Sorry this took so long, I have a headache that has been sticking around for the last three weeks this Thursday and the last three days I couldn't even focus. So my head has decided to give me a break and I managed to finish this. I hope you enjoy. :D

Chapter 18

Undead

I got up the next morning in one of the castle rooms. I got dressed and suited up, checked my bag, and then attached it to my belt. I walked out of the room and silently down the stone hallway, there were some knights posted within the hallway. I smiled lightly as I passed them and managed to find my way to the dining hall. Link, Jason, and Zelda were all sitting at the table eating and chatting about… I didn't really know.

"So, should we head back to the bar or should we separate at the gate?" Jason asked.

"The bar, I'm sure there is some information that Shad has found." Link replied.

I walked into the dining hall. "Good morning."

"Good morning." Zelda smiled in my direction. "I hope you slept well."

"As good as one gets, did you?"

She nodded slightly, though I noticed she wasn't so true with her answer. "Join us; I'm sure you are hungry."

I sat at the table and food was placed in front of me. I started munching on it. "So, where's our first destination?"

"Breakfast is your first destination. After that, the bar." Jason answered.

"Excited to see Delilah again? I noticed she didn't say good bye to you last night."

"She passed out at the table." He stated flatly.

"Oh, that would explain why she was quiet, sorry."

"What are you sorry for?"

"Nothing," I exclaimed waving my hands in front of me. I grabbed my utensil and quickly started to place food in my mouth.

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We walked over to the bar again after saying farewell to Zelda and I noticed that the streets were pretty lively in the day. I looked around on our walk and notice how different and simple it was that somehow I managed to miss the few times I had walked into the town before. We walked down the stairs that walked into the bar. Inside there were a few Hyrule Knights having drinks and chatting at a few of the tables.

Delilah appeared in front of us and gave us a smile. "Already to go, I've been waiting forever."

"What do you mean waiting?" Jason asked.

"I'm going with you."

"Since when?"

"Since last night, you can't go alone with Shad. He'll get the both of you killed in a fighting situation."

"I don't think-" I started and then was cut off by loud noises and yelling coming from outside.

The door slammed opened sending me to the floor. A knight rushed and looked like he was about to either wet himself or have a heart attack. "There are Stalfos and Redead attacking the town!"

I got off the floor. "Was it necessary to slam open the door?"

"Did you not hear me girl, there are undead things attacking Castle Town!"

"You're a knight, stop bitching and kill them again."

"Do you even know what they are?!"

"Yes you cowardly man dressed in armor." I rolled my eyes and looked at Delilah. "If you want to help, help kill them with us."

"Killing undead things, alright, I'll meet you out there." Delilah agreed and then she was out the door.

Rusl suddenly appeared next to us. "We should be going to."

I nodded and then we ran out the door leaving behind the terrified knight and the silent knights at the table. It wasn't long before we got to the first ten Stalfos that were to our right and coming in from the south gate. "Jason, you should check out the west gate, if these things keep coming in we will be seriously outmatched. We need to get the gates closed, Rusl, the east gate." I decided out a strategy. "I'll get rid of these things while Link closes the gate. After that Link you should head to the east gate while I head to the west to make sure the gates get closed. Does everyone agree?"

"You're giving us an option?" Jason asked.

"No, but I thought it was courteous to allow you to think it."

"You should be a politician." Jason grumbled. "Let's go Rusl before she thinks of something ridiculous."

They took off down the street leaving Link and I to deal with the growing army.

I turned to him as we drew our swords. "So, how do you kill something that is already dead?"

"You keep hitting and destroying it and hope to whatever deity you pray to that it stays dead."

"What if you don't really care about deities?"

"Then you better start with yours."

"My what, my God?"

"Themis, not God, I don't think he would be much help here."

"True point, this is the land of the Goddesses." I smiled. "Let's kill them before Redeads appear and start trying to rape us."

Link gave me a weird look and then ran ahead. I followed him and confronted my first dead thing. I pictured my dad would be one of the happiest people in all of Hyrule if he came across this same battle, him and his undead beings, trigger happy fool. The Stalfos had a sword and thankfully no shield. It swung at me whom I easily avoided and counter attacked. I finally got it down after several attempts and started to head to the next one, but it got up again. I glared at it and swung my sword causing it to fall to the ground again and jumped on its skull shattering it. I looked over quickly at Link and noticed he had taken out three sets of bones and was finishing up his fourth.

I went to the next one and this time I made sure to crush its skull before I went to the next. I wasn't a very strong swordsman, but I certainly knew that crashing to the ground with all your weight will take out a simple skull. I followed up with my third and found that Link was on the seventh and last Stalfos. I quickly finished my third one and we both ran for the gate. We pushed on the doors and slowly, they began to close. After a few minutes the doors were finally closed. Without a word we ran down the road and ran into the center of Castle Town.

There were Redeads and Stalfos, which had metal shields, everywhere. People were running from them and luckily it seemed that nobody was dead or in the grasps of the undead. There were two types of Redead wandering around: the mummified ones that were easily found in Arbiter's Grounds with the giant sword and a bit of armor and then there were the shrieking pedobears. There were also two Stalmasters which made me cringe. How nobody was killed in the plaza was beyond my imagination. I looked across the plaza and found that there were about fifty soldiers blocking the gates to the castle, though most looked like they would run at any given moment.

"I guess we should deal with these guys and hope that the gates are closed." I suggested.

"Take you the Stalfos first; they are easier to kill then the Redead." Link told me. "I'll take care of the bigger ones."

"You're going to go head on with the Stalmasters?"

"No, I have another way of dealing with them. I'm just going to need a few minutes, can you give me that?"

"Yeah, sure, take your time." I told him and looked over at the closest Stalfos, farthest away from the Redead. There were three of them that were trying to get into someone's house and reminded me a bit of Minecraft. I went to turn to Link, but he was gone. I jogged over to the three intruders and within a few feet of them, they noticed me. They turned simultaneously towards me and raised their swords. I swung my sword where their heads were and they all collapsed as their heads dropped to the ground.

"Heads up." I joked as I crushed their skulls. I took a metal shield from them and it was surprisingly light. "I'll be borrowing this; I don't think you need it right now right?"

They didn't answer or get back up so I left them to disappear and headed to the next Stalfos. After killing about four of them, they started to notice me and started to gather as they walked towards me, along with their generals the Stalmasters. The Redeads were just standing there as if waiting for an unfortunate person to walk by. It had easily been a few minutes and Link was nowhere to be found. I sighed as I readied for an attack by the first Stalfos in the group. How long did it take to create a plan to destroy two giant dead things with four swords?

I started at the first one, but it wasn't very long until I was sounded by the skeletons. My hand pulsed like a little warning beacon and I needed to have some fighting space. I did Link's signature Spin Attack and one by one the little deadbeats fell smashing their spines and they went poof. I growled as I realized how easy they could be killed or if not easily, but quickly. And here I was wasting my time doing attacks that would hurt a living person. I quickly got out of my head as one appeared to my left with a sword coming down on me. I put up the borrowed shield and the sword's power pushed me back.

"What is this magic? You have no muscles to move, stop moving!" I yelled at it as I struck its open skull and crushing it into shards of bone and shoved the shield to block another sword. "Link, where the hell are you; I'm not going to be able to take on those two fuckers when they come around at the same time. I could, just not without killing myself in the process."

"Electra! Move!" Someone shouted from above.

I looked around and found the hero in green on a balcony where the Goron family had set up a shop. He moved something that was in his hands and something flashing at the end of it and I realized he was holding bomb arrow. I dropped the fight with my two Stalfos and booked it. I personally never wanted to know what it was like to have a bomb go off that close to me where a bunch of walking bones were about to fly. I hid behind some barrels and heard a bomb go off and there was a yelp beside me. I looked down and saw a little dog looking up at me.

I petted its head and smiled as another bomb went off. "Those noises are making those dead things dead for good; don't be afraid of something or someone that is your friend, it causes distrust-" Another bomb went off really close to the barrels and made my ears ring. "But you can be damn sure you can scream at them later or bark in your case."

I looked over the barrels and came face to face with a mummified knight Redead and a Pedo-Redead. They screamed their two different pitches and I covered my ears, cringing at the sound. It was never that bad in the games, if anything it sounded worse than the bomb going off close by and I wish it would have gone off even closer so I didn't have to hear it. Suddenly, the mummified Redead smashed his sword down on me before I could even recompose myself. But, then the blade stopped short as the Redead tried to hit me. I looked at what stopped it and found the sword was stuck in the side of the building that was right behind me. I took a breather and then the Redead screeched again, making me cringe all over again. The older version of Redead walked forward and knocked the barrels over and the dog ran away with its tail between his legs, somehow managing to ignore the screaming. I watched the dead corpse come within distance to jump onto my body when suddenly something dropped from the sky skewing it and it split in half. In behind that two falling halves was Delilah moving her sword so fast the other Redead didn't even get to turn let alone scream.

"Where the hell did you come from?" I asked.

"Not even a thank you, wow you are coldhearted and arrogant."

"Thanks," I retried the approach. "And I'm not coldhearted."

"But you're arrogant, anyway I was on the roof of this building, figured that when you started running there was a purpose so I got onto the roof. Bombs started to go off and then I saw two Redeads seemingly interested in something towards the building I happened to be standing on. Turns out they were looking at you."

"Yea, anyway," I looked around there were still Redead running around, or standing still within the plaza. I looked over to where Link was, but he was gone. "We should dispose of these corpses before they think about breaking down doors."

"I doubt they are thinking of anything at all." Delilah muttered. "Fine, let's go, but first, how to deal with their screams, they are rather loud."

I thought for a moment. "Scream back?"

"And if that doesn't work?"

"Hope you aren't screwed. And somehow move out of the way when they attack so you can counter strike."

"Alright, if you can keep up with me, we won't have to hear their screams."

I nodded and Delilah took off, leaving me breathless. That woman could move. She ran right by a Redead with her sword drawn and when she went to the next one, the first one was falling to pieces. I ran up to a sword bearing Redead and hit it several times, each time after the first to keep it from crying out its battle cry. Hearing it twice was enough for me. It eventually fell to its death and did a signature explosion as I headed to the next one. I didn't know how Delilah was killing them in a single blow, but I could one presume that it was from the sharpness of the blade, as well as her speed. As I watched from the corner of my eye taking out another Redead, she was elegant and I realized why she didn't have much armor. She didn't need it and it would only slow her speed.

The Redead were harder to kill than the Stalfos, and I'm my opinion unnerved me. As each one of them fell, I wondered how they had died before. Were their restless souls stuck in their rotting corpses or were their bodies brought back to life by necromancy magic while their souls were either in paradise or hell? I came face to face with one of the huggy ones and I didn't peer into its eyes for very long as I went to strike it down. They were black and hollow behind some burial mask and made me feel sick. We took down the final two Redeads and the sounds of running could be heard along with the shaking of armor from the trembling soldiers. We turned to the running sound and saw Link and Rusl coming towards us.

"We got the east gate closed. Sorry it took so long we had to incinerate the grabby Redeads." Rusl told us.

"Incinerate, what for?" Delilah asked.

"They don't stay dead." Link answered. "Turn around and see they're getting back up."

I turned around, but I was more interested at the fact Jason appeared from the west gate being chased by a group of undead and one piggy backing him.

"The west gate's closed, but they got up again!" He yelled coming towards us. "Get this thing off of me; I don't want to die by being molested!"

"That sounds like a perfect way for a guy to go out, right in your home territory." I commented.

"You wouldn't be saying that if you were in my position."

"And I certainly will not be joining you in that position of being attacked by a Pedo-Redead." I told him as Link unlinked the creature from Jason's back as it tried to bite at their heads.

Delilah walked past me and started to swing her sword cutting the Redead into pieces. "Stupid creature, Jason's not into necrophilia."

The Redead that were in the plaza started to get up joining the hoard Jason brought with him. There was a yelp from the knights guarding the castle gate, but there wasn't anything near them. I turned to Jason. "You really need to work on your fellow knights."

"Let me get right on that, because we are totally not being surrounded by undying dead things." He growled taking out his crossbow. "Now tell me were to fire so I can these bastards before they start screaming."

"The only things we can do are cut them into tiny pieces or burn them." Rusl said.

"I can't do any of those with a crossbow. How about I shoot them down and then one of you guys can rip out their spins so they can't move."

We all turned to him like he was insane.

"Why don't you go ahead and do so since it was your wonderful idea." I stated sarcastically.

"I placed the idea out for one of you guys to do it; I couldn't even if I wanted to."

"Don't like dead things."

"I'm more not interested of the smell from the inside of the rotting corpse."

"Enough bickering, just shoot them down, the rest of us will start cutting them up into pieces." Delilah broken in. "They are close enough and any closer than we are all going to be fucked."

Link took out his bow and quiver of arrows. "I'll help shoot them down, just don't get too close to the ones I shoot, depending on where they are; they might explode."

Jason's face paled. "I'll be looking this way then."

"Let the games begin." I grinned.

"This isn't the Hunger Games… Electra that wasn't funny." Link scolded as soon as he realized why I used a Hunger Games reference.

"You're sick." Jason told me and shot the first Redead.

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The last few corpses of the Redead were brought out into the open Hyrule Field by some of the braver knights and thrown on the burning bomb fire. The sun was starting to drop in the sky as it made its swing some time earlier. Rusl had gone home leaving the four of us and Shad to watch the fire burn the corpses. There wasn't much said after the fight let alone during it. Everyone was too busy making sure they were getting the Redead under control and trying not to hear their screams. There were a few times when one started shrieking like a banshee and either Link or Jason had to shoot it so they wouldn't attach themselves to either, Rusl or me, Delilah stunned her dead opponents with charm and showed off what she was made of. Jason almost hit me with a bolt because of it.

Shad was going through his notes as I looked around in thought feeling my acclaimed shield on my back. Stalfos and Redead didn't just appear whenever they wanted to, they had areas of existences and even though Stalfos could be found in the field that we stood on, they only appeared at night. I looked over at Link who was beside me sitting on the ground looking at the fire. He looked like he was thinking probably about the monsters that invaded Castle Town.

I looked over at Shad. "So where should Link and I head first. There are a few dungeons I can think of that would have it, but you are the expert right now."

"The easier dungeons would be wisest to do first so you can boost your skills. So the next dungeon that I know that would be easiest is the Goron Mines, though you should talk to the Gorons before you do any exploring. They might have information." Shad answered.

"So where are we heading?" Delilah asked.

"I guess to Faron Woods, it was the spot where the Medallion was found and the Forest Temple might have some clues. The Temple of Time ruins are also in the area and it is said to be where the Medallion of Light was first given to the Hero of Time."

"Sounds fantastic, we'll meet you guys in Kakariko Village to trade information." Jason suggested.

Link stood up and joined the conversation. "Alright, we'll meet you there the day after tomorrow around noon." There was a silent agreement and Link placed a hand on my shoulder. "Let's get going; our journey is a bit longer than theirs so let's see if we can get to Kakariko Village before nightfall, I've had enough with dead things today."

"Yea," I turned to Jason, Delilah, and Shad. "We have to get our horses from the castle. We'll see you later and don't get into too much trouble."

"We're not the ones being hunted, how could we possibly get into any more trouble than you?" Jason joked.

"Skulltulas are always looking for food and don't forget about Skullkid, he's a bit of a prick when he wants to be."

"We'll keep that in mind, see you later." Delilah told us.

Link and I waved to them and then wandered towards Hyrule Castle. Once on the castle grounds, Link led me to the stables. He opened the door and Zelda was standing there petting Epona and Hero.

She turned to us and gave a small smile. "Glad to see you aren't hurt."

"There were five of us verse an undead army, it's usually him against an undead army, how could we lose." I point a thumb at Link with a smirk, but then it turned to a serious frown. "Though I'm sure I'm not the only one who is questioning their appearance, especially the ones that were around during the Era of the Hero of Time."

"You're not; I find it extremely disturbing that they were in Castle Town this morning. There are only two people that could have done this that is if they have the ability to do so, I just hope that the one who did it isn't the shadow."

"It better not be, or we will have to collect those Medallions even faster." Link said. "And we don't even know where the medallions he's using are, we're just running around aimlessly hoping to snatch something."

"Speaking of which, where are you heading?" Zelda asked.

"We're going to see the Gorons and see if they have any information and then we'll check out the Goron Mines." I told her.

"I remember reading about the Fire Temple where the Fire Medallion was found. You can reach it at the top of the mountain or a path from the Chief's house within Goron City, but the only way you can go in there is if you have fire proof and heat proof protection."

"Why's that?" Link asked.

"If you stay in the area for a certain amount of time you will eventually spontaneously combust, or at least your clothes will first, if you're lucky."

Sounded like a fun game to test out of someone on death row. I grinned slightly, happy that I didn't say that out loud. Some things are better left in the head.

Zelda moved out of the way of the two horses in their pens. "You better hurry over to Kakariko Village, you might have enough time to go up to and talk to the Goron Elder before it gets dark. The dark isn't safe for creatures of the light with them running around."

"Will Hyrule Castle and Castle Town be safe while we are gone?" I asked her. I didn't want to leave the central of Hyrule defenseless, that's how Zant took it over in the first place three years before.

"I'll have the truer knights guarding the castle and the retired ones to teach the fearful knights to be less fearful. Jason I believe will have a few on his journey with Shad."

"At least there will be more than just two people with swords going with them."

"Who else is going?"

"A woman named Delilah; she was the one who help defeat the Redead today." Link answered.

Zelda smirked as if she knew her from somewhere. "I see; well good luck on the trip and be careful of the creatures of Hyrule Field, they are just as bad as the night ones, but you unfortunately have to see their faces."

I don't know when the next update will be, I have a deadline for my Christmas Special coming around and I have to write a whole volume in Yu-Gi-Oh before I can be calm about having the deadline so bloody close… never procrastinate and even as I say this, I will still do it. But you shouldn't, procrastination is bad ladies and gentlemen.

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