Fight of the Champions

Chapter Thirteen - Darmar

Darmar missed Death Mountain. Not that he hadn't enjoyed his time saving Hyrule, he had done incredible things these last few weeks, but he couldn't lie, he missed the simplicity of life at home. The one person he felt he could call a brother was gone. Instead of feeling down about this though, it only made him more determined to get him back, to save Miko and all the others this Bahuma has taken.

He looked into another stone window and there was nothing. He was a little happy about not seeing people in these cells, his knuckles throbbed after breaking through walls barehanded without a hammer or drill shaft, but at the same time he needed to find the others.

He passed by another window. Still nothing.

He remembered sitting in that room alone earlier, daydreaming about going home to all his brothers, when he heard someone screaming in pain, and how he couldn't do anything about it. The thought nearly killed him. Then when he heard Jira calling out for help...

"Have you found anyone?!" Jira called from the other side of the pit

He glanced back at her, "No one yet!"

They locked eyes, she nodded, and went back to work. She seemed so desperate, so worried. Considering the moment and Jira's reaction, Darmar surprised himself at how well he was taking it all. He wasn't freaking out, he was calm and collected. All they needed to do was find their missing companions and then figure out how to get out of there.

He passed another window, and this time he saw something. It was hard to see them, there was barely any light in the room and he blocked most of it, but there was a small, dark, shaking shape in the corner of the room.

"Hello?!" he shouted through the window.

The shape jumped and turned towards him, and now he could see two purple eyes blinking in the darkness. It got up and rushed over to see him, and now he could make out the feathers and beak. What immediately gave their identity away, though, was the height. Only Corvus was that short.

"Darmar?!" Corvus said, her reddish eyes widening at the sight of him, "You have no idea how happy I am to see you again!" he could see tears glistening at the sides of her eyes.

He turned towards the other side of the stone pit where Jira was still going from window to window, "HEY JIRA!" he bellowed, she jumped and turned towards him, "I found Corvus! She's over here!"

Darmar could see the relief painted over Jira's face from half a mile away. She grinned and came sprinting towards him. It took no time at all for her to get where they were. She nearly jumped at the window.

"Corvus! Are you okay?" she asked

"Yeah, I'm fine," Corvus said, it was obvious how happy she was to see them, but moments later she relaxed a little, "So are you getting me out too or are you just gonna leave me to die here, cause I can't tell,"

Jira rolled her eyes and turned to him, "Alright, do your thing, Darmar,"

He rolled his shoulders and flexed his fingers. This was gonna hurt. He slammed his fist into the wall and just like the last few times he could immediately see the stone breaking under his grasp. He kept working at it, punching the stone over and over again and watched it crumble. He didn't have to warn Corvus when the final blow was coming, she fled to the side of the room as he punched both his fists into the wall and watched it collapse into a hole just big enough for him to get through.

He shook his hands as Corvus got out of there.

"So what is this place? Bahuma's prison?" she asked as she walked out into the open, staring up into the skies far above.