The Reign of the Dranonica

Chapter 3 – Dranonica’s killing instinct

“Mystica! Mystica! Stop!” Link shouted as Epona gained on Mystica. Link grabbed Chase’s reigns and pulled them back, causing the horse to stop in its tracks neighing loudly.

“Link! What are you doing? Ayra is in danger!” Mystica screamed.

“What are YOU doing more like? You have no sword or shield! That thing would surely kill you right there! You don’t stand a chance!” Link snapped back.

“Well you have the master sword and the mirror shield have you not? YOU can save them!” She glared at Link.

“Hey! I’m ready for battle!” Janine called racing up with her horse. She was holding her sword in her right hand and her shield in the other.

“Mystica, I want you to stay here out of harms way,” Link said softly with a paw on Mystica’s shoulder. Mystica turned her head away.

“Right Janine… Lets go,” Link said to Janine, they both galloped up to Kakariko. Mystica growled.

“Just because I have no sword or shield… Well… I’ll get a sword and a shield somehow! Just you watch Mr. Big Shot Hero of Time!” Mystica snapped, “and I know the perfect place to buy that sort of gear from!” Mystica pulled on Chase’s reigns and galloped off to Hyrule market place.

Meanwhile, Janine and Link jumped off their horses and ran into Kakariko where they saw villagers cowering in the presence of Dranonica. They saw Ayra and Oni bearing their swords and standing, waiting for the perfect time to attack. They looked up and saw the mighty beast watching over Kakariko, and watched it turn its head to them, its eyes started to glow crimson.

“Back up…” it hissed, “and what pitiful help it is as well…” It raised its head up high and flung it back into place and fired a blast of blue fire at Ayra and Oni. They both rose up their shields, but the force of the blast started pushing them back. Dranonica gave up and stopped its attack. She turned around and whipped them with her long powerful tail. Her whip like tail entwined around Oni and Ayra.

“Let us go! You dare kill Ayra!” Oni ordered, wriggling like a worm. Dranonica moved closer to the two and smelled them.

“I can use you for more important things... I will not kill you…” Dranonica hissed. Suddenly, a shearing pain crept up her leg. She roared in pain and looked down. There was Link, his sword covered in blood, green blood… Dranonica looked down at her claw, green blood was oozing from it. Dranonica raised her claw up and took a better look at it. She then looked at Link who was ready to strike again, but Dranonica was quicker. Link had let down his guard and Dranonica fired at him. The Blue fire flung Link into a wooden house behind him. That caused the house to break. Janine slashed at Dranonica’s free claw, but Dranonica grabbed her and begun squeezing the life out of her.

“I shall enjoy this…” Dranonica hissed evilly.

“H-heeeey! Leave Janine alone!” Link shouted as he ran at Dranonica again with his sword raised.

“Keep out of my way weakling…” Dranonica growled. She lowered his head and head butted Link out of the way. She then continued to kill Janine. An evil smile was forming underneath her stone mask. Link had been knocked unconscious and was hopeless to help Janine.

Then Janine took her last breath and lay limp in the Dranonica’s claw. Dranonica’s smile grew into a grin, and she begun to laugh. She loosened her grip on Janine, and let her fall to the ground. Dranonica began to laugh, an evil laugh. Link woke up and rubbed his head and looked up in horror as he saw Dranonica hover off the ground and then fly through the air like an eel in water.

Link looked down at the ground and saw Janine. Dead. He gasped and ran over to her limp body.

“Janine? JANINE! WAKE UP GIRL!” Link shouted while shaking her shoulders. Janine’s mouth just hung open and her eyes remained closed. There was some sort of liquid on her lips. Link could not see properly in the dark. He touched the liquid with his fingers and brought them close to his face. There was a little shine of red. Link was struck with shock, and a tear ran down his cheek.

“Janine…” he whispered pathetically. He lowered his ear to her chest. There was no heartbeat. He took his two fingers and placed them on her neck and felt around for a pulse. But there was none. Link kneeled down next to Janine and lifted her upper part of her body and hugged it against his and cried.