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Calhan munched on another piece of fruit as they watched Meria stand all alone in the wide open space of the field. She dug at the dirt with her toe then tilted her head to the right in thought. Sheik started to rise to go see if he could help her out when Calhan put a hand on his shoulder forcing him back down.
“Wha-“ Sheik started but shut up when he felt the wind pick up around him. The rest of the group felt it too and they all hunkered down further to the ground. They watched in curiosity as Meria raised her arms out parallel to the ground. She didn’t glow but the wind began to swirl dust and leaves around her. She began to rise and turn in the air.
When she was facing the group her eyes were an odd shade of grey. She turned her hands from palms facing down to up and slowly brought her hands towards each other in front of her face. The wind picked up in intensity to where the group had to hold onto each other and G-Link to stay in place. Meko clung to Aerica’s shoulder with a death grip as the winds threatened to suck him away. Aerica finally grabbed hold of him and clutched him to her chest, sheltering him from the wind. Meria’s hands touched and the wind died around them but around her the wind was hurricane force. Where she stood in the center was calm but around her in a two foot wide section the winds howled.
Calhan clapped, “Very nice.” His hair had come out of its tie and was a big mess. The rest of the group didn’t look much better.
“So, what is it?” Gerad asked trying to smooth his hair back down.
“It’s a wind barrier.” Calhan said, assuming they’d understand with no further explanation.
“Yeah we can see that, but what is it for?” Sheik asked.
“Oh, well it’s for defense. Aerica shoot an arrow at Meria please.” Calhan said turning to Aerica.
“Excuse me?” Aerica asked raising her eyebrows in surprise.
“It won’t get to her.” Calhan said.
“What if she looses her concentration and it dissipates?” Lucius supplied. He was interested to know if it could stop an arrow, but not curious enough to endanger Meria.
Calhan thought for a moment before he answered, “Didn’t think about that.”
Gerad chuckled, “No didn’t think you did.” He clapped Calhan on the shoulder as he turned to G-Link.
“Could I borrow a rock?” Gerad asked him. G-Link nodded and dug out a fair size rock from his bag and handed it to Gerad. The others watched as Gerad moved forward a bit and then lugged the rock at Meria.
The rock flew true to its mark straight for the side of Meria’s face. She turned her head to watch its progress. It hit the wall of wind and shattered. The group was impressed and clapped for Meria. She smiled hugely and the wind began to die down. She closed her eyes and let her power drain completely. There was a two foot wide rut in a circle around Meria where the grass had been sucked up by the wind wall. Meria moved to the group as bits of grass began to sprinkle down from the sky.
“That was very impressive.” Calhan said picking bits of grass off of his shoulders. Meria smiled at the praise. Sheik picked her up and swung her around happy that she had done so well. Meria laughed as she hugged Sheik back. He set her back on the ground both of them a tad dizzy from the spin.
Aerica let Meko go and he flew to her should where he perched and tried to fix his hair. Aerica chuckled at him as she straightened hers.
“I wonder what else you can do.” Selene said to Meria as she brushed her hair out. Having the longest hair wasn’t a lot of fun in a wind storm. Meria chuckled as she shrugged.
“Who knows.”
“That was pretty awesome.” Gerad said giving up on de-knotting his hair.
“Yes it was impressive, I wonder if you can attack with it?” Lucius said picking up Meria’s plate from where it had been blown by the wind. The food itself was nowhere to be seen. Meria chuckled, “Oh, well.” She accepted the plate from Lucius and the group headed back towards their camp.
“I’ll fix you some more, there were left-overs.” Aerica said patting Meria on the shoulder as she walked past her towards the provisions pack. The camp had remained untouched by the winds. Meria smiled in response, her arm around Sheik’s body and his arm around her shoulders.
They arrived at their camp and began packing up their stuff to continue their journey to Zora’s Domain. Meria sat next to the camp fire and ate her breakfast while the rest rolled up their blankets and stuffed them in their packs.
“So what was the terrifying moment you chose?” Calhan asked her putting his hair back in its tie. Meria swallowed the mouthful of food before she answered, “I didn’t.”
Calhan was confused by this, “What do you mean?”
“Well fear isn’t my trigger.” Meria replied munching on the last bit of fruit from her plate.
“What is it then, so I don’t accidently set you off?” Sheik asked from where he was rolling up Meria’s blanket for her. Meria smiled at him as she stood to go redo his rolling job.
Sheik stepped aside and let Meria do it as she answered his and Calhan’s question.
“I found out that my trigger is anger. Which when you think about it is kind of childish.” Meria said stuffing her blanket into its bag on Eyona.
Calhan shrugged, “Well, I believe once you train your powers you won’t need these ‘triggers’ it’ll come to you at will.”
“That would be nice.” Selene said stuffing her blanket away then tightening Starfire’s straps. The others chuckled in agreement with her as they all finished packing up. Lucius had taken the plates to the stream that ran by their camp and washed them. He returned and handed the plates to Meria who was next for chef duty. Meria took the plates and packed them next to her blanket.
“How much further to Zora’s Domain?” Gerad asked Lucius as he passed by on his way to Fish.
Lucius smiled, “Not long. Another day at the most.”
He mounted and waited for everyone else to mount also. They were all situated and Lucius led the way towards Zora’s Domain. Despite his misgivings that Zara was still messing with him, he still felt a bit of excitement for heading home and showing his friends his world. Well, most of his world. They traveled in silence for a few minutes enjoying the morning sounds of the animals greeting the sun.
G-Link leaned over to Gerad and said, “You owe me a rock.”


but thats ok ^_^

Hahaha. I like the G-link you owe me a rock tidbit. He appears to have more personaltiy now than before. I like how you opened and revealed their personalities more and more through out the story. Also I really do not know why they want to kill Dahrin is that going to come up in story soon or did I miss anything??

i like hint dropping

Ok I see now. Also if you gave a flamingo a yo-yo they will become disgrunteled breakdanceing sheep that equal burgers.

guess you didn't see fantasia 2000?

NO actually I never heard of it. Should I feel wierd now. Anyway I don't know much about american pop. culture or movies or anything. Even people like Marilyn Monroe are unfamiliar. Apparently everyone knows who she is but I was the only one who didn't in my history class

lol don't worry about it. its a disney movie, a sequel sort of. here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4H3icCCiXY if you want go watch it ^_^ it are funny!

The beginning of chapter 15, i'm going to try and post once a week so that i can actaully motivate myself to write ^_^


Chapter 15


Beautiful distractions…


The group made their way across Hyrule Fields traveling in a ragged line, with Lucius leading and G-Link bringing up the rear. Lucius was happily lost in his own thoughts when Sheik disrupted them with a question.
“Hey Lucius, I was thinking.” Sheik started.
Lucius rolled his eyes, “You won’t need to worry about breathing underwater, we have Zora tunics for each of you, not that we expect you to need them. But the tide does tend to rise and flood some of the corridors.” He said before Dahrin could tease Sheik.
“Uh, how did you know what I was going to ask?” Sheik asked. The others were slightly baffled by this as well.
Lucius chuckled, “It seemed like a logical question you would ask.”
“Ok.” Sheik said, still confused.
The rest of the group shrugged it off; Zoras were a strange race anyway. Lucius started humming a Zora tune to himself as they continued on their journey. They stopped by a small stream for mid-day meal and Lucius helped Meria with the cooking. It was still the same basic provisions they had had that morning, except Meria added some extra seasonings from her spice bag. Out of them all Meria was the best cook, comes with growing up on a farm Lucius supposed. While the meal was cooking Lucius went down to the stream edge and put his feet in the water.
Zoras can stand to go without being in water for about a week before bad things start to happen to their mental health. Lucius sat there by the edge of the stream staring at the water.
“Hello love.” Zara’s voice startled him. He looked to where the voice came from and the water took on a small version of Zara’s upper body’s form.
Lucius sighed in frustration, “And here I was thinking this was reality.” He swiped at her form and she dispersed but reformed.
Zara laughed, “It is, do not worry Water Sage. I am still safely locked in my prison for all eternity or till I die, which ever comes first.”
“Then how are you here?” Lucius asked.
“You are crazy, to long away from Zora’s Domain will do that to you.” Zara said sympathetically. Lucius looked at her skeptically. Zara held her composure till she couldn’t stand his stare any longer.
“Ok fine! You are not crazy. As I told you, you should not expect me to sit in my prison quietly.” Zara said exasperated. Lucius chuckled swishing his feet in the water and making it ripple. This disrupted Zara’s form and she complained loudly.
“I’m assuming no one else can see or hear you?” Lucius asked.
“And you would be correct in that assumption.” Zara said once her form settled back down.
“What do you want Zara?” Lucius complained. He put his hand to his forehead, the headache was back. To much use of his powers, he wasn’t quite strong enough to handle this much telepathy in such a short amount of time.
“Nothing much. Just someone to talk to. It gets rather lonely down here.” Zara said in a small voice. She unconsciously hugged herself when she said this and Lucius felt sorry for her. Being locked in a prison several miles under the Water Temple alone must be difficult to bear. And on top of that, the one who put you there being you’re lover.
“Ok, fine. But you can’t contact me everyday. I don’t need my friends thinking I’ve gone completely bonkers.” Lucius gave in; Zara clapped her small hands together and sent drops of water flying.
“So when can I contact you?” Zara asked, willing to follow the rules to break her lonesome boredom.
Lucius chuckled, “Before I go to sleep, I’ll ‘call’ you. I promise.”
Zara smiled, “Ok! See you tonight then?”
Zara dispersed and Lucius shook his head as he headed back to camp. He arrived just as Meria was finishing lunch. He took his plate and sat down to eat next to Selene who was sitting next to Dahrin.
Lucius took a bite of the food, “Delicious. Meria I don’t know how you do it but only you could make something like provisions taste this good.”
Meria blushed at the compliments as everyone one piped in. The group ate and then packed up once more to head to Zora’s Domain.
Lucius led the way once more with everyone following behind. They finally rounded the bend that led to Zora’s Domain near sundown. The site that greeted them was magnificent.
Plants that grew along the walls and under the water glowed a whitish blue and gave the clear waters an eerie other worldly look. Fireflies flew around the plants dancing in the rays of the moonlight. The further they traveled to the entrance the more beautiful it became. Lucius reigned in Fish and dismounted. He motioned for the others to do the same.
“What is it Lucius?” Gerad asked him as he dismounted. Lucius smiled as he moved to an open area near the river. The others followed him curious of what he was doing or waiting for. He picked a spot and sat down facing towards the moon.
“Sit, I’m so happy that we got here in time for the blooming.” Lucius motioned them to sit down and they did as bided.
“The blooming?” Aerica asked. Calhan snapped his fingers in understanding.
“I know what you’re talking about, it’s the Aquarius plant.”
Lucius smiled, “Yes. It blooms only once a year and then only if it’s a full moon.”
“Where is it at?” Selene asked looking towards the lighted valley below their spot.
“You’ll know it when you see it.” Lucius replied. They waited in silence watching Meko chase fireflies, and be chased by fireflies. An hour went by and still nothing happened other than them get sleepy.
Some of them were just about to conk out when Lucius nudged Gerad and pointed. “It’s starting!”
Gerad looked to where he was pointing and saw a small pinprick of white light. At first he thought it was a firefly, but then it got bigger. As he continued to watch more pinpricks appeared all over the valley, he nudged Selene to make sure she was awake to see this. The Aquarius plants slowly opened their petals to the moonlight’s cold embrace. The fireflies danced around shafts of moonlight that seemed to go straight from the moon to each flower. That’s when Aerica realized they weren’t fireflies but fairies.
The blooming was beautiful beyond words; it was like watching moonlight flow across the land like a river. The fairies danced through the air in very delicate and intricate patterns.

second part coming next sunday may 10th!

Can't wait. Really I can't I wish I could skip this week.

lol but i need that time to write more! so its either wait a week and get it or get it now and wait who knows how long.....