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Chapter 20

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Dahrin hacked at the monster in front of him as he made his way toward the guards along with G-Link, Calhan, and Aerica. Meko flew next to Aerica hovering out of harms immediate way as she shot any monster she could see, her only problem was there were more monsters than she had arrows.
The group made it to the fortification the guards had occupied and defended. Ferloth greeted them as they helped the bystanders they had found along the way into the camp. The entered after them and saw that the fortification surrounded the entrance to Zora’s Domain and the citizens fleeing out into the pass that led to Hyrule Fields. A guard was standing near the entrance with a scroll and pen watching people go.
“What is he doing?” Aerica asked Ferloth.
“He’s marking off the names of those that are leaving so we have an accurate count of how many are missing.” Ferloth answered her.
“How does he know who is who?” Calhan asked.
“I don’t know, I’m just a city guard ok, I don’t keep track of how the Mystics do things.” Ferloth answered turning back to help defend.
“What are the Mystics, Calhan?” Aerica asked.
“The magic users of the Zoras. We have to help defend this spot so the citizens can escape.” Calhan said.
G-Link gathered the fire from the camp fires and started using it to attack the monsters. Soon the air reeked with the smell of burnt flesh. Dahrin shrugged and went to help the guards on the opposite side of the camp.
“Wait Dahrin!” Aerica called after him. He either didn’t hear her or ignored her as he raced off.
“Gah! I need more arrows.” Aerica sighed, she sighted some arrows against the wall in the back of the camp and ran towards them. She grabbed an armful and ran back to the wall.
She set the arrows along the wall in a position so she could easily grab and fire from each bundle till they were gone. Meko hovered next to her shoulder.
“Ready for this, love?” Meko asked her as he landed on her shoulder and placed his hand on her ear. Aerica smiled in ironic humor, “Aren’t I always?”
Meko chuckled and took off to be her target. He flew around one of the monsters avoiding its claws and teeth looking for a weak spot. He found what looked to be one and hovered near it all the while making the monster get into a position that Aerica could hit it at.
Meko felt the wind of her arrow pass him and embed in the monster’s soft belly. The monster howled in pain and grabbed at the arrow that stuck out of it and toppled over dead. More monsters just poured over the one that had fallen and Meko went from one to the next, guiding Aerica’s aim.
Aerica shot so fast her bow was humming from the constant vibration of the string. She never stopped shooting as she moved from one bundle to the next when she ran out of arrows. The monsters fell one right after falling to her calm slaughter. Aerica shut out the emotions and distractions of her thoughts and just focused on what she needed to do, and that was to kill those that tried to kill her.
She was vaguely aware of the fact that Calhan was near her on the right defending that side and G-Link was on the left but she kept her focus on what was coming at her from the front and where Meko was.
Aerica reached down for another arrow and didn’t feel one. Looking down she saw she was out.
“Crap.” Aerica hissed to herself, she whistled and Meko flew back to her as fast as he could. Aerica unsheathed the blades on the ends of her bow and made ready to fight close quarter combat.
“Love, you haven’t fought this way in awhile.” Meko said landing on her shoulder.
“Your point, Meko?” Aerica asked him calmly.
“Just the fact that it’s been awhile.” Meko answered her calmly.
Aerica smirked, “Yeah, I know. Let’s try to get a better ending this time.”
Meko nodded as the first of the monster reached the wall and scaled over it easily, Aerica sliced the arm that was holding it up off and it toppled back onto its fellows. More monsters poured over the wall and Aerica fought on.

Calhan fought on as well, the seemingly endless waves of monsters slowly took their toll on his stamina. His chest started to hurt as his heart pumped harder and harder.
“Don’t give on me yet.” Calhan whispered to it as he fell to his knees under the weight of one of the monster’s blows. Calhan watched in calm horror as the monster’s other hand came at him from the left and smacked him twenty feet sideways against the wall. Ferloth came to his rescue and killed the monster before it could finish him off.
“Are you alright?” Ferloth asked him as he helped Calhan to stand up.
Other Zoras defended them as Calhan faltered and fell to his knees gasping. Ferloth put his arm under his shoulder and helped Calhan back into the fortification where Kelith was treating injuries as fast as she could.
“Kelith! I don’t know what’s wrong with him.” Ferloth called to her. Kelith came over and supported Calhan’s other side and they both got him onto a stretcher.
Ferloth kissed his wife and left. Kelith smiled sadly then composed herself and tended to Calhan. His breath was short and shallow.
“Calhan, can you hear me?” Kelith asked him using different instruments taking different measurements and readings.
“Yes.” Calhan answered as he tried to sit up.
“Oh no you don’t. You’re no good if you’re dead on your feet.” Kelith said pushing him back down.
“We’ll all be dead if I don’t fight.” Calhan retorted as he gently pushed her aside and sat up again. This time he made it to getting his feet off the stretcher when Kelith shocked him.
“Gah!” Calhan screamed as he fell sideways back onto the stretcher.
“I have to treat you before your heart burst.” Kelith said calmly as she rolled him onto his back and put her hands over his heart. Her hands glowed blue and pulsed at the beat of his heart, which was at a terrifying pace.
Calhan waited as she healed his heart back to a regular pace. It became easier and easier to breath. Kelith stopped and Calhan sat up. She looked into his eyes with sympathy.
“How long?” Calhan asked calmly.
Kelith shrugged, “A good while if you don’t stress it and go back to the chamber. But the way things are going to happen, a few years at best, possibly less.”
Calhan smirked, “Thanks old friend.”
Kelith nodded as Calhan stood up and went back out to fight. She shook her head and moved to the next patient, the baby kicked a few times and she rubbed her hand over it.
“Don’t worry, you, me and your daddy, will be fine.” Kelith whispered, “But I’m not sure about the Lore Sage.”

OOO NOOOOOOOOOooooo. Calhan has a heart condition, and he is going to Die. OOO NNNOOOOOOO. That is horrible. You are cruel, how could you give one of your characters a disease like that. once again. OOO NNOOOOOOO

"That is horrible. You are cruel, how could you give one of your characters a disease like that."

because i can

Yeah I am over that. That was so yesterday. lol. I must admit that was a very unexpected foreshadowing you did there missy. I mean calhan was seen as this big guard who is badass and not having heart disease. His image kind of changed in my eyes. At first he was a big idiotic jerk, but real big, niw he seems just normal sized, and intelligent. I would say that he was the most dynamic character in your story in the eyes of the readers, even though he gained no new powers or anything.

unpredictability! i likes it get used to it ;p

and the other half of chapter 20 ^_^ hopes you like!

G-Link smashed another monster in the face with his hammer and backhanded one behind him with his fire fist. G-Link knew the monsters couldn’t hurt him if he went defensive, but he would be useless to his friends in that form. So he fought on, like the rest of his friends, getting the mess beat out of him, but fighting on despite it. He glanced at Lara who watched them struggle with a smile on her face. She caught sight of something of interest to her and shrunk to a smaller size, disappearing from his view. He sighed as another monster attacked followed by ten more, making him have to not worry about what it was that had her attention.
“Don’t die on me Lucius.” G-Link whispered.

Dahrin fought ferociously as the monsters relentlessly attacked him. One jumped at him from the right and latched its teeth onto his forearm biting through the flesh. He screamed in pain and hacked off the monster’s head. Another attacked from the left at the same time two attacked from the front. Dahrin dove between the three causing them to miss and slam into each other. He stood up and continued to slice and hack anything that came within reach.
A monster bigger than the ones he had previously fought attacked him. Dahrin brought his axe up to block the monster’s maw. The monster chomped down on his axe and shattered it. Dahrin punched the monster across the face and stunned it long enough for him to role away.
“Great.” Dahrin grunted to himself, holding the shaft of his axe.
Glancing around quickly, he saw two swords lying off to the side. The monster had recovered and attacked again. Dahrin took off towards the swords, diving over a swipe of another monster he landed rolling; he picked up the swords and turned. The monster ran itself through the face on his outstretched sword. Dahrin pulled the sword out and fought the next monsters that attacked.
He continued to fight till the monsters seemed to be thinning. Dahrin found himself surrounded by too many monsters to count, waiting for one to attack. Either they were afraid to be the first to die like their fellows or they were waiting on someone’s orders.
Above the sound of his heart beating in his ears he heard sarcastic applause.
“Bravo, young sand king.” Lara said as she slithered into the circle.
“And you are?” Dahrin asked her, “Oh, wait. I know. You’re the big fish lady that sent the monsters to eat us.” Dahrin said sarcastically as he turned to face her.
“Oh, tsk tsk. How harsh of the son of Ganondorf.” Lara said pouting.
“He’s not my father. I don’t care how similar we look, there is no way a monster like him could be anyone’s father.” Dahrin said through clenched teeth.
Lara laughed, “Oh it’s quite possible. The only surprise I have is the fact that he only has one offspring.”
“What do you know of Ganondorf anyway?” Dahrin asked her as he started to circle.
“Well, when you’re stuck in a chunk of crystal for a century you tend to pay attention to things that others might miss.” Lara said watching his movements.
“Doesn’t matter anyway. Where’s Lucius?” Dahrin asked her.
Lara laughed, “He’s soon to be, in all sense except actual, dead.”
Dahrin charged her bringing his swords down in a diagonal slash. Zara blocked with just her forearm, not even flinching. She pushed him away and the strength of it sent him flying. He miraculously landed on his feet and charged again.
Lara laughed and got into what looked to Dahrin like a fighting position. He attacked and Lara defended. Dahrin jumped and dodged her attacks as best he could. Dahrin back peddled away from her swipes and came up against a pillar. Lara had a sadistic smile of delight on her face as she slashed. Dahrin ducked and rolled away causing her to hit the pillar, which was about three feet in diameter of pure stone. She hit right through it taking out most of it in the process.
Dahrin stared in horror at her. She laughed and attacked again. Dahrin gathered his energy and thought of a shield. His energy left his body and gathered in front of him in the shape of a shield. Lara hit the shield and it held. She stepped back confused.
Dahrin smiled and attacked. Lara defended and attacked back, but every time she would now matter where she would strike the shield would block. Dahrin seemed to have the advantage and it was making Lara nervous.
Unfortunately Dahrin was growing weary fast. He had just learned the technique from the book under Calhan’s instructions two days ago and hadn’t been able to practice. He was going to die if he didn’t finish this fast.
Dahrin slashed and missed Lara who had grown agitated. She back handed towards Dahrin and his shield blocked it, but the force of her hit was too much for the shield and it shattered. Her hit continued to connect with Dahrin’s right shoulder.
The force of the hit made him spin, he landed and continued to roll across the ground. Monsters jumped out of his way as he finally stopped. A curious monster walked in front of Lara and she hit it aside making it splatter from the impact.
Dahrin tried to get up but his muscles and bones just screamed at him. He collapsed back onto the ground. Lara slithered up next to him and leaned over. Dahrin glared at her, he brought his left arm up swinging the blade towards her smirking face. She blocked it grabbing his wrist. She then grabbed him by the throat and hauled him up to her eyelevel.
Dahrin tried to use the sword in his right hand to run her through but it just deflected, like her body was made out of steel. She laughed as she twisted his left arm painfully, making him drop the sword. He cried in pain and tried to kick her. She just smiled as she heard the sound of his foot break. She squeezed slightly on his throat and he dropped the sword in his right hand and grabbed her wrist.
Dahrin started to see stars, “Stop. Please.”
Lara laughed at him, “Why should I? You’re just the illegitimate son of Ganondorf.” She squeezed more, “Why should I not kill you?”
Dahrin’s eyes widened and pleaded with her not to kill him. He had no breath left to spare for words. Lara squeezed the life out of him till she felt him go slack. His hand on her wrist lost its strength and fell slack next to his body.
Lara smirked as she let go of his throat and held him up by his left arm. She looked at her monsters and smiled.
“Here, enjoy his flesh.” Lara said as she tossed Dahrin’s body away from herself. He fell straight towards their open, teeth filled mouths.

If this were some other cheesy story or book I would think someone saves him and they all win and cheery ending of fight, but knowing you I have no idea what is about to happen. Will he be eaten, Will he use some crazy magic, will he eat the monster. Next time on Descendants 2nd Generation.

dude its hard trying to figure out where to stop copying to post lol ^_^ i don't want to leave ya hanging too much teehee but i think it'll be ok here.

anyways, chapter 21! on this week's episode we may find out what happened to Dahrin! Was he eaten? Did he survive? And what of Gerad and the others in the temple? find out now! Enjoy ^_^

Chapter 21

Fallen to temptations……


‘Dahrin.’
........
‘Dahrin, my son; wake up.’

Dahrin opened his eyes and gasped a breath into his air deprived body. It hurt to breathe past his bruised throat but he gulped in another breath and then another. He glanced over his shoulder and saw teeth. He curled and felt something brush him. He landed hard on the stone floor of the cavern. The monsters fought each other to be the only one to eat him. Panicked he felt his energy gather and a shield envelope him as some of the monsters bit to see if they could get a mouthful.
He cried out in fear as more tried and also used their claws to get through the shield. He watched in horror as cracked started to appear from the pressure.

‘Let me come out to play.’

Dahrin thought he was going crazy, he couldn’t have heard a voice in this racket. His oxygen deprived brain was messing with him.

‘Let me help you, if you don’t you will die and I have nowhere to go so I will as well.’

“Who is that?” Dahrin asked out loud.

‘You know who I am. I’m your true self. My dear Dahrin.’

Dahrin looked to the left and saw…Dahrin staring back at him, except this Dahrin was different. The only thing Dahrin could think of to describe him was evil. Eyes of black, like Sheik’s when he used his sage powers, stared calmly into his amber ones.
“Let me save you, Dahrin.” He purred holding out his hand towards him. Dahrin started to stretch out his hand but hesitated.
“NO!”
Dahrin jerked his hand back and looked to his right and saw another Dahrin. This one was normal looking, except for the bright orange eyes.
Dahrin looked back at Black, who was an inch away from his face.
“You ready for this my sweet?” Black purred. Dahrin looked at him confused and then felt a sudden pain pierce through his heart. He looked to see Black’s hand sticking into his chest. A black mist crept its way over Dahrin and completely enveloped him.
The monsters cried in hungry anticipation as the spirit shield collapsed.

Lara smiled as she heard the screams of the dying, then stopped when she realized some of them were coming from behind her and belonged to her monsters. She turned in time to see the pile that had jumped on Ganondorf’s brat’s body violently blown apart. She covered her face as the gore rained around her.
She looked up to see Dahrin standing there amidst the bodies of her broken monsters, grinning evilly. His eyes were a mixture of orange and black that swirled constantly. He spread his hands and two swords materialized into them.
“Ready for the next dance, my sweet?” Dahrin asked her, his voice wasn’t the same, it echoed in a higher pitch. Lara smirked.
“Of course, my pet.” She stretched out her hand and her own blade materialized.
Dahrin charged, laughing insanely.

“Things never go according to plan because we never plan!” Gerad yelled to Sheik as he dodged another tentacle. Sheik laughed as he ran up one of the tentacles to an eye and stabbed his daggers into it.
The monster screamed, from anger or pain Sheik couldn’t tell as he was knocked away by a tentacle. It wrapped around his body and slammed him into the water. Under the water the tentacle squeezed and Sheik cried out.
He looked up to the surface and saw a bright flash of light and the tentacle released its hold on him. He swam as fast as he could to the surface. He scrambled onto the landing and rolled as one of the tentacles slammed into the place he was just at.
Sheik stood up just as Selene threw another light spear at the monster. Sheik bent backwards and the spear barely missed him. He stood back up and moved out of Selene’s line of fire.
“Sorry Sheik!” Selene called to him.
“No problem. You just almost took my nose off is all.” Sheik said back with a smile.
“We’re taking too long!” Sasha called from somewhere to their left.
“Yeah, but there really isn’t anything we can do about that.” Gerad called back from their right.
“What do you suggest we do?” Meria called from right behind Sheik who jumped.
“Weren’t you just over there?” Sheik asked.
Meria chuckled, “Yes.”
A tentacle headed straight for them and there was no where to dodge. Sheik grabbed Meria and they both sank through the shadow. They reemerged out of the shadow of the column by Gerad.
Gerad hacked at one of the tentacles and managed to sever it off. Selene kept shooting light spears as fast as she could. Sheik went through one shadow to another striking at different places on the monster. They all fought long and hard till finally the monster lay in pieces dying around them.
Gerad walked to where Selene stood propped against a column, “How’re you holding up?”
Selene chuckled, “I’m alright. Where’s Sasha?”
“Here.” Sasha called to them from the other side of the landing. Gerad helped Selene stand up and they both headed to where Sasha was. They met up with Sheik and Meria there with Sasha.
“Now what?” Sheik asked.
“I haven’t the faintest idea where Lucius could be in here.” Selene said squatting down to catch her breath. Throwing a lot of spears left her drained.
“I think he’s this way.” Sasha said pointing into the water. Gerad looked to where she was pointing and could just make out a door on the bottom floor.
Gerad shrugged, “Good a place as any to start looking.”
Sasha dove into the water and the rest followed her. They made it to the door and Gerad pulled, it didn’t budge.
“It must be locked.” Selene said.
“Wait, Sheik, can’t you use the shadows to look for Lucius?” Meria asked turning to him.
Sheik thought about it for a bit then nodded, “I don’t see why I couldn’t give it a shot.”
Sheik closed his eyes and gathered his energy; his shadow swelled from the floor and covered him completely. The rest of them waited in silence as he searched.

Split personalities!!! I can relate lol. So he has him, good and dark side, that is so cool. and he became so badass tooo. amazing. Do not worry you can leave me hanging, there is not a far distance to fall anyway.

and now the rest of chapter 21! hope you like ^_^

A few minutes later they heard the door click and Sheik’s shadow slid back onto the floor. He opened his eyes and grinned.
“I found him and I got the doors unlocked.”
“Do you remember the way?” Gerad asked pulling on the door, it still didn’t move. Sheik pushed on it and it slowly opened.
“Yeah, I think so.” Sheik said as he led the way. Gerad rolled his eyes and swam in after him. Sheik led them through doors and corridors and down staircases.
“Why aren’t there any monsters?” Selene asked.
“Maybe that big one ate them all?” Meria suggested.
“Either way, stay alert.” Gerad said as they came to another door at the end of the tunnel they were in. Sheik turned the handle and pulled it open slightly, he peeked through the crack made by the side of the door that was connected to the frame.
“See anything?” Sasha asked.
“Looks clear.” Sheik replied opening the door more so Gerad could get through. Gerad surveyed the circular room with the sandy floor and broken columns as he waited for the others to come in after him.
“Lucius is over there.” Sheik said pointing to the middle of the room.
Gerad nodded his head; he had already seen the crystal chunk with Lucius inside of it.
“Lucius!” Sasha cried seeing him. She swam up to the crystal block and banged on the surface as she screamed his name.
“How do we get him out?” Gerad asked as he ran his hand over the surface of the crystal. The crystal began to hum and Gerad jerked his hand back.
“Well, if it’s what I think it is, we have a problem.” Sasha said calming down a little bit.
“What do you mean?” Meria asked, she, Sheik, and Selene were scouting out the rest of the room. Sasha studied Lucius’s face. He looked so peaceful.
“Well, if this is the crystal seal, one of us has to trade places with him to get him out. Once we do that he should be able to get us out assuming he can get Lara back here to seal her inside of it.” Sasha replied studying the crystal block.
“And if he fails to get her back here?” Selene asked.
“The one inside will be stuck in there till he does. You see the way it works is the person has to be willing to trade places, unless the Water Sage is involved then he can force someone to trade places.”
“And if he dies in the process?” Sheik asked from where he sat on one of the fallen columns.
Sasha turned and gave him a sad smile, “They will be stuck in there for forever.”
She chuckled, “Unless someone else changes places with them.”
“Ok, how do we decide who it’s going to be?” Meria asked.
“There’s no deciding, I’ll do it.” Gerad said looking at Lucius.
“Says who?”
“How come you get to decide?”
“I don’t think so, it should be me.”
Gerad sighed as their protests continued and escalated in volume.
“It can’t be any of you.” Sasha said calmly. Gerad looked at her as the others fell silent.
“Why not?” Meria asked.
“Because only a Zora can trade places, I don’t know why but that’s the way it works.” Sasha replied.
“How do we know you’re telling the truth?” Selene asked her.
Sasha laughed, “You don’t. But I would hope I didn’t ever give you cause to think me a liar.”
“Besides, Lucius is going to need all of your help to defeat Lara and seal her again. I can’t do much, I’m not a warrior. I’m just a sculptor after all.” Sasha said with a smile.
Gerad stared at Sasha. Selene watched her brother, “You can’t be considering this?”
Gerad looked at her, “It’s the only way it seems. And besides I don’t think she’d tell us how to do it, her mind is made up.”
Selene rolled her eyes, “Fine, Sasha, what do we do?”
“First we need to empty the water in here. So you guys can fight better, in case something attacks while I’m working.” Sasha answered.
“Ok, how do we do that?” Sheik asked.
“Well there should be a picture of the royal family of Hyrule somewhere on the bottom floor that controls the water level. See if you can find it like you did earlier.” Sasha suggested.
“Ok.” Sheik said.
“Wait, don’t you need an Ocarina? I remember our father telling us a story from his adventure about the Water Temple.” Gerad asked.
“Do you have one?” Sasha asked him.
“I do.” Selene said digging into one of her pouches. She pulled out a green Ocarina.
“Yeah, that’ll work. Sheik, find it then use your Shadow portal to get Selene there so she can play the song and then come back.” Sasha said.
Sheik nodded and gathered his energy once more. His shadow swelled up as before and they waited for him to finish. Finally his shadow sank back down.
“I found one. Selene, hold onto me tightly, and don’t be scared.” Sheik said with a smile, which was kind of frightening with his black eyes. Selene grabbed Sheik’s hand and he guided her onto his shadow. They sank through and disappeared.
Gerad leaned against one of the stones and waited. It seemed to take forever till finally they heard a noise that sounded like water draining through pipes. The water level in the room lowered to about ankle depth. Gerad was wringing out his clothes when Sheik and Selene appeared from his shadow.
“Welcome back.” Gerad said brushing his wet hair out of his face.
“Thanks.” Selene said wringing out her hair.
They turned to Sasha and Gerad asked her, “Now what?”
Sasha smiled, “Move to the entrance, so you don’t get hurt.”
They followed her instructions and moved to stand by the door. Sasha put her hands on the crystal palms flat. The crystal began to hum and then started to glow. The volume of the hum increased as the light intensified. The rest of them hid their eyes from the light unable to look at it directly. The hum grew so load it started to hurt, just when it almost became unbearable it stopped and the light disappeared.
Gerad looked up to see the crystal still there but Sasha was inside and Lucius was lying on the sandy floor. Gerad ran to Lucius’s side and checked his pulse.
His eyes fluttered open, “Sasha?”
“Um, she’s ok. I think.” Gerad answered him helping him sit up.
Lucius sighed, “She’ll be alright, assuming I don’t fail.”
Gerad helped Lucius stand up as the others came over from the entrance. Lucius put his hand on the crystal and whispered, “I promise I’ll get you out soon.”
Lucius smiled a half smile at them as they came up.
“How are you?” Selene asked.
“I’m fine.” Lucius answered her standing on his own.
“Good.” Selene said then punched him across the face.
“That was for going off on your own you idiot.” Selene said pointing her finger accusingly at him as he rubbed his jaw.
Lucius chuckled, “Sorry.” The others chuckled as Selene rolled her eyes.
“We should get back to Zora’s Domain; we have to save Sasha now.” Meria said.
“I don’t think so.” A voice echoed around the room as the door slammed and locked shut.
Lara materialized on one of the fallen columns and glared at them.
“Great.” Lucius whispered.
“Lara! What are you doing here? And when did you shrink?” Sheik asked.
“That’s Zara.” Lucius corrected him.
Sheik looked at him confused, “You mean there’s two of them?”
“Well, sort of. Lara is part of Zara, who was sealed away a long time ago by a Water Sage.” Lucius answered.
“Is she dangerous?” Meria asked.
Zara stretched out her hands and about twenty spears materialized around her, “You won’t take him from me again!” She pushed her hands in front of herself and the spears came at them.
Sheik and Meria dodged to the right behind a standing column while Gerad, Selene, and Lucius ducked behind a fallen one to the left as the spears rapidly approached. Ducked down behind the column they heard thunks from the other side. Gerad peeked over the top of the column and saw the spears imbedded half way up their shafts.
“Does that answer your question?” Lucius asked.


cya'll next week!