A/N: Well, another chapter, another step closer to the dramatic fight scene! So, I didn't really like how this chapter was written, but what are your thoughts? I need to know what you peole think of me and my writing.

Disclaimer: The only things I own here is Vulpumbra and Nexaserma.

Chapter 6

Link

I was feeling pretty good. Zelda and I had been having a good time. We discovered a scroll that led us on a treasure hunt for the Light Key. We finally found it hidden away. We were having fun, for a moment we allowed our selves to forget about the Gerudo. Then Vulpumbra appeared. He told us a tale of how the Great Deku Sprout had been overpowered by a "tremendous force of evil". How the Gerudo had somehow broke through the wards and entered Kokiri Forest. How the Gerudo slew Mido and took the Forest Key. How she had raised an army of soulless re-animated skeletons and came across a path through the Lost Woods that wasn't supposed to be there. How as she traveled through the Lost Woods she added to her host of the undead. How Vulpumbra warped to Death Mountain and watched the legion of the damned march onward, toward him. That pretty much destroyed any good feelings I had.

It wasn't like there was anything we could do. The Goron's numbers were very small indeed. All we could hope for was to collapse the mountain on them. But that would take to long. We simply could not hope to fight an army of monsters and stalfos, the likes of which hadn't been seen since Ganondorf's forces.

And so I just sat and listened to Zelda order Vulp to make a suicidal stand against the multitude of evil. For being the possessor of the Triforce of Wisdom, she was not very smart. She seemed to take the epithet of the Sheikah, "The Shadow People", as being literal. She astonishingly seemed incapable of recognizing that Vulp was a real person with real feelings and a real life. Vulpumbra took his death sentence rather well; his face seemed to be carved out of rock as he stood there impassively. He nodded and bowed to the Crown Princess and strode off to sharpen his blades. I vowed then and there to Farore, Goddess of Courage, that such a brave man would not meet his death alone. I started to stock up on supplies.

Vulpumbra

I sat for a few minutes in quiet meditation, preparing myself for the battle of my life. I prayed to Din, Goddess of Power, and then buckled on my twin sabers. I was as ready as ever. It was time to teach this necromanceress the true might of the Sheikah.

"Vulp! Wait up! I'm coming with you!" I stopped and turned around. Link was standing there with a solemn air about him.

"Hero, I am being sent on this mission for the sole purpose of dying very slowly." I said calmly.

"That doesn't mean you have to do it alone!" He replied.

"Everyone dies alone, Link!" I snapped angrily. This wasn't nice; the kid was starting to damage my calm.

"Then we'll just die alone together." He smirked. I sighed, I was starting to realize why he made it through his war against the King of Evil. He was so damn determined, adamant. And with him by my side we might actually give the Gerudo a battle she wouldn't forget. For the first time since I talked to Malon days ago, it felt like months, I allowed myself a smile.

"Your funeral, but don't expect me to baby-sit you, kiddo." I affected an air of nonchalance.

"Death is too good for the likes of you." He joked. "You are a scoundrel, a rogue, and a rascal."

"Hmmm… yeah, I'd have to agree with you there." I thoughtfully said. "But don't think for a second you won't be burning there along with me."

"What did I do?" Link asked bewilderedly. "I saved Hyrule from Ganondorf, I get hell for that now?"

"Oh right, you're the Hero of Time." I laughed, "well, that might be enough to redeem yourself for breaking a girl's heart and being too stupid to realize how much she cares." What the hell? Where did that come from? Why did I bring that up?

Link stopped walking and stared at me.

"Nayru's Love, boy!" Well, it appeared to be too late to stop. Might as well jump in headfirst. "Malon? Tall? Red haired? Lon Lon ranch?"

"What are you-," Link started, and then his eyes widened with as realization set in. "I never knew."

"Of course you didn't Link, I'm sorry, I don't know why I brought it up." I hastily said. "Right, then. We have an army to stop."

"Yeah. We need to pay attention to the fight at hand." Link toughened up and put steely resolve into his voice. "Focus is the only way we will walk away from this."

"Hero, we won't live to see sunrise." I said cynically. "Or at least you might not, if I can help it."

"What, you would die for me?" Link asked skeptically. "We haven't been the best of friends."

"Well, as a Sheikah, I'm under a blood oath to protect the Royal family," I smirked. "Besides Her Highness would leave my corpse for the guays if I let you die."

Link scowled at me.

"Well, are we going to sit around and banter all day? Or are we going to teach the Gerudo about messing with Hyrule's finest?" I pulled out a warp spell. "Let's buy your brothers some time. But, ah! Time isn't cheap! Well Link, time to meet Death."