The Eternal Light
I just got back from Maryland (I live in New York) and the first thing I did was put this story up for you guys.
Chapter 15: Underground City
The next morning the blood stained boat reached Egyptian soil and most of our heroes quickly went to the dock and looked at their surroundings. There was a small village surrounded by the desert. Now there were still two heroes left on the boat, Link and Lyric.
"What's taking them so long?" Asked Raphael very impatiently
Then they heard a loud crashing sound on the boat.
"Look I'll go in and get them" Mitsurugi offered and ran onto the boat to get the Hylans. Minutes later Mitsurugi came out dragging the pair off the boat.
"Get off of us!" Lyric yelled and he finally let them go.
"Well what took so long?" Raphael said
"Okay which one of you took it, huh, I'm going to count to 3 if you don't give it back I'm going to kill all of you. You all should know not to fucking play with me like that." She did just what she said she would but when she turned back no one had moved.
"Maybe you could start by telling us what you're looking for?"
"Our ocarinas they're missing." Link said with a tinge of frustration
"Maybe you've misplaced them."
Just then a rage inside the two Hylans eyes sparked simultaneously.
"Are you implying we don't take care of our ocarinas that we just leave them lying around?" Lyric yelled
"These ocarinas are our link to the goddesses; they're our link to our world and our people!" Link also yelled
"We are not careless and misplace important things like that lying around! Ocarinas posses loads of magical powers our people still have not uncovered in the wrong hands they can be extremely dangerous!"
"They were stolen, how I'm not sure Lyric and I kept them on us at ALL times, no exceptions. Only someone on board could have done it!"
"Whoa there kids calm down. Okay I understand this is important to you but none of us have it. Let us go get the shard and hope that when we get back you find it. There's nothing else you can do." Maxi told them.
"Okay I guess your right." Link replied and Lyric nodded
"All this ruckus over a dammed instrument now look at the time we wasted we could have been tracking through the desert." Raphael scoffed
"What did you say? I can't believe you have the impudence to say something like that after what I just told your sorry ass. Mr. Sorel I don't know what crawled up your butt today but I swear before the goddesses if you disrespect that instrument again I'll stick my foot so far up your ass it'll come out the other side." Lyric said and she wasn't joking.
"Listen if you want to fight over a silly instrument then do so."
"A silly instrument that parts the sea and gives knowledge, I don't find that very silly, Raphael."
"What happened to Mr. Sorel?"
"It went out with my respect for you. I don't what made you start acting like this today maybe you've been hanging with Yunsung to much."
"Well if you're done ranting we can move on now." he stood there unfazed.
"Bastard." She was about to make good on her promise when Link caught hold of her.
"Don't touch him; we can't make him understand the ocarinas importance."
"Of course not… fine this time I'll let it go."
They had been walking in the desert for hours but there was no sign of the shard. Night came fast and all though the desert was very hot during the day, during the night it becomes extremely cold.
"Let's rest and build a fire." Xianghua suggested
Everyone agreed and a fire was made. Our heroes sat around the fire trying to keep warm.
"I think this is a good enough time to ask. We all basically know each other well except for Lyric and Link we know almost nothing about you two and Link one things always puzzled me if you had no knowledge of the portal how did you get here." Taki asked the Hylans
"I knew this question would come soon but the truth is I don't know. I was riding on my faithful horse Epona when something weird flashed in the sky. I decided to find out what it was but when I got to where I saw the flash I blacked out and ended up hear. I was frightened at first by the humans but then I realized I could understand what they said and read their writing and even speak their language. I began to hear stories of the evil sword and I knew the goddesses brought me here to stop soul edges evil from entering my own world."
"Hmm… Maybe you were also a decoy… to lure the other heroes here to help fight soul edge with us." Mitsurugi suggested
"And to get us to complete the prophecy, you know your goddesses must know how the prophecy and soul edge are connected." Said Maxi
"Lyric now it's your turn … how did you get. Tell us your story." Talim said
"I told you, Leon and I came here to find Link. He died I found Link and now we're here."
"No, tell us about how it all started how you first found your destiny."
"Well … if you really want to know. Let me start back sometime before I was born. There was a noble man of great wealth who was very close to the king but this man was evil and he wanted to overthrow the king. So he leaked information to the gerudos hhoping that the evil Gannon would retrieve the triforce and become king. He knew Gannon wasn't too bright and got very close to him to know learn what would be the king's weakness and even top this day he bides his time waiting until the perfect moment to take over. This man was named Zantos."
"Oh I know who you're talking about that treacherous Hylan who's in high favor with Gannon."
"Yes, well he had a daughter. She was seventeen, my age, when he married her off to an abusive man nearly three times her age. She wasn't happy with this and with the help of a sheikah servant she ran away. You see his daughter was pure of heart and was nothing like her father … she didn't love her husband and felt that she should fall in love with the man who would be husband. When she ran away a young soldier from the old king's army took care of her and the sheikah they fell in love and she became pregnant but she was to happy to think straight and little did she know her husband and father would not rest until she was found. When her husband found her he killed the young man and would have killed the servant had she not been a skilled sheikah warrior in the past. The man reclaimed his wife but when she was ready to give birth to the baby her father refused to give her the proper doctors and forced her to give birth in a cold cell. She died giving birth. Zantos was ready to kill the child except he realized that on the child's right hand was the mark of the triforce. The daughter and the young soldier were my parents." Tears fell from her eyes "Now the plan was to convert me to there side so that there would be less opposition from the heroes. However the sheikah servant would not hear of it and she took me away to a secret location in the lake Hylia region. From the day I could walk, talk and understand what she told me she made me train day in and day out. She taught me all about sword play, how to play the different ocarina songs how to use magic everything she knew. There is not one day of my childhood I can remember where I just had a day of rest or played childish games. I never had friends in fact the first friend I had was Leon and that wasn't but a few months ago. Anyway when I turned ten everything came crashing down. My stepfather discovered our whereabouts. He brought some of Zantos best men and there was a battle. It came down to my mentor and my stepfather and I watched from the house but in the end he sent an arrow piercing into her heart. I reacted and ended up killing my stepfather. Before my mentor died she told me of the prophecy and I started my quest. You know what happened after that basically I met Leon and went on the search for Link."
"Where did you get the shard of soul edge?"
"I got it from Leon. He found it some where in this world you see he had been traveling between the two worlds long before I met him. That's why Cervantes was after us but before he killed Leon, Leon asked me to take the shard and leave him to die he said it was more important." The tears continued to flow
"What was your mentor's name?" Taki asked
"Nehrunia … sometimes I call her my mother but… Her name is Nehrunia."
"Nehrunia, the great sheikah warrior who helped to fight and win the gerudo-sheikan war"
"Yes the very same, after the war she decided she would stay alongside the family that helped supply her people with shelter. Zantos wasn't always so evil you see his wife who was alive at that time succumbed from a fatal illness that could have been prevented had the king let Zantos use the power of Zelda's Lullaby but that is a sacred song that only the royal family, their sheikah servants and now the heroes. This song is the most powerful in all of Hyrule. Since this time Zantos has held a grudge against the king and that is why he became a traitor."
"This is all so depressing, I feel for everyone even this Zantos in a weird way." Xianghua said
"Don't, Zantos is a weak man he had other options and he quickly looked to the path of darkness. I could never forgive that man for all the crimes he's committed treason, murder he should be hung from the highest building and pelted with rocks."
"I'm just as weak then. I quickly took in the darkness and I murdered countless people yet you tell me differently is it because what he's done is so close to home." Siegfried questioned
"No you were weak but you decided to make things right. Were you ever truly happy in darkness and evil?"
"No, I wasn't but the man is hurting."
"But the man embraces the evil. The evil is his driving force he prefers the darkness and cannot see past it. How else could he let his own daughter die at his hands, the last remaining bit of what he cherished? It's because he is weak minded and evil courses through his veins." She said yelling
"You're so high strung, you need to calm down, I see how this could be hard for you to deal with but if you can't even show the slightest pity for your enemies maybe your really the weak one." Yunsung said to her
"You wouldn't understand, how could you?"
"What do you think that we don't have our own problems people who have betrayed us?"
"No I know we've all had our hardships but you could never understand the hate that burns inside of me for this man."
This is when the weirdest thing happened since Yunsung was sitting right next to her he grabbed hold of her and they stared at each other for a long time. Everyone was silent and then he finally said "With all that ate what kind of hero can you possibly be you must become better than that and I know you can learn to suppress that anger."
She noticed he was different his whole attitude and outlook different. What brought on this change had he himself lift a heavy burden off his shoulders. Her rampant tears stopped flowing and she calmed herself she felt weary and was tired from the events of the day before she knew it she had fallen over into his arms and was fast asleep.
"Ahh Lyric… Lyric, Oh boy what did I do she won't get up."
"Leave her alone besides you two look cute together" Sueng Mina said and everyone except Yunsung laughed
"Mina that's not even funny… I don't like her like that."
"So then you like her like what," Yunsung turned red "Oh I'm sorry I forgot about Talim yeah but since Link and her are an item I guess Lyric is your answer."
"Stop it's not like that she's okay … but I don't even think of her like that." Yunsung replied laying the girl next to him
"Sure you don't but fine I'll drop it."
"Talim do you really have something for me" Link whispered
"Drop it!" Talim yelled
From then on the subject was dropped and the other warriors followed Lyric's lead and fell asleep.
The heroes woke up to another hot day in the desert and suddenly the two Hylans began to cover their ears and tears began to flow from their eyes.
"What's wrong with you guys?" Mina asked
"You don't hear it." Link yelled, Mina shook her head
"It stopped" Lyric said and took her hands off her ears.
"What was it?" Siegfried asked
"It was a shrieking noise."
"How could you hear that?" Maxi said not knowing about their superior hearing
"Don't be dense our ears aren't for show, we can hear things from miles away if we choose to hear it."
"You mean you can turn it on and off?"
"In a sense… Ahh," Again the Hylans covered their ears. "Not when it's like this!" she yelled and then the noise stopped again.
"Brace yourselves," Link yelled "The sand below us is caving in."
"What!" Yelled the chorus of heroes
"How do you know?" Xianghua yelled
"Trust him stop wasting …" Lyric didn't finish her sentence and they fell through.
When the heroes awoke they first realized they were closed in on all sides except one.
"Where are we?" Mina said
"I don't know but there's only one exit." Kilik said
"So I guess that's where will be going?" Yunsung said
"Yeah but we don't know what's down there it my just be another dead end." Xianghua said
"And it might not we have to check it out what else can we …" Mitsurugi stopped when he heard the sound of an exotic instrument playing.
"My Ocarina" Lyric said and ran through the exit
"Wait what if it's a trap!" Link yelled but Lyric was determined to find her ocarina and she was ready to kick butt. Without any other options they ran after her. When they got there they saw Lyric stopped dead in her tracks.
"What's wrong…?" Talim started when they all looked up and out and before them stood an underground city.
End of chapter 15
Read and review. I hope you like this chapter. It's great to be home and I'll update tomorrow. Inuken