ArtyQ50
Rise Of The Snows
Chapter 18:

A/N: I'm reaching my 20th chapter soon, so how'd you like my last chapter. You'll like this one even better; everything is going to be pulling together. In the next few chapters. Will Hyrule fail to win the first battle wave?? Yeah, I love building tension…It's just the way I work. Okay so I had 1,003 words on here, I must of been really tired after writing that chapter a few days ago, but now I'm refreshed...because my first one was really bad.

Disclaimer: I'd love to own them, I'm sure you would to! ((I think Tin Man is the best movie ever))

The stranger was Amia. Ayden and Link looked at her. Link smiled...a very cheesey grin really. Amia looked at them, "This was the reason I wanted to come here, because my true body was kept here...so I had to get it back...before I turned into a ghost. Pretty self-explanatory." She smiled, and pulled them along with her.

They continued along five minutes in silence. "Do you have any special powers?" Link asked, still focused on the haze in front of them. "Like Ayden?" He added, looking at Ayden who made lightening come into the cloudless sky.

Amia smiled, "Link...yeah...only I don't know how well I can use them...and I mean I was born with these powers. So, it has nothing to do with my...triforce."

"Whats your power?" Ayden asked, interested now too.

She stopped, they stopped also. Her hands balled up into tight fists. The knuckles turning white. She put her fingers up to her temples. And concentrated on Ayden, mainly looking at his eyes.

Link watched intently, trying to figure out what she was doing. Ayden raised one eyebrow, waiting.

"Why do you need to do this to me!" Ayden yelled turning his head. he threw his hands up to his head, and kept them there ruffling his hair up. His eyebrows furrowed.

"Can't you do this to Link!" Ayden said pointing a finger at him.

Amia didn't break concentration. Ayden now looked like he was suffering pain.

"Stop." Ayden said. Amia still looked at her brother. Her eyebrows furrowing also, in deep thought, not anger.

"Stop it! Amia..please!" Ayden now shouted. Amia turned her head, it seemed like alot of pressure was out of the air. Link didn't realize that it had built up.

"Ow." Amia mumbled. Ayden looked at her, "You think your in pain!"

"It hurts me more then it does you!" Amia said, yelling at him.

"What'd you do?" Link asked, curious at why there was pain.

"No don't to it to him either." Ayden said.

"I'll do something else, Link, my power is; I can change your mood, like make you tired, sad, angry, you get it right?"

Link looked at her scared. "Wow..I didn't even do anything and your already scared." Amia laughed.

Then she fixed her eyes on him, already she was sweating, and not because of the heat. Her vein, you could see clearly on her forehead, Ayden watched mystified, he mumbled, "She can't get to your head." In a clear brief sentence.

Amia took a step back, "Ah...I can't get through...your blocking me." She said, out of breath.

"Blocking?" Link asked.

"Yeah...the one on your left hand." Amia said grabbing it and showing him his triforce mark. That was glowing because of Amia's being next to his.

"Well...we should be getting back." ayden said interupting them. They walked all the way, tired and out of breath. It took them a whole entire day to get to the Desert Temple, also known as Arbiter's grounds. They walked through the stone arched door. Amia slammed it from behind her. They walked through it, the sand crunching agains there sore feet.

"Wait." Link said stopping them. He looked back a what once was the mirror chamber rock. The rock was split right down the middle. It already had cracks in just of ware...but this almost seemed man-made. Then the rocks split and feel, causing a big dust pile to hit them. The trio coughed, sputtering out sand from there mouths.

Once the dust had cleared, they looked at were the rock once was. In it's place was a statue. Or what seemed to be one. It was a very artistic dragon, carved from the stone. It was orange and gold, with black teeth. The color of twilgiht. It was very amazing it looked real.

Amia walked up to it. It's eyes seemed to fix on her. She held out her hand and patted it's stone nose. Link and Ayden followed in her steps. "It's name is Morgulea...it was frozen in stone-" Amia started, her hand tracing up the rim of it's mouth. There were letters etched in it.

But she was cut off by Link, "Morguela." He corrected. "She...a she dragon...the last of its kind, forever frozen in stone, until it came time for it to be avenged. Morguela had forever been frozen in this stone!" Link said smiling.

"I heard stories about her." Ayden said. "I heard many many thousands of years ago...she hunted in the Snows and all over, people hated her. So they froze her...in the heat of the desrt, she hated hot weather and thats why they froze her in the desert." Ayden stated.

"Do you know why she was frozen here?" Amia asked, rhetorically. "In Gerudo, Snow, and Old Hylian script, Morguela means Twilight Runner...I think she was put here, to transfer people to the Twilight Realm and back."

"Many people would kill to take her away, she'd be god money." Link said smiling, and clicking the rupees in his pocket.

Amia rolled her eyes. But then they heard voices from behind them. "We sealed Morguela in the rock, so no one would find her...then there'd be know way to go to the Twilight." The voice was of one of the Sages.

Link, Amia, and Ayden looked up to see them floating a few feet higher.

"Why did Morguela break now?" Link asked.

"Well, since the mirror is permenately broken, there is truly no more need for her. And because one of you has her tatoo ethced in your skin." The Sage said.

Amia looked down to her feet and back up again. She showed them her tatoo. "The night I was burned alive I got this...so does this mean I'm some kind of servant to her?" Ami asked the Sage, as Ayden grabbed her arm to have a better look, the dragon flying over the sunset.

"No you are a summoner...you can finally awaken her form the deep rest she's taken...she'll be a faster trip hom to." The last Sage said laughing, then they all dissapeared.

"Cool...this is joyful, why can't you be the Dragon Doctor?" Amia said to Link, putting in humor.

"Maybe your the summoner person, but maybe I can truly command it!" Link said, happily wanting to have a pet dragon.

"Lets hope for the best." Ayden said. Amia gave a stare down to Morguela for a few seconds.

"Well enough of that, I give!" She said, sick and tired of having a contest with stones.

"Wait." Link said. "Try your triforce." Link offered.

Amia looked at him, then raised her hand to it. Nothing happend. Link walked next to her, he raised his hand to. "Now..try"

"Something's wrong with you, Link." Amia said turnign to him, he wasn't there.

"Link?" She asked.

"Amia...your talking to yourself...seriously." Link said, raising one eybrow. She looked around and realized he was with Ayden about 20 feet away from her. She looked around in awe. She said this in her head.

Ganondorf?

Dang it...I thought I could get away with it

Your not a very good actor

But I'm a very good bad guy

How are we talking through our heads?

Your wearing that ring...it lets us talk like this

So your wearing a ring to..ha ha wack-job

Yeah, so and I'm wearing earings! You could hear him laughing Okay Amia just concintrate...you'll have double the power in just a second...now you know how it feels to have all the power triforce

Oh great. Amia said, leaving there mind conversation. She looked at Link, "I might need your help. I need your triforce to." She said, Link walked next to her. They raised there hands, you could hear the stones cracking and flaking off. Then they started crippling away. Till it had a cracked off. "Ayden!" Link started, Ayden looked at him, "Your lightning." Ayden did so, then the rocks flew off.

Smashing to the grounds and sinking in the sand. What layed before them was the most biggest dragon ever. It was so much bigger then the statue. Her hand was smaller then its eye. She was the color of twlight, a rusty orange and amber, with black wings. She had large long fangs from her mouth. About as long as Link's arm.

The scales were very rough and dry, her wings were flattened against her side. Her tail curled up, but she had spikes on it, very deadly spikes. It was a very beutiful dragon. Dragon of the Twilight. Then they heard a very low growl. Morguela's eyes fluttered open, with big long eyelashes.

She put one foot in front of the other, then she was standing. Link, Ayden, and Amia all took many steps back, nearly hiding from her. Then she was standing completely, almost as tall as one of the beams in the mirror chamber.

Her eyes were a deep amber color, reflecting off of the sun. Her tail pointed straight out, reveiling the sharp deadly spikes, and the rock-hard like tail end, ment for hitting things with, in defense. Morguela roared, the place shook, it was so loud, they all had to cover there ears, except it wasn't as bad as that annoying ringing while they were first coming out here.

Then soon, little tiny flames came out of her mouth, which soon grew to what was like a wildfire, it was coming out of her nose and mouth, the common dragon thing. Her wings stetched, covering up half of the chamber, like a black roof.

"One of you go out there." Amia muttered, not wanting to go out there. Amia looked at Ayden, who was looking at Link.

"Yeah mister dragon commander." Ayden said sarcastically. Link frowned at the siblings pushed him out into the dragon's view point. The flames stopped bubbling out, and she looked at him. Her head went down low, to match Link's, already short height.

Her nostrils flared open. he blinked. Link sheiled his face, expecting to be eaten. A fe seconds later, he lowered his arm. She was looking at him, one eyebrow up.

"What are you doing?" She said brisquely.

Link's eyes grew wide, "you can talk!"

"Of course I can talk, how else do I commune with those Twilight bugs. You know you look formiliar, I remeber taking you and one of those bugs to the Twilight!" She said, her voice changing to wear it was supposed to be, a soft yet scary voice.

"There not bugs." Link muttered under his breath. "Besides, your half Twili by the looks of it." Link said, his hand waving out if front of her face.

Ayden was now standing next to Link, Amia followed, cautiosly. Morguela's head drew up high, she growled.

"Thee King...of the Snows." Morguela said, putting a foot down, and bowing.

"Will you stop calling me that." Ayden muttered.

"I'll only stop, when you are no longer king." She said in response. "And if it isn't his whore for a sister, Amia."

Amia stood there, "Why I'm gonna-" She said throwing her fists up, Ayden cought her in a headlock and keeping her there.

"Your gonna what?" The dragon pressed on.

"Okay!" Link yelled, calming the fight down. "Knock it off! Your taking us back to Hyrule!" he yelled, sick of the two already.

"Call me El...master."

"I'm not your master." Link murmured. Then he jumped up and sat on her back, then Ayden did the same. Amia was about to step up when El said.

"No ho's, ho."

"Your a weak mind." Amia said, giving El a look, she cringed, and put her foot back down, letting her climb up, Amia found a comfy spot next to Ayden, and El started to flap her wings, as the sand flew off. They headed for Hyrule.

Link walked up to El's ear, and asked. "Why's Amia a whore?" Link heard a low growl coming from El's mouth.

"Knock it off, El, it's not that bad." Link said, ready to take the dragon as a pet.

"Sorry, but..I don't know, don't you think the idea of betraying your people, and kissing the enemy, is whore-ish like?"

"You, El, don't know the story of Amia like I do....her whole entire race was burned out. She...I..don't know what happend after that." Link said, admittig confusion.

El laughed quietly. "She's a whore."

"Will you stop saying that!" Link nearly yelled.

"All right."

"I hate your attitude." Link mumbled. "So tell me, why?"

"Okay, well, where should I start...theres soooo much, when your a statue, you still can hear whats going on around you. So I actualy got t see Ganondorf's exectuion...and other things. But Ganondorf wasn't bad from the begining. He was just your average young adult."

"Go on." Link said.

"Well...he was actually kind of cute." El admitted sheepishly.

Link stuck out his tounge, and gagged.

"Ha ha, So back to where I was, of course he wanted immortality, this is why he killed out the Snow race, Amia wouldn't know where to go, except for him, she had the burden of immortality and-"

"You've ad alot of time to think about this, havn't you?" Link interupted.

"Yeah, don't interupt. Anyways, soooo, they were with eachother for what five or four years...then somethign happend. He started going all evil. First it all started when, he thought immortality was cool, took Amia, killed the snows, befriended her, had a little crush on her. I mean who wouldn't anyways." El said, looking back at Amia, she was beautiful. Link looked back at her too.

El sighed, "Ummm, Link is she wearing anything on her left hand?"

"Ummm a leather glove." Link answered, staring at her hand, that was sitting on her leg, as she was talking to Link.

"Look closer...her fingers." El said, quietly, almost lost in the wind, that was whooshing by them.

Link stared at her hand, and fingers, there was a rings, a green diamond ring. "A ring." Link answered, almost as quiet.

"Yes...and that means?"

"They were married." Link said as if talking to a teacher, and he was the bored tired student.

"Yes." El said almost incoherrant. "They were married...they lived in this little hideout thingy, he tought her a bunch of sword fighting stuff, they all went on raids. The people in his gang were, going by favorites. Amia, the only girl, Riaz, his 2nd in command, Emmett, Carouso, Aaron, Brent, William, Lane, and Zant. Oh Zant was one of his important people also." El said.

"Well isn't that intresting." Amia said. Looking at them, then started walking next to them. "Great." El muttered.

Amia said cross legged next to Link. "You know it's easy to hear what your all saying. I'm not a whore El. But, yeah I was married. Yeah...I was in the gang, yeah I helped plan some of the things, but I thought it was ajoke, until I met Zant. Then I new Ganondorf wasn't joking about ruling the world. He wanted me to be with him while he reigned, or while we reigned forever. Because, yes I'm immortal, and yes I've died or gotten killed or 10 times. Yes I can remeber everyhting now, and yes this is my real body. And finally I am not a ho." Amia said, with a smug smile.

"Can I ask you a question." Ayden cut in, now intrested in there conversation. "Since you were married, did you ever have any kids?"

"Ooooh Ayden! You just had to ask that question?" Amia said, throwing her hands up in the air.

"Well?" Link asked.

Amia sighed, and mumbled. "Two."

They were reaching Lake Hylia now. (Lets just say flying does take along time, but its faster then horse and on foot)

"Only one died. This feels so weird, it's like I finally gained acess to my memroy."

Link looked at her, Ayden looked at her, and if El could look at hre she would be.

"You had kids with Ganondrof!" Link yelled. "EWWWWWWW!"

Amia frowned, ((Yeah I bet your all laughing...I think its cute, lol)) her eyebrows furrowed. "It was a boy." She continued.
''The other child was a girl, her name is Amorai, only I don't even know if she's even alive. She was taken from me when she was 3 1/2. I was miserably for the rest of the time, and helped with the plotting of taking oer the world." She explained.

"Whats that?" El called out to the trio. They all looked where she was driving, there was a huge grey cloud of smoke, then they had reached a raing cloud. It wasn't planning on letting up.

"It looks like smoke." Link answered. "C-coming from Hyrule castle!" Link yelled. "Go El! Faster, we need to save them!" El pushed her wings harder, air was going weak, and it was getting hard to find oxygen to breath for the humans.

El made a landing in the middle of Castle Town's rubble. Places were burning down, the fountain was behind them, spitting out water, spilling it everywhere. It was half crumpled. The castle was burning, smoke and flames lapping at the walls.

Link ran off, helpig people get ou tof there burnign houses, and helping the archers. Link and Ayden ran to the wall, it was crippled down, yet. They looked out at the mass of blood, half of the Ezras were dead, lying on the ground. The Mayros battle was done with and it was won with by the Hylians. It seemed to just be a warm up.

Ayden jumped down the wall and ran out to the two wolves, and the red-dressed Zelda. They were walking throug the destruction path.

"Zelda!" Ayden called out. Link running up next to him. Zelda turned, her face was scratched up, her dress ripped down the side, and her arm's sleeve was cut off and scrathced.

"Ayden! Link!" She scremed, running towards them, with a gimp in her leg. Link cought her before she fell. She had tears in her eyes, and she was trembling. "This is horrible, I thoght we were all goin got die, Ihavn't even been in Hyrule, I think it's a mess, all the Ezeras are gone! But we won, the retreated only with 7 Mayros people!" Zelda screamed, panicked.

Zelda fainted. Link picked her up. The two wolves were now at Link and Ayden's side. There once white fur smeared in there own blood and others. Tristan had an arrow sticking out of his left leg, and his ribs. Asuncion had a deep axe cut in her back, it was gushing with blood. Leo brought up the rear. His head was bleeding, he had an arrow in his leg and in his side, his face was scratched up, badly.

Zelda was protected greatly by the three wolves, the ones who had nearly saved the first battle.