Chap 16: A Birthday to Remember
(A/N) Hello everyone! So, Isaac, Rex, and Dominic are now friends with Link. That'll probably help them out sooner or later. It usually helps to be friends with the best fighter in all of Hyrule. This chapter made me question the story's plot so far, where it's going, and why I write it in the first place. Luckily, Norkix told me that I could either continue it, and find my muse again, or I could leave it and anyone who actually still likes it. Don't worry, I will NEVER just stop writing a story. If I start something, I'm finishing it. And that's that. Enjoy the chapter.
Italics means thoughts, someone is speaking sharply, or someone has spoken Hylian. It can also mean a flashback. Bold means an author's note or some sort of text, which I will seldom use. Underlined text implies importance. I am unlikely to remember that. Have fun!
Oh, and I don't own any piece of The Legend of Zelda. I own, literally, more air than Zelda.
"Rex! Where are you, you white-haired freak?!" Link called out. He had been searching for Rex for the past ten minutes. The group was celebrating Link's fifteenth birthday party, and didn't want Rex to miss out. Why they sent the birthday boy himself, I do not know.
"I'VE TOLD YOU, IT'S A GENETIC THING!" Rex yelled from his quarters at the end of the hall. Link began running down the hall.
"Yeah, and nobody cared! Now get to Joseph's!"
"Or what?!" Rex shouted. Link was at his door and in the process of kicking it open, when Rex opened the door. Rex only gasped slightly before Link's foot made full-forced contact with his groin. He fell to the ground in agony while Link apologized profusely. Eventually, Link decided to carry Rex bridal-style to Joseph's.
"This is going to be REALLY difficult to explain to Dom…" Link muttered.
"No shit, it'll be difficult to explain!" Rex exclaimed.
They arrived outside Joseph's about thirteen minutes later. Dominic was helping his brother with his serious injury while Isaac was laughing uncontrollably at it. "It's not funny!" Rex groaned/yelled.
"You're right, it's hilarious!" Isaac managed to say while laughing.
"It's kind of funny, brother," Dominic said.
"I really do apologize…" Link murmured.
"I know you do, Link. You really better," Rex said in a high-pitched voice.
"Do you think a beer might help, Rex?" Isaac asked once he had calmed down.
"Why yes, Isaac, I do. Get it for me, would you?"
"Comin' right up, buddy."
After a round of beers and apologies from Link, the group had completely calmed down. They were now back to their usual level of comfort when Dark Link rammed through the door. "Link!" he screamed before scanning for Link, "We need your help! Dimesia's attacking!"
"What?!" Where?!"
"East Wall, around where those three should be!"
"Shit! Isaac, Dom, suit up and report to the wall! Be careful!"
"Yessir!" Isaac and Dom said in unison before running to the armory.
"Rex, I want you to hide. You're in no condition to fight."
"Sir, I can fight! I'm fine!" Rex exclaimed while attempting (in vain) to stand.
"Rex, you can't even stand. Joseph, help Rex to your basement!"
"Yes sir!" Joseph said.
"Dark! Let's go!" Link said before bolting to the East Wall with Dark. Joseph helped Rex walk to the basement, which had a chair and three books, none of which interested Rex in the slightest. It was also practically impenetrable.
"I can't fucking believe he just left me," Rex said while curling up in the chair.
"Lieutenant Reys! Where are you?!" Link shouted through the chaos that occurred in East Wall. Soldiers were running to and fro, trying to maintain order among the civilians that had crowded around the exit. Some were more willing to risk their lives out in Hyrule Field than they were to eke out their meager existence here.
"Over here, sir!" Reys shouted back. Link looked to where he believed the sound came from to find Reys holding his arm, which appeared to have holes in it.
"What happened to your arm?!"
"Dimesia stabbed me! Drilled her fingers right into me!"
"Where is she?!"
"Outside, sir! Be careful; bitch has an army with her!"
"Comprised of?"
"Moblins, Keese, Stalfos, and about three Iron Knuckles."
"Thank you, Reys. Citizens, listen up! Dimesia is right outside our door. I'm going to go have a chat with her. I need any able-bodied men and women to report to the armory and grab whatever weapons and armor they see fit. I need archers to be ready to attack at a moment's notice. Stay hidden! Children, go to Joseph's Pub. Tell Joseph Link sent you. Make sure he takes you to the basement. Dark Link, Isaac Cox, and Dominic Shepherd, follow me!"
"Yes sir!" Dom and Isaac shouted.
"Fuck my life," Dark Link muttered under his breath, "Coming!"
When they all had assembled, Link gave the order to lower the drawbridge. When they could see past it, they all felt a knot grow in their stomachs. There must have been 70 Moblins, 400 Keese, thirty Stalfos, and the three aforementioned Iron Knuckles. "Reys! I want you with us too!"
"Yes sir!" I'm GOING TO DIE, Reys thought. Once Reys had arrived behind Dom (because he was afraid of Dimesia and her army), the group moved out. The Moblins never attacked; they just stared at them, making the group very uncomfortable. Two of the Stalfos began communicating by knocking their bones together. Link, Dark, and Isaac all felt distressed and horrified by everything out here, while Reys felt safe behind Dom, who was pulling a completely blank face.
"Isaac, what do you think?" Link asked.
"Looks bad, sir. One misstep and we'll be shredded. Everyone needs to be incredibly careful." When Isaac said this, Reys' already low psyche completely snapped. He began crying, wishing he was back home. The loud noise startled the Moblins, because they began shrieking and readying to attack. "Reys, you fucking idiot! You've killed us all!"
"ENOUGH!" a familiar feminine voice screamed. The Moblins went back to their positions and the group un-huddled. "Link, what do you want? You've got a lot of nerve coming out here unarmed!"
"I want to know why you're here. What purpose does this serve? There's no point in you attacking Hyrule!"
"Fucking hell, you're stupid. It serves the point of taking over this continent, then the planet. I'm creating my empire. How didn't you see that? What kind of idiot can't fucking see that?!" It was obvious Dimesia was pissed at Link; she seemed pissed at anyone in screaming (and killing) range.
"Why did we come out here again?" Dark asked Link. It was a good question (and not even one I as an author can answer), being that they seemed to be in the middle of a horde of enemies and in front of a sadistic, masochistic demigoddess. "'Cause this makes no sense to me whatsoever."
"That is a very good question, Dark. Now seems like a really good time to get the fuck out of here."
"You're not going anywhere," Dimesia said with a slight growl.
"Well I saw this coming- ARCHERS! ATTACK NOW!"
At that moment, a platoon of archers popped up from the half-wall that provided their cover. They took aim and fired, killing most of the Moblins around Link's group and nicking Dimesia. She collapsed, bleeding profusely from her minor wound. "MEDIC!" she screamed. An Iron Knuckle picked her up by the shoulders and took her back to her tent kingdom.
Link and his group had busied themselves with killing Moblins and getting back to East Wall. At the moment, Link was stabbing a Moblin in the stomach, Dark Link was slitting another Moblin's throat, Isaac was breaking a Moblin's arm, Dom was using his axe to decapitate one, and Reys was cowering on the floor, trying not to get killed.
When the group had killed enough Moblin's to safely retreat back to East Wall, Link ordered Dom to carry Reys back.
"Why did we even go out there?!" Isaac shouted.
"I don't know, Isaac. All I know is that we almost died, and that Dimesia is hemophiliac."
"Hemo- what?" Isaac asked, obviously confused by the big word Link used to describe Dimesia's strange blood condition.
"Hemophiliac. It means that when she bleeds, she bleeds a lot. It's really difficult for her to stop bleeding once she starts," Link elaborated.
"Oh, I see. So we really just have to nick her in, like, three places?" Dom asked.
"Yeah, but the question is 'How are we going to get that close?'"
"Link?" Dark said.
"Yeah, Dark?" Link responded.
"I have an idea. And I've been working on my Modern Hylian. I know exactly what you three were talking about."
"Oh? What were you thinking?"
"You, Isaac, and I- when Dimesia next shows up- perch atop East Wall. When she shows her face- we strike," Dark suggested.
"Dark! You spoke a language I understand!" Isaac exclaimed.
"Y-Yes, but you sh-shouldn't expect it too m-much. I only know so much."
"Regardless of what language he speaks, his ideas need to be solid. Dark, that's an okay-at-best idea. Nothing we should act out exactly as it's stated, but it's alright. I'll toy with it tonight."
"True. I think we should all, except Dom, go home and- what the fuck?!" Isaac exclaimed as he watched Reys fall, twitching and screaming.
"Reys! What the hell's the matter with you?!" Link yelled.
"I-Inside!" Reys managed to say before he began hallucinating. It's been said that everyone's hallucinations are different, but Reys seemed pretty standard, especially when you consider that they're all terrifying. Reys thought he was covered by ReDeads, who were eating his flesh from every area imaginable. "DIN! HELP ME, DIN!"
"Medic! Someone help him!" Isaac screamed. He hated Reys more than anyone else (according to himself), but he couldn't just watch someone suffer like this. Luckily for him, he didn't have to much longer.
"What just happened?" Reys asked during the short moment of calm they had.
"We don't know. You fell down, and you were screaming a-and twitching. We were all very afraid," Isaac informed him. Dark nodded.
"All right. Well, someone help me up," Reys said while holding his hand out. Dom stepped forward and grabbed his hand firmly, pulling gently but forcefully enough to raise Reys. When Reys was about to be able to stand on his own, Dom still holding his hand, he froze. His grip tightened and his face went flat. He screamed before spikes erupted from his body, skewering Dom's hand and thigh. Reys bled from just about everywhere, and was killed the second the spikes emerged.
"Fucking hell!" Dom screamed.
"Dom!" Link and Isaac screamed.
"Get him away from me!" Dom screamed.
Link and Isaac moved in to remove Reys from Dom, but both froze when they saw that the spikes were barbed. Dark was frozen in terror. "Dom?" Isaac asked.
"Yeah, I?"
"Here, bite down on my belt," Isaac said while removing his leather belt.
"Why? What's wrong?!" Dom shouted.
"Just do it," Link commanded, "This is going to hurt."
"Ready Link?" Isaac asked while setting his hands on Reys shoulders which, luckily, had no sharp protrusions.
"Yeah, let's do this," Link said while setting his hands on Reys' gut. "Pull!"
Isaac groaned while pulling as hard as he could on Reys, Link pushing. Dominic was busy screaming while biting down as hard as he could on Isaac's belt.
"Fuck! Keep going!" Isaac shouted when Link stopped to breathe. Reys spikes were almost out by now. "Dom, drinks are on me tomorrow!"
Finally, they removed Reys from Dominic. Dom fell down, hand and thigh completely torn up. "Where's that fucking medic?!" Isaac screamed.
"Here, sir! What happened?!" the medic asked.
"Just fucking help him!" Link shouted.
"Yes sir!" the medic exclaimed before dragging Dominic back to the infirmary.
"Isaac!" Dom shouted before he was completely out of sight. "I owe you one."
Dark was still standing in the same spot, breathing heavily. "Shit," he whispered when Link and Isaac had left to give Rex the news.
"Ahahahahaha!" Dimesia laughed from her bed. She could see everything that had happened thanks to Reys' spike's tips doubling as eye ports. "That couldn't have gone any better!"
"What happened?" the Void Master asked?
"I poisoned one of his soldiers. Oh, I modified the poison a little, gave it a little more 'shock and awe'."
"I did not permit you to do so! Why would you disobey me?" yelled.
"I'm sorry, father! Please, calm down…" Dimesia said submissively.
"I will calm down when I have a daughter who is obedient! What are you doing here?! Isn't he holed up in the kingdom?"
"Yes, sir."
"Why aren't you attacking him right now?!"
"He struck me, father! I almost bled out!"
"And you dare call yourself my daughter? Leave!"
Dimesia stood and limped out of her tent, closing the link between her and her father. She hates talking to him.
Sorry this took so long to upload; I was busy watching Angel Beats. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as I hated writing it, because I HATED writing this chapter. We got introduced to Dimesia's asshole father, the Void Master. Hooray for fictional versions of a demon I don't believe exists! Please review, it lets me know whether or not I suck. It also lets me know if I rule, which I'd love to hear about. Until then, if there are no questions, I'm out. Peace.