A Strange Twist of Fate ( Kotone)

[Leviathan]

" Seek unto them the eyes of the white
For man will be drawn to power and that is his folly
Harken you, the knowledge of what is known
And know, the things that are to remain secret.

In the blackest of depths you will find your dreams
In the whitest of eyes, you will find despair
Know his name and tremble.

For he is what lives and thrives
In a place that rejects all others."

There was much that he had learned of this world in his short time. He had been upon the land and travelled it, but always was he to return here. To the kingdom that he had reclaimed. But this day, hee was to return to the land once more. But it was not through choice. It was through scent. Through fate. It was a pull upon him, like some sort of giant hook that had bound him in the jaws. That which had trapped him. He didn't know quite what the feeling was. But there was something there at the end of this proverbial line. And he moved towards it. Following it. Caught and ensnared in it.

He was like a shark chasing the scent of blood, swimming through the cold depths, prey moved out of his way. Lesser Predators kept their distance. curious as to just what had caught the Lord of the Oceans attention. But even he did not know that. He came close to land. And as he did. His large shadow would stretch across the waters.

His white eyes searched for whatever it was that had called him to this place. Whatever had drawn him. The shadow would sink in. condensing itself as Leviathan reverted into his human form. Taking feet and balancing them in the soft ocean soil. Scraping himself out of the sea, damp. His eyes cornered in one direction.

"..... Paike dron Hariata....what is this?"

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[Kotone]

Hidden along the edge where a couple of ships and gerudo women were coming out of it with bags and crates. A women in a cloak was waving them on at a faster speed heading to the desert and their horses. Kotone was the one waving them on as they was getting weapons and food to the fort. Kotone was trying to prepare encase something goes wrong. Lies... The Letter of Zelda held lies that what Merik said. Lies to bring war to their people and kill them off it seem and to kill their king even more so. Why can't they be at peace? They already have food and water problems with the sea monster now not counting Nightmare.

Kotone sigh as most of the women were out of site by now only a couple stay by her. She went to signing to them telling them what else they had to do today. They nodded as they were about to leave but stop as one of the ladies pointed out someone... well... Someone was nude. Kotone was looking at the guy then looked at the other a dark skin red eyes white hair guy. It remind her of a shielk but not with tan skin... if he had red hair he would be gerudo but he was not.

Kotone sighed as she turn her head away as she did not even bother to think to much more on the subject. The guy was with out items... and clothing. Fool to be on the edge like that but there was nothing to take from him. There was no way she was going to give him anything. Even if she did women clothing would not fit the guy and she not giving him her cloak. She went to signing to the other gerudo women saying let go and get out of here.

[Leviathan]

Ah, it seemed that Leviathan had the answer to his question now. What luck. It was the tanned skins. The ones who manned the wooden beasts. A grin spread up his face as he wished to change form once more. Even on land his true form inspired terror. However it was somewhat cumbersome here than on the deep blue. But there was a problem in this, these tanned skins were not of the same ilk as those who had manned the ships. More to say that these ones were females. Those fit merely to bear childer. He had no intention of devouring those who were not suitable for fighting. They didn't have enough meat on their bones.

But that did not mean he would merely let them go. He wanted to know more about this world and if he was going to figure out just why the pirates were about then surely the best way was to learn from one of their kind in the first place. Mothers sang to their young of the history of their kind. At least in Leviathan terms they did. The kowing told him this much.

" Wait I have something to ask of you!"

Would the same be said for the tanned skins? He moved towards them even as they seemed to notice him and then ignore him. How rude. But then again, perhaps it was his nakedness that put them off him. Yes, that was probably it. " Ah....yes I am sorry one moment". Leviathan then before their eyes would transform once again into the great serpant. Both clawed hands in the soil he began to choke up the remnants of his last meal along with a backpack. Yes, he ate the backpack each time to make sure that he always had it on him when traveling to the mortal lands.

Shifting form once again, like nothing had happened Leviathan whistled as he moved over. Picked up the bag and removed the clothes inside. Dressing himself. Perhaps it would be more suitable now.

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[Kotone]

Kotone was going to leave but the guy called out as she kept on ignoring him. However one of the girl's face shifted in horror as she turn to see a monster where the guy once was. It was coughing up something. Even thought that was the most weirdest thing she ever saw. It did not seem to struck her as hard as she knew that thing was eating their ships and people. She clap her hands to get the girl's eyes on her as she sign stating what her thought on this matter was. They seem to nod with her as the two girl broth out their polearms as she took out her daggers.

By then the thing changed back in to a man and came at them after getting dress. The girl held their ground ready to fight if he came to close to them. They did not want to be it next meal nor they was happy to see the beast. After all the time they been sailing they never had trouble before until this beast came.

[Leviathan]

Well at least they were nice enough not to attack him whilst he was getting dressed. Whether that was through politeness or just common sense on their part he didn't quite know. Still they seemed to be keeping their defenses up. Smart enough he supposed. He had been devouring their people whole. And they were quite tasty. But they had to know they were outmatched. Leviathan was stronger than five of their men combined even in his human form. And in his monster form. Well they were totally screwed. But thankfully Leviathan had no real intention of killing them at this moment in time.

" Lower your weapons Jul I have no intention of eating you"

Strange way to put it. I have no intention of eating you. Something an enemy wouldn't normally say. But then again most enemies wern't man eating sea monsters.He took a sniff of the air as he got closer and there was a strange scent coming from the one who seemed to be commanding the group. The silent one making strange signs with her hands. Could she not speak? Or was it through choice? He found it hard to believe a defective female could be considered the leader of a group. But then again, sometimes those defective in one way were gifted in another. He cracked his neck and his icy blue eyes pierced through at Kotone. He stopped. Keeping enough of a distance between their weapons and himself. " If I wanted to eat you I would have done so by now...not changed into this form to talk".

That much she had to at least identify with. Dragons were all stronger in their monster forms. By taking his humanoid form. He was letting himself enter a state of vulnerability. Not that it much mattered. " I wish to know why your people impede on my home...as amusing as the hunt is. I begin to tire of being shot at with arrows when I try to relax on a beach".

[Kotone]

Kotone glare back at the monster as she knew of the dragon race well... in reports. Nightmare was post to be leader of all monsters even this one. Was it one of Nightmare doing to take down their tribe from the sea too? She did not like it as Merik was away from the fort and she was left in charged no the best time to face a monster like this face to face. However it did not bother her as if it tried to eat her she cut her way out from his belly our or heck flood its insides with her song and kill it even if she had to die.

Kotone made a sign to the serpent monster human man thing. The Gerudo women sighed and shook her head at Kotone. "I don't think that the best thing to say" She said trying to correct Kotone from her upset mood. Kotone sign back but it seem she would have to clean up her words a bit. She sign once more as her weapon was put up before signing the right way. After signing she cross her arm and glare at the man thing. "She says Home? The Sea belong to everyone.. That and our people need to have to sea to live on" The gerudo women translated for Kotone.

"We don't enjoy having our race disappear or feed on" The women translate as Kotone went on singing and so on. "I been sailing out there since I was 10 so don't give me that you was here first bull. I have never once seen you out there or heard of you until around 10 or 9 years ago" She said as that when reports started to come in when people went missing or the sea took their people.

[Leviathan]

Suffice to say Leviathan didn't understand whatever symbols the girl was making with her hands. But it seemed that the other females in the group understood it just fine. They however seemed to keep their weapons up, which meant that they were at a bit of an impass as faras talking went. One had to remember that Leviathan wwas for all intents and ppurposes an animal. Unlike any of the dragons that had been encountered in Hyrule thus far his nature was to first a monster. Humans kept looking at them as if they would understand them in some kind of mortal sense. And with some of them that might have been true. They could understand basic human things. But Leviathan was different/ If you cast him in the same reflection as any other mortal being then you would be faced with a skewed image.

His first thought was for his own survival, so he kept at a distance as he listened to the one who spoke for her matriarch. The words that she spoke however were foriegn concepts to Leviathan. He had seen it here. That men and women of all races lived together in distinct harmony. Well for the most part. But this was not the case with the sea. He thought of a best way to describe it. " Sea is territory....It belongs to those who are strong enough to claim the right of ownership....your people have their homes on land, their kingdoms....the sea is mine....People may live on it, but only so long as I permit them to....The whales, the sharks. The fish...they all live because it is my will that they continue to do so. The moment I decide otherwisee. I devour them". He was thinking of it in animal terms. It belonged to him because he was strong enough to keep it that way.

" When another comes strong enough to take that right from me, then the sea shall be theirs".

It was simple enough, what he didn't get though was that apparantly their people needed the sea to live on. He raised an eyebrow at that comment. They needed it? But their peopel were built for the land, not the ocean. " What do you mean your people need the ocean to live on? You have a home here do you not? If your people are being forced from your lands and onto the ocean then perhaps I shall listen to your plea, but toleration of greed is not my strong suite". Of course that was a kind of odd thing to say for a creature who devoured everything regularly that got in its way. With no real knowledge of what it was to have its hunger saited. But thena gain, thinking in terms of Leviathans. Greed for one might seem normal to another.

" My people, the creatures you call the great serpants...we were here long before...and the Jul...the land walkers knew to fear the oceans...I am merely reclaiming territory lost"

He took another sniff in the air. A strange twinge to it. " Silent one. You have an air of fear around you, but it is not the fear of one facing their death, it is the fear of one who is running from their predator...". There were other scents. Other phermones in the air. But that one was the strongest. In all he couldn't understand heer sense of hostility towards him. True predators tended to be stand offish with each other. But he had already expressed a desire not to fight. It was almost as if there was some kind of emotional grudge against him. Which he found interestingly strange. The Jul, they killed and ate cattle and all sorts of other creatures. But did the cattle ever hold any kind of emotional grudge against them? No. So why now should she be angry at him for simply doing what it was that he was born to do? He took another step forward.

" Why do you smell like an animal on the run?".

To this point, him asking. She might realise that Leviathan knew nothing of Nightmare. of Merik. Indeed, it might even bring her to the conclusion that Leviathan was merely a joker card. An unexpected avatar of chaos that merely appeared at a time when it seemed coincidental.

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[Kotone]

Kotone found his talking rather dull down something you think a wild beast would say if they could talk. However this monster should know that its not a wild beast as something higher. However the more it talk the more Kotone saw it did not know and it was rather dumb for that. Kotone went to signing as the girl who was talking for her seem to not like being the middle person in all of this. "It is true the Sea is a territory for many creators but not one owns it the way that government own different territory. The people who own the lands are... well lets call them white skin for you. But their real name our Hylian. These people say the own everything but he Zora territory, Goron territory, and Fairy territory. I live in the desert... well banished thousand of years ago. Of course no one knows the reason for it anymore or the reason wh-" The talker stop as Kotone stop. As this was a bit to much all at first.

"OK look there might not be a stronger person or beast out there to take over you sea but there our millions of people who rule it. Out kind don't like the idea of people claiming areas like that. That why we move from land to sea and sea to land to help us live longer with food and water. WE a tribe so we travel that it it make us feel more free" The gerudo lady said as they all nod to that.

"We are not a greedy people. The desert is a dry place hard to get water and eat when there no plant life. We have to share the desert with Monster... a Dragon... or dragons but still. Then raids from the Hylain people. We might call the Desert our home but we can't seem to hold on to it. AS even our temple house for the goddess been turn in to a prison by the hylian... now its a home fore poes and redead" She said as Kotone seem upset by this. She wanted to fix the temple once more so it can be a temple once more. Maybe then the goddess will un-cruse their people.

Kotone goes and sit down as she listen to him. Jul? that must be before. "I see you like us now. Trying to live save your race" Kotone nodded as the gerudo went on talking. She blinks as she was given a nick name by the beast named ... don't know his name. But still it made the other girls laugh at it as Kotone shot a glare at them. She waved the girl to leave which they did not want to leave as Kotone be alone with this guy. However Kotoen gave them another glare as they got up and headed out.

As soon kotone was sure they were gone she looked back at the beast guy. 'Can you read my lips?' she lip to him making sure he was looking at her she point to her lips. She would let the girl stay but the info she was going to speak about was something not many gerudo knew about. Only Ruma and her knew about their king and what was happening to him. It was a info she could not tell the other about yet or fear be in them all.

[Leviathan]

Leviathan looked to the side slightly tilting his head. This was new information. The most parts that he concerntrated on where that this womans people seemed to be on the run from something indeed. The ones she called the white skins. The Hylians. The ones who in his book had the pointy ears and tasted like chicken. What the two seemed to have in common at this point in time, perhaps the only real tying line between the two. Was that both their species seemed to be on the presipice of extinction. It was a sad thing in truth. The only difference in this was the level at which they stood. Leviathan knew that he was the last of his kind. After he died and sunk into the ocean, when his bones joined with the seabed. That would be the end of the serpant race.

This womans people still had a chance. They could still exist. Could be saved from that defeat. He knew nothing of temples or godesses. And could only imagine the horrors of living in a place such as the desert. So dry and without moisture. No wonder they sought the ocean. The silent one at this stage came closer. Perhaps she had now realised that he meant no harm to her. " I cannot save my people for they are gone. Only I remain. I have sung from the edges of the sea, to the edges of the land and my call goes unreturned...when I die, it shall be finished". There was something there though in his eyes when he spoke those words.

" Yes, I read of your lips...I do not believe it is right that races should be pushed to death such as we...My people we are known for our hunger, yet even we kept populations alive...we would never devour them completely always leave enough to keep the race as a whole stable...it is not right it should be otherwise"

[Kotone]

She nods to him as he seem to understand more then she thought he would. He was like a child learning and understanding at a great rate. Even more so he seem to read her lips just fine. 'I don't know can you not mate with races almost like your? I mean I know the Monster clan have races that once thought to die off. However it run by Nightmare... He a dragon with many heads' she explain to him as she thought about it. 'Well it might not be good to talk to nightmare at the moment for me as... I think he helping the Hylain kill us off so he can take over the desert. Well that what our King says' She explain a bit more.

Kotone nods as she understands as his people sound like they knew where their limit were and kept peace knowing how far to take things. However in this day and age this was not the case for other races. Their power hunger soul just want more and more. No Kotone was not like that she just want her people to be treated like normal people. So they don't have to steal to live and raid to get what they need. 'We only live on due to our curse on us.. We are only women tribe. If we mate with one no matter what race they are the child be born girl and gerudo with no sign of father's looks or race in them. We only have one male once every hundred year after the last male/king dies and right now... our king being hunted down' She lipped to him as she sighed.

'I don't know what to do... I'm in charged of our tribe but I do not have the power like our King does to protect our kind' She lipped to him. It was good to get this off her chest as she can't tell the other about this. 'The fear you smell is for our king. I can't tell the others or thing might turn in to chaos you see' She explain. 'But in you case i can see in my records and books see if there anything about your kind. If not I'm sure the ruins and temples in the land of the Hylain would have something about your kind somewhere' She said as that she like to read upon.

[Leviathan]

Well This was a pleasant surprise. The Jul once so hostile was now beginning to calm herself and seemed to be more interested in the protection of her species. She told him the basic history of her people. Banished to the desert and cursed. It was indeed a rather strange curse. A race that would eternally bear females. And always of the same race, no matter who the father was or what species he belonged to. Merely using the male it seemed as a sort of sequence activator. The curse, whilst it must have been annoying not to be able to produce an ultimate pureblood. It also ensured that the race as a whole never died out so long as they continued reproducing like genetic parasites. Leviathan had to admit. Their situation was somewhat preferable to his own. But still for a people that had any pride such a situation would be most shameful. However by the sounds of it there had been a male among their species. A king. The person of who her fear seemed to be primarily aimed for. What was most concerning about her situation however was that this creature this Nighmare. The one who was helping the Hylians destroy another race. Was a dragon. A land dragon perhaps. But one who was more similar to his kind than any other. All dragons were long lived. His species were surprisingly different in this aspect. In the fact that their time as a hatchling was extremely short. Growing to full size in a short period of time. But this shared long life meant that dragons normally took the long view of events as opposed to mortals and their short lived lives.

Genocide was nothing to be taken lightly. Removing one factor from an ecosystem could drastically alter it for all involved and have a wider spanning effect on everything that came after the fact. What kind of impact the lack of this cursed race would have, it was impossible to tell. ” Unfortunatly my people are unlike yours in that creating hybrids would not save our species....if I mated with say a human, then it would be bon unable to swim in the water as I do, unable to take the shape I do, it would simply be a slightly superior human...the only way to save my race is to have another full blooded leviathan anything else would just be creating heritage. As for your race....this is most concerning....I had no prior knowledge of your peoples situation. And as for this Nightmare...it is concerning one of the land dragon would be taking part in such a thing....”. She spoke of how she didn’t think that she had the strength to protect her people. Leviathan didn’;t like to get involved. But ultimately anything that impacted on the food chain would also have an effect on himself.. And since there was another dragon involved...

”....I have amends to make in my role in this, albeit through ignorance I have deprived your people further. If you do not have the strength to stop them, then allow me to lend you mine”.

[Kotone]

Kotone thought for a moment as it seem that Levi or this Serpent dragon only way to pass on is with the dragons. However Nightmare was becoming a nightmare for their people it seems. She never thought this would happen but Merik said it will and it seem to be. She need to talk to her sister more about this as to see if she can't come up with something else in her lab to help them out. Her eyes went back to Levi as he went on speaking and what he said next shock her really. He been eating her people for some time now and now he wanted to help out? Well She smiled a bit as it was something she did not think would happen.

Well she take his help as he seem to want to learn more about this world as much she want to learn more about the world past. She loves books about the history of the lands and love to see ruins to find out their secrets. However she can't do that anymore as things... changed. War was coming to their lands and they did not have the people or rather the power to stand up. Their King was going to die in a man hunt and there nothing she can do about it. Hero of Time... Hero in Green, Hero of Four swords, where is their hero in need?

'I'm grateful and all but you can't not help us when it comes to the desert. The place is far to hot in the day and far to cold at night for you. You die before the day turn in to night there' she lipped to him as she sighed. She figure T.R. the bitch will take over the pirates which is fine with her she did not care to much about the sea life herself. However as long their people still get food and water from the pirates she won't mind staying in contact with them. 'I do have a song that can make it storm even in the desert but... It only last as long as I can play it' she said to him as her songs is her magic and the only thing that still give her hope. Even after Merik gone she has the flute he gave to her as a kid and something else. Of course she wish not for their king to die.

[Leviathan]

And it seemed that this one was willing to accept his offer, but there was a problem. As one could imagine a creature of the sea going to the desert was not going to be an easy thing. Leviathan liked the warmth but only so long as his body had plenty of moisture. A nice relaxing sun bath on the beach was nice at times. But the desert would be a totally different story. “ The cold does not bother me, nor does the heat....my weakness lies in the lack of moisture....I can survive in the harshest of temperatures so long as there is moisture to balm my flesh”. That was perhaps the more impressive part of Leviathan. Like some fish his blood carried a natural antifreeze, allowing him to swim at the deepest depths of the ocean which had freezing temps, whilst his scales could withstand the heat of boiling waters. But there was a way to fix this, whilst helping the Geurdo people as well.

“ The desert lacks moisture...with your song, and my voice silent one...we can change that”.

Leviathan had the mind of a child, true. But it was a child of his kind, not humans. He was naive but intelligent. He kenw the desert presented the biggest obstical. But if this girl could create storms in the desert. And he could create rain. Then there was a way to do it....

“ Take me to the desert....when we get there sing your song....I shall tell you the rest of my plan on the journey there...”

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[Kotone]

Kotone blink and nods as he seem to have a plan and is ready to head to the fort. Well She just hope he not going to kill his self. Wow that a thought Kotone never knew she had in a long time. Mainly for a monster who been eating her people for so long. Then again she been so worked up with many things she really have no been herself. Working all the time not taking time to listen to what around her or read over books or explore old ruins. Yes things she loves to do that made her feel so much more free then this now.

She whistle as a horse started to come out and move to them. She get on making sure everything was gather and nothing was missing. She pat her flute on her side as she looked down at Lev as she put her hand out to help him on her horse. It was fast to ride then it is to walk all the way there that for sure. As soon as he on she whip the rings and the horse was off heading to the fort.

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[Kotone]

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