Chapter 8
Ready Steady, Go
Once the morning came around all of Monkin city was quiet and slow to start moving. Rakasa was up the entire night again, he found two possible solutions to the armory problems. He talked his plans over with Zalfon and a few other trusted leaders. "One possible solution is to send a raid to the Hylian Armories. It would be high risk high reward, we could lose even our wooden sticks and clubs. However this would obviously be a declaration of war… Let us wait on this one, we may still have a chance to negotiate. Second on the list is to find a Lynel. Most Lynels are Master blacksmiths, they produce large mighty weapons and amazing bows. If we could have a handful of Lynels to light our forges and make our weapons, we would be set." Zalfon then replies "And for the armor, the Hylian child is capturing Keese with some of the others. With the Keese's Hide, we can make some quality Leather Armor for our troops."
After a few hours of talking and debating, Rakasa decided to send 10 units of four Bokoblins and one Moblin, to go and see if they could find and recruit any Lynels. Rakasa stayed in the city for the next week, waiting for any Hylians to return. There was no movement, however a few Lynels showed up and began to light the forges. Now in the process of making weapons, next up is armor. Rakasa makes his way to Kohga in the lower part of the city, above the water. Kohga looks over and sees Rakasa walking down the steps into his "Keese House". Kohga shouts "Holy! Raka you back to check up on me? awww thanks man, by the way the Keese Capturing is going really well! It's fun to find keese, you just grabbem and they struggle, but like, you keep holding em" Kohga begins to strangle his arms, and continues "Then you be like, HURRG, and GRRRAAA! Then they fall all asleep like, an i can briggem home!" Kohga smiles, but is out of breath from talking so fast.
Rakasa smiles and places his hand on the boy's head, he then says "That's right, i came to check up on little ol Kohga" Rakasa squats down so the two are face to face, he continues "Do you think we can start making any armor yet?" Kohga gives him a hearty smile, and says "Well, i don't knowwwww… can we start making armor yet? Hrrmmmm, i guess i will have to ask my Assistants" He begins to stroke his beard that isn't there and starts walking in circles," Well, when you say… ARMOR…. What kind of armor are we talking about? Oh! Do you mean armor like this?" He dramatically flung a cabinet door open and pulled out what first looked like a heap of burned cloth. Rakasa said "What is this young one?" Kohga still smiling says, "This is the first Keese Leather armor ever made, but, i made this one specially for you! Waha!" Rakasa grabs the cloth and dangles it down getting a good look at it. "It is made with Fire, Lightning, Ice, and the normal Keese's Leather. Since it was made of so many different Keese parts… it was a little hard to put together, and it darkened more than i thought… But i hope you like it!" The Leather armor was a mix between dark brown and a black color, it was quite well made despite the fact a child made it. It was stern and could handle a heavy blow. When Rakasa tried it on, it fit perfectly. The clothes just felt right on him. There were multiple well aligned studs in the shoulders, shin guards, and bracers area. (The small metal studs are a smart way to make the enemies blade bounce off of the armor. Also for looks)
Kohga's eyes began to sparkle, "You… look… SoFreakingCoolMan!" he begins to jump up and down in joy. Rakasa smiled and said "Thanks for the gift, i will wear it until it falls apart. But will we be able to produce any more?" Kohga settles down and says "No, we can't make any more of that suit for multiple reasons... But we can make plenty from normal keese hide. We can produce 12 leather armor a day if we try hard." Rakasa replied, "That is perfect." The two talk for a few more minutes then Rakasa heads back up to the center of the city.
7 days ago at Hyrule Castle.
Princess Zelda looks out her window in her room, she sees her Knights come into the castle much earlier than expected. The Knights ride through the populated city before reaching the outer sanctum. Sir Gregory and the other two Royal Guards enter the Inner sanctum to speak with the princess. "A Catastrophe!" Sir Gregory shouts. "There are over a thousand, maybe even over two thousand Vile creatures inside of that Demons nest! I Strongly suggest giving us more troops and assaulting the Keep." The princess began to rub her forehead as if she had a headache, she then turns to the other two and asks them, "And what do you two suggest to do in such a terrible situation?" The Royal Guard on the left said, "We may be outnumbered, but i am confident in our troops abilities and my own strategies for warfare. The enemies we came up against didn't seem to have any armor at all, and but simple wooden bows and clubs." The princess looked at the Royal Guard to the left of Sir Gregory and asked, "Varrik, what about you?" Varrik answered,"Your Highness, please forgive my impudence... But i strongly believe that we should not engage in warfare against that city. We spoke with the Demon and he seemed to be willing to negotiate… i believe that a peaceful solution may be able to occur-"
Sir Gregory instantly yelled, "Do not be fooled! That beast may have seemed like it was attempting negotiations, but it led us right into a trap!" The other Royal guard chimed in "We were in a bad strategic position and had to quickly withdraw, that beast may have been able to spring a simple trap like that, but i believe we could easily outwit it and leave the battlefield victorious." Varrik now annoyed at his single minded colleagues, shouted "He only wanted to protect his home, just as any of us would defend Hyrule Castle with our lives! The Demon even said as much!" The three of them begin to squabble and fight. Princess Zelda hastily says "Please! Do not fight, we may be in grave danger, Hyrule needs you Three Great Knights to work together…" The men calm down and ask the princess for her forgiveness. They then told the princess exactly what happened. However most of the story was biased from either Sir Gregory or the other Royal Guard. Varrik barely had any say in the matter. In the Princess' mind, what happened was; an Evil Demon came out of a huge Monstrous City, in which, hordes of angry beasts soon came rushing out of it. Even Lizalfos came out from their flanks. Varrik kept trying to say that the knights had struck first when they shot an arrow at the demon, but it was brushed aside by the other Royal Guards. At last the princess spoke,"I have come to a decision.. This may not be the proper decision… but perhaps we can spare lives this way" All three of the Royal Guards eyes opened wide as the Princess explained what she would do.
After the meeting Princess Zelda writes and sends letters to all of the champions in their regions. Link was already in Hyrule Castle so he went to go ask the Princess what was happening. However before he can get much farther, Revali sails down and greets him. "Link! Aha, i found you! I have come all the way from Hebra to Challenge you!" Link responds with "Revali, our challenges can wait, apparently there is something serious going on right now…" Revali folds his winged arms and begins to mumble "Can't just accept can you..." the two of them make their way to the inner sanctum and speak with the Princess. Varrik Rushes to his mount and rides to Zoras domain carrying the letter with great haste. A letter is also carried to Gerudo Desert, and Death Mountain.
Current day,
Rakasa believes that everything is coming along quite well. He was quite glad actually. He went over to the Goddess' shrine in the cities square, knelt down and began to pray. "I truly thank thee, my Goddesses for the second chance… if you had not given me the gift to right the wrongs… i would not have saved so many of my new Kin, or created such an amazing city." Rakasa smiles and stands up.
The three Goddesses are holding hands looking into a pool of water watching the whole scene. A tear falls down Nayru's cheek as she says "If only they knew…If only they knew..." the tear falls from her cheek and lands into the pool of water causing the surface to ripple and the image to fade. Rakasa then notices a drop of water fall onto his shoulder. He looks up to see if it was starting to rain, but the sky was clear. Rakasa shrugged it off and went to his desk in his house. He began to write a peace letter to Princess Zelda.