Hunt 27: Fanged Blizzard
After telling Link of his plans after they hunt Alatreon, Zedept is walking behind everyone with a distracted look on his face. Raylin looks back and goes to talk with him. "What's wrong?" She asks. Zedept doesn't respond. "Zedept?" Raylin asks. "Huh?" Zedept asks as he comes to.
"I asked what's wrong." Raylin said. "Just trying to figure things out." Zedept said as he looks at her. "Stay focused." Raylin said slamming her right hand onto his back. "I will." Zedept said regaining his footing. After walking for 2 hours, a load roar echoed. They stop and placed their hands on their weapons.
"What was that?" Link ask as he looks around. "That was a load roar." Lyra said looking around as well. "I don't recognize that roar." Raylin said keeping an eye out. Zedept looks up. "Move it!" He yelled. Everyone moves back in time before something big landed right where they were standing. They draw their weapons. "What is that thing?" Link asks. The kicked up snow starts to dissipate and a figure can be seen. Everyone is stunned at what it is.
"No way." Lyra said. "It's a." Raylin said. "Barioth." Zedept said jumping between them and the Barioth. Barioth roars loudly and stuns them. Zedept looks at the Barioth in time to block its charge. "Raylin, clust its claws. Lyra and Link, cut its tail." Zedept ordered as he struggles to prevent Barioth's fangs from biting him.
Lyra and Link run past Zedept's left side but Barioth jumps back and fires a snow tornado and it rips off their cloaks. "Ahh!" Lyra screamed as she gets damaged from it. "Lyra!" Zedept yells in concern. "I'm alright." Lyra replied shaking off the attack. Raylin fires clust shots at Barioth's face to distract it.
After 3 shots explode, Barioth seems unfazed by it. Barioth felt a stab into its tail and looks and sees Link's switch axe in sword form stabbed into its tail. "Take this, Element Discharge!" Link yells as he looks at Barioth's face and blasts its tail.
Barioth roars in pain and fling its tail and breaks free from Link's switch axe. "Haaaa." Lyra says rushing in and swings her long sword and cuts off its tail. "Over here." Zedept said. Barioth looks at Zedept as he swings his greatsword. Barioth backs up in time but gets its left amber fang cut off. Barioth gets angry and rushes them.
Zedept and Raylin dodge. Barioth turns around and charges at them again. They jump out of the way. Zedept looks to where Barioth should be but doesn't see it. Suddenly sounds from Raylin's clust shots come from behind him and he turns around and sees Barioth knocked over.
Link and Lyra each attack a claw and only Link breaks one. Barioth gets back up and everyone regroups. Barioth rushes them but fakes and jumps back and does its snow tornado and hits Link directly. "Ahhhhh!" Link says as he gets slammed into a wall. "Link!" Raylin yells as she reloads and runs over to Link.
Zedept looks over to an unconscious Link. "Zedept, look out!" Lyra yelled. Zedept quickly looks behind him and sees Barioth diving at him from the sky but couldn't move. As Barioth goes to slash with its right claw, Lyra jumps in the way and takes it full force.
Lyra's chest armor shatters and falls back onto Zedept who is stunned at what just happened. "Lyraaaaa!" Raylin yells and fires a massive barrage of flame shots at Barioth. Zedept eyes widened as he looks at Lyra. Her chest armor is shattered and she's bleeding from her stomach because of the slash. Lyra opens her eyes and she's a stunned Zedept looking at her.
"You ok?" Lyra asks weakly. "Don't worry about me. Why did you do that for?" Zedept asks as tears starts coming from him. "We couldn't lose you." Lyra answered weakly. "Don't give me that crap." Zedept said closing his eyes as she starts to cry. "Your my childhood friend. I don't want to lose you again after all these years." Zedept said. Lyra places her left hand onto Zedept's right cheek weakly.
"I know, but you have to find Alatreon and hunt it." Lyra said. "But." Zedept said before Lyra kisses him on the lips. Lyra breaks the kiss and smiles at him before passing out. Zedept quickly pulls out wrapping material and wraps up her stomach. "Raylin!" Zedept yelled. Raylin looks over and continues to fire to keep Barioth away as she runs over to Zedept. "Take Lyra over to Link and protect them both." Zedept said looking at Lyra.
"Got it but what about you?" Raylin asks as she continues to fire. Zedept looks up and Raylin sees the anger in his eyes as well as sadness. "Barioth is mine." Zedept said in an angry tone. "Understood." Raylin said as she stops firing and carefully picks up Lyra. Zedept picks up his greatsword and places it onto his back and slowly walks over to Barioth.
"You hurt someone that's very important to me. Prepare to die." Zedept said as he glares at Barioth. Barioth roars and charges at Zedept and Zedept stands there. Barioth goes to slash with its right claw and Zedept blocks it with just his left arm. Zedept continues to glare angrily at Barioth. Zedept raises his left leg and kicks Barioth's chin. Barioth backs off and fires its snow tornado and Zedept just stands there and takes it full force but doesn't budge at all.
Raylin watches and is surprised about Zedept's actions. "How can he do that? Just who is Zedept?" She asks herself. Link wakes up. "Argh, what happened?" Link ask as he shakes his head. He then sees Lyra badly injured. "Lyra!" He said. Raylin looks and sees Link awake. "Your awake." Raylin said. "Never mind me, what happened?" Link asks. "Lyra protected Zedept and get injured." Raylin said.
"And where's Zedept?" Link asks. Raylin looks over to Zedept and Link sees Zedept beating up Barioth with his punches and kicks. "Why isn't he using Shikaiza?" Link asks. "I don't know but that look in his eyes scare me." Raylin replied. Barioth charges Zedept and Zedept swings his left foot and kicks Barioth's right amber fang off. Barioth roars and backs off and flies up.
Zedept grabs Shikaiza and places in behind him pointing up with his left side forward. Barioth dives at him. "This is for Lyra!" Zedept yelled as he spins around once and slashes Barioth from its left shoulder through its body and out by its right back leg, successfully cutting Barioth in half.
Link and Raylin are shocked at what Zedept just did. "Incredible." Link said. "Such power." Raylin said. Zedept swings Shikaiza down and towards the right to remove most of Barioth's blood and places it on his back and turns around to walk over to Lyra. Zedept knees down to examine Lyra's injures.
"Raylin, Link, go and gather of what you can of Lyra's chest armor." Zedept said still in an angry tone. "Ok." They said and went to find the pieces. Zedept removes the wrapping and takes a look at the slash marks. Zedept opens his bag and pulls out a red bottle. "I was hoping to never use this but it's an emergency." Zedept said.
He pours the liquid onto a cotton ball and swabs the slashes. Lyra flinches in pain. "Please hang in there." Zedept said as his voice returns to his normal tone. After swabbing the slashes, Zedept rewraps the injuries. Raylin and Link return.
"We was able to find most of it." Link said. "How's Lyra?" Raylin ask. Zedept puts the red bottle down to his right side. Raylin sees the bottle and it's marked 'Forbidden'. "She'll pull through but we better get back to Icajuinawe so she can rest up." Zedept said as he places the bottle back into his bag. "Ok." Link said. Zedept carefully lifts Lyra up and carries her back down as Raylin takes Lyra's long sword and Link places the pieces into his bag and they head back to Icajuinawe.