The Legend of Zelda: Forgotten Power, A Zelda based Role-playing adventure

[Mythos]

By: Mythos and GuardianNinja

Rules:
1) Only approved characters may post here. To get a character approved post it in the RP character thread and we will reply and give you our verdict.

2) If you have questions or comments about the RP please don't post them in here. Please post them in the comments thread.

3) If you post here and you aren't on the list of accepted characters your post will be reported. Don't spam here, we have the free talk section for that.

4) Stay in character as much as possible when you post here. In essence you ARE your character in here so, talk like it! Unless your character talks in some foreign language. In that case lets just 'say' that Hyrule, for some reason, causes everyone to speak the same language.

5) If you have suggestions about where you think the story should head feel free to post those 'OOC' in here if you like. If you don't have a character in the RP you can post them in the comments thread.

6) When you are approved to post please consider the following guidelines when posting:

Try to keep it realistic. Think about the strength of your character in relation to what or who you're fighting. If you're fighting a miniblin feel free to crush the thing without a second though. On the other hand if you're fighting a darknut captain it should take you way longer than the miniblin. Everybody takes hits sometimes. To put it bluntly you are not God, don't act like it.

And lastly.....
7)Have fun ;)

Approved Characters:
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Character name
(Creator)
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Reaver
(Mythos)

Hazaku
(GuardianNinja)

Prinkachu
(Khao)

Kerath
(hydraboxdog)

[Mythos]

A mysterious voice speaks from within Hyrule and into worlds beyond:

The Triforce, a sacred relic left behind by the gods themselves. Sometimes one relic and other times three, one piece for each of the goddesses who left it, one piece containing immense power, once piece possessing the wisdom of the ages, and one piece filled with the courage to overcome any odds. Or this is what most legends say. For in places dark and forgotten there are whispers of another legend. This other legend speaks of a fourth piece of the Triforce imbued with the strength, wisdom and courage of all three goddesses. It was meant to be the last weapon against the evil one and his forces and bring balance back to the land. Over time and from the continual success of the hero and the princess the fourth piece and is promise of final help in times of urgent peril has been forgotten by all but a few. Maybe the goddesses meant for their last weapon to become obscured by time and lost so it would not draw the gaze of the evil it was meant to defeat. But the time for secrecy is over. A veil of evil has been drawn over the land by the evil one. He imprisoned the princess and stripped her of her power and found the piece left behind by the hero when he left for Termina to seek his lost friend. The three pieces are one and he holds them all. The only hope for Hyrule is the final forgotten piece of which you have been told. I send this last message into the ether and into the realms beyond Hyrule’s very reality in hope that a hero exists beyond our lands. Seek the last piece and use it to banish the darkness! If you are hearing this, I beg you save our land!

[Mythos]

IC:
The thunder storm raged and rain came down in sheets as I watched the cyclops demon disappear into the warehouse from the roof of the next warehouse over. I could still hear the soft whimpering of the child in that canvas sack. I hated using the kid as bait but this was the quickest way to find where the cyclops and its kin. Timing my jump with the thunder I jumped from one roof to the other landing right as the thunder boomed overhead. Moving swiftly and silently I crossed the roof and jumped down onto the concrete in front of where the demon had entered. Drawing the katana (Fenrir's dormant form) from my belt as I dropped onto the ground. As luck would have it a lightning bolt split the sky behind me and when the five seven foot tall cyclopes turned around to check out the noise and only saw a blurred black shadow. They made the mistake of turning back around to their soon to be meal. I was on them before the next rain drop hit the ground. The first demon howled in pain as I drove my blade through its back and into its heart. At the demon's cry its companions looked up and saw it fall to the ground with me standing on its back, my sword dripping black demon blood. The demon nearest tried to smash me with its fist but only succeeded in finishing off the fallen cyclops. Before the demon could even raise the fist from the corpse I sliced it off at the wrist. It roared in pain and staggered backwards clutching its severed limb. The other three rushed at me from behind. I cut the knees out from under one of them and jumped up to meet the other two, slicing its neck open as we passed each other. With my free hand I pulled one of my long knives from my belt, flipped it tip up and flung it into the nearest cyclopes' eye driving it back just enough for me to stab it through the throat. As it fell I jumped off its back launching me at the last standing cyclops. The demon tried to grab me as I flew past but it just stopped and fell over. The two clean halves of its head split apart when it hit the concrete floor as I landed just beyond it. With a quick flick of my wrist I flung the demon blood from my katana and sheathed it. The last wounded cyclops saw this as an opening and charged forward howling in rage at the slaughter of its friends. I shot it through the heart before it was even halfway to me. Now I had to find the poor kid. I hoped that the child was still alive. Before I could start looking I heard a voice speak in a language I had never heard before but yet I understood it. The voice seemed to come from every direction at once and filled the warehouse with its words. The land it spoke of was in dire peril. But what could I do? I had never even heard of the place before. How was I supposed to find it? But right then Fenrir started to rattle in its sheath. I reached down to stop it but it flew out of the sheath and hung up in the air about a foot above my head. I jumped up and grabbed it. My hand closed around the handle but I didn't fall back down. I was frozen in air like the sword. Before I knew it the world was melting away around me and soon everything vanished. Total blackness surrounded me for a second and the world began to reform around me in a haze. It finally became solid and I fell face down into a field. I picked myself up off the ground and brushed the dust off my coat. I checked my equipment and strangely the long knife that I had thrown at the cyclops had appeared back into it's sheath even though I hadn't retrieved it. I assumed it was Fenrir's doing. With the long knife mysteriously returned my equipment was once again complete. I glanced around at my surroundings. The entire land seemed to be ringed with huge mountains. I could see a town in the distance and a huge tower like structure seemed to spread its shadow over everything. Even the mountains. This was the land spoken of in the message. I just knew that it was. I had come to Hyrule and with Fenrir sheathed and hidden under my coat I started of walking in the direction of the town.

OOC:
OK, I've broken the ice. Now someone else needs to get a post on.

[GuardianNinja]

OOC:

WOOT meh first post :D

IC:

THUMP - THUMP - THUMP that was the only noise that was made as Hazaku flew from tree branch to tree branch. He moved at an ever increasing rate
to catch up with the thief before he got to the border cause it would be that much harder to obtain the artifact. As the green tops of the
trees zoomed past Hazaku he could see the border and without thinking he focused his strength in his legs and as he flew to the next branch
he jumped forward with all his strength and threw a kunai knife and time seemed to slow as it zoomed forward - the thief started to smile as
he flew past the last tree to the border then the smile stopped immediately as the kunai went into his leg - as he went to the next tree branch
his foot hold disappeared and he went down into the small green clearing. He tried to jump but he just fell to his knees all he could do is
listen to Hazaku walk closer slowly and finally pull the kunai from his leg. Hazaku walked up and mercilessly took the artifact from the thief
"You all most had me didn't you?" - Hazaku jumped up on a branch and turned "I left you a present... hahahaha" a paper bomb was left in the
clearing - the thief looked at it then the sky before Hazaku continued out off the area. BOOM as dust flew around just behind Hazaku as he jumped
to the next branch and back to the Hidden Leaf Village - But then suddenly the artifact started glowing and everything started to rotate and
Hazaku started falling through the air. Everything got heavy as Hazaku passed out - In black and white he saw a new land one he couldn't believe
then Hazaku saw someone with the artifact in there hands before Hazaku could react he was suddenly in the forest again. Hazaku got up
and started off in the direction of the Hidden Leaf Village and Hazaku was there but the Village wasn't - it wasn't the Hidden Leaf Village
at all - Hazaku turned to see a sign -=Kokiri Forest=- "This can't be right..." Hazaku saw some children around and asked them where he was
they told him... Hyrule. Hazaku started off then asked where the nearest town was they pointed and Hazaku took off wondering whats going on
as Hazaku reached a field all went black and Hazaku heard a voice - Help, Help this land ... the land of Hyrule its in trouble - in a new
language ... that he under stood completely Hazaku started to talk but the black started disappearing as he spoke "How could I help I don't
even know where this is" Hazaku looked forward and saw a town in the distance and took off toward it.

[Khao]

OOC: I guess I will just try.

IC:
Prinkachu was searching for something in the forest, the family of bears he killed 2 hours ago was starting to have a very disgusting smell, and he wasn't able to cook the meat, dissapointed at his lack of cooking skills he started walking away, enormously hungry, suddenly he saw something at a distance, the trees of the forest were starting to fall, as Prinkachu was very hungry, and he knew that if he stayed in there he would die, he went to check what was going on.
When Prinkachu got to the center of the falling trees, he saw a troll fighting with a very big snake, it was Prinkachu's chance to eat something, he jumped forward and he used his lightning on his tail to form a big knife, he cut a tree and threw it towards the troll, tough he missed, he was lucky to get the snake trapped below the tree. Prinkachu was confused, as he never fought a troll before, and he didn't know what they were capable of, if he couldn't kill the troll, he wouldn't be able to eat that delicious looking snake, but if he fought the troll, he would probably get hurt, he decided to fight him, the troll just realized he had a quite strange creature in front of him, so he tried to crush Prinkachu with a rock that was lying near, Prinkachu just jumped and evaded it, he realized the troll wasn't very fast, that could be useful.
He started charging up some energy, and he casted a big thunder wich fell in the troll, the troll was severly injured, but in response he jumped towards Prinkachu and fell in his "arm", and it got broken, now Prinkachu got really angry, he never got an arm broken before, so he tried something better, he jumped to get to the cloud on the tip of his tail, and started gliding around the troll while he was shooting thunderbolts out of his hands, finally, he punched really hard with a lightning enhanched hand, and the lightning got to the troll's brain, wich made it stop working.
Prinkachu was very tired, but he at least he could be able to eat a bit. After he finished eating, he saw some seeds growing in a plant, they looked different to anything he had seen before, so he picked some, suddenly, the seeds started to glow and and a small cyclone engulfed (OOC: is that the correct word? I'm not really sure) Prinkachu and sent him flying to the air, Prinkachu realized he heard about those before, they were called Gale Seeds, and whoever he used them, he could go wherever he wanted, and Prinkachu accidentally activated one, when he landed he was in a huge field with a lot of grass, he could see mountains at a distance, one of them, wich was especially big, had a circle of clouds around it, it looked like a volcano, in the other way there was a big forest, but it was different than the one he just left, and there also was a very long river going so far that Prinkachu couldn't see where it ended. Suddenly, Prinkachu heard something, he didn't really heard it, it was more like he felt it, it was a voice, calling for help...It talked about a sacred relic, and a land by the name of Hyrule that was in danger, Prinkachu understood the message perfectly even tough he never heard something like that before...He knew nothing about this "Hyrule" thing, nor where he was at the moment, he should better get going, Prinkachu really likes forests so he tough it was the best option, While he started walking to that strange forest, Prinkachu realized that leaving Khao's house and getting so much kilometers away from it wasn't a very brilliant thing to do.

OOT: Is that fine? I just invented things as soon as they came to my mind, I usually write that way, I have an entire comic book like that...(with more than 100 pages and growing.)

[Mythos]

OOC: Looks like everyone is here. So, let's kick this thing up a notch! Ok here goes....

IC: As I walked closer to the city I could hear a battle raging. The clear blue sky over the town was tainted with thick black smoke from many burning buildings. One structure stood out from amid all of them, a castle. Even crumbling and burning its magnificence stopped me for moment. Whoever had done this was about to wish they hadn't. My legs coiled under me as I exploded off the ground. The grasses of the field beneath me were a blur as I half-jumped and half-flew across the field. The city grew closer with every step and the sounds of steel, fire and pain grew louder with every leap. Finally I reached the moat and its ruined drawbridge and sprang over them. Battles raged all along the city's main avenue. Human guards dressed in scale mail and wielding spears battled undead and strange pig-like monsters that I had never seen. I was about to head for the castle when a woman ran out from the side street nearest to me. Her eyes were filled with terror and desperation, a look I knew too well. I shook off the terrible memories that slapped me in the face. Two pig monsters ran out after her with spears glinting in the fire light. I slid between them. My katana flashed once and their heads fell from their shoulders.
"I don't know who you are but you have to help us! They've got her!" The woman I had saved was speaking to me in desperate tones. "They've got the princess!" I didn't know who this 'princess' was but I could tell she was important from the pleading look in the woman's eyes.
"Show me". I answered. Hope seemed to return to the woman's eyes and she rushed off toward the castle I followed her close, ready to cut down whatever got in our way.

OOC: You both seem pretty close behind me so feel free to jump into the rescue whenever. I guess it might be a bit early to rescue Zelda so we could 'miss' her but, on the other hand she might know where The Fourth Piece is at. It could go either way but tis up to you guys what happens. I set you both up, now run with it!

[Khao]

IC: Prinkachu was still walking forward in the road, he had been walking for various minutes, suddenly, he saw some smoke at the other side of a high cliff, and he was curious of what it was, he couldn't jump or fly very high, se he just had to go to the other side of the cliff, while he was advancing towards the smoke, he saw a town, then a castle, then he realized, that the castle was under attack.
Prinkachu thought that participating in a war would be very fun, so he started running inside, hidden behind the door of the castle, he started to see what was fighting what, there were various humans with swords, shields and spears, and they were very well armored, and some really big and ugly pig-like monsters, they seemed very strong, but they had very primitive weaponary, they only armor they had were just some helmets, and not all had them, they used bows and some big spears. It seemed the Pigs were attacking the town, and much were trying to enter the castle, Prinkachu decided to go to the side of the humans, because the pigs were too ugly, and didn't smelled very well, so he got out of the door, and casted a lightning spell into one of the pig monsters, they weren't very resistant, but Prinkachu couldn't use his most powerful techniques with his broken arm, heither he could form necessary seals to make ninja techniques, though they were still killed easily.
Prinkachu kept throwing lightning at the monsters, but the soldiers didn't realized Prinkachu was trying to help them, and they tried to attack him, it was something natural, as it was probable that they never saw such a strange creature, Prinkachu tried to explain them, but sadly, none of them seemed to understand the Princo language, he just kept evading their slow attacks. Prinkachu would be happy to defend himself, but he didn't wanted to kill one of the humans, because if he did, both armies would be against him, so he kept attacking the monsters until the humans realized Prinkachu was not against them, the thunders were falling everywhere, and Prinkachu tried to keep getting inside the castle to understand what was going on, and if this had something to do with the misterious message he heard before.

[hydraboxdog]

Kerath walked through his house for the first time in seventy years. D'ni, what he had known as a young child, was changed forever. "Curse the Philosopher's name..." he muttered in the D'ni language. He reached into a pouch and pulled out a fire marble. Soon, the warm glow lit up the darkness. He entered the street in his neighborhood and stared up at the roof of the cavern far above. What had once been filled with life was now... dead. Images started flooding into his head. Memories. The yellow cloud slowly coming closer... people screaming as they fled to escape from the death... buildings collapsing... his mother with the torch in her hand as she watched him disappear. A tear rolled down his pale cheek. All that had once been so beautiful, destroyed because a surface dweller married a D'ni? He stared at a pillar that had fallen in the earthquakes. Then Kerath noticed that there was a hollow space that the base of the pillar had once covered. He picked up the book that was hidden there. Strange... it doesn't have the mark of approval from the guild... He opened the cover. The panel glowed, and he saw a bright land... a castle... forests... mountains... He flipped through the pages. The Age looked safe and stable. He put the linking book in his knapsack. He'd check out the age once he had a linking book back to D'ni. He eventually made it to one of the libraries and soon had the book he needed. He pulled out the strange linking book he had found, opened it, placed his hand on the panel, and linked...

He looked around. A cheery, yet almost eerie melody whistled through the dark, mysterious forest. "Where am I?" He spoke in D'ni, but the words came out in a strange language he'd never heard before. He pulled the fire marble out of his pouch so he could see better. Which way to go? He chose a random direction and started walking. The forest seemed to go on forever. Suddenly he realized. He was back where he started. What kind of power made it so that one walked straight yet ended up going in circles? There must be a way out of these woods...

[GuardianNinja]

OOC:
WOOT second post of mine time to finally get into a party :P
IC:
As Hazaku got closer to the town he could hear the clashing of spears and clanking of shields and decided to check it out first - Hazaku
quickly ran up the stone wall and could see a battle going on within. "Wow this seems to have gotten out of hand" - Hazaku leaped into the
air and did a hand sign - then blew fire over all the pig-like monsters taking out a few sets of them, then did another hand sign and sped
off into the battle taking out multitudes with my kunai knife until - A giant skeleton stepped out covered in some of the thickest armor
Hazaku has ever seen, then raised its sword and pushed out its shield making a stance - Hazaku saw that he wanted to fight him and only him
so he made a stance - but then the skele knight charged swinging its sword, before Hazaku could react his kunai sparked and flew like seemed
like a mile - The unarmed Hazaku quickly sped behind the knight only to be smacked away with the knight's shield - "Damn, I will have to use
something stronger to even get close!" - Hazaku then jumped at the knight only to be stabbed with a sword *POOF* the shadow clone left
behind some smoke in the air - the knight looked confused thinking he took out his opponite that easily but then he felt something through
his chest, the head of a spear - the knight swung the sword behind himself only to cut up a log, then he heard something in the sky - Hazaku
had his chakra charging in the back ground the whole time - Hazaku could see the skeleton knight's red eyes as fire shot down onto the knight
then exploding leaving only a burnt spot on the ground - Hazaku flew to the ground smiling cause of his victory - but then off in the
distance Hazaku could see a woman running towards a castle and some creature following right behind, "Heh another chance to fight" after
saying that Hazaku took off after them.

[hydraboxdog]

Kerath walked for what seemed like forever. Suddenly, he stepped out into bright sunlight. He closed his pale eyes while he pulled out his dark lenses and put them on. He walked forward and looked at his surroundings. He seemed to be in some kind of village surrounded by forest. He remembered getting a brief glimpse when he had looked into the linking book. A group of pointy-eared children wearing green clothes turned to look up at the tall, pale-skinned stranger. One of the girls giggled.

"You came out of the Lost Woods, but you're not a Stalfos!" She didn't speak D'ni, but strangely Kerath was able to understand her. She spoke again. "Grown-ups don't usually come this way. You should probably go to Hyrule Field. That's where the other stranger went." Kerath nodded in thanks and walked through a hollow log the girl had pointed to. He passed over a crude bridge and he recognized that it went across the dark forest he had been in earlier. Soon, he was out. Now he was in the huge field that he saw in the linking book. So... the castle should be up ahead... He ran through the field. This age seemed bright, sunny, and peaceful. He breathed the fresh, clean air as he ran. He stopped. He detected another smell... smoke. He reached up to his lenses and adjusted them to allow him to see farther ahead. There was smoke coming from the castle.

Speeding up to a faster pace, he raced across the massive field. Something was not right. He reached the gate and and saw strange monsters with spears and other weapons attacking the residents who fled in terror. I don't know who these people are, but I just can't let them get butchered like this. I've already seen one civilization die, I don't plan on seeing another. He ran forward and picked up a spear that one of the strange creatures had dropped. It was a primitive weapon, but he didn't have time to link back to D'ni and get a better weapon, these people needed help. He thrust the spear and one monster and it fell over. Another one swung a spear at Kerath. He jumped backwards as the spear head whistled past. He threw the spear into its chest, killing it instantly. He noticed some people running towards the castle where the fighting was even thicker. I need to know what's going on here... He pulled the spear out of the dead monster and rushed after them.

[Mythos]

IC: The woman and I stopped between the last two buildings before the avenue opened up into the castle courtyard.
"Hold up for a second. I've got a better idea than to just rush head on into that mess in front of us. Put your arms around my neck." I told her while sheathing my katana.
"What? Why?".
"Just trust me".
"O..Ok". She put her arms around my neck. We were very close to each other now. It was.....awkward.
"Alright lady, hold on tight" and with that I launched myself and her up the side of the nearest building on the right side of the street. I caught the edge of the roof by inches and pulled us up on to the roof. She let go of me.
"And now we can see the whole courtyard and the castle", I told her while surveying the battle raging below us. Then something strange began to happen. A bolt of lightning stuck the line of monsters attacking the gate to the castle blowing them apart. Then another one struck the crowd of monsters and another. Smoking craters were left where ever a bolt fell. I turned back to the woman.
"Tell me where your princess is".
"She's trapped in the castle. I wanted to stay with her but she sent me away telling me something about the forth being Hyrule's last hope and that I needed to find the others she had called". The pieces were falling into place like the lightning bolts falling behind me.
"I need to speak to her. Do you know of any hidden ways into the castle?"
"I don't know if it's fate or coincidence but we're standing on one. Before this building was a shop it was a guard post with a tunnel that led directly to the castle gate house. It's very old and has probably been sealed up".
"There are no coincidences, only fate. Grab on to me again". She did and I jumped back off the building. We landed in front of the door to the shop. I set her down and rattled the handle. The door was locked.
"You might want to cover your ears", I told her as I pulled a barretta from its holster on my hip. I aimed and shot a bullet straight into the lock. The door swung inward with it's latch smoking. I holstered the gun.
"What in Din's name was that thing?!" she stammered at me.
"I don't think your princess has time for me to explain it." The woman nodded, still a little shaken up from the gunshot.
"The tunnel should be in the basement", she said while pointing at a set of stairs near the store's counter. We walked down the stairs into a store room filled with goods of all kinds. Lit torches were mounted in each of the corners of the store room. I thought about where we had entered the shop and which direction led to the castle. The wall I was looking at only had one large empty shelf resting against it. I wove my way through the crates and barrels stacked all over the floor. I knocked hard on the shelf. Just as I though. There was space behind it. My long black trench coat rose slightly off the ground as I focused the source of my strength, my aura, into my hands. I hit the shelf in the middle with a palm thrust. The shelf seemed to bend inward at where I hit it for a second. Then it shattered shooting chips and splinters of wood into the tunnel behind it. Then I heard footsteps on the floor above us.
"Into the tunnel. It seems our pursuer has caught up to us. Wait for me at the end. This won't take long." The woman walked past me and ran into the tunnel. Then someone started to walk down the stairs.

[GuardianNinja]

IC:
Hazaku fled inside the castle after the two but then more pig monsters appeared - Hazaku sent kunais at them while hurling fireballs
towards others then kept on going - but then more popped out of what seemed like no where "Damn... I will lose them at this rate" Hazaku then took up a spear and slashed down one monster before realizing a better plan - Hazaku hurled the spear into one and then started running up a wall while throwing kunais at them none of them connected but then Hazaku leaped through the air and grabbed the chandelier while flipping upside down - while hanging from his knees Hazaku took a kunai and threw it into a monster taking it down instantly then doing it again and again a third time leaving two behind Hazaku then pulled him self up with his legs and cut the chandelier while jumping away -
the chandelier took out the remaining two crushing them to death as Hazaku took off down a empty hallway and down some steps.
Reaver turned to see a dark figure fly down the steps and stop - "So whats the story here?" Hazaku said as he slowly crept forward with his
hand nudging on a kunai in case something happened unexpectedly.
OOC:
Woot Khao hows that :D *Grabs first place trophy*

[hydraboxdog]

Kerath watched Hazaku in astonishment. Did he just... run up a wall? He heard a grunt behind him, and jumped to the side as a spearhead jabbed into where he had been a second ago. More and more of the monsters started running towards him. There were too many to fight. The monsters were both slow and stupid, so Kerath had little difficulty avoiding their attacks, but it did slow him down enough to lose sight of the mysterious figure. Kerath glanced in disgust at the carnage that Hazaku had left behind. One person was able to do all this? But now Kerath needed a way to escape from the creatures now that he had lost the person he was following. He looked around and randomly selected a hall to run into. Quickly, Kerath pulled out a fire marble and threw it at the floor right in front of the moblins. The explosion caught several moblins on fire and half-blinded the rest, and they ran around in panic. Kerath took this moment to run down the hallway. He looked behind. Good, they didn't see me go this way. He walked down the hall and stopped. He heard sounds coming from down the stairs. The ceiling blocked his view so he couldn't see who was down there. An urge to go down and see who it was entered his mind, but he had no idea if it was a friend or foe, so the risk was too great. He put his back against the corner of the wall connecting to the stairway to hear what was going on. His movement caused a small piece of the wall, weakened in the fighting, to dislodge from the rest of the wall and made a *clunk* as it hit the floor. Kerath held his breath, wondering if whoever was down the stairs had heard the sound.

[Mythos]

IC: I was about to reply to the figure on the stairs when an explosion shook the shop. The many years of dust that had settled on everything lost its perch and now filled the shop's celler. As much as I would have liked to satisfy my own curiosity by talking with the figure on the stairs. I didn't have time. I turned and ran down the tunnel. Ahead of me the woman pressed something in at dead end. Then wall shook and slid aside.
"Just who are you lady?" I asked her when I caught up. "You seem to know a great deal about this city".
"You can call me Lin. I serve the royal family from the shadows.", She answered me as we climbed up a ladder that led through a trap door into what I assumed was the gatehouse. "It's my job to know about places like this in case the city falls". I could hear footsteps racing up the tunnel behind us. Lin shut the trap door and drew an iron bar across it. "That should slow down whoever was behind us". She walked up to what looked like the back of a book shelf and pressed the middle of a symbol that looked like an eye with three triangles attached to the top edge. The shelf slid aside. We stepped through and it closed behind us. We walked out of the gatehouse. Surprisingly the gate still held and the courtyard was quiet. Lin led me through the castle gardens and into the castle.
"The throne room is this way. I can only hope that we're in time", Lin pointed down one of the hallways. A pair of voices, one female and one male, grew in volume as we approached the room. I could hear them clearly now......
"...... will still be lenient if you cooperate. NOW TELL me WHAT was in your message!", the male voice demanded.
"Ganon be lenient? Hah! That's what he said when I gave my Triforce for the salvation of the people and now look what's happened. I'd rather die than rob this land of its final hope", the female voice answered. As Lin and I neared the entrance to the room Fenrir rattled in its sheath. Damn, that was not a good sign.
"That could be arranged Princess", He spat the 'p' out like a rotten piece of food. I heard a blade come free of its sheath. "If you won't help then what use are you?" We stepped into the throne room. A man cut from the darkest shadows held a sword in one hand and in the other he held the chin of a beautiful woman in a white dress with the other. His sword looked strange. It looked....corrupted and twisted. It was so beautiful but it was rusted and pitted. One side of the winged guard was broken off completely.
"Your kind make me sick!" I growled. The man released the woman and turned around.
"Oh? Who do we have here?" He asked us nonchalantly "Well if it isn't the princess's pet and someone new. Another would-be hero perhaps? I do miss him so much. He was the only one who could ever match my skills in battle."
"Once he's distracted I want you to take the princess and go". I whispered in Lin's ear.
"Telling secrets are we? That's not very......", I sprang at him.
"I think you'll find that I'm full of secrets. Here's one just for you!", I yelled at him drawing my katana in a flash. His blade came up just in time to deflect it. I whipped it around again in both hands. Sparks flew as we came together, locked blade on blade. Fenrir struggled for release. No, not yet. I didn't want to use my trump card so soon. I had to keep his attention long enough for Lin and the princess to escape. I deflected a thrust just in time. I had to focus. Getting distracted would mean death. We went back and forth. Neither of us gave an inch. The shadow man and I were locked in a stalemate of whirling, blurring steel. Then someone appeared in the doorway to the throne room.
"Go help Lin and the princess! I'll hold him here!" I yelled to the figure.

[Khao]

OOC: I was supposed to post yesterday... but something happened and I couldn't post...

IC:Prinkachu was starting to get tired, he depleted completely his psinergy and he didn't had much mana left, even tough he had all his chakra, he couldn't form seals with a broken arm, so it was useless, it was full of pigs, they kept appearing from nowhere, he tried to fight in close quarter combat, but it was useless, he heard a gun shot inside the castle, wich was a very strange thing considering the place, suddenly, a black figure killed most of the pigs, it was really fast, maybe even more than Prinkachu, he used kunais, so Prinkachu thought he was a ninja. After some killing, he rushed inside the castle, and Prinkachu followed him mounted in his cloud. the ninja started going down stairs, and Prinkachu jumped to the ceiling, if he was lucky, no one would see him there, he wanted to know what was happening, but he was not in a good status to fight more, the ninja stopped, and he said something in english, -"So whats the story here?"- Prinkachu didn't understand that well, but he defineatly wasn't alone, suddenly, Prinkachu heard a noise upstaits, but he didn't looked back, as he would fall from the ceiling, fighting was the only thing Prinkachu didn't needed at the moment...

OOC: how was that? *Grabs fourth place trophy*