Fan Fiction ❯ Professional Hero ❯ The war starts ( Chapter 16 )

Chapter 16 - The war starts

Part 1 - The fall of Clocktown

The guard looked towards the mountain ridge in front of Snowhead from above the gate and felt good. This was his first day of service and he had looked forward to this day. Ever since he was a kid he wanted to be in the guard. He and his friends even formed a sort of mini guard to help and protect the people. He had to smile when he thought of the Bombers. Now he had his own helmet and shining armour with his name engraved on: T. Hunter. Just as he thought life couldn't get better, he saw the white cloud coming up from the ridge. Powdersnow was thrown in the air as dust as the stampeding Gorons approached.

"Fuck," the guard whispered, "we got trouble at the northern gate!" he shouted to the guards below, "close the gates, quickly! Gorons are coming!"

"What do you mean?" his captain climbed the wall to see what the trouble was, "we never had trouble with the Gorons before."

"Look captain." He pointed.

"Fuck," the captain whispered, "I'm sure they have some good explanation but close the gate."

"Close the gate damnit," he shouted down, "quickly before they get here! I don't know what's going on but I don't trust it, send word out to the other gates and headquarters, Clocktown closes up until the Gorons pass."

One of the guards left while the others grabbed their weapons. They didn't really know what damage you could do with swords and halberds against Gorons but it was all they had. The captain got his bow out and thanked the Gods more archers were on their way. The Gorons had passed the mountains carrying long poles with sometimes still live wolfos as banners and now were passing the Mushroom field. One of them, with long white hair in a ponytail and a white skull painted on his face with other white tattoos all over his body, wielding a huge sword, jumped up one of the mushroom.

"Attack!" he shouted, "kill every man! Don't leave one alive! It is time we take our place here in the warm sun! Death to Clocktown!"

"Strengthen the gate!" the guard captain shouted as he started to fire his bow. Other archers had arrived and were shooting the large rocks and surprisingly some fell under the arrows. The Gorons banged up the wooden door but couldn't breach it. Suddenly the wave of attackers parted and a large Goron with a huge axe appeared, waving it around while shouting old battle cries. The captain had thought their leader looked fearsome. This didn't make any sense, he thought as the Goron came running, they use metal weapons, but Gorons don't use metal weapons, the only person in the north who uses metal weapons is the blacksmith who makes all of Clocktown's weapo… Suddenly he saw the two heads on their leader's belt.

The huge axe came crashing down on the door and it broke down. The guards behind the iron gate pushed their halberds forward and drove it deep in the flesh of the Goron while the archers let down a rain of arrows. The Goron let out a last cry and fell down backwards, crushing some lesser Goron. The captain thanked the Gods Gorons didn't use bows or any other projectile weapons, but then saw he was wrong.

"Prepare the kegs!" Mashka shouted.

Several Gorons climbed the stone mushrooms and began throwing powder kegs. They exploded near the wall, leaving deep cracks.

"Go to the bombshop!" the captain shouted, "we have to fight them with their own weapons!"

As the guard ran off, he heard explosions on the other side of town. They had surrounded the city and were attacking on all sides. Of course they are, he thought, if they hadn't, they would have been idiots.

"We're not gonna make it, are we?"

The captain looked up in the new recruits face.

"Only if we don't stand our ground, and if we can't we take out as many as possible."

He started shooting his bow again, but too few arrows killed the attackers. The powder kegs blew up parts of the wall and a few Gorons but they didn't care about that. They wanted Clocktown destroyed, no matter if it meant a suicide run. Finally the bombs arrived at the gate and the guards started throwing them down. On of the guards came running to the captain.

"The bombshop keeper says he has a lot more in the warehouse and he's getting the-"

A loud explosion in Clocktown cut him off. Apparently the Gorons had breached the East gate and they had just blown up the bombshop.

"My mother lives there." The recruit whispered as he looked over the Eastern part.

With a loud yell he grabbed his halberd and his sword and jumped down on the Gorons. He took out for of the giants before they ripped him apart. With a loud cry the Gorons held up his head before the captain shot his last arrows.

"We will not surrender," he shouted, "do you hear me? We will not…"

Mashka appeared in front of him with his large sword under the captain's chin.

"Then you will die." The Goron said with an evil smile.

Anju ran through the streets, looking for her husband and her son, trying to get away from the Gorons. Many people tried to flee from the city, and surprisingly, the Gorons let them, because they knew they would pose no threat for them anymore. As she turned around the corner, she saw Kafei in a large puddle of blood with a Goron above him. Link was just a few feet further, trying to hide in a corner. The Goron held his sword high as he advanced on the boy.

"Link!" she heard herself yell.

Suddenly another Goron appeared, one with a white ponytail, covered in tattoos, with several heads hanging on his belt (she recognised the captain of the northern guards, as well as one of the Bombers) who stopped the Goron.

"Is your name Link?" he asked the boy.

Link could only nod.

"I want him alive," he turned to Anju and looked her in the eye, "you may come back for him later. Don't worry, you'll see him."

He started to laugh, only stopping to slice a passing woman in half with his broad sword. Anju tried to clean the blood away from her face as her son was being taken away by the Gorons and she could only run towards the South gate, leading to the swamps.

It had gotten dark and the fighting had ceased. Most of Clocktown was burning and most of the walls were completely torn down. Only a few guards had survived as well as most women. While Clocktown had over eight thousand inhabitants the night before, there were only a few hundred survivors, scattered in the swamps, praying the Deku to give them refuge. Anju wandered Tempora field, seemingly unaware of her surroundings, towards the remnants of Clocktown. The reason she made it alive to the last city wall, was a small group of guards, under the command of Jim, the last lieutenant of the guard, who easily killed a lone Goron or a few Gerudo that had joined the battle when the pass to the ocean was blown up. Mashka had kept word. She did see Link, pinned to the wall by nine inch nails, bleeding out of countless wounds. She broke down crying, blaming herself for not being able to safe him. Jim, who quickly examined the body, turned his head in disgust. One of his soldiers vomited.

"He wasn't even dead when they nailed him to the wall. Those Gorons will pay for this. I swear."

Jim looked back one last time as they carried Anju away and started to think of a plan to make life for the Gorons as miserable as possible. Those bombchu's in Ikana canyon for example…

Part 2 - Securing the bay

Link and Mikau stayed hidden behind a rock, watching the Gerudo packing and leaving their fortress. They seemed on planning to move, but the two boys didn't know where to since they weren't packing their ships. The only ship that set sail was a small boat with only ten Gerudo women and a Zora they didn't know. There was something strange about that Zora, he seemed to be white and grey, instead of white and blue. But that wasn't the only thing. The Gerudo never liked the Zora, but they seemed thrilled about this one. After the boat left, the Gerudo set out to the passage way to Tempora field. They stopped and looked one more time to their old fortress, just before it exploded in a loud bang. The fisherman stormed out of his house in panic and suddenly found himself surrounded by these beautiful women. He opened his mouth to speak but before he could say anything one of them jumped forward and drove her tongue in his open mouth. The fisherman, who was of course stunned, reacted in the only way he could think of, he pushed his tongue in her mouth and started to kiss her. Quickly the woman withdrew her tongue and bit. The fisherman let out a muzzled scream and grabbed his mouth, trying to stop the blood from flowing out, not quite realizing what just happened. As several Gerudo laughed, one of them turned him around by grabbing his shoulder and slit his throat with her sword. He fell down, nearly decapitated, in the golden sand that quickly turned red. The two boys tried to hide deeper behind their rock, praying that the pirates wouldn't see them.

"Come on, my girls," the Gerudo captain shouted while she positioned herself on the corpse of the fisherman, "we now must go to invade the swamps. If all is going to plan, the Gorons have already started their war on Clocktown, we must help them by attacking them from behind. We shall stay here for a little while until our sisters have placed the explosives to cut of the Great Bay from Tempora so we won't have any trouble with the Zora later on."

Mikau glanced at Link who nodded and the two boys dove down, to warn the others about the danger that threatened Tempora.

"Captain! The explosives are ready!" The young Gerudo pirate shouted.

"Very well," the captain nodded and looked over her troops, "now we shall move out and overrun Tempora, nothing will be able to stand in our wa-ungh."

She looked down in disbelief at the great fin sticking out of her chest. She then had the power to look up and see the Zora coming out of the ocean, waving their swords, spears and other weapons. She was dead before she hit the ground.

It must be said, only a small part of the Gerudo's panicked when they realised their leader was gone, but a small part is enough to hinder the others, and that's never good when you're being charged by a large army. The first wave of Zora easily broke through the unprepared Gerudo defences but were slaughtered by the hard-core pirates behind them. The Gerudo drove the Zora's back with their long scimitars that quickly turned blue from Zora blood but the Zora had somehow found a long forgotten memory of ancient combat and bloodlust so they kept coming, only stopping to decapitate their opponent and place their head on their spears. Link and Mikau were also in the fight, jumping between Gerudo, slashing with their fins and their knives, leaving a trail of blood and even entrails on the way. Even the fun loving Jappas was cleaving with a huge axe through Gerudo women, until a halberd stopped him in his tracks. He still managed to break the halberd and left this axe buried deep in his attacker and when he looked down to the blade of the halberd, deep in his stomach, he smiled and whispered, "hey, at least I had a blast" and died.

One of the Gerudo at the back remembered the explosives and tried to reach them to detonate the rockwall so the Zora would be buried (along with many Gerudo, but she feared she had no other choice). Just as she reached the detonator, she got kicked in the back. She drew her sword and turned around. A small Zora boy was standing before her with a bloody knife.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing bitch?" he asked with a serious look on his face.

"Do you really think you can stand a chance to us, little boy?" she grinned, pulling out her scimitar.

"Yo Link, this cunt wants to know if we stand a chance." He shouted.

The Gerudo saw behind the boy a Gerudo fall and another Zora boy pulled his knife out of the body, licking the blood of the blade. Her grin froze.

"Mmm, virgin blood," Link grinned.

"You know, I could make a joke about you having your periods, with all this blood," the first boy continued, "but my mother raised a polite nice boy, so I'm just gonna gut you."

"Funny you should say that," her grin returned as an act of final desperation, "but I happen to have my periods now, so you can imagine I'm pretty pissed."

She jumped forward to charge Mikau, but he did a backflip and Link stabbed her in the side when she landed. The Gerudo lashed out with her fist and knocked the boy against the wall. She looked down at the knife deep in her side, blood running down her thigh. Strangely enough, she thought, it didn't hurt.

"Guess you are having your periods, bitch," she looked up and saw Mikau's foot draw nearer at great speed, knocking her back, "let's see if you can fuckin' bleed some more."

Mikau started slashing at her body but she couldn't even scream as his knife penetrated deeply into her flesh. She just felt colder and colder until she froze in a black dream.

"She's dead, dude," Link stopped his brother, "time to find another victim. And oh," he started to grin, "I wouldn't make anymore of those pms jokes, you'll tick someone off, I'm sure."

"Who the fuck would I tick off? I fucking kill all those bitches." Was the reply.

The battle went on for hours and by the end of the day the beach was more coloured red than blue. The fight had ended when the remaining Gerudo ran away through the pass to Tempora field where Clocktown had fallen under the Goron attack force. The Zora didn't pursue them since they were vulnerable too far away from the water. But when they heard the news of the war in Tempora, they swore they would kill any human or Goron, foolish enough to come to the Great Bay.

AN: I hope the two parts in this chapter aren't too confusing, since this were originally two short chapters. Anyway, so the war in Tempora begins, only to spread over the neighbouring lands, to finally engulf Hyrule. And now you know why this fic is rated R.