This is it… play the finale song: Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas! Yea… I've been watching a lot of Supernatural, so it's a must! Anyway I want to say thank you to all of you for sticking it out until the very end. I appreciate it very much and I hope you enjoyed it. Also, I have some originals that I have been working on in Fiction Press, just look up my name and you'll find the two of them if you want something to keep you occupied while I write. One of them has dragons and the other has… let's just say it has everything. Anyway, I leave you with this artwork.
Chapter 31
Sacred
The rain came down like a monsoon and no one had moved their armies. The monsters that stood in front of Jason didn't seem to be in a rush for attacking compared to the armored men on horses that were becoming anxious and the horses restless from being near the creatures.
"Queen Zelda is it?" The purple hat kid questioned finally after everyone had been standing around for almost twenty minutes. He walked forward. "It's a pleasure to meet you, I have to admit I was expecting… more of a challenge."
The queen didn't respond as she got off her horse and met the kid in the middle. Jason and Sir Tyran followed and stood slightly behind and off to each side. He didn't really like the idea of the queen meeting the enemy in the middle. He was pretty sure they didn't have rules of war here. The rain bounced off the armor Zelda wore reminding the Templar that she wasn't wearing a dress but a female warrior outfit not unlike the practical suit found in Fable III. The skirt was longer with mid-thigh boots and her pauldrons on each of her shoulders. He didn't really want to admit it, but she looked ready to take on the army herself like a Dynasty Warriors game. Jason turned his attention from the battle ready queen to the kid and realized he wasn't really a kid. A few years older than himself and average height, just from afar he looked like one.
"Has Hyrule really been at peace for so long that an army was not feasible?"
"An army this size is enough to take care of some monsters if they are being led by you, Vaati." Zelda retorted and the smirk that was on the purple hat guy wavered as his ego was attacked.
"You know who this man is, your Highness?" Sir Tyran asked lifting his visor.
"I've only heard of him." Zelda told the commanding knight of the soldiers behind them quietly. "He's a sorcerer, and I'm presuming a general for Leviathan's army."
"Very perspective, Zelda, wit, charm and beauty all wrapped up in one; very attractive qualities, for a leader of course." Vaati commented stepping closer, Jason continued to watch the movements he made. "Can't say I would have never imagined a royal blood having eyes the color of this forest-"
"Go eat some dung you imbecile." Sir Tyran growled stepping in front of the sorcerer. "The queen is not interested in being patronized by vermin like you."
"Sir Tyran back down," Jason urged quietly seeing a switch in the sorcerer's stance.
Vaati didn't say anything as he moved his hand and a ball of light came from it and blasted the knight away, almost hitting the queen as she barely dodged out of the way. Sir Tyran got up from his spot on the tree.
Vaati made an impressed face. "Not bad, you're still alive."
"Attack!" Sir Tyran shouted and the men started forward only to have the monsters start charging them back.
Jason didn't have much of a chance to do anything as Vaati shot a spell at him. He rolled out of the way and was about to retaliate when large black creature fell from the sky right in front of him. Red lines lit up on its black torso and two more followed from the sky. He took a look to the right and saw Vaati tried to hit Zelda with a different colored spell. The spell slipped off to her right as she tripped him sending the spell at a different soldier turning him to stone. A large, ground dragon trampled the soldier to pieces as it rushed by. Jason was a bit surprised at how well trained she was. He went back to paying attention to the black large creatures as they started rushing at him. He took out his crossbow and started shooting at the closest one. A few bolts hit their masks and fell to the ground without success. It slipped by him as he dodged its oversized hands and his hidden daggers attacked its flank. It growled and he shot at it before it could turn around and dropped dead. He turned to the next one and was met with the creature's hand coming down on him. He back flipped out of the way and onto one of the creatures that was behind him. The creature attacked its own kind as he shot down on their exposed bodies. The one in front of him followed the first one. Now all he had to do was deal with the one he was standing on. To Jason's surprise though, the creature threw him off letting out an eerie, loud, and terrifying cry and the other two black creatures stood back up again.
"What happened to staying dead?" He asked as the creatures ran off to some unexpected soldiers and mauled them. He cringed at the sight of blood and wanted to throw up what he had eaten before they arrived on the battlefield. The soldiers then turned into the black creatures in a painful sounding way. "This place hates me,"
He looked around and saw that Vaati had run off leaving the queen to fend off several Redeads and a skulltula. He shot the skulltula as she incinerated the Redeads with some sort of fire spell before he went over to her.
"Jason is something wrong?" She asked him. He didn't get to answer as a soldier screamed and a black creature took his place. "This doesn't look every good for us."
"Pardon my language, but, what in bloody hell are those fucks?!" Jason asked trying to keep it together, but the blood and gore was starting to show across the battlefield. Ice took place of the rain as it nicked at his face. "The surviving one revived the two I killed. That shouldn't happen!"
"You're right it is unnatural, but these creatures are not from this world."
"Well they didn't join the party from my world."
"They are Shadow Beasts from the Twili Realm, a horrible soldier like creature that was created when Zant forcibly took it over."
"Zant… I think someone mention that prick."
"I would imagine it has come up among many people at some point or another. These creatures, they can turn people of just about any race into their shadow army, its-" she was interrupted by another falling soldier turning into a Shadow Beast. "Not very pleasant."
"Is there any way for them to go back to normal?" Jason asked her. He didn't feel comfortable about killing his own shrinking army.
"Kill them to release them from their horrible fates."
"That's it? No saving them, no 'Hey good job for hanging in there, now you get to go back home to your family and have tea'?"
"There is nothing that can be done once they take that form." Zelda replied sourly. He thought about the little group of armed people that he traveled with. They all had families that they were looking forward to seeing. Delilah came to his mind. "Go find Delilah; you would be able to fight better if you knew where she was."
"I can't just leave you here to fight on your own."
"She's over by the entrance of this area; we need to have the best focus on breaking through this wall while the soldiers draw most of these guys away into the rest of the forest. That was the plan right?"
"But-"
"That's an order Sir MacGowan."
"Yes your Highness." He replied reluctantly with a salute and took off to find Delilah.
He took off quickly and ran towards the small entrance the army walked through. He avoided looking at the ground whenever he could, but when it came into his sight from him bouncing off the trees to great around this or killing that, it was just there. The ice rain quickly turned into snow and ice as he managed to find Delilah doing just fine fighting against three Shadow Beasts and delivered the final blow to them. They all dropped at once and then they disappeared into the sky.
"Ah, Jason, my wubby boo, you're just in time for the grand finale."
"We need to go to the front to make a way into the sacred groove with the rest of the front rank." Jason told her as he landed a death blow to the back of the head of a large four legged creature, he didn't have any idea how to describe it, nor did he really care about it. He doubted he was going to make it out alive let alone place it into his book. "On the way, mind telling me how you got rid of those fucks."
"Oh you kill them all at once, if you leave a single one alive, it will revive the other… two…"
Jason turned to what she was very confusedly looking and managed to jump out of the way just as Shad ran by being chased by five Shadow Beasts. "He was supposed to stay quiet and out of sight."
"He's going to be fine, he'll out run them with no problems, you saw the growing space between them, and the chase had only begun." Delilah reassured him.
"I hope he runs his little bottom all the way back here when we need him."
"Of course he will; killing that scholar is a lot like trying to catch air, it's nearly impossible."
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Shad was running through the forest as the snow started to pile up and tears in his eyes. He didn't mean to sneeze. He also didn't mean to grab the attention of five Shadow Beasts at the same time. "Will someone help me?!"
"You got this Shad! Keep it up Shad! Run those guys to death!" A few soldiers shouted as he ran by them. It continued on like that with encouraging shouts from the soldiers who could spare the moment to enjoy the show.
"You guys are all jerks…"
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"I don't think he's going to be alright." Jason stated his concern.
Delilah shrugged. "You underestimate him."
"But he's stuck with them until he ditches them or someone helps him. We got to go; the queen was pretty much by herself with the commander when she ordered me to bring you up."
"You left her by herself, sure that Vaati perv is in the next section commanding the army over there, but you still left her!"
"She ordered me to," He replied as they started back. "She seemed to take care of herself just fine."
They ran through the mob of monsters that didn't seem to slow down after such a constant battle. He had no idea how long they had been fighting or how long it took for them to get back to the queen of the land. The only thing he had to go on was the insane amount of snow on the ground making quick moments hard to complete. When they returned to the queen, her ground space was snow free from the slaughter she was creating with her magic and blade. She didn't look like much of a fighter from the entire time he had been in her presence, but he guessed that she had a different side to her. Delilah and he jumped into the battle going after the closest things near them, a giant arachnid creature with a giant eye surrounded by other eyes. little spider eggs dropped from its back and the eggs exploded to be tiny, in comparison to the giant one at least, disgusting looking spiders, the ones that have the big butts that when you squished squirted all over the place. He almost puked at the very thought of that.
"Are you alright over there, your Highness?" Jason called out to her when he had to move closer to get out of Delilah's way.
"I'll be alright when these creatures burn to the ashes from once they came." She answered somewhat angrily. Jason backed off a bit not wanting to be ash as well.
"What were you thinking about leaving yourself open?" Delilah scolded the queen launching a little spider like a kick off in an American football game.
"The commander was here,"
"Where is he now?"
"We were separated, I hope he's alright."
Jason turned his attention to the giant arachnid and shot it in its giant eye. It didn't seem to appreciate it and attacked. He slipped by its fangs and stabbed its underbelly with his machete. The creature squealed and dropped. He rolled out of the way and the creature crushed the ground sending snow flying into the air. When the snow cleared, the arachnid shook off more little spiders for Delilah to punt. Jason aimed his crossbow and rabid fired at it. It squealed again before collapsing into a heap. He grinned at the small victory, but it disappeared quickly when the sounds of rocks exploding reached his ears and something dragging across the ground afterwards.
"What was that?" Delilah asked.
"It sounded a lot like something rammed into a rock wall, a wrecking ball of some sort." He concluded still hearing the dragging sound as it grew closer before crashing into a tree that blocked their view. After taking care of the monsters that were left in the area the queen went ahead to whatever slammed into the tree. He followed behind her not as rushed to see the torpedo. The three of them stood in front of the unmoving creature that disturbed him slightly. "Is this thing what I think it is?"
"You know what this thing is?" Queen Zelda asked him.
He nodded and was about to answer when a loud voice interrupted them.
"Hey!"
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The air was freezing as the rain scrapped against my face and arms while we raced towards the Faron Woods. The sharp rain slowly turned to that of ice as the water shards fell around us like shrapnel falling from the sky. No, I didn't need a reminder that I was missing out on Canada's great weather, thank you assholes that were controlling the weather. By the time we got to the Faron Province, there was half a foot of snow on the ground and it was long passed twilight. The spider silk walls and air were only noticeable as it strung in front of us from the snow that sat on them. Suddenly Link stopped Epona and I stopped beside him.
"Do you hear that?" he asked, I could barely see him between the weather and how dark it was.
I tried listening for what he was hearing but only the sound of ice hitting the snow came to my ears. "I don't."
"Close your eyes."
"This better not be some trick."
"I need a second opinion and I'm not hearing things." Link responded rather urgently.
I closed my eyes and listened. At first I didn't hear anything out of the ordinary, but then the sounds of fighting came from a distant; a lot of fighting and painful screams. "Is that a battle?"
"Come on."
We raced forward again kicking snow behind us and the sounds of the fighting grew louder with the sounds of other things I have never heard before became clearer. The horses stopped dead in front of the entrance to the Faron Woods freaking out every time we tried to move them forward. I got off Hero just as the sounds of someone yelling as they ran from something. Link jumped down next to me and Shad appeared out of the darkness with a freaked out look on his face.
"EEEERRRAAAAHHHH!" Shad screamed as he ran passed leaving us and the horses confused.
"Did he just say era?" Link asked as we looked back at where he was running.
"Talk later run now!"
"Run? From what?"
I turned away from the Shad as he turned the corner to see Shadow Beasts as they came through the tunnel. The horses took off after Shad and I didn't blame them. The Shadow Beasts were terrifying. Large black and they took words from my mouth so the only thing that came out was, "EEEEIIII!"
"Not this again," Link sighed as he turned from the tunnel. He grabbed my hand and we were off. "This place isn't big enough to fight those things."
"Where did they come from?"
"From the battle we heard. I wouldn't be surprise if they were soldiers before they were these things."
I looked back at the creatures that were chasing us as we turned the corner and felt bad for the poor creatures. "I think I already know but-"
"There isn't anything we can do for them now except kill them." He answered coldly.
We came to the area where no Skulltulas sat on Coro's house when suddenly our path was blocked as we ran into something and landed hard in the cold snow. I sat up slightly annoyed at the sudden blockage that was a barely noticeable. A twilight fence sat in the darkness. I got up and noticed the four really large shadow beasts stalking towards us as Link stood up.
"I wish the area was bigger." Link said as he drew his sword.
"Just do a spin attack, it will kill them all at once right?"
"In theory…"
"Then what are you waiting for?"
"The fifth one isn't here."
"How the hell did we lose a Shadow Beast?"
"When it was left out of the arena." Shad answered from behind us.
I turned to him. "What the hell are you even doing here anyway?"
"I would love to tell you that in great detail, but you need to kill all the creatures without leaving a single one-"
"We know that. What was that about it not being in here?"
"Well if you look closely at the corner, you can see a little of the red design of-"
"Link, I need a lift."
Link moved away from the closing in creatures. "What, no-"
"I'll just kill the fifth one first and you deal with these guys. How can it possibly go wrong?"
"You get killed or captured; whatever Leviathan ordered them to do is what could possibly happen."
"I don't need someone watching over my shoulder every time a monster shows up." I argued. "I had a job that dealt with criminals and I was fine on my own. Now give me a boost."
"I think there is something coming." Shad commented suddenly looking towards the pathway to Hyrule field.
"Fine," Link agreed a slight tone of disagreement.
I took a few steps back as he cupped his hands. It was a short little burst as the shadow beasts decided to attack as my foot landed on Link's hands. He threw me as I jumped and a shadow beast hit my shoulder as I went over. I tumbled in the snow gritting my teeth at the sharp pain gripping it as I got up. The feeling of warm liquid stung my cold skin as I got up. My left shoulder hurt like hell, but it wasn't my right so I didn't mind it as much as I let my hand drop to the hilt of my sword. It was just an addition to the many injuries that had and were going to happen that night. The fifth shadow beast came up to me. The tall lanky thing was suddenly a lot quicker as it attacked me with its large claw like hand. I rolled out of way drawing the sword covering myself in snow in the process. The wind picked up tossing the snow and ice pieces off the ground mixing with the already hard to see through snowstorm. The faint glow of the red design on the shadow beast was barely noticeable in the snowy mess and I swung my sword at it. The sword connected with it and the sounds of the creature's growls reached my ears as I swung again. The creature fell to the ground as I stabbed it.
"Okay Link, you can stop playing with them." I told him as the wind died down a bit.
"Playing? I was trying to stay alive." He snapped. He did a spin attack, but only three of the four fell over. "Dammit."
The one that didn't die howled an eerie and loud howl that echoed off the walls. I covered my ears, but it didn't do a very good job of blocking out the sound. The fallen shadow beasts got up before the howls were over. I didn't have time to recover as the creature in front of me smacked me away like a bug.
"Fuck this shit." I growled getting up from the snow. I pulled out my gun and shot the creature until it died. "Welcome to twenty-first century technology bitch."
Link did a second spin attack and all the shadow beasts fell down. The bodies didn't disappear along with the Twili fence as it went through a Twili portal. A loud echo of a something big that sounded a lot like an elephant, rattled against the small area.
"What was that?" Shad asked and heavy steps of something running came to my ears.
"It sounded like an elephant." I answered broadly.
The wall suddenly exploded a little ways down the path sending debris of rock and making Shad jump three feet in the air.
"What in Hylia is that?" Link asked as it stood there looking around.
"It's a wooly mammoth…" I started before it actually clicked in. "It's a god damn wooly mammoth."
"And that is?"
"An extinct animal from the ice age in my world," I started just as it turned to us and reared up. "That is not happy to see us."
"I'm so done and out!" the scholar yelled as he ran passed us towards the Faron woods again.
"He's going to get himself killed with everything that could be happening in there." I commented as the mammoth charged.
"We should go after him with our new friend." Link said as we took off running.
"Friend? The mammoth is dead set on killing us."
"Exactly."
I looked at him. "You're nuts to think of using this thing as a tank."
"But a genius idea, right?"
"Don't get ahead of yourself. We still have to out run it."
We entered the tunnel that went to into the Faron Woods only to have the mammoth make its own larger tunnel as it charged after us. We got out on the other side to see monsters and soldiers, hundreds of each, fighting with each other. The soldiers not on the winning team. It was a large mess of bodies and noise as the forest and the snow wasn't hiding anything on the battleground.
"I think the mammoth might give us an edge if we route it right." Link said as if he was just thinking of a plan.
I looked back at the thundering beast. "It's getting closer."
"We need to go left towards that thing."
"What thing would that be exactly?" I asked as I looked over where he pointed and saw a large armored Moblin from the Skyward Sword game. "Oh, that thing."
The soldiers that were fighting the Moblin had a huge smile on their faces when they saw Link when we turned in that direction. Their smiles turned to horrified faces when they noticed the mammoth behind us. Without a second in delay they took off leaving the Moblin alone and confused as it looked around. When the Moblin noticed us, we ran by it on different sides avoiding its attempt of an attack all together. I looked back to make sure the mammoth was following and made a trumpet cry as it squished the Moblin from top to bottom. Moblin's blood slightly sprayed across the blanket of snow. The mammoth continued after us like it didn't even notice the monster in the way.
"That was disturbing, but comedic in a weird way." I stated turning back forward. "Where next?"
We went towards the next over powered monster with our furry tank and maneuvered around its attacks before the mammoth ran it over like bubble wrap. The mammoth didn't seem like it was slowing down any time soon as we ran around half the forest. The snow was continuing to pile up making running really hard and almost impossible to keep a decent pace to out run it.
"Mind telling me why they went extinct?" Link asked through heavy breathing.
"They were hunted to extinction by humans," I answered simply back. I doubted climbing a tree would help as it would just knock it over. I also doubted mammoths were this determined back in their hay-day.
"How?"
"Separate one from a herd or forced a bunch into a ravine and then knock giant boulders on them. Possible running them until the mammoth died."
"How?"
"Many animals don't have the capabilities of being able to run and keep a constant temperature for a long period of time. They overheat so they have to stop, unlike humans."
"Why?"
"I have no idea."
"How does something so big go extinct?"
"Humans have a habit of making big things disappear, at least in my world…"
"Yes, my world is a little different isn't it?"
"Only slightly."
"How about-"
"Please stop asking me questions while this thing is chasing us and we are running out of things to kill with our tanky friend."
"Just one more question."
"One more," I agreed, I just hoped it had some purpose as running wasn't going to be an option shortly.
"Who's the kid in the hat by the entrance to the forest temple?"
I looked over to the entrance and saw what he was talking about. The kid didn't seem to have any fucks to give out as they stood there watching not only us being chased by a mammoth, but at the rest of the soldiers regrouping and fighting against the monsters. I couldn't exactly see clearly on what they were wearing so I shook my head. "I'd have to get closer; I can't tell who they are."
"Maybe we should bring them a present." Link suggested cheekily.
I smirked slightly before almost falling on my face as I tripped over the piling snow. The mammoth was growing a lot closer as the minutes went by as we turned our direction for the kid by the entrance. When we got about fifty feet away, the kid's features became recognizable with his light purple clothing and red eyes as he started to do a spell.
"Abort!" I shouted jumping out of the way of the kid and the mammoth. "Abort!"
Link barely got out of the way just as the spell was released and the mammoth came crashing down, turned to stone, and slid across the snow as the kid moved out of its way. It went through the forest wall and out the other side. I got out of the snow and closer to Link just as the little zapper tried to zap my original location turning the snow into stone.
"I'm guess you know who this is now?" Link asked me looking at the kid who was observing our next move.
"Yes, and it isn't good news."
"Since when is anything turning a wooly mammoth into a giant statue good news?"
"When they are on our side?" I suggested before throwing a snowball at an incoming spell. It was turned to stone and flew passed the sorcerer. "Do you mind? We are trying to have a conversation."
The kid grinned in amusement and attacked us with more magic attacks. I threw a snowball into the kid's face and he fell over.
"Asshole, anyway, that is Vaati. His hat made him into a powerful sorcerer and a Hylian." I told Link in the small breather we had.
"What was he before?"
"A Minish."
"I have no idea what that is."
"Not surprised, anyway, he's also a very lustful creature." I remarked making another snowball. "Usually he usually uses this attack for turning girls that he likes into stone and kidnapping them."
"I'm not as lustful as you think, for instant; I'm not into filthy earthling half-breeds like you." Vaati told us as he stood up.
"Well I'm glad; I already have a slime ball being super creepy and don't need another one." I told him throwing another snowball at him. I wasn't sure how to take on being called a 'filthy earthling half-breed' let alone understand it. He destroyed the beautiful white ball before it hit him.
"Though, there is someone here I rather fancy. She has beautiful skin with eyes that reflect the forest floor-"
"You aren't going to touch Zelda! You got that!" Link shouted angrily before turning to me. "How do we get rid of this bastard?!"
I blinked at how fast Link reacted. "Um, the only thing that I can recall of him getting his ass handed is by the Four Swords sword and we don't have it."
Vaati grinned again and started to use his stone turning spell.
"What do we have that can kill him?"
"A lot of snow and your arsenal."
"You could blow him up with your special bullets."
"I would love to, but I really don't think it would work honestly." I told him, it was getting difficult to dodge stone spell in the growing snow and the snow that was turned to stone would crumble every time I tried to use it to get out of the snow. "And the ball and chain is too slow, I guess just bullets to slow him down in order for you to try the Master Sword."
"What if that doesn't work?" Link asked just before rolling out of the way and shot an arrow at Vaati, it didn't get far.
"Then we take care of him Canadian style; we shove snow down his clothes and then bury him." I added before Link could ask.
I took out my guns and carefully aimed at Vaati's head before firing on him. Link went in and I broke from the firing so I wouldn't hit Link. A blast of wind threw Link away after getting in only a few strikes in and an onslaught of stone turning and exploding spells came from the sorcerer afterwards. I moved out of the way of attacks with one hitting the ground just in front of me causing snow to explode everywhere. I tried to move from out of area to get a better shot without firing blindly when my foot didn't move making me fall awkwardly to the side with a shout of surprise. I growled as my shoulder flared up in pain as I landed on the wound wrong. The snow was cold as I sat up grabbing my shoulder again as I looked at why my foot didn't follow my instructions. My poor foot was incased in stone from the snow it was buried in. I tried pulling it out, but it was stuck like a pole in cement.
"God dammit." I growled as the snow died down from the explosions. I looked around and found Link a little ways away. "What are you doing over there?"
"The Master Sword doesn't even leave a mark so I was avoiding- you're foot!"
"It's just stuck," I told him and fired at Vaati in annoyance as he looked down on me. "When I get out of this, you are going to regret being born."
Vaati didn't say anything as he turned his full attention to the hero in green and threw more spells at him. I fired more rounds at him and one went through his barrier and entered his head. The spells stopped for a moment as the sorcerer decided to be Wolverine and the bullet fell out of its hole in his tissue and healed. The wind picked up creating a wall of snow in front of my field of range I was stuck to and it turned to stone blocking my attacks. I threw a snowball in frustration at the wall and it didn't do anything but piss me off even more. I went to switch the ammo for the exploding one, but remembered that they don't explode unless hitting something alive and rock was not.
I turned to my boot that was stuck in the stone. My ankle was the only thing that was above the rock. After some tugging and hoping the rock would give away like before when stepped on, the rock wouldn't crack. I grabbed the barrel of my gun and used the handle as a hammer and hammered against the rock. You would think that having years of practice in childhood of cracking open rocks with hammers to see what was inside would have helped in some way of cracking the stoned snow, but you'd be wrong as nothing happened. I looked up just in time to see Link get thrown back by a blast of wind and snow a good couple of yards. He needed help and here I was with my boot stuck in rock. I stood up and tried getting my boot unstuck with raw power, but it didn't work except for making my ankle sore. I pulled again and my foot slipped out suddenly sending me face first into the snow. I wiped the snow off my face and left the boot behind. I gathered snow on my way to the little bastard in the purple hat.
The snow was very cold and wet against my socked foot, but it was nothing compare to what I had planned for Vaati. Link was doing a wonderful job of focusing all of Vaati's attention and vise-versa that Link didn't even notice me until I got about foot away from the sorcerer. I grabbed the collar of the sorcerer and shoved the snow I had in my hand down his shirt. Vaati shouted in surprise something incoherent as he tried to get the snow out. I grabbed another handful of snow and shoved it in his face. He tripped over the snow and fell on his back. I took some more snow and shoved it into the front of his shirt before knelling on his chest so he couldn't move and grabbed his arms. Vaati glared up at me as I glared back. I moved my foot with no boot right beside my hand so I could free it. I gagged him with snow with my free hand. My foot was cold because of this asshole and I didn't want some stupid spell he can vocally say and make it worse. No words were exchanged between Link and I as he took off Vaati's hat, the less power that he could use, the better. Link started packing in the snow on and around his arms as he struggled under me. It wasn't long before Vaati couldn't move his arms, his head, and his torso were completely covered and under two feet of snow.
"Does he need air? Could we kill him by suffocation?"
"I don't know if he needs to breath or not, if he does, the snow around his nose will melt and most likely create an air pocket." I responded filling in where my hands were. "We should hurry up with this so no one notices that he's here."
We finished covering him up and dumped snow around the lump to make it look like a root covered with snow. Unfortunately there wasn't any lose swords around to pin him to the ground. The stone wall collapsed behind us and my boot was free from the stoned snow. I retrieved it and brushed off the snow off my sock. I dumped the snow out of my boot that accumulated and put it back on. It didn't seem to help my poor foot get back the dry warmth it had before. We walked quickly to the next section of the forest and found just as many bodies on the ground as there was in the last section, only there were less people and monsters alike on the other side. I looked around and saw Zelda in some sort of battle outfit standing next to Jason and Delilah all looking at the large stone mammoth.
"Hey!" I shouted at them and the three of them turned to us. "You found our tank!"
"Your tank?!" Jason exclaimed loudly as we ran over to them. "This is a bloody mammoth!"
"His idea, not mine." I replied when we arrived next to the stoned mammoth.
Link went over to Zelda placed his forehead on hers. "Are you alright? We came across Vaati and I hope he didn't do anything."
I turned away to keep a look out for any monsters that would interrupt them. I understood that having some fucker talking about doing horrible things to someone you cared about. I turned back to them slightly.
"I'm fine…" Zelda responded with a small genuine smile, their faces were an inch away from each other. "I am capable of taking care of myself."
"They are so cute," Delilah whispered with a kitty like face on. "They should kiss."
I gave her a look and whispered back. "In the middle of a war?"
"It will make it even more memorable; the calm before the storm."
"I hope beating the crap out of Leviathan won't be a storm."
"I know you can, but still…" Link responded softly brushing some lose hair behind her ear.
"Well then if you weren't late then you wouldn't have had to worry." Jason told him bluntly. The two took a step apart from one another and Delilah smacked him upside the head. "Ow, it's only the truth."
"That's not what I'm hitting you for." The white haired woman sighed. "But he does have a point, what took you so long?"
"Spiders," Link and I said at the same time without hesitation. There were other things, but the skulltula in Kokiri Forest took up the most time. Clanking armor came to my ears and I turned to find a soldier running to them.
"Your Highness, we managed to clear out the Sacred Grove and the ruins for the time being. Anything that is coming out of the monster portal that we found is being blown to pieces as we speak."
"Where's the commander?" Zelda questioned.
"He's attending to keeping our supply of bombs usage to a minimum before he tours the Sacred Grove. Two of the three bomb carts were destroyed on the way taking out a lot of monsters and soldiers."
"Is there any sign of a blond woman?" I asked him, it seemed too easy.
"Except for you, none ma'am." The soldier replied.
There it was. "There is nothing in the ruins besides this monster portal?"
"None, I can lead you through the safe path we created thanks to the help of the Skullkid, he had a big help on our advances."
Link gave out a short laugh like he was trying to keep it together.
"Lead the way then," Zelda agreed and the soldier started walking ahead.
"Wait for me!" someone shouted behind us.
We turned to look and saw Shad running through the snow really awkwardly.
"Where have you been?" I asked him.
"Avoiding all possible ways to get into some monster's teeth." He replied and glared at Jason and Delilah. "Thanks for the help by the way, really appreciated it."
I looked over at Jason and Delilah for some sort of backstory that I missed. They both shrugged. Shad continued to glare at them.
"Sorry, but we were attending to keeping monsters from going after the advance team." Jason replied looking embarrassed. "But you're alive right, all forgiven?"
"We'll discuss my forgiveness after we solve the mystery of where Leviathan has placed her resurrection location." Shad grumbled as he pushed the soldier. "Move it, we only have an hour or so before everything comes to an end."
We moved at a quick pace into and through the Sacred Grove with Shad stuck in his books after being brought up to speed pointlessly. He apparently heard everything the soldier had said. The walk was silent with no sounds other than the sounds of explosions in the distance. It was too quiet and simple for my liking and made me think about where my dad could be. Where would he have gone and why would he want to look for me so badly? My thoughts wandered to my nightmare that wasn't really a nightmare. Maybe some of the words could be made out from it. I sighed in frustration as the memory wasn't perfect and the mouths weren't something I was paying attention to at the time.
"Are you alright?" Link asked beside me suddenly taking me out of my thoughts.
"Ya, just a bit concerned for my dad," I responded quietly. "But I guess he should be fine as long as he doesn't come near the forest. I'll go look for him once this mess is cleaned up."
"This mess shouldn't have happened if your friend took care of Leviathan like he said he was going to." He replied sourly.
"You think he tricked us by saying he was going after her, don't you?"
"It's not that outlandish. That guy is… you know."
"Yeah, I know. I spent hours with him in the spirit world. I'm glad one of us has a counter thought, just in case."
"He got into your head and you got in his; he will use that against you if he was lying." Link responded. "I suggest you find a way for you use that as well."
"I'm a hunter not a mentalist. As you have probably noticed, I'm not excellent at dealing with people."
"You're better than most, you know the prey and how they think, just gather every person you had to hunt down and you'll get an idea of that bastard."
"I should be asking you if you're alright. You're bloodthirsty for anything that could harm Zelda."
"Seeing someone being manipulated like a puppet is an eye opener, but Vaati did a little more than open my eyes. There are a lot of twisted things out there and so his existence and several others aggravate me."
I didn't get to say anything as we arrived in the ruins with three spiral portals that had teams readying bombs in front of them. The ruins themselves looked like they weren't affected by any of the weather phenomena as it was dry and not a cloud in the sky only revealing the stars. The moon was hidden by the planet we were on.
"These things look like Stargates." Jason commented looking down at them.
"A Stargate?" Zelda asked.
"It's a fictional wormhole system that allows one to travel to different planets across the universe." I answered her before Jason could give a full detailed description. "Only these ones are monster gates instead. Personally I would have chosen a saber tooth tiger to try and kill us."
"Don't give this Leviathan woman any ideas if she really is around here." Jason huffed.
"Talk freely my friends, she isn't here." Shad told us slamming a book close.
"So where is she?" asked the soldier that led us here.
"In some sort of space that is directly connected to this ground, all we have to do is find the portal entrance and place in these tablet pieces to enter."
"And you got this from where exactly?" Delilah questioned him skeptically.
"From some information from the Twili Mirror entrance, the Sacred Realm's keys for its entrance and how the sky people had these tablets that opened the cloud barrier to open with the key tablet pieces."
"How are those even connected?"
"They all have locks."
"If my body isn't exactly how it is now if this door exists and we go through it, I will personally hold you responsible. Those doors are all different from one another… I think…"
"On the contrary, they are almost exactly the same in their key basics, literally."
"So, do you have an idea on where it is? We barely have an hour left."
"Well, where ever it is we should hurry." I stated feeling on edge. "This isn't just the calm of the storm, we're standing in the eye and I don't think we have forty minutes before the storm's tail comes."
The search time was short as Shad had remembered a place that looked off on the floor. We stood in front of it as Shad placed the pieces into the slot. The tiles started to glow and a beam of light shot from the sky blinding me for a second. Once the light died a rectangular doorway opened in front of us. I looked at Shad.
"You should stay here; I don't have a very good feeling about this."
"I would protest, but Leviathan scares me more than ten Shadow Beasts." The scholar agreed stepping to the side. "Just let me know when it's cleared for investigation."
A sudden explosion came to our attention and the monster gates sent shock waves violently across the field blowing up bombs that they hit.
"Your Highness!" The soldier called running towards us and knelt down in front of Zelda. "Your lead commander was just killed."
"Where is the closest living general?" The queen asked calmly.
"General Arnold is in the Sacred Grove when the commander was killed, your Highness."
"Tell him to regroup the soldiers and round up the remaining monsters in the forest. After that, tell the general to defend against these gates. We cannot allow anything else to leave these ruins."
"Yes your Highness." The soldier replied and ran off with the message to presumably General Arnold.
I looked at Zelda. She didn't look very happy about the news. Her commander was obviously important to her.
"Let's go before any more people are killed." Zelda finally said breaking the tension.
I nodded and followed Link and Zelda in the door. On the other side of the doorway, the whole place had a strange hue of red like a lunar eclipse. Everything seemed beautiful in its blood red color, but at the same time every atom in my body wanted to get the hell out of there. Survival instincts: fight or flight, and the fight option wasn't available to take. I willed my body to move forward on the soft grass. The hue made it hard to see well at first, but the details of the place slowly filled in. The ground was covered in soft grass as a slight raised grave like plot was placed exactly where the stones to open the Sacred Realm would have sat. I followed the line to come to an altar and four Y shaped, stone, crucifixes with one of them being occupied held against it with very heavy chains and cuffs. Maybe it was the lighting, but it looked like they were cutting into arms and wrists of their victim dyeing the shirt a deeper shade of red in those areas. His clothes and body were tattered and a large gash raced across his side. I resisted the urge to see if he was even alive as my hand pulsed. Movement caught my eye as a blue dress rippled and its wearer came out from in behind the occupied crucifix. The woman's blond hair barely moved as she moved out from behind it and her golden-yellow eyes looked down at the five of us with amusement. I really felt like shooting her in the face at that moment, but my body was paralyzed in its fight to run away against my brain's killing instinct.
"I have to thank the two of you for going through such lengths to retrieve those medallions. It made my… little tale much more convincing." Leviathan started off and placed her hand on Dark Link's chest. He yelled in pain as she clawed down it with her nails leaving blood to ooze from the wounds. "He's all whole and mortal now from him thinking it would make him more powerful."
"I swear when I get out of these, I'm killing you." The victim rasped out.
"Awe, isn't he adorable?" She asked us in a singing tune as she patted his cheek. "He thinks that he can get out of them."
I winced as she slapped him, scratching his face. This woman seemed to be slightly more insane then the time on the boat. Maybe not insanity, but pure anger filled with a wrathful intent. I didn't know about the people beside me, but I didn't know what to do.
"Thanks for the rescue, but you should go…" Dark Link said grabbing my attention from Leviathan. We didn't move. "Any time now would be great. I got this."
"Yeah, I can see that," Link looked him up and down. "Like how you had a single thing to do and still messed that up?"
"Hey I don't want to hear any of that from you!" Another sharp slap echoed the silent and still air. "Would you fuck off with that? You've been at this for two fucking days!"
She grabbed his throat suddenly and I finally managed to get my body to grab my gun. "The only reason why I haven't ripped your throat out yet is because it's not time for your sacrifice."
"Please enlighten me when that is cause your boring me to death." He asked her sarcastically. I fired after I managed to still my arm with both hands enough to aim. Leviathan's head bounced off the stone slab before the woman dropped to the floor. "Merci beaucoup."
"Don't ever speak French again." I told him in complete disgust, swearing was one thing French was just wrong in that Hylian accent.
"Not even going to ask where I learned it?"
"No,"
"Oh come on take a-"
"No, now shut up, you're annoying the hell out of everyone."
He rolled his eyes. "Get me out of these things."
"Should you really be getting him down?" Link asked as I started to walk over to Dark Link.
"He's been up there for two days." I started.
"So he says…"
"What's the worst he could do?"
"Murder everyone."
"No, just one in particular." Dark Link corrected.
"Is that all you think about?" I asked him once I reached his crucifix. "Because if it is, what are you going to do once it's done?"
"Whatever I feel like doing." He answered without much enthusiasm. "Hey! Don't touch me with that hand!"
I pulled my marked hand away as I leaned in close to his ear. "You just plan on disappearing like a shadow?"
"I personally rather not play the game and pulled along on a string." He hissed quietly.
"You could actually not be a total ass-hat and help keep your country safe."
"Please, I rather be dead than be a tool like him. Now stop talking nonsense and get me out of these things. It's none of your business what I do, you're not sticking around."
"You were already a tool for a psychopath and if she didn't toss you aside you would have left me to rot in that ghost realm."
"I wasn't a tool; I did what I wanted to do."
"If that's what makes you feel better." I sighed and was about to get him down when the sound of rushing water came to my ears.
I looked down as movement caught my eye to see Leviathan uppercut me away from Dark Link's crucifix. I hit my side hard against the other crucifix before landing on the ground. The sounds of arrows and explosions came to my ears as I stood up wiping blood from where I bit my lip. Water had exploded from the ground and blocked the many attacks that were raining down on the woman.
Leviathan sighed. "I was expecting a little more from you, like recalling that your little toys don't work on me."
I didn't say anything to give her the satisfactory of me making a mistake. It had been a long day, though it would have been nice if a bullet through the brain would have killed her. But no, she had to pull a Deadpool, fucking bitch, at least he was funny. Several arrows, bolts, and fire balls came in Leviathan's direction, but didn't get any farther than a few feet from their mark when another wall of water came from the hole in the ground and made a shield. Water fired like bullets back at the four people I arrived with.
"That should keep them busy while we have a discussion." A small portion of the wall split from its source and three pillars of water targeted me. I moved barely out of the way of two of the pillars before the third freezing cold one hit me in the chest slamming me against an empty crucifix.
"If you are just going to kill me, get on with it."
She tsked, "I've been waiting for millennium for the right chance, where's the fun if I just kill you?"
"Your funeral..." I muttered and fired on her. The bullets almost reached her, but water blocked them. She threw another blast of water in a disarming fashion. The blow threw my hand against the stone crucifix. The water froze my hand and the gun solid against stone. I tried my best to break the ice, but it was solid. The cold burned my hand even though it was gloved, it was worst on my fingertips that weren't gloved and against the metal gun. "Dammit."
"From what I could tell from watching you, you're dominantly right handed, no?"
'And you just conveniently froze it to a slab of rock.' I thought to myself as pulled out the second gun with my free hand, but it wasn't all that still because of my injured shoulder. Another water attack knocked the weapon out of my hand with ease as she walked up to me. "I don't know how you are thinking this to be fun; it's not like I have done much to you."
"See that's where you're wrong." She corrected placing a hand on my cheek. I slipping into a slight panic attack as her touch had a snake like texture. I tried moving away from it only for her to grip my hair and ear.
"I was born eighteen years ago;" I managed to form after a few moments of concentration. "You were stuck in that prison for thousands of years and just came out the smell the roses a week ago. See the time issue?"
"See if that were true, we wouldn't be here."
"Oh really?"
"Only my sister could break the seal on the prison she made."
"Well obviously you heard wrong-" She cut me off with a sharp slap cutting my skin with her nails. It was most definitely going to get infected if I wasn't killed first.
"That was the last thing she ever said to me so no, I remember it very clearly."
"Then she made a mistake; there are texts that state other ways that could open-" she slapped me again on the other cheek with a back hand that was slightly more painful than the first one.
"Nyx never made mistakes when it came to someone's life, particularly the only person that she had left when I killed the rest of them."
My dream came back to me from what she said that almost mirrored what the female had said in the dream. The girl in my dream had only a male figure in her life after her sister had killed everyone else. "You killed your own family?"
"They weren't my family; they thought I was a monster."
"Well they weren't wrong." Dark Link told her cockily.
Leviathan slapped him so hard I thought she broke his neck. He glared back at her making me think otherwise. "Stay out of a family conversation."
"I don't think we could be related if you were my great times infinity aunt. That is if I am actually a descendant of your sister."
"Not just a descendant, she and you are practically the same soul."
"Yay!" I exclaimed sarcastically. "And that is about as probably as me being a god."
"Reincarnated into a human form making you a perfect sacrifice." The woman replied. Apparently the sarcasm level went straight over her head.
"Okay loony, you obviously were dropped as a child to think that."
"Hylia was reborn as a human, why not the goddess that has marked you without the ritual."
"I didn't have any marks before meeting your pyramid prison."
"Have you ever wondered why your father's side of the family all has golden-yellow eyes?"
"No,"
"Then have you wondered why the two serpents and the demi-god have the same color?"
"Coincidence," I growled.
"It's the DNA of a god!" the woman hissed as her pupils slit like that of a snakes making me take a step back. I was so seriously done with anything snake. "The only excused one of that is Hylia who purposely changed it to hide the DNA from Demise."
"How do you even know about that?" Dark Link asked the woman viciously. "I didn't tell you shit."
"I have a loyal servant that told me the many things I had missed over the past millennia."
"Ten bucks it was Dean," I betted him.
The woman turned back to me with the serpent glare. It made me very unsettled. I wished I knew how to smack it away with just a plain sword, perhaps if she got closer against, but the Master Sword was the only thing that I could think of that could send her packing. A death dealing weapon Nyx didn't have. Light appeared and danced across Leviathan's fingers. I quickly went for my sword only to have another blast of water throw my free hand against the stone before freezing it there.
"Not this time. You or your old friend isn't going to do anything this time."
"Old friend…?" I started to question. That was one of the first things Dark Link had said to me. Then realization hit me. Dark Link was the old friend Nyx had, the only one that she had left. "Is that why you tricked Dark Link into working for you, so you could make sure you had him before he could do anything against you?"
"It may have been along those lines as to why, it sure as hell wasn't going to be the twilight hero that was directly connected to my sister."
"Why?"
"Because Hylia also wanted him and cloned the spirit into two beings, the light and the dark once he was reborn again. Of course the dark couldn't be whole without Themis in Hyrule."
"You bitch…" Dark Link growled angrily. I didn't know what he was furious about, but I doubt it was something small.
"Hold your tongue, I'll get to you in a moment." The woman replied half-heartedly as she looked at me. "Now where was I before the questions, right, ripping your heart out."
My eyes widened in fear as I tried to get out of the ice. Her non glowing hand gripped my shoulder and I lost my cool. "Get your scaly ass away from me!"
A smirk appeared on her face as her hand slipped inside my chest without actually breaking the skin. The pain of it being inside me was strange but just about unbearable as it made it hard for my lungs to expand for breathing. That became the least of my worries when she gripped what I presumed was my heart.
"Now this might sting a bit." She commented as my vision started to black out.
The pain lifted almost immediately as a sword swung down in between us. Leviathan removed her hand from my chest barely removing it from the blade's path. I took a coughing breath as the sword sliced diagonally down Leviathan torso causing blood to splatter from the wound onto me. I followed the sword's blade to its black hilt and saw a man with brown hair.
"Don't you dare lay a hair on my daughter again." the man spoke which sounded like music to my ears as the woman fell to the ground along with the wall of water.
"Dad?" I asked and he turned around to face his golden-yellow eyes down at me. Tears started to form as he shattered the ice holding my hands. I stumbled a bit as I wrapped my arms around him into a hug. "You're alive!"
"Sorry I wasn't here sooner, between the weather and trying to find something to kill that creature… I'm sorry I wasn't here to protect you."
"I'm sorry you got dragged into this mess." I answered hugging him tighter. "I thought I wouldn't see you again once I heard you left Ordon."
"No hope from my daughter, that stings."
"That's great and all, but why do you have my sword?" Dark Link asked with a pouty expression on his face.
"Aw, someone's missing out on a hug." I teased slightly, I was so happy even if I was in a bit of pain, nothing could bring me down now that Dad was actually ok.
"Am not, keep that stuff to yourself. So where did you get the blade."
"Like I said a few moments ago," My dad started. "I needed something to kill the witch and this was lying around begging to be used. And since when were you a good guy."
"Not really a good guy, but I'm not a bad one right now either." The red eyed teenager commented "And as for my sword, it was more likely begging to be back with its master. Seriously, what is with you two using blades that shouldn't be used by anyone but their owners?"
Dad shrugged as he cut the chains. The chains fell to the ground and Dark Link rubbed his wrists as he rolled his shoulders.
"Better?" I asked him just as the others started towards us.
"What do you think? I have my own blood on me and I was there for two days with barely any food or water while that bitch tortured me and used my healing factor like a chew toy." Dark Link sent a side glance at Link. "Ya, I was making a joke at you wolf boy."
"Start mocking me when you actually haven't been hanged out to dry for two days." Link growled as he rolled his eyes.
"Bastard, why wait? I'll take you on now."
"Can you guys save it for another time." I asked them. The two closed their mouths and left to just glaring at one other probably imagining ways to murder the other. "Thank you, now Dad what possessed you to leave even though this shit storm was happening?"
A light went off in his head. "Right, Electra I needed to tell you about-"
He stopped talking as a painful grunt came out of my mouth when my hand and chest pulsed painfully. Dark Link was apparently effected too as he dropped to one knee gripping his sides in pain. I turned around just as a beam of light came from where Leviathan's body was and towards me. A blur black figure moved in front of me right as the light was about to hit before my dad pushed us out the way. The light hit him and the power wave threw us all away from the altar and scattered about the lawn. When I came to, I noticed that a sharp pain was entering my arm that quickly disappeared when a hand went by my fuzzy vision as it was released from my skin.
I got to my knees. "What the hell was that?"
"I don't know, just a bright light, me saving you're ass and," Dark Link started as he sat up beside me. He stopped rubbing his head as he stared in front of him wide eyed. "Oh shit…"
I followed his look and saw my dad lying on the ground. I got up running awkwardly as the world around me threatened to knock me off my feet and skidded to a kneeling stop beside him. I turned him over and blood started to soak into his white shirt, but I couldn't tell where the wound was. I looked around to find something to stop the bleeding as tears formed. He couldn't leave me. He was my dad; it was just a light with a shock wave, just a light. My search stopped when I felt his hand reach up and attempted to wipe away the tears that continued to fall.
I grabbed it and held it against my face reassuringly, the sounds of more explosions came from the altar but they seemed so distance. "It's okay; just hang on a little longer. I have a potion and everything will be-"
My hunt into my pouch stopped for a second as my dad started coughing out blood.
"I-I love… you."
"Hey, no stay with me." I urged as I grabbed a bottle and my heart skipped a beat to find it empty. "I love you too, please!"
Dad smiled up at meand his hand went limp in mine. Time seemed to stop as dad started to turn into pieces of dust before the pieces exploded turning him into an outline of dust and blew away in a non-existing wind. My hand reached for the dust, but it was gone. He was gone. Maybe he wasn't gone. People don't turn to dust and blow away when there isn't wind. This was just a dream, a terrible-.
Laughing interrupted my thoughts as I saw the creature that should have died in that last attempt. "I can't believe I didn't think of it earlier, the more of Nyx's blood that is spilt, the more powerful Demise will be."
Something snapped inside me as memories flooded my head of a life that I guessed was Nyx's. Nyx's parents were being slaughtered by Leviathan along with the priests and priestesses right after the ritual of Themis had been completed. A man not older than twenty with a red cape blocked the light attack and sent it back at the serpent causing her to retreat with his sword. The conversation that was in my dream with a picture came next with Nyx and the man talking a few days later. There was a brief kiss before Nyx left. A few small brief fight scenes later Nyx called the Leviathan, Kalysta, before warning her. The golden-yellow haired and eyed woman laughed before getting a sword through her chest by the caped man and Leviathan/Kalysta was left to rot as they left. There was a moment in candle light that I didn't get to see before the following morning of guards taking the man away in chains leaving Nyx alone. The girl left as her sword changed to a strange sword with red, blue, green and purple colored the blade. A short glimpse of the battle left the Leviathan's twin in distress and the creature was sealed and the worlds separated.
"You killed them all!" I shouted as I came back to reality and I glared deeply at the woman in front of me. I gripped my blade handle as she turned to me with smile of satisfaction appeared on her face. "And you locked him away! You tore them apart!"
"Perhaps,"
"You skanky fucking demonic bitch! He was locked away for four years after the worlds were separated!" I screamed at her remembering where I had seen the man before. He was the same person that was in the manga at the back of the Historia which took place four years after the hero's imprisonment. "And now you killed my father!"
"If he didn't get in the way, he would have survived, but I have no regrets."
My hand pulsed uncomfortably as I pulled my sword from its sheath. Suddenly, six medallion symbols appeared on the blade. The shape of the Triforce glowed through my glove making the Gladius sword glow in the same gold light. I was too angry to be shocked as I started running at her as the sword grew. Leviathan sent a shockwave at the assault coming from the others sending them to the far ends of the area. Bright balls of light formed in front of her and fired them at me. I slashed at them breaking the light from the blade showing off its crisscrossed colored blades that looked a lot like the Deity Sword. One of its crisscrossed blades was purple alongside the green side while blue and red mimicked the other one. An upside golden triangle sat on each side of the blue, red and green hilt while I held the purple handle. The sword went through most of the attacks and sent the rest back at her. Leviathan moved flawlessly through the air avoiding the attacks. Fear spread upon her face as I went after her.
"Not so regret free now are you, Kalysta?!" I shouted at her.
"How do you-?"
"Your twin told me!"
She dropped to the ground and I swung catching her side. She growled and transformed into her sea serpent form to fly above me. An instinct came to mind and I swung the large blade at her. A purple light escaped the blade knocking her out of the sky and hard onto the ground transforming back into a woman. I charged at her and jumped stabbed her chest into the ground as she started to get up just as the dark version of the Master Sword stabbed her in the head. I looked up and Dark Link had a sadistic grin on his face. Both swords started to glow a lot like and Leviathan grinned as blood left the side of the mouth. She had a sword through her head and a sword through her chest, how was she still alive I didn't have a clue.
"You may have me here, but there is no stop to the worlds' collision and Demise's rise." She coughed up blood. "The realization of the Forth Piece's energy and the blood of the goddesses and heroes have been spilt on these grounds has been enough to start the ritual."
"Shut up you bitch." I growled as the light released from the large swords and Leviathan disappeared in the blinding light.
I pulled the sword from the ground and fell to my knees and started silently crying again. Mixed emotions of a small victory and an utter defeat hit me with no place for them to go. Something felt off though, like the victory wasn't even a victory.
A hand dropped on my shoulder as it brushed by and Zelda knelt beside me. "He should not have been here, but his sacrifice will not be forgotten."
I gripped the ground feeling the dirt slip under my nails. It was a bad condolence, but there wasn't much to say other than he delayed the end of two worlds. A bright light interrupted me from denying that he was dead and I turned to it. What next? I stood up just as Lucia appeared out of the bright light and looked at me with a dreaded expression on her face.
"Why are you here?" I asked her with a distraught voice I hadn't used in a long time.
"I walked in at a very bed time, didn't I?" Lucia questioned looking at each of us.
"Don was just killed." Dark Link told and her face darkened its grim expression.
"He's not-!" I started to yell at him, but the rest of it didn't come out. "He couldn't be… people don't just…"
"He's dead and he's not coming back. You said it yourself, Leviathan killed him."
"Electra I have to tell you something before this thing loses power." Lucia urged dragging my attention to her before shouting at him again. "The police came to my house this morning wondering where you and your father were. I told them you were out and I would give the message-"
"Tell me what?!" I snapped. "What message?
"Your grandparents, your father's parents, they died in car accident last night on their way home from an outing. They apparently died quickly and painlessly."
"I wouldn't say that." A voice entered the conversation, the last one I wanted to hear.
"What did you do?" I asked as my voice cracked and turned towards Dean. "You son of a bitch, what did you do?!"
"Your grandparents were in the way. So to dispose of all ties to your old world, I took care of them. The looks on their faces when they saw me in the back seat of the car," Dean trailed off as if remembering a fond memory. My anger and grief grew. "Then the look that was placed on their faces when they realized the fallen over ash trees and the face they gave when they realized the car was going faster no matter what they did. You can see the moment when they realized the looming death blow. Every emotion went through their bodies along with each branch; the final end didn't come until a second later-"
"You murdered them," I choked out, my sword hand trembled.
"All so you didn't have ties with any family blood related family. So you didn't need to discuss anything with anyone. I did it in accordance to your rituals."
I stood there blankly looking at nothing in particular. My emotions were split on rage and depression and neither was winning over the other. The man, the incubus standing in front of me killed my grandparents, killed dad by bringing him here. He must have planned on him being the diversion for keeping me alive. Tears finally left as I gripped my sword in anger. He caused everything! Then, the thought of Dark Link having missing memories from his past came to mind. The man cut all ties with Nyx's life and my own.
"You bastard!" I screamed at him and charged at him with my sword readying for an attack. I didn't get very far from my original spot as someone grabbed me from behind, holding me up from under my arms a tiny bit off the ground. "Let me go! He killed them!"
"You can't fight him in your condition." Dark Link argued in my ear. I kicked his shin trying to get out of his grip, it almost worked until he twisted my arm disarming me. "Stop kicking, you can't fight him."
"But he…" I cried as the anger drained. If I couldn't even get out of Dark Link's grip, how could I fight against Dean? It didn't matter. "He's the one who fucked with your memories."
"He did what?" the dark hero asked in almost a trance. His grip loosened just to tighten as I tried to wiggle out.
"You gave away my secret," The incubus pouted. "How did you figure it out?"
"You have been around for a while and the only one that seemed to have any idea of the two worlds' existences. You told me when you said you took everything away from me!" I shouted at him as I struggled even more. "What would possess you to do that?!"
"I'm an incubus in love," He answered like it was self-explanatory with a sigh. That was farthest from any love I had ever heard and I had seen some really fucked up versions. "I'll come back and talk to you when you're emotionally stable."
"If you live that long." Dark Link replied still not releasing me from his grip.
An arrow flew at Dean with a bomb arrow attached to it. Dean stepped to the side and caught the arrow, snapped the bomb off and threw it back. Link jumped out of the way tackling Zelda out of the radius of the blast. Dean teleported away without a word. Dark Link let me go and my legs gave out.
"Ah, shit…" he started as he caught me, but didn't seem to have the correct words as he turned me around. I gripped the black tunic for some support, which didn't help at all as the owner held up most of my weight. The tunic squeezed out the blood it held as I gripped it tighter leaving the blood to drip down my fingers, hand and arms.
"They're all gone," I started as the tears burst. "They were all I had left!"
There was silence except for my sniffles and some of the tears dropping in the dirt.
"You have other family don't you? People that will take you in," Dark Link tried to reason, but I shook my head.
"I can't, he would just kill them by finding me. The reason why my grandparents are dead is because he followed the bloodline; he can't get to my mother's side. I can never see them again while he's still alive."
"Electra, you should come home, finish school and stuff. It's not safe here." Lucia suggested. "Maybe recuperate and -"
"And for what? How can I move forward, when everything that I needed to move forward has burnt to ashes?" I snapped in anger. "Everything that was done, everything that was sacrificed was for nothing! Demise's presence is awake in this world; Earth and this world are still on a fine line of merging. People are dead; my dad is dead for nothing!"
"And Dean has now stuck a target on anyone that gets too close to you." Lucia sighed like she was starting to understand the situation.
There was silence for a few moments as I sighed. "Lucia, I have a favor to ask of you."
"What is it and if assisted suicide, ask the guy holding you." She replied crossing her arms.
I didn't bother to say that was stupid, I kind of wished I was dead. I broke from Dark Link's hold, wiping the tears from my face, noting that blood was just wiped on my face and turned to her. "I need you to take care of my house. I don't know when I'll be coming back to it and I don't want some animals or a bum to think it's a free residence. I also need you to run the engine of the truck once and a while. It's not good if the engine doesn't run."
"That's it?"
"That's it… please-" I started.
"Alright," She responded, I sighed in relief as I picked up the new sword off the ground and started to walk away. "Hey, where are you going?"
"To kill an incubus."
"Not by yourself." Link told me bluntly grabbing my attention; I almost forgot that the rest of team 'Save the World' was there. "I-"
"You're going to stay by Zelda's side where you belong so something like this doesn't happen again." I ordered harshly back. "If you don't recall, Vaati is still out there and your little death Demise will probably be joining the party eventually."
"Then let us come with you." Delilah suggested still being held up by Jason who seemed to be being held up by her. I didn't realize how much damage Leviathan had caused to the four of them.
"You guys are needed with the guard."
"It hurts to admit, but she's right." Zelda added sadly. "Jason, if you want to go home, I understand, you've been here, far from home for a long time. But it would be appreciated if you stayed."
I walked out of the area and onto the ruins of the Temple of Time as they discussed endlessly about things that needed to be taken care of and how much Jason's book was being filled. I nodded to Shad who was waiting anxiously as I walked by and he went inside without questioning me which I thought was great. The monster gates were gone along with the soldiers and their equipment leaving only a pile of dead creatures. I got to the top of the ruins far away from the doorway when I breathed in sharply and winced grabbing my side. When the pain subsided I looked at my hand and found quite a bit of my own blood on it. It must have been from when the Leviathan, no, Kalysta uppercut me into the crucifix. I wasn't going to give her the satisfaction by calling her by her demonic name. I wiped the blood on my clothes and went searching for a potion, but remembered I didn't even have one for my dad. "Dammit."
A red potion appeared in my vision and I looked up to see Dark Link with a cheeky grin on his face. He was obviously feeling better after stabbing Kalysta in the head. "Need a boost."
"Where did you get this from?"
"Shad as he walked by, I don't think he'll need it."
"I'm fine," I answered grudgingly, but the pain came back sharply and I grab my wound that I didn't recall it being so tender. "What are you doing here?"
"Well, I wasn't given an order by the goddess-"
"Stop calling me that."
"Princess of Atlantis-"
"The girl that is going to shove a skulltula so far up your ass its head is going to be popping out of your mouth."
"By you, so I gave myself an order." He replied clearing his throat as he opened the bottle. "Now drink it before I force you."
"Don't you have evil things to do like murdering someone?"
"I can kill him later; there is a bigger fish I want to catch."
"You're going after Dean then."
"He messed with my memories and I intend on getting them back. I also want his powers." He answered as I took the potion and drank it. I was too upset and angry to even taste the nasty substance.
I took a small break to breath in sharply as I felt something off like I had felt back when Zelda was attempting to make me feel better. Something didn't die. "I guess you don't have the other half the forth piece anymore?"
"Nope, but I'm not any less powerful because now you can't death touch me." He answered happily before growing serious. "What are you not telling the rest of them?"
I emptied the jar and gave him back the bottle, "What is it to you? I didn't ask for a travel buddy."
"I want to know where this bandwagon is going and it doesn't have a single destination."
"You expect the demon to stay in one spot?"
"That's not what I meant and you know it."
"I don't need a man to keep me company."
"Do something about it," He challenged. "Now start singing."
I rolled my eyes at him. Like hell I was going to sing or just be an on-demand info broker. "Make me."
"I'll buy you a custom scabbard for your new sword."
I narrowed my eyes. "I customize it?"
"Yes, whatever you want on the damn thing. So what did you keep from the others?"
"Fine, I'll tell you." I growled crossing my arms. It was a free custom scabbard not saying no to that. "Kalysta is still alive."
And that's it…
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