In this chapter the plotline gets heated up a bit, with the first problem introduced into the story.
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Chapter 5; Conflagration
It was about 3 PM when they arrived back to the castle. As soon as they looked at it, they realized something was terribly wrong. Smoke arose from the castle and into the heavens. The shadows which silhouetted the towers glowed with a faint flickering light, and the aura of panic could be felt lingering about in the air.
Zelda looked at Link wide eyed, then they both escaped to the front of the castle. There were many collapsed bricks and pieces of burning embers that acted as obstacles, as if some circus game.
Guards went rushing about all around them, and people in scorched clothes stood around. Zelda and Link stared at the fire closely, seeing that much of the fire had already been put out, but a portion of the castle was still burning.
Then they heard a loud groaning noise, followed by the sound of crumbling. They didn't know what was happening until it was too late. The front of the castle walls had given out, heading straight towards them.
Link reacted quicker than Zelda, and so he ran, pulling her along with him. Small pieces of burning wood hit both of them, stinging Zelda and Link as they ran. Time seemed to have slowed down, and when Zelda looked to her right, she was terrified at what she saw.
Tons stone bricks and burning timber were heading straight towards Link. He didn't realize it, but the first thing that hit him was a stone brick, right in the side of his head. He fell down unconscious, right in front of incoming burning timber. Zelda didn't have time to do anything, and she watched in horror as the debris fell on him.
Luckily, much of it missed him, but he was still hit by hundreds of pounds of the rubble.
A second later, the wall had finished collapsing. She pulled Link out with no hesitation, though her hands got badly burnt. She dragged him out to where it was safe, with an absolutely terrified face. Just by looking at him she could tell that he was badly injured. She saw that parts of his tunic were smoldering, he was bleeding from his head and mouth, and his face were covered in burn marks.
She stopped his tunic from burning, and removed any debris that was stuck on him as she screamed for help.
An old man wearing a ghost-white tunic came hobbling, and introduced himself as a doctor. They carried him to a small infirmary that the doctors had set up. They began treating him-- Pouring water on him, rubbing special herbs on his cuts and burns, and bandaging him.
Zelda could only hope that he was going to be alright, as she sat on the grass floor in the tent.