Chapter 5: Behemoths of Apocalypse
Sephia was now sitting on her chair atop the balcony in her throne room. Once Dranon had left, she decided to simply relax, and Vaarshola stood next to her talking and keeping the princess of Herlassia company. He had someone managed to make it out of the throne room without Sephia seeing him, and then simply walked back in as if he had never been there. No ordinary man could never do that in a lifetime, but then again Vaarshola wasn't an ordinary man. In fact; he was un-human.
As the time passed as the two talked about the whole situation with retribution on the descendants of Mirren, Link and Zelda, a blue portal suddenly formed before the stairs of the balcony. Vaarshola and Sephia were both very surprised.
"What in the world...?" inquired Sephia. Just then, Ganondorf appeared in the portal, in his black and crimson armor, with a sinister smile on his face.
"Good to see you my love" he said. Sephia's indigo eyes lit up, and instantly she ran down the stairs and right in front of the portal holding Ganondorf.
"Ganondorf!" she exclaimed. The King of Evil grinned. Sephia felt like trying to bust right through the portal, but that wouldn't be able to be done, but sill she stood as close as she could to the love of her life. "It's great to see you darling. What has brought you here?" Ganondorf's grin grew a bit.
"To notify you of another part of our plan for vengeance on Mirren and the others" he answered, "like the first time I had begun a preparation for revenge with my sister Emralda, we sent forces and creatures into certain places of Hyrule and make them cause destruction there. As always, Mirren and his friends had went there to stop them, and I'd like to do it again. It prepares Mirren a little for his final fights with us, and also it'll give him and his worthless friends something to do before we begin our major attack. I've decide to have an assault on a certain vicinity. It will begin very soon, in the meantime continue the energy gathering and whatever else you need to discuss with Dranon, also I'll need to you to find three monsters for me, and send them to the glade by Kakariko Village. Do you understand that Sephia?" The princess of Herlassia nodded, and glee filled her eyes.
"Yes. And don't worry, I promise I'll get that energy soon, and I have Vaarshola by my side to help me with whatever I must do" she stated. Ganondorf then looked up at Vaarshola, who began to come down the stairs.
"A pleasure to meet you, Ganondorf, King of all Evil..." Vaarshola said. He soon walked off the very last step, and bowed before Ganondorf. He smirked.
"Thank you. You will certainly be the loyalist, greatest servant for me and Sephia, good to see such an excellent hand on our right hand sides" Ganondorf replied. Vaarshola grinned, and finally stood straight up. His deep blue eyes met Ganondorf's fiery red ones, and for a second simply looked at each other with a grin or smirk. Ganondorf soon turned back though to Sephia. "I must go now though my love, please do your best to get more energy" Once again Sephia nodded.
"I will, and I promise that" she spoke. Ganondorf smiled. Just then they both closed their eyes, and leaned their faces towards each other's. They lips touched, and pressed together. Ganondorf held her with both hands by her waist, and Sephia now had her arms about his shoulders. Vaarshola smiled, perhaps there was nothing in the blocking the two if it meant love. Eventually they finished their kiss, and Ganondorf smiled.
"I must go now, goodbye my love" Sephia smiled back.
"Goodbye..." With that, Ganondorf took a step back, and once the portal began glowing a bit, it disappeared along with Ganondorf.
Only about ten minutes once Ganondorf had left, Sephia and Vaarshola began making their way through the huge castle. They both walked through the many hallways, and down the numerous stairways, Sephia with her staff in hand, and Vaarshola with Sylence strapped in its scabbard on his back. Soon they came to a dark brown double-door, and went through it. They made their way down a large flight of dark, olive green stairs, and soon came to a place that seemed like a basement, but was really the room of the castle where all the vicious, ferocious, wild beasts and monsters were kept. Straw and hay were covering and scattered on the floor, soaking up water or any other moistness. The room was actually considered to be somewhat of a basement, since it was somewhat grimy and foul, and also because it was below the main part of the castle.
Sephia and Vaarshola strode through the large room, and passed by several cages filled with a dangerous beast. Some were large reptilians, others huge mammal creatures, some behemoth and gargantuan-like animals, while a few couldn't even be classified. Almost everyone they passed by hissed, snarled, or roared at them as they tried to break free of their iron cages, but a couple simply ignored them and continuing resting.
Sephia now came to another large pair of doors, nearly twelve feet high. She pushed it open, and came into a decently long hallway. The floor was made of stone, with a gray. Vaarshola followed, and this time came by even more monsters. The room had a bit of grayish-green floor, with smooth dark green molding in between each stone. The walls and ceiling were a very dark orange color, and on the ceiling in one or two places was a steel portcullis almost the color of the walls. A torch in the form of a golden jar almost was hung on numerous places of the wall, lighting up the hallway. Soon they came to another set of doors the same as the last one, and Sephia opened them, and Vaarshola followed into another large, but small room full of caged creatures. It had a bit of a stench to it, but nothing seriously terrible. Again stray and hay were dispersed on the floor, almost like a rug or separate covering, but revealing bits of the hard, dark olive green floor. As they walked, Sephia spoke to Vaarshola.
"The first room we were in was the main hall for the beasts we preserve here, to the other side of it are two doorway, each with a hall leading to a slightly small room full of creatures like this one. You know that correct Vaarshola?" she questioned turning her head around. The mystical warrior gave a silent nod, and Sephia smiled wickedly as she turned her head back. They continued making their way through the room, and soon Sephia stopped before three cages- each containing a large vicious beast. The first was a lion-like dog beast standing his hind legs, with golden brown fur, a long chubby tail, black eyes, terrible fangs, huge ears, and colorful jewels on its forehead. The next was somewhat similar to the last one, but instead seemed more lizard-like. He had huge ears like the other, and burgundy red scales. He had a very dark, almost orange horn sticking of his forehead, and his face looked like a cross between a sauron and an iguana almost. He had a long fat tail, and walked on all fours. The last one could send a chill down a grown man's spine. It was another larger monster, with lighter green scales. His head looked like a monitor's, but a lot meaner and vicious. Terrible, knife-like teeth filled his mouth, and a single row of sharp spikes ran down from the middle of his head to almost the end of his tail. His claws looked sharper than any blade that was ever forged, and he snarled at Sephia and Vaarshola as they strode by, his yellow eyes glaring at them. Sephia smirked.
"Here they are, these shall be the monsters I'll use" she began, "The first is Seasar, then the second is Berogan, and that last one is Arava. You know their names right Vaarshola?" she asked. He nodded.
"Of course, how could I forget those things?" he inquired back with a grin.
"They'll be perfect for this task. I'll get a few guards to chain them and let them out of the cages, and I'll teleport them straight to that area by Kakariko Village" Sephia explained, and then turned her head and looked at Vaarshola, "do you agree?" The mystical killer smiled.
"As always my princess..." he replied.
It was like as if Sephia and Ganondorf knew what each other were doing, and decided to do it at the same exact moment. Ganondorf was walking down the dark stone hallways of his citadel in the afterlife with to Iron Knuckles and a Moblin at his sides. The Iron Knuckles were like the ones he had talked to before he went to Sephia's castle, while the Moblin looked different from most Moblins. Its skin and fur were a dark black color, and it now wore iron plated armor and carried an executioner's axe. Ganondorf was still in his black and crimson armor, and his fiery red hair still touched his shoulders slightly. As the four all made their way through the castle with a single word, Ganondorf looked very serious. His lips were straight horizontally, and his fiery red eyes seemed very stern. They came to a large black double door, and Ganondorf pushed it open with ease using one single push and without a grunt of wince. They all began going down a long, kind of spiral stairway, and they all could feel the air grow hotter and hotter as they continued further down. The Moblin's breathing grew harder as his lungs worked harder and harder from the searing, uneasy air. It was quite the long walk, but soon they came to the end of it and made a short walk over to a large, brown stone door. It was just a big slab of rock, and seemed to weigh a ton of two. The King of Evil simply pressed his hand against it though, and slid it open completely ignoring the lever which opened it. This revealed a decently sized cave or cliff underneath the castle outside, just possibly thirty or forty feet above the lake of lava and right next to it. Waves of magma swirled around, and the molten lava was in tides as if it were water. The heat was nearly unbearable at the moment here, and the Moblin already was sweating a good deal. Ganondorf began walking farther into the cave, and the Moblin and Iron Knuckles followed. One they got about three quarters into it, Ganondorf stopped, and his evil red eyes glanced all around the gigantic pool of magma. The lava was moving all around, but a spot in the lava close by seemed to move and swirl much more than the other areas. The King of Evil was totally silent, until he looked at the Moblin with him.
"Go to the edge and look around for a moment or two" he commanded pointing to the ledge. The Moblin's eyes widened slightly, and it was like it felt its heart stop beating. It began to sweat in worry and tenseness, and gulped before slowly and grudgingly beginning to make its way to where Ganondorf told him to go. Cautiously, and very sluggishly, it moved to the edge, and he began to tremble a little. Its breathing grew harder and faster slightly; it was terrified. After a few more seconds, it came to the ledge, and looked all around. He stared at the lake of molten rock, and Ganondorf stood with his arms crossed as he stepped back a few feet. Suddenly in a flash, a huge wave of lava swept up the Moblin, and it roared in terror and agony as it disintegrated its body. More lava crashed up against the rock island the castle was built on, and something was rising from the lake. Waves of magma splashed onto the edge of the cave, and a behemoth ascended from the massive pool of lava. The monster bellowed a dreadful roar, one that shook the castle and the rock, along with actually creating some ripples in the molten rock. The Iron Knuckles backed off, and if they could say words or make noises besides grunts, they'd be either gasping or shouting out in astonishment and trepidation. Escalating from the magma came a gargantuan dragon, a good deal of the citadel's size. Its scales were an incredibly dark orange, almost like red on the back of it. On its front side, its chest or breast area was of light black scales, and the rest more dark orange or light red. Most of its face was of lighter black skin and scales also, and on his head were two horn-like frills. Its arms were very long, with an even mixture or areas with the dark orange or light black scales. Its claws were even bigger than the Darhagas's, and large enough to cut through titanium-alloy. Its upper body was very large, and its dark black wings stretched to nearly three hundred feet, and it stood at about seventy-five feet tall. The beast's eyes were as black as a magpie's feathers, and could remit dread straight into your heart. The dragon really only had an upper body, the rest of it like a serpent's, long and thinner. It stood hovering almost in the air, half of its body in the lava, the other half above it. It looked down at Ganondorf, who still stood with his arms crossed, but an iniquitous smile on his face. It finally unleashed another roar, this time cracking the rock and making smaller stones and pebbles fall from place as the magma rippled again.
"That's the dragon I need...the most ultimate of my monsters..." Ganondorf whispered.