ArtyQ50
Rise of The Snows
Chapter 15:

A/N: WOW! Chapter 15 already…wow…I'm very proud of myself…you know what…I don't care anymore if you people don't review any more. It just makes me feel good when I write stuff.

I don't own any of them! Boy I'm gettin' sick of saying that...it almost feels like I own them all!! -shifty eyes- -evil laugh-

"Why would we go to the desert in the first place!" Link asked.

Amia smiled, "Because you don't want to lose this war?"

Right when she said the word war, everybodies brained clicked, and realized that they were in war. It was kind of weird because they felt so at peace with eachother. As if something was never going to hurt them again. As if life was calmly keeping the evil at bay. It felt very empty in the room. Everybody was quiet.

"So Shayd is friends with this Kerrian person?" Ayden asked.

"Yeah...let's hope Shayd doesn't join 'the dark side' depending on if she's in it or not." Amia said raising her hands up, Ayden pulled her up off the couch.

"Everything seems so surreal, you know. So crazy...I wonder what Temar is doing right now"

"Screw the Temarians...Link, you said you wanted us to meet Telma and her group. I'd like to do that before we leave. It would feel nice to have some reinforecments if the war starts and we're not back in time, to save Hyrule." Amia said starting to gimp down the stairs and heading for the door.

"Al right...we'll go there now."

"Now that you have some descent clothes on." Amia mumbled to herself laughing after words. They reached her Telma's bar. Amia was getting faster at hobbling along.

"Well if it isn't Link!" Telma said, embracing him in a hug, as her cat Louise circled around his legs. Getting white cat fuzz on his shoes.

"Yeah, if it isn't me. Hi Telma, nice to see you!" Link said, mumbling at the beginning. Link started to introduce Amia and Ayden.

"Telma, I'd like you to meet Amia...and Ayden." Link pointed at the two.

"Hi nice to meet you, are you siblings?" Telma asked, shaking there hands.

"Yeah." Ayden said, smiling.

"You know, I'd like you to meet my friends, but there actually gone. Shad is in Kakariko with Renado hmmm, Ashei is in Snowpeak...somewhere, Rusl is back in Ordon, and Auru is up in the...now...where is he again. Oh yes, he went with Shayd and Kerrian to Lake Hylia. I heard some Zora's needed help." Telma explained.

"Kerrian." Amia muttered under her breath.

"Did you say Auru?" Ayden asked, he had what looked like hope in his eyes.

"Yes, why?" Telma asked.

Ayden smiled, "The name just sounds formiliar." He said.

"Well, nice meeting you Telma, maybe when we come back from our trip to the desert, we'll meet them all," Amia stated, obviously hinting that she wanted to leave. Which they did, they set out for the stables, near the castle main gates.

Link hitched up Epona, and jumped up. Amia did the same with the horse whom she'd promised protection. Even though it was clearly impossible to do so. Her horse however seemed to have changed. It was a much darker brown, almost black. And it had redish brown hair. It's eyes were the same, the pretty amber color.

Then Ayden jumped up on a random horse, the stable boy had brought him.

"We're taking the long way to the Gerudo Desert...the one trip that goes around Lake Hylia. It's the way I go. It's the way I know. And it's the way we're going." Amia demanded. Link and Ayden looked at eachother, raising one eyebrow, then they ran out of Hyrule. They made it to Faron in the afternoon. Amia's leg was becoming swollen. She remembered just a few days ago when Ayden pretty much killed his jaw. And then a few days earlier when Link puched the crap out of her. She smiled.

It was 3 hours later, they were walking around the moutains, they rode threw Ordon saying hi to Rusl and Colin. Ayden and Link were talking the whole way there as Amia led.

They all stopped. Amia turned her horse around fast. Link and Ayden's horses' stirred. Amia looked sick.

"Are you okay?!" Ayden nearly shouted, ready to get off his horse and catch her.

She shook her head yes. "The reason...I'm...making us all go to the Gerduo Desert is that I need something here...otherwise I'm going to die." She said weakly.

Link looked at her face, her eyes were bloodshot, her face was dead looking, her hands were shaking, and her legs were almost purple. Her stitched up leg was bleeding again, only not badly.

They continued riding. Amia still leading, Link and Ayden picked up on there left off conversation.

They heard something slipping from ahead of them, then a body hitting ground. "Amia!" Ayden and Link shouted together.

Ayden lept of his horse. Amia's horse was vearing up. Ayden turned her over. Her lips were now purple, she was beyond freezing. Link grabbed Amia's horse, calming it down.

Amia's hands were shaking together, Ayden clasped them in his hands. "Are you alright?" he asked sternly. Amia shook her head no. "We need to get to the hideout...behind...Arbiter's Grounds...go through...be safe...Ayden..Link?" She said. Ayden held her head up. Her head fell slack. Her eyes didn't move.

"Link." ayden said, holding Amia up. Link looked at Ayden then back at Amia. "She's still brething." Link said, putting his hand over her eyes, and shutting them. "It's like she's in a coma." He said.

They reached the Gerudo Desert. The blazing sun beating down on them. Amia had gotten them through a bit of Ezera, then through the Forging Moutains. To the banks of the Desert. The seen Arbiter's Grounds in the distance.

Amia was riding with Link, Epona was much stronger then Ayden's horse, whom which he had to start riding Amia's horse, because Aydens' horse was nearly dying.

Ayden and Link looked out at the haze. "I remeber going through here, I still have nightmares..." Link said, kicking his horse as they ran over the sandy dunes in the Desert. Reaching Arbiter's Grounds only took a mere 10 minutes.

"Clawshot." A voice said.

"Your awake." Link said, unrapping his arm from her waist, so she wouldn't fall.

"Use your clawshot to get up to the mirror chamber, then we don't have to go through all of the temple." Amia said. Sliding off her feet hit the sand.

Link found a spot to hook the clawshot. He broought the three of them up to the mirror chamber. Amia smiled.
The large chained rock stuck in the sand. "There are some things in that temple, they were built after me...I created some of it." Amia said smiling.

They looked at the shattered mirror's place. Amia glared at it, then continued walking. Until there was a tiny locked door, in one of the illision like walls.

"I never seen that!" Link said.

"Do you have a crossbow?" Amia asked.

"No." Link said, "But a bow?"

"No, it's not strong enough...I might be able to do it though." Amia said glaring at the door. She showed her triforce to the ground, it started to light up. She still looked almost dead, but yet, getting better.

Then somehting amazing happend, the little grains of sand started to form something in her hand. It revealed a golden colored Cross bow. With midnight black arrows.

"Not a stone will be left on stone." Amia mumbled. She shot the arrow into a tiny lock of the door. It clicked. The three walked into the forges of the walkway.

"Welcome...to My Kingdom." Amia said, with a huge grin.