Second Hand of the Chosen Hero

Chapter Nine

"She sa-said there'd be mo-monsters," Link pushed open the same door they'd initially entered through, this time with more ease now that it had broken back into being used.

There was an inflection in his voice as he spoke, that said he was hinting at something, and at first, Tya didn't catch on. It wasn't until he looked back at her that she realized she'd been supposed to, and her confusion was evident enough that he carried on to clarify. "Are you gonna be-be able to- be able to handle that?"

It was easy to say yes without having experienced any real battle. She'd escaped a few remlits, swatted a few keese, but never anything substantial. And her mother, before she passed, had taught her the most basic sense of control over her abilities. She had, of course, been far more focused in the ways of containing and hiding it than in using it, but basics nonetheless.

Rubbing her forearm absently, she answered "I don't know."

She couldn't see his face. His back was to her as they walked a short way from the sealed grounds. But she could see discomfort on his shoulders.

It was annoyance, wasn't it...?

She should have left when she got the chance- well.. She hadn't really gotten the chance, she supposed.

But she should take it when she saw it.

She had heard, while the woman was talking to Link and she was sitting on the stairs, that Zelda had her own destiny which she was meant to fulfill. That was all cool and good and fun, but it sounded like a bunch of storybook bullshit. Tya was thrilled to be on the surface, yes. But for how avid she was a reader, she was a little surprised to find that she did not, in fact, want to be a main character. Whatever 'fate' apparently awaited them could be handled by someone else- someone more fit for the task aside from two teenagers. Three, counting the girl that most definitely should go home.

Not that she was going to be all that helpful, and that was something that she was just about to prove.

There was a sound deeper down this surprisingly well kept pathway, that was far different than that of the woods. No, she wasn't well versed in what woods would sound like, but even she could identify the fact that these were strange. The painful screeching left her grimacing, and as much as she wanted to cover her ears, she felt like blocking off a part of her senses would be a bad idea whilst in a completely new territory. Not that she could hear a damned thing past the horrid sound anyway.

Link seemed to agree that it was strange. He said nothing aloud, but he did unlatch his shield and draw the ghostly blade from its sheath in preparation to be mauled by whatever creature was doing it.

While it was an utterly terrible sound, Tya couldn't help but wonder if perhaps it was an animal in pain, leaving her to set a hand on Link's sword arm as a way of stopping him from acting with any impulse.

The pathway on which they stood was bordered on one side by trees and the other, by a steep hill that blocked the view of where exactly the sound could be coming from. It meant that they had a way to walk before they encountered whatever it was, but on the chance that it was something in danger, Tya ushered him to continue on that path quickly so they could rescue it if so needed.

They rounded the pathway to a clearing much smaller than that of the one she'd initially landed in. That one had been a small branched off section of the woods that was cradled on one side by the edge of the bowl around the chasm at the Sealed Grounds. But this was the place in which the ground leveled and beyond this clearing, while the trees choked the path ahead, Tya could see sunlight through them a short ways down, indicating that they soon opened up.