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Epona suddenly reared, her nostrils flaring in fright as her eyes shown only white. It took all of Link's strength to simply hold on, his thighs gripping the poor beast so hard until they felt like fire as his beloved horse's flank and saddle became increasingly slippery from a combination between her own sweat and his. He also felt his own chest tighten as his passenger's grip around his torso increased as well.

Zelda's eyes squeezed shut as she fought back the urge to scream, biting her tongue nearly in two in the process. Blood trickled down from her lips with the occational gush as she gurgling moaned from the pain and jarring, staining both her and Link's tunic. Her grip around her champion's waist increased a hundred fold.

Midna suddenly slipped out from within Link's shadow. "Okay, time to go!" she yelled over the fray. With a snap of her fingers, horse and Hylians disentigrated into black pixels before being absorved into Midna's shadow. Satisfied that her companions were now safe, she quickly flew upwards towards Samus's ship.

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Link slowly lifted himself off the ground, his head throbbing. After a few moments, he slowly opened his eyes...or at least he thought he did. What he saw -or didn't see- made no distinction between eyes being open or not. Heavy labored breathing met his sensitive elf-like ears; he slowly made his way over to where his terrified horse lay, groping lightly until he found her neck; Link then laid across it, pinning Epona's neck. When the massive horse tried to throw him off, writhing underneath, Link quickly tugged off his gauntlets with his teeth before slipping them into his pouch, and laid his bare hands soothingly against her face, brushing her mane from her eyes. "Hush hush, old friend. It's me. You'll be alright. Steady, steady..."

Zelda quickly spat out a glob of clotting blood and saliva from her mouth, not caring about being "undignified" at the moment. Light bluish green aura surrounded her hand as she carefully extended her injured tongue to heal it, casting a faint glow around her face.

Link recognized the glow as Zelda's healing magic, and his brain quickly processed that he'd have to do the talking at the moment. "Midna!" he called out into the inky blackness. "Let us out! Epona's having a stress attack!"

"To where, exactly, Wolf's-Breath? If you haven't noticed, there's nowhere to go!" Midna retorted sarcastically, her voice echoing omnisously around the hidden walls of her mind. "No, you'll stay there. At least until we reach solid ground again."

Link heaved a heavy sigh. "Fine. But don't keep us in here for too long; you said yourself that it's dangerous for both parties."

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Yoshi glanced out the windo groggily, rudely interrupted from his nap by the commotion. Suddenly, a small figure raced by one wing, a backwards-commet's tail leading with a neon orange grabble-shapped object whipping in front of it. Yoshi immediatly began prodding both Peach and Mario wildly, desperately gesturing for them to look out the window.

Peach irritably shook the green dino off her arm. "Ew! Go away! I don't have time for you!" she sniffed before directing her attention back towards the red plummer.

Yoshi's eyes narrowed in frustration. "Yavshi, Yabbi!" he cried, tugging on their arms while dancing from one foot to the other, desparate to grab their attention. Oi! Humans were so dense!

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Outside, Midna struggled to gain enough speed to fight the head wind created by the craft and pace it. She strained to make her hair extend further, the glowing orange ends balling into a fist as she began to beat on the reinforced windows. "Oi! Hey! Let me in!" she bellowed in desperation, her voice nearly lost to the wind.

OOC: I forget, who all is in this group?

OOC: Samus, Mario, Peach, and Yoshi are in the ship. Spyro landed on the ship, and so did Midna. Link, Zelda, and Epona are in Midna's weird "inter-dimentional-pocket-thingy" (yeah...huge creative liberty there, but how else did she cart around bridges, volcanic boulders, and all Link's gear?). I still plan on bringing Pit in eventually though. Is Kirby still part of the plot?

Spyro landed with Midna and company. "I suggest we head towards the Dragon Realms part of the world," he explained, thinking the situation out as best he could given what it was. "Cynder will likely had back there, or at least that's our only lead at all."

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Mario smiled to Peach, then looked to Samus.

"Alright," Samus said, thinking about the situation. "I suggest we look for any ruins or the like, ancient ones," she continued. "Do you know of any?"

Spyro nodded, looking out into the distance, feeling his homeland calling to him from across the world. "Alright, the Dragon Realms aren't that far off from here," he said, looking back to the group with him. "So we should be able to reach them quickly. That's assuming the Emperor doesn't attack us on the way. I don't know what he'll be planning, but if he shows up himself, we run, understood? We're no match for him, and Zelda saw what his attack did to me AFTER I recovered from being a trophy."

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Samus nodded, planning where to head next. "Alright..." she said, looking over a map of the world. "There's still that subspace portal were the Island of the Ancient used to be, I hope it wasn't one. But there are a few places...I'm getting an abnormal energy reading from this location here," she said, pointing it out on the map, looks to be some abnormal energy signature. Should we go?"