~Brazen's POV~

Do you know the saying 'The Walking Dead'? Everybody makes a big joke about, it's all fun and games, no harm done. Actually BEING one of the walking dead... That's not so fun.
When I opened my eyes, every color, every light, was too bright. I whinced, lifting my uncooperative arm to sheild my eyes. For a moment, the room seemed to spin, and my soul seemed out of place. Being in the Underworld, you had a wider view of everything. All your sense were better, and you had better control of yourself, believe it or not.
Being in a living body was not the case.
I turned, looking for my blonde, which I found by my side. She was very pale, but alive. I smiled warmly, touching her cheek, watching her blue eyes open slowly.
"AH, That's bright! Ah, God! Turn off the sun! Turn off the sun!"
She was such an angel before she opened her mouth. I leaned in, pulling her to me, getting her as close to me as I can get her. She buried her face into my shoulder, blocking out the light.

"We're alive." I said, "We're finally free of him."

"...You know, She said, slowly lifting her head, "For a minute or two, I thought we would never get to see this world again. I thought... Well, you know..."
"It seemed very real down there that we would never see this world again."

"I have never been so grateful for the sun. No matter how much it hurts right now." She said with a light laugh. I laughed along with her, keeping her close. Even for just that moment, we were FINALLY, truly free. Our laughing slowly and quietly became crying. Sam hugged me and I held her gently. The scars, the wounds, the torment. The one who had done all of those things to us was gone. Even if the world was going to hell outside of this room, for this moment our world was perfect. When Samantha's sobs turned to quiet whines, and the tears dried on my face, I tilted her chin up. "We're alive. And I'm never going to leave you again."

"Promise," she whispered.

"Done." She was the first to dare to stand. Naturally, it didn't work, but she was the first to try it, so kudoos for that. It felt like hours that we tried to stand, stumble, fall, help each other to our feet and with our frustrations. But even with that time of frustration, we pulled it through enough to stand and walk, given time. There was a sudden knock at the door, which I answered immediately. It was a little errand boy from the temple we were in.

"My lord," the boy began, "It's the end of the world! The sky is black, and war is raging in the sky!"

"Jesus, couldn't you give us, like, ten more minutes!" Sam moaned.

"They say a golden dragon is fighting on the Moonian Mountain." At that point, Sam stood right up.

"We have to go. NOW!" Sam said, bursting through the door, brushing past the boy to get outside the temple.

"That's my wife..." I followed her as quickly as I could manage, jostling through the chaotic people, trying to stay on my feet through the Earth-bending tremors and every sign of hell on Earth. Even from the safety of the temple, one could smell the ash falling from the sky. In the courtyard, Johnny and Marleen were waiting for me. Sam was already at their side, catching her breath. Johnny and his wife brought along two small dragons, and I knew it was for Sam and I to go to the top of the mountain as quickly as possible.

"These dragons may not look like much," Marleen explained, "but they were meant for speed. They're only as big as a horse, but their wings are razor sharp. You'll have to take these to get to the top, but if you're not careful, you will suffocate." Even though no one was comfortable with that idea, we weren't about to argue or say anything more than "Yes ma'am". Sam instantly got teary-eyed, and hugged her brother, asking about Leera and how long we've been gone and how he was. He answered very straight-forward, but tried to hide his emotions from Sam. He knew we had to hurry, but he couldn't bring himself to break the embrace. When she finally let him go, tears were falling, but she held her breath to suppress the sobs. I wanted nothing more than to hold her and take her home and comfort her. To shush her sobs and dry her tears, and hold her and never, ever let go. But, as much as I hated it, that had to wait.

Reluctantly, we mounted the dragons. We braced ourselves for the worst, holding on to our dragons for dear life.
I looked down as we took off. I was able to see the land-all of Hyrule, and going even further up, I could see the Elfish City. Neither were too far from each other. The higher up the mountain we went, the more I could see. The distance from Hyrule to the Elfish City seemingly shrank the higher we went. It was single-handedly the most cruel and amazing sight I had seen since the Crystal Caves.

Amazing, naturally, to see two cities that seemed so far look so close. Amazing, to imagine the people in each to grow together, distance shrinking between them.
But it was also cruel. To think that no matter how much power and authority you had, no matter how much good you did in the world, all you ever are is a small sparkle of dust in a world far greater than one can even imagine at ground-level. But the thought could only last a moment. The next moment, we were at the battlefield, watching dragons demolish each other and kill for the sake of killing.

We watched in horror, until Sam found Kellie and Cody fighting in the middle. Then, Sam hurried to help her. I quickly caught up to her as we ran for what felt like the end of time. As we were running, I soon realized Sam's true intent. She wanted to get into the fight, and help Kellie defeat Cody.
I knew-we all knew, somewhere inside us-it couldn't be that way. I shot my arm out in front of her, stopping her. She looked at me in utter shock, and even though she understood, she was visibly hurt.
"I can't stay at the sidelines like this," She said clearly, trying to run past me.

"If you intervein, you'll only die. With the way Kellie is now, she doesn't even know who you are."
"But I know who she is, and she needs someone's help! If no one else, it has to be me!"

"Yes, you may know and love your friend, but I know that look in her eyes. The look when all you can do and think... is to kill the other person." I uttered, remembering my father, "Besides, it isn't the first time she's had that look in her eye-"

"Yeah, so?" "She's the only one that can finish this!" I yelled.

"Then what are we suppose to do?" She demanded. Unsure of the words to say, my head fell, bangs covering my face as I looked to the ground, hoping the answers were engraved in the stone. She walked up to me, and brushed my bangs off of my face.

"I'm sorry," she said, "But I HAVE to do something. I just need to know what. And I need to know if I'll be fighting alone at the moment." Sam, suddenly, gasped at what had happened behind me. I turned to see Cody bite deep into Kellie's flesh. Then she breathed fire at her brother as if it were the fire from Hell, intended for him and him alone. Then Kellie leapt on her brother, and they crashed into the ground with such force that Sam and I had to go to our knees to keep balance and ensure we wouldn't fall off the edge of the cliff. Both set off into the air again, but the moment they took off other dragons clahsed and smashed to the ground to where we were.

"We can't stay here," I told Samantha.

"Where do we go, huh? These things are everywhere!" She yelled.

~Sam's POV~

My. God.
I don't think I've ever been as angry with anyone as I am with Brazen now. Okay, I understand him trying to protect me. I understand him trying to keep thing the way it was suppose to be handled-where Kellie defeats Cody and all is fine. But if he could see what we both saw through my eyes, he would know nothing in this situation would turn out fine if we kept it the way it was and stood around, hoping to not be crushed by dragons as we ran. We were brought up the mountain to fight. And that's exactly what I intended to do.

"So you really think you can get involved in your sisters fight? What will you do when she tries to murder you when you get in the way."

"Pray." Was all I could think of to say.

"You're being stupid."

"Fair enough. But I'm not just going to stand here."

"And I'm not going to stand here and watch you do something stupid."

"You don't have to watch," I said, breaking into an unexpected run towards the battlefield. "Sam, look out!" I could barely hear him calling out to me as a dragon crashed to the ground only five feet away from me, its tail threatening to hit me and send me flying down the mountain.
"Shit!" I muttered angrily. Then, to my utter amazement, Link came out of the blue and stabbed the beast's head, killing it. The Master Sword was glowing a bold gold color, shimmering in the sun as Link weilded his weapon expertly. His eyes were darker than I remembered-creepy especially that he was glaring right at me.

"You two go fight the black ones in the sky. That's an order." he barked, making a break for it, heading towards another dragon. I took off to do just that, Brazen right at my side, although reluctant.

~Link's POV~

Watching Sam and Brazen run hardened my resolve. I turned, jumping into the fray of small demons, dragons and other thingd fighting each other all across the plain. Truth be told, most of it was a blur of cuts, stabs, rolls, dodges and magic. I can't be sure how long each of us stayed standing, fighting the only thing on our mind. Although, Sam's undead soldiers, Brazen's arrows and my sword... Everything stopped when there was a loud noise high in the sky.
And I saw Kellie, scaled in the beautiful form of a dragon, start falling to the earth.