0600. Right on cue, the king's army started to march. The step, step, step of the solder boots could make the sturdiest man feel weak. 5000 to 1000, weren't good odds, hands down. Their army was made of the finest men you'd ever see on the battlefield. The Gorons rolled like tanks in to a large grassy field that was Hyrule field.

They stopped. The loud, almost annoying sounds of the boots were gone. But then, the sound shifted to the sound of the spears of the enemy dropping and charging. The battle started.

As he listened, Matiyan remembered that day, and losses he took.

Ciarra continued to listen to her mother's story, but shook her head slightly as she realized all the things that had been happening while she struggled through each and every day, wondering how much longer she could go without food and where she'd sleep that night. Ever since her father had died, every day had been like a nightmare. Stealing and hiding away had built a wall around her, and that was part of the reason Ciarra had so much trouble trusting people. When she was younger she never spoke to anyone as openly as most did. How was she to know that the next person she would share herself with wouldn't be someone hired by a merchant or even the king himself to stop the young thief from doing what she had to stay alive.

She still remembered all too clearly the night her father had died. He had died protecting her…right in front of her eyes. There were times that she felt like dying herself because she couldn't shake the image from her mind. As soon as she had seen him fall and rushed neither over to him, only to find that he wouldn't answer her nor breath, she had run. All night, it had seemed, she had run. Run from what or to what she didn't know, but she had run just the same.

Perhaps that was why she was so afraid of Matiyan fighting for her. She was afraid that he would suffer the same ate her father had. And if Matiyan died for her, she wouldn't run. She would die as well. For what good would it be to remain living without Matiyan?

"As the battle began, the men in the back fired their arrows to cripple the king's force.

As the battle raged on, Matiyan and Jaynek rode forward on horseback to the menacing foe. They slashed down their swords as the rode through the army. They jumped about five yards away from the enemies for no apparent reason. But when some of the soldiers ran to catch them. They fell into a trap as Matiyan planed. They continued to do this, as the foes didn't seem to learn from their mistakes. But after the dropped the last trap, ten possessed Gorons surrounded them making it impossible to escape.

" Impossible," Matiyan said with confidence, " eh Jaynek?"

" Looks like it" He replied, " let's go"

Jaynek jumped and stabbed one of the Gorons as Matiyan slid under one and slashed it. Jaynek and Matiyan did a move they practiced all the time: kishoke vakonktra, which means righteous sword.

" Ready?" Matiyan asked.

" Go now!"

Matiyan jumped off of Jaynek's back and stabbed one Goron. Jaynek ran to one and dodged its blow and paired with a slash. The two switched places and swapped swords to stab two more. But their luck didn't stay. One of the Gorons bashed Jaynek to the ground before Matiyan killed it. Four more to go. He grabbed Jaynek's sword and to stab one of the monsters and rolled in to an attack on the other. He killed another one, but the last one was able to dodge and uppercut Matiyan right in the gut.

On the other battlefront, Ciarra was doing well with her men. She had slain 20 of the spirits with her curved blade. She had just a few foes left in her area that her men took care of swiftly. She saw that Matiyan and Jaynek were being killed so she ran, but then the enemy brought in a battering ram to make a roadblock that she couldn't get through. She got the remainder of her men to concentrate all power on that roadblock. They brought it down with ease, but when she went over to Matiyan and Jaynek's position, they were gone.

" So that was the last I saw of you until last year," Ciarra concluded, " now I'd like to know what happened to you."

Matiyan remembered what happened then, but he wished he hadn't.

" Well the way I remember it is…"

Matiyan fell to the ground, grabbing his stomach. He could hardly take the force of the punch that nailed him right in his weak point. He got up and the Goron took a sword he had and raised it in the air. He lashed it down at Matiyan, but then, Jaynek push him out of the way, but got the blow him self. In anger, Matiyan yelled as he was in the air and punched the monster. He kicked the sword out of his hand and stabbed the beast with it. He ran to Jaynek's side, but saw he was already dead. He buried him behind the palace where no one could find him.

He cried.

Ciarra lowered her head in sadness as Matiyan spoke of Jaynek's death. When he had first started talking about him, she had decided that he sounded very much like someone she would like to meet in the future. Her hopes of this had now disappeared.

Yet still, she was somewhat happy for the fact that Jaynek had not died in vain. He had been killed defending Matiyan, and that was a fairly good reason to her. But the fact that he list his life defending someone made more urgent Ci-Ci's fear of Matiyan dying for her.

Her head still lowered, the warmth of tears pushing softly behind her eyes, she said a silent prayer of thanks to Jaynek.

Matiyan remembered that day and his fallen comrade. He remembered the days he spent practicing with him and playing with him. He was the only friend he ever had before meeting Ciarra and didn't know what he'd do without her. She meant everything to him and he would take Jaynek's place if he were defending Ciarra.

" So that's what happened," Matiyan solemnly said, " after that I went to find you, Cianna, but I never did so I went back to see if my parents were home. They weren't so I had to find a home that I could call my own. But that home was a wall in the market place. I tried to become a mercenary as I grew up, but no one excepted my abilities and didn't believe me when I said I fought in the rebellion. I was about 19 when I found Ciarra…" And him told Cianna the rest of the story.

" Well Matiyan, I want to tell you something I wanted to say for a long time."

Matiyan listened.

" The people that left you," Cianna said, " They're not your parents."

Matiyan took a shock. So many questions filled his head but he knew Cianna would answer them.

"Your real parents were members of the elite guard and members of the royal family. Your father's name is Andiyan and your mother's is Heathra. They were great fighters and never gave up when they were on a mission. But they had to leave to fight Haksa for a long time when you were 6 so they entrusted those people with your safety. They didn't do a good job. But that's all I know. I heard all that shortly after the battle when I was looking for you…and Jaynek."

Matiyan thought about all the things she said and replied, " Are they still alive?"

" I don't know."

There was a long silence.

" We need to go back," he said, "we must go back to Hyrule and try to find my parents."