W-A-R-N-I-N-G: There's a wee bit of gore in this chapter so have fun : )
Chapter 12
All's Fair in Food and War
Like a stealthy night shadow, the werewolf that had become Link crept along, stalking any likely prey it hoped would stupidly stumble into his path. One of his animal instincts told him to do this…and this animal instinct is what he followed…and this animal instinct lusted for blood. Then his canine ears picked up the sound of footsteps, his tail wagged with the thought of a tasty treat.
His paws made no sound as he moved along. Coming to a stop at a turn point in the hallway, he waited. Once his quarry rounded the corner, they would meet their death at the end of fang and claw.
But surprisingly, when his supposed prey turned the corner, he didn't even move, not even flinch. It was a decomposed woman, worms crawling around on her head as replacement for hair, her eye sockets were naught but empty black abysses, and the sagging and torn red evening gown…something kept him back from attacking her. If he still possessed any human thought, he would have remembered her. But alas, he did not. What kept him back was another one of his keen animal instincts, distinctly telling him not to attack…like she was his…master?
"Ah, there you are my precious." she had no lips so the words exited her mouth a sibilant hiss. She patted his head with a moldy hand and Link wagged his tail in delight. "Have you found any intruders to snack on yet?"
Link of course did not reply.
"Well, I must be on my way, be sure to satisfy your hunger on those fool enough to enter my domain." she left him at that point, continuing down the hall he had just emerged from.
He set off again, hoping to find something he was actually allowed to eat this time. He did not have to search long as his sensitive ears picked up the sound of a different, lighter set of footsteps…footsteps that belonged to someone well versed in the art of stealth…Well they would soon see who was the stealthier…Staying along the shadows, he followed the source of the noise and it didn't take long before he found what he was looking for.
A very tan woman with fiery red hair and dark brown eyes slid along the shadows just as he did…only not down on all fours…Her pink two-pieced garb was tattered and blood spattered. It was as though she were searching for someone…or something…to bad for her, he wasn't going to let her finish her search…he was hungry and that's all there was to it. But then he blew it…
His paw faltered and kicked a loose stone free, shattering the deathly silence. The woman he stalked froze and called out into the darkness around her, "Who's there? Show yourself, don't be a coward!"
Link didn't move, he was going to time his attack and he was gonna time it right. After a few moments of waiting with a stillness hanging about the place, he made his move and made a great leap at her. She had anticipated this and immediately twisted to the side, drawing out two sharp objects and lashing out at him as he flew past and ridiculously crashed into a wall. She had struck him on the back, but her weapons had done little damage as the beast poor Link had been turned into was very powerful and enduring.
The woman's mocking laughter rang out and Link immediately shook himself from the wall's blow and growled dangerously at her as he turned to face her and narrow his deep blue eyes. He made another attack and this time she wasn't quite so fortunate enough as she tried to twist aside again. This time Link's immense claws ripped away flesh from her foot as she hop skipped out of the way. She cried out and fell to the ground clutching her foot and trying to staunch the horrible blood flow.
A dog-like smile crossed that furry face of the creature Link had become as he circled his prey, enjoying this moment all to much as the carnivore within him stared ravenously at her. Closer and closer he circled, taunting her as it quickly became clear her life was going to end here in this place…but fate had mercy on the woman at the last possible second and the end of a vine broke loose from the ceiling, hanging down like a rope. The woman grabbed the vine without delay and jerked herself upward with her muscled arms just as Link lunged in for the fatal blow that would have ended her misery there and now.
His teeth only snapped closed on the end of the vine, causing it to shake and the woman to cry out as she clung to the squirming vine suspended in midair. Link gave the vine another tug, enjoying her cries and then he began a game of tug-a-war with the ceiling...the prize? The woman…and that woman he craved for, not with the lust of a man, but with the lust of a wild animal, the desolate feeling of hunger…
Seeing what he was up to, the woman wasted no time climbing the rest of the way up the vine and pulled herself up into the other vines growing attached to the circular ceiling. Link gave a disgruntled snort as he released the vine from betwixt his teeth seeing that he had to move onto a new game to achieve his next meal…the waiting game.
His patience was beginning to wear thin…first he had stopped himself from eating that decomposed lady and now this woman had managed to elude death…for now anyway. He would simply have to wait her out…his appetizer was her blood that spilled from her foot and dripped with sickening splashes onto his snout…he licked this up greedily, not sparing a single drop. But the taste of blood only made him hungrier…that's when he heard a soft sobbing…from very close by…an easier target perhaps?
He gave one last piercing glance at the woman and sauntered out of the room, tracking down the crybaby…who just happened to be in the room right across the hall…Once he was gone, the woman climbed down and ripped a piece of cloth from her already tattered clothing and bound it around her foot, cringing the whole time as pain pulsed through her just as blood did through her veins and out the opening in her foot. The woman…was none other than a beat-up Nabooru.
Those blue eyes…how familiar they looked…she had a feeling she knew the owner of those eyes…but for now that werewolf creature had stolen him…then she realized what if it came back? She quickly re-climbed the 'rope' and situated herself into a more retainable position…
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When first entering that room right across the hall from where he had just been, Link did not directly spot what he was looking for…but then he saw a small glowing light in the corner lying opposite of where he stood on the far wall. As he took another step however, he was suddenly assaulted by a sleek, silver colored wolfos as it sprang forth from the shadows. Link instantaneously went into action and swung wide with his heavily clawed paw. The wolfos never got a chance to grunt another sound as it collapsed limply from air to ground and the former contents of its now sliced open stomach spilled to the floor…
The glow in the corner was emitted by a fairy, a tiny and delicate creature she was. Wavy auburn hair fell past her tiny waste and tangled around her transparent wings and she wore a dark blue dress that flowed down to her bare feet. Her shining blue-green eyes were brimmed with tears and she just about lost the last thing she ate as she regrettably saw the brutal slaughter by a giant black creature to a very unfortunate wolfos. And by the gluttonous look in the black wolf-like creature's eyes, she feared what he was about to do next to its fallen enemy…despite the concept of cannibalism that would step into the picture if she was correct. And how right she was…
The fairy turned her gaze away from the horrendous and barbaric scene of the consuming of a wolfos by a werewolf, each time she heard teeth meet bone or bite into something squishy, she cringed and just about broke out sobbing again…she couldn't run…the werewolf was blocking the door and she would surely be its next target…then she heard a low growl and the padding of more feet…dare she take a look?
She decided to take a quick peek so she would at least know her inevitable death was about to come but was slightly taken aback by what she saw. The leftover carcass of the deceased wolfos had been kicked to the side and the black creature was now surrounded by five more wolfos, each pacing around it with an evil glint in its eye…the werewolf creature was outnumbered and all five wolfos knew it…as did the creature they circled of course. The fairy didn't want to watch the fight that was surely about to take place so she cowered down into her corner and closed her eyes tightly in fear and misery.
Link kept every one of the wolfos that surrounded him in his range of vision. He felt much better now, the wolfos had definitely regenerated his strength and now he had five more of the things just waltz up to him like that…things were definitely looking up.
His thick, luminous fur bristled as he prepared himself to attack, crouching low he gave a menacing growl…he was exceedingly confident he was going to win this battle…so sure that not even five creatures that had become his new favorite food could take him down…
And so the battled began, Link leapt upwards and severed one wolfos' head from its body before it could even move. He ducked a savage swing of a clawed paw and kicked out with his hind legs, catching another wolfos in the side and bowling it over…the blow finished off the pathetic thing off instantly…that and seeing its comrade go down so quickly without a head…
Just three more left and two of those three immediately turned and fled like the cowards they were, but Link didn't let them get away…he made a great leap and came down on their backs and then with his powerful paws, he crushed their skulls against the floor, his sinewy muscles sticking out in this act of great strength. One problem…in doing this, he had left his flank wide open for attack by the last wolfos…
The last wolfos of that pack was a ferocious and war-like beast, upon seeing its enemy turn its back to it, it went in for the perfect attack. In a streak of silver, it was right along side Link clawing and biting away…to bad for it, its attempts on Link were pathetically futile as he turned away from his newly eradicated victims and faced the remaining wolfos and charged at it.
But in mid attack, Link suddenly froze…the lingering taste of blood on his tongue suddenly became repulsive and a sudden human emotion of disgust and also confusion overpowered him. The wolfos grinned devilishly as it saw the turmoil in its opponents eyes and again attacked…but unfortunately for it, the animal Link had become took over at that precise moment and it snagged the wolfos' paw with its teeth as it had gone to swipe away at him again. The wolfos released a howl of pain as its paw was torn viciously from its body. Link chewed on the paw and finished the wolfos off in one last swing of his paw sending the wolfos collapsing to the ground, it would exist in a living state…nevermore…
Now it was Link's turn to give a sly grin. His confidence in himself and his astounding abilities had turned the battle in his favor just as he had expected it to…minus the glitch where his human side broke through for that brief second.
Once done eating his fill from his newly fallen enemies…more like every last edible bite…he caught sight of a glint of light from the corner of his eye. He spotted where this light was emitted from…
The continual glow in the corner he had first come in here for before his meal had attack him, was dimly illuminating a large treasure chest close by. What emitted the glow interested him much more than some stupid wooden box with shiny metal things lining it.
It was just a bright glow of a whitish color that Link padded over to, first seeing the entangled wings and then coming to the realization that this was a fairy…also known as food…
The fairy heard his approach and turned to face him, staring at him sadly with her tear-rimmed eyes full of utter fear, she gave a small squeak of fright when Link barred his teeth at her…but when he gave a low growl and his snout moved in closer to her, she gave vent to a deafening scream…a scream that was heard by Nabooru…
Someone was screaming, a girl is what it sounded like, and that was clear to Nabooru. That someone had to be in trouble and in need of some quick help…her help. Even if she ended up unable to offer help, she knew she should at least check out the situation in case there had been some turn of events, be they good or worse, in this goddess forsaken place. Sliding down the rope, she cautiously limped to the room the scream had come from…and saw the large, black wolf creature cornering a fairy…
Nabooru hastily reached for her scimitars only to find them not in their sheaths…in fact she didn't even remember what she had done with them as she had been too focused on not getting killed. Aw Shoot… The wolf creature hadn't seen her just yet luckily so she quickly limped back to the room she had emerged from and scanned it for her scimitars…to find them no where in sight…
She stomped down hard in frustration only to have stomped down on her injured foot and send herself hopping about in pain as well as leaving a bloody footprint to stain the ground…just like everywhere else she had walked since acquiring the ghastly injury.
She had no time to do a thorough search for her weapons right now, if she took any longer an innocent creature would be dead…and with that thought in mind, she re-limped across the hallway and returned to the other room.
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Link soaked in her screams of fear just as a sponge would water, but then her screams suddenly seemed to trigger something deep inside…like another human emotion…a human emotion of pity as well as one following the lines of, 'what the heck am I doing?' He backed away several feet only back straight into a certain someone and step on a certain injured foot. Link swung around to face this obstacle and focused his azure eyes on Nabooru.
"I do know those eyes…" Nabooru said softly, more to herself than anyone else. "Link…what has happened to you?"
At the mention of his human name, he backed up the other direction whimpering and this time, almost crushed the fairy under his hind paws. She gave a squeak like a mouse and hurriedly scurried out of the way of danger.
Nabooru saw the effect that his name had had upon him and so she repeated it, "Link…"
But this time it had a negative effect and the werewolf lunged for her. Her eyes went wide as she barely managed to avoid his attack. Nabooru then saw how helpless the fairy was and scooped it up in her hand before running with all haste by Link, headed towards the vine where she could pull herself and of course the fairy out of Link's attack range.
Link knew what she was up to the moment she practically flew past him with the fairy in her hand…and that's why he only casually walked after her, in no hurry at all…
As he entered the destined room, she was simply standing there waiting for him, vine in hand and with a triumphant smirk on her face, but this time luck was not quite on her side…As she first started to climb up, the vine snapped free from the ceiling and the single door to this room slammed shut and iron bars popped up, eliminating a chance of escape. She was trapped in a room with a werewolf…
An evil gleam sparkled in those clear blue eyes of Link's as he stared the feeble woman down…and then he attacked. But keeping the fairy close to her, she managed to run out of the way and to where she was behind him. A lot of good that did her without a weapon…especially since she had stupidly run herself and the fairy straight into a corner…it was safe to say they were completely trapped as Link turned to face them.
Link's plan had worked perfectly and now here his quarry was…cornered. He closed the gap between them and as he did this, his prey crouched down miserably in that corner and held her hands up screaming as he lunged in with his teeth and claws ready to tear her to shreds, "Stop it, Link!"
He was suddenly forced to the ground by an invisible force and he laid there, pain shooting through his entire body. He howled in agony feeling as if he were the one being torn to shreds like what he had planned to do to the woman…soon that howling became the horrid blood curdling scream of a human suffering through the most intense of pain…
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Zelda ran for all she was worth through out the castle trying to get as much distance between her and Zen as possible…sadly, she knew he was only toying with her…that he could catch her any time he wanted in just the blink of an eye…
Her lavender night gown was torn and made nearly useless as it had become excruciatingly skimpy much to Zen's sick and twisted and enjoyment…
He was angry with her for something, or he was just mad at someone and planning to vent off his steam on her in a most painful way…and that's why she ran…she knew he probably enjoyed a chase, but knowing that Link was indeed alive kept hope burning in her heart and brought out the fierce determination to escape.
Too bad when she rounded the next corner, she flew straight into Zen's waiting arms…
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Don't you just love gore? lol… : )
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-blondie91
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