A Quest of Evil (Xaro) FINISHED

[Dark Link]

Dark stood in the shadows, unmoving. He felt a strange sense of peace as he watched faint lights danced around the room as he waited, never making a sound even with my breath.

He wasn't sure what he was waiting for. This water temple seemed to hold no answers to him, yet he could feel a need to still be here. Was something calling him, or was there a sinister magic that still bound him to this place.

Dark's thoughts were suddenly interrupted as a strange sound approached, faint and unfamiliar. He strained his ears to listen as the possibility of battle quickened his heartbeat.

[Xaro]

The sound was laughter...and it grew in volume, the laughing itself able to chill any mortal man's soul and cause him to cower. A shadow extended, then turned three-dimensional a few feet away from Dark Link. Red eyes and a glowing red mouth making the teeth silhouetted made up the three-dimensional face, until the shadows lifted. Bat wings were extended, clawed hands on the wing-arms flexing slightly. By the upper torso, it was female, but was so scaly, it didn't need clothes. Her figure was divine, but her clawed hands and feet made it so her beauty was twisted. Her fangs were about the size of daggers, but only the fangs on the top jaw. She had a vampire bat's face, and a red, glowing metal eye in the right eye socket.

"Hello," the lady said, staring down at the little man with a smirk on her scaly face.

[Dark Link]

Dark smiled wickedly as he watched her take shape. He could feel the darkness pulsing from her twisted form. She was evil, and strong at that. Dark reached back to grip the hilt of the Shadow Master Sword, for she seemed to be looking down on him in many ways. He did not bother to answer her when she spoke, choosing to raise an eyebrow and wait instead.

[Xaro]

"I can get you out of here, and supply you with whatever you need. I seek more generals."

Her voice was twisted, and screechy. She continued, "As well as vengeance against your foes with an iron fist! I offer you freedom, if you lead my upcoming army."

There was something Ganondorf would never do. She really was rotten to the core!

[Dark Link]

Dark considered her for a moment. Freedom was a tempting offer, not to mention power. Dark was arrogent enough that he believed he could leave the Water Temple whenever he chose, but he wasn't foolish enough to think he was all-powerful.

On the other hand, he saw no power to be gained in commanding those weaker them himself. Even more so, the idea of serving under someone grinded him the wrong way. Ever since his last master had abandoned him, Dark had decided he was better off alone in this world.

Still...if this monstrous woman did have powers she could grant him...

"What exactly do you want from me in return?"

[Xaro]

"As I had said before...to lead my upcoming army. First...you will need training."

She draped out a wing, which seemed to be blacker than shadows themselves. Was that...a portal within the wing membrane? It was really hard to tell. The shadows cloaked it like a curtain. It also looked like an extra dimensional pocket...how weird.

"If you want out, I can let you out. Every holding pen has a crack in it's design."

[Dark Link]

Dark still hesitated. There had to be more to it then that. He just could not accept the fact that she seemed merely wanting to recruit him.

"Why are you so interrested in me? What need do have of a general that you would be willing to grant his every wish and whim to bring him to your side?"

[Xaro]

"To rebuild an empire, of course. My last...general...isn't so cooperative, So I had decided to ask a fellow shadow creature."

The portal did open, and through it, was the Shadow Temple, all decorated for war. Beings of an undead nature were walking back and forth, carrying heavy equipment. The grunts, or undead soldiers, were training using their claws, teeth, and super-agility, and the redeads were in a pen, being useless. She had something planned, alright.

"It is an honor to see through the shadows of my workings. What do you say?"

[Dark Link]

Dark suddenly had a mental flash of his sword piercing Link's chest. His face grinned wickedly at the thought, and his logic and reason suddenly crumbled.

"Very well, witch. I shall serve as your general in this war you speak of, so long as you give me that which I seek."

With blind greed, he stepped into the portal...

[Xaro]

As soon as he stepped in, she redraped her wing around herself, vanishing into the floor. They had arrived back in the Shadow Temple, and she undraped the same wing, allowing him to come out of there.

"I was banished here after my bloothbath sixteen years ago. Now that the goddesses have been turned evil, I can roam where-ever I want and not be watched."

Three warriors, clearly of hylian origin, skittered forward on four legs, standing up and staring at them with only a single eye. Flesh was rotting off of them, their hair was decrepit and moldy, and they had huge pointy teeth! One of their eyes was missing, but the other one was big, clearly not normal. They were also...really fast.

"Escort him to his chambers while I handle some unfinished business."

The creatures complied.

[Dark Link]

[OOC: Do we start a new thread in the Shadow Temple now or just let an admin move this one?]

[Xaro]

(( I think we should just continue this one. It did begin in the water temple ))

[Dark Link]

Dark didn't even bother wondering what her unfinished buisiness was. He followed the three minions to whatever chambers had been prepared for him, already growing impatient that she was not making him any stronger yet.

A flash of foreign memory surged through his mind as he surveyed the Shadow Temple. That didn't make any sense, though. Had Link visited the this temple before the water temple? Or, was it possible that Dark had been here before?

Dark tried not to think about it too much, but as he waited for the serpent woman there seemed little else to do.

[Xaro]

Screams of pain filled the entire temple as whip-crack after whip-crack reverberated off the walls. Shortly after, there was an explosion of power, and there stood the bat-lady, wings spread and arms folded. The spot where she stood reeked heavily of magic, sour and sweet to the senses at the same time. Dreadwing stared down at him, eyes glowing in the darkness of the room.

"Now that business is done...are you ready to recieve your powers?"

[Dark Link]

Dark stood there impatiently. "I have been ready for some time now. What powers do you have to offer me?" His lust for power was twisting madly in his heart as he stared up at Dreadwing.