A/N: Awww guys I'm so sorry that I haven't updated sooner I've had a major writer's block, still kinda do. Well anyhow, here's chapter 14 enjoy!
Disclaimer: For the love of… I don't own Zelda period.
Chapter 14 – Haunted Wasteland, Spirit Bead, and the Forbidden Valley.
The three heroes thanked the Gerudos for their hospitality as they walked towards the gates that lead to the wasteland. The sun had rose less then an hour ago. The sky was a clash of purples, oranges, yellows and pinks. A few black birds flew in the sky, and the wind gently blew the sand on the surface every which way. Nabooru was standing by the black steel gates waiting for them. Her long red hair was no longer in a ponytail but let loose, reaching just below her waist. She wore no make-up, only a few pieces of jewellery. She wore black baggy pants instead of the usual white uniform, and a dark red tube top. " Are you leaving now Link?"
He nodded. " Yes, we must defeat Ganondorf as soon as possible."
" I see. I trust you remember how to get through the wasteland alright."
" Yes. It hasn't been that long." Link laughed.
Nabooru smiled and pulled Link into a hug. " Don't die Hero. Please defeat him for good this time and save Zelda." She let go of Link and lightly kissed him on the cheek. She turned to Kaian. " Good luck Chosen. May the Goddess of Balance…Kardica, choose right." Kaian raised an eyebrow at this remark but she chose not to question the Sage. " Mara, I'll be counting on you too. Protect the chosen with your life."
" I…I will." Mara answered slightly bowing. Nabooru nodded and walked back towards the hideout disappearing into one of the many doors. " Oh, wow. A Sage just spoke to me!" Mara said excitedly.
" Come on we can't waste time. Follow me." Link lead the girls into the wasteland. The once gentile wind now blew fiercely, blowing the sand roughly in the faces of the three travellers. Link stopped in front on a river of quicksand. He kicked off his boots and pulled on his hover boots. " Ok, I can only take one of you at a time so which one of you wants to go first."
The two girls looked at the quicksand and then at each other. " Mara can go first." Kaian said pushing her forward.
" Alright." Link agreed walking towards Mara.
" But. Wait. Maybe Kaian should go first. After all she is th-" Her sentence was cut short as Link picked her up bridal style. " Hey! Link! Put me down!"
Ignoring her wishes, he continued to walk across the river. Mara closed her eyes and held a death grip around his neck. Finally, they made it across. " Mara, let go you're choking me." Link said in a whispered voice.
Mara laughed a little as she let go, leaving a red mark around the back of his neck. " Sorry."
" It's fine." He looked across the river. " Ok Kaian I'll be there in a second."
'One.' Kaian thought smartly to herself. " No, wait" An idea had hit her. She wanted to try out her power she had gotten from the forest bead. It could be more useful then just a shield. " I'll get across myself." She called to the other two.
Link looked at Mara but all she could do was shrug. " Alright, but be careful." He called back.
Kaian stood at the edge of the river. She took in a deep breath. " OK, I can do this. All I have to do is believe in my power." She whispered to herself for reassurance. As she focused her energy, her green spiral tattoo on her left arm started to glow. Instead of calling out to word shield, something at the back of her mind urged her to call out something different. Her hands shot up in front of her glowing green. " Rise!" She screamed as her eyes flew open. Vines erupted from the dead ground and shot across the river forming a bridge. Her hands stopped glowing and dropped to her sides. A large smile spread across her face as she laughed. " Oh what, who rocks." She said while dancing a little. She walked across the bridge without any trouble. The vines uprooting and following her as she walked. When she reached the other side the remaining vines dug themselves back into the ground. " Ok, lets go."
" That was so cool! Why couldn't you have thought of that before?" Mara asked poking her.
" I don't know." Kaian shrugged.
Link kissed her on the cheek. " I'm just glad you're safe. Now come on before this wind gets worse."
" It's can get more worse then this?" Mara questioned as she followed the two destined heroes.
They walked on through the wasteland. First following the trail of red flags left behind by the Gerudos. Then they followed a very annoying ghost through the remainder of the desert using the eye of truth Link had. " All I'm saying honey is that if ya ever decide to leave mister hero ova here, I'll be waiting." The ghost gave a final wink before disappearing leaving behind a very annoying laugh.
" Ok that was just gross." Kaian complained as they walked towards the temple.
" That was the most funniest thing I had ever seen. I can't believe that ghost was hitting on you!" Mara laughed, as Link tried to keep a straight face.
" It's not funny guys!" Kaian wined as she playfully punched them before in the arm.
" Alright the Spirit bead should be around here some-" Evil laughing cut off Link's sentence.
" Well, well, well. Would you look at this Koume? The little brats come back." The flame haired witch appeared in front of them.
" I guess we should have just killed them to start with Kotake." The blue ice haired witch appeared beside her sister. " We just have to kill you now."
" Yes." Agreed Kotake. " Let's cut right to the chase. We'll fight as one but only against the chosen. We need to take revenge for our son. No one calls him ugly."
" Yes, come and fight. Or are you scared?" Koume taunted
Link and Mara looked at Kaian. She smirked. " I'll take you two on." She now directed her words at her friends. " No matter what happens don't interfere ok?"
Mara nodded. " Alright, good luck. Kai."
Link looked at her with disbelieving eyes. " You can't do this. What if get hurt?"
Kaian pulled him into a long, lip-locked kiss. " I'll be fine." She walked up to the sisters. " Ok, are the dogface sister ready to lose?"
" You'll pay for calling us that you insignificant girl!" The two sisters disappeared into a red and blue cyclone. As the wind dispersed, it revealed a much taller younger look witch with ice and fire hair, with matching wands. " You ready to die, you pathetic Triforce bearer?"
Kaian looked at the witch in front for her. " I'm not the one who is going to be dying."
" We shall see." The witch starting firing fireballs and ice beams at her. Kaian barely escaping from them using her light bead.
" Holy shit this is tiring." The grey-eyed girl said as her feel to her knees panting. The witch shot other ice beam at her.
" Kai watch out!"
Kaian looked up quickly and groaned. " Shield!" Vines shot up from the ground and took the blow. The green ice then broke into thousands of shards and flew everywhere, one hitting Kaian in the wrist, right through the tear drop tattoo she had gotten from the water bead. She shrieked in pain as she instinctively grabbed her bleeding wrist. The shard had gone right through and now was lying on the ground beside. The combined witch laughed as Kaian continued to scream out. " It burns! Why the fuck does it burn! It's only supposed to hurt not burn!"
Link held Mara back as he looked away, trying to block out the screams of his girlfriend. " Link let me go, we have to help her! They'll kill her!"
" We promised we wouldn't interfere, so we won't." He unconsciously tightened his hold on Mara's arms as anger and fear built up inside him. Mara let out a sigh of frustration as she gave up on trying to get away from him.
" I'm fine blondie." Kaian half screamed, the pain in her wrist getting worse by the minute.
" Aw, the Chosen is in pain." The twins mocked. " How about we put her out of her misery?" The twins rose both their wands above they're heads.
Kaian felt the on-coming danger. She was about ready the give up when she remembered her friends. If she died, Hyrule and them would die with her. ' I will tear them to pieces before that happens!' She felt a wave of dark energy wash over her. She started the glow a dark purple and the rose tattoo started to pulse. Forgetting the growing pain in her wrist she stood up straight and faced the witch. Her eyes were no longer a cool grey, but a vivid purple rimmed with a blood red. " Go back to hell." Kaian uttered in an altered demonic voice. Her hands started to move quickly in front of her, creating glowing symbols in the air. " Shadows open, block the light, it's about time to destroy their life. Song of death, break the rope. End their breath, crush their hope!" She chanted in the same demonic voice. She continued to chant, but in a language not understandable. A purple coloured vortex appeared underneath the witches. The power of it caused them to split apart. With devilish cries, they were sucked into the portal. The vortex shut almost immediately.
" Kai?" Mara asked slowly walking toward her, Link beside her. Both were equally frightened.
The crimson haired girl turned to face them, the purple glow fading and her grey eyes returning. " I won." She blacked out right there.
Moaning in pain, Kaian slowly sat up. She looked around at her surrounds. It appeared as though she was just inside the Spirit Temple. Just remembering her wound she brought her hand in front of her. It wasn't bandaged but the wound was gone and all that was left was dried blood. " We tried to bandage it but your power over water wouldn't let us near it." Kaian looked up at the to see Link at the entrance, Mara behind him. " Are you feeling better?" He asked as he kneeled down beside her, brushing the stray strands of hair away from her face.
" Ya, I'm good."
" I guess that last attack took a lot out of you huh? That was the coolest thing ever!" Mara laughed sitting beside her on her other side. " But," She continued is a quieter voice. " What was that you were saying after you stopped speaking English? And what was with that freak voice?"
" I…I don't know." Kaian looked down. " I honestly don't remember much after the Shadow beads power took over."
" I see." Mara smiled. " Well what's done is done, let's just hope you never go freaky on us again."
Kaian smiled. " Ya, I won't be using that power again anytime soon."
" Well on a lighter note. Look what me and Link found!" She held out her hand. " It's the spirit bead!"
" More like I found. You didn't do anything but disappear for three hours."
" Hey! I told you I was looking for water, that's an extremely hard job. Which by the way I found!"
" Hours! It took you hours! The oasis is right beside the temple!"
" It took me hours because the stupid green monsters popping up everywhere!" Mara huffed as Link rolled his eyes. " Well anyways, hurry up and put it on!"
Kaian laughed. " Alright." She took her necklace off, slipped the bead on and then refastened it back on her neck. Immediately, orange light surrounded her. She let out a small cry as a star and crescent moon joined together appeared on the back of her neck. The light dimmed, and Kaian stood up. " Alright, lets get going. It's time to kick Ganondorf's ass!"
" You sure you're ready and well rested?" Link questioned getting up.
" Ya! I feel so…so refreshed. Its probably because it's the last bead." Kaian looked around. " Hey where'd Mara go?"
" Come on guys! It takes about half a day to go through the Forbidden Valley. I want to get this over with as soon as possible!" Mara called from the entrance.
" Alright we're coming Blondie!" Kaian grabbed Link hand and ran to the entrance, unaware of the restless power in her, threatening to be released at any moment.
The six sages stirred restlessly in the Chamber of Sages. " Do you feel that awful energy just now?" Saria asked as she shivered in remembrance.
" Yes, that power was fuelled by pure evil. It's the work of Kardica. I imagine that she's testing the Chosen's full abilities." Rauru answered the forest sage.
" But, the Shadow bead wasn't suppose to do that. It was originally a duplicating power. Is that not what Kali's power was when she had the necklace." Impa questioned.
" Yes. It was."
" I remember Kali well. She was a good-hearted person. Never once had an evil thought cross her mind." Darunia said smiling.
" Maybe that's just it. When Kaian was fighting she must have some kind of cruel thought." Nabooru thought out loud.
" If that is the case. Let's just hope it doesn't happen again, and that Ganondorf doesn't figure it out."
" The Chosen has found the last bead. She also disposed of your mothers."
Ganondorf looked at his spy. " She defeated those old bats?"
" Yes, with some kind of evil vortex."
" Interesting." He stroked the spy's blonde hair. " The final battle is just ahead. Soon I shall rule the world with the power of all four Triforce pieces."
A/N: there you go! Chappie 14. I hope you liked it. Plz Review! Happy Holidays! Sorry again for taking so long. Can you guys guess who the spy is yet? Tell me who ya think it is, oks?
Until next Chappie, Luv ya!
Kitty