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Chapter 13- The Fire Sage Battle

Link, Beylinda, and Afios stared at the huge monster that was infront of them. It was far larger than anything Link had even seen before, let alone fought. They gulped, hard. The creature was roaroing at nothing, and swinging its massive arms randomly. Until it noticed them. Then it said one word. One word that sent chills down each of their backs.

"Food!"

"I don't think so!" Beylinda said, "I'm on the menu for no one!"

"Run!" came three shoutes. Beylinda turned to see Link, Afios, and Navi jump down the side of the mountain.

She followed them, not knowing what was going on. She didn't have time to reach the edge when a massive hand slammed down on the spot where she was just standing. Is she would have moved any later, or was any slower, she would have been crushed. But luckily she didn't. However, she was thrown off the edge of the cliff from the shockwave the impact caused.

"AAAAHH!" she screamed.

She gasped, when something caught her. She opened her eyes and saw gold. She realised she was looking right into the eyes of her Sheikah 'friend'. She looked down and saw they were falling.

"Don't worry." Afios said, "I have a plan."

"Really?" Beylinda asked

"Hey, you big loser!" Afios shouted at the Goron monster. It turned and looked down at them. "Free food! Right here!"

"What!" Link, Navi, and Beylinda shouted. The monster grunted and grabbed the two falling out of the air and held them infront of his face.

"Nice gaint monster. Here, eat this." Afios held out his hand, and in it was a small round ice blue crystal. The Goron monter opened its mouth and Afios threw in the ice crystal. Once the Goron bit the crystal it dropped Beylinda and Afios, who landed on the ledge Link and Navi were on. Beylinda turned to Afios with murder written all over her face.

"What was that!" She asked, "You almost got us eaten!"

"No, I found it doesn't like ice." Afios said
"That would be common knowledge!" Beylinda shouted

"Yeah, and how about that?" Afios gestured to the monster, who's mouth was frozen shut. "If he does manage to catch us, he can't eat us."

"If he catches us, he'll kill us!"

"If that were true, he would have done so the first time."

"I think Afios is right." Link said, "Darunia was never one to be controled. I don't think he wants to hurt us."

"Link, just fire the Ice Arrow." Beylinda said, rubbing her temples.

Link fired the Ice Arrow and hit the Goron monster's arm, which shrunk into a regular Goron arm. Meaning it was now to small to be of any use. The monster roared and slammed it's good fist into the mountain side where the group was taking refuge. Afios grabbed Link, and he and Beylinda jumped back up to the ledge, dodging massive fists of the angered Fire Monster.

"Keep firing Link, try to hit every part of that monster!" Afios said, "I'll keep dodging, so you'll have to aim while moving."

"Right." Link said, and took aim.

"Aim for that ramaining arm!" Beylinda shouted, as said arm slammed right infront of her, causing her to have to jump over it or hit it head on. And she chose to jump. But she jumped a little to late, and her foot got caught in a crack on the arm.

The Goron monster raised its arm and turned it so Beylinda was dangling upsidedown. Next thing she new she was hurtling towards the ground at high speeds. All she could do was watch as she speed to her death. She closed her eyes and waited for it to end. She gasped when she felt a sudden cold on her foot. She looked and saw the massive arm was gone and she was free. She did a flip last second and landed on harmlessly on her feet. She looked over to see Link on the ground, aiming his arrow for the giant's belly. She didn't see Afios with him. She looked up at the massive Goron and saw a brown boot in its mouth.

"Afios!" She gasped. She couldn't help but watch as Link's Ice Arrow hit the monsterous Goron, which dissolved into a smaller one.

The smaller one curled into a ball, before hitting the gound. It stood up and spit out another brown boot and a part of a red tunic. Beylinda picked then up, and held them, along with the other boot she grabbed a few minutes before.

"Link, did Afios get eaten?" She asked, even though she hid it well, there was worry in her voice. Link didn't answer, instead he looked away, towards the edge of the cliff.

"No, he..." Link didn't have a chance to finish, before Darunia caught him an a hug.

"Link, brother!" Darunia said, squeezing the life out of the young hero, "Its been over twenty years since I last saw you."

"Can't ... beath ..." Link gasped

"Oh, sorry brother." Darunia said, and put Link down.

"Link, lets get Darunia back to the castle." Navi said, flying up to Link.

"But what about..." Link started

"I can take us ther with my Sage magic." Darunia said, causing a red ball of light to appear inbetween his hands. The ball grew and absorbed the group and speed off towards the castle. No sooner than the ball flew off into the sky did a hand pop up from the side of the cliff. The hand pulled up and exausted Afios, who was missing his shoes and half of his shirt. He looked around, and his eyes narrowed into a glare when he saw no one else up on the summit of the mountain.

"They left me!" He said, angrily. "I'll get some rest before heading back." With that he fell asleep. Not five minutes later a shadowed figure appeared of in the horizon heading for the sleeping Sheikah.

The Castle

A bright red ball appeared in the center of the courtyard where the Sages where holding up the barrior. Darunia saw this and ran over and added his powers, causing the Barrior to turn gold. The Sages and Zelda turned to Beylinda and Link when the Barrior no longer needed their magic.

"Where is Afios?" Impa asked. Beylinda turned and walked off, with her head down.

"Last I saw him he fell off the cliff after throwing me to safety from Darunia's monster form." Link said.

"I see." Impa said.

"Poor kid, what a way to go." Nabooru said, looking down.
"Go?" Link asked, "No, he landed on the ledge after Darunia bit off half of his shirt."

"I did what?" Darunia asked

"You were possessed by a demon." Zelda said, "But we need to get Afios to safety before anything happens to him."

End chapter. Not much more for this one.

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