Three Princesses, One Wish
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Chapter 11
Tiff awoke to complete darkness. She noticed that she was being held by something. She began to struggle and scream out of instincts. She was then moved out of something and saw a bright light. Everyone from last night moved around her, signaling that she was okay.
"Oh! Tiff, calm down. You are alright. Shush now," Zelda's voice comforted behind her.
Two arms wrapped around her. She then realized right away that Zelda had gathered her in a hug. Tiff took a deep breath and relaxed her muscles. She panted slightly because her struggling made her tired.
"Sorry," she apologized.
"It is no worry. You only did what your instincts told you to. It often happens when you wake in an unfamiliar environment and do not know how you got there," Zelda explained.
Tiff nodded. She looked up to see that Tuff and Kirby had woken up already and were looking upon her with worry. She smiled at them to show she was alright. They both relaxed at her smile. She looked back to Zelda with her smile still on her face. Zelda put Tiff down and began walking again. Zelda walked over to a nearby cliff and looked down towards the bottom. Everyone followed her and also looked down. Everyone but Zelda and Metaknight gasped at what was below. Down in the gorge was a dense forest made of plants no one had ever seen in Cappy town. But it was what was in less dense sections of the forest that frightened them. In these sections were what seemed like small volcanoes. Every time one of those blew steam, more and more plants and animals surrounding it fell over dead or slowly withered away.
"We hate going through these!" Seria and Ilia both screamed in union.
"Do you wish to get the life jewel and not have this planet wither away at the hands of our father?" Zelda asked.
Both girls nodded at their sister's question.
"Then stop your complaining."
Zelda turned back to the cliff and very gracefully jumped off the side. Everyone looked down to see that Zelda had landed on her feet and was waiting for them. Everyone minus the children jumped down with mixed results. Metaknight also landed on his feet next to Zelda. Sword landed on his feet but stumbled when he hit the ground. Blade, sadly, landed on Sword causing both to hit the ground. Ilia also stumbled when she hit the ground but tripped over a rock in her path. Seria lost her balance when she landed and fell backwards. Zelda did a face palm at their clumsiness while Metaknight sighed in disappointment. Once the four had gotten over there landing problems, the entire group began walking into the forest. The kids insisted that they should stay at the top of the cliff. Everyone agreed. Many steam vents went off nearby but they weren't close enough to hurt any of the six. Zelda led the group through the woods with ease. They all arrived at a pond with a slightly large jewel on a piece of land in the middle of the water. Zelda approached the rock that sat just before the water. She knelt down in front of it and the others gathered around behind her. She flipped the spot where her hooded-cloak met and stayed on. Right at that spot, a warp star was connected to it and acted as a broach. She flashed the warp star in front of the rock and words appeared in a language that the knights couldn't read. Seria and Ilia's heads dropped low when they read the rock.
"I didn't feel like doing this today!" Seria whined.
"Me either!" Ilia chimed in to agree.
"What does it even say?" Sword asked.
"It says 'a bit of blood from the ankles of three honest women will grant you the ability to hold the life of this planet in your hands'," Zelda explained.
"A b-bit of b-blood?" Sword stammered.
"Yep," Seria said, quite sadly.
Zelda tucked her warp star back in the shadows and walked to the border of the woods. She brought her hands out to reveal a sharp knife in her right hand. She picked up a vine with thorns on it and cut off three slivers. She handed them to her sisters before returning to sit on the bank of the pond.
"We need you three to help us out of here as soon as we get the jewel," Zelda said.
"Why?" Blade asked.
"Because we won't be able to walk well and… you'll see what happens after we get the jewel," Ilia said.
All three girls looked into the water. Seria gulped loudly, Ilia took a deep breath, and Zelda just looked at her section of the vine. They each stuck out one foot and took off the shoe on that foot. They passed their shoes to the guys, who took it without question. The girls then wrapped their section of the vine around their ankles and pushed deeply. Seria cried out from pain. Ilia let a few tears drip out of her hood. Zelda just grunted as the thorns dug into her skin. Blood seeped down their feet from the thorns. The knights watched with horror as this happened. The girls removed the vines and dunked their bloody ankles in the water. The blood floated to the top of the water. Zelda's blood turned a shade of gold, Seria's blood turned a shade of silver, and Ilia's blood turned a shade of snow white. The girls removed their ankles from the water and limped over to the knights. The guys immediately made the girls lean against them. The blood in the water floated over to the piece of land in the center. It flashed a bright white light and the jewel flew off the pestle and into Zelda's hand. She grabbed the jewel with a tight grip.
"Run!" she screamed.
It took a minute for the knights to figure out what she said but made hast and began helping the girls run as fast as they could towards the way they came. The group lurched due to a tremor that hit the land. Nearby, a vent erupted with lava spewing everywhere. Everyone, even Zelda and Metaknight, gasped at this. They began to walk and limp again. More vents erupted lava near them.
"We've got to go faster somehow!" Sword screamed.
"I have an idea," Metaknight started.
Right after he said this Zelda, Seria and Ilia all collapsed from blood loss. They weren't unconscious just exhausted from trying to run.
"And now it will not work," he finished.
More geysers went off and the lava was going everywhere. Metaknight, in the act of thinking quickly, picked Zelda up in his arms bridal style and shouted orders to Sword and Blade. Sword did the same with Seria and Blade also did this with Ilia. The knights raced out of the woods carrying the girls with Zelda holding the life jewel. They reached the cliff to see Tiff, Tuff and Kirby waving to them franticly. They jumped a few rocks and landed beside the kids. They lava ended up covering the entire woods and everything in it melted. The life jewel landed with a thud beside Metaknight. Everyone looked to the three girls. They had fallen unconscious from blood loss at just the right time.
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