CHAPTER 5 DINNER AT THE CASTLE
Mahrea's eyes widened as she stepped out of the limo in front of the castle. "Impressive, no?" The prince said halfway up the steps to the main entrance. "The castle grounds haven't been changed for thousands of years, well except for security." He gazed at his royal guards scornfully.
Lenard stepped out followed by Amber, still wearing the same stone face. Lenard gave her a sidelong glance and continued up the stairs. "Servants are on their way to take you to your guest quarters. They will dress you in the proper attire." Lenard looked them both up and down.
Mahrea leaned in close and whispered to Amber. "I hope that doesn't mean dresses."
Amber let out a short laugh. "Well, I don't think they'll let you eat with a T-shirt and jeans." They began walking up the stairs along with the prince, his advisor, and the group of royal guardsmen.
"Probably not."

***

The two women that took them to their quarters were timid and didn't say much. A "Hello Ma'am" here, a "Yes Ma'am" there. The two set them down and a few more women came in and started to measure them, others with jewelry laid with gems and gold. "Hey, guess there is a bit of a plus having to dress up!" Mahrea said, picking out a golden chain with a huge sapphire teardrop after the dressers stripped her down to her undergarments. Amber raised her eyebrows slightly as she noticed a golden amulet hanging from her neck. Mahrea looked at her and gave a worried look. I hope she isn't looking at my body the way I think she is. Mahrea looked away to choose between dresses. When she turned her head back at Amber and saw her looking straight forward, Mahrea crooked her eyebrow as the gold of Amber's own amulet glinted off the lights. She has her own power amulet! Mahrea thought as a pale rose dress was slipped over her head. I'll have to ask her about it when we have some time alone.
There was a knock on the door. It was Lenard's friend Tanya. She entered like she was the most important thing in the room. "Well, well." She smiled and placed her hand on Amber's cheek. "This is the Prince's savior?" She noticed her cybernetic arm and quickly took her hand away like Amber was the source of a highly contagious disease.
"Is there a problem?" Amber asked agitated.
"No, just a shame that someone with such a pretty face has to have an arm made of metal. Don't worry, dear I'm sure you can find someone that will look past that little....disability." Smugness was set deep in her voice.
Amber was so furious that she was squeezing her metallic fist so hard that it creaked under the strain. "Amber settle down!" Kathy said hard in her ear. "This is the castle, not Ganon Corp. Tower, learn some control!" Amber let out a long controlled breath.
"Twenty minutes to dinner, don't make the prince wait dears." Tanya instructed the servants, walking out of the door.
As soon as the door closed, Amber growled out loudly. "Bitch!" From the looks on the girls' face, Mahrea believed that they had the exact same thought.

Fifteen minutes later, they were walking down the hallway to the grand banquet hall. Mahrea leaned over to Amber. "I have to talk to you about the amulet you wear around your neck." The two women felt their amulets tingle against their skin, the dresses covering them.
Amber looked at Mahrea with a startled look for a moment then nodded. "You and your sister are strange, why do you have such strange hair? Do you dye it or something?" Amber asked sitting down at the table.
Mahrea 'Tisked'. Strange? She should talk! "No this is my natural hair color thank you very much." She said crossly. "I'm quite fond of it."
"Okay, geez it was just a question." Amber said watching Mahrea sit down. The chiefs of police and fire departments, along with various other Hyrule officials walked in through a separate pair of doors and say down on the other side of the pair of girls. The police chief looked at Amber coldly and she knew she was in trouble. "He doesn't look all that happy." Kathy said. Lenard entered along with Tanya.
The head priest of the Temple of Time walked in. His brown robe protruded from the stress his belly and the long white beard hid his neck. "His majesty, Prince Andrew." He stepped aside. All stood, Amber rather grudgingly. Amber nudged Mahrea to stand, just before the prince came in.
"Good evening, friends." He said cordially, walking to his chair. "I hope you brought your appetites with you." He said as the kitchen staff brought out course after course of food.
Mahrea grabbed her eating utensils and was about to start when the priest cleared his throat and said. "We shall now give thanks to The Three."
She let out a small sniff. Not fair, I wanna eeeat!
"We thank thee, oh Goddesses," The priest continued. "for this bounty of food, our brilliant leader," Amber, Mahrea, and Lenard rolled their eyes at that. "And for the actions of this brave girl, Amber." He made the Sign of the Triforce, saying, "Farore, Nayru, and Din."
As they ate, the police chief spoke up. "Your Highness, I can't hold this back any longer!" Hyrule's ruler looked at him questioningly and motioned for him to continue. "Thank you Sire, as I began there is something that I need to come to your attention."
Uh, oh. Amber thought.
What's this about? Mahrea wondered as she took a gulp of her drink.
"Our distinguished guest is infact a fugitive!" The length of the table went deathly quiet.
"Of what charge?" The prince asked.
"Murder."
The prince's eyebrows rose. "Who did she kill?"
All eyes were on Amber, especially Mahrea's, who were wide with surprise.
"Wellllll, he wasn't the most upstanding member of society, but-"
"And?" The prince interrupted. "This young lady saved my life! If she was still in your jail right now, I'd be dead! So, which is more important to you? The life of your ruler, or the life of some street rat?!" The prince yelled angrily.
"Why, yours, of course Your Majesty." The chief said humbly.
"Then you won't have any objections to me giving her a royal clemency order?"
"Uh, no Sire." He bowed his head in obedience.
"Good," Andrew turned to Amber. "So, Amber, you are free from all charges as of now." He smiled warmly. With a great rush of relief, Amber replied thankfully. "But I must know, how did you manage to get away from our esteemed police?"
"Yes do tell him," The police chief said with a smirk on his face. "of your daring escape.
Amber grew cold as a grave at midnight and couldn't raise her eyes from her half empty plate." I-I-I...."
"The Trezen burst right through the ceiling of headquarters and took her right out from under the noses of my officers." The table let out a gasp at the same time and Lenard out right cursed.
"Now that is very interesting!" Andrew said with a smile. "Tell me, who is The Trezen? Surely you know his name." Wild excitement played in his eyes.
"Don't tell them Amber!" Kathy pleaded in her ear.
"He didn't tell me, Your Highness."
"What about his face?" Tanya asked. Amber looked over at her and hmfed and ignored her question.
Lenard laughed. "It would seem that she doesn't like you very much, Tanya dear." Chuckles from the passing servant girls made her all the more cross.
The prince cleared his throat and all discussion halted. "It is a fair question, after all."
"If he didn't tell me his name, what do you think the chance of him showing his face?" Mahrea answered for Amber.
Thanks for the save. Amber looked at her appreciatively.
"Yup, all he did was bust me out, shoot down a few Firebats, set me down on the street, patted my cheek and took off."
"Oh, the pat on the cheek is a nice touch!" Kathy said impressed.
"I still don't understand how he knew you were there."
"Don't ask me, you're the cop."
By this time the police chief was bristling with anger. "My, how she knows how to get under your skin!" Andrew laughed.
As the dinner went on, there were live musicians in the background playing very pleasant music. The plates were taken away and dessert sat in front. Eventually, everyone began to leave, with only the prince, Amber, Mahrea, and Lenard remaining.
"I'd like to talk to Amber alone."
"Yes Sire." Lenard said standing, bowing and turning to leave.
Mahrea bit her lip. "Umm, what about me?"
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry!" The prince apologized and clapped his hands twice and a timid looking red haired girl came into the room. "Take Miss Mahrea here to the game room so that she can spend some time in pleasure."
"Yes Sire." The servant girl bowed and guided Mahrea off. She turned and gave a worried look at Amber and then she was off, the large doors booming shut in the marble room. Amber started to get nervous as the prince looked at her for what seemed forever. He took off his sport coat and his tie and smiled at her, making her very uncomfortable. Amber knew this smile from men, she was about to get hit on.
"The reason I wanted to talk to you alone is because," He stood up and began walking to her. "I have a bit of a proposition for you."
Amber stood and leaned against the table. "I'm listening." She put on her usual air.
"You impressed me a great deal today."
"Oh? Do I get a prize?" She asked cynically.
"Of sorts," The prince continued. "I'm asking you to be my personal bodyguard."
"I see." said Amber. "And if I refuse?"
A smirk from Hyrule's ruler. "You told lots of little fibs at dinner tonight." Amber tried to hide the shock from her face. How could he know she was lying? "It would be a real shame if we had to drag the truth from you. Besides," He came close to her hand put his hand on her left hip. "there are advantages to holding the position."
"That's not the only position you are thinking of me in." Amber said as she stiffened with an angry look on her face. "Now, if you value your hand I'd suggest that you take it off my hip." He did, but only after sliding it down over a bit of her thigh.
Andrew went over to his seat and poured a cup of tea and offered Amber some. She just shook her head disgusted and looked the other way. He sighed, "Very well."
"Are we done?" She asked agitated. "I'd like to get home."
"Yes."
"Good." She began to leave.
"I do hope that you make the right decision, Miss Hailee." The prince said warningly.
"I don't respond to threats, Andy." Amber said before the doors closed behind her.
Prince Andrew growled at the closed doors. A body guard stepped out from behind the curtain. "Tag and follow her car, I want to know where she lives." He said darkly.
"Yes Sire." The well built guard replied.

***

Lenard looked angrily at the monitor. "I gave you a simple assignment and you messed it up."
The man in the monitor hung his head and apologized profusely. "I don't want apologies, I want results!" Lenard's eyes glowed gold and the man's head suddenly exploded. Lenard turned off the screen.
"You're so hard on your help." Tanya said flippantly as she filed her nails on the green leather couch in Lenard's room.
A sigh from Lenard. "How hard could it have been to aim a gun and pull a trigger?" He retied the sash of his robe. "I'll think of something else tomorrow, it's been a long day."
Lenard crawled into his bed and yawned. "Room for one more in there?" Tanya asked.
He smirked. "Hmm, don't think so."
"Well then. I'll just have to make due." Tanya said with a playful smirk and started to climb on top of her lover. Lenard wrapped his arms around her body and let her lips travel up and down his neck.
Tanya sighed and nuzzled Lenard's neck as he played with her hair. "Will I be your queen when you get rid of that annoying little bastard?"
"Of course you will." Tanya fell asleep with a smile on her lips.

***

Mahrea met back up with Amber as she was waiting for Carl's car to be brought around. Something told Amber that something was up. "Kathy," Amber mouthed. "check the car."
"For?"
"Don't know, just a feeling."
"Alrighty."
"Hi Amber." Mahrea said as she got beside her.
"Hmm? Oh, hello Mahrea."
"Mia."
"Heh, very well. Mia." Amber watched as the car drove up and furrowed her brows as Kathy spoke.
"You're right Amber, there is a homing device under the car."
"It was nice of the prince to have Carl's car brought here all the way from where we parked." Mahrea said innocently.
"Yea, real great."
"There something wrong?" Mahrea asked, sitting down into the leather interior.
Amber remained silent until she started driving away. "That 'nice prince' had a homing device put on the car, probably has some of his goons following us too."
"So, I was wrong, what are we gonna do?"
"There is a place I know where we can ditch the car, but we'll have to walk through some rough stuff."
"Hell, no problem, you'll be able to beat anything that comes our way."
"Guess so, after all, if I can beat Ganondorf, I can beat any street punk."
A silence let five minutes pass by and Mahrea asked, "Were you looking at my chest while I was dressing?"
Amber let out a surprised laugh. "Say what?"
Mahrea blushed heavily in embarrassment. "Umm,"
"Don't worry." Amber said as she drove. "I wasn't looking at your body. I noticed something that was hanging from your neck."
"Oh yea, this?" Mahrea pulled out her amulet that had a lighting bolt on it.
"Yep."
"My mother gave it to me when I was five and told me never to take it off. And I haven't, even during my swim meets in high school."
"Damn, that's what I call dedication." Amber made a left turn.
"Mmhmm, I noticed you had one as well." Mahrea said, watching the night lights of Hyrule Castle Town go by. "Where did you get yours?"
"It was Carl's" Amber sighed.
"Oh! you mean Quake? I should have known!"
"Heh, he named it?"
"No, but it is called Quake, just like mine is Ether."
"Ether, eh?" Amber put the car in park and got out. "I know the owner of this place. He'll keep an eye on it."
Mahrea looked at the open air arcade. Signs of construction shown near the front. It appeared that the owners were starting to enclose the arcade. "What a dump."
"Hey, this is where I met Carl. Lay off."
"Now that's a story I'd like to hear!" Mahrea said laughing.
Amber smiled wistfully and began. "He watched me beat the boy who destroyed my body in the sword fighting arena, then we had our own match of which we tied. After that we went out to eat."
"Awww," Kathy and Mahrea said in unison.
"Quiet both of you." Amber said with a smirk walking along the sidewalk, Mahrea to her right. "We better take to the alleys, they know we stopped already and are probably looking around the arcade and restaurants." They turned into an ally that would lead them quickly back to the house.
"So, what did the Prince talk to you about?"
"He offered me a position as personal body guard." She said angrily.
"You don't sound so happy about such a good opportunity." Mahrea said confused.
"Well, he did make another proposal along with it."
Mahrea could tell by her tone of voice what kind of proposal it was. "No wonder you didn't sound so happy."
"Exactly," She slid her hand over her thigh where the Prince touched her.
Mahrea noticed her body language. "Men can be such asses. I have to fight them off when I have my bathing suit on at practice."
Amber was fairly sure that that wasn't the complete truth, but let it slide. She stopped abruptly.
"What's wrong?" Asked Mahrea.
"I heard something." She said quietly looking around. "Hide, now."
"But,"
"Just do it!" Amber said testily, but quietly.
"Geez, okay." Mahrea glanced around and found some trashcans she could hide behind.
"How many are there Kathy?"
"Five."
Soon, five dangerous looking men stepped into the light she was under. "Looks like we found our fun for the night, eh boys?" Variant responses of yes came from the apparent leader's cronies. Amber got into her fighting stance. "Oh, and feisty as well!"
"I'm glad you think so, 'cuz you have no idea who you are messin' with." Amber smirked as she felt power flow into her cybernetic joints.
"Go and get her boys, but don't mess up her up too much, I'd like to have her be still something to look at when I take her." He licked his lips hungrily.
They all rushed forward and Amber slammed her metal fist into one's face, caving it in. The leader pulled out a switchblade. "Get her!" One grabbed her metal arm with both hands.
"Now don't fight it girl, it'll be all-AAAHHH!!!!" Amber whipped around, ripping off both arms and knocked him out with his own fist. Seeing this, the remaining three started to run away.
"Oh no you don't!" Amber ran and leapt over and landed in front of them. "Where do you think you're going?" Amber asked with a smirk, hands on her hips smugly.
The scragglers took a step back as Amber took one forward. "What kind of monster are you!?" The leader asked terrified.
"Just one defending herself is all." Amber's body began to glow red. "And I don't appreciate being called a monster, so get out of here before I get mad." The trio turned and started to run, but were frozen solid by a wintry blast from behind a group of trashcans.
The telltale sign of Balefire dissipated as Amber stood surprised. Mahrea sheepishly stepped out and exhaled loudly. "You could have let them go." Amber said softly.
"Why should you have all the fun today?" She asked as she pushed one of the frozen men over. He shattered on the concrete. "Let's get back to Carl's place and order something to eat."
"But you ate less than three hours ago."
"Yea? What's your point?" Mahrea asked as she caught up with Amber.
"I guess I don't really have one." She sighed.

***

Kilborne to LeClaire, score! Oh my, he put the puck right between the legs of the goalie!" Jilleana sat hunched over her laptop which sat on the coffee table as a Hyrule Hockey League game played on the TV in front of her. She perked up as she heard the door open. "It's about time you decided to return."
"You're just jealous that we got to have dinner with the prince, even though he technically isn't the real prince, and you didn't." Her sister teased.
"Hah! You have got to be joking!" Jilleana said saving her work and turned off her laptop. She turned to Amber. "How's your arm?"
"Very good. Besides, you saw the news today I'm sure so you already knew, neh?"
"So true." She agreed. "I'm just that good."
Mahrea crooked her eyebrow. "Now it's my turn to say you have to be joking." Jilleana gave her an evil look. "Anyhow, where is the phone? I want pizza!"
Amber rolled her eyes. "Actually that doesn't sound half bad." Jilleana put in. "I've forgotten to eat today from working on this thing." She nodded to the laptop lying on the table.
Amber sat down and watched the hockey game for a moment. Tentively she reached from under her shirt and pulled out Quake and sat it on the table next to Jilleana's computer. Jilleana gazed at it. "Mia says you have one of these as well." Jilleana nodded and laid hers next to Amber's. It had waves golden waves of energy flowing across the middle of it.
"I hope you like pep-" Mahrea stopped short when she saw the two amulets on the table and the two women looking at each other.
"Can you tell me anything about them?" Amber asked.
"Well, I don't know much...." Jilleana began as her sister sat down next to her. "Three ancient heroes put some of their magical power into these three amulets. Mahrea's was made from the power of the great hero Seiji and was named Ether. It freezes all in its way. Mine is from the hero Ryo and is called Bombos." Bombos flared up as she talked about it. She smiled and picked it up. "Good boy." She cooed.
Mahrea rolled her eyes and huffed. "She thinks that hers is a pet."
"Aww, did she hurt your feelings Bomby?" Jilleana said as she rubbed the amulet against her cheek lovingly. Amber was beginning to wonder about the mental capacity of Jilleana.
"Don't worry, she is only doing that to aggravate Mahrea." Kathy explained in her ear. Amber glanced over at Mahrea to see an agitated look on her face.
"Anyhow," Jilleana continued. "Yours, Amber, is made form the power of Anubis, a very ancient sage. It has the power to create earthquakes...." The sisters both looked at Amber with astonishment.
"...What?" Amber looked just as astonished. "You mean, that I…caused all that...all that carnage?"
"More or less." Jilleana said with some trepidation.
Amber mind couldn't take that and she started to break down and laugh insanely as tears streamed down her face. The twins were by her side in an instant to try to calm her down. Amber just continued laughing, crying, and rocking.
"Amber please, listen!" Jilleana cried out placing her hands on Amber's cheeks. "The amulet is in tune with your emotions. Your anger for what was happening at that time activated the quake power and caused what happened!" No response from Amber. "Amber, please listen to me!" A few seconds of laughing passed before Amber's sobs quieted and died.
"Her mind just couldn't handle it." Kathy said sadly from the TV. Her face frowned. "So, I made her sleep."
"I just hope she'll be okay." Mahrea said, helping Jilleana lay Amber on her back.
"This is all my fault." Jilleana said angrily at herself as she wiped the tears from Amber's face, "I should have kept my mouth shut."
"Well, it's not like your mouth hasn't gotten you in trouble before, at least this time you didn't have any idea of how she would have taken it." Mahrea shrugged while Jilleana scowled at her.
"Girls, girls." The twins turned to Kathy, "Do settle down, it has been a long day for all of you. After you eat go to bed."
"That doesn't sound to bad an idea." Mahrea said.

***

As the sun rose on Hyrule a few days later, things started to return to some semblance of normalcy. The prince was not happy at all about losing track of Amber and Mahrea. Lenard calmed him down however and continued plotting. Amber locked herself in Carl's room for two days doing nothing but laying in his bed and looking at the ceiling but came back out with healthier mental facilities. Jilleana continued to buy parts to help her in resurrection of Carl.

When Lenard stepped out from his bathroom he was clean shaven. He closed his eyes and was clad in armor similar to Ganondorf's only in shades of blue and white. "My, it looks like you're going somewhere." Tanya said coming into his room.
"Ja, and you're coming with me." Lenard commanded.
"Oh, and where are we going?" She asked as her clothing changed into red leather armor that covered her from the neck to her knees and hugged her figure nicely. A slim bladed sword hung from her right hip. Her hair was tightly braided down her back, hanging over a yellow cape that hung to her feet.
"To the Gerudo Spirit Temple, I have an errand to run there." An evil smile crossed his lips.
"So, when do we go?"
"Right now." He said, taking hold of Tanya's hand. Lenard waved his hand and the couple disappeared in a wave of yellow light.
In the ever shifting sands of the Haunted Wastelands a flash of yellow light appeared in front of the Spirit Temple. The cape of Tanya fluttered out to her side.
"Ung, this heat is going to dry my hair out." She said walking into the ancient stone temple.
"Stop complaining." Lenard sneered as he looked up the stairs in the front room of the building. An angry sounding gust of wind flew through the doorway.
"Do not take another step foreword." A female voice commanded from no-where. The couple looked around startled, for out of the mouths of the stone snakes came dozens and dozens of asp vipers. "Turn around now and no harm will come to you." Lenard waved his hand in front of the numerous reptiles. As the deep purple light came over them, they melted to their bones. "You have been warned!" The voice rang out angrily.
"I didn't expect a challenge." Lenard said.
"Its nothing we can't handle." His partner said sliding her hand over the hilt of her sword.
"Heh," Lenard felt along the stone wall until he felt the mortar just a bit rougher. "Here it is." Lenard stood back and his fist glowed purple. "Yeeeeeaaahhh!!!" Lenard drove his fist through the stone wall, shattering the barrier. As the dust and stone settled a narrow stair case went down into the darkness. "Excellent, now the next step." The couple began descending into the temple.
"Umm, light." Tanya said remindingly.
"Ah, yes." Lenard tossed up a small ball of light that followed them down.
As the two reached the bottom of the stairs, there was a huge door with a golden lock and chains all over it. "This is your final warning, if you do not leave you shall die."
"Hmf," Lenard said and took a step.
As the dust settled from his foot there was a howl and a strong wind blew them back as a form began materializing. It had green armor and held a long and glowing sword. "Don't unleash the monster!" The voice was Seiji's. The face mask was down on the helmet.
"I will do as I please." Lenard sneered, his eyes glowing.
"Please dear, I'll take this one." Tanya undid her cape and let it fall. "I've been in the mood for a fight."
"As you wish." Lenard smiled.
Tanya unsheathed her sword and charged with surprising speed. The armor glowed, bringing up it's no-datchi to block the blow. The two danced blades. Tanya had the speed advantage and used it, hitting the armor than leaping back before attacking again. However, the armor swatted away her attacks by sheer power.
Halo leaped forward, Tanya flipping in midair as the armor passed under. "It seems our armored friend is more powerful than you thought. Lenard said smirking.
Tanya's blade began glowing red. "Hmf, then lets see if he can handle my Dancing Blade move."
"Leave here," Halo raised it's blade above its head. "now." The no-datchi began glowing green.
"Not a chance! Dancing Blade!"
"Ahh! Thunderbolt Cut!" A massive wave of light energy enveloped both combatants. Lenard calmly extended his hand and put up a magical shield around himself.
As the light dissipated, the two swords were together, Halo from above and Tanya blocking. Her armor had nearly been destroyed, exposing most of her breasts. She slid back and Halo fell face down lifelessly onto the sand.
"I love it when I win." She said kicking the helmet. It rolled off with no head underneath. "Ung," Tanya said with a disgusted look on her face.
"Guess it was just a spirit inside." Lenard said thoughtfully. As he spoke Halo began to fade away. Tanya sheathed her sword after the heavy chains dropped from the door. The couple walked into the next room, lighted by eternal torches. In the middle of the room there was a life-sized statue on a pedestal. Lenard walked up to it and smiled. "Awaken now, Grauzer."
The stone statue's eyes glowed white and a smile creased its granite visage. The arms moved and stone began turning into cloth, skin, and muscle. The hair that hung over his eyes turned a bluish gray and the red cape plumed out. Grauzer looked at his flesh hand. "I live again." He said with a heavy ancient Hyrulian accent.
"Yes and I am your master." Lenard said confidently. The handsome demon stepped down from the pedestal down onto the sand. As soon as his foot touched the ground, Grauzer screamed in pain and his face began to age rapidly and mummify. "This is unexpected." Lenard said with surprise.
"Looks like he needs a face hydrator," Tanya quipped, putting her cape back on, not bothering to cover her breasts.
"Heh, actually that sounds like a fine idea." Lenard touched Grauzer's cape. "Hold on." His companion grabbed onto his belt. The trio disappeared and reappeared in the Lake Hylia National Park. Lenard placed Grauzer waist deep into the clear blue lake. And, just like magic, Grauzer began to re-energize and stood back up. "We shall leave you for now, my servant. When we return, you shall know what I need from you." Grauzer bowed as the other two faded into the air.

***

Mahrea was asleep in bed when she heard a voice. "Mahrea." In the mist of her mind Lake Hylia appeared with a strange half fish half human creature. It looked very concerned. "Don't let it live!" She said in a crystalline voice. A huge wave rose up and crashed down on her. The creature's scream was drowned out by the deafening roar of the crashing water.
Mahrea sat up stiffly and rubbed her eyes. "What was that about?" She wondered aloud. She yawned and ran a hand through her hair. "Oh well, just a dream." She said, shrugging it off. But Ether was less apt to forget. It began to glow blue and magically lifted from her night shirt. "What the?" She put her hands around the amulet and the flue light spread out over her entire body. And suddenly, Mahrea disappeared.
Jilleana opened the door and looked in. "Great, where did she get to now?" She asked testily.

Mahrea's feet touched down on the soft grass as Ether slipped back down under her shirt. The midmorning sun shone bright in her eyes and she squinted. "How the heck did I get here?" She looked around. "And more important, how do I get back?"
Putting her hands on hips, she started walking along the shore. She dipped her bare foot into the water, (She was just in bed after all.) and was surprised to see that the cool autumn morning didn't affect the temperature of the lake. Looking around to make sure there weren't any other people, she grinned evilly and stripped off her night shirt and panties and dove into the water.
The water enveloped her like a loving parent as she swam under its surface. Mahrea had always felt her safest in this element. Opening her eyes she surfaced once again to see a man lying waist deep water. Forgetting her nakedness, she quickly swam her way over to him. Wow, what a hunk! Was the first thing that came to her mind.
Before she could reach out however, the man opened his eyes. Mahrea startled, sat back on her shins and let out a gasp.
Grauzer looked at her through his cold gray eyes and smiled, holding back his thirst for blood for a moment. He wanted to toy with this lithe Hylian girl who was obviously a gift from his master, (or so he thought) before he killed her. And by toy he meant manipulation of her mind.
Sitting up, Grauzer acted with surprise at Mahrea's nakedness. "Please miss," He said suavely unlatching his cape. "take this. You must be frigid in this water." He held it out and Mahrea, entranced by his looks and manners reached out for it. Grauzer smirked and dropped the cape and grabbed onto her wrist too quick for her to re-act. Hypnotic energy flowed into Mahrea's body paralyzing her and clouding over her eyes. Grauzer's arm slinked around Mahrea's waist while his hand slid down between her legs and slid his fingers into her. She moaned softly, her mind and body sliding into her feelings of pleasure with each movement of his fingers. The demon felt that his prey was ready and his clothes faded away. Taking her hips, Grauzer thrust her down over him. Mahrea gasped in surprise and started riding him hard and fast, wanting to experience the swell of her ecstasy. When she heard Grauzer moan and felt his warm release inside her, she screamed out in pleasure as she too released.
His needs gratified, Grauzer's hunger for blood returned like a tsunami. His hand, once caressing, grabbed her throat and squeezed hard.
Mahrea, her eyes still clouded, could only whimper. Luckily for Mahrea, Ether was not under any influence from Grauzer's spell and glowed a bright blue. The demon growled and shoved the girl away roughly. "AAHH Damn!" Grauzer covered his face and disappeared.
A few minutes later, Mahrea came to. "Wha...what happened? All I remember is finding that hunk in the water and reaching out to take his cape." Her throat was sore and she felt as if something happened. She reached down and felt herself. "That bastard!" She yelled standing up. "I'll make him pay!" She sweat-dropped. "Ummm, that is if I knew where he went." Ether rose up from its resting place and turned until it faced an island in the middle of the lake. "Is that where he is Ether?" The amulet glowed even brighter for a second as an answer. "Good." Mahrea smiled angrily then dove into the water and swam.
She poked her head a bit above the water to make sure she wasn't spotted. Not seeing him, she climbed up onto the ground. "Well, I don't see anything." Mahrea scratched her head and huffed in confusion. A vision flashed in her mind of an opening at the bottom of the lake on the side of the island. "At, at the bottom? But it's really deep, I wonder if I can dive that deep."
Mahrea took a deep breath and dove in, swimming as deep and fast as she could. She kicked hard into the opening and up into a room with a pillar. The wet woman sat down to catch her breath. She soon heard a deep growling noise. Peering over she saw Grauzer holding his face. He sounds pissed. She thought. I hope I'm not going in over my head... Climbing down a vine growing out of the wall, she made her way down onto the sand floor. It squished between her toes and Mahrea sneaked around the pillar toward Grauzer's back. Okay Ether, do your stuff. The amulet got freezing cold and shot out a beam of freezing air and shards of ice. The attack struck the middle of his back, the evil being hissing in madness as he turned around.
"You!? How did you find me whore?!" His face was burned in Ether's thunderbolt design.
"I am not a whore!" Mahrea yelled angrily, shooting another beam.
Grauzer flipped out of the way and landed right in front of Mahrea. The man punched her in the mouth, hard. Blood spattered from the skinny girl's mouth as she was sent backward. "Owww."
Grauzer leaned over her and smiled evilly. "I shall kill you now." He drew out his pearl handed sword. "You weren't the best whore I've ever had."
"Maybe I would have been better if I had something more to work with!" Mahrea retorted kicking him in the groin as hard as she could.
Grauzer inhaled sharply and closed his eyes in pain. Mahrea quickly scuttled out from under the man and ran quickly into a corridor. "Note to self, never piss off a demon!"
When Grauzer opened his eyes, they were glowing white. "Raaah!" Hovering a few inches above the ground he began chasing after her. "She couldn't have gotten far." He said looking. Letting out a blast of psychic energy, he blew a whole through the walls. Grauzer heard a scream and looked to his left. "Well, well." The demon smirked evilly and rushed over, grabbing Mahrea's blue hair. "Thought you could run from me little whore?" He said punching Mahrea in the stomach over and over. "You bad girl." He slammed her down onto the stone. As she lay on the ground, Grauzer kicked her in the stomach.
Mahrea curled up in a fetal position and tears started to run from her violet eyes. "Heh, heh," Her tormentor ran the tip of his blade down over Mahrea's cheek, cutting the skin. Her body screaming in pain, Mahrea began to pray to The Three for any kind of help. "Time to die girl." Grauzer said, about to drive his sword down into his victim's body. But his plans were not to be, for Ether came alive and blasted Grauzer with its full power.
Grauzer fought it back as hard as he could, but to no avail. First his sword froze and shattered. Then his arms up to his chest then down his body. Grauzer had a face of pure hatred before it too finally froze.
Mahrea looked up and saw the frozen demon and laughed softly as she got up weakly. "Bastard." She balled up her fist and, using as much strength she could muster, put it through Grauzer's chest through his heart. "I said I'd pay you back. And I meant it."
She began to limp away but her head was jerked back. Grauzer had gotten a hold of her hair. "Stupid wench, don't you know us demons have no hearts?"
Mahrea gasped in terror and struggled against his grasp. Claws grew from his fingers and he slid them through Mahrea's body, sliding out through her stomach. Her mouth opened but no sound came out. Grauzer slid his tongue in Mahrea's ear and hissed. Mahrea swung her arm around aimlessly and blasted his frozen head apart.
She fell onto her knees and slumped to the ground, holding onto her wounds from where the claws stuck through. "Well, at least I probably saved the world or something." She said, smiling ironically before losing consciousness.