Chapter 3:
A Grave conflict
It had been two weeks since the others left. It was quiet in the Shiekah's lair, the elder though it odd as even the patrols, that usually fought monsters, hadn't encountered on in two weeks. The elder's name was Enrutcon, but every on called him Con was the closest thing to a general that the shiekahs had. He was large for a shiekah, had gray hair, and a scarred face. Con wondered if the monsters followed the others. Yet another week passed and still no sight of monsters. "Sir," a patrol main reported to Con. " Still no monsters, but there was an odd humming sound coming from the temple." This struck Con like a sack of bricks. "Take me there." Con commanded. Con and the scout suited up in armor then set out. There were three ways in to the shadow temple antechamber: A quick route for elders, the main route for every one else, and a secret crawl space that lead to an upper story of the chamber; they all started in the entrance chamber. Con immediately heard the low hum," It's like an army of stalfoses having a chat." Con thought, and immediately regretted thinking. A wall blocked the quick route, and since the hum could have been monsters they took the crawlspace. The crawl space was long, dark, cramped, and uncomfortable; it also showed how much weight Con had gained over the years. After about an hour of crawling they had finally made it to the antechamber upper deck, by this time the hum had become a loud mumble. Con looked down to the bottom floor and was horrified. He was somewhat right about the Stalfoses, there was a large group of monsters they were gathered in front of a large statue. This group included: stalfoses, lizalfoses, wolfoses, floormasters, wallmasters, dinalfoses, Skulltullas (large and small), poes, tektites, armoses, beamoses, and some monsters that he didn't recognize. Con then forced his attention to the statue, it seemed oddly familiar to him. The monsters were all standing on a round floor of what looked to be stretched hide. The floor was surrounded by fog, but Con could discern a liquid under the fog. When the patrolman looked at the statue he was taken aback and started chanting in a very ancient dialect, despite his age Con didn't understand the chant. " What are you saying?" Con asked irritably. "I'm praying for salvation from the great shadow beast!" the scout said obviously scarred out of his wits. Con had not heard of this "great shadow beast." "Great shadow beast?" Con asked. "Yes the great shadow beast Bongo-Bongo!" the scout answered. Those words, Bongo-Bongo, seemed to echo on forever, into an invisible abyss. At that moment the chatter stopped and all the monsters looked directly at the two shiekahs. "Kill them!" a commander shouted. The commander was a stalfos with black bones and horns; he wore black armor with gold trim. At those words the two shiekahs ran, they jumped down to the first floor and took the main route to the exit. As Con ran he felt a shake, at first he thought it was him, but soon he realized that it was the temple that was shaking. Con turned to see the scout turned around in a fighting stance. "What are you doing?" Con asked frantically. "I'll slow them go warn the others that Bongo-Bongo is back…GO! NOW!" the Scout yelled. Con turned and ran on, he could hear the Scout's fight behind him. Con ran for what seemed like an eternal hell. Finally he reached the Shiekah's lair. He went to the first Shiekah he saw. This shiekah was a woman named Edahs, or Eda for short. Eda was a very beautiful young shiekah with violet eyes and silver hair. She was 22, three years younger than Seto and five years older than Kard. "Eda! Tell everyone that Bongo-Bongo is back with an army!" Con shouted Frantically. Eda ran frantically alerting shiekahs of the impending doom. They had 1,000 fighters, even with that much Con wasn't sure that they could win. They ran to defend the main entrance; they were just in time. Con pushed forward felling one enemy after another. After hours of battle the monsters fell back. They were safe…. for now.