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She got out of her bed and sighed. "Skull Kid, I need you to keep some puppets on the side just in case. If we need Jesse, we'll have to take him in." she told him.

"Ok... but I need to be quiet." he answered as softly as he could. But, he stepped on a twig, alerting animals and maybe, humans too.

(im bored and i want action... crying ))

Assis smiled as he took her hand, beginning to channel the energy through his body into the sword. He called out the power within the crystal, and the body of the red scimitar was encased in brilliant blue light, just like it had been back in the town. Only this time, the light was brighter. It had gone past blue and stopped on white. The sound it was emitting was more intense than before, having more variations in pitch, and also louder than before.

Without warning, Assis pulled Diness up onto his back, securing her legs and arms around him before he trudged out of the cave at full-speed.

”Hold on, fire-woman!”

With that, he hopped up into the air, swinging the sword down under his feet. He planted both feet on the face of the sword before rocketing forward into the air. The noise that came with the trail of light energy flowing behind them was like a banshee, screeching through the night. It was almost painful, the noise. Then again, the sword was carrying two people. It would take all of its strength just to stay up.

Gripping Din’s legs around his waist, he fired off the sword’s full-power. Or at least, as much of it as he could without losing control. He was going slower than normal with her on his back, but he didn’t mind. Her company was becoming more and more welcoming by the minute. He even took comfort in her touch, relaxing as he lowered his back into a crouched position.

At this time, they were going full-speed, watching the woods speed by beneath them in a dark blur. The noise that was coming out of the back of the sword had quieted to a low whistle, slightly muffled by the wind. The air was cooler up here, just slightly thinner than that of ground-level. They were above fifty feet into the air, riding the red scimitar like a surf board.

After they reached sixty feet up, they leveled out, streaming across the sky at speeds of up to thirty miles per hour. At this rate, which was faster than what Assis had expected, they would probably reach the town by the time the Moon reached the top of the sky. As the wind rushed past, he raised his head up next to Din’s, just in front of her head and to the right.

”How is it back there? Are you holding on ok?”

He had to raise his voice for her to hear him, since the wind was so noisy up here. For this reason, he would probably stay quiet for the duration of their flight. That is, so long as everyone keeps their hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times.

Jesse shook his head. "I do not fear the dark... I fear... what lies with in it." However he suddenly heard a yell from Link. He leapt forward. "What is it!?"

Kurogane glared at Zant "I'm suprised you made it this far... And.. My, my. If it isn't Duo! I see you've come crawling back!" The man looked aat Zant. there was an immense power coming from him. A power... he recognized. And who might you be?"

Cielene opened her eyes immediately. If Duo was there... then that meant... Zant! With out another thought, she hopped out of the bed and dragged a sheet around herself. She looked out from behind Kurogane. She gasped seeing Duo's condition. "Zant... You're here!" She managed relieved.

Kurogane growled at Zant. "So... you are Zant... I thank you for keeping her safe while I conquered the Moon Kingdom... But that was all I needed you for..." He pulled Cielene close to him and kissed her cheek roughly. "Indeed... bad timing... We were in the middle of something... before you dropped in..." Kurogane grasped the girl's waist and crushed her against him.

Kuri blinked when she flew quickly over to Link. "Link! Are you alright?" She asked, lighting up the room even more with her glow, her triforce on her forehead started to glow and suddenly balls of light emerged from her and scattered everywhere illuminating the circular room. She looked around, trying to find the source that had harmed Link.

Diness blinked eyes when he grabbed her and and pulled her onto his back. Almost fearing for her life, but felt a exhilaration run through her when he lifted off the ground with his Scimitar. After a while, Din managed to get a look around, the sky was star and it seemed the wind seemed to whistle around them, almost making Din shiver, but she held it in and kept her arms clamped tightly around his chest. "T-t-this is ama-amazing." She gasped.

She built up her courage and glanced down at the ground, seeing everything they were flying over was just a blur, but she was looking on how high up they were, but she quickly looked up, seeing lights in the distance, that had to be Kakariko Village, but it was still a far ways away.

" You seem to have this all wrong, whoever you are. Cielene is mine! I have the crystal to prove it!", Zant pulled the moon crystal, which by now had a very dull appearance, from his pocket and waved it the man's face, trying to create some sort of barrier between Cielene and the man. "Now you let her go and we will leave without humiliating you because I will not hesitate to kick your a** should the need arise to do so.", Zant said all of this as calmly as he could manage, while he gave the man a death glare trying to gauge what his response would be. It was clear to Zant that there would be a fight and it would not end well for one of them.

The blow had caused Link to black out for a moment. He blinked his eyes trying to concentrate through the searing pain in his head. " What was that?", Link rasped as he glanced around the illuminated room. He saw only Kuri and Jesse along with weird little balls of light scattered around the ground, he assumed that their source was Kuri. " Did you guys see anything?", he was worried that whatever had hit him would attack again, unless one of them had hit him which he refused to believe. He drew his sword again scanned the room, there was no doubt about it the room was empty. "I already don't like this place..", he muttered to himself.

Hearing her confirmation, Assis channeled some of the energy in the sword to the side facing the ground as he let off of what was coming from the back. As he looked down himself, he could see the grass below become more defined as they passed more slowly by it. As gradually as he could possibly manage, Assis came to a stop in the air just above the ground. He lowered them into the grass, crouching as low as he could for Diness. After she was safely on the grass beside him, he took the sword by the handle, hopping onto the grass himself.

The blue glow disappeared from the body of the sword, and Assis slid it safely into its place on the side of his belt. After a long moment of silence, he turned to Diness, smiling softly as he took in the likelihood that she had Gerudo in her family tree. It was really astonishing, her resemblance to his sisters and cousins, in fact all of his childhood friends. All the women he had known since he set out on his own were nearly identical, all of them looking exactly the same. He never minded this, as they were all equally beautiful. Still, this woman was just.... different.

Diness, with her unusual name, had features about herself that made Assis nearly begin to stare at her under the light of the Moon overhead. She held something that made her even more beautiful than any woman he had ever seen in his life. Something in her eyes, her bone structure, her short stature. He couldn't place his finger on it, but he was sure that it was worth finding out. For a long moment, he just smiled at her, wanting to compliment her on the fact that she didn't freak out when he had grabbed her. She just, went for it. He had to respect that.

"Di-.... err, hmm. Well...."

Just before he had said her name, he stopped himself. A name, in fact, was not something to be tossed around so lightly. Not where he was from, anyway. Take his name and drop it in a crowd of Gerudo soldiers, and simply by the meaning it held, you had better have a damn good reason for using it. Assis could kill a man himself just for that much, and not one soldier would have a second thought about it. Diness was just so unique, so fitting for her that he did not wish to take away from its meaning by over-using it. Then again, many times Hylians would choose names for their children even before they were born, names with no defined meaning, and vague origins.

If Diness had a meaning, it would have had to been something fantastic, something easy on the ears and smooth from the tongue. Without knowing the meaning behind her name, he surely could not use it, for he would not know to whom he was speaking. He simply smiled at her, relaxing his posture as he conjured the lightest casual voice he could manage despite breathing as heavily as he was. If he didn't know how to control his own breathing, he would have lost his breath after the first mile. Fatigued as he was, he still kept his stance mostly straight, although slumped as it was. After a deep, relieved sigh, he finally spoke again.

"Did you enjoy yourself?"

Duo grimanced. "Forgive me..." He managed before he vanished into the shadows. He made his way back to his room and immediately began using bandages to stop his shadow substance frok leaking out of hise body.

Kurogane suddenly exploded seeing the crystal in the man's grasp. "How.. did you.. get that..." He growled dangerously. His gaze turned to Cielene threateningly. "He stole it from you... That would explai why you refused to give it to me. No worries... this mn shall be uickly disposed of!" He turned back to Zant. "Hand over the crystal... and maybe I will kill you quickly."

Jesse followed silently. "Perhaps... it was a shadow creaure. We have those all around the dark side of the moon. However they disappear in the light...."