Okay, a warning for next chapter; it may by short, normal or super long as it is the final chapter in this book. With that said, I hope you guys enjoy the second last chapter of the first book.
Chapter 30
Royal Decree
"What are you going to do about your sister?" A male voice said in the darkness.
"I don't know, I've tried to talk to her but hatred and love are difficult things to break through." A female replied.
"The hatred I get, but you think that is love? Between her and that monster?"
"I've seen them together; even monsters have love, makes us mortals so afraid of what hides in the dark. They aren't much different from ourselves."
"Perhaps if you were messed up in the head."
"You stop looking under the bed when you realize that the monsters are inside of you. Everyone has their problems, but we decided whether or not to act on them. She decided to act on her monster."
There was silence as if the female was thinking.
"Stop making that face when you are trying to understand things that are beyond your control." The male replied grimly.
"I'm going to go see her."
"Don't be an idiot, she'll kill you."
"I rather die than lose the only family I have left."
"…"
"I'm not going to my death, I know I have already lost any respect from my sister, but if I don't go she'll come here and I'll lose you too. You're all I have left." There was a silence for a moment. "She must be stopped."
I jolted to a sitting position as I woke up as a scream left my lips. My breathing was heavy and I was in a cold sweat. I flinched as someone placed their hands on my shoulders I almost swung a punch.
"Shh, it's okay. It's just me." Link said as my eyes adjusted to the lighting to see Link in front of me. I lowered my arm. "You were having a nightmare."
I looked around the room and realized I was in the inn. I sighed, that dream didn't seem like much of a nightmare, but I doubt I remembered everything, just that tiny bit. "Looks like we switched spots," I laughed lightly.
Link didn't look all that amused. "You practically died,"
"Twice in a day, that's impressive."
"Twice?"
"Apparently I drowned in a pool of blood and Dark Link saved me." I replied taking his hands off my shoulders.
"He did?"
"Apparently, I wouldn't know though. So, what happened after I passed out in the graveyard? How long have I been out for? If you say days then you better have at least went to get the medallion."
Link smirked slightly. "You've been out of it the rest of the day yesterday and last night, it's about noon now."
"And you're still here? You should have left."
"I should have, but I didn't. I want to make sure you were okay after, an overdose I guess, of the forth piece."
I couldn't keep a serious frown as I sighed. He was probably worried about me like I was with him when we were in switched positions. "Thanks, I appreciate you staying."
"Just don't do that again."
"I'll try." I smiled, which faltered as I remembered my father. "I need to go to Ordon."
Before Link could respond, the sounds of someone running up the stairs interrupted him. He stood up and drew his sword and shield. The door slammed opened with a breathless Shad. I looked between the two as Link visible relaxed and lowered his sword.
"I obviously missed something from the last twenty-four plus hours."
"I guess I forgot to mention that about two hours after he left, a group of Moblins from thousands of years ago attacked the village. They mostly targeted Renado's home where you were being treated. We had to move you to this room after that." Link told me as he placed his sword away.
"Leviathan must have sent them as a message that Dark Link failed."
"That's … what we … concluded." Shad said in between breaths.
"Damn idiot." Link muttered.
"You just called yourself an idiot." I commented.
"I called him an idiot. I don't need to call myself one when I have you doing the favor."
I shrugged.
"There's been a new development." The scholar said standing up straight. He looked at me slightly before turning back to Link at a neck breaking speed. "You should hurry up and come downstairs right away."
I raised an eye brow as he rushed out of the room closing the door behind him. What the hell was that about? "So, Shad sounds like a Moblin coming up the stairs, that's funny."
"And a bit ironic." Link replied picking up some folded clothing. "You should probably get dressed before going downstairs; your boots and armor are with your bag on the dresser right there."
"Dressed?" I looked down at myself and saw I was only in a bra with a blanket over top of me but I knew I was wearing underwear. My face went red as I pulled up the blanket, "What the hell? Why didn't you tell me?!"
"I thought-"
"GET OUT!"
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"We are perfectly fine wearing revealing bathing suits, but never look at a girl with only her undergarments without permission." Delilah scolded as she held a cold cloth to Link's head. "If you knew that, you wouldn't be here now would you?"
"That doesn't make sense." Link muttered as he turned to me. I glared still feeling embarrassed and vulnerable. "I swear I thought you noticed."
"I was in a state of waking up from a nightmare and a serious discussion; clothing did not pop into my mind let alone a lack of. I passed out with them on remember?" I growled only making me even redder in the face.
"If it helps, no one saw you, but yours truly when I was cleaning you up." Delilah told me and winked. "And I have to admit, your breasts are amazing, not better than mine, but-"
"So why did you throw your gun at him anyway?" Jason interrupted Delilah and looked like he pitied Link passing a side glance to him.
"It was the first thing I grabbed; he wouldn't stop apologizing and leave."
"You threw it within two seconds of screaming at me." Link grumbled as he winced when the white haired girl moved the cloth.
"You should have left sooner."
Delilah placed the cloth down and spontaneously placed her arms around Jason's neck from behind.
"I would mind if you left and it was just us."
"And here I thought you dropped the flirting with me." Jason told her crossing his arms.
"That's mean," Delilah sighed as she got close to his neck. "I didn't think you were actually not noticing me. Do you not remember our time on the mountain?"
"You killed a giant Staldra." Jason said in thought. "And then we came back, healed up, ate and went to bed. And in the morning we pretty much tobogganed all the way back to the Zora's Domain."
"I was holding you close in the night."
"You were?!"
"Did you not notice? You didn't, well allow me to give you some attention on screen."
"This isn't some sort of show or book." Jason said uncomfortably. "Shad will be here any minute."
"Then we should pass the time." She whispered in his ear just loud enough for me to hear as she played with his shirt. She slipped onto his lap. "We could take this upstairs if you wanted to, it's the end of the world soon and it's not going to wait forever. That makes this so much more exciting don't you think."
"The end of worlds is slightly important…"
"Well Shad isn't here yet and if he doesn't show up with in the next minute I'm-"
Suddenly the door opened and Shad came in with several tablet pieces in his arms. "Sorry, I got caught up in my notes."
"Oh Goddess why do you do this to me. Why can't I rip is clothes off?" Delilah sighed in defeat.
"Pardon?" Shad questioned with a very confused look on his face.
"You saved us." I replied pulling Delilah in the seat next to me off of Jason. "So, what caught you in your notes?"
"The location on where Leviathan should be and other things." Shad answered as he placed the pieces on the table and started to put them together.
"Should you be doing that in here?" Jason asked as he looked ready to ditch the table at a moment's notice.
"It should be fine… I think." The scholar replied waving it off as he placed the last piece in. The pieces glowed and then died down to reveal a new picture and a non-broken tablet. "Just as I thought."
I stood up for a better look at it. "Is that where I think it is."
"The Temple of Time before it was in ruins, monsters are going to be spawning from there soon."
"When?"
"Anytime now; I was looking at the many calendars after I started figuring out where Leviathan was and the lineup cannot be a coincidence. There is going to be a new moon tonight, the perfect time as Demise's, and I'll assume Leviathan's, abilities will be at full power. That's probably where those monsters came from earlier. They've been banging on the gates since. I can only guess that they are after each of the chosen by the scent of blood. A lot of that has been spilt here lately from Electra and yourself Link."
Link was out of his chair before I could blink. "Ordon isn't far from there and Don would probably be targeted as well if the monsters are going by scent. And those monsters have been here since yesterday..."
"Wait, Electra's father is here?" Shad squeaked; I didn't understand what he was going on about.
"It's a long story," I replied as I followed Link out the door. I shut the door to Shad muttering something about something not being good.
Delilah and Jason came out just as Link and I jumped onto our horses.
"What about the other medallion?" Delilah asked.
"We can get it later, it's not like it's very important right now." Link told her.
"You guys should go to castle town to inform Zelda on the situation." I suggested to Jason and Delilah. "There are only two holophones left since mine was sliced up into tiny pieces. I'm sure other monsters will be targeting Link's if we try to call when heading to Ordon."
There wasn't an argument as we left. The doors weren't opened and the two soldiers didn't seem like they were opening them any time soon. We stopped in front of the gate and Michael took off his helmet. The sounds of creatures banging on the door reached my ears as Hero's steps stopped.
"There are too many monsters to risk opening the gates." Michael told us with a frown. "I'm surprised the gates are still here."
"They should leave you alone for the most part once we leave." Link told him turning Epona around.
"How are you leaving?"
"I hope you remember your jumping lessons Electra." Link asked me as I caught up with him.
"I hate jumping." I grumbled. "But I don't think there is much of a choice."
"Not really so don't fall off."
We were a good ways from the gate when Link turned Epona around. I did the same with Hero and we charged the gate. Epona and Hero both jumped the gate with ease only to land on a swarm of Bokoblins and Bulblins. They stomped on them as they galloped and we were out of the mess in a few seconds with the horde following behind. We got a good distance from them as they came at us like an army when Link turned Epona to the side and shot several bomb arrows at them. There weren't any of them left after the fifth assault. I didn't say anything as we continued towards Ordon. I stop the urge of biting my lip because I was riding a horse as a nervous vibe entered. I just hoped my dad was okay even though it was unlikely that the town wasn't swarming with monsters.
"There is a gate before the bridge that can defend against monsters, and if need be, they can cut the bridge down." Link said as if reading my thoughts. Though I figured he was saying it for himself mostly. That was his family.
I flashed him a smile. "They know the drill, they'll be alright."
Link didn't say anything after that as we reached the entrance of the Farore Province. The area was darker and creepier than I remembered. Spider silk covered the walls like a string instrument waiting for a vibration on every thread. We went a bit farther and found a Moblin half wrapped on the wall, but it was easily sucked dry. I almost gagged, it was disgusting looking.
"What else do these spiders eat besides people and this unfortunate Moblin?" I managed to get out. The hall of veins, arteries and intestines for some reason was less gross then the corpse of a Moblin hanging in the spider silk walls. It was probably because the hall was in a different realm and not real in a sense.
"I don't know, never thought to ask." Link responded getting off of Epona. He poked it with his sword before pulling it off the wall with a bit of difficulty. It dropped to the ground with a loud thud, but it didn't explode like it was supposed to. I didn't get to say anything as a Skulltula dropped on top of Link. Hero reared in a freak out and I fell off. Link had his sword and hand blocking the creature's face from his own. I got up and pulled out my sword as I made my way over to him. I stabbed the Skulltula in the face before it could have a Link snack. It squealed as it reared up and Link got out from underneath it and it dropped to the ground. I kicked it and it didn't move.
"Why isn't it going poof?"
A Bulblin interrupted the conversation starter as it came from around the corner. Link sliced it in half and the two pieces landed on the ground with a strange liquid spewing from it. He turned to me with a look of disgust. "This is like your world."
"This is disturbing." I commented. Hero nudged my shoulder as if in apology for throwing me off. I rubbed his nose. "What's happening in the ruins?"
"Maybe this was what Dean was talking about. The two worlds are coming together again. I hate to see what it's doing to your world."
"Probably a lot like The Mist, a dimension door opening on an unsuspecting world that doesn't know the monsters of this world except for a few gamers. I doubt any of them would be able to help much passed knowledge though."
"That movie had a terrible ending by the way."
"You watched it? How much did you do in two weeks?"
"I was curious one day." He answered the first question without answering the second one.
"The book was better."
We got back on the horses and raced through the paths. We slipped by the bird nest man's house which was silent and dead with webs covering the house. A skulltula sat on the door like it wanted in while two more sat on the windows. I didn't doubt the owner of the house was sitting in the center of the room hoping they would go away.
"Don't you think we should help him?"
"He's fine, besides, if we did take out those three; three more would just replace the dead ones." He responded without slowing down much.
"That's a bit pessimistic."
"It's a realistic point of view. And if we don't figure out what is going on in Ordon and if they do need help, they might not need it for much longer if they are all dead."
I didn't argue as my dad was there. I caught up with Link. We got to the bridge just as the gates of the bridge fell over with a horde of different types of monsters on the bridge from different types of Skulltula to Kargaroc. A panic filled my chest for not only my father, but the kids that lived in that village those monsters were heading towards. They were already traumatized once, no need to make it a second time in such a short while. I whistle loudly making Link over his ears. He glanced over at me with annoyance, but I ignored it as I got what I wanted. The monsters stopped their engage on the little village and turned to the sound as I stopped whistling.
"Ya, you freaky-ass-mother-fucking-monster shits," I shouted at them as I got off Hero's back. "We're over here!"
"A warning would have been nice before you decided to try and grab all their attention at the same time, or the loud noise."
"Sensitive ears huh?"
"Ya, the talent came from being a wolf for a long period of time." He replied without amusement. "So what's your big plan?"
"How many are there coming towards us do you think?" I asked pulling bags of bullets and tossing them on the ground.
"A lot,"
I pulled out a second bag of ammo and reflected that I they were the only two baggies left of ammo not including the go big or go home ones in my bag. "An estimate please."
"Fifty, wait, about a hundred and twenty something if you included those little jelly looking things that looked like they popped out of a children's coloring book. They don't even… never mind, the yellow ones shoot electricity."
"That's a little more than fifty when including those guys."
"Well there are also these little… I don't even know what they are, but they are shooting balls or something at you."
I stepped to the side as the said balls flew passed me. "Well this should work out then, I have enough ammunition for this crew." I fired at a few as they got close. They fell off the bridge instead of going poof. "I'm going to empty the magazines at these guys and as they drop, you need to reload them and place them back onto my belt, I have four more already loaded without including the ones in my guns so there shouldn't be any pause beside me placing in a new one, but that will only take out half of them."
I could feel Link look down at me like I was nuts. Maybe hanging out with Dark Link wasn't the best on my healthy choices. "I have never reloaded any magazines in my life."
"My dad never showed you?"
"Why would he do that?"
"What didn't you do in the two weeks?"
"Lots of things."
I growled as I emptied a gun at the closing in crowd. I dropped a magazine into my hand and quickly showed him how to reload it as he got off Epona. "Got it?"
"No…"
"Close enough." I loaded it back into the gun and continued firing at the spiders that approached. It took four shots to kill one and the next spider crawled over its corpse. The magazine was empty with only three spiders killed and Link caught it as I released it.
"So it goes like…" He muttered as I reloaded another magazine into the gun and emptied a second magazine as it dropped on to the ground. "Are you kidding me?"
"It's a small space for them to get through. The more crowded they get the higher the possibility they push each other off and into the ravine. The idea is so they don't surround us." I stated as I reloaded. "Not to mention, the spiders are hard to kill."
I felt a magazine slip into my belt.
"I did it." He started as I emptied two more magazines onto the ground in front of him and reloaded. "What the-?"
"All the spiders are almost dead," I emptied a third and forth one on the final six. "Scratch that, all the spiders are dead. There are still a lot more and I'm predicting using about twelve to fourteen magazines and since I have six in total, that's a lot of refills…"
"Yeah, yeah, I'll hurry up. Though, as tedious as it is, it's a good strategy."
"Thanks, now let's hope these little fucks don't run away on us."
Luckily for us, they were apparently blood thirsty and came at us without much success as I killed anything that got close to the entrance of the bridge. It was like those zombie movies my dad liked so much, I just couldn't remember which one used the tactic of a single entrance or if any of them did. My guns were warm as the last electric blob seeped through the bridge as it died. I put my guns away, cracked my knuckles and stretched from my standard position.
"Well that was fun." I yawned as I gather the left over ammunition. I was going to have to reload all the magazines later. I looked up to see Link kicking the monsters off the bridge. I hopped onto Hero and met up with him on the other side. He placed up the gates again and closed the gates.
He tested them before getting on Epona. "Let's go."
We rode in to the village passing Link's house as we did. The village wasn't, thankfully, covered like the rest of the Farore Province was in spider silk. It was the same old place with a hint of music and even nice weather. Too bad it wasn't going to last if we didn't spoil Leviathan's plans that day. We rode into the middle of the village to be greeted with the funky looking mayor that I had to double take because he was much bigger and stranger than he had looked in the game which seemed impossible; and an armed Rusl. I looked around and caught a glint of something metal in higher areas.
"Where's my dad?" I asked getting off Hero before the horse came to a stop.
"How did you know-?" Rusl started but I interrupted feeling anxious.
"Where is he?"
"Rusl, who is this girl?" Bo questioned suspiciously.
"This is Electra Ends." Rusl answered quickly. "He isn't here; he left this morning before we closed the gates."
"You let him leave?!"
"He's a grown man with his own mind." Bo answered calmly. "We weren't keeping him against his will."
"Are you fucking kidding me?" I exclaimed in anger, there were two psychopaths out there and one of them had a plan for my dad. And then they just let him go out like fodder. "There are things most likely hunting him down and you just…! Did he say where he was going?"
"To find you-"
"Beautiful!" I said throwing up my hands into the air with defeat. I walked over to Hero and got on.
"Electra," Link started. "We'll find him."
I just nodded. I didn't know what to say between my anger and how scared I was that dad would have gone through such risks to find me.
"How has everything been for the last twenty-four hours?" Link asked the two men below.
"Decent, nothing unusual so far." Rusl told him crossing his arms.
"This place isn't going to get nice as the night comes. Preparing a place to keep tight in for the next little while would probably be best. The monsters tore through the gate just as we arrived at the bridge and it's only going to get worse."
"Little Link's worried 'bout us," Bo laughed slightly. "We'll be fine."
"I don't think you understand the situation." I growled half-heartedly. "There is someone who is raising Demise and is messing with the normal order. Then there is Dean who is not something even an insane version of our buddy Link wanted to fight."
"Insane version?"
"The monsters don't disappear when you kill them anymore and there have been monsters from the past ransacking other areas of Hyrule." Link sighed changing the subject. "Just promise me that you will have some sort of safe place that everyone will be able to stay in for a while if it gets to be too much."
"Fine, we'll set up a place of hiding out until the storm blows over." The mayor agreed also with a sigh.
"Fido's house would be the best place to secure a location." Rusl suggested before turning to Link. "How bad do you think it will get?"
Link just shook his head. I couldn't throw an answer to him either, if we didn't succeed in stopping the rise of Demise everyone would probably die, either by a swift death or a tortured one. Then there was the other fact that the worlds were starting to merge, that would most likely suck for everyone.
I turned to Link, "We should get going. There is still a medallion to retrieve and my father to find before he gets mesmerized by some Redead or something."
"Right," The hero in green replied. "Sorry for the short stay."
"Oh get out of here, you have things to do." Rusl replied waving his sword at us. "Don't worry so much over this silly little village. We can take care of ourselves."
Link looked like he wanted to say something, but he just nodded and turned Epona around.
"Sorry for… everything." I apologized to the two men before following Link up the path.
We went up to the bridge and found there were two monsters which Link dealt with swiftly with a few arrows that he retrieved form the dead bodies. Rusl locked the gates behind us and we went on our way. The horses were now walking on spider silk that was spread across the ground making it impossible to even suggest tracking. We both called out to him when we entered the Faron Woods just in case he wandered in there and were met by a very large arachnid of some sort. We didn't bother to waste our time with it and I blew it to pieces with the special ammo. More noises came from the forest and we left. I had a funny feeling there were more creatures like it hiding with in the forest and that my dad was nowhere near by. We left the Farore Province after that and I reloaded my magazines.
"How far could he have gone?" I questioned as I looked up at the sky in the middle of Hyrule Field, dark clouds were forming blocking the sun. "What time is it?"
"It's late in the afternoon; we've been looking for him for a couple of hours now."
"How far do you think he could have gone?"
"From this morning on foot, easily to Hyrule Castle Town maybe farther if he was in good shape and even farther if he had a horse."
"Or nowhere if he didn't have a weapon. For all we know he is with that bastard Dean or worse Leviathan. Do you know what Shad was freaking out earlier?"
"Not anything solid, but it might be because Don is your father and it might make him a target for monsters that would be looking for you."
I sighed; I already had that theory created. "We should go to Kokiri Forest and get the medallion from Saria."
"What about your father?"
"He's a grown man, he knows what's he's doing." I told him coldly. "We don't have time to sit about looking for him if he could have gone anywhere. We still don't know what to do with the medallions."
"Dark was addressing you on what to do with them, not we."
"Great, 'cause I've used all the magical items before. The only magical weapon I've used is both versions of the master sword."
"Both versions?"
"Yeah, it was the only way to kill that banshee. Dark and I switched weapons to confuse her."
Link huffed in impressment. "As if he let you."
I changed the subject. "We should go so we can get to the ruins before it gets dark."
"I can go while you look for Don." Link offered.
"It's too dangerous for us to split and you know it." I answered hating every word I was going to say. "Saving both of our worlds is much more important right now then finding my dad."
He looked like he was going to respond with something, but he closed his mouth. "As you wish."
We took off again and I was glad he didn't press the matter. I blinked away the blurry vision. I really wanted to make sure he was fine, but we were running out of time. We got to the opening of the Zora's domain as lightning cracked the sky with the thunder booming almost at the same time scaring me to the point of screaming in shock as the sound waves vibrated through my body. Hero reared, but I stayed on that time. Link was calming Epona time just as the rain came down like a waterfall.
"No point in changing for a swim." I muttered as we entered the tunnel. We got off the horses halfway through and I tied my hair back with a hair elastic.
"You were going to change?"
"The thought was planned, but hey, might as well go for a swim in your clothes before you die due to lightning."
"That's a pessimistic view."
"It's a realistic one." I answered as we continued through the tunnel. We came out to a beautiful cavern that placed me in awe at its sight. I hadn't seen the Zora's domain outside of the game. My beautiful sight was zapped away as lightning struck the waterfall in front of us frying several fish in the process. "See, realistic."
"Then we should hurry before lightning strikes again." Link said before jumping into the water below.
Lightning struck the mother rock that poked out from the pool. I jumped into the water and the shock of the temperature made me gasp for air.
"The water's freezing." I managed to get out just before the shivering entered.
"I think it's rather warm today." Link commented just as Lightning struck the area where we had stood above.
"You're nuts."
"I'll be more than nuts if lightning hits the pool, start moving around to warm up."
"I know that." I snapped as I swam to the ledge. There wasn't any way I was going to stick around in the water any longer. I got up just as Link did and lightning struck the pool. A Zora floated to the top a few seconds later with a couple of panicking Zoras pulling it out of the water. The rain should have blocked any scent of someone being electrocuted, but it didn't. I swallowed harshly to keep from my stomach fluids in my stomach. I hoped I never smelled something like it again as anything was better than that. Link pulled me away and we walked into the Upper Zora River area and stopped in front of the pathway to the Lost Woods. There wasn't much of a pause before Link jumped in and disappeared in the underwater tunnel. I gave him a few seconds and lightning struck the ground not far from me and I jumped in fear. The hairs on my arms and neck stood on end in electrical charge as I grasped the cool rock cliff for a breather as thunder tore through the sky. I jumped into the pool; that was enough lightning and thunder crap for three minutes.
I made it out on the other side where it was the same torrential rain and thunder cracked the sky, but lightning wasn't connecting anywhere I could see. Link pulled me up and we made a wrong turn to make it to Kokiri Forest faster. There were spider webs on the other side along the walls and floor with skullwalltulas speckled across the walls and the fence. All the glowing fairies were gone. Suddenly, a partial battle scream entered the air. I looked over and saw several Skulltulas walking towards the rock tunnel.
"That was Mido." Link said just as he was running down the path and jumped over the fence.
I followed the same path and saw Mido blocking the rock tunnel with a wooden sword as the spiders grew closer to him. "Stupid kid, what does he think he's doing?"
"Let's ask him when we are finished with these guys."
I whistled loudly again grabbing the attention of the five Skulltulas. The creatures turned to us and squealed like pigs finding a nice meal to eat. I drew my sword and slashed at the first spider creature as it went passed. It hissed at me as another one came up in the corner of my eye. I pulled out my gun and fired at it four times and it fell to the ground dead. I slashed back again as the first spider recovered. I stabbed it in the head and pulled my sword out with a bit of difficulty before it died. I turned to Mido catching a small glimpse of Link taking on a Skulltula just as he threw a bomb at another one farther away.
"What the hell are you doing out here?" I asked him, I wasn't sure if I should be pissed off or astonished. "The spider webs not give it away to stay inside?"
"We were all playing outside when suddenly the creatures came. They grabbed one of the Kokiri twins and-" Mido explained through tears, he looked really scared. "Saria is with the Deku Tree and I was protecting the entrance from them."
"Where is the Kokiri twin now?"
"She's up there." He pointed above my head. I turned around and saw a silk sac with several skullwalltulas around it. I pulled my eyes away from the scene. "Go back to your house and stay ther-"
Something caught my eye above us. I looked up just as a skulltula jumped from the wall. I pushed Mido out of the way just as the monster landed on top of me. The breath was knocked right out before my head hit a rock on the ground. I blacked out for a few moments as I felt something tugging my foot with pointed objects trying to piece through my boot. Mido was shouting and calling my name. I opened my eyes to notice I was upside down very high off the ground. I groaned as I looked up and saw a skulltula tugging on my leg up the spider silk wall. I looked down again and saw my sword lying on the ground along with one of my guns. I gritted my teeth as I grabbed my second gun. If it went according to plan, it was going to be a painful landing. I shot the creature in the face and it dropped me faster than I thought it was going to. I dropped a few feet before I came to a sudden halt with my leg feeling like it wanted to snap off. I slammed against the wall almost making me drop the second gun. I growled as I was being drawn up again by the skulltula using the web it made on my leg like a horror film.
"Electra!" Link shouted below me. I looked down and saw Link prepping a bomb arrow.
"Don't fire a bomb arrow you'll hit me!" I shouted at him. I screamed as the skulltula dropped me a bit I glared at it. "Would you just fuck off?"
"What do you want me to do then? Arrows don't work that well at it from this angle."
"Catch me."
"What?"
I didn't repeat myself as I fired at the Skulltula's face and the web snapped. I dropped and the creature fell as well. My landing was softer than what I thought was going to happen. I only managed to catch a cheeky smile from Link before he narrowly avoided the Skulltula splattering on the ground.
"Next time you whistle, let me know," Link scolded as he put me down.
"Sorry."
"And if you want to play the hero, let me know."
"Sorry."
"Would you stop apologizing?"
"Sorry."
He sighed as I rubbed my sore head as I figured I was done being scolded. I pulled my hand away and saw blood on my hand just before the rain washed it away.
Link tossed me a red potion from his pouch. "I saw that, drink it before it gets worse."
"I hate this stuff."
"It's not bad after a while."
"Right you practically lived on it." I responded before drinking some of it before shaking my head, closing it and threw the jar back as I tried my best to swallow. It was worse than I remembered. "That stuff is nasty."
"T-thank you… Electra." Mido said suddenly drawing my thoughts away from the taste. "You could have got seriously hurt or died."
"Don't mention it. it's my job to keep people safe." I smiled slightly as I kicked the dead skulltula. "Though, can't say I've had a job to take on a giant spider, but it was just as satisfying."
"You guys came here to see Saria right?" Mido asked us making my two cents worthless.
"How do you know that?" Link asked him.
"She mentioned that you would be coming back before the forest was better. And then the spiders came, then you came not long afterwards."
I looked passed Mido and at the entrance to the Deku Tree. "Then I guess we shouldn't keep her waiting."
"Are you going to be fine out here?" Link asked him on a knee. Mido still looked scared half to death.
"Just get going, I'm fine," Mido shooing him away. "Jeez, I'm like… ages older than you."
"Ya Link, leave the old geezer to his thoughts about how two youngsters saved his sorry behind." I teased the Kokiri as I started to walk away.
"You!"
"Sorry Mido, we would like to stay and argue, but shit is hitting the fan and this storm and these Skulltulas not going poof are the least of your worries."
"Just get out of my face and see Saria." The kid scowled and turned his back to us.
We left him and ran through the tunnel. On the other side, the rain was blocked for the most part by the canopy of the Deku Tree that Saria stood in front of. She turned around as we stopped in front of her.
"I see you got Dark's message." She started shifting her feet. "I wasn't sure as it took you until now to see me."
"This idiot wouldn't come while I was recovering," I told her. "But I don't blame him and we're here now."
"Sorry for the rude intrusion of the monsters, the Deku Tree has been keeping them at bay until he couldn't anymore." Saria apologized. "I gave most of my strength as well to buy extra time, but I guess it wasn't enough. I needed to share my power to the medallion for you to use."
"Why?" Link questioned and I felt some tension rise. "Why did you help him?"
"Because I could see the confliction when he came to me. He asked me to keep the medallion safe until the right time when he would come up with a purpose to why he had them to start with. And when I learned Leviathan was using them to make him stronger for the ritual I was told to keep it hidden from her so she couldn't collect it when she would come to collect the others. The monsters attacks are bad, but they are not only tuned in on the Triforce, but also to try and find the medallions to bring them to her. I've been placing my own power in it so they couldn't find this medallion."
"He came here before going against Leviathan?" I asked her.
"He came to tell me everything in case something like this happened and he failed. I was the only person he really talked to since he met you in the graveyard." She responded pulling out the medallion. "He's not the friendliest person, but he isn't terrible. These medallions are the only things that are keeping him alive while he is in that place and that woman can't get what she wants if she can't get all the medallions."
"Before he left, he mentioned something about using them. Do you have any idea on how?"
Saria shook her head, there was water on her face but I couldn't tell if it was her crying or from the rain that started breaking through the canopy. "The only thing he told me to was to give you a message."
"And what would that be?" Link asked cautiously.
"For you not to be reckless which I agree with a hundred percent." She snapped putting him in his place. "And that she will finish the ritual tonight whether or not you show up as her power seeps through all of Hyrule. Only the medallions were part of stopping her."
"And we have no idea on how to use them." I muttered pulling out the two I got from the desert. "This is about as good as my father being in Hyrule and now at an unknown location."
"You have a royal bloodline and a goddess aura; you should be able to defeat her."
"What is with everybody saying that goddess stuff?"
"Just take it like a god-complex and use your powers to take her like you did before."
"I never did any Leviathan slaying before." I argued.
"Not you now," She said like a riddle. "But you have and this time you can't give her mercy."
I didn't know how to answer her as it didn't make any sense.
She gave me the Forest Medallion. "Please save him."
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Jason sat on his horse with a hood over his head. The rain hadn't lightened up since they left the castle and now here he sat on Godfist with Zelda and her commanding officer beside him on their own horses and an army behind them. He looked at the men one by one as the darkness started to take the already dark day. Lightning flashed with thunder cracking not long afterwards making a few soldiers jump in surprise. There was a good couple thousand of them that were on horses as he turned to the front. On the field in front of them were monsters that he could easily see as mini bosses or just plain bosses stood. If front of the monsters was a kid with purple hair with a darker purple cap on his head. He had a pale complexion that beat Jason's own pale skin stood in front of with his red eyes glowing in the coming darkness that reflected his sadistic grin on his face. Jason looked back one more time at the men that sat in armor with weapons half drawn or drawn and shaking in their wielder's hands and hoped that their army was large enough.
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