The World of the Undead
DreamWeaver- Haha yeah I mispelled styx. I was thinkin it was wrong in some way haha, thanks for all your reveiws!
Chapter Five: Taking Back Sunday Part 1
As we walked across the the endless desert, I realized how long a walk it was, but when I accually looked at the salty, acid water I realized it wasn't really there. Something slowly faded into veiw, and the closer we got, the better Malon was feeling, until we came up close, eye to eye with thing and figured it wasn't just a thing, but a castle. It stood at least one hundred feet tall and behind it was a mountain of sorts. I could see a draw bridge a little farther down, so I sat Malon down as she was able to walk now and walked towards it.
I looked back at my comrades. The drawbridge slowly came down and stopped in front of a moat of what looked like acid filled water. I geuss they have no pure water down here do they?" Malon stay behind me," I ordered. Kaiten stepped up, ready for what was about to oppose us, when we saw two figures coming from the smoke inside." Hey something smells delicious..." Said Kaiten sniffing the air. I sniffed to and smelled food, which is what we didn't have for a long long time.
The two figures turned out to be a tall man that was human with long blonde hair and a robe that was white and reached down to his ankles. His ears were long like a Hylians and his eyes big and brown. The other man wore tights all over his body with a clothe chest plate and two shin gairds. His boots were the same color as his tights, a greyish black with silver bonds on the sides. His hair was jet black and short matching his dark brown eyes." Welcome to Prelais, city of merchants. I am prince Henry the third and this is my advisor, Marcus." We bowed and shook hands.
I didn't know what to say, talking to royalty in the underworld? You gotta be kidding me. The prince blinked again and sighed," Alas, my Kingdom has been taken over by the one called Dracula...Pelais is my hometown so I chose to stay here." I looked up and this." Wait so your sayin Dracula is behind this as well?" Asked a confused Kaiten.
Malon came out of the open finally having enough stength to speak," If you could tell us anything about Dracula, we would surely appreciate it..." I smiled at her remark and she smiled back. The prince rubbed his chin, thinking hard." I'm sure you'v heard of the valley of the dead, am I right?" I nodded, remembering what the dead one I met at the river of Styx.
" I know you must be wondering why we're humans and living down here." I nodded again and so did Malon, as we walked into the castle." We were cursed a long long time ago to stay down here. Every now and then a large Demon attacks, but casualties are few."
" Wow..." Malon said with amazment in her bright purple eyes," Dracula really rules the underworld with an iron fist doesn't he..." I agreed, first the dead soldiers and now real live humans! What was happening next!
" Every sunday..." I was confused by this remark but listened as he went on," Every Sunday, a new Demon comes, sometimes an army of them will. We were planning on finding Dracula and settling the score, but we don't know where to look." I started to ask who were "We" When I looked around myself, there were a lot of people in small cottages and smoke evrywhere. Women and children and even dogs were so filthy...it's like a completly blown Earth.
I could also see gaurds wearing heavy darkish gold chain mail under their armour. They were humans alright..." Well we're looking for Dracula, and maybe we can help." I said examining the Mastersword. I looked at it's anchient Hylian Markings and it's painted steal handle made of pure gold." Besides we'd love to help you people out!" Malon added, smiling.
What the hell was I getting myself into now...it just so happens that tomorrow is Sunday. But maybe i can use this to my advantage. We were going to stay in the prince's masion that night...well if there ever was daylight here. Kaiten went somewhere and hasn't come back, hope he knows where to go.
" So how do you keep your defense up around here?" I asked, breaking the silence on the walk to the mansion. The prince looked up and spoke with words I never heard anybody else say but me in my life," Well we're in hell, so we keep a tight defense, a big wall surrounds us on all sides. Everytime we have a battle , we only get one casualtie...if that keeps up, by the end of next year we won't even have an army."
Suddenly, from behind the clouds above us swirled clouds like I'v never seen before,I large demon bird floated above the village." What in the hell is that!" I said, looking up at the giant bird." Why today? It's not Sunday! How can this be!" The prince argued and yelled," Get ready for battle!"
This caused a big uprising in the towns people as they ran through the streets grabbing things they needed and went inside of their house's." Hey Kaiten where'd you run off to!" I called out through the crowd, but then I lost the prince in all the soldiers that were running toward the gate. I could see balls of light forming outside of the wall, the Demons must have been coming, but why, todays Saturday. But then I looked around and finally notcied," Malon!"
"Over here Link!" I heard from behind me and found Malon with her bow in hand and arrow loaded,pointed at me! Oh great Farore what is she doing!" Malon wait no!" I cried when she shot the arrow and hit a lizafo demon that was coming up on me. I turned around shocked and looked at Malon with my mouth wide open. She giggled and loaded another arrow." Thanks Malon." I said hugging her for a brief moment. She nodded and shot another arrow.
I then finally pulled out my Master Sword and began chopping down as many demons as possible. The demons seemed to keep on coming! I'v never been in a fool all out battle like this one before, this was war." Hey Malon! Get to higher ground, you'll be safer!" I called out to her on the balcony shooting away. She nodded and ran to the top of the building.
Dracula must have wanted to finish these people off for good, cause I saw soldiers falling left and right like rocks falling from a bucket. I looked around for Kaiten but he was nowhere to be seen. Slicing through another lizafo warrior I ran through the crowd of Demons, killing as I went. I spotted the Prince at the gate on his horse fending off the monsters. I took a quick glance at Malon on the roof balcony on the building to see if she was ok and ran towards the gate.
But when I reached the gate a Giant demon with a heavy axe, swung down at me with a heavy force strong enough to break steel. I dodged the attack and sliced at him with my sword, but he dodged, picking up strength to swing another heavy blow again. I ducked this one and bacled off. He continued killing soldeirs untill I caught my balance finally and movedin, only to be hit by the dull side of his axe. I crouched to my knees in pain as I looked at my hand where I clutched my wound. I was bleeding furiously and it didn't stop.
The mighty giant rose for another strike until I saw a blade go through his chest, visible only to me. I could see the blade slowly being removed from his back and the one that had saved my life. It was none other than Kaiten. I frowned," Where the hell were you?" I asked sarcastically. He helped me to my feet and looked at my side, gasping hard." I know i know that stupid giant hit me with his axe.
" Well it's a good thing your alive...but where's..." Before he could say the word of his sentance we heard a scream from above the roof where Malon was fending off with her bow. Monsters were attacking her!" Oh nice job genius, how are we gonna save her this time?" Kaiten remarked, a small bead of sweat rolling down his head. I took out my bow and pulled out a silver arrow Malon made especially for times like this.
Kaiten looked with curiosity as I took aim at the monster that was attacking Malon on the roof," Watch and learn good friend." I said letting the arros fly. It flew and flew until it had hit it's target hard, making it hit the floor with a sound that even I could hear from all the way over here, a loud" PLUMP" and the sound of Malon gasping from the shock of my arrow. She looked down at us and sighed.
" Hey we gotta go get to her," I said beginning to run through the crowd of disaster, follow by Kaiten. I turned to look back at the prince as his horse was stripped from him and he was now fighting on land. Kaiten pulled out his spare sword and his regular one and began slicing and dicing through the Demons that got in our way. The clouds were going blacker and the wind was rising, lightning struck across the sky and thunder formed to be a loud ground shaker. The Demons seemed to fall back a little but there were still many left.
I havne't had anything like this happen since Ganondorfs fall. As a matter of fact this underworld place looks just like the alternate timeline where Ganon used to reign.
Malon seemed to be alright up there, But I didn't want to leave her alone with all these crazy things running around, they just suprised us out of nowhere. I never even had a chance to eat or meet the prince yet. Kaiten was knocked back when I stalchild weilding a heavy sword appeared and swung at us. We rolled oppsite sides and attacked the demon head on. It's spiraly golden eyes looking down at us with hatred of humans. I swung first, missing it's head and moving around to the back. Kaiten took a good stab but the beast blocked it with it's heavy blade. Then while the beast was startled I stabbed it in the back quickly, making it squeel with anger, but the beast wasn't down yet. It turned, picking up a spear and struck me in my stomach with it. The spear broke across my body like shattering glass on a good day.
" Thats it.." Kaiten yelled, taking the sword in his left hand and throwing it like a spear, striking the creature in the back. When the creature still didn't go down he rammed his other sword in it's back as blue blood started to form around the wound it had. Finally, after a while of fighting it, the creature fell blue flame, and it's weapon fell to the ground. At that last strike, all the demons left in the immidiate area go back up the huge dragon like creature in the sky and disappear between the red clouds that cover the heavens. I was releived when Malon finally exited the building and hugged me so fast my eyes went blury.
" Link your ok!" She said looking up at me. I looked at her with a kooky look and remarked," Yeah why wouldn't I be?" Malon giggled, but stopped hard when she discovered my side bleeding," Link your bleeding!"
"Yeah yeah it's no big deal, got hit by the dull side of an axe, it'll heal." I said smiling at her. She didn't seem to like that fact that I was hurt and smiling about it. She frowned," Hey Malon? What are you looking at me like that for?" I asked getting kinda scared. I haven't seen her with that look since the last time i was hurt severly. That was a harsh time, I was rescuing her from being bullied by older kids, fortunatly I got beat up but when I smiled and laughed about getting beat up, she never liked it. She always gave me that look that would put my on my butt.
Kaiten interupped the look quickly," Uh hey how bout we go rest somewhere?" I could tell that was a random question because Malon had looked at him like that too once. She stopped glaring at me and smiled," Ok! Lets go get something to eat I'm starved!" Phew, saved by the bell...I wonder how much longer we could keep this mission up. I knew it couldn't be for very long at least, we were almost to Dracula, beyond this city was a portal to his world. But first we must help these people and do what we can. Take back Sunday...