Sorry for the long wait, but it was the holidays. So here is the next chapter. Hope you guys enjoy and please don't hurt me. ~Mahahahaha, cackled the evil tie~

Chapter 26

Order VS Chaos

I took more steps back away from the giant snake. Sure it had the name of Apophis, no problem. Sure it seemed to be the embodiment of chaos wanting to tear my cells apart, not the issue. And so what if it was being used by Dark Link to absorb energy and killed everything on the grounds, No. Big. Deal. I was more concerned over the fact that it was a snake. I couldn't breathe properly as I went into a different panic mode from earlier as my flight instinct kicked into overdrive. Terrified just didn't justify how scared I was of the serpent in front of me.

"Electra, you need to calm down." Link whispered beside me.

The snake hissed and tried to strike him, but he moved out of the way barely. I couldn't say a word as a wall blocked my retreat. I knew it was monster and we had to kill it, but I couldn't will my arms and legs to move. Why did it have to be a snake of all the monsters that it could have been?

"Electra move!" Link shouted from a far. I looked up to see a tail come towards me. I ducked under it and ran along the side of the room. I needed a flame thrower attached to a super tank that was also a huge flame thrower. Suddenly, I slipped in the sand. I sat up to a kneeling position and heard a loud hiss that came towards me. I looked up and saw Apophis wide mouth with fangs out coming towards me at a fast speed. I screeched as I placed my shield in front of me and the snake closed its jaw on it. I got up and ran as Apophis crushed it into bits without much difficulty. I turned back forward to see a ball and chain coming towards me. I dropped to the sand just as the wrecking ball almost beheaded me.

"What the hell Link?!" I shouted at him as the snake was hit behind me. I turned to look back and saw Apophis head fly backwards flipping the whole snake over onto its back.

"Glad to know you're not completely paralyzed in fear for you to think." Link replied from middle of the room. "You need to fight back."

"What?! You can't take this guy?"

He glanced sideways for a second before returned his gaze back to me. "Remember when you said you practically had all three pieces, you need to prove your courage right now. Go against your fear before it destroys you."

"Cute pep talk, but that's a little easier said than done!" I shouted at him. I was still pissed off that he almost killed me. Movement caught the corner of eye. I turned my attention away from Link to Apophis who had got up again. Too quickly for my liking.

"Afraid of snakes?" The serpent asked in amusement.

I couldn't snap a response at it as my tongue caught in my mouth as I got up off the ground running. Link was insane to think that I was going to be much help in this fight, let alone get over my fear of snakes in a matter of seconds. I would gladly fight Dark Link and Leviathan any day then go against a giant ass snake. Suddenly the sounds of something large moving over the sand disappeared and I stopped running, skidding to a stop. I turned to Link just as he pulled out his bow and arrows.

"Where'd he go?" I asked him and he gestured to the sand with an arrow. An image of the layout of the room came to my mind as my brain started to function properly. A large circle was in the middle of the room where the sand filled the outsides of the circle platform creating a perfect place for a snake to borrow through. I looked at where I stood and where Link stood at the opposite side of the room. The sand shifted by his feet.

"Get to the center of the room." I told him as I shot the bulging sand. He looked at where I shot and he nodded. He started to run when the sand exploded upward like a sandstorm. I closed my eyes to keep the sand out of them wishing I had a bandana. The last thing I wanted to repeat was the day in the park when I was five, it hurt. Suddenly, the sand slipped from under my feet. I shot blindly into the sanding hoping I didn't shoot my own feet and a hiss came from it after a fifth shot. I opened my eyes again slightly as to try and see just in time to see a red tail ram into me. I flew and landed on the ground hard as the sandstorm died away. I sat up slowly as the dots started to disappear out of my vision. The serpent of chaos was gone again and I looked at my position in the room. I was on the outer edge of the inner circle. I sighed as I heard Link breathing heavily from behind.

"How are you holding up?" He asked me as I tilted my head back at him.

"Could be better, I'm getting sick of being tossed around."

"You're complaining, it's a start."

I didn't get a chance to argue with him as a tail shot out of the sand and its dagger like end stabbed right between my legs. "Holy fuck!" I screamed in surprise as I shot it in a reflex. I stood up quickly from my position as the tail appeared again. Link shot it with an arrow and it repeated its retreat.

Keep it up." Link said in encouragement as he pulled out the ball and chain.

"What are you going to do with that thing?"

"Just keep your guns on the tail. I figured out a way to beat his thing."

"Mind filling me in?"

"Your fear of snakes makes you an easy target, but you are able to register the fight tactic with its sword tail instead of screaming and running away. Keep your eyes on that while avoiding contact with the rest of his body and you should be fine. The tail is a weak point, or at least seems to be sensitive. We can take it down by having two ends of his body under attack."

I blinked in realization of me being able to attack its tail without a second thought. "I'll do my best to keep the sword tail thing away."

I took out my second gun as the tail appeared and I kept my back turned from the engagement behind me. I smirked at his observation. There must have been something about snakes that scared me to death and it wasn't the sword tail I kept firing at. The tail disappeared into the sand again just to reappear a split second later almost skewing me If I hadn't slipped on the sand again. It disappeared again, but didn't reappear confusing me slightly, the battle that was happening behind me also died.

"I have amused you enough," A hiss filled the air.

Then, my hand pulsed painfully causing me to drop both of my guns. I gave out a sharp scream as pain shot through my hand, up my arm and into my head and chest. My legs gave out as I fell awkwardly to the side.

"Electra!" Link shouted and he ran over to me.

I tried to stifle my cries of agony as the pain was similar to the monster in the Forest Temple when it had grabbed me. This was only with a mix of when Dark Link's marked hand touched me and an added dose of when I accidently unlocked Leviathan's prison cell. My sight blurred as I tried to stay conscious. Link's face look contorted with pain as he looked down at me, but it quickly disappeared when he looked at something behind me. He moved his shield so fast as he jumped over me I barely saw him move it off his back. The sound of something hitting the shield repeatedly rang through the room. I tried to get up as the pain slightly subsided from adaption and saw the tail striking the shield. I looked to my side before I landed back in the sand and saw my gun. I picked it up and shot it several times. The pain dissolved a bit and I could properly breathe again as air filled my lungs. Apophis appeared the sand hissing angrily down at us and I froze at the sight of its golden colored eyes. He came down on me and Link jumped in the way with his shield and slashed it with the Master Sword. It reeled backwards as blood fell on the sand.

"You need to get up."

"Huh?" I managed to get out as I followed the movements of the serpent. I snapped back to realty as Link stepped in front of Apophis. "Oh, yeah."

I got up slowly feeling the pain rip through my chest again. I cringed, but continued to stand. I picked up my other gun and looked for Apophis tail.

"Same strategy, but if you see him coming at you, don't think of it as a snake, but a target for your gun ranges. It's the same color so it should be easy to pretend."

"You are giving me way too much credit to think I can do that." I told him.

He smiled and placed a hand on my shoulder, "I know you can do it when the time comes. Now you need to believe that you can do it too."

"Are you going to start reciting The Polar Express while you're at it?"

Link took his hand off my shoulder and I turned away to the sword tail. I pointed my guns and started firing at the red and black tail. It jutted in different ways as it squirmed away. The snake hissed making me freeze in my tracks. I started to turn around feeling the snake's eyes glaring down at me when the same red and black scale color moved in the corner of my eye. I turned to it ignoring my fear for the split second to dodge to keep myself from being stabbed in the chest by Apophis' tail. I shot at it as it came in again and I dropped my gun to grab my sword just as it was a few feet from me. I swung as I slid across the sand. My sword went through it and gold blood poured from the wound staining the sand and splattered on my face. The sword part of the tail fell to the sand as Apophis hissed loudly. It shook me to the core as I dared to look over to where Link was battling. Apophis glared at me as his eyes flashed with anger. Suddenly, a pulse came from the snake going through Link and I. I couldn't comprehend what happened as it ripped through me. There was nothing for a second until I tried to breathe. A lot of my energy had left my body as I dropped down to a knee. Breathing was difficult like I was being suffocated by venom. I looked over at the snake to see him sizing up a downed Link. He was lying on the ground like it hit him harder than it had me. I tried to stand up glaring at the snake. It was a target, a giant target. With teeth, and was sixty feet minus its missing tail end.

"Chaos doesn't mix well with the beings of Order." The snake hissed.

It lifted his head back to strike, but a bullet hit him instead. I panted as I felt the need to run fill me. The target idea wasn't working, but making sure Link wasn't eaten by a snake was. I fired again and again at the snake. Apophis hissed at me as he attacked me, luckily forgetting about Link. I fired and found that my guns were empty and took out the empty cartage and reached for another one. I rolled to the side as I slipped it in. I fired two shots from it to keep the snake busy while I reloaded my other gun. It barely worked as I almost had my head bitten off. I dodged just to run right into a tail that was coming at me like a whip. Pain ripped through me from the tail hit and was thrown into the air. I smashed into the wall a good ten feet up before falling to the sandy floor with gravity giving me no mercy. I fired a couple of times at Apophis to give myself time to get up. It worked for the split second before my hand pulsed making me miss the third round. Apophis laughed as I barely moved out of the way of his fangs. The pain intensified again and I slipped on the sand.

Suddenly, the snake stopped charging as the clawshot attacked itself to his eye. He hissed in pain as Link flew at him and jumped on top of his head. He took out the Master Sword and stabbed it into Apophis' head. The snake wiggled about before crashing to the ground. His tail continued to twitch behind him causing blood to fly like water out of a sprinkler. I cringed, it was a disturbing sight. Apophis started to crack as he started to blacken before exploding leaving the cut part of his tail behind. I got up as I rubbed my hand to ease the pain a little and looked at Link. He looked a little pale.

"You okay?" I asked him.

"I'll live." He replied with a smile. "Thanks to you."

I shrugged as I started walking towards him. "I needed to pay you back."

As I went, something shimmered in the sand next to the only piece that didn't blow up of Apophis. I walked over to it and saw a green medallion and a red medallion. I picked them up.

"Did you find the medallion?" Link asked as I heard him walk towards me.

"There's two here." I answered unsure. "The Forest Medallion and the Spirit Medallion are both here."

"Two of them? It was a tough battle, so I guess it's possible, but."

I turned to Link to ask what he thought about it when I almost had a heart attack. My eyes widened as a golden yellow, orange and red snake, the same size of Apophis came up from the ground. It's golden-yellow eyes glared down at us. I was speechless and Link gave me a confused look. He turned around and took a step back just as the snake's tail came out of his back. The snake removed its tail as blood dripped from it and Link dropped to the floor.

"Link!"

00000

"We're going to die." Michael shouted, but the blizzard drowned it into a whisper.

"At least when we are found when the snow melts we'll look pretty good, for a couple thousand year old corpses." Jason remarked. "But as I see it, we are looking at Death in the face and what do we tell him?"

"What do you tell him?" Delilah asked chattering.

Jason smirked though no one could see it as all of his face was covered with a facemask, a scarf and a pair of medieval goggles. "Not today."

"Maybe when I'm old and I'm off of these mountains." Benedict joked. "So how much longer until we get there?"

"Not much further, with this fish Delilah managed to grab, Link's friend should arrive to help us any time now." Shad said as they continued the climb up the mountain."

~2 Hours Later~

"Shad, where in Hylia are we?!" Delilah shouted in an outrage. "My toes are freezing, I have snow in my boots and that shouldn't be possible! I have snow inside my top undergarment from fighting snow animals and let me tell you, it's not fucking welcomed!"

Jason was right behind her on being mad, any time now didn't mean two bloody hours in a storm that just got worse as the minutes went by and three white Wolfos attacks, each attack with easily twenty white wolves targeting them, later.

"I'm sorry, I miss calculated where we were, how fast we were going to be climbing, how bad everything was going to get!" Shad snapped. "The storm seems to be only getting worse and the white Wolfos don't seem to mind, but of course since I'm a god; it's all my fault!"

"It's not all your fault." Michael stated. "We're all just cold and once we get out of this storm we'll all feel better."

"So where do you think we are now?" Jason asked sending all of his annoyance out of his voice. He didn't want a sarcastic response from Shad.

"Somewhere near the peak. We are almost there, but I seriously thought that Link's friend would have met up with us an hour ago."

"Well, he was obviously smarter than us for not going out in this storm." Esben commented.

There wasn't much chatter besides the noise from their teeth slamming together without control as they continued up the mountain. Jason looked around and only saw white moving people within the white surface of the storm. How Shad knew exactly where to go he had no idea. He took another step, and his foot hit something different from the snow that they had been walking on. Light started to break through the snow as it lightened and a sky of blue was a welcoming sight. Jason sighed in relief. He wasn't built for snow terrain. Electra should have gone instead. She would have been able to build a mobile igloo with a beer fridge that was never empty. He looked around and saw a large house that sat at the end of a neatly made, large path that didn't seemed affected by the snowstorm.

"Well that was closer than I thought we would ever be. We were going in the wrong direction by a slight degree and here I was wondering why it took so much longer." Shad said happily.

Jason sighed, he was glad they made it out and Shad was in a better mood. Grouchy, snappy, and sarcasm didn't suit the scholar.

"So what is this place?" Cailean asked looking around. "Does this have to do with the tablet?"

"It actually has everything to do with it." Shad explained with enthusiasm. "The tablet is somewhere around here."

Everyone groaned and Delilah sat on the ground dramatically.

"What?"

"Do you have any idea where this 'somewhere around here' is?" Jason asked.

"Actually, I believe it's in that ruined mansion. The inhabitants of the mansion are a Yeti species, Yeto and Yeta. They happened to keep all the cool little things found in this area like a giant collection."

Jason turned to the mansion. He can't say he has ever seen a yeti let alone a species of yeti. Though their names weren't all that creative; he hoped that they knew about the tablet and hopefully would be will to give it to them. He looked at the size of the mansion and turned back to Shad. "Will they be able remember where they put it if they have it? It is large house and going through it would take a while if they don't."

"It's a good thing that there are quite a few of us then if they don't remember." Shad said as he started towards the mansion.

Jason facepalmed himself and hoped to any god that it was warm inside if they did have to look for it. He and the rest of their team started up towards the mansion after Shad. The scholar knocked on the giant door.

"Hey, does anyone know what a yeti looks like?" Benedict asked looking up at the house.

Nobody answered him as the door opened. On the other side was a nine foot white furred creature with a flat face and a strange tail.

"Hello?" the creature said in a deep, scruffy voice that was easily male.

"Hi!" Shad exclaimed. "We were wondering if we could come in, we brought a fish."

The yeti shrugged, "Okay, Yeta like fish. I'll put it in soup."

Jason grimaced at his grammar. Did no one teach him how to speak properly? They walked inside and found the temperature to be a degree warmer.

"I can't wait until we find out where we have to go next." Delilah grumbled. "Perhaps the moon, I here it's nice this time of year."

"Moon pretty, but not pretty to Yeta's pretty." Yeto commented.

Jason almost walked back outside, there was no way he was going to be able to deal with his… maybe he had super glue to shut the big guy's mouth, forever.

They arrived in a room with the fireplace going and it was much warmer than the rest of the house they had been in. Without hesitation they all huddled in front of it. Jason felt his clothes thaw out and he rolled his shoulders. Finally he could move without his frozen coat obstructing his movements. They were lucky that they weren't killed getting up to the mansion, now he hoped it was worth it. He was doing an awful lot of hoping.

Shad took of his coat reminding Jason how scrawny the scholar was and reached inside of his pouch. Shad pulled out the giant smelly fish and a noise came from a couch. Jason turned to it and found a smaller, more female like version of Yeto.

"We have no fish for long time. Storms block way." The same voice as the strange noise earlier came from the small oval like creature with yeti fur.

"They bring fish for us, Yeta." Yeto bellowed.

"How can we help travelers?" Yeta asked in a calm voice. "No one stupid enough to climb mountain this time of year with strange monsters. You came up here for reason yes?"

"We did come up here for a reason." Shad told them as he pulled out the two tablet pieces they had collected. Jason sighed; finally proper speech. "We were wondering if you have seen a piece like these two."

Yeto looked like he was thinking and turned to Yeta. "Where did we place odd stone; one with odd birds?"

"Odd birds?" Jason asked out loud.

"Yes, the stone looked exactly like those ones only odd looking birds on it." Yeto stated as he turned to him making weird shapes with his hands. Jason couldn't make out what kind of bird it could be. "I think it was in room without wolfies and Ice men."

"On the far room of house," Yeta nodded. "In chest along with soup ingredients."

"Yes," The large yeti agreed. "I give you stone if you get ingredients. Then, we all have soup and you stay for night. Bad weather to walk in night."

"That's very kind of you." Shad told him. "We will get the ingredients for soup while we find the stone."

With much reluctance, they left the warm room out into a cold ruin of a kitchen like set up. It looked like it was used recently as it wasn't covered in ice like the main entrance was. Jason looked around and sighed, where the hell was the far side of the house. They were in the middle, but since they were in the middle, wouldn't the house have two far sides then? He turned to Shad. "So which way is the far side of this ruin? There are two so, which way?"

"Nope,"

"No?"

"Nope," Shad repeated. "It's rather compact so there is only one back part of the ruins, but there are two floors. So since they didn't state which floor, I'm going to presume the bottom floor as that's most likely where the ingredients are lying around. But there is a precaution I should state."

"A precaution? We just climbed a mountain; I don't think anything beats that." Delilah sighed as she crossed her arms.

"They stated that there were monsters, usually monsters hide about, but even for Yeto to not want to go out on the mountain is unnerving. Most of the rooms in here aren't used so it's possible that other things that aren't normal have spawned within the walls. Most of these creatures, such as the white Wolfos and the ice men, aka Chillfos, are ice based monsters. Now there haven't been many ice type monsters in the history I have read about, so it's also possible that nothing has spawned in this mansion."

"So it's a fifty-fifty shot at a random monster appearance."

"More like a twenty percent chance that a monster that doesn't belong here will appear, that being said, if one has spawned here, I doubt it will be an ice creature."

"Great," All the Hylian soldiers muttered at once.

"At least if they don't belong here they won't try to kill us with ice." Jason sighed, "So, can we hurry a long so we don't have to be in the cold any more than we have to be."

"Right, it's actually rather easy to get to the far side of the mansion ruins." Shad said as he took out a map. "It's only a few rooms, an outdoor courtyard and two rooms to get to the farthest room in the ruins."

Shad lead them into the next room only to be ambushed by, what Jason guessed was the icemen known as Chillfos as they were tall humanoid ice with ice spears and Keese with a snow field around them. The room's floor was also covered in ice which wasn't necessary to tell how cold it was without heat. The four Chillfos turned to them and threw their ice spears a split second later. Jason managed to dodge the one aimed at him and was surprised at how accurate the aim was. The room wasn't large enough for the seven of them to be jumping around to attack the things as the monsters also took up space. He turned to Shad, "Go back to the kitchen, I'll come and get you when we clear out this room."

Shad nodded and left the room quickly. Jason turned around and pulled out his crossbow. He loaded a bolt into it and aimed at the head of one of the Chillfos. The Chillfos spawned a spear and blocked it even though it was flying at speeds one shouldn't block leaving the bolt to bounce off.

"Well aren't these things annoying." Michael growled. "If long range doesn't work, then how about close range attacks?"

Michael and Benedict raced towards the Chillfos. There was a second in delay in Jason's mind when the two men were suddenly covered in ice. A white Keese flew away just before a Chillfos hit the two men, shattering the ice and sending them into a wall.

"Ben!" Cailean shouted before running in rage towards the Chillfos.

"Delilah, cover him, Esben, Isaac get those two out of there." Jason ordered as he placed in a bolt. He fired at a Keese that was flying straight for Cailean. The bolt ran right through it and hit the Chillfos behind it. The Keese exploded leaving a pissed off Chillfos behind it as it walked towards him. Jason ignored it and aimed for the second Keese in the room. Esben went passed him with a semi-conscious Michael. At least he wasn't dead; Michael and Benedict were probably done for the night though. It was stupid to think that the soldiers could continue after climbing a mountain. They were already cold and ice based monsters made the idea even more ridiculous. The third and final Keese died just to piss of the second Chillfos in the room that wasn't fighting someone. He fired at the closest pissed off ice monster and it blocked the attack with its spear. Jason reloaded and fired at it and its spear broke. He went to go for an attack just as a spear barely missed his head as it scraped his ear. He fired at it instead of the closer one and it shattered into pieces. He turned to the first Chillfos and charged at it with his machetes. He hated close combat. He swung just as the creature formed a spear again and defend against each of his attacks. The spear shattered on the tenth strike and Jason slashed the ice monster. It shattered just Cailean and Delilah walked up to him.

"I think we need to regroup and discuss about our situation." Delilah stated and Jason nodded. The monsters that they had faced up to this point weren't as difficult, but like he had said before. He wasn't made for icy plains and he doubted any of his men were either. They turned back into the kitchen and Cailean went up to his brother.

"You alright?"

"Almost had my boys frozen off, almost." Benedict joked as he sat against a wall.

Cailean slapped him upside the head. "You idiot."

"Captain, I would like to ask for a rest? I don't think another ice blast like that would be good for my health." Michael asked drinking a potion.

"You didn't hear, but Delilah suggested a discussion about how to handle this situation." Jason replied. "You and Benedict are staying behind as you are in no shape to be frozen again. Long range seems to work nicely to get rid of the Keese that freezes things on contact."

"Chillfos are strong, but only with their spears." Shad stated. "The best way to deal with them is wait for them to throw their spears and then take them out with a sword in the middle or their heads. Their chests are solid so attacks don't work there. They also don't like long range weapons. They also don't move quickly so quickness will also help fight against them and dodging their sharp spears."

"Something I also noticed." Jason grumbled as he reached for a bandage in his pouch. He placed it on his ear so the bleeding would stop. If he wanted his ear pieced; he would have done it himself.

"Alright, so that leaves Jason and me." Delilah said with enthusiasm.

"And there are still three knights and a scholar that can still fight." Isaac told her.

"Shad, we need your knowledge if something else comes up instead of going in blindly. But we also need someone to take care of the wounded while we fight and someone to watch over these two if we don't have any more incidents."

"I'll stay here to watch over these two, I'm carrying most of the healing potions anyway." Cailean volunteered.

"And I'm a big guy, so I'll transport if I'm not hit." Esben followed. "Leaving you Isaac to deal with me, got that?"

"Just don't fake it so I have to carry your lazy ass." Isaac rolled his eyes.

"Hey."

"Great!" Jason raised his voice slightly tearing down the argument. "We have a strategy; now let's go kill things so we can get warm food and a nice place to sleep hopefully in front of a fire."

Benedict nodded before falling over unconscious. Jason winced. They were too lucky for such a mistake. Delilah put a hand on his shoulder and winked. He didn't respond as she started to walk to the door.

"Let's go boys, it's not nice to leave a lady in the cold." Delilah called sinisterly.

"She scares me." Shad whispered. "She really does when she gets in this mood. I'm just glad I'm not a monster as I feel sorry for anything that gets in her way."

"You never mentioned this before." Jason whispered back as they headed through the door.

"She's never been so agitated before since we started, even in the Scared Groove. She might just really hate the cold, or hungry, or tired, or maybe all three."

"We all are, but as long as she uses that to her advantage, I'm not complaining."

They stepped into the next room to find some Keese and Chillfos. They quickly disposed of them before heading outside. The courtyard looked pretty considering it was covered in snow. The door suddenly froze behind them.

"This reminds me of the forest temple, automatic locking doors; bloody hell." Jason said looking around. The court yard didn't look as pretty when they were locked in it. He wondered what monster was going to greet them when ten White Wolfos came up from the snow.

"Lucky for us, because it's already cold out here. These guys don't freeze." Esben commented pulling out his sword.

"Keep an eye out; I doubt these guys froze the door close." Delilah stated as she killed the first Wolfos.

Jason shot the next one before a Keese caught his eye. He tripped Isaac just as the bat creature flew where he stood and slashed it with his hidden knife. He loaded a bolt just as the snow in front of them exploded creating a tiny blizzard for a few seconds. A Wolfos appeared out of the snow cloud just missing his face as Jason ducked. He turned to the wolf monster and stabbed it behind the head. It exploded before it fell to the ground. The snow fell back to the ground only to show a giant, worm or snake like creature, with three skull heads that towered over them by two to three meters.

"What on earth is that ugly thing?" Esben asked as his voice cracked.

The monster howled as its bone heads clanged together. More Wolfos appeared from the ground. "It's summoning more Wolfos, prefect!" Jason growled loudly in annoyance. "Shad, what the hell is that thing so we can kill it."

"It's… um… I know what it is, give me a few minutes." Shad stuttered as he dropped his bag in the corner of the courtyard.

"Esben, Isaac, kill the Wolfos and keep an eye out for the ice Keese, let me know if one appears, I'll get rid of it. Delilah, you and I are going to hack the shit out of this over-size slug. I'll target it with my crossbow and you slash at it for any weaknesses."

The three of them nodded and went after their objectives. Jason dropped his bolt bag beside him for easy access and started firing at the creature. His bolts stuck into the creature, but the thing didn't slow down. Delilah slashed at it with amazing speed even in her snow gear, but it didn't do anything. She jumped up and cut off one of its heads as it lowered itself to the ground. Almost immediately the head grew back. The creature's eyes turned red and Delilah barely dodged the attack as it tried to bite her head off. She back flipped away and slid on hidden ice.

"Alright so cutting off one of its heads doesn't affect the guy." Delilah sighed as Jason looked up at it. It called more Wolfos as the two soldiers finished killing off the first round of Wolfos.

"Here it is!" Shad exclaimed happily in his corner. "It's a Staldra, a three headed snake monster that was born before the dawn of time."

"Great," she answered with sarcasm.

"Yes it is because there has never been a recording of this creature being so big, the largest was around six feet, but this one is easily twelve maybe eighteen feet."

"That's great Hun, but can you get to the part about it dying."

Shad's eyes widened in fear and turned back to his book. "Uh, right, um well anything you do to it does nothing as its thirst for killing and to cause pain has surpassed death itself. But the way you can destroy it is by simultaneously cutting off all of its heads. If one is left uncut, the other two will just grow back."

"Thank you."

"Do you want help?" Jason asked, almost regretting it as a look appeared on her face. She wasn't a happy mountain climber. "Or not, I can distract."

"I need a boost to get their heads. I can strike them down without giving them a chance with my speed. But, they are still fifteen feet in the air."

Jason nodded and turned to Esben as he defeated another Wolfos. "Esben, I need your assistance."

Esben gave him a funny look, but it left as soon as they stood not too far from the creature with his bolts back on his back.

"You ready?" Delilah shouted standing by Shad who was slowly defeating a Wolfos.

"When I shoot it in the face, get ready to run. You only have a few seconds before we have to get out of the way." Jason answered.

She nodded and he pulled out his crossbow and fired at each of the creatures heads. The sound of snow being crunched under came to his ears as he dropped the crossbow and crossed arms with Esben. Delilah stepped onto their arms and they launched her up high into the air. The only female on their team flew above the heads and came down with sword slashing as she flipped, catching all three heads in their different positions. She slid down the back of the creature onto the ground as its body crumbled and exploded behind her.

"There we go." She replied flicked her hair behind her.

"That. Was. Awesome." Isaac exclaimed loudly from behind Jason.

Jason nodded at her in approval, he really didn't think with the position of the snake heads would have allowed them to get it in the first try. "Let's go see if the tablet and the ingredients are back there." He pointed at the door behind Delilah. "I just need to pick up all the bolts I used from here before a storm decides to cover them."

"Take your time; we're going to take a break from killing everything we see." Shad said as he sat down.

Esben and Isaac sat beside him as Jason started looking for the bolts. Thank god they were black and not white. He would have never retrieved them all within five minutes. They went through the door and a hallway met them with a few Keese inside. Jason shot them down and continued the way down the hall picking up the bolts he used. He opened the next door and found a normal looking room with shelves packed with food items and a chest in the back.

Jason turned to Delilah. "You want to open the chest?"

"I would be delighted to open the chest." She replied as she walked over to it. Jason shrugged as he started to grab some food articles off the shelves.

"It's no wonder why Yeto didn't want to come out here and grab these food items with that thing running around."

"Well we got rid of it so now he can come and get it himself and reclaiming his home again. It's obvious that they had started placing food here before the monsters showed up. So when Ugly came to visit and decided to stay, the other monsters just made it worse." Esben stated. "The guy's big, but I don't think he is much of a killer unless he has to be, like with Wolfos, I bet they make a great food source."

"They are. I've had the luxury to have some before; my dad brought one home once. Tasty little bastard." Isaac said and wiped away what Jason presumed was drool. "Too bad I don't know how to kill one without them going boom."

"Ask Yeto when we get back."

"These are some freaky ass birds." Delilah stated into their conversation. "Are those supposed to be boobs or feathers that look like boobs?"

"What?!" Jason questioned in concern as he started walking over. Maybe she had given herself a concussion.

Shad flew passed him and grabbed the tablet from her hands. "Oh boy."

"Oh boy what?"

"Well we aren't going to be climbing any more mountains."

"Thank the goddesses." Esben sighed in relief.

"We will be launched in a canon to the City in the Sky."

"So we are all going to die, pleasant." Jason groaned. "Just the way I wanted to go, by a canon."

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