Chapter 12: Super powers?
"Look, she gave us some dinner!!" Roy showed Link and Marth as they came back with a pile of sticks and leaves.
"Cool, what is it?"
"Marth, can you see it?" Link asked.
"No."
"So how should Roy see?"
"Soorry!" Marth whispered snotty like. Roy smiled at Link who just glared back.
"Don't get too comfy, I still hate your guts." Link and Marth found some rocks and placed in a circle, then added logs, sticks and dry leaves in the circle.
"WHISHH" the match slid over the cardboard box. As it got to the edge there was a spark and there flickering in the dark was a small flame. It ignited the sticks and dry leaves and then started to eat away at the wood.
"Okay let's eat!!!"
"I agree."
"Fine whatever." The three enjoyed some chicken sliced sandwiches over the warmth of their fire.
"Hey, there's another thing left in the basket." Roy picked it up and held near the fire's light for all to see. They were marshmallows. "YEAH dessert, man I love this lady!!!" Roy rushed to gather three sticks to roast them while Link and Marth just stared at the package, dumbfounded.
"Definitely did not see that coming."
"Marshmallows are common when camping at night, duh." Link denied Marth's impossible hope.
"I HAVE STICKS!!!" In a second or two they were watching the marshmallow flesh bubble from the heat.
Breaking sticks were heard and all three of them jumped in their seats.
"It was probably a rabbit or something right?"
"Yeah, like the rabbit in Monty Python and Holy Grail, where the rabbit freaking killed everyone!"Link dumped sand on the fire and Marth collected their things.
The forest was so quiet that it was really hard to hear where the soldiers were exactly unless they wanted to risk getting caught. So they had to be extra quiet so that the soldiers couldn't hear them. They ran back to the woman's home. There they dropped the basket off with a piece of wood that had the word 'sorry' carved in it with Roy's lousy carving skills. They set deeper into the forest hoping not to get caught.
"We should hide somewhere to catch our breath and make a plan." Marth whispered. The other two nodded. They took a breather in a small cave made by big boulders of rock, not far from the cottage.
"Now what?" Roy looked small in the moonlight.
"I say we should find the highway and get to a town. The soldiers will probably not come, without us knowing with all the city lights and stuff."
"In the meanwhile, since we're unarmed we should use whatever we can against them incase they catch up to us." Link held a rock in his hands.
"Booby traps I likey!" It reminded Roy of the Home Alone movies, where the kid would always set booby traps. Either he was a pure genius or those thieves are really dumb.
"Okay, since you and Link both like booby traps you can set it up, I'll go look for weapons." Marth was up leaving the two together.
"Why do you have to leave him with me?" you could hear Link's punch soon after.
"Okay, maybe we should look to see what we have to work with." Link looked around while Roy pointed out something.
"Link, watch ou-" The warning was too late as Link slipped on the wet stone floor that was carpeted with moss.
"That's perfect!" Link beamed.
Roy and Link started to work furiously to make their booby traps so good that the soldiers would be begging for their lives.
"Nice to see you working together,……for once……I guess….it's scary never mind." Roy and Link looked at the same time.
"Link punched me!"
"No I didn't, you little du-"
"Okay never mind. Are you ready?"
"Did you see any soldiers?"
"Yeah. We should hurry." Roy nodded as he went deeper in the cave and began to strike rocks together making sparks. Soon he light a fire and the three were off.
"Here this might come in handy." Marth gave Link and Roy what he found. Link got a Swiss army knife, probably left behind to mark where the soldiers searched. It was black and sleek with a white hospital symbol on it. Roy got a wooden, sturdy stick.
"What do you have?"
"Oh, don't worry about me, I found a very interesting thing just for me." Marth smiled a sly smile to the worried Roy.
"Okay, let's move out soldiers!" Link commanded to the two. As they breezed through the forest they heard gunshots and then some screams. Link and Roy couldn't help but smile at their fabulous booby traps.
"GOTCHA!!!!" all three of them stopped in their tracks. "You may have fooled the others with your damn traps but not me!!!" the mask that hid the lower part of the face was off, along with the goggles. He had a strong cheek bone with shaven clean cheeks. They noticed he had a different gun from all the other clone soldiers. He held up his gun ready to fire. "I was once the one everyone was talking about, so let's keep your deaths our little secret!!!"
'What on earth is he talking about?' Marth wondered, as Roy had his eyes glued to the gun.
"Asshole!!!!" Link yelled as the first bullet was fired. It found its target at its destined destination, the forehead.
"LINKKK!!!!" Marth and Roy yelled as they stood their ground so the gunman wouldn't fire at them.
"Roy, get into a battle stance behind me, I'll cover you while you hit him!" Roy had no idea it was going to work but did it anyway. Marth watched the finger get ready to pull the trigger once again, like an eagle waiting to strike.
BOOOM, the bullet was lunched. Roy watched with widen eyes as the bullet whizzed towards its next target, Marth. All of a sudden the ground moved and water splashed up through the forest ground. It made a clear wall like a mirror. As the bullet hit it, it bounced back and landed right in front of the man. If it wasn't for Marth's tiny tint in the wall, it would have hit the attacker square on.
"ROY, go NOW!!!!" Roy nodded as he ran towards the man. So many emotions ran through him. A picture of Link's broken body filled his mind like a disease, infecting him of hate and rage. The man screamed as his neck yelled a sickening crack and then just laid there silently, not breathing or anything. Marth ran to Roy who was trembling. He was happy for once in his life, he was actually brave instead of shaking like a sissy he was. But, he never intended to kill them. He remembered the terrified eyes of the man that was going to kill them.
"Roy are you okay?" Roy shook his head as stared at his hands, the hands that killed the man.
"Marth, I killed this man,….I killed him." The breaking of sticks were heard all around them. If they wanted to escape the mob coming towards them, then they should do it soon.
"Roy, we have to go, they're coming. We have to grab Link to get medical help. Come on!" Marth tried to pull Roy along but he wouldn't budge. Soon they were surrounded by a mob of soldiers. Then it hit him. 'That's why they wanted to catch us, we must have power they don't want us to have' Marth thought thinking back to Kirby, Pit and every student the in the academy and what the man said to them. 'Maybe, we have something better than the other student, that's why he said we were talked a lot'. He stood up with his hands up in the air. 'Don't worry, I'll protect you Roy'
Roy was becoming uncontrollable. After seeing the action movies with Eliwood, the hero would kill to save the ones he wanted to protect but why did it feel so wrong? Why why why??? Roy couldn't control himself. The air around him became hot and yet, he wasn't sweating at all. It felt nice and he grasped what it had to offer.
"Roy?" Marth looked back at Roy who was just sitting there, trembling even more. He walked slowly to the boy showing that he wasn't going to do anything. Slowly, he lowered his hand to Roy's should, but it seemed like a trigger. Marth was thrown back as a burst of fire appeared around Roy's body. As a tree met head on with Marth's back there was another sickening crack that haunted his ears. Roy got up shining with the flaming light of the fire around him like a god.
"M….Marth? LINK?" no one responded, "no, they're not…….dead they can't be! NNOOOOOOO!!!!" Roy let loose waves of fire into the mob. The first line of people were struck and burned away. While the second line ducked and loaded their guns, ready to fire at the uncontrollable boy. The fire kept coming and coming with no end. It was just more than people burning, if he didn't stop the whole forest would be burned to the ground.
A figure rose up from lying on the ground. After cracking their neck and then knuckles, he was ready for any challenge. He looked around. 'You got to be kidding me, why in the world am I to deal with all this crap when I wake up?' He brushed the dirt off of his face and walked around.
"Roy!!!" He shouted. Roy couldn't hear him. "Roy, cut this shit out, or else." Still there was no response from the flaming boy. "Dear god, help him." He sprinted towards him. Roy was caught off guard by the nearing figure and was too blind to see who it really was. A blast of fire pushed Link back.
"AAAHHHH!!!" Link shouted as he landed on the ground. "Okay, no more mister nice guy!!!" he got up and wiped the spit away from his mouth. He stood a ways back from Roy, so that if he did fire at him again, he could react to it. Link held out his hands and eyes closed concentrating. The world around him seemed to vanish as if it was all a vision. His body felt cold, damp but full of life. He could feel everything in and touching the ground around him. Bullets were fired at Roy but it was no use and they melted before even having contact with the body.
Roy looked down. The ground moved around, smoothly and gracefully like the sea. Soon, the dirt started to swallow him up like quick sand, after struggling; he was no match for the moving ground. Link looked around at the remaining soldiers still being stubborn, still trying to kill them. Now, Link looked around at the soldiers and what they did. And boy, he was pissed.
Bullets were again fired. They didn't penetrate the body, but it did hit something. As the wind picked up from sprinting it blew away some dirt and the fired bullets. The first victim of Link's fury was pushed down and met with a knee in the face. He was leaping, punching, kicking, knocking all the soldiers out every second like an angel of death. Bullets were no use as they couldn't get through the stone hard armor that protected Link.
It seemed that the ones that he knocked out were all replaced with two. The mob kept getting bigger and bigger and since Marth and Roy were knocked out cold he had to do it by himself. The shielded figures all looked at the last teen standing before they got to their goal of capturing the three. What people didn't know about their guns and the bullets they used were that they different from others. The bullet did look like normal everyday bullets except what people saw were only the shell that hid their inner secret. When the bullet hit a target, the outer shell breaks off from the impact and there is an injection with a mysterious substance that no one knew seeing that they would have to work there or either break in which no one has done before, or at least never came back.
They stood like statues as if waiting for permission to attack. Then a figure emerged from the wall of black clothe and stood facing Link. He was different from the rest. They only wore a pair of dark sunglasses that hid away dark yellow eyes evaluating their opponent, instead of all the gear that was needed to protect and hide the face. The other thing that was different was that they had less gear than the other soldiers. Either they were a skilled fighter or they're a complete idiot.
'Idiot' Link thought watching their every move. The soldiers took a pouncing pose as if like a cat, dying to play with its prey before the finally kill.
"Give up, or we'll have to use deadly force against you!" he announced, 'Damn I hate doing that, it's so…… pathetic'.
"Give up my freaking asss!!" Link shouted back. The new stranger couldn't help but smile, a Chester cat smile. He was going to have fun he hadn't had in ages.
"Who the heck did you say this was?" he spoke into his microphone.
"Link, sir, he went by the name Kio Hylian for five years."
"And?....."
"was a prey five years ago…"
"Ah, yes, the bite in the group. I remember now." He turned his attention back to Link. "Come on boy, how about it, just you and me? If you win, I will let you escape, simple as that, but if I win…..well, let's just say you have to hand over you and your companions over to us?" He walked slowly down to Link.
"And what if I don't agree?" they stopped where they were and looked up at the dirt covered teen.
"Oh, I get it, you're afraid. It's okay, I would have kicked your white ass anyways." The man looked at his fingers as if deciding if he just wasting time on an unimportant activity, then headed back to the mob.
"Wait, what will happen if I don't like what I win?"
"I kick your ass don't you get it? Or did you not pass first grade?" Link widened his eyes as if he couldn't believe he just got burned like that.
"Fine, you're on old man!!!-"
"Okay, baby boy, let's get to it!" he again slowly walked back down, taking all the time in the world.
"Can't you go any faster Grandpa?!"
"Well let's see if you can keep up with this grandpa!" The stranger took off the sunglasses revealing yellow cat like eyes looking back at Link. He licked his lips, ready for the hunt. "Caroso, Panther Caroso at your service."