Mafia Fire

Chapter Three

Faint

Thunder and Rain crackled through out Hyrule, small floods and mudslides were beginning to start in the trapped walls of the market. The sun was blinded by a cloudy nighttime and was gone to protect them. Ryley ran through the market as lightening screamed and flashed all around the area. Puddles disrupt all over the tiles and got into his soaked boots. He couldn't see due to the sheets of rain poring down, he eventually slowed down to a walk. Ryley had no reclamation where he was, but he knew he was somewhere in the back shadows of the market where a huge maze of alley's and ghetto houses were built.

Thunder crackled again and flashed a blinding light at Ryley he shield his eyes but unfortunately tripped over a garbage can and tumbled onto the ground cutting his elbows on the rocks laying around it. He grinned in the pain yet he couldn't see how bad it was so he had to feel for it. "Oww," Ryley held his elbow with his other free hand and pushed himself up. His shirt was soaked, his boots were full of water and he could taste the rain in his mouth he tried to spit it out but whenever he tried more rain ran down his face. "I need to get out of this rain!" His voice spoke scratchy from all the stress. "AHH!" His head felt like it was going explode the headache was getting serious and he started to get a fever. 'I feel horrible…' He clutched his sides and pushed himself up, Ryley widened his eyes as much as he could but the rain was so thick that he couldn't even see one meter in front of him.

"Xaiver, you didn't find him yet?" a gruff voice said while lighting a cigar

"Nope," Xaiver sighed, "This rain isn't helping…" He stood under a cover with one of the members. "Well…I'm ganna look again…stay here while I'm gone?"

"I've gotta get home before the rain drowns me…" He dropt the smoke on the ground and stepped on it while twisting his foot.

Xaiver glared "I forgot you hated rain…"

"I don't like getting wet that's all," He smiled and cleared his throat "I'm sure your dad wouldn't like to find out that your talking to me. He knows I'm the only one who knows about 'that' incident many years ago."

"He'll never find out…he's too distracted by the helpless Ryley." Xaiver laughed and put over a leather hood, walking into the rain he grunted "Ryley…"

The ex-member kicked over a garbage can and cursed "I can't even show my face in public because of him!"

Xaiver cuffed his mouth and yelled through the sheets of rain "RYLEY!" He tilted his head down and the pour of rain thickened, "urrg…its pointless yelling." Lightening struck in the clouds brightening the alley he stood in front of, it flashed a dead end. He sighed annoyingly and turned around into another alley, "I hate this part of the town…you could die in the maze of back alleys." His mouth smiled viciously and he climbed over the half turned crates and onto the slippery tiled rooftops. He examined the place around him, holes were disrupted everywhere, homeless people sobered and huddled in the corners of un-lively houses and some even fell asleep on the floor. That was a surprise to the spoiled Xaiver's mind; he grew up with five star everything, from beds to meals…to books (even though he's never read a book in his life) to shoes. He spit in one of the holes and continued on.

"Your highness, do you believe prince Ryley will return?"

"Yeah, of course he will, knowing Ryley he can't go long before he realizes that he's done something wrong and needs to apologize…he's a good kid at heart, but is awfully easy to manipulate." Link chuckled.

The butler raised an eyebrow "Manipulate?"

"He's easy to use" Link added

"Oh, yes sire, he is terribly easy to." He bowed and left the room, leaving Link wallowing in his own worries.

Link then bit his lip 'But what if he doesn't come back…what if he gets kille—' He shook his head in disbelief 'He's smart enough to survive.' Lightning threatened as soon as Link closed his mind it bolted it back open "There's a HUGE storm!"

The butlers voice muffled through the hallway "You've just noticed that now? You are really distracted." He re-entered the room with some soothing lake Hylia tea, poured some blindly into a marble cup and handed it to Link, he took it and drank it all in one gulp and slammed it onto the table cracking it slightly. The butler's eyes widen as he took the cup and left the room.

"Oh please Ryley come back soon…" He tilted his head up and looked out the window into the empty and stillness of the stormy night…

"RYLEY YOU IDIOT WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!" Xavier sighed 'what's the point in yelling his name? What are the chanced of him answering?" The rain down poured again almost deafening Xavier with the patter of rain hitting the rook tops and containers – not to mention his jacket was soaked – his head grumbled miserably "Urrg…"

Across Hyrule the storm was thickening, but for some mystical reason only the Hyrule capital city was being hit the hardest and was flooding. Xavier was chin high in water and his boots only went ankle height so he was standing in a dirty pool of garbage, dead rats, materials he's never seen before and the smell smelt like dead fish. 'Or is there dead fish in here?' Lightning crackled again and flashed evilly in the clouds basing a loud BOOM into the ears of everyone.

Xavier's eye's closed, he lets the tapping of the rain clam him, his hands and feet were freezing but his chest and ears were boiling a very un-comfortable feeling shot through out his body and he lifted his foot up…then down hearing a suction sound from his boots under the water. He grunted and cursed sourly as the sight of his soaked sock and no boot image filled his chaotic head. He reached for his sunken boot and poured out the thick murky water unbalanced he put on his boots, flipping his soaked ember hair away from his eyes and focusing on his surroundings… "No Ryley to be seen," He smiled crookedly and jerked his head around to look how far he's gone, 'just a few feet from the flood' His spine chilled to the center of his body when he though of how many diseased things swimming in the water. But the road in front of him he recognized, he somehow lost he way into the main road…again.

Only a few people we're outside, and those we're thieves running around stealing any loot dropt by blinded merchants. "Eh! I found one ova' hear!" One disgusting thief shouted while grinning at Xavier, he and his gang circled around him "What's a 'andsome boy like you doing in the rain? Shouldn't you be 'enside with your family?" He revealed a knife, it cut through the rain and flew right past Xavier's head and tumbled on the ground far behind him.

Xavier laughed dryly "That's almost hit me." He spoke to them like he was some un-holy god. "Do you even know who I' am?"

"Eh snotty spoiled 'otten kid!" The thief ran up to him cloaking another pitiful dull knife up Xavier's neck. "Give me your cash or I'll cut your 'ead off!" He threatened under his thick peasant accent.

"Why would I? I'm the prince!" Xavier laughed while pulling his hoodie down, they all gaped, misunderstood they bowed with hopeful acceptance of their pathetic sudden respects

"Sorry your Highness, we didn't know!"

"Pfft, How pathetic…" He looked away.

"Is their anything we could 'elp with?" One fugitive spoke in favour

Xavier gave a half smiled "There is one thing—"

"Anything!"

"Have you seen…m brother; Prince Ryley?"

"Yes, eh while ago…He went in that direction." His bony finger pointed into a series on alleys to Xavier's left "he was very 'oozy walking, I wish you the best of luck!" The thief whistled as they disbanded into the shadows of the night.

"Hmm," Xavier sighed as he walked slowly in the direction "I'm getting sick and tired of this. And it's a full moon, the worst of my luck…" He kicked over an already tipped over garbage can.

Ryley's ears twitched at the unusually loud sound woke his daze, all around him was still dark and his headache was thickening. It distracted him, he couldn't think of anything else but that sound. His vision was blurry, his arms we're numb due to the sheer coldness his been in for so long and his injury was stinging whenever rain ran over it. Ryley pushed himself up in his own brutal force; the alley around him was surrounded by walls, 'judging from that sound…I'm trapped…what…could…it be…'

Lightning answered and lit up the night for a split second, Ryley's heart pumped cold blood into his cold body, the image of Xavier span around in his mind over and over again. Over and Over it pounded his head, he felt like screaming in all the pain…but he couldn't, luckily Xavier was still blinded by the flash to see him. He searched for answers –anything, anywhere to hide.

The echoed sound of heavy boots stepped into Ryley's ears, his heart pounded faster which each passing second, His feet trembled as he felt weak to his knee's. Ryley sidled slowly away; distracted by the image… shutting his eyes he came to the horrible reality –trapped.

"Ryley! IS THAT YOU?"

His eye's widened, his spine froze, his leg's felt week, his head pounded with a severe migraine. 'This…is it.' His mind cried. He panicked uncontrollably as he turned around and ran, the water splashing triggered Xavier to run as well. He ran any direction the lightning flashed, his legs were taught, and his throat itched with pain.

"I KNOW YOUR THERE!" Xavier's voice screamed.

Ryley spared no energy to look back, it was focused on getting away and finding a place to hide, but Xaiver was catching up, he could hear the breaths of his growling getting closer. He closed his eyes as the trauma over took him. 'I'm dead…!" Lightning finished with a screeching light stopping Xavier, yet Ryley continued to run, with spot's of dying sight blinded him he stopped, feeling his way around, the wall touched his fingers, he could feel the splinter's of wood possibly a door?

He barged into it not hesitating. The force he used was too much as the door slammed open then close. Ryley slowed down to a stop, not paying attention to the room inside he collapse on the floor fainted…

-- Only his scratchy weak breaths escaped his mouth…

The rain thickened and Lightning thudded away, the pour drummed on the rooftops and on the trees weak branches…Xavier's confidence flew from very high to zero in a mater of seconds, he held a tight fist and bit his lip. Over reacting he screamed so loud it hurt "FUCK!" His breath's wheezed after, "Screw this…I'm going home!" Xavier glared into the night as he limped towards the castle gate, the light dawn of morning lit up enough that he navigate a little easier.

"The rain…has stopped…" Link added in grimly.

"Sir Link, I suggest—"

"I REALLY DON'T WAN'T TO HEAR IT!" Link barked,

The butler gave Link a towel; he smiled cheerfully "They will come back, don't worry."

Link's eye's met the ground, tear's followed, "I'm just…really worried."

"Any father would be, but you have to get to bed, it's 4:00am! You have to get back up at 7:00…I'll stand watch for Ryley and Xavier. But you get some quick shut eye." He patted Link's muscled back for support.

Link faintly nodded while wiping his tears, "T-thank you," He left the living room with a shrugged back, grinning his teeth together he slowly entered his room, walking in a daze towards his bed he climbed on top of it, slamming his head on the pillow and resting his sleep-heavy eyes. 'Tomorrow…' He thought before surprisingly falling to rest.

The butler sat down on the leather amber love seat, putting on his reading glasses he peacefully read a book under a gazing light. Flipping pages everyone other minute, and scanning the words with his wrinkled British old eyes, The silence was irritating, but the server was too entwine with his book that he sat there…for hours on end.

Xavier stood in front of the gated in deep thought, his eyes look tired and empty as he stared at the castle. He almost looked mad, but his body was weak and his eyelids were half closed, the path from him and to his bed seemed it was miles away…. His shaken and numb foot stepped forward, it hurt whenever Xavier stepped, but before he knew it he was gaping at the foyer and taking his damp shoes off.

"I'm…so…tired…"

"Ahh, Master Xavier, your home now."

"I need sleep…" He took a few dizzy steps towards him, and then collapsed on the couch near him in immediate sleep. He much not care that he was in his clothes, Xavier was already dazed off…

The caring figure smiled softly; placing a blanket over Xavier's cold body he shook his head "This whole house is Chaotic…"

Dawn was about to enter the recovering land…the stars were fading out one by one as the sun slowly rose. Ryley however…was so sicken and confused in his sleep he was not even resting…

--He was regaining.

END.