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After more walking than I actually wanted, we made it to the village. Our mission was simple- defeat the monsters that were constantly coming to bother the towns people and then leave. As "heroes" we weren't allowed to take any compensation for our deed. Being a hero is a job RIGHT? That's what I thought at least. Apparently Princess Zelda already pays them for what they do in housing and food, so it makes sense not to take from the people. I guess.
No one complained about the whole walking thing, but I wanted to groan so badly. I wasn't as used to walking in large areas as these four were. Vio walked at if it was nothing, carrying a book. Blue stayed silent while Red yammered to him about random stuff Blue probably already knew. Finally the faithful leader was carrying the compass and map, leading our every move. None of them seemed bothered about how many hours we'd been walking. I was about to ask them about it, before Lissa spoke out.
"How long until we get there?" she huffed with aggravation, a typical bitch emotion from her.
"About an hour." Green responded truthfully, even I felt a bit disappointed hearing that.
"That's so annoying! This sun is ruining my wings." the magenta fairy pouted before flying into my pouch. Great, now I have to carry her.
"So um Yellow? What kind of big thing is going to happen?" Red asked, breaking the mostly-silent atmosphere we previously had.
"I don't know." I answered, running my fingers through my blonde hair. "I just know I'm here."
"How useful." I heard Vio mutter.
"Just because I don't know, doesn't mean I'm not useful." It was weird to go against Vio's remark, but I couldn't help myself. I hate being called useless, I know I'm not useless..
"Don't start fighting." Green told us before Vio could respond. "We don't need any of that, we're almost there, anyway." Per usual, like a father, he made sure everyone was in line. The group led in silence for another hour.
The town here was completely opposite to the town I had met everyone at. The first town everyone had already evacuated, in this town, everyone was living like it was normal. Were they waiting for the heroes to save them, and just living in comfort like idiots? They should have left town. The second we walked through those gates, a middle-aged women ran to us.
"Are you the heroes?" she asked pleadingly.
"The one and only!" Blue boasted with confidence.
"Thank the Goddesses! The monsters here are just terrible!"
"Why haven't you evacuated?" I found myself asking the women.
"We weren't allowed to. The men have been taken by these.. monsters. They've been working them hard down in the woods, doing manual labor." That meant more walking.
"Don't worry mam'! We'll help all your husbands and sons and others!" Red smiled to reassure her. His smile obviously gave the women comfort, she sighed in relief and waved for one of the teenage ladies to come her way.
"Mavya? Would you mind leading the heroes to the work sight?" the young girl just nodded in response as she began to walk.
Down a short pasture, up a hill, and down a hill, past a river. Finally ending up at the creepiest set of woods.
"In there." she silently informed us. "They're building something." after talking, she left without another word. She must have been shy. We could hear the men groaning to carry.. rocks maybe? The forest had a strange..home like feel. I walked through it with almost full confidence. My sword was raised in hand, the other four curiously followed behind me. Lissa flew out of my pouch to give us light for our feet. Eventually, we made it to a clearing. There was a tall, sleeping monster sitting in the center on a throne. The men were building walls around him out of stone. Their hands, bleeding. Their muscles aching. Their lips were dry and their sweat glistened. It was a hideous sight, but something I had been used to thanks to Vaati.
Idiotic moblins were standing guard, we easily slid by and scoped the area. There were only weak moblins. Nothing we couldn't handle, I'm sure.
"There doesn't appear to be any real danger." Vio whispered to us.
"I agree. I say we knock out the moblins here, and see what happens." Green chimed in. We nodded in response and got our weapons ready. Within seconds, we ran out and attacked the maybe thirty moblins that stood in the way of the abused Hylians. My whip really came in handy. I was able to use it as an item to take the clubs away from the enemy, or pull them in to stab into my sword. I obviously chose the best weapon. Lissa even tried to help out, by ramming herself into a moblins head to knock it over so Blue could smash it. All together, we made a great team, but that wasn't the end of it. By the time we easily defeated these small beasts, the men had evacuated back to their homes. I, again, felt proud to be on this side.
Before we left, we examined the monster in the middle. With construction and the moblins gone, it was silent. The monster was like a large six foot slender human, but with more.. purple-blackish skin. It also had a tail.. which, as we looked at it, began to move.. that's the first time this has moved since we got here, and I'm sure it must have been the first time since the walls around it were being made. We all watched as the.. thing slowly began to become reanimated. Once it's eyes opened, we braced ourselves. It's eyes were a light grey from what we saw, they were barely opened after all.
"What IS that?" Blue loudly questioned, emphasizing his words. Lissa shook, and hid behind me.
"I can feel it.." she stuttered. Despite us all eyeing the beast as it slowly stood to it's feet, she could tell we were curious as to what she was going to say. "It's dark aura. This is a little of what the Great Fairy was talking about. Only a little.. it's not nearly strong enough." Once she finalized her thoughts, Red lost his focus to answer her "you mean this is only a piece?! It's so scary looking!". It's attention swiftly turned to our little red friend. It's hand lifted, it's claws glistening from the light coming down. These claws added four inches to it's hand. Water from the river began moving up the hill to attack Red. The boy reacted quickly, lifting his fire rod and fighting water with fire to make a large cloud of steam. We knew we had to react, but it stopped attacking, and pointed to Blue.
"You.." it spoke, it's voice sounding like nails on a chalkboard. "I.." for some reason, it couldn't get words out properly, it must have only known a little bit of the Hylian language. "kill.. blue hero.." it finished talking, quickly following up with a sprint to Blue. No one even had a split second to react before it swiped it's long claws across our teammates chest. The short-tempered idiot actually did something right for once as he tried to avoid it by letting himself fall back. He just barely was able to get the action done, his stomach getting scratches deep enough to stain his blue tunic slightly crimson. Green and I had similar thoughts to protect our group. My whip went flying towards the monster, grabbing his right arm. It wrapped around it tightly, the claw at the end digging deep into it's arm. It roared in pain, and fought against my grip. When I began to struggle, Vio assisted me and grabbed the rope too. The monster was pulling towards Blue. Why did it want to kill Blue so badly? Why was he special? Oh well, right now was a time for action, not thought. While we held it back, Red decided to take action. He pointed his fire rod directly at the monsters stomach and tried to singe it, but to no avail. The water began to heal him. My first thought was to get it away from the water- and Blue. As much as an ass Blue was, I guess we needed him. Green took the chance to attack. He obviously was thinking of my previous thought "no thought, just action". I found my grip tightening on my rope and using all of my strength to pull this beast my direction. The force caused it to trip, giving the leader a chance to use a final blow on it's head. Despite it not having much knowledge on our language, it certainly knew how to avoid an attack. Rolling right out of the way, Green struggled to get his sword out of the ground.
"Let it go." Blue ordered. I looked at him like he was crazy, but Lissa ended up speaking for me.
"Are you crazy?! It's trying to kill you! Only you! Why do YOU want us to let it go? Are you stupid?!" Her rant continued as my grip began to slip. Blue's serious attitude turned into a cocky grin.
"Maybe a bit, not really. But I know what I'm doing, don't worry about me. I'm the main Link, I know how to handle myself." even though this sounded like a very stupid choice, Vio let go, believing in his group member. After pondering the choices in my head for a moment, I pulled my rope to the left a bit, causing the claw to come lose and release from the monster. What other choice did I have? This thing was going to get away then start attacking anyway. I myaswell let it go while Blue was good and ready, and not caught off guard like the first time around.
"Follow my lead!" Blue called. He began to run. The idiot was never going to outrun this fast monster. In order to avoid each attack, he rolled out of the direction of it's moves. While, at the time it looked like a good strategy, he eventually would run out into the field- the field! Blue was planning on running away from the close by stream. His intentions were to get it far away from where it could heal itself. I wish I had caught onto that earlier. Following behind, the four of us were determined to get this job finished before the moon came into the sky. As I had thought, Blue got hit, badly, in the back. He rolled down a grass hill, but this area was a perfect pasture. There was no water that could be seen for a distance. Most plants looked to be almost withered because they hadn't gotten watered. This wound was definitely worse than the first, and he struggled to get up. Red's steps quickened tremendously, he made it to protect Blue with his sword as the beast swung his claws again for the final kill. The two heroes seemed to be close friends, or at least Red was close to Blue in the sense that he saw the hot-tempered hero as a big brother figure. The red cadded hero's sword went right through the creatures arm, cutting it clear off. There was no water nearby for him to regain it, so it fell and just evaporated into light. With it's left arm gone, this would be a little easier. Red refused to let Blue stand due to his condition, but the rest of this monster was nothing we couldn't handle without his mallet. I cracked my whip, once again grabbing his right arm. I pulled.. and pulled..tightening, until it broke off again and dissolved into light. All we had to do was dismember this dark thing and our problems would be solved, or, at least part of our problems. Each of us grabbed a section. Blue sat up, clenching his stomach, and watched. It was obvious he felt impressed with himself that he had thought this up. Red and Green each had a leg, Vio grabbed the tail and back area, and finally, I beheaded it. With each limb gone, it's torso followed the rest of it's body. Did it return to the dark world? I think that's how I looked when I was ripped from the light world. But you know, it's hard to tell when you're, you know, dying.
We returned to the village and got Blue the help he needed. His wounds were patched and medicated. The people insisted we took a donkey home with us to carry the wounded boy, but even he refused the offer. Blue was to prideful to admit he was in pain.
"We'll just find a fairy on the way home~" Red exclaimed happily. Pink fairies healed wounds with their magic, not all wounds, but as many as their magic would permit at that time. Our heroes wounds weren't too bad, one fairy would do in the end if we found one.
We left, right on time as Green predicted. I definitely started growing hungry, and we decided to stop by a stream to set up camp after an hour and a half of walking. The hero in blue relaxed as I took his job of fishing. After fifteen minutes, I was about to give up.
"Damn the Goddesses!" I swore, gripping the fishing pole tighter.
"Be patient." Vio told me, crossing his arms. "Fish aren't easy to catch, they eat when they chose fit. You'll get something soon enough. And, those are Blue's words, not mine." I rolled my eyes at the final statement. Of course he wouldn't talk to me seriously. I guess he's more of the lone wolf of the team, if that's even possible to have in a group. Time passed..nothing.. nothing.. aha! I got a bite. This guy fought, but I was stronger. After that, it got easier. Lissa started talking to me. Once camp was set up, Green sat and waited, too.
"May I talk to Lissa?" he asked me, after a while of silence.
"Sunny days over here has no control over me, feel free to talk to me all you want~" she smiled proudly, enjoying her assertive attitude. Who is she calling 'sunny days' anyway? That's even worse than the other names! I continued my fishing and listened to their conversation.
"So, you can feel a monsters dark aura?" he asked her, wanting his questions answered.
"I guess so. It's kind of helpful. I knew I felt something omitting from that thing before it started moving, but once it moved, it was like.. completely different. The aura died down when it moved from water, but was strong when it was near it, so I guess it was element-based." she rested on Green's shoulder as she spoke. He watched my fishing line as he listened to her.
"We all figured it was element-based, but why it went after Blue is the question.. any ideas?" he asked her. She shook her head, which, from a humans point of view was not noticeable whatsoever.
"No." she finally said, realizing that just the shake of the head wouldn't do her much good in conversation.
Another fish pulled my line, I reeled it in and grabbed my net.
"Does the great fairy have any answers for us, would you think?" The main hero leaned forward to rest his elbows on his knees.
"No. She's not anywhere near here. Even so, if she had any clue, she would have told me originally."
I caught another fish. Like anyone cared.. they continued their petty conversation. I eventually caught a good five fish. Red had prepared the fire and pan for cooking. Yet again, he knew what he was doing, and did his usual thing. Green was hanging around Lissa, Blue was sleeping, Vio was reading (nerd), so I decided to spark a conversation with Red.
"How did you learn to cook so well?" that was honestly something I've wanted to know. When did he have time to sit down and get a lesson on how to cook?
"It's just instinctive I guess~" he cheerfully answered. "Blue doesn't have the patience, Green doesn't have the time, and Vio just doesn't want to. I ended up doing it on our first adventure together, and just improved since." the boy glistened with joy as he talked about everyone on the team. Red definitely saw them all as brother figures, and treated them as such. He probably now saw me as a little brother, and began showing me how to cook the fish correctly. The skills I learnt on this day I probably won't be using again for a very long time, but at least I learnt something.
After eating and cleaning up for the night, we all went to bed. I once again had that same dream of myself falling.. it was uneventful, until I began plummeting into darkness. The hues of the sky slowly turned orange..then red.. then black. I couldn't see anything, until I saw Vaati. No.. not him.. not Vaati. He was a terrible man- lazy, but terrible. He had that face of disgust, the one he always had towards me. I never noticed it until after I betrayed him, but that's solely because I knew nothing but hatred and loneliness from the dark world. That look was enough to start to bring me to wake up. A second before I woke up, I heard a voice say 'protect', as I jolted to a sit up.
The fire wasn't out yet, and Vio was sitting watching it. I guess he couldn't sleep either. He obviously had seen me moving.
"Come here." he said, gesturing to the dirt beside him. There were a few twigs in the fire place, enough to get it going for only a few more minutes. "Let's talk." Oh no.