Gerudo Forest

Chapter 42

After Melissa had written out quite a few phrases to try she decided to go ahead and start practicing. She hoped that if anyone came to see her they would knock first before entering. The sun was sinking making the room darken and the torches she had lit cast shadows all over the room which was perfect for this little experiment. 

Sitting herself in the darkest part of the room she searched for the spark within the shadows around her. When she found it she let it go immediately. The spark felt cold and fierce. Like it would swallow you whole if you dared to use it. It made her frightened. Maybe she should start slow.  

She picked a book from off the shelf and placed it on the floor in front of her. As scary as the shadow's magic felt she needed to do this. Besides the witches had told her not to let the magic have control over her. Rewording her phrases just a little she attempted to make the book disappear.  

"Cover the book." She ordered and watched as the shadows around her moved eerily around the object.  

The drain of this spell seemed double than anything she had felt and the energy that radiated from it sent a shiver down her spine. When she looked at the book she saw it covered in a misshapen mass of black shadow. Well that wouldn't work. The guards would definitely notice a blob of shadow moving down the hall.  

"Disperse." She thought to the mass and the blackness fell away and moved back to where they had come from leaving the book exposed once again.  

This wasn't going to be easy. 

"Conceal the book." she though and this time it was better. The shadows slid over the book and laid flat over it.  

She reached down to pick the book up and it came out freely from the shadow. So the shadow wouldn't follow. She would have to add another phrase to the spell she guessed. She placed the book back exactly where it had been and the shadows covered it once more.  

"Follow the book." she tried next.  

She picked it up and the shadow actually came with it. The only problem this time was that as she lifted it the shadow underneath trailed behind it still connected to the floor. Well if she hugged the wall maybe it wouldn't be a problem.  

She played with it for a while pondering what words would give her the best result. Now she understood how it could be hard for people to learn and why they had wanted to teach her. If one didn't have a good vocabulary then they wouldn't be able to get their magic to do much. What she wouldn't give for a thesaurus or dictionary right now.  

She thought of another word to try. "Enshroud the book." She said to the shadows.  

This time when she picked it up it stayed around the book with out being attached to anything. It was simple and to the point. She was beginning to feel fatigued and decided it best to try it on herself tomorrow night. 

She plopped down on the bed quite proud of herself for figuring this out on her own. She thought about her lessons tomorrow dreading having to dance in front of people. Having worn herself out she fell asleep forgetting dinner.  

That night she dreamed of Jimmy again. He looked sad. She was unsure of what she could even say to him. She could no longer guarantee that she would make it back. After she admitted that fact to herself Jimmy turned into Ganon. She was pretty sure that this wasn't really him. Ganon stood in front of her, with that same cocky grin of his, arms opened wide. She felt terrible for wanting to run to him. Especially after the figure before her had just been her fiancé. Ganon wrapped his arms around her and then the dream changed again.  

Everything became black and she could see flashes of lightning around her. When she looked back at Ganon for comfort he had been replaced with Agahnim. Was the wizard invading her dreams again? In the wizards arms she couldn't escape no mater how much she fought. She started to feel like she was being crushed. She remembered screaming over and over again before waking with a start.