~The hylian stands on a small cliff overlooking lake hylia. He is lost in his own thoughts, looking into the depths of the water. For a long time now he has been travelling in a small caravan, and now he is taking a short rest. He is a forward scout, and the rest of the caravan is still in the south greens. He lets his legs dangle over the edge for a long time.~

~Dusk has set over Hyrule, and the sun is setting over the horizon. It is a cool day, and the end of a long one for Pyre. He stands up on the cliff, watching the sunset over the lake, calm tranquillity spreading over the land.~

((hello.))

Keladry, better known as Kel among the Zora, let out a breath. The water lapped against her smooth skin and her almond shaped eyes darted around. She spotted a boy, about 15 years in Hillian. She smiles impishly.
"I need some fun." she smiles.
His bare, human feet dangle in the water. She shakes out her blue tainted fins and hops into the water soundlessly. She goes deep and then darts up to the surface, grabbing for the feet of the hillian, and trying to bring him into the water.
"Hello, Hillian." she grins.

~The hylian's quiet day was suddenly interupted as the surface of the water broke. In a splash, a zora appeared, and tried to pull him into the water. He closed his eyes, and withdrew into his thoughts, calling on the power of his spirit, and forcing the magic around him to his will. He opened his eyes, pulled away from the edge, and unleashed his spell.~

~A burst of light filled the air, powerful enough to blind for a short time. This was one of lesser forms of elemental burst, but as Pyralin watched, he knew it would do.~

The Zora's face is blank for a moment, but when she comes to her senses, she dives under the water, lashing her tail to get a huge splash. She comes back up again. She arcs over the human and goes onto land. She grins again and murmers, "Impressive." She stands next to the boy.

"I am Keladry. Am I right to say you are a Hylain, my magical friend?" she inquires, with a bit of sarcasm in her voice.
"I haven't seen one of <u>you</u> in quite a while."

"How could you not? You are in the North Castle lake... whatever, well met."

Pyre continues to step back. How am I supposed to trust this zora who attacked me? He looks at her questioningly.

"I haven't seen you around here, are you new in these parts? If your looking for adventure, I could help I guess..."

The Zora half smiles, "Well, not exactly <i>new</i> in these parts, more like I was here the whole time, overlooked. You see, you are here, sitting as free as ever, no one watching over you, fussing, fretting. That is the life, my friend." she says. "And before I except your very kind, but startling invitation, may I ask what you are here for?" she flicks her tail lazily around after getting back in the water, making ripples in the still water. Some horses cried from afar and all her senses were alert.

"I am here because I am paid to be here. I'm a forward gaurd of a Ruto caravan, and am taking a short rest here, probably until my caravan catches up."

He looks to the west, and raises a finger.

"That is where Ruto town is. It's a nice place, and I've heard that the mayor, is troubled. The north-south passage is blocked by some giant creature called Gothma. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone will be able to travel to south hyrule soon."

He looks back at the sunset. Where is the caravan anyways... they should be here by now....

She listined raptly. Reading his thoughts ((not literally)) , she says, "And when is your caravan coming?" she voices his thoughts, "But I would be happy to help with the little problem. I am sure I would be of some assistance." she smiles and dashes into the water.

"The mayor isn't letting anyone confront the creature yet, but mabye later you could help."

~The sound of horses comes from the southeast. A sudden violent neigh cuts through the night's silence. Someone screams. The hylian spun around to face the noise. He could put two and two together, there was trouble. The scene slowly unfolded. The caravan was travelling as fast as possible. Shapes that looked like rolling bolders were beside it. Are those... gorons... then that means... "Crap!"

He sprung to his feet, sprinting toward the caravan drawing a dagger.~

Kel heard the noise, and surfaced slightly. She sensed something bad before, but couldnt name it. She hears the sound again, and sees no hylian. She pulls herself out of the water and looks around. She sees a sight, the Hylian was running toward a caravan that was being chased by rolling boulder, gorons, and she was told they were called. All the stories she had heard told of the rock like creatures being violent and malicious. She decides to try and help. She runs up to the boy, her powerfull legs pumping. She gets to his right side, away from the caravan as possible.
"Direct the gorons into the water if possilbe, I am stronger there. You can attack the ones on land while I get the ones in the water, if I am lucky, I can half drown them and we can see what they are after...unless that is, you already no what they are after." she cockes her head to the side, but doesnt wait to find out. She falls back away from everything, and close to the water. She waites to see if the Hylian will follow her plan...
"Come on..." she murmeres to herself.

"No, the only way to get them in the water, is to get the caravan in the water. Thats not happening."

He makes a huge leap, four daggers, two in each hand, drawn. As he sails through the air, he through the daggers, one at each of the four gorons. The rain of death flew through the air, but were mostly deflected by the gorons hard shells. At least it got them to stop.

The caravan continued to moved, and escaped from the gorons. They began to move again, but the hylian blocked their path. "Are you from the temple of stone, petty rogues?"

The gorons looked at each other and laughed. "Yes, too bad you won't live to tell about it."

Each goron drew a wickedly sharp, curved blade, and began to fan out, flanking the two adventurers.

Kel flew out of the water and up to the gorons, splashing them in the faces.
"NOW!" Kel yelled to the Hylian. She slapped the gorons in the face with her powerfull tail, only temporaroly stunning them, they were soon as alert as ever, "That trick won't work again, little zora." they sneered.

~The goron directly in front of them was just slapped in the face, and fell back stunned. Unfortunately, this was only one of them. From the right, two gorons charged, their blades lancing forward through the air towards the zora. From the left, another two charged at her, but Pyre intercepted them. It was time to fight, back-to-back. The hylian took a step forward, moving into a crouch. From here he spun, lashing out with his dagger at the gorons legs.~

"Okay, zora, you don't really have a choice, we have to fight!"

The zora smiled, "I'm on it!" she said, she leaped high into the air and sliced throught the air with her heel, right above their heads, not waiting to see their reaction.


"This is easier than I thought." She then spun around to face two goron. One of them looked ancient while the other one looked in his mid age. She called over her back to the Hylian,

"Do you always have this much fun?" said she. Kel kicked up, aiming for the jaw of the older goron, waiting for the crack of a breaking jaw, at the same time she brought back a musculine leg and snapped forward. She loved the freedom of fighting. It brought an exzilleration to her. She breathed in the air, saturated by the lake near the battle.

~The gorons were only slightly surprised, and not completely stupid. As the zora flew above their heads, they ducked, and turned. Unfortunately for the older one, the second kick was dead on, and his head snapped back, sending him tumbling backwards. While she was kicking, the other goron took this opputunity to attack, and jumped into the air, sword slashing forward, putting all his consedierable weight into the attack. With so much power behind the attack, it would be very difficult block or dodge, and also the zora couldn't move back or jump. This made the attack a very fearsome one.~

~Pyre's blade only connected with one leg, and was stopped. It was very difficult to cut through a gorons leg. This caused the goron to lose balance and fall. Unfotunaltly for hylian, he fell right on him, effectivly crushing him. This wasn't all bad, as in gave Pyralin a temporary set of powerful armor.~