The Eternal light
Well here we go another chapter up and now it's time to find out what the deal is with this underground city.
Chapter 16: the symphony of Life
As the warriors began to walk through the city they began to realize this city was inhabited by demons. Some had dog ears, claws, 4 arms, and eight legs and came in an array of colors.
"Guess you aren't the only weird creatures walking around this place." Raphael said referring to the Hylans
"Yeah you're here to." Lyric retorted
"Touché, nice one but not hurtful in the least"
They moved on and on into the city receiving many dirty looks from what they could tell.
"We've been expecting you" Greeted an extremely fat orange demon with huge wings and five pairs of eyes.
"I swear never to make fun of your ears again." Yunsung said
"Really" link said cynically
"No not really."
"Typical"
"I'm the Mayor of this here city and we've been preparing for your arrival."
"You mean you knew we'd come here."
He nodded his head "yes for 4 years now our harpies have predicted it." He looked to see their expression but they had stopped looking at him their attention was turned towards the center off the city, there stood a giant statue encrusted with a piece of soul edge
"Yes our cities pride and joy. Here let me return these." He reached into a pouch on his belly and produced the missing ocarinas.
Lyric took the demon by the neck "how'd you get these."
"A brave little girl you are but if you'd refrain from chocking me I can explain everything further."
"This better be good." She said taking her instrument and Link followed and took his.
"You see one of our citizens infiltrated your ship and retrieved your ocarinas as soon as you landed here our operative was ready. You can't see him can you but he stands here now. He is the tiniest of us all and is right here in my hand. Despite his tiny stature he is quite strong therefore making him perfect for our task."
"Yes but why? Why do want us here so badly?" Mina asked
"I know what you think when you look at us we're monsters but we were once human like yourselves. You all saw what is encrusted in our statue, a fragment of soul edge. It was 4 years ago when the shard fell into our town. The land on which you stand was once above ground. The high priest took the shard and it complete took control of his mind. The people of this town followed everything the priest said and they were made to worship the shard until we absorbed so much of the demonic energy that we ourselves became demons. After we fell through the earth we erected this statue with the shard embedded in it so we have a constant reminder of our sins. Recently we've had invaders called the shinpak. They are creatures of the sand and they are very dangerous. Although our appearance says otherwise we are unarmed and unskilled in the art of war."
"And that's were we come in."
"Yes in return we have agreed to give you are shard of soul edge."
"What made those sounds?" Link said grimacing at the mere memory of the shrieks
"Those were our harpies they sounded your arrival and gave way to the sands that allowed your entrance to our city."
"We'll think about it." Mitsurugi said
"What's there to think about?" Yunsung said "we help them we get the shard. It's a win- win situation."
"Honestly you could be so foolish." Lyric sighed
"What's foolish about that?"
"We know nothing about the enemy or how they look."
"They're creatures of the sand."
"Yeah but how do they look, what abilities do they have, what are they're advantages and disadvantages."
"Do you really think about that when you fight?"
"You do when you know ahead of time, there's no need to rush into fighting these things and risk injuries or fatalities."
"Look have your lover's quarrel later okay, we need to figure out if we're gonna do this or not." Mina said
"What are you talking about?" Lyric said but Yunsung went red
"Mina your impossible there is …" there was a loud explosion before he could finish.
"I guess we don't have anytime to think, do we. Let's go before the shinpak enter the city."
The heroes ran towards a near by clearing we're they saw creatures rise from the sand. The shinpak were sand in the form of different animals that were at least six feet tall.
"Here we go." The two Hylans took out there arrows and began to shoot at the on coming shinpak. "Get ready when they come they'll hit hard" Link said
"Link do you see that," Lyric told him in their native tongue "They don't seem to any less in number they keep coming back."
"Your right this will need magic, what about the others"
"Let them fight they can hold the monsters back giving us time to use the proper magic need Link our swords should suffice for now spread the word I'll go in closer." Link nodded
"Lyric ran down and unsheathed the eternal light, here powerful sword
Link told the others about the creatures as he switched from his normal arrows to his light arrows. Lyric managed to slow some of them down but with every slash the creatures multiplied. Lyric turned to see a light arrow whiz past her and hit the creature but the creature split in two. Lyric ran back towards the other heroes.
"Stop" Lyric yelled at Link in hylish
He immediately stopped "What's wrong."
"It doesn't work our attacks will only make them multiply." She told them all
"Then what do we do." Talim said
"All we can do is fight and hold them back." Maxi said
"No!" but they all ran into the fray all except for Link, Talim and surprisingly Yunsung.
"Okay so what great plan do you have for us" Yunsung said mocking her some what
"Why are you here?"
"Because they're running into something they can't control they all saw what happened besides I figured you had a plan.
"Not for this one."
The warriors who went to fight were greatly out numbered. Mitsurugi began to spar with a squid like shinpak and with the help of Taki sliced it into shreds but the shinpak multiplied into six new ones. Mina and Kilik tried holding them at bay sending the shinpak back with out cutting them in two but with the other warriors attacking with such furious speed they were quickly over run. "This is hopeless" Talim sighed and Link held her hand
"Don't worry we'll find a way to beat the shinpak." He smiled at her and her heart leapt with joy
"I have an idea think about it these are sand creatures. Let's start with fire arrows then when they get close enough Link we'll use Din's fire."
"I get fire turns sand into glass."
"Hey that was simple but you can skip the arrows there here." Yunsung said
"Link let's run to the center of the pack" They ran through the shinpak passing their fighting comrades "One, two, three." they used din's magic causing the shinpak to become glass figures.
"That was all! You've got to be kidding me." Maxi said
"Well jokes over. There back." Yunsung said
"What?" they turned and saw the shinpak forming in different pockets of sand.
"They're regenerating in the left over sand." Talim said
"There's sand every where we can't possibly turn it all into glass." Xianghua yelled there was no time to think just to fight
Everyone was trying to hold there own but there were just too many. Things looked pretty bleak and they were about to get worse. Raphael began to spar with a cheetah shinpak. He dodged an attack by the creature and countered but he slipped on a rock and lost his balance it happened so fast as the others just watched, the creature took it's chance and hit sorel hard across the face leaving behind claw marks then it sliced hi s throat and it continued towards the city. Raphael was dead.
"No!!!!!!!!!" Came the cry from the other warriors but Lyric wasted no time and ran towards Raphael's lifeless body. She took out her ocarina and rapidly began playing a song.
"Is this girl crazy?" Yunsung yelled running to block the attack of a shinpak ready to add another casualty to their group but suddenly the shinpak stopped and the warriors did the same and they all listened to the winds sing.
Take in the air
And breathe, breath
Take in the breath of life
The immortal cringe
The dead rise
All are humbled by
The symphony of life
The sand creatures crumbled and fell to the ground and were again nothing but sand on the ground. Then there was a groan and Raphael sat up the ugly scar on his face was gone.
"Just a silly instrument Mr. sorel" Lyric smirked
"If you could have destroyed them earlier why'd you wait?" Yunsung yelled
"I couldn't someone had to be dead. The symphony of life can only work when somebody is dead. This song is extremely powerful it brings back the dead but at the same time can kill the immortal."
"The immortal cringe, the dead rise. I get it now all are humbled. I guess the shinpak were immortals. It didn't matter what we did." Xianghua said
"I heard of this song, isn't it one of the hardest to learn." Link asked
'Took me ten years"
"So I have your respect again." Raphael asked
"I guess so, you're forgiven."
"Now it's time to get our piece of soul edge." Maxi said as they head towards the statue.
"Not so fast"
Everyone turned and they were shocked at what they saw.
End of chapter 16
Okay I'll update soon not much to say. Read and review. The next chapter is sure to please.
Inuken