C2: An Unknown Power Unleashed

He waited in the shadows of the dark. He waited; a quiet breeze ran through the air. Warmth of the air followed the breeze, and it slowly warmed up the young apprentice, named Bosphorus, who everyone called him Phorus. He sat, cross-legged, and his eyes were closed. All of a sudden the sounds of nature were disturbed by the sounds of fire in the distance. He kept his eyes shut. Slowly it got louder, and it came closer. Phorus's thoughts never kept to the sounds of outside of him because they were lost in the world around him as he used his mind to look at the world everywhere. And when footsteps were able to be heard, Phorus still kept his eyes closed. Then came voices that sounded like whispers but were really people talking in a normal voices out in the distant. And as they got closer, Phorus was beginning to get disturbed, but he kept his eyes closed. Then, the voices, the footsteps, the sounds of flickering fire all sounded very close, only yards away. Phorus kept very quiet though, never once even twitching his eyelids. Then out stepped evil men in cloaks with their faces hidden underneath their hoods - they had come to the spot on purpose. Phorus still kept his eyes shut. He never even noticed they were there.

"We are here for you, Garuda," said the man at the head of the people, with a scratchy and cold throat. There were at least ten men there, all cloaked in black. All were thin and muscular, with their faces under their hoods, and had hunched backs. All that could be seen of their face was cause by their torches, which showed mouths that looked all scaly and bumpy. "We have taken many steps and tasks and a hard journey just to reach this spot where they said you were." Phorus kept quiet, still unaware he was in the presence of Dalis's. A Dalis is a human with scaly skin, fiery red hair and yellow eyes that looked like the yellow in the fire.

"Of course," he laughed, "you wouldn't know that we were here for any reason... Probably wouldn't understand why I called you Garuda. Many secrets have been held from you. Like why you ran to a safer place from your home with your family after being attacked. Why out of all of the stronger students Master Kapall could have chosen as his apprentice would be you, as you were weak and not as strong as the others. Why your mother had been murdered and why you don't know her name. Much of your life has been hidden, Phorus. I'm pretty sure before dusk tomorrow you will find out what you need to know."

Still, Phorus didn't even know anyone was there. He was still tapping into the world around him. He hadn't taken in a word that was just said. That's when the man got irritated with Phorus's silence.

"I'll just break the news... My name is Vali, and it is just me and my men who have planned this – along with Lord Mideron, who assigned us this mission. And when I said I took steps to get here, the last one which happened less then an hour ago was killing your family. Now we need your soul, Garuda."

Phorus's eyes finally flickered open, but it wasn't in shock, sadness, or confusion. He opened up his eyes to reveal the yellow eyes – that resemble the Dalis's – in rage and anger. He looked up at Vali.

"Say your goodbyes to your men," stated Phorus in a calm but angry voice, "it might be the last thing you do."

His family was dead, and he knew he could believe what these men just said. And he knew they weren't men – they were Dalis's. When he looked at their mouths through the light of the fire he could tell it. He could even tell they were Dalis's by the foul stench that always lurked with them.

He stood up slowly, a little fragile but really angry. He wanted to get angrier, so he started asking questions.

"Is it t-true?" he asked, pressing his fists into a ball and making his hand turn red. "They didn't suffer, did they?"

Vali sneered, showing half an inch long, sharp, yellow teeth. "They suffered, but we wanted to be quick about it. We didn't want to be too late to see you here. Your father was difficult of them all though…. We had to stab his heart several times, and that didn't even work. Strong lad, he was. Showed no sign of weakness, your father did. But he was stupid. He still died in the hands of the Dalis's." His smile turned into a grin. "We are strong, you are weak, Garuda!"

That was what Phorus was hoping for. He looked up at Vali, and then to the others with a snarl. Then he whispered loud enough for all of them to hear, "I'll be harder to beat then my father was. As what I like to call this –" he bent his forearms outwards a bit away from his body –"an unknown power unleashed!"

Then he released his rage quickly and it shot out giant waves of fire that were more like half-sphere force fields that went outwards real quickly. He went right through Vali and the rest of the Dalis's. It knocked them all back, and they all fell on the ground, stunned. He looked up over the trees and saw Groudarts that was nearby.

Then he looked at the rest of the Dalis's and he pulled out a one foot dagger from his black belt that strapped around the waist of his black pants made entirely of cloth. Then he pulled out a sword from his grey sheath, to reveal a beautiful sword that had very sharp edges, a golden hilt, and words engraved on it that said 'Arengrey'. Arengrey meant in the old Elven language 'Great One'. The Elves have been destroyed though for one and half thousand years.

He took his dagger and walked towards Vali, stepping on the dead leaves that had fallen off the autumn trees. Then he stood over Vali, who looked up at Phorus.

"You'll die last. I'll make sure you suffer first like you did to my family." Then he took the dagger, readied it, and he stabbed it right into the gut of Vali, missing the main organs. Red blood came out of his mouth just a bit and he was dying but slowly. That is what Phorus wanted.

Phorus walked to every Dalis and stabbed his sword through their hearts, like what they tried to do to his father. He killed the ten of them, with blood on the tip of his sword, and it just left him and Vali.

Vali could move just a little bit now. He grasped the dagger and tried to pull it out. But the dagger wouldn't budge from the ground. Vali was trapped there. Phorus knelt down next to Vali so that his head was over Vali's.

"Why did you want me?" Phorus asked. After a few seconds without Vali answering, Phorus grabbed Vali's shoulder and lifted him off his back just a bit, so the dagger was hurting him more. "Why did you attack me? What do you known about when I was attacked when I was seven? Answer the secrets I wish to know!"

Vali coughed out blood as he said, "Lord Mideron discovered you. He wants you dead."

Phorus got angry and slammed Vali back on the ground, and Vali hit his head on a stone. "Answer me!"

"I don't know why!" he cried. "All I know is you are the Garuda. You are the one that stands in his way of taking over the world forever!"

"Then why my family- why are they dead!" He was now started to scream at Vali.

Vali coughed again, this time more blood spat out of his mouth and his eyelids were starting to lower. "Because – cough – there was something about them – cough – that Lord Mideron… wanted your family dead….

"And why did you attack me when I was seven?"

"You are the Garuda…. He assumed you were dead – cough."

"WHAT IS THE GARUDA?" Now Phorus couldn't stop yelling. His anger was getting out of hand again.

"I don't know…." And with that, Vali died.

"ANSWER ME!" Phorus screamed louder, but he knew Vali was dead. Vali's eyes were still open but they looked like there was no one seeing through them anymore. Phorus cried, and then he sheathed the sword. He ran from there, and he took off back to his home.

He ran through the forest, cutting himself once on a tree and the almost tripping over a log he didn't see. After a few moments of the sounds of the crickets only he heard the sounds of civilization. Then he ran out to the open. He ran through a neighborhood, scaring some people who were surprised to see Phorus in this much of a hurry. He jumped over a toddler once that was on the road and he turned a corner after several minutes. Finally, he found his house that was right by the forest and could be seen by the castle and school Groudarts completely. He burst open the doors into the dark house.

Inside laid four bodies – his two younger brothers Clyde and Kyle, his step mother who was like any other mother to him, Veronica, and his beloved father Zyro. But there also stood a Dalis who looked like it was on guard. He pulled his sword back out and he ran at the Dalis, and then cut off its head. The head fell to the ground with a thump, and then the Dalis landed on the ground as well.

The Phorus turned around and looked at his dead relatives once again. "No," he whispered. He dropped his sword with a clump and he fell to his knee. The wind that flew in through the open window was chilly now, and it felt as though the wind was haunting him. He bent down and cried as he rested his head on his step mothers stomach. He couldn't stop.

He sat there for hours, only crying, and not doing anything else. After he stopped crying at around ten o'clock, he decided he was going to burry his family.

He did that. That night some people watched him as Phorus carried one family member at a time into the forest nearby. He dug a hole for each one of them and then buried them. When he was done, he decided that the next morning he was going to go and get some stones to turn into tombstones. And as he walked back to his hut, he saw Mast Kapall walking towards him.

"Hello there, Phorus," he said, with an old voice. His white cloak and the oak wood staff in his right hand made him look really powerful. His white skin with a few scars and his white beard made him look a bit old, but his skin did not look so old. "I see that you have taken it upon yourself to stop meditating earlier. Are you tired, hungry, in the mood for a lemon drop? I have a whole bag at home. Or is something else bothering you?"

Phorus stopped dead in his tracks and then looked up at Kapall. "Dalis's killed my family."

Kapall looked at the ground with a look of guilt in his face even though he wasn't guilty. Then he looked up at Phorus and said, "Are you sure?"

"The Garuda is always sure," he said, hoping that calling himself the 'Garuda' might somehow catch Kapall's attention. It did, and even more then he thought.

"Who told you this?" he asked.

"A Dalis named Vali."

Kapall bit his lip and walked closer. When they were only a foot apart, Kapall stood in front of Phorus. Kapall was a Wizard of high stature, and Phorus was the same height. "Then I should tell you something about a Garuda…. Don't go wandering to find information about it. I can't risk you –!"

"Risk me?" Phorus asked with sorrow. "What is so important about me? I've been attacked twice now by Dalis's," he said as he put a finger on his right hand onto two fingers on his other hand, "my mother is a mystery, my family's dead now, you chose me as an apprentice, you-!"

"Ah," said Kapall. "But look where you are now. You are a great Magician, the best I've ever taught. And if it concerns you so that I tell you something important, I shall. But you must first promise on the lives of your departed family you will not tell anyone."

Phorus thought about this. He wasn't sure about this. Finally he gets to know about himself but he is too nervous to ask what. Finally he mumbles, "Yes."

"Okay." He bent a bit closer to whisper it silently. "Only a handful of people know that your last name is very important. You are probably the last person to inherit your last name. It is Hyrule."

Phorus looked at Kapall like he was an idiot. He didn't care at the moment what his last name was. He didn't care at all. He just wanted answers to the death of his family. He wanted answers that could lead to why he was the cause of this. Finding out his name is really Bosphorus Hyrule wasn't really that much of interest to him at the moment.

"Something more valuable would be better!" exclaimed Phorus.

"Hyrule's a gifted name," said Kapall. "Especially since that means you're an ancestor of Zelda from the stories. And since Mideron's killed all of the Hyrule's and you're the last one left, it kind of makes it good information."

Phorus stood there. Now he knew why he was wanted. But he wasn't sure if he inherited the name Hyrule from his mother or father. But before he could ask, Kapall answered.

"The name Hyrule was passed down from your father," he said, as though he read Phorus's mind. So now his father was dead, making him the last Hyrule. That was why the Dalis's wanted him. His father was also a Hyrule, which was probably why it was hard for the Dalis's to kill Zyro, his father. But why did Mideron want all Hyrule's dead? He didn't bother asking. He knew Kapall was going to tell Phorus, 'You will know soon enough and no sooner or no later', like he always said. But Kapall didn't.

Kapall said as he looked to the sandy ground and back at Phorus, "A Hyrule was supposed to be destined to kill Mideron. That's why he wants them all dead. No more secrets will be told."

"The Hyrules?" asked Phorus. Phorus got to think that since he was the last Hyrule and there was a Hyrule that was supposed to kill Mideron he could avenge his family. He wasn't going to bother asking about what would happen if he got children with the last name of Hyrule. If Kapall was sure Phorus was the one, Phorus believed Kapall.

So Phorus didn't want to talk anymore. He turned around so his back faced Kapall and he walked away. He walked into the cold, dark forest that was actually small compared to other forests. Kapall just watched and let Phorus walk through. He was going to let Phorus deal with this. He knew it was wise not to ask questions at the moment. Phorus had been through enough.

But as Phorus was about to walk into the forest, Kapall called, "Soon you will face Mideron and save Earth. For now, however, you will train under me." Phorus didn't even stop to listen. He heard the whole thing loud and clear, but didn't care. He walked on, and he walked through the forest the whole night.

He couldn't stop thinking that he was going to be Phorus the Garuda - whatever that meant. He wasthe one chosen in this time of darkness to save Earth. He also thought of his family that whole night. He was going to avenge them. He was also going to find out one way or another why he is so important to Mideron. He was never told and no one knew that the Hyrules were killed – even though there were a few. He was going to face his destiny so that other people wouldn't have to lose the ones they loved. He was ready. He was going to find Mideron.