There and back again Ch. 2
Chapter 2: for kavatch!
After gearing up Link and Zelda started toward kavatch. Link was allowed to borrow a horse for himself and Zelda to ride to kavatch thanks to a prior at the monastery.
"So I wonder what this martin guy will be like. What do you think Zel?"
"I hope he will be somewhat nice."
"This is all so surreal"
"What do you mean?"
"It's just that we came here to get away from all of the worries… and now… we're out to save the world… yet again."
"Link…"
"Its alright… we'll pull through… we always do"
"I hope you're right"
The ride to kavatch was long drawn out and un eventful… until now
"COME ON! RUN WHILE YOU CAN!"
Link and Zelda exchanged glances and Link spoke
"whoa… where's the fire?"
"the fire? THE FIRE!? KAVATCH IS ON FIRE YOU JACKASS! Gods blood… you don't know do you?"
"know what?"
"Daedra overran kavatch last night! Blasting fire over the walls, they over whelmed everything killing!"
"the whole city can't be gone"
"look and see for yourselves"
"how did you get out?"
"it was Savlian Mattius. Broke straight through the swarm of Daedra"
"where is he?"
"he's holding position at the end of the road… him and a couple of new guards… he says he can hold them off… NO! I don't believe him… IF YOULDVE SEEN IT…. YOU'LD KNOW."
The townsman starts running away
"HEY WAIT!!"
"I'm getting out of here while there's still time… RUN WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"that's a little bit creepy" Link said as the elf ran for his dear life
The atmosphere in the refugee camp was disheartening at best. Children crying, adults sulking, couples holding each other for warmth… not exactly a homey feel at all. Zelda approached a local.
"excuse me, sir?"
"piss off."
"can you tell us what happened?"
"I don't wanna talk about it."
"but we need to find-"
"take a hint woman!"
"hey! Don't talk to her like that!"
"shut the hell up tree boy!"
"what the hell did you just say!?"
"you heard me!"
"why I otta-"
"ENOUGH! Fighting isn't going to get us anywhere! Link you know we need to find Martin… not beat up locals!"
"sorry Zel."
"and you! Tell me where I can find Martin… before I get nasty."
"u-up the-there… Savlian Mattius…. H-he'll know more!"
"let's go Link"
They continued up the road… the sky went from cloudy and over cast to blood red and stormy.
"I don't like the looks of this Link"
"listen!"
"Listen!? Listen to what?"
"shush!"
The sounds of fighting pound of both of their ears.
"come on!"
Link grabbed Zelda's hand and pulled out The Master Sword and ran up the hill.
"here comes another one!"
"clanfears!"
"GAHHH!"
"man down! Man down!"
"civilians!? What are you doing here!?"
"no time! We're helping out"
"thank you"
"AAAAAARGH!"
Link charges into the fray while Zelda holds back and casts defensive and restorative spells on soldiers. Link takes on two strange looking armored hominoid creatures in sword to face combat. He doges right, then left, back flips and thrusts. He misses, he then slashes at a Daedra's legs, it falls and he finishes it off by stabbing it in the chest. The other Daedra slashes at Links head, Link barely dodges it and gets a small cut on his cheek. As he goes to strike at the neck of the Daedra, Zelda screams.
"Link! HELP ME! PLEASE!"
Link looks over and sees her barely holding off three Daedra... each with shields and axes. One swings and knocks Zelda's sword out of her hand… another kicks her and she falls. She gasps for what she thinks is the last time as the Daedra raises its sword… it falls. Zelda opens her eyes to see the master sword sticking out of the Daedra's neck. It falls clutching its throat. Link runs over and dropkicks the next Daedra… it drops its axe and Link picks it up and smashes it into the Daedra's skull… the last one tried to swing at Link, only to be tripped up and stabbed by Link. He stands up panting and bleeding from several places.
"Zelda…"
"Link!!"
Zelda jumps up and tackles Link to the ground as an arrow imbeds itself in her leg. She shrieks in pain as Link pulls out his bow and shoots the responsible dremora in the eye.
"Zelda!"
"uhnn… I'm fine… just pull it out."
"it went completely through… I'm going to have to break the arrow. And pull it out the hard way… it didn't hit anything vital… you ready?"
"I'm ready."
"ok… heal it when I tell you."
Zelda pulls up the leg of her short pants and then clutches her leg to give Link a steady platform to break the arrow on… she holds her breath as Link snaps the arrow where it sticks out of her skin… he then slowly pulls out the rest of the arrow on the other side of her leg… tears of pain are streaming down Zelda's face as Link finishes… he tells her to heal the leg and he then rips off a piece of his shirt and wraps it around her leg and ties it together.
"thank you…"
"don't worry about it… stay here."
Link gives Zelda a reassuring smile as he picks up his sword and runs back into the crowd.
30 minuets later…
"we appreciate your help civilian…"
"we need to find Martin… where can I find Savlian Mattius… I was told that he would know where I can find Martin."
"well, you've found Savlian… How can I help you?"
"you're Savlian!?"
"yep… but I don't know about Martin… last I saw, he was leading a group of people into the chapel… but with that damn Oblivion gate blocking the main gate… we cant get in there to help out."
"and the oblivion gate?"
"we sent in a group of people about an hour before all the Daedra attacked out here… we haven't heard from them yet."
"I'm going in."
"what? You can't just go in there! You'll get your ass kicked!"
"watch me… Zelda… stay here… heal the wounded…"
"Link… no…"
"I'll be alright… just tend to the wounded… I'll be back before you know it."
"who will help Tamriel if something happens to you?"
"I'm sure there's someone who can help… and besides… I'm not planning on dying anyway."
"Link!"
"bye."
He turns on his heel and sprints into the Oblivion gate before Zelda or anyone can do anything to stop him.
…In oblivion…
When he stepped through the gate… Link wanted to turn and run back out… much like the normal Hylan would feel… like he felt like doing many times before… what set him above the rest is that he didn't turn and run… he persevered… he scanned his surroundings for any thing that might want to eat him for dinner… he saw two imp like creatures and a guy running from a rather large beaked lizard like creature… two more imp thingies and wait…
"SHIT!"
Link cursed as he sprinted to the rescue. He pulled out his sword and slashed at the first two imp things… the other two started throwing fire balls at him… he then ran alongside the beaked lizard and the imp things threw fireballs meant for Link but hitting the beaked lizard… Link then pulled out his bow and two arrows and released them at the same time… both arrows found their way into the side of the imp things skulls.
"thank the nine… I never thought I would see another friendly face."
"you aren't hurt are you?"
"no… I thought those scamps and that clanfear were going to be the end of me."
"clanfear… that's what they were talking about earlier…"
"who?"
"the soldiers outside."
"I thought I was the only one left…"
"go… get out of here… you look like hell."
"no way… I'm coming with."
"ok… I can use the help… but first… tell me what happened here."
"ok… we were sent in to try and close this gate… we figured that if the enemy can close them… so can we… anyway… we decided that running across the bridge was the best way to go… we got rocked… they took Menien to the top of the tower… the rest of us… five are dead on the bridge… one is right over there in the lava… one was burnt crispy by the gate… one is hanging over that way somewhere… Menien is POW and I'm here talking to you…"
"quite a tale… lets go"
"the bridge is blocked off… we're going to have to go around… follow me… I tried to go get Menien but you saw how that went…"
"ok… lead on."
They continued on the side path… as they walked under a great arch… and saw the hanging man… Link stared for a minute and when he was about to keep walking he saw his arm move and heard him groan… Link pulled out his bow and let an arrow fly into the mans skull… he muttered a prayer to the gods for the mans safe journey. when they came to a bridge and started across rocks started to roll down the hill at the two men…
"oh crap…"
"Illend! You didn't say anything about these rocks falling!"
"I didn't say they wouldn't either!"
"LOOK OUT!"
By then a scamp had saw them and called its friends and they started across… but a large bolder ran them all over and off of the bridge… Link and Illend sprinted across to safety… they continued on… they were walking down a road, scanning for scamps and the like when Link was suddenly blown off of his feet and thrown 20 yards away by an explosion… his vision blurry he lay there for a moment and was them picked up by Illend and forced to drink a potion… he felt the pain subside.
"what happened?"
"you kicked a rock onto some sort of explosive device… it detonated and threw you 20 yards closer to the tower… here's your sword."
"ow… thanks"
"That potion saved your life… you're going to have some burns on your leg… at least until you see a healer."
"thanks Illend… when we get out… I owe you a drink."
"you're going to need one too Link…"
"lets keep moving for now… gates not gonna close itself."
They continued on into the tower… Link limping slightly… they disposed of several scamps and dremora along the way… they found a door to a bridge leading to the tower where Illend thought Menien was held. Link lost his footing and slipped off the edge… barely catching himself on the side of the bridge… two dremora then ran out of the prison tower and Illend was forced into a fight… Link repeatedly tried to pull himself up. As his strength waned… he saw two Daedra fall to their deaths… his fingertips slipped and Link thought it was over… but Illend catches him before he falls. Link looked down and thought he saw a flash of blonde… but he thought nothing of it as Illend pulled him up.
"thanks again… Illend."
"no problem Link."
They continued onto the tower… Link stealthily beheaded the guard and searched for something at least semi-important as Illend talked to Menien.
"Menien!"
"Illend… its good to see you."
"hang on… I'm gonna bust you out."
"no you won't… you need to close the tower… now… there's going to be another wave of Daedra going really soon… don't worry about me… save Kavatch."
"but Menien-"
"the key! You must get the key… it will open the door to the sigil stone."
"this thing?" Link held up a strange looking key shaped thing
"yeah… that… take it to the top of the large tower… save kavatch…"
"Menien…"
"don't worry about me… just go… I'm already a dead man… I'm scheduled to be fed to the clanfears in five minuets… go on without me."
With that… Menien pulled out a dagger out of no where and stabbed himself in the stomach… he slumped to the bottom of his cell…
"Menien…"
"come on Illend… we gotta get moving."
They continued to the top of the large tower… Link thought he saw the blondish streak again but thought he was just seeing things… they got to the top of the sigil keep and as Link reached for the sigil stone, dremora ran up and started a fight… mid-fight, Link was hit over the head with the back of a sword and slumped to the floor… Illend put another dremora into a choke hold and started walking towards a wall… shouting at the others to surrender… the other Daedra pulled out their bows and released arrows into their comrade… they went through and hit Illend… he was killed instantly… the Daedra turned their attention to Link and raised their swords… out of nowhere, Zelda jumped onto the back of one of the Daedra and was thrown into the wall… she slumped slowly to the floor… blood on the walls and running out of her mouth… Link sprung into action… he flipped onto his feet, slashed at the dremora and grabbed Zelda… he then dove outward and snatched the Sigil stone with one arm… as he was about to land on a sharp looking spike… when he found himself laying on cold wet stone.
Authors notes: chapter 2 of There and back again… sorry it took so long guys… but you know… writers block sucks.
Disclaimer: do I really have to say it? No I don't own Oblivion or Legend of Zelda.