Chapter 8

The Darkside of Things…

(lol the chapter title sounds like star wars…and the 3rd episode of course is one of the awesomest movies ever, well in my opinion anyway so I'm sure nobody cares lol...And of course I unfortunately don't own that either lol…)

Malika sat on the throne again, it had become her favorite spot. She was lost in her thoughts of diabolical evil when all of a sudden the elaborately decorated doors were slammed open with a resounding bang. She looked up boiling over with anger, but when she saw what entered through the doors, her expression calmed. Held captive between several stalfos was a mud and blood splattered boy, he struggled but his strength was draining and all he managed was utterly pathetic. At the head of the party was her servant Amanda, she bowed in a smooth flourishing movement and then straightened to make her report.

"My queen, we have the boy, Chunk."

"You nit-wit, I can see that." Malika snapped exasperated. "Did you finish off the others?"

Amanda stared hard at the ground, not wanting to meet Malika's intense golden colored eyes, but by that Malika knew.

"You didn't finish them off! You worthless little---How hard could it have been? You're instructions were simple: Capture Chunk so I could deal with him personally and literally destroy the other two!" Malika screamed into her face.

Amanda flinched as droplets of spit showered her from her queen's rage. (lol...heh…heh)

"You're a coward." Chunk spat at her painfully. "You send others to complete your evil and then murder them, but I'm sure if you were the one who failed nothing would happen to you, now would it?"

Malika signaled to one of the stalfos with a motion of her hand, it delivered Chunk a sharp kick in the stomach that knocked the breath from him.

"YOU WILL SPEAK ONLY WHEN TOLD TO! Or your tongue will be cut out and you will never speak again, got it?" Malika glared at him with pure hatred flowing through her veins, he only matched her glare, but remained silent. "Amanda, Amanda, Amanda." Her tone had become almost friendly as she spoke her lowly servant's name. "Do you not understand why I wanted the other two killed?"

Amanda shuddered, "No your majesty, I do not understand."

"That's why I'm the queen, I have to think for all you empty headed idiots." Malika scowled. "You see when a friend of the goody-good people out there gets into trouble, his friends will try to rescue him and not let anything happen to him to the best of their ability creating an annoying pain that should have been crushed already! Alexis and what's his name are going to come here and do just that! So now I have to keep this pathetic fool alive and lure them here so I can kill them, which means I have to keep this boy alive, slowing down the path of me taking over Hyrule as queen! Not to mention the fact that they should have never escaped in the first place..." Malika's fiery red hair flew up behind her as she fired a beam at Amanda.

Amanda met the same fateas Sotaru…

"As I said you murder your own…" Chunk said coldly. Another kick was delivered to him, only this time to his skull. He was knocked unconscious and hung limply in the skeletal hands of the stalfos.

"Take him to the dungeons and make sure he is locked up good, post a guard in front of his cell and kill any who do not belong." Malika ordered, then she settled back into the throne, she had a plan…She would slow their progress down getting to the castle, it would make them despair not knowing if their friend was still alive…It was always easy to crush those who had given up hope…

The stalfos had left without a word passing between them and headed down to the dungeons, deep below the floors of Hyrule castle…

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Down in the dungeons, Chunk sat huddled in the farthest corner, he felt miserable…He knew Alexis would come…come straight into a trap…Although he did not know if Link would be with her…After all, he had been a jerk to him…Maybe he had given up in helping them…Alexis wouldn't stand a chance, especially coming alone…And in his weakened state he stood no chance in even attempting to escape, they had even stripped him of his sword... A single stalfos stood stone still in front of hisfour-walled prison, he despised the things…They were the undead…bent to do whatever someone told them with no feelings whatsoever, no emotions…no nothing...

A pain throbbed in his skull and he decided to give into his exhaustion and let sleep seep into his mind…

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Well that was kinda short but I wanted to do a chapter just for that, next chapter will definantely be longer...At least that's the plan lol. Well I had a few questions so I am definantely gonna answer those:

Da Marshmallow: Uh...No comment heh heh...Actually I just didn't feel like puttin her in so I guess she's uh...somewhere? lol, sigh, I guess I'll hafta try harder to 'un' bore you lol, so did you think this chapter was better?

Greki: Yeah...Maybe a lil longer...Probably somewhere up there with the length of chapter 6, who knows? lol...Is longer a good thing? lol, if so then sorry this chapter is short...but as I said the plan is for next chapter to be a lot longer than this one was so yeah :)

and then there was one person claiming Alexis to be a Mary-Sue...(sniffles)

Crazyfreak: It that was suppose ta be a helpful 'tip' then I'd normally really appreciate it, but to even suggest Alexis bein a Mary-Sue, wouldn't you think it kinda makes more sense to read the WHOLE thing instead of just chapter 1?...even though you probably ain't gonna read this I just had to say something lol...heh heh...and I wouldn't qualify her as a Mary-Sue cuz it was NOT instant love and for cryin out loud she made a murder attempt on his life! and it would be boring if she was a Mary-Sue cuz where's the fun in that? but anyway, I'm sorry if anyone thinks that sounds mean, but don't you think people should read ALL of what's up there before even suggesting something like that? I mean if they had actually gone through and read the whole thing then I would respect that but no...they didn't...(sniffles again)

Ok I got that outta my system lol, and thanks a bunch to everyone who have reviewed, yay for you and and a high five (lol...as hyperness sets in...lol)

Oh yeah heh heh almost forgot:
Disclaimer: I do NOT own The Legend of Zelda and I probably never will, but all the made-ups are mine..cuz obviously I made them up :) and technically this applies to the whole fic so I guess if it's not on a chapter cuz I always forget just refer back to other disclaimers on other chapters for that lol...lol I think all this authors note stuff is alomst as long as the chapter was, so to stop putting you through suffering...(lol) oh yeah...lol...ok now what was I gonna say...oh yeah...lol...plz keep those reviews comin :)

Thanks so much y'all!
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