepped nervously backwards. "I really dun' like heights Saige.." she yelled back down. Sakura and Ivan exchanged glances, before diving off themselves, leaving the brown dog up there alone. "Ya'll go on!" She yelled as Sakura and Ivan hit water "I'll climb down, follow your scent, and meet you before sundown!" Saige nodded "'Kay!" She yelled back up, and the trio swam towards shore.
Ivan, Xieon, all monsters and any other character not copyrighted by Nintendo, is mine and mine ONLY! You may only use them if you e-mail me
and ask (politely!)
*~*Chapter 7*~*
The Zen
Saige peeled open her eyes and saw Sakura and Ivan standing impatiently over her. The sun was blazing down onto the desert-like Pass, and the heat was already excruciating. "what..?" Saige mumbled, rolling over to hide from the sun. "Get UP!" Sakura snapped, grabbing the end of Saige's sleeping bag and yanking, so that Saige was left on the ground, and Sakura had the bag. Saige spat out a load of dry dust that was in her mouth and groaning, stood up. "Its way past dawn!" Sakura said with growing impatience. "We'd have already cleared this miserable Pass by now if you two lumps took care to actually wake up! I swear, I thought you were dead!" With that Sakura stormed of to roll her own sleeping bag, and hoisted it onto the top of her pack. Ivan threw a bewildered glance at Saige, she smirked. "get used to it" Saige whispered so Sakura couldn't hear. "she's always like this" The two scrambled to roll their sleeping bags, and stamp out the glowing embers that was once their fire. Once packed, the group headed out. The sun beat down on them, and there was no life for miles on all sides. "how much longer..?" Sakura complained "we have no idea! So shut your trap!" Saige yelped back at her. She was getting very sick of Sakura's complaints. Ivan rolled his eyes. The two girls obviously weren't getting along very well...but he had to admit, the heat was getting to him too... "I'm so thirsty!" Sakura whined, rubbing her parched throat. To this Saige said nothing. She couldn't blame Sakura, it was VERY hot. She looked upwards and shaded her eyes with her hand. She cursed the stupid sun for being so harsh, and the dumb Pass they'd been lost in for almost a week. They were already clean out of food, and water, and Saige's stomach was growling. She felt as if she was going to collapse any minuet, she was so dizzy... "How far is it anyway?" She groaned to Ivan. "About an hour or two" he sighed. "are there any watering holes or something between here and the ocean?" Sakura asked. "nope. Nothin'" Ivan reported. This sparked Saige's curiosity. "Hey" she began "you said you've been in this Pass for weeks, but you ain't got any water" she said. Sakura looked slightly taken aback by the information. It was true, Ivan had no pack. All he had was a long blue cloak, and it's pockets surely weren't large enough to hold a canteen. Even if they did, where would he fill it? Ivan looked blankly ahead of him. "yeah...? So...?" Saige smirked. She had him now. "So?!" she asked "You'd be dead by now? And what on Avvia are you doing out here all alone anyway?!" Ivan took a deep breath. "I told you, I'm from Western Ocean" Saige was getting impatient. "So are the Zoras." She snapped "But they aren't in this horrid Gem Mountain Pass!" Ivan looked back at Saige and Sakura. "I was...exiled should you say... because I have this...abnormality.." Saige crossed her arms over her chest. "yeah, so do we. We told you that. I can talk to animals, and Sakura here has wind powers. How more "abnormal" can you get?!" Ivan sneered at her. "Well, where I come from, It was considered a disgrace. I was banished, since I have...water powers" Saige grabbed him by the collar of his blue robes, holding him even to her face, (which for him was a foot off the ground) "WATER POWERS?" She yelled "AND YOU'VE LET US COMPLAIN ABOUT BEING THIRSTY FOR HOURS NOW?" Ivan looked thoroughly taken aback, and Sakura took this chance to pry him from Saige's grip. "I-I can only m-manipulate it! Not create it!" He stammered. Saige seemed to be calming down now. "alright...can you make more of it? Like make it expand?" She asked dryly. "yeah.." Ivan said. "where is this going, Saige?" Sakura snapped. "Yes, learn to control yah' tempah' and take a breather Hun' Now tell us all, what's goin' on? Kyra said soothingly. "Kyra...spit for me.." Saige ordered. Kyra gave her a quizzical look, but spat anyway. "EEW!" Sakura yelped, jumping backwards. "I'm not gonna drink THAT" She pointed at the spit on the cracked floor of the Pass. "don't be stupid" Saige snapped. "Ivan can manipulate WATER, so I guess the spit part will be left there, and the water will be extracted, then multiplied" she turned on Ivan "can you do that?" She said it as if it was more of an order, not a question. Ivan nodded numbly and set to work. He held up his finger, much as Sakura did with her powers, and closed his eyes. Sakura, Saige and Kyra watched as the bubbling spit-like foam split away from the clear water, and rose into the air. It flung a few yards off, and the water part began to jiggle. First slowly, then faster, all the while getting bigger. It was now a foot long block of water, floating in the air. Saige, Sakura and Kyra dove at it, but it leapt from their grasp. It moved towards a hollowed out crack atop a boulder, and kept doubling itself until the crack was full with glittering water. Ivan put his finger down, and strode towards it. He smiled. "there" he said proudly. The girls didn't wait for an invitation, but flung themselves at it, sipping the water greedily. It felt good on their coarse thoughts. "Thanks So much Ivan!" Sakura gasped. He surely was going to come in handy. Then she remembered what Sheik had said, that he knew of the magic that Xieon used. She abandon the water and walked towards him. "erm...Ivan? " She asked slowly, choosing her words carefully. "I was told...that you knew about this magic that Xieon is using..?" Saige looked up from the water and walked casually over, taking her place next to Sakura. Ivan nodded. "yeah...I know a bit about magic, dunno if it's the type your looking for. Not much though. The Zoras knew a lot, all I know is what I managed to pick up from rumors and such" "well, you gonna tell us or not?" Saige snapped irritably. Ivan decided she was not a morning person. "yeah, I guess." Ivan shrugged, mostly to annoy Saige. "This is hard to explain.." Ivan admitted, furrowing his brow, searching for a way to put it into words. Normally, he just understood, but teaching what he knew to others, that was harder. "well, imagine this." He said "times are bad, really, really bad. Dark Wizards, like this Xieon of yours, are everywhere. They strike towns, cities, continents too fast, no one can retaliate. Almost no one has a home, people dieing this way and that. That's how the world used to be, about 1000 years ago. It was then that Zelda's family overthrew the dark wizards. No one really knows how, but they did. Some say that they overthrew the wizards, using their own brand of magic against them. A gem so strong, it could destroy, or create, worlds...no galaxies in a second. This gem, is called the Zen." Ivan paused for a breath. "The Zen was worshipped for the sun god, Sol, and the moon god, Luna. Legend has it that their power is in the Zen. Of course, this is all rubbish, since the Sun and Moon are not gods, but at the time it was believed they were. Anyway, the Zen is an object of massive power, but if it falls into the wrong hands, you might as well kiss your butt good-bye cuz' there's little chance your gonna live for much longer. But, I suspect, that since the moon and sun are opposites, this represents how Zelda's family turned the world around with the Zen, and fixed it all up. Many have searched for the Zen, and as far as I know, many have failed. The Zen was considered gone for good." Ivan finished. Saige and Sakura looked awed. No one spoke for a minuet. "well why didn't we learn that in history class?" Sakura smirked. "I always knew that class was useless!" For once in her life though, Saige was looking very serious, and appeared to be deep in thought. "c'mon Saige" Sakura said, punching her playfully on the shoulder. "Its rubbish, and has nothing at all to do with Xieon, so lets go. I'd like to get to West Ocean before sunset" She walked gaily forward, and Ivan and Saige followed her. "Don't worry Sakura, not far now!" Ivan smiled. The team walked for about an hour, keeping a steady pace. The sun beat down on them, but the growing smell of salt in the air, and prospect of all that water kept the group going. Suddenly Sakura stopped. "Hear that?" she asked excitedly. Saige and Ivan listened hard. A soft roar reached their ears, like a far away freight train. "yeah.." Saige mused "wonder what it is" Ivan listened for a few more seconds. "I don't know... I didn't pass any train tracks on my way here. Then again, I walked on top of this gorge, not in it." He pointed to the top part of the canyon. The group hurried forward. The sound was getting louder now, so strange, yet so familiar. It beckoned them on and... "OH MY GOSH!" Sakura shrieked from far ahead. Saige and Ivan caught up and gasped. They were on the edge of a fifty some-odd foot high cliff, and a yard or so below them a gigantic hole was broken into the side of the pass. Crystal clear water sped from it and plummeted down into the vast ocean below. Saige nor Sakura had ever seen an ocean before. They watched it's waves reach up onto the shore and lap against the rocks of the cliff. "I have never seen so much water in my life" Saige breathed softly, as if one loud noise would shatter the beauty of the moment. "Its so..." Sakura searched for a word "wonderful!" Ivan was staring at the hole in the wall below them. "odd.." he began "I didn't know Gem Mountain Pass had an underground spring below it! In fact, I don't think I'd ever been to this part of the beach before!" The girls snapped out of their daydream. "what?!" Saige yelped, taking Ivan by surprise. "You mean to tell me, that you have NO IDEA where we are?!" Ivan stepped backwards a bit. "well...no I have an idea, we just go that way" he pointed back down the pass. "what do you mean, down the pass again?!" Sakura yelled. "no!" Ivan smiled. "I mean we climb down, and go a ways that way. I'm sure that's where the Zora Temple is, and we can search for clues there" Saige and Sakura nodded. "Lets go then" Saige smiled, and dove from her spot, landing a few yards below, right next to the waterfall. "Saige that's not safe!" Ivan yelped, a second too late. Saige had already jumped, and with a whoop was heading down into the ocean. She knew how to swim, as she had a lake near her house, but skydiving was another thing. She felt like her stomach was doing back flips with her, and she couldn't help but smile as she plummeted downwards. The moist air felt great against her dirt-covered face. As suddenly as it had started, it stopped, and Saige hit the water hard. She sank a good dozen feet, and paddled up to the top. Her ponytail was now out, and her shoulder length blonde hair was fanning out in a circle around her. "COME ON!" She yelled up. "UNLESS YOUR CHICKEN!!!" Saige made little chicken sounds and flapped her arms. Kyra looked down the cliff, and stepped nervously backwards. "I really dun' like heights Saige.." she yelled back down. Sakura and Ivan exchanged glances, before diving off themselves, leaving the brown dog up there alone. "Ya'll go on!" She yelled as Sakura and Ivan hit water "I'll climb down, follow your scent, and meet you before sundown!" Saige nodded "'Kay!" She yelled back up, and the trio swam towards shore.