ArtyQ50
Rise Of The Snows
Chapter 20:
A/N: Hey yo!! The big 2-0!! Finally, let's hope this might be the last chapter in my book. I'll be glad its done with. Also, anyone right now, I recommend this book called 'Sabriel' by Garth Nix. It's a trilogy, also known as the Abhorsen Trilogies. I've only read the first one…searching for Lirael. (okay so that was written like a week ago) So I got the book, and I love it to death. :)
This chapter will be long...and I do say that during the war i will be very bloody, and there will be gore. It is all going to be described to, so I'm fore warning you now. But please read...
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Link left everybody back. Hyrule had picked up itself over the past four months. Zelda was staying calm, and the troops were growing daily. How ever some did back down. But Hylian numbers weren't the only ones growing, so were Temars. Which was now the only group left, since the first bloody battle won by Hyrule. But now Hyrule had figured what they were up against. But there was a rumor goign around that...Temar was much more skilled in fighting, and magic.
But Link let this fly bye him, literally. The name Jacop kept going threw his mind, and the fortune tellers words. Leo, Asuncion, and Link were going to die...Link could only sigh.
This only gets better and better. He thought, as they cut through the wind's currents. But what did she mean by Amia and Ganon parting there souls? This is confusing...so his the whole entire thing of Ganondorf having a wife and a kid. Blah blah blah...yuck...the whole idea of it...I can't think anymore. This is disgusting. Truth is Link did ponder about it, like what did Amorai look like, maybe she was as beautiful as her mother. Who knows...
Amia is pretty. Link thought, as he clenched El's scales because they took a big nose dive to ignore a big flock of geese. Whoa! Ganondorf's lucky.
"Are you jealous?" El asked knocking Link out of his thoughts.
"What?!" Link said, surprised, everybody seemed to have a super cool power, except Link...apparently El could read minds.
"Link...I can't read minds, your just thinking out loud anyways." El said chuckling, the air got cold and intolerable. They had to fly closer to ground, just so it was warmer.
Snow and hail started pelting them, and they were going fast, so it hurt even more. "I'm not jealous!" Link said deffensively.
"Seems like it, Link." El pointed out, landing next to a thousand foot or higher, wall of ice. El knew who Jacop was, and were he lived. Link thought this Jacop person was a human, he was wrong.
Link gazed at the perfectly formed wall. "Either all the girls here are married, or getting married. Or else they just don't plane like you." Then Link started laughing.
"Jacop." El said cooly, here breath hitting the ice. Nothing happend. Link waited and watched. But then he was startled when El roared out, "JACOP!!" And flame came out of her motuh, melting a whole into the ice. The ice closed back up over the newly made hole.
They waited. And waited. And waited. Until it was about 30 minutes later. When a fog came over them, just not any normal fog, a black fog.
"What exactly is...Jacop?" Link gulped, realizing he should have went over this question on the ride here, instead of pondering about Amia.
"Jacop..is errr- hard to explain, he's hald alot of things. Half man, half dragon, and half Fogg." El said, now sitting down, her wings shieldign Link from the present snow and hail.
The fog only came to El's feet, if Link were on the ground he would be completely covered in it.
"Fog..or Fogg?" Link asked he, putting the more 'g' sound on Fogg.
"Fogg..capitol F-o-g-g. Meaning a mysrerios black substance monster that can cover a mile wide and far, if it wanted to, it could sufficate the living creatures there. Depending on the source of snow or ice." El explained simply.
"So Jacop is a dragon?" Link asked, gulping loudly.
"Yes, a Snow Dragon. Kind of scary looking, see through really and he is very mea-" El got cut off, by the shake in the ground. The ice wall started to crack then it shattered, sending thousands and thousands of peices of ice everywhere, but they were no problem to deflect against El's wings.
There was a high-pitched deathly sound roar. Then it was a sharp low snarl, with many other aggresive sounds. Jacop walked out of the Fogg. El was right about him being see through.
He was very large, white and had a large wing span, he had midnight black teeth with sharp peircing green eyes. He hard sharp talons or claws on his feet. White snow was constantly falling from him, as if it was he mist from a waterfall. He was every person's nightmare. His wings had sharp hooks at the end of them, like a bats so he could hang against things, and claw up things too.
Jacop was white as snow, and many diffrent textrures of his plated skin. "What do you want?" He said in a low gruff voice.
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Zelda had been taking care of her wounded for the past many months. Leo recovered, but they all still mourned for Rogir. Zelda was under pressure, because she needed to appoint someone as her new Royal Guard. She was thinking Link, Yes Link, he fits it all. Link is skilled with a bow and sword, and above all, we get along good. Know one else knew this, but Rogir and Zelda were secretly dating eachother. It was a cute match. But not cute enough, because Rogir was gone.
When Zelda had heard Amia could bring people back to life, she wanted her to bring Rogir back. Amia was saying in her letters, for once written in Hylian, that she couldn't being back people whose bodies were fully massacred, or burned, and he wasn't recent'y deceased at the time she wanted him back. Zelda cried for two days and stayed in her room.
Untill Asuncion came in and gave her hope. Asuncion was Zelda's new best friend, they'd grown close over the months and talked about stupid guy habbits. Leo and Tristan partied with the Guard like no other. There still was no news on Ayden and Shayd. But Kerrian had come back, but not in a welcoming state at first.
But soon they were friends. Kerrian was a Gerudo, she was a tracker, and a skilled one at that.
"So what or who are you recently tracking?" Zelda asked, the three girls were sitting in her living room suite sipping tea as if there was no war at all.
Kerrian stifled a smile, "Actually, Ganondorf."
Zelda choked up on her tea, and Asuncion was only watching the men practice outside in the arena."Ganondorf...how lovely, he's in Temar." Zelda said, simply as if Kerrian had lack of tracking skills.
"Wh-what! I I...I thought he was dead? Well dead but in a ghostly state." Kerrian said, putting the tea down on the wooden table.
"Not when you stabbed his wife, she was having a temper problem that day, and it let him out, we were all expecting something bad to happen. But really Amia was just...just practically rushed to the doctor, with Link in his underwear!" Then they room filled with laughter.
Kerrian looked at them, then the subject changed, and they went back outside to practice with the men. "Wheres Link?" Asuncion asked, then everybody realized he had left, apparently only Tristan knew.
"He left with El, to go to this Jacop person, in the wall of ice." Then Tristan pretended to stab Leo in the chest, and Leo fell backwards, pretending to die, for there pretending to kill eachother game.
Everyone smiled, until there was a sharp shrill in the air. They all looked up, "HawkMail!" Zelda shouted, the hawk, whose name was Sam, landed on the arena's post.
Zelda pulled the note out, and gave Sam a scrap of last nights supper. Everyone was happy untill they seen the spots of human blood all over the page. The writing was horribly sloppy, but was written in Hylian.
So to Zelda I presume this note was meant to go to?
Well this is Lord Gage, of Temar. And I got your spy. She'll make a fine slave for me and my men, so thankyou for sending me this wonderful gift. I do appreciate this. So I might as well get to the point, either surrender, or this girl will be tortured...and all else. Zelda stopped reading, and tears were welling up. They cought Amia, who knows what they were going to do with her. Everyone else waited for Zeldda to continue, she did. but she thought, Amia's strong, she should make it out alive.
The torture will continue until I get a reply from you, Amia wants to write a note to you...
Then this is wear the writing was sloppy, and it was nervously written, but it was written in Snow, so Asuncion read it.
Please...don't worry about me....send a reply though...there going to pull out my teeth if you don't (Then the writing got sloppy and the blood was on the page from here down)
Okay worry about me.....help! HELP ME NOW! I can't stand it, don't know where Ganon is...forced to be tortured. I'm coming home, be waiting.
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In Temar...before the note was written and sent.
"Okay...your going to tell me...who do you work for!" Shouted Lord Gage.
Amia spat out blood, and a front tooth. Her nose was bleeding, and blood mixed with spit drained from her mouth, her hands were tied behind her back, to a chair, it was so tight, her arms were about to pop out of there sockets. Her feet tied to the leg posts.
"S-s-s-to-oo-o-op hi-i-i-tting m-e-e." She choked out. He hit her again, in the same spot, with the same end of his sword. She took in a stifled breath, her head still in the same place from the end of the hit.
"Ganondorf." She said smiling, then another hit came, only not as hard.
"Ganondorf is dead." Gage said, laughing. He took a knife to her mouth, and ripped her front cheek. (Like in Pan's Labrynth.) "Now tell me!" He bellowed out.
She was about to speak when, "You've tried my patience lady!" He yelled out, even angrier then before, if that were possible. Earlier, when her figured out she was a spie, there was about 5minutes of reckless shouting, able to wake up someone that was in a coma.
"Zelda!" She screamed out, but it was to late, the wrench he had in his hands pulled her back tooth out. Really this torture was unnesary, but he liked torture. She could feal pain beyond belief in her mouth, that pain stopped when she felt her arm pop, then a slight stabbing pain in her chest. She looked down, and a silver twisted dagger was sticking out. Pain. Pain. Pain. Was the only thing she could think of.
"Now! You go back to Zelda! This is what will happen to her spies, thats a warning!" Gage shouted out, untying her legs and arms. Her left arm hung there, and her right arm was stiff, she could barely move it. She passed through Death Mountain.
She met grassy feilds around midnight, the stars and moon were shining brightly, it gave her a light in the darkness. Then she fell over, forced to throw her stiffened arm to catch her. The torture was bad, the walk here was horrible. Her sword was left there, everything she needed was left there. She was only left with her knee high brown leather boots, a white corset and thin white skirt, which was now stained red.
Thankfully, Amia landed on her back, so the dagger didn't get wedged in her farther. Her arm started to kill, and the skull-dogs were starting to come at the scent of weak prey. (Skulldogs are probably not the actual name for those dogs that are made out of just bones and roam around Hyrule at night)
It was a day later, the dogs didn't eat her, thankfully. She felt blood caked on to her stomach, and her close were almost completely red. The sun was just coming up from the horizon. Her throat tasted like blood, a nasty rusty taste. Her teeth were died red. She sat up quickly, and pulled the dagger out. She stood up, ready to cast the spell of healing on her chest, and cheek. She did so.
She looked out. Smiled. Amia reached Ordon, walking through the ranch. She seen some kids staring at her, then she walked over to them.
"Hi." They all said in unsion, looking at her bloody clothes.
"Hello. Is there any easier path to get to Hyrule?"
The kids shook there heads. But then a heavier man started to walk out, and he waved his hand.
"Can I help you?" It was the mayor of this town, Bo.
"Ola Iva entin lora kay ia zeen so latte?" She said smiling, then laughed.
"Excuse me?" Bo asked, raising one eyebrow.
"Only if there is some way you can help us win this war." She repeated, then turned around and left.
Bo and the four children stared at her leave, and the very last time they would see her ever again.
She made it to Hyrule only two hours later. Pushing the door open, and it was very quiet, absolutely nobody was around. She could here someone yelling in the middle of the Town, by the fountain, it was Zelda. She passed an un-occupied sword shop, looked through the swords, and grabbed a long silver one, it came in it's own sheath. She didn't need the matchign shield, nor the hat. She had just stolen, the Gerudo living was coming back into her.
"Good to have ya' back." Said someone, putting his arm around her shoulder.
"We could kill them all now, Ganondorf." Amia growled.
"I would absolutely love to, Amia, but the two of us couldn't kill all of them."
"Where's Riaz?"
"In the crowd listening to Zelda's corny speach, Amia! I'm sick of staying here theres absolutely nothing to do! I mean seriously...I'm trying to be nice to Link and his friends like Zelda and all that stuff...but her totally took over by idea." Ganondrof said, throwing his fists up in rage.
"Well maybe you should be smarter then that little elf and his girlfriend, I hate trying to be there friends either. Once Hyrule falls by Temar, in which we will help them survive it, just so we can take them over ourselves." Amia said darkly, narrowing her eyes into slits.
"How did you manage to be enlisted into there little group anyways?" He said almost hypnotically.
Her eyes turned to him. "What the hell, where am I? Why is your arm around me!" She glared at him, then shoved his arm off. She started coughing. "You totally poisoned me while I was almost dying! You can't get me on your side Ganny!" She said yelling, while jogging off to the speech. She tried to remember what they were just talking about, he was using one of his dirty mind tricks again, which was technically her mind trick. (Remember the whole triforce sharey deal?!)
Amia walked into the crowd, she accidentally bumped into Riaz. Zelda was talking about making more wepons and physically starting to prepare every soldier, and get children to saftey homes.
"Hey." Riaz mumbled, Amia glared at him and rolled her eyes. "That bad, eh?"
"It's better if we don't talk, eh?" She said arrogantly, mocking him.
"Over the mountain and through the woods, to storm the castle we go." Riaz sang.
Amia looked at him. "Riaz, knock....it...off." She said strictly.
"I'm older then you, Amia!" Riaz said laughing.
"Technically no, if I wasn't immortal anyways."
"How old are you anyways?" Riaz asked,
"25." She said answering, flicking her hair over her shoulder.
"Dang it!" Riaz mumbled. Amia left, looking for someone she truly wanted to talk to, she found Tristan.
"Your alive!" He whispered with excite, trying not to interrupt Zelda's speech.
"Yes, just a few minor problems, thats all, perfectly fine now." She mumbled hoarsely.
"And will will prevail! We will win this war, to Hyrule!" Zelda yelled finishing her speech, everyone else shouted out 'For Hyrule'. The Hylians dispursed out over town, either carrying on with what they were doing, or helping with the spears.
Amia and Tristan waited for Zelda. "Good job!" Tristan said, trying to give her encouragment.
Zelda had tears in her eyes, "We're not gonna win are we, there is absolutely no hope! We don't have enough weapons!" Zelda said, tears rolling down and off her cheeks.
"Oh." Amia said shocked, expecting her to be happy...then again how could you be happy when you felt death ready to come and grab you? She gave Zelda a hug, but she was looking beyond that, she watched Riaz he was talking to Ganondorf. She glared at them, Ganondorf stuck his tounge out at her, in disgust.
Amia pulled away from Zelda, "Thanks." She mumbled, "I better consider how to get more weapons, then. And where is Link?" Then Zelda left, following Tristan and Asuncion.
Amia walked up to the alley way that they were in. It was completely dark, because there was a midnight roof over it. She drew her dagger out, just in case. She felt someone grab her wrist and wip her around. "Ah!" She shrieked, but the shriek was silenced by a hand over her mouth. She struggled, and kicked her leg into a spot guys don't exactly like being kicked.
"Owwwwwww." Ganondorf droned out. She put the dagger against his neck. "Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you right now!"
"Ummmm, because you can't kill me?" Ganondorf said, getting up and mumbling, "Thank goodness for protective armor."
Amia rolled her eyes. "Why do you pick the most craziest places to be?"
"Because when you walk through that door, be ready for a reunion." Ganondorf said, pushing her into the open doorway. All of his band of thieves were there.
"Brilliant." She mumbled. "There all still alive."
Ganondrof glared at her, she was looking at everybody, which only was Emmett, Aaron, Carouso, Riaz, Jared, Alex, and Turner. All very tall men, with either red hair, or dyed red hair, to be mistaken for a Gerdudo. Amia absolutely hated the reunion already.
"I'm not taking sides." She said already, putting her hands up. She got pushed down into a chair. "Get your hands off me, Cuddles!" She said, the men broke out into a laugh, when she got mad she would say very weird threats.
They all watched her, she crossed her legs and arms, getting a little nervous. Ganondorf broke the silence. "Thats not why your here."
She looked up at him, "Then why am I here?"
"Zelda said she needed more weapons, the greatest one she has is you!" Emmett pointed out.
"Gee thanks." She said sarcastically. "I totally liked to be thought as a weapon." Then she smiled slyly.
"Jared." Muttered Ganondorf, Jared left bringing in a long thin narrow box. Amia could feal little beads of sweat on her forehead.
"Amia." Ganondorf mumbled, now sitting in fron of her, so she couldn't see what they were doing. "You are a weapon. You were born a demond, you can't change that."
Amia's head jerked. "What are you doing!" She demanded. "I don't wanna be put back into the-" She was cut off when Ganondorf moved, and he grabbed what was in the box. It gave a metallic ring, the long black sword, which shone white in the light, was pulled out. It had a green shiny trim to it, witha green jewled eye in the middle of the hilt. The hilt was decorated so elaborately with the fused shadow pendant on the top, a silver Snow Dragon known as thee Jacop. A golden triforce just on the tip point of the sword.
"I'm not meant to be a sword! I'm Amia! I want to be a human! Not a weapon! I'm supposed to be a human!" She yelled out. Ganondorf pulled her necklace, with the tiny bit of a fused shadow on it, it got placed right into the fused shadow spot on the sword's hilt. The sword started pulling her towards it, well her soul at least. It was like black fog going into the sword, then her whole entire body was gone.
Erased.
"The forever missing sword called: Thee Amia, has been brought back." Mumbled Riaz. Who grabbed the blade and put it back into it's black leather hilt, and secured inside the narrow box.
Ganondorf grabbed the box, walked out, the band following him, with there msterious hooded cloaks on. Ganondrof was the only one without his hood up. He walked up to a random Hylian and said, "Give this to Princess Zelda, tell her this is the only weapon she needs."
The villager looked at him in awe, then grabbed the box, and ran forth to the castle. Ganondorf smiled evily and walked to the exit.
"Finally. Lets hope she does what she was made to do." Ganondorf mumbled.
"And what was that, exactly?" Asked Riaz.
"To kill."
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Jacop flew stong in the wind, they got sight of Hyrule and landed. It was around midnight, when they returned. El layed against the wall and fell asleep, Jake went exploring. He already felt at home.
Link passed th open doors, and walked into town. It was perfectly quiet, except for the fire lit lanterns that flickered in the night. He walked to the doors. Until some funny scent cought him. It was coming from an alleyway. The smell became a rusty blood smell, and reaking of death and metal.
He walked in with his sword drawn. His lantern a glow, and stepped into a puddle of fresh blood. He stopped, shown his lantern out forward, and wished he hadn't. A black shadow moved, a sword swung there in the body, as if it was flimsy metal, and the body was of a young boy. Link checked, just in case the boy was alive. He wasn't. Link sighed, reaching forr the sword. He looked down over the deathly scene. There was a narrow open box, the sowrds hilt flung across the alley way. He pulled it out, the sword glowed for a few seconds, he put it back into it's black hilt. Then in the case.
He told a nearby guard about the boy, then the family was contacted, but there was no family. For when they went to get them, there was blood spattered all over there home walls. Everybody murdered, including the little baby, still sitting in it's crib.
Link sighed, wondering who weilded this sword. He went to his trusty fortune teller. Surprisingly, she was still awake.
"Young master Link!" She said, smiling. "What can I do for you today?"
"I am wondering, who does this sword belong to?" He put the case on the table, opened it, and pulled the sword out of it;'s sheath.
"Well...it is elaborately decorated, my my. Beautiful work." she said smiling. Link noticed that the blood that was there, was singed off, no more blood, gone.
"Well, let me see." She said, putting her hand on the sword's hilt, and her other hand floated over her crystal ball. She muttered some magical words, and the ball glowed golden, something it never done before. Then it turned black, making the room black. He heard a blood curdling scream, right next to him, feeling blood on his face, he tore out his lanter, ripping the bag it was in.
The fortune teller sat there, out of breath. Both of her hands on the crystal ball. Link fel his face, no blood. "Get it out of here!" She shouted, standing up. "Get the demond sword out, I just...I just seen my own death...leave, I am so sorry. But the sword seems to belong to you, Link. Or it excepted you as it's weilder...please get it out of here." She gave Link a little nudge, towards the door, then booted him out.
Link turned back, the door slammed, nearly hitting his nose. It had gotten alot darker, and colder, winter was coming. He felt the chill of fall leaving and the Gale like winds of winter coming. He looked up at the full moon, it was half covered by a cloud. Since he was part wolf, he had the sudden urge to howl. He laughed at the thought. And walked to Zelda.
Then the pictures of the dead boy in the alley, kept coming through his mind. Blood splattered every where. Link didn't own this sword, he just took it out of the boy. The boy seemed to be around 9 or 8. Little, to little to do anything. But then again his whole entire family was murdered, maybe so they couldn't feel any pain of the boy being dead? Link thought.
But the glowing of the blade cought him off guard. He looked down. Untill he realized the etched in marks, drawings, green trim, and I. In the Gale Winds he heard his name, it came out like a terrifying snarl. Link looked everywhere for the source. Untill he realized it was his blade. He dropped it on the ground, it should've landed and clattered on the ground, but it seemed to have cought itself.
It flew up to his hand, able for him to grab it. He looked, there was a green eye in the center of the hilt, no it's not real, just etched in the metal hilt. He looked at the triforce mark on the tip of it. Link turned the sword over, it shined in the moonlight, he flipped it again, then it shinded, only black. The black side seemed to have rough marks in it, scarring down the long blade. He rubbed his hand over the marks, he got cut with them.
"Ow!" He pulled his hand back quickly. The blood that was on there burned off. With a terrible flesh burning smell. He flipped it on the silvery side. Rubbed his same hand over it, it healed, and the smell was gone.
Link raised an eyebrow, "Where did you come from?" He asked the sword, as if it would answer.
It did.
Lin couldn't understand what the sword was doing, until it screamed so horidly high, Link covered his ears and turned away. The scream was a mix of a dead mummy, a shadow being, and a woman as high as she could get, glass shattering high. Link dropped the sword, this time it did clatter to the ground. He picked it up, it all of a sudden felt funny, like there was no power of life to it.
Some people opened there windows and doors to see what made that sound. Link ran, the sword in it's hilt.
Zelda ran into Link. They both fell to the ground. "You okay?" Link asked, jumping up and helping her up.
"Yeah...whats that smell?" She asked covering her nose. They were in Hyrule Castle, walking on the blue carpet. "It smells like burnign clothes."
Link turned around. Then Zelda shriked. "Link! Your sword, it's on fire!" She yelled, pulling the hilt, she through it to the ground, it only came back like a boomerang.
"Zelda!" Link yelled, throwing his arm out, and pushing Zelda to the ground. They landed on top of eachother, but it was better then dying. Link felt his hat get ripped off. The sword had come back for Zelda, missed getting Link's hat instead.
Zelda was wide-eyed. By the fact of an assasanation. "Sorry." Link mumbled getting off of her, then pulling her up. He was lookign for his hat when Zelda said.
"Thank you, Link." She pulled her hair back. "Link, can you be one of my Royal Guard?" A smile over her face.
Link stopped and turned to her. "A Royal Guard? Me?...YES!" Link said, agreeing.
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It had been five months later, 9 months since Ayden and Shayd left. They all considered Amia a goner. There were rumors that the Queen of the Gerudo's went back to her husband. Yeah right. Link thought. Or that she comitted suicide. There was absolutely no trace of her. Or Ganondorf, it was very mysterious.
Everyone had forgotten about the war, completely, except guards were still on Parole. And every waking moment, everybody waited for the bell to ring. Today was very windy, sending clouds in from SnowPeak. Then it started snowing. Link had just woken up, he pulled his golden mail out of the chest. Slipped that on, over his undergarments. Then the red adn gold tunic, appointed to the one and only 'Royal Guard.' He had to wear it everyday. He slipped on the golden metal plated-knee high boots. Sometimes he missed his normal green tunic and easy light weight boots. His sword matched that outfit better, too.
Everyone had become acostomed to the two dragons. They fed off of the annoying evil animals that came around occasonaly. They rarely ever had a big meal, however. Jacop liked the cold weather much better, and couldn't wait for snow to sprinkle in. Link walked out of his room, greeting Zelda, who handed him a donought. She shoved the last bit of her hers down.
"Ready?" She asked, with a smile.
"Totally." Link mumbled, he was training more recruits from Ezera. And after that, he was supposed to meet General Wolfe all the way in HoleHallow. Way past Ezera, so he was planning on taking dragon flight.
Ezera came in, once again with a rather risque outfit. Even though it was the coming of winter, she wasn't cold. Her and Leo...seemed to have a relationship going on. And Leo was with her every hour. Mostly in his wolf form. Since they were rather large wolves, they could have people ride them. Link thoguht it looked funny, but then he thoguht of Midna.
Something made him choke back when he thought about her, and realized ehr missesd her so bad. His hair was greasey, and he had a canker-sore inside his mouth. He was deffinatley dealing with alot of stress. He had bags under his eyes from being awake out on parole so long. Sometimes it was hard being a Royal Guard.