A/n: Sorry for the lateness of this chapter, but once you finish reading it remember…Zen's Amulet, Zen's Amulet, Zen's Amulet! lol : )
Chapter 4
Shame and Mockery
Chunk ran fast and far, but not once did he see Deanna. He came to a halt once he reached the market and scanned the place for her, that's when he spotted it…the alley Deanna always seemed to just disappear each time they said their goodbyes…
Could she have gone down there? Chunk took a cautious step towards it. The place just had to look sinister enough with a sudden vicious wind picking up viciously, a flash of lightning overhead, and the mighty roar of thunder. The wind seemed to push him into the alley, not helping Chunk's confidence as he was sent hurtling into the darkness.
His sense of sight was made useless as alley's darkness enveloped him. He gave a jump of surprise when something brushed against his hand.
"Is someone here?" Chunk called out, but his voice only echoed through the silence and returned to his own ears. Maybe coming here wasn't such a good idea to have even considered in the first place…
He turned to leave, his heart pounding in his ears…but he saw no light where his exit should have been! His heart beat faster and faster, louder and louder…he had a feeling that if it got any louder, the sound of his heartbeat would echo back to him just like his voice had in this wretched place of eternal darkness…
He continued on in the direction he thought the exit from this darkness should be…
"Oof!" he exclaimed as he crashed into something…what he crashed into couldn't be a wall or some other inanimate object, but a person?
Chunk recoiled away and in that moment, a dim light suddenly appeared, illuminating the colossal figure of a hooded being.
"How stupid and foolish you are boy, you should know how a dangerous a place like this can be…" it rasped at him with a mocking tone. "Especially for a king…"
"How do you know me? Who are you?" Chunk snapped, backing away as it stepped towards him.
"I've been watching you for a long time…Who I am will be revealed in due time…" a man's deep baritone voice sent chills through him as Chunk stood rigid with terror.
"Y-you have? What do you mean in due time when now seems ideal enough to me!"
"Now is not ideal for introductions, but you must come with me."
"No." Chunk said sharply.
"Then I will take you by force!" Suddenly a large hand swiped out at Chunk who nimbly dodged to the side.
"I will not let you take me anywhere, I have been held prisoner before and it will not happen again!" as the man swung at him again this time, Chunk caught his arm.
"Aw, your determination is humorous…maybe if you had stayed away from the Hero, your services wouldn't be so vital…"
The man's words confused Chunk to a great extent, "What?"
This time the man swung with his other fist and nothing stopped it from connecting with Chunk's skull. Just as Chunk found himself losing consciousness, there was an abrupt golden light that shot forth from the back of Chunk's hand with such blinding intensity that both stumbled back.
Once the light had subsided, Chunk felt amazingly unharmed by that fist blow that had been delivered just seconds ago…
"You possess it?" the man exclaimed.
"It, what's 'it'?" Chunk queried making sure to keep his distance from the man.
"Hahaha, this is perfect, absolutely perfect! Hahahaha!" the man went on what sounded like an insane rant. "We'll meet again boy and next time you won't be so lucky…"
The dim light immediately disappeared with the sound of the man's parting words and Chunk was once again returned to being trapped within total darkness…and now was completely mystified to top that off…
He held his hands out to act as a guide in case he could follow a wall, but his hands never came in contact with anything solid…and then he heard the snap of what sounded like a twig behind him, chances had to be taken now or never and so he took off at a fast sprint and then was utterly astounded with what happened next…
One step he was in total darkness and the next…he suddenly emerged back out into the market…and tripped into a mob of people that had gathered about the alley entrance…there were several sniggers as he recomposed himself into an upright position and gazed about in a dazed state.
"You buffoon! What kind of idiotic stunt were you trying to pull!" the all too familiar voice of Renalde exclaimed much to the entertainment of the crowd.
"What do you mean? What's going on?" Chunk questioned as Renalde and several other despicable Royal Council Members that he had never taken much to liking in any way ganged up on him.
"What do you mean what's going on? You walk into a dark alley like that when you could have been kidnapped and you've been disappearing from the castle for the past week now!" another of the council members called Gable berated him…only Chunk seemed to get the feeling they were purposely trying to publicly humiliate him…
Chunk didn't respond, only stared at the ground guiltily, they would only humiliate him more if he were to snap back.
"Back to the castle with you at once!" Gable commanded sternly in that haughty voice of his.
At this, the crowd around them broke out into an uproar of laughter; they thought it was absolutely hilarious the king was being scolded like a naughty child. Chunk shuffled his way through them, the council right on his heels as he shamefully trudged in the direction of the castle…it was futile to argue…towns people gossiped, if he were to rebel against the council, stories would be told about it and passed by mouth and twisted each time until all of Hyrule were to think him unfit and want his crown taken away.
One golden colored set of eyes stared grief stricken at Chunk as he was forced to comply with all this mockery going on…and one deep blue set of eyes pierced into the owner of the golden colored eyes…
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I wrote this chapter after staying up 'til three in the morning and then only getting a few hours of sleep so please excuse the typos and/or grammar and spelling mistakes…
Anyone ever seen the movie The Exorcist? Gosh it is so freaky! On the version with extra footage, that spider crawl thing down the stairs made me scream bloody murder, throw a blanket over my head, and cry. lol. Part of the reason I stayed up so late… o.O
Anywayz, thank you my awesome reviewers! You guys are da bomb!
-blondie91