In the middle of the chaos, Alex was trying to calm people... "Calm down, get away from the wall"
He walks closely to the place where Victor and Alpha stay,wondering why the heck haven't they exit the temple, when he notices that they're trying to move a large rock...With a man underneath it!!!After trying to lift the rock without any progress he stands up and says :"It's not working, we need something even stronger; maybe a spell can break the statue"
He gives a few steps back and closes his eyes, and concentrating deeply he casts the spell:
Elemental burst!
Earth!
OOC: Victor, I've noticed that you're now in my msn contacts's list

The blast only scratches against the surface of the statue, blackening its rough exterior. Underneath, the man yells out: "Watch your aiming, zora! You almost hit me! Try lifting it one more time! Put some back into it!" The man begins to struggle against the bottom of the statue.

"Here! Now, I'm helping! Try again!"

OOC:Well, I forgot my floppy and I was unable to put what I really wanted so...another day, another night. I'll post it up next time. Mikaudes, continue trying to lift it and I think I'll mod if the statue is lifted or not.

Alex's face was almost turning red ( which is actually a rare sight in a Zora )of the effort as they where trying to help the poor soul that was trapped under the statue
"C'mon guys! We-can-make it!"
"Don't you have something that can make things fly?!" he gasped " Wow!!"
The rock almost falls as Alex let go a little just to talk "Sorry sir"
" I know!!"
Alex turned around, taking the statue's weight with his back, " This should do" , he said, as he grabbed a Deku Stick Bundle from his backpack.
We can use this to support the statue"...
Alex puts the deku sticks under the rock, acting like pillars, hoping that it worked

The statue nudges a bit, giving enough space for the man to crawl out of his prison. He quickly stands up and dusts himself off. A quick glance to the temple, and he looks back towards you.

"Thank you, I should have been more careful. You see, I saw a cloaked figure standing near one of the pillars and I was blinded when a light shot from his staff. I think that you should check the place out quickly! Akari is blind and no one is there to guard her.
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“Get away!”

Akari, pushes back at the zora’s clothes. She fumbles backwards in shock as she trips on her robes. She gasps for air as she tries to address the situation.

The oracle says with gaping voice and a crooked finger stretched out towards Julian’s face. “You…you are the one…your heart…It is pitch as night and his blinds you from the truth...Though, you may not understand it, your past is now and your story begins…at… Nightfall...I pity your soul, for what lies within you can only be destroyed through death and I laugh at what you will become for it will be destroyed by one from this very town. Now leave! Leave me!”

Julian grins slightly at the woman’s words. He quickly decides to play along with her reading. “One born from this town will destroy me*chuckles* your words mean nothing to me, woman. You should quit your false readings for they will end your life someday. The zora turns around, his robes slapping the air behind him. His footsteps retreat across the hall only to be stopped once more.

“Do not be so quick to deny my words, zora…Have you forgotten so quickly, that dream. You know what it fortells---”

“It means nothing!” Julian spurts out, his voice echoing in the room as it bounces off its walls.

‘Why are you tempting me?’

“Dreams…that’s all they will ever be. Only a fool would base their future on it. Now! Silence yourself before I have to do so for you!”

“Of course, I had just wanted a few last words before you left.”

‘You asked me to leave, oracle!’

The zora, now enraged with the oracle’s attitude, looks back towards her, a crooked grin plastered on his face.

OOC:God, it took me forever to post. Well, now I think I'll be able to do the rest of my posts at home, not that you can't post right now.

"A cloaked figure near a pillar? That must've been where these explosions originated from!" Alpha quickly turns and sprints for the temple entrance. 'She's blind? That figures,' he thinks as he bursts through the doorway. "Akari! Are you alright?"

Victor follows close behind Alpha, occasionally casting a backwards glance at the man to make sure he was being taken to safety. When he reached the inside of the temple once more, he nodded as Alpha made his proclamation. He had his flute out already, just in case his healing song was needed...

"She won't be for long, stranger!"

Julian, hidden beneath the hood of his cloak, stretches out the crook of his staff, his smile now erupting in laughter.

"Elemental explosion!"

"What?! Noooo!!!" The oracle's screams die out over the massive blast of fire. The temple walls cast firey shadows of statues and the cloaked zora's cackling are the only things that rise above the flames.

The flames die down and left before your very eyes are ashes. No fabric, no table, no bones...just...ashes.

The zora looks back, a living shadow left after the flames. His eyes, unseen, stare at the three of you. His staff, smoking from the crook rests in his hand. Julian moves forward, his heel cracking against the black pool of marble. Closer and closer to the three of you as he walks toward the entrance.

Victor seems to be staring into space as he watches the cloaked figure scortch the poor old woman. When the damage had been done and the shadow began to walk away, Victor moved towards the pile of ashes and picked some up, eyes blank and still staring as he saw it sift through his fingers and back onto the pile. Without turning, and in an almost apathetic vioce due to disbelief, Victor spoke to the figure.

"You...you killed her. A blind, defenseless old woman. And you killed her. But...why?"

"You wouldn't understand Victor...That woman or the remains of that woman you're standing before was an oracle. A seer which fortold my future and sealed her own. Her people which she fought to keep safe will follow her...Irony, at its finest. Don't waste your tears on her for you, too, will meet her eventually."

The cloaked zora walks a few more steps, his shadow spilling at the sheikah and the zoran ranger's feet.

"Excuse me...Alpha"

Alpha stands still a single thought passing through his mind.

'How did he know my name?'

OOC:Sorry for the slight god mod. I'm sure you understand.

'That voice...it sounds familiar...and yet different from the ones I have come to know. Who could this wicked creature be?' Not waiting for his thoughts to conclude, Alpha draws his own staff and steps into the cloaked one's path, a look that is completely lacking in fear on his face. "Who are you, murderer? Reveal yourself, unless you are too much of a coward to do so." He is careful to moderate his tone of voice, so that it is calm and even, standing somewhere between a command and a challenge.

"Ha, ha, ha! A coward! Truly, do you think that I woud reveal myself so easily as to fall for such an insult! Alpha...I thought you knew better. Now, I suggest you lessen your grip on that staff. I'm starting to get the feeling that you want to fight me..."

'Why do they choose to stand against me. They didn't care for that oracle and they won't care about her people once I finish them off and stop all chances of anyone from stopping me'

'No, I didn't think that would work; it hardly ever does. But it did do the trick once, and so I had to try it.' Alpha almost smirks as he recalls the time in question, but focuses on the task at hand.
"If I must fight to protect innocents from harm, then so be it," Alpha calmly replied. "Now, if there was some reason for their deaths - a good reason, mind you - then I would see no problem in it." He took the staff in his right hand and put its blunt end on the ground. His stance took on one that showed that he was willing to wait for his answers, but also one that would continue to cut off the person's exit until the answers came. When he spoke again, it was still calm, but he put no fight into it; rather his voice was passive, betraying the fact that he truly wouldn't care if they died for a reason. "So, what reason do you have for desiring their deaths?"

For a moment everything seem to go on slow motion... the cloaked figure raising its hand, the whispers of the spell...the fire...everything was not quiet, but soundless, it was the sound of death...

"You, you killed her... bu-but why? why?..."

Slowly, something woke up in Alex's body, his ancestors passed in front of his eyes, they all were Zoran heroes, they all had fought hard battle, they've showed rage, bravery, why did he killed her, why why why?! The rage of the heroes was being manifested through him.

"WHY?!?!?!"

Alex's body had suffered an amazing change, he seemed to be much more taller, shadow was covering his eyes, however, a shiny point of light was visible.

"YOU!! YOU ARE THE DARKNESS!!" Alex's voice was like hearing a hundred Zora talking at once."YOU MUST, MUST, DIE" oddly, Alex apparently had difficult to say 'you must die'

And with that he pointed at the, thing...

"I must die! I must die! By whose hand, zora?! Yours?! Please, don't make me laugh! Now, Alpha, these people, hidden within them is the one. The one that will- No! I won't let you aid them! Move now, Alpha! I don't wish to fight you, not now at least. Move your staff!"

'These people don't deserve to live anyway! There dependance on this oracle would have lead them to their death in the end.'

"If you wish to kill everyone just to kill one," Alpha's face darkened as he spoke this, rage swelling up within him, "Then you are no better than the Incarnation of Evil, Ganon himself!" His scar suddenly flared up again, but for once he made no move to stop his anger from taking control of him.

He did step aside, however. "I don't care to fight you either, but harm one person -" he held up his pointer finger and pushed it forward until it was mere inches from the cloaked one's face, "- and you shall have to deal with me. And you are correct in saying that is something you do not wish to do. Not now, not ever!"