The World Of The Undead
Chapter Eight: Dracula Shows himself and his true terror rages
"Ugh..." I moaned.." Where am I..." My eyes slowly opened to nothing as I was blinded by something. I couldn't see a thing!" Malon!" I called out." Kaiten! Where are you!" But nothing answered and I felt alone...scared for some reason, like something could have happend to those two.
" Wait I remember..." I felt around myself blindly, looking for my ocarina." Some white light came from the sky...but what happend next?" I reached the ocarina and pulled it out in from of my face. I couldn't see it!" What in Dins name!" I threw it back into my pouch and slowly got up, making sure I don't fall back from the on going pain in my head.
Suddenly from the distance I could hear a small faint voice call out to me, calling my name," Link..." it whispered. I jumped when I first heard it and thought that maybe another one of those monsters had survived the blast, but when the thing said my name again I realized it was Malon on the ground somewhere, I just couldn't see anything! Only bits and peice's of the world before me." Malon! Call my name again! Keep talking!"
" Link...I'm here..." It was getting fainter and I still couldn't see. But tripped over something and quickly got up and started to walk off when I heard her voice again, and it came from the thing i tripped over. Quickly I jumped down and hugged Malon with a huge sigh of releif." Malon! are you ok!" I asked. Suddenly my vision came back to me and I could see her and the world around me, it's poison air sickening my lungs.
" I'll be fine Link..." She put up and a hand and pointed to the right and I turned my head in the direction, spotting Kaiten out cold on a broken part of the wall that used to be up fifty feet high." Whoa...Kaiten looks kinda knocked up doesn't he." I said with a little bit of humor. I picked Malon up and put her on my back while walking over to Kaiten and his sleeping form there on the ground. His cloak was torn off leaving his green tunic and black pants. That reminded me...where was my hat?
Slowly I shook him awake and he got up with a start, doing as I did, holding his head and looking around. He didn't seem to notice we were there at first but he shook his head looked straight ahead like he was trumpitized for a second." Kaiten?" I said to him, keeping notice that he might be temporarily blinded as I was.
"Yeah..." he responded and looked at me. Yep, he was alright. We had to hurry out of this world, it was getting hard to live here. Dracula still hasn't shown himself and I was getting impatient.
" Ok guys we gotta go, the sooner we beat Dracula the better." Kaiten looked at me and laughed," HAH, you got that right, I'm so homesick it's a shame." I laughed again until suddenly an urge to caugh came up on me.
" Link are you alright?" Malon asked, looking at my throat turn red." Yeah I'm fine," I lied. In reality I was in so much pain, my left arm started to hurt so badly that I felt like slaying myself right here and now.
Kaiten got up with a start and brushed himself off, Malon helped him while I finished coughing." Hey..." I said with a very strained voice," You two need to..." I coughed again," Rest up a bit." Now it was getting worse and the pain in my left hand began to get deeper. The master sword resinated with a dark blue and the light shined through the sheath. What was happening to me now?
" Link...you don't look so good." Kaiten was right, something was wrong with me. I took my gauntlet off of my left arm and looked at the back of my hand. There, in the center on the back-side was the mark of the triforce, shining with all it's might, and the bottom left triangle, the triforce of courage stung so badly. Suddenly I fell on the ground, but for some reason I fealt myself began to change, and then...it all stopped.
" What the hell was that!" I yelled looking at the back of my hand where the triforce lay."Somethings coming..."
After I said that the red ground started to shake, I didn't know what was happening, all I knew that something was coming, and fast.
A thick smog covered the air and we lost ourselves in the mist, I couldn't my own hand in front of my face, neither could I see Kaiten or Malon. Then from farther in the mist I could hear cries up help, and they sounded like Kaitens! When I started running towards the sound I tripped over a red stone and fell flat on my face, this wasn't the time to get up and brush myself off, but when I got up to start running again, I then heard Malons voice in the distance, screaming for help.
" Hang on Mal I'm coming!" I screamed but this time I ran into something that no one would expect, at first I thought it was a large stone blocking my path to Malon but as I looked at it's shadow I saw that it had a human shape and from behind it was looked like bat wings!
The thing spoke to me with a deep voice," Looking for this?" It asked with a soft cackle. He held up Malon by her back and showed her to me, the smoke began to clear and the creatures face came into veiw, something evil and terrible. I knew who this was and I could barely control my fear. Dracula had shown himself.
" What do you want with us!" I yelled at him, keeping my eye dead on Malon. The creature just laughed," You have no idea whoa Dracula really is do you." He cackled again with his voice cracking nastilly, his large white fangs showing in the light from above." Think back hard Link, who do you think I am?"
He knew my name? He must have been spying on us, but who could he be? I thought about this until he finally made his move, throwing Malons limp body at me and growing wings from his discusting back and flieing into the air." Let us duel Link." As he said this I sat Malon down nearby and drew the master sword. I saw the legendary staff he held in his hand." You shall die right here and now!" The beast swooped down at me with the staff and clashed into my sword. The force pushed me to my rump and made me roll a little ways away.
" Damn you..." I whispered and got back up. He came down for a second attack but I dodged this one and jumped on ity's back. We flew threw the air fighting, sword to fang as his feet clung to my waist. Dracula slashed again and again with his claws, making me block every attack. The master sword cried for help as it shook from the terrible blows of Draculas claws." I don't know who you are yet..." I said, raising my sword again." But I'll find out soon!" I brought it down hard on the leg that was holding me captive, making the beast drop me to ground.
I rolled as pain hit me from the hardness of the ground, my left arm must have been broken. Looking up I saw Dracula squeeling from the pain in his leg, and i was helpless to it, for my arm was broken and I had no arrows. Slowly Dracula recovered and once again I raised my sword in my right hand, and as the monster swooped down again through the smoke in the smoggy air I looked at his face hard and finally noticed who it was.
" You know what, I enjoy fighting you...but you have been much of a threat to me, and it's time to end your life." The beast came down on my sword hard, knocking it out of my hand and sending me flieing into a nearby rock. Blood rose from my forehead and arms." I can read minds. You want to leave here for one reason." I looked up at him, frowning hard and grinding my teeth." You want Malon don't you." My frown turned into a shocked face and my body went helpless.
" How would you know?" I asked, still shocked that he'd say something like that." How would an ugly beast like you know the feeling of loving someone when they don't love you back." Dracula laughed and held his staff up to my neck." I have way more wives than you can ever have young Link."
I laughed. I don't know what came over me but i just kept laughing and looked at him with a grin," Your Ajax." This caught him off gaurd and gave me a chance to pick up my sword." You lured us here...and how can one such as I pose a threat to you?"
Ajax took awhile to respond. He seemed to be day dreaming but I knew if I'd attack now I'd have a risk of loosing my arm, which was fracured. I could feel it...I took a step forward cautiously but when my foot hit the ground I was tackled by the creature, being slung to the ground. This time I didn't let go of the Master Sword. It only took Ajax a moment to realize that my sword had peirced right above his heart, paralizing him for a short while.
" Hah...you have no power over the Hero Of Time." Well what do you know I did it. Now all I had to do was find Kaiten...where ever he was. I turned and took one last look at the beast known as Dracula, and picked up Malon on the way." Kaiten!" I yelled, but he was nowhere to be seen, it's like he disappeared in the mist.
Malon regained her composuer, and I was glad, she was starting to get heavy...She budged one time and slowly her eyes opened, showing the beautiful purple that put a curse on any mans eyes that would look at her.
"Malon are you alright?" I called back to her, but there was an unusual silence, but I kept walking. The silence began to make me worried that there was something perminantly wrong with her this time and that she could be seriously hurt. Kaiten was here somewhere, and once we found him we had to find a way back out of the underworld.
"Link...watch..." I heard Malon choke, but I couldn't hear what she was saying. She was so horse from the blast that Dracula gave her to the back of the neck. I answered her only with a soft "hm?" but still I kept walking. Something was wrong and I could feel it, theres just that feeling where something isn't right, like theres no doubt that something may be following you. And then I finally picked up the courage to look back...and there I saw him, grinning with horrible eyes. Wings sprouted from his back and he seemed ready to take me down once more, Dracula was still alive.
" Malon it's time to go!" I turned and started running as fast as I could back to the exploding volcano, to try and make it out of this world, Kaiten was still nowhere to be seen...but I didn't have a choice did I? Dracula swooped down and knocked Malon and I to the ground, this caused my arm to hurt again as it was still shattered.
" And now...Link...The end of The Hero Of Time!" He raised his claw at me, as he brought it down I closed my eyes and pain washed over my shattered arm, but I felt nothing, not a scratch on the cheek or brush of my hair. Slowly i opened my eyes and looked at Malon as she looked back at me, and together we both looked at an unsuspecting arrow in the middle of Draculas belly.
A figure approached, limping on his left leg and emitting blood from his torso. A smile covered his dirty face." Well guys looks like I picked a good time to show up!" He laughed and coughed one good time and shot one more arrow into Draculas back." That ones for my arm..." He shot another one that hit right above the top rib and right below the neck of Dracula, peircing his wing." And that ones for my friends."
I found this as the opportunity to get my shots in. I drew the master sword from it's sheath, wincing with pain from my arm as I did so." And this...is for messing with the wrong person." Stepping one foot in front of the other, my feet got faster and faster until my feet couldn't even be seen. Then with one stab to the chest from my blade of evils bane, Dracula fell, and an aura containing the portal back to Hyrule emerged.
The wave of light made us close our eyes, for we weren't used to the sunlight being down here so very long..." Well guys...this is what we've been waiting for. Time to go home." A blue bubble formed as I said this and showed a picutre of Hyrule castle. We stepped in one by one starting with Malon, and our bodys engulfed into the white lights of home.
Two days later...
The sun was beginning to rise and this meant more work for Malon as she rose up out of her bed. She looked down on her floor where her slippers were, but was still tired from the previous two days of returning from a long trip.
She yawned one time and pulled off her night robe and put on her farm dress and purple pants which she used to do her chores in. After a short breakfast she left the house to the stables, and on to her first chore. Her father had been mad that she was gone for the so long and was even more furious that she came back bruised up like she was. This didn't bother her as it didn't do anything to the young maiden emotionally.
So the young one walked on to the stable and when she opened the door, into the darkness that sorrounded the resting place of the cows, a large green figure jumped out, nearly killing her heart!
" What? No get off of me you swine!" She yelled pushing the person off, but she heard laughing and that laugh she heard could only mean that this was one person." Link."
" Haha Malon your way to up-tight! You should take it easy from these chores for a while and come on another adventure with us!"I had been waiting the entire night in the stables with those stinking cows...only to give her something...
"I'v had enough adventures for once in my life Link, now if you would excuse me, I have chores to do!" She fussed." Besides haven't you learned anything from the last Adventure you had? We nearly died!" I laughed at that."Whats so funny!" She yelled.
" Thats the best thing about adventures...you never kmow whats going to happen..." I felt all emotional...and I think it was coming from what Dracula said...and what he said was true. I wanted her. And now was the time to get her.
" What do you mean by that?" Malon had been mad at the fact that I probably dragged her into the black hole, but in the beginning it was she that followed me. I looked deep into her purple eyes and she looked into my blue eyes with the same look. My heart was thumping, and I could tell hers was doing the same. Our faces got closer together and our lips touched; and for the first time in my whole life I had accually felt something...Love.
Malon pulled out slowly, with her arms around my waste. I personally thought it was because we were accually making out in a filthy barn, but thats what we are. Crazy Hylians on the greatest adventure of all...
The End
Ok stay tuned for an Epilogue that will take place soon. It'll be good! Dont miss it!