Fan Fiction ❯ Professional Hero ❯ Shark attack ( Chapter 25 )

Chapter 25 - Shark attack

"You kneel before us!"

The Zora threw the old man down on his knees.

"We are you masters and you kneel, it's as simple as that!" another one grinned.

"Please, my lords." The old man pleaded.

"Yes," the first one nodded his head, "you have to do that, please your lords."

He burst out in laughter.

"God, I'm funny." He shook his head laughing.

"You won't be able to keep on doing this!" someone shouted.

The Zora stopped laughing and drew his sword.

"Who said that?" he looked around the crowd that had formed on the market place, "Who fuckin' said that?"

"The Gorons will come and save us." The voice said.

Suddenly a young man was pushed into the open centre followed by a Moblin.

"The Gorons? Hah, those rockheads will drown before they can fight us."

"Then go back to the ocean where you belong!" the man went on.

"Lord Ralph gave you to us to do as we please, and that we will do. And those Gorons will also fall for our mighty army. The whole of Labrynna will be under the command of Lord Ralph and us."

"Your mighty army," the man mocked, "I think besides the Moblins you have no more army."

"You're an idiot you know that?" the Zora stated, "you think we lost thousands of Zora soldiers in fight to conquer you? We have a legion of over two thousand Zora's in the ocean."

As if to prove this, a few dozen Zora soldiers came out of the ocean water that stopped directly next to the market place of Lynna city.

"Nice timing guys, but really," suddenly his expression changed, "wait, are those cuts?"

"He's not stopping!" one of the newly emerged Zora's shouted, "look out, he's right behi-"

He fell to his knees while his arm, shoulder and head fell into the water. A few seconds later the rest of his body dropped down as a warrior in black wielding a large two handed sword with only his left hand emerged from the now darkblue ocean. His expression stood grim and he didn't flinch as his sword killed another Zora.

"Who is this?" the Zora wanted to know, "how did he survive under water? How did he get through the blockades?"

"I don't know, he can somehow breathe under water and he destroyed the blockades, he killed them," one of the soldiers said, almost crying, "and then, he went to our city…"

He paused for a second and then started crying.

"They're dead, all of them."

"What? Who's dead, what do you mean, to our city?"

"He came and killed every Zora in the ocean, men, women, children, they're all dead, he killed them all."

"That can't be, we have an army of two thousand!" the Zora shrieked as the man came closer, waving his sword around, killing a Zora with each step.

"And he killed them all, and over ten thousand civilians who had nothing to do with the war. They're all dead!"

"But who would?" the Zora couldn't believe this, this one man had supposedly single handed obliterated the Zora empire, killed over twelve thousand people in cold blood.

He turned around and felt the steel go right through him. Strange, he thought, it felt warm, but if he was using it to kill everyone, it was only normal it would heat up. Hah, he was dying and that was all he could think about? How the sword was warm and how it got warm? No, there was something else he wanted to know.

"Who…" he coughed up blood and looked straight in the bloodcovered face of his killer with glazing eyes.

"I am Link," the assassin said with cold fire in his eyes, "I am death."

He let the Zora slide of his sword and quickly dispatched of the last Zora's of Labrynna. He drew his bow and shot the Moblin right in the left eye.

"Thank you, you saved us, you're a he-"

The crowd was already shocked when they had heard that this Link just had killed an entire race (along with some innocent people they had to add) and now, after he had violently murdered the last ones they saw him drive his fist deep in the skull of the man that thanked him.

"Don't go there." He just said as he wiped the blood and brains off his hand.

The Moblin ran through the forest. He had to warn his master over this new warrior that knew no remorse. He killed everyone who got in his way and now he was after Lord Ralph. Lord Ralph had to be warned and the madman had to be stopped. He stopped as he felt a sharp spike go right through him and as he looked down the spike sprung open revealing hooks on four sides. The longshot reeled back in and the Moblin found himself at the feet of Link. Link grabbed the Moblin at the throat and held him up against a tree.

"Where is he?" Link hissed.

"Lord Ralph is at the Goron mountain ridge to fight them. They're the last who oppose him."

"Soon he won't be of their concern anymore."

"But he has an army of over two thousand." The Moblin said as tears ran over his face.

"I think I already killed that many today although I didn't really kept count." Link grinned and dropped the Moblin.

He remained on the ground crying, pleading not to kill him while he heard nothing. After about five minutes and after the Moblin made sure he was still alive, he dared to look up. Link appeared gone. The Moblin thanked the Goddesses, tried to dry his tears and started to take off his pants to get the worst out when he suddenly saw the bomb.

"What was that bang?"

Shark looked at the forest and shrugged.

"You're the one who has an oracle who can manipulate time," the dark Zora grinned, "can't she look through time to see what it was."

Ralph laughed and yanked the chain that was around Nayru's neck. She just had a loincloth to dress her and she tried to cover her bare breasts.

"What do you think of that," Ralph said as if to himself, "after flashing them around for all that time, now she's ashamed to show her beautiful body. Come here, bitch."

He pulled her on his lap and grabbed her arms, holding them behind her back while licking her nipples.

"Tell me, time witch, can you see through time like that like Shark said? And if so, what was that explosion?"

Nayru's eyes went black for a second and breathed hard as Ralph's hand went under her loincloth.

"You know, if she can look in the past like that, you can have her for tonight, although I think you're a bit too gentle for her."

Shark grinned and shrugged his shoulders.

"I was trained in lovemaking by the Gerudo and they love the gentle approach."

Nayru's eyes went back to normal and fell down. Ralph held her up by the chain.

"Well bitch of time? What did you see?"

"Death."

The Moblins were anxious to fight. Lord Ralph just had to give the signal and they would storm the Gorons. So what if some of them wouldn't make it, at least they would go out fighting. Rumour in the back made them look back though and then they saw something they didn't like. A man in black was running towards them, shooting flaming arrows that burned their ranks. Because they were at the verge of a war, they didn't really know if they were to attack him but then someone cried out a battlecry and attacked. He was stopped in his tracks by an arrow. Just as the battlecry roared up through the ranks and they started a stampede to this new threat he shot an arrow with a blinding light that exploded in the midst of them, taking down about a hundred men.

"What's going on? I haven't given the order yet!" Ralph shouted as he left his tent, "Did the Gorons attack us first?"

He had a navy blue armour strapped on with a dark blue cloak above. His hand went to the handle of his sword when he saw his troops running to the back. No, they weren't running away, they were charging something. Was that a Moblin he saw flying through the air? Well parts of it. What was that, did the Gorons somehow got behind him?

"What's going on?" Shark asked.

Ralph looked at the dark Zora who now stood next to him.

"I have no idea. Hey, you!" he stopped a Moblin, "what is that?"

"It is said it is the Black Death!"

"I never heard of such a legend."

"That's because there isn't such one. He just appeared today and is killing us. Or at least trying to." The Moblin grinned and charged again.

"What the fuck is the Black Death?" Shark asked.

"Lets find out." Ralph stated and unsheathed his sword.

Link was standing on top of a pile of bodyparts while Moblins tried to attack him. His huge sword flung around, leaving a red mark in the air each time it hit target. Occasionally Link grabbed the head of a Moblin with his right hand and snapped its neck before sending it flying over the now not so vast army of the Moblins. It would happen that one of the Moblins was able to scratch Link with his sword or his bow, but it never slowed him down. None was able to do any serious damage. That was, none before Ralph. The self appointed lord of Labrynna jumped forward and drove his sword deep in Links chest. Link looked down and sank to the ground.

"Well, what do you know, Link, he came back. I'm sure you wouldn't know anything about that?" Ralph turned towards Nayru which was held into place by Shark.

"I'm sure it was our queen's plan to return him but it's tragic he die…"

Ralph saw the expression on Shark's face and turned around slowly. He could still see the fading trail of a fairy as Link stood up, grinning while holding his sword up to Ralph's chest.

"Hey Ralph, long time no see," Link grinned, "prepare to die."

Three Moblins came over their initial shock and jumped towards Link but Link slashed them in half without a second thought. Ralph held up his sword but Link let the Goronsword come down hard and shattered it. He quickly punched Ralph in the face and sended him flying back a couple of meters. Ralph got up and felt his jaw and then looked at his broken sword.

"Well you little fucker? What you got to say for yourself now?" Link laughed.

The laugh was without pleasure and send shivers through Ralph's spine.

"Moblins! Attack!" Ralph shouted although somewhere he knew they wouldn't stand a chance. The Moblins then either deserted or died by the hand of Link. Ralph ran back to his tent, dragging Nayru along, followed by Shark. Just as he had taken a new sword, the head of a Moblin rolled before his feet.

"You may think that killing me will set my queen back, but I'm just a small part of her plan," Ralph laughed, "and besides, what makes you think you can kill me? Nayru, go back in time and kill him when he's vulnerable."

Nayru slowly started to nod but her body shocked as the arrow pierced her naked shoulder and she fell to the ground. Ralph stared unwilling to believe at Link who lowered his bow and drew his sword.

"You… you shot her…" Ralph stammered.

He jumped forward with a loud cry but Link grabbed Ralph's swordarm and cut his hand off before he smashed the hilt of his sword in Ralph's face. Ralph grabbed his arm, looking where his hand used to be.

"I have no idea who your queen is nor do I care." Link said while grabbing Ralph by the throat and holding him up.

"Th…then why?" Ralph stammered.

"Because you attacked me on the day before my wedding. I don't like it when people try to hurt me, I should have killed you then so I'm killing you now."

Link threw Ralph back and advanced on him with his sword raised in the air.

"Then, it's not to liberate Labrynna?" Ralph asked while he tried to get up and away.

"I couldn't care less." Link stated as he slashed Ralph in half.

He turned to look at Shark who sat next to Nayru. Shark jumped up, turned and ran. Link walked toward Nayru and kneeled. Nayru opened her eyes and tried to smile.

"Good… thinking… Link," she coughed up some blood, "by… shooting me… to prevent me from… going to the… past. But… you could… have… shot me… somewhere… else…"

"Apparently I missed," Link said without emotion, "I was aiming at your heart, but now you'll die a slow and painful death, so I guess I should be happy about that."

"What?" Nayru's eyes grew wide.

"You used me, and I won't let anyone use me, so therefore you die."

"Link… this isn't you."

"You don't know anything about me, only Romani did, and she's dead."

Link stood up and walked away, after the dark Zora.

"Link… no… she's… no-"

There, the Oracle of Time, after pretending to be a Goddess her whole live, died alone.

Shark ran through the woods, looking for the river he had seen on his way to here. Maybe he could take the army of the Zora and go somewhere else with them, maybe finally conquering Hyrule. Ah, there it was. He jumped in the water and swam under water. Suddenly he stopped as a large block ice fell right in front of him in the water. He looked up and saw Link at the surface, putting his bow away. Fool, Shark thought, with his arrows he could have maybe hit me. Shark's eyes grew wide when he saw Link jump in the river with his large sword and sank to the bottom.

"What?" Shark shouted, "how come you don't drown?"

Link lifted the sleeve of his tunic to reveal a blue one underneath.

"Gift from the Zora king when I fought Ganondorf," he grinned, "allows me to breath underwater. That's how I killed the Zora in the ocean."

"Killed… the Zora?"

"Every last one of them."

"Why? If it wasn't because you wanted to liberate the country, then why did you kill them?"

"They were in my way."

"You've killed them because they were in your way? You've gone insane!" Shark shrieked.

"Shit happens." Link stated when he charged forward.

Shark jumped up and swam out of the way, drawing his own sword. He let it come down with greater speed Link could generate under water. A large red stripe filled the water as he drew blood. Before Link could turn completely Shark had swum to the other side and launched one of his fins. He was in the advantage here but he kill Link fast and not underestimate him. That's what was the downfall of every one Link had ever fought, they underestimated him, Rock had repeated it enough. Just underestimation. And Shark wouldn't do that. He was better, and he had to prove it by killing Link, not boasting about it. He shot forward and spinned his sword around. Link could dodge the blow and attacked but missed. Shark slashed again and Link could barely jump out of the way, leaving a large scar across his chest. The water came more red every second and Shark prepared to make his final attack before the water was too blurred to see Link, even know it was hard to see hi… Link jumped forward with a huge grin with his sword forward and his longshot pointing at Shark. He had somehow been able to draw his longshot without Shark seeing it. The longshot pierced deep in Shark's shoulder, but before Link reached his opponent, Shark's sword shot forward and drove itself deep in Link's shoulder. Shark kicked Link's swordarm down but Link hit him in the face with the longshot. Link kicked up right in Shark's groin and he plied double. Link let his sword come down with the handle first and broke Shark's spine. He could feel his live flow away from him as Link dragged his motionless body to the side of the river.

"If… if you didn't come… to liberate… Labrynna…" he tried to say, "then… why… did you… kill me?"

"You looked like that Goron I killed a few years ago in Hyrule and I don't like unfinished business."

"Then… you'll… go back… to Hyrule?"

"Not yet, maybe later, depends how many people I can kill abroad." Link left him and walked away, in a direction Shark couldn't see, and frankly he couldn't care anymore. His last thought before he died was that Rock was wrong. Link didn't always win because he was underestimated, it was also because he was better.