Chapter 14
Steel, Meet Steel
They stood before the doors, ready to enter into whatever danger surely lay ahead…
"Alexis?" Link said.
"What?" she asked.
"You'll need my old sword to defend yourself with…" he handed her his old sword as he gripped the master sword tightly in his hand. "Stay behind me and if anything should happen, run."
"But if something did happen to you…how the heck would I even stand a chance?" Alexis asked, the seriousness of the situation dawning on her as she fidgeted uncomfortably with the sword in her hand.
"Just run." Link replied candidly.
Alexis suddenly gave him a quick kiss and before he could get mad or say anything, she hurriedly opened the door and stepped inside.
Link just stood there stiffly, confused and lost in thought. A part of him had enjoyed the kiss, swift as it was, and even yearned for another…But another part was full of anger at her bold move, after all, he had been trying to give her the hint that despite his feelings for her, he didn't want a relationship. He didn't have much time to ponder over his thoughts, as he finally came to realize that Alexis could be in there by herself caught up in a battle, he dashed inside upon this realization, but what he found was not a battle…
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Chunk had studied and mulled over the bars of his prison, there were a few places where rust had built up, but it still held strong after all these years he was sure this place had existed.
The stalfos guard took no mind to what he was doing, it probably knew there was know way he could get out, which Chunk did have to consider…
He had wondered if stalfos had a mind of their own, or if they were simply here to obey orders…He had even tried to converse with it. Of course with no spoken response, it only tapped its dagger warningly against the bars as a signal for silence. Apparently it didn't care what he did…as long as he was quiet..
Chunk slumped downcast to the ground, footsteps could be heard coming towards his cell. He leaned heavily back against the wall, but to his surprise the wall rotated around. He was no longer in the dungeon!
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Malika had no need to conceal herself anymore as she walked past the vacant cells of the dungeon, down here it was just her, a single stalfos who would obey her every command, and that boy who had no idea what part he playedin her scheme…
The stalfos saluted smartly, Malika ordered it to leave them. It did as it was told and left to wherever stalfos 'hang out.' Then for the first time since that trip down there she finally looked in Chunk's cell…She stared in bafflement at the now empty cell.
Her bafflement quickly turned into a burning anger as she slammed her fist into the wall in frustration…Where her fist hit; there was a large dent left in the stone…
Where the heck is he? How the heck did he get past the guard! In fact it didn't even seem to notice he was gone…She pried the bar door open and searched around the cell…Dust was disturbed where the boy had tread, but at the back wall she noticed something…There was no dust up against the center of the wall. A secret escape…Clever of the boy to find something like that… She hadn't even known such a thing existed dwn here…But she was wasting time, she had to find the boy before he got away. She tried pushing on the wall, but it wouldn't budge so shedashed off quickly, she was going to find him at all costs…
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Complete darkness, nothing but complete darkness.
Behind Link, the door had shut, also closing off an source of light. His hand brushed against what felt like warm flesh, this was followed by a frightened whimper. He recognized the vocals behind the whimper.
"Alexis, it's just me, Link." he said soothingly.
She breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness…" her voice had a tinge of fear to it. "What do you think they're up to?"
He searched the air with his hand, his hand found her arm and locked around it so they wouldn't get separated in the darkness. "I'm thinking we're about to find out…" Link said, he kept his voice calm as to not unnerve Alexis, regardless of the tenseness built up inside of him because of their current situation.
He began taking cautious steps, leading Alexis behind him through the dark, he knew his way fairly enough around the castle and he figured the whole place wouldn't be kept in darkness if it was inhabited…no matter the fact that these people were evil…
Suddenly there was a loud whoosh as lights flashed on. Link's instincts told him to bring his sword up; his instincts had never let him down before so he immediately brought his sword up, despite the blinking dots of light that swam across his vision, and the confusion that reigned in his mind.
There was a reverberating clang as steel met steel…
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This chapter wasn't as long as I thought it would be but...heh heh...Anywho, bigthanks to all my wonderful reviewers!
Greki: If yer in a rush, then I thank you very much for takin the time to R and R: )
Crazyfreak: Here's the definition of a Mary-Sue for you (which Alexis not!) : For LOZ terms it would be a character based off the author who instantly falls in love with Link. 1 Alexis is not based off of me, I did make her up, but she ain't based off of me and 2 SHE DID NOT INSTANTLY FALL FOR LINK! oh and there's a 3rd thing...I hate mary-sues so why the heck would I put one in my fic? Anyway...'hmm if Zelda weren't dead, I'm sure she'd had her sniper aimed at Alexis... for taking her roll, and her legend...' lol that part of yer review really cracked me up...LOL. Truth be told I'm more of a LinkxZelda person but the LinkxOC is needed for the plot and this may be just the only LinkxOC fic I end up writing anyway cuz none of the other fics I have in mind will be LinkxOC just cuz it don't fit in the plot of 'em...so yuppers if that makes your 'Alexis is a Mary-Sue' thinking mind feel any better...lol...sugars gettin to me...
I'm gonna apologize now for any big typing errors in this chapter cuz I scraped up my hand kinda badand it's really hard to type...Plus I woulda had this up sooner if it didn't hurt to type...lol...
Oh and for any Kingdom Hearts fans readin my fic, I have a fic on my accountcalled 'Sora vs. the 7-Up machine,' it's by my sis da marshmallow and since she doesn't have an account with fanfic I put it up for her on my account...so if anyone's interested, the easy way to get there is just go to my profile and click on it...Well technically you don't hafta know anything about Kingdom Hearts to understand it cuz it's just a humor fic based off the 7-Up commercial...so yup yup, I bet my sis would be really happy if you checked it out and reviewed :)
-blondie91