hey everyone! just finished this chapter, and it gave me a bit of a heart attack cuz when i went to save it my computer froze and i thought i lost everything, but it's all good now.
i meant to have this finished on sunday but i was really distracted cuz i had a bunch of really interesting stuff happen on saturday, so i was kind of floating on cloud 9 a bit and couldn't focus on writing like i wanted to. (Keeper don't you DARE comment on that, lol) anyways, i'm going to try to work on this more tomorrow if i don't have much homework. we'll see how it goes.
The thunder pounded over and over again, with a cadence that made me feel almost like I was listening to a band playing. The rain hitting the ground was like drums, and the lightning crackling down was like the guitars, accenting the beat set by the thunder and rain. It was just eerie, that’s all I have to say about that. But at the time it matched my mood perfectly, so I didn’t think about it too much.
I had run through the crowds of panicked people in Castle Town, and I was crossing the field where so many of Hyrule’s finest warriors had fallen earlier. My rage kept building as I followed the trail that Ganondorf and his monsters had left. What right did he have to do this? To ruin all of these people’s lives, to kill their loved ones, to destroy their homes … and to think, if things had played out a little differently … if I had been more willing to help him … I might have been right beside Hannah in this battle. I shivered as the freezing rain soaked through my clothes. I wanted to stop and think for a little while, but time was slipping by, and every second Ganondorf was getting farther away. Just don’t think about any of that stuff now, I told myself, fix this, then you can slow down and think about the way your life has spun out of control. I gritted my teeth and kept running.
The trail was leading up into the mountains, towards that first village that had been burnt. I felt uneasy about being there, but I pushed my feelings aside and kept going. When I was about halfway up the mountain I caught up with the last stragglers in Ganondorf’s army. I didn’t feel like fighting my way through what remained of the monsters, so I hung back for a few minutes while they trudged up the path. When they were well out of sight I stepped out into the middle of the path and considered my options. I could either
1. turn around and go home (so not going to happen)
2. continue up the trail and battle my way through the hundreds of surviving monsters (definitely not the best idea, and quite exhausting as well) or
3. go rock climbing and see if I can get to the top without fighting anything (difficult, but not impossible)
I sighed as I looked up at the mountain side stretching up before me. It was covered in cracks and holes, ideal for climbing, but I wasn’t exactly thrilled about it. I reached up for the first handholds that I saw and started up. About half an hour later I was close to the top, with maybe thirty feet left to climb. I found a place to rest for a few seconds and glanced down at the trail that I had climbed up from. It was so far down that it was hard to tell for certain, but I thought I saw a spot of green moving up the trail. It’s just your imagination, I thought, shaking my head and looking back up at the ledge that I was trying to reach.
“Well, look who it is,” Hannah smirked down at me from the top of the cliff. “I was wondering how long it would take you to get here.” She reached down and offered me her hand, “Come on, I’ll help you up.”
“Yeah right!” I snarled as I tried to find another way to climb up where she couldn’t reach me. “You’re just going to shove me off so that I fall to my death.”
“Not necessarily,” she responded coolly. “I want you up here alive so that I can watch your face as you die.” I looked up and saw an expression so full of utter and unkempt hate in her flashing orange eyes, it made me feel like I would almost rather fall than face her. No, don’t think like that, you have to face her; you have to fix everything that you ruined here.
As I thought this, I remembered the looks on everyone’s faces as I had run out into the thunderstorm earlier. They had been petrified. Of me. That was something that had never happened before. I felt anger building up inside of me again. Why were they so scared of me when there were people like Ganondorf and Hannah roaming around? All of these thoughts gave me a bit of an adrenaline rush, and I scrambled up the last bits of the cliffs in a flash, jumping up and over Hannah at the last second.
I did a quick flip in mid air then landed behind her with my sword drawn. “I don’t think so!” She spun and glared at me as she whipped her own sword out.
“Come on, Lya,” she said as her voice took on the friendly tone that I recognized from before, “can’t we all just get along?” she lunged at me after she said this, but I was waiting for it and I rolled out of the way.
“Like I’m really going to fall for that,” I kept my voice even as we circled each other, searching for openings.
She slashed out again, and we crossed swords, but we sprang about quickly and kept circling. There wasn’t any seriousness in this battle, at least, not yet.
“You look like you have something that you want to say,” Hannah said in a light tone as she struck at me again. I was a little slow blocking her this time, and she managed to give me a shallow cut on my side.
I let my hair fall over my eyes for an instant while I thought about how I wanted to respond. “Why are you helping Ganondorf?” I asked as I took a few steps back and stared at her.
“I already told you, you abandoned me to die. He offered me a position in his armies and a way to get back at you after he saw how much potential that I had,” she was trying to keep her tone even, but I could hear the slight quiver of anger in it.
“Hannah, I never abandoned you! I worked for Ganondorf all that time so that he wouldn’t hurt you. When I stopped, I was going to save you before he killed you so that we could keep him from hurting anyone else!”
We crossed swords again and the rage that had been building up in me all day exploded in a flurry of quick and powerful moves that knocked Hannah back several yards where she fell hard on her side. My rage started to fade to desperation as I watched her slowly pull herself back up, in obvious pain. Please believe me, I thought, please let there be something left of my old friend, enough to bring her back to her senses. Maybe I can still get her to turn against Ganondorf…
I watched her face as I thought this, and she looked up at me with an expression that told me that she might not be completely lost, not yet.
“Lya …” she looked up at me with such a remorseful expression that I started towards her, keeping my sword down and holding my hand out to her.
“Hannah, he doesn’t have control over you, you can fight back. You can keep him from winning. You know that he’s wrong; I can see it in your eyes. I know you don’t want-”
“SILENCE!!” Ganondorf shouted as he appeared between us, holding his own sword up just inches from my face. “You are done here!” He lunged at me, and I would have ended up with a sword through my eye if a flash of orange fire hadn’t smashed into his side, setting him slightly off balance. With his aim thrown off, he ended up giving me a nasty gash along my cheekbone, but that was it.
When he regained his balance a split second later I had dashed far enough away that he couldn’t reach me with a simple move. He spun and looked at Hannah with a murderous rage. She just stood in shock, whether at what she had just done or what Ganondorf was about to do, I’ll never know, because after that all hell broke loose.
I leapt in front of Hannah just as Ganondorf’s sword came crashing down at her and Link appeared where the trail met the ledge that we were standing on and he was screaming my name and Hannah was screaming my name and I felt all of my strength disappearing and Ganondorf was laughing as I fell. But with the last scrap of energy I had, I held up my sword just in time to see the blue stone in the hilt turn blindingly white. And then everything was gone in a flash of that brilliant, pure white.
When I came to I was lying in the middle of the forest.
i meant to have this finished on sunday but i was really distracted cuz i had a bunch of really interesting stuff happen on saturday, so i was kind of floating on cloud 9 a bit and couldn't focus on writing like i wanted to. (Keeper don't you DARE comment on that, lol) anyways, i'm going to try to work on this more tomorrow if i don't have much homework. we'll see how it goes.
Chapter 28
I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street
I must’ve dreamed a thousand dreams
Been haunted by a million screams
But I can hear the marching feet
They’re moving into the street
The thunder pounded over and over again, with a cadence that made me feel almost like I was listening to a band playing. The rain hitting the ground was like drums, and the lightning crackling down was like the guitars, accenting the beat set by the thunder and rain. It was just eerie, that’s all I have to say about that. But at the time it matched my mood perfectly, so I didn’t think about it too much.
I had run through the crowds of panicked people in Castle Town, and I was crossing the field where so many of Hyrule’s finest warriors had fallen earlier. My rage kept building as I followed the trail that Ganondorf and his monsters had left. What right did he have to do this? To ruin all of these people’s lives, to kill their loved ones, to destroy their homes … and to think, if things had played out a little differently … if I had been more willing to help him … I might have been right beside Hannah in this battle. I shivered as the freezing rain soaked through my clothes. I wanted to stop and think for a little while, but time was slipping by, and every second Ganondorf was getting farther away. Just don’t think about any of that stuff now, I told myself, fix this, then you can slow down and think about the way your life has spun out of control. I gritted my teeth and kept running.
The trail was leading up into the mountains, towards that first village that had been burnt. I felt uneasy about being there, but I pushed my feelings aside and kept going. When I was about halfway up the mountain I caught up with the last stragglers in Ganondorf’s army. I didn’t feel like fighting my way through what remained of the monsters, so I hung back for a few minutes while they trudged up the path. When they were well out of sight I stepped out into the middle of the path and considered my options. I could either
1. turn around and go home (so not going to happen)
2. continue up the trail and battle my way through the hundreds of surviving monsters (definitely not the best idea, and quite exhausting as well) or
3. go rock climbing and see if I can get to the top without fighting anything (difficult, but not impossible)
I sighed as I looked up at the mountain side stretching up before me. It was covered in cracks and holes, ideal for climbing, but I wasn’t exactly thrilled about it. I reached up for the first handholds that I saw and started up. About half an hour later I was close to the top, with maybe thirty feet left to climb. I found a place to rest for a few seconds and glanced down at the trail that I had climbed up from. It was so far down that it was hard to tell for certain, but I thought I saw a spot of green moving up the trail. It’s just your imagination, I thought, shaking my head and looking back up at the ledge that I was trying to reach.
“Well, look who it is,” Hannah smirked down at me from the top of the cliff. “I was wondering how long it would take you to get here.” She reached down and offered me her hand, “Come on, I’ll help you up.”
“Yeah right!” I snarled as I tried to find another way to climb up where she couldn’t reach me. “You’re just going to shove me off so that I fall to my death.”
“Not necessarily,” she responded coolly. “I want you up here alive so that I can watch your face as you die.” I looked up and saw an expression so full of utter and unkempt hate in her flashing orange eyes, it made me feel like I would almost rather fall than face her. No, don’t think like that, you have to face her; you have to fix everything that you ruined here.
As I thought this, I remembered the looks on everyone’s faces as I had run out into the thunderstorm earlier. They had been petrified. Of me. That was something that had never happened before. I felt anger building up inside of me again. Why were they so scared of me when there were people like Ganondorf and Hannah roaming around? All of these thoughts gave me a bit of an adrenaline rush, and I scrambled up the last bits of the cliffs in a flash, jumping up and over Hannah at the last second.
I did a quick flip in mid air then landed behind her with my sword drawn. “I don’t think so!” She spun and glared at me as she whipped her own sword out.
“Come on, Lya,” she said as her voice took on the friendly tone that I recognized from before, “can’t we all just get along?” she lunged at me after she said this, but I was waiting for it and I rolled out of the way.
“Like I’m really going to fall for that,” I kept my voice even as we circled each other, searching for openings.
She slashed out again, and we crossed swords, but we sprang about quickly and kept circling. There wasn’t any seriousness in this battle, at least, not yet.
“You look like you have something that you want to say,” Hannah said in a light tone as she struck at me again. I was a little slow blocking her this time, and she managed to give me a shallow cut on my side.
I let my hair fall over my eyes for an instant while I thought about how I wanted to respond. “Why are you helping Ganondorf?” I asked as I took a few steps back and stared at her.
“I already told you, you abandoned me to die. He offered me a position in his armies and a way to get back at you after he saw how much potential that I had,” she was trying to keep her tone even, but I could hear the slight quiver of anger in it.
“Hannah, I never abandoned you! I worked for Ganondorf all that time so that he wouldn’t hurt you. When I stopped, I was going to save you before he killed you so that we could keep him from hurting anyone else!”
We crossed swords again and the rage that had been building up in me all day exploded in a flurry of quick and powerful moves that knocked Hannah back several yards where she fell hard on her side. My rage started to fade to desperation as I watched her slowly pull herself back up, in obvious pain. Please believe me, I thought, please let there be something left of my old friend, enough to bring her back to her senses. Maybe I can still get her to turn against Ganondorf…
I watched her face as I thought this, and she looked up at me with an expression that told me that she might not be completely lost, not yet.
“Lya …” she looked up at me with such a remorseful expression that I started towards her, keeping my sword down and holding my hand out to her.
“Hannah, he doesn’t have control over you, you can fight back. You can keep him from winning. You know that he’s wrong; I can see it in your eyes. I know you don’t want-”
“SILENCE!!” Ganondorf shouted as he appeared between us, holding his own sword up just inches from my face. “You are done here!” He lunged at me, and I would have ended up with a sword through my eye if a flash of orange fire hadn’t smashed into his side, setting him slightly off balance. With his aim thrown off, he ended up giving me a nasty gash along my cheekbone, but that was it.
When he regained his balance a split second later I had dashed far enough away that he couldn’t reach me with a simple move. He spun and looked at Hannah with a murderous rage. She just stood in shock, whether at what she had just done or what Ganondorf was about to do, I’ll never know, because after that all hell broke loose.
I leapt in front of Hannah just as Ganondorf’s sword came crashing down at her and Link appeared where the trail met the ledge that we were standing on and he was screaming my name and Hannah was screaming my name and I felt all of my strength disappearing and Ganondorf was laughing as I fell. But with the last scrap of energy I had, I held up my sword just in time to see the blue stone in the hilt turn blindingly white. And then everything was gone in a flash of that brilliant, pure white.
When I came to I was lying in the middle of the forest.
Now did you read the news today?
They say the dangers gone away,
But I can see the fires still alight,
There burning into the night.
They say the dangers gone away,
But I can see the fires still alight,
There burning into the night.
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