The World Of The Undead
Chapter Two: The Opening
Ok so now what? I have nothin to do today but wait. Well I got a whole day ahead of me so I should relax. Kaiten and I were on our way to Kakariko the next morning, he seemed ditermined to get a reward. I geuss he's never really earned a big one...then again neither did I.
The sun was rising slowly in the sky, and the chicken crowed, signalizing morning...I always hated that chicken, cause it always woke me up. One time I set out to find it and shoot it with my arrow but I never could.
Soon we reached Kakariko, village of blacksmiths." Where and when do we meet this Ajax?" Asked Kaiten. I sighed in reply," In the graveyard at midnight, according to Ajax, thats when the portal opens to the underworld." Kaiten nodded. It was then that I relized...how were we going to get back? I stopped thinking on it to keep the time going by to quickly. And for some reason I started thinking about what Malon said, that whoever I was looking for would be right under my nose, hope she didn't mean what I thought.
As we walked through the gates a woman screamed loudly causing us to jump,"You hear that?" Asked Kaiten, he nodded. We quickly ran to the source of the scream and found the a man was trieing to...I don't know what to say...seduce her?" Hey let her go!" I yelled out loud at the man. And it was at that moment I saw what I was dealing with. He was a giant from the western lands, his muscles bulged and he wore nothing but a tunic that covered his bottom half. His face was scarred and he barely had any teeth. But what scared me the most was the war axe he carryed on his back. This guys like a human Iron Knuckle!
He looked at me and Kaiten," And who are you suppose to be, a Hyrule patrol? How dare they mess with me..." I frowned, who does this guy think he is?" No matter, I shall destroy all that stand in my way. And this woman will come with me." He snapped his fingers," Boys come get her." He handed the woman to the three men that weren't as big as he was but big anyway.
I looked at her face more closely under her dark red hair," MALON!" I shouted. The giant stood in front of me," Oh so you know this girl? Well to bad she's mine" I unsheathed my sword." Hey Kaiten, I got this big bastard, you save Malon." Kaiten cracked his fingers," My pleasure." Hey you mind if we kill em?" Like I cared," Go ahead, their just good for nothin giants. And they got Malon."
" My pleasure..." He quickly grabbed his bow from his back and loaded it with an arrow. He shot it so fast my hair moved. As the arrow soared threw the air I attacked the giant. He dodged and turned back to look where the arrow hit. It had hit the man holding Malon captive. I then struck again with my right fist, punching him dead in the chest.
" Hah your no match for a giant!" He said, beginning to get irritated. He pulled out his battle axe and began swinging it with powerful strokes. I unsheathed the master sword and blocked one of his attacks. We stood there in a dead lock but I could tell he had the upper hand easilly. He pushed me back and hit me in my jaw with the other end of his axe.
Meanwhile Kaiten had two more giants to kill," Come on!" He roared and pulled out his two scimitars. Malon slowly moved out of the way behind a barrel, dumbstruck at the battle." I...Hate...Giants!" I said blocking even more powerful swings. Now I was starting to get irritated, I quickly dodged a powerful down stroke from his axe and moved to the side, cutting his chest as I moved. While I had him pinned I quickly stabbed him in the back, finishing him." GAHH!" He yelled as he fell to the ground with a loud thud. A small crowd started to form around our little battle.
Kaiten wasn't having any trouble at all, He dodged with speed and parryed every attack. Then on the last shot of his axe he spin kicked the creature in the nose, causing it to bleed.He then finally fell out cold. Kaiten sighed," Phew we made good work of them!"But he silence after he took a glance at the where the sun was." Dam it's getting closer to the time..."
I sheathed my sword and looked at Malon," Hey it's safe to come out now..." She lookedlike she'dseen a ghost...just what did this guy do to her anyway? I then saw the small cut around her eye." I came to sell some supplysfor the ranch, but those men started following me as soon as I left." She choked back a sob, I hugged her tighter and looked at her,"Ah your alright now the guys are imobolized and the Kakariko gaurd is taking care of them..." I then noticed howclose our faces were and backed off quickly catching my breath.Kaiten laughed.
What is goin on with her! She almost kissed me!" Link whats wrong?" She asked tilting her head to the side. I was sweating to the bone and she was just going to ask whats wrong?" Hey Link check out the sun." I looked at it as Kaiten said.
" Hey it is getting late...Malon you should finish what you were doing here and head home k?" She nodded." When will you be back?" I tried to answer that question but I couldn't," ...sometime ok, I really don't know."
" Oh and don't forget this!" She added running to the cart she used to get around. Kaiten and I followed her, I wondered what it was that she wanted to give me. She then emerged from the cart with a black long bow and...silver arrows?" Malon!" I yelled." When did you make these?"
" Yesterday! Use them with pride!" The bow was about four feet long, jet black with ancient hylian spells on the side. It glimmered in the sunlight as if brand new...well it is brand new but yeah." Well we'll be off to the graveyard now! Hurry home so I won't have to worry!" Kaiten laughed again, thats all he seemed to do was laugh. Malon was on her way back to the ranch now and we headed on to the graveyard.
Like I said, demons roamed the graveyards, spirits and spectors. Occasionally you'll find a redead every now and then, their spirits still humming inside their chests with a blue glow. The thing that gets me is their eyes, somehow they can put so much fear into you that you can hardly move. These spirits are different, it only happens when their souls have the ability to fight back death, theres something they want out out of this world but their dieing to find out.
Night fell upon the land and a small storm began to form, lightning and rain wizzing across the sky. The moon began to rise and the wandering spirits hovered over their grave sites as if saying," You are not welcome here." Kaiten and I walked along the dirt path until we reached the ancient royal tome stones of Zeldas parents. Lightning struck again as we stood there by the grave in the rain, not like we cared or anything, we've been in the rain countless times.
Kaiten broke the silence," When is this guy comin? We been waitin for an hour already." I looked at him, I was getting bored as well." I think he's suppose to be here at midnight. And from the look of where the moon is I'd say it's almost time..." As soon as I said this a green light shined from the moon and from behind us came a man in white and dark coverings and sandals. It was none other than Ajax the monk.
" What took you so damn long," Kaiten protested. Ajax smiled at the remark and looked directly at me." It is time to enter the dark world, I must tell you that it is the destruction of Hyrule from this point. It is like the shadow of the world where opposite attractions occur. The foul demon that stole my staff is legendary, known as Dracula, the Vampire king." I tilted my head." You'll see soon enough my friend but it is time to to go or the moon will close up." " Right" I answered and took a glance at Kaiten. But it must'v been my imagination but I heard a small sqeul in the distance, but I shook it off.
Kaiten walked in first, being engulfed in blue light that slowly desolved him into the green of the moon. I did the same turning back to look at Ajax's waving hand. A white light flashed and everything went blury. Next thing I knew I was laying on the groudn in front of Kaiten who was turned the opposite direction." We're here..." I whispered. Kaiten nodded." Well I geuss we better be on my way."
I wuyickly took in my surroundings. It's like a place I'v never seen before, there were no trees and the feild was large and dark bloody red. In the distance I could see a volcano, unlike Death Mountain it looked like it was always erupting. I could see flieing demons around the tip, and I noticed that if they were there then in the long vast feild was more.
I began walking when I heard somethin behind me." Link you hear that?" " Yeah..." I pulled out my sword and readyed myself for what could be behind that rock...the sound came closer and closer until I large purple eyed head popped out. The shock threw me back a little but when I relized what it was I started to regret even coming." OH GODDESSES MALON!" I yelled." What in Dins name are you doing here!" Kaiten looked just as shocked as I was. My eyes about bulged out of my head. Malon just smiled sarcasticly. It was then that I noticed the bow on her back and the quiver full of arrows. SHe wore her regular farm attire that wasn't too different all though she wore under garments for running.
" I was just following you for a second...to see where you were going but I slipped off of a small slope on the hill and fell into the light coming from the moon." I refreshed myself. That would explain the sharp squeel I heard when stepping into the moonlight." Well your here now, why not take you..." Kaiten said, catching a death glare from me." But Kaiten! You know we can't even protect ourselves, let alone anyone else." He laughed." YOU can hardly protect yourself. If you don't wanna take the job I will." I sighed." Ok I'll do it, but it's only for Malon." " Of course." He smirked.
We continued down the long pathway away from the completly erupting mountain and came across a small creek full of water...but I had a feeling it wasn't ordinary water." You think we can drink this?" Asked Malon, obsurving it." WAIT Malon don't touch it!" I pulled her back quickly. Kaiten picked up a small rock and threw it into the small lake, as it hit the water it slowly desolved into nothing, shocking the three of us."I geuss we cannot cross..." Kaitenexplained. I looked around the lake and caught an eye on what looked like a steel boat around the shores." Hey look over there!" I pointed to the boat, noticing a small shack beside it. The shack wasn't too big, it looked liek it could only hold one person. It sat just a couple of feet from the acid lake water and the boat, and went about ten feet high.
" Maybe we should check the shack out over there, I'll do that while you two go get the boat ready." I said, moving toward the shack. Kaiten and Malon looked at each other and nodded, heading off to the boat.
The skys were forever changing in this world, there was no sun to be seen. But the air was intensly heavy with smoke from the volcanos and small fumes from the lake. I entered the shack, slowly opening the door. I turned back to look at Malon getting into the boat while Kaiten pushed it into the water. But...when I turned back around into the shack, a dead being stood there moaning for flesh by a small bed. My eyes shot open until it slowly turned it's head and looked at me with those purple eyes, it's skin decaying and it's lips being as ragged as an old wet peice of leather. This...was a redead...a zombie of sorts that has very unsusual powers. I fear these th most because of their power over your mind.
I stood there paralized and shaking with fear as the dead thing slowly walked to toward me, with dead skin falling off of it's foot as it walked. I tried to move but I was so scared that I was petrified, my legs were turning to stone and my eyes were bulging out of my head right about now. But still slowly the creature made it's way towards me, grabbing my now cold arm. Suddenly, a blade was stuck through the creatures head and then the next thing I saw was the creature being sliced in half, before I blacked out of conscousness.
Sorry for the hold up, I been up in school all week long, and I have a reveiw! All thanks to Dreamweaver!