here from today, but not any good for a meal. Throwing the bag that it was
in out to the side, Link closed his satchel, his stomach growling a
bit.
"Hee, you hungry?"
"Yes, ma'am. We should have come back for supper when they called us." Now
closer to the house, he could peer it on its tiny ledge, frowning a bit.
If they had swum the two miles, they would have been let down, for there
were no lights shining through the windows. Stretching his legs a little,
he watched Navi wonder through the satchel and come out with the jar from
the fairie. Popping open the top, the fairie poured out of the jar and surrounded
him. Giggling, his fatigue was automatically gone, Navi's also disappearing,
but the fairie left with the fatigue.
"Awe, she left."
"Only one use. You full now?"
"Yea, how long does this last?"
"Probably until lunch tomorrow, so let us rest now." Navi stared down at
him, watching him contently with that smile broadening her face, yes, she
was going to wait for him to fall asleep, just as she usually did the nights
beforehand. It was always him going to sleep first, her admiring him, and
then her finally falling down into the darkness. The mornings followed with
her up first, then him, so she can admire him for the
morning.
"Goodnight.Navi." Those hues rested themselves downward, while his head with
the cap sunk down into the grass. Navi meanwhile just glanced upon him, watching
him rest himself for the night before. Where would they go, maybe to the
fishing arena to gain the piece of heart, but something else was going to
happen. Maybe they would head over to Gerudo Valley for the day. If only
she could find Gaebora right now, she had seen him perching upon the stones,
but that had been so long ago.
Pushing off away from her little one, Navi flew past the mountains to check
out for monsters. No fiends were in the area, so she was safe to travel away
from Link for the time being. Catching the owl's scent, she headed over to
the two little islands, searching for the feathered one. At the gravestone
with the arrow inscription and the three, she found nothing at all, but when
she flew over towards the nearest isle of the land, the owl was rested on
there. Growling, the fairie headed towards the owl, watching it perch upon
gravestone and gaze at her coming.
"Hoo, hoo, hoo! What brings you down here, young one?"
"I need a favor." Lowering her eyes, she stared down at the tombstone, reading
the insignia of here lie the Zoras of the past, just some memorial. Knocking
here attention away from the animal, he had to slap her with his wing to
get the young ones attention. Flashing up with anger, she stared up the
animal.
"Calm down, young one, what is your favor?"
"We need a ride to Gerudo Valley tomorrow, do you mind?"
"Not at all, but is that really your problem."
"Shut up!" Sparkling up, she fluttered away, watching the owl turn its head
upside down, giving out a squawky laughter. When it did that, the thing reminded
Navi of those quails, but nevertheless, she heard his voice drowning out
her own little screams of frustration. The words that made her want to rip
out her own hair, telling the whole word to screw themselves and those words
were this: don't fall in love. Why did they all care!
Her own tears were starched across her face when she returned to him ten
minutes later, some time was needed to get herself aquatinted with realty,
some was needed to let it out, but most of it was to tell the others to let
themselves worry about their own problems. Who cared what Gaebora thought!
Who cared what the Deku Tree thought Farore rest his soul, but who cared?
This wasn't supposed to be a mission that would take almost two months, this
was a supposed to be a day mission. The rules had changed, and love was in
the air, nothing could stop them.
Unless he doesn't return it. "She" taunted out.
Shut up! Shut up, I say!
He won't return it! He won't return it!
Shut up! Yes, he will! Her mind screamed towards the voice, something had
exorcised her out.
That proves it, prove it to me.
Grabbing his face, she pulled him into a kiss, nuzzling her face into his.
Growling at the voice, as if snapping at it, the fairie nuzzled her into
him, holding him with herself, letting the tears drop down from her body.
It was so weird, what if she didn't return his love? No! This isn't the time,
it is almost over, and we are almost done. One more jewel, we are almost
there, and then we can leave and retain ours lives in the forest with the
Kokiiri. Of course she knew the Kokiiri had abandoned them, they would most
likely become travelers around this world, but this wasn't the time. Forgetting
the voice, she nestled into him, falling asleep.
--------------------
Morning brought a few surprises. Link was up before her, and while up he
discovered a few things about the island that she hadn't gone over the day
before. Wondering over to the observatory, Navi inside of his hat, the boy
had found one of those potted plants like from the Zora's domain. Laying
a magic bean on there, a small root grew up as the other one had been formed.
Inside the place, he found no one, but a locked door. A sign on the outside
said that the scientist was hard at work, so Link left them is whoever this
scientist was.
At the garden, he found a few vegetables to munch on; the fairie hadn't been
used to her full power, so he was pretty hungry. Link could ponder on the
other fairie, but that one might be needed for going inside Jabu Jabu. If
his assumptions were right, then Jabu Jabu was really possessed (like the
Deku Tree), and may have had evil spirits inside of him. On his dig through
the garden, Link just came across two scarecrows; they actually frightened
him, for he had never seen crows before, or scarecrows. The weirder thing
was that one of them talked to him!
"Well, howdy there, and who might you be?" The topmost scarecrow spoke out
loud.
Spinning around, his hand on the sheath of his sword, the boy examined the
scarecrow, figuring he was nice, and smiled a little shrugging a shoulder.
Leaning across the iron fence that separated the scarecrows, Link stared
up at him with eyes wide.
"I can see from your expression that you thought I was inanimate, yea. I
get that a lot. My name is Pierre, and I am a scarecrow who adores music.
Any type of music is good enough for me." Stopping for a second, the scarecrow
sniffed something with a nose that wasn't there. His straw stiffened. "Mm,
I smell an instrument, you wouldn't happen to have one on you, would
you?"
"Yes sir, I do." Pulling out the ocarina, the scarecrow went ecstatic. He
leapt upon the pole he was positioned one, holding his hands into air in
a jovial manner.
"My, my! Would you happen to play a tune for me? I am have an excellent memory
and would remember any tune you gave me. Come on, don't be shy, and I want
one you made up, nothing authentic. If it has ever been played, I will know
it, my ears do not deceive me."
Well, playing a tune from his collection was out of the collection, so he
reversed the notes on Saria's tune, claiming it as his own. It was technically
his own, you know. The scarecrow jumped for joy when he gave it to him, telling
him to come back in a few years and visit him, only then would the song become
useful. After being unanimated once again, Link wondered away from the garden
with an expression of confusion on his face, yet he did write down the tune
in his sheet as the Scarecrow's Song.
The fishing arena was the only other place to spend the day, so the at nine
o'clock that morning, he spread out his arms and dove into Lake Hylia. Those
weird creatures from before were back, the Octaroks, or whatever they were
called. Link could only dive under when they came near, for if he took out
his sword, he feared that it might get lost it in the one hundred feet deep
water. That was right, near the entrance it was shallow, but now the scene
just scared the boy to death, as if the octopuses made it any better! For
an hour and half he swam at full speed, reaching the small island at about
ten thirty that morning. Fully energized from the vegetables, he had no trouble
scanning the small hill that led up to the tiny house at the top. In a matter
of fifteen minutes, his hands latched open the wooden door, pushing
inside.
--------------------
Discoveries were one in the same at some places, so when the boy wandered
past the doors of the cabin and into the man-made lake, all saw was all the
glory of it. Navi had been right, there was some sort of man-made lake sculpted
out of the ground. Infront of him was a path that led to some sandy ground,
then inside the circle of that was a small pond extending twenty feet across
and thirty feet wide. He didn't even notice the voice, until something hooked
him on the back, making him scream with surprise.
Whirled back into the air, the boy levitated for a few seconds, before he
uncovered his eyes cowardly. Before him, a man with a hat was chuckling away,
holding a fishing pole into his hands. Putting two and two together, the
boy spotted the line sinking down towards his clothes, and the bobble hooked
under his shirt. Growling, the boy threw himself off the hook, tearing a
huge cut in the shirt, but landed on his bottom with an abrupt
sound.
Shaking those tresses aside, his long cap having come unraveled from the
scene before, the boy scooped up the headgear (his slumbering fairie, also),
putting them back into position. Taking a good look at the man, he saw he
was about middle aged, tan skin, and some weird shirt with different blue
and red patterns sketched upon it. Link couldn't view any pants on the man,
because he was sitting at a desk with a register to hold money, and fishing
poles held on the back wall. On the desk were a few odds and ends, paperweights,
and extra rubies. Attracting the most attention was a huge tank of water
that was empty to the core. Taking a few steps forward, the boy put his hands
on the counter, staring up at the Hyrulian (yea, he had small ears!), with
a hat that was perked through with hooks.
--------------------
It was a fisherman's hat, or so the man would have said. Taking one quick
look at the boy was enough to make him burst out laughing. How did a kid
ever get out this far to Lake Hylia and swim the few miles to the cabin?
Only the most strongly of men could earn their way out here to the lake,
sometimes resting for days when the reached the cabin, but this kid looked
as if he had just woken up. By Goddess, he still had sleep in his eyes, was
he that fast! Grinning a little, he stared down at the boy, tipping the hat
towards him. "What can I do for you, son? You lost or something?" Of course
the lad wasn't.
"Oh, well." Seemed sort of nervous, he did. "I want to go fishing, may I
have a pole?"
"Fishing? Well, you seemed to come out a long way, so I guess I can give
you a deal. This is an adult's fishing hole, yet there aren't many around,
so I'll cut you some slack. But I am warning you." Pulling out his finger,
the man taunted the boy in the face. "The fish out here are not friendly.
Sure there are some that could be around a pound or so, but some of them
get as much as twenty-two pounds. If that happens, break the line,
son."
"Break the line?"
Oh that was it! He couldn't help himself! Grabbing the edge of the counter,
the man guffawed into the sides of his mouth, holding back the laughs as
much as possible. No avail was given because for three minutes the boy sat
there steamed the man laughing, and a sparkle coming lazily out of the kid's
lap. Not even bothering with questions, he handed him his smallest rod, hooked
with a lime green bait.
"It's twenty rubies, kid."
Pouring out twenty from his adult wallet bag, the boy stared up at him, the
pole over his shoulder like a long sword. "I am ready to fish, any final
thoughts?"
"Just don't--- just don't-- just don't--oh Goddess!" The man was still laughing
when the boy hit him with the side of the rod, running off out into the lake.
Rubbing his head gently, the middle-aged man shook his head one last time,
giving them a farewell glance. It seemed like a short distance, but the end
of the lake he was at. It had to be a mile out, too far for the man to see.
You see, the lake may have been small, but the land was vast and rich all
around that area, harboring some sea crabs, other crustaceans, and plants
of all sorts. The crabs and all were indoors for the season, so he didn't
warn the boy about them.
Eventful dreams soon took over his mind; this was his own business, so he
didn't have to worry about anyone taking him for granted. All the Hyrulian
got for his troubles were some fish from the Zora, traded with the fish-
people and the solitary time by him. It was pure bliss to be out here, the
erected tops hanging off themselves, shining the artificial light from the
sunroof out into the real scenery, all the woods and reefs for the best fishing,
and the dream that one day someone might catch ole' Mody. Yes, ole' Mody
was the one he was after, a twenty-five pounder he had meant to keep for
himself, spending thousands hours rooting after, but he never came close
to bagging him.
Tuckering himself off, the boy watched the child from the distance, only
a speck of a real manufacture. The kid caught quite a few fish, more than
the man had predicted, but nothing over five pounds. That was chump change,
according to the fisherman, nothing over seven was anything special, and
nothing under nine could go in his hall of fame (the tank.) Not many people
came out here to fish, so he really didn't have anything to put in there,
plus the last one had died in a misfortunate night he had been hungry. Lazily
resting his head down, he drifted off to sleep at one o'clock that
afternoon.
--------------------
"What was that all about?" When Link reached the area as far away from the
man as possible, his guardian was fully awake, letting out a cute little
yawn. Looking over towards her little one, a small question pondered her
inner brain. Why was Link up before him, how was he at the fisherman's house,
what exactly had happened last night? Yes, the stuff from last night was
blurry (not the part with Gaebora, but when she had returned to Link and
the thoughts that passed therein.) Hardly recalling much of anything, the
fairie lounged off his hat when the question popped.
Trying to figure the rod out, Link sat upon a rock on the beach-covered surface,
studying the oak-made rod. He knew little about fishing, they fished out
in the Kokiiri forest (a stream led down there), but he had never been out
there. Saria's world was the outdoors, but she detested killing little fish
for food, when they had all of these berries and natural supplies to benefit
them. Reason is, when he first tasted meat on the outside world it was quite
a surprise to him, just on how much he had been missing from the isolated
forest. Grabbing the rod by the head, he launched it out into the
open.
"Huh? Oh, him. I think he was laughing because I am so small.stupid
man."
"Oh, Linky, don't mind him. He is a simple man who thinks you are just another
immature Hylian kit, but in reality, you are a fully mature
Kokiiri."
"Navi.I am not a mature Kokiiri, I am an immature Kokiiri, I am only a decade
old." Letting out a giggle, he held the large pole under his armpit, pressing
her flimsy body into his face.
"Mm, you act better than the others, anyway." Letting herself be nuzzled,
the girl went back and did the same thing to her as he was doing to her.
Not in so many motions, since she was smaller, of course.
Cuddling with her a few seconds, the boy slapped her on his pole as the line
began to tug. Grasping, the boy yanked back with all his strength, the small
flying through the air. Grasping the line quickly, he examined the fish with
the disappointment forming in his face. The fish wasn't a fish at all; it
had to have been a fish stick! Only under three pounds, the boy grasped the
fish and chunked it back into the fresh underwater.
"What happened, why did you throw it back?"
"Did you see the size of that fish?"
"Looked pretty big to me, maybe it could have won." Two pounds was actually
a lot for Navi, so she really couldn't tell if the ten-pounders were in there
or not. Floating towards the fish, Navi peered at the fish with her eyes
glaring a bit. Taking a glance over at the man, he was watching them with
drooping eyes of an old pervert. Automatically her veil reappeared, going
back over towards Link, she perched upon his shoulder once more.
"No, ten-pounders win the heart, I am pretty sure."
"Well, let's get to work!"
--------------------
Moving to the center of the pond was Link's idea of the day. At the beginning
of the lake was a reef that extended out to the center of the lake, or almost
to the center. After measuring the reef for its weight several times, the
boy stood upon the reef and began to fish for his luck. The following three
hours had been spent catching five pounders at the most, but the first scaly
animal he caught was a seven-pound fish! Grasping with excitement, the boy
began to fish out for the following three hours, keeping himself out of the
trouble from falling in the water.
Ten pounders didn't start appearing until he caught himself an eight-pound
fish, instead of throwing it away; the kid used it as bait for the other
fish. It was only common in the food chain that bigger animal ate the smaller
animals, not plastic little reefs he got for renting a stupid pole. The first
time he used and eight-pound fish, he received an eight and a half pound
fish. Using that one, he came across the nine pound one, and following the
process over, he came upon the ten pounds.
Some amounts of mass seemed easier on the first impression. Ten pounds may
have been easy to lift, but it wasn't easy to pull. Especially when the dreaded
little 'moby dick' had its head wrapped around the line and pulled back as
strong as any of the monsters he had faced. Ever since Link had come out
to the reef he had been using the little string attached to the coil that
you turned to yank it in. Throwing himself back in the air would land him
a quick ease in the deep water, losing any fish he came into contact with.
The funny thing was that when he was after the other fish, he had no need
to yank the fish in that other manner, except with when multiplied by
five.
Jumping upon the edges of the reef, he kept his feet apart and the rode buried
between those hands that hung on for dear life, trying to keep those other
stupid fish from biting at the line. Navi took the position without warning,
throwing her weight against the smaller fish, scaring her off, but the real
problem was getting that traumatic thing to calm down. Flaring her aura,
the kind she used to blind enemies, she zapped the fish in the eyes, making
a squeal erupt from the cry out. Blood splattered all over the water, just
from the hook, not from the zapping or anything like that.
Chance was all in it, for when Navi blinded the fish, it gave up in the fight
for survival. Pulling back all the way, he made the yank, throwing himself
into the water, but held onto the pole as if he was on a cliff and the edges
were the only escape. Leaping into the air, a reef to propel him upward,
the boy caught the fish in the air. When he landed, halfway in the water,
halfway on the coral structure, his hands still held the fish down. Surprise
threw him off the coral, making him grip the fish (and the fishing pole,
which he picked up before leaving), tracking back the mile in only a few
minutes.
The distance didn't seem like anything, only staying on the move, so that
they reached the area in under a minute. Staring up at the fisherman with
disappointing eyes, the boy let out a smug growl and slammed his fist upon
the wood. Nothing, nothing at all. Giving Navi a disgusted look for the man,
he reached forward and put the fish before the man's lips, nada, nothing
at all. Well, he had one last idea, but it was sort of a dozy Running back
a few feet, the boy cupped his hands together letting out an excruciating
long screech of excitement towards his direction. Sound waves picked up,
and the man jutted awake with profuse intrusion.
--------------------
Jutting awake from the screaming of a young child, the fisherman stared forward
to see the child from before. Obviously he was turning in his pole, having
given up? No, that wasn't the reason at all, in his hands he held a fish
consisting of what seemed more than nine pounds. Gripping the fish quickly,
he slammed it upon the weight, surprised to see it far exceeded ten pounds,
it went past the area of fifteen miles. How could a young child get something
this heavy, how could he catch it? Not even bothering with details, the man
fed the fish something from a blue bottle, putting it inside the water, where
the hatch closed making the glass turn black.
"How did you c-catch something that big?"
"Used some of the smaller fish for bait, I guess. How much is
it?"
"F-fifteen pounds. I can't believe you caught something that huge, that is
just unbelievable." Shaking his head, the boy handed him the pole back, which
he hung up generously (not even a smirk forming his lips, contradictory of
this morning.) Leaning forward, the man patted the boy upon his head, searching
through his bag and pulling out a fourth of a heart. He didn't know what
exactly the thing was, but from the excitement in his face, it had to be
something special. "You certainly earned it, whatever it is. I found it while
cleaning out the pool last week and decided to postpone it as a reward, what
exactly is it?"
"Well, if you earn four of these in a row, then you grow stronger and stronger."
Pulling out the fourth of a piece, he connected the two together, forming
a whole half. Showing the pieces off to the amazed man, the boy said his
thanks and disappeared out of the door. There was something weird about that
boy; he wasn't ordinary, which was for sure. Something told him that one
day he would see that child again, a much older man, and he would do great
things. Maybe it was his allergies acting up, but something was
abyss.
Ignoring the thoughts of tonight, the man opened up the tank and checked
upon his new prize. There it was fifteen pounds of fish for all the people
who visited his new business to notice and ponder who caught it? His story
would come out how a boy dressed in green, guarded by a sparkle of bright
blue, braved the odds and captured the fish. Unfortunately, he did not have
the boy's name, but he knew of a legend of the green clothed children, those
from the ancient tribe. In the following morning a plaque would be placed
right above the tank that said "the Kokiiri tribe wander." For now, the man
would slip back to sleep at three in the afternoon. The life of a fisherman
was patience that was the number one rule: patience.
--------------------
Shutting the door quietly, Link cupped his hands together, holding the half
of a heart pressed completely together. Throwing the heart into the air,
the boy pressed his index and middle finger up together, performing the peace
sign. Meanwhile, Navi caught the heart piece launching it down inside of
the satchel, snapping it shut. Giggling at the child, she pushed him down
off the edge of the island and into the water. When his head emerged from
the cerulean pool, the girl fluttered near his face.
"Why'd you do that?!" Shaking those blonde tendrils back and forth, the kid
stared up at the fairie.
"Hee!" Landing up on his cheeks, she rubbed them a little bit, glancing down
at him. "Come on, little one, let's head back and maybe we'll make it by
the end of the afternoon."
"Then we head back to the domain and deliver that letter?" Putting his feet
against the edge of the island, he pressed off into the water, quickly breast
stroking the entire way, on the fifteen-minute way they spoke at what the
next destination was. Navi's idea was not to head back to the domain, at
least until later tonight, but to take the advice of Gaebora. Yes, she still
remembers the encounter with Gaebora Kaepora, that was clear in her mind,
and the favor was still fresh in her young mind.
"No, we don't. I say we head to Gerudo Valley."
"But, I thought you didn't want to waste anymore time? Isn't the Gerudo home
over two days away?"
"Yes, but we will be there in two hours." Grinning, her veil flashed off
for the time being, then she explained her situation. Well, I shouldn't say
she explained it all, there was a bit of fibbing in the story, but then again,
what would it hurt? Navi explained that on her way back from the bathroom
last night that she stumbled upon the infamous (or at least she thought so)
Gaebora. Reminding him what Gaebora was (although he needed no remembrance);
the girl went on to speak that the owl had suggested they take a trip to
the thieves' valley for a few surprises.
"The owl mentioned something about some rewards at the
valley."
"Rewards, like those heart pieces?"
"Maybe, maybe not." It was a fact that Navi knew that there were two pieces
stored in the valley, it was just there wasn't really the location she knew.
And another factor that stood was they wouldn't be able to get across the
Gerudo, so those things needed to be near the area before they reached the
guards gates. Hrm, that would be a problem, but if they couldn't get past
them, they just couldn't. The Gerudo women were trained to fight from the
day they could walk, they would easily dispatch the boy.
A fourth of an hour displayed later before he was sitting upon the grass
and drying his clothes out in the afternoon sun. Nothing much else happened
for the remainder of the hour, both of them taking a forty-five minute nap,
awakening at ten after four. Waking himself up with the automatic alarm clock,
the boy and his fairie were surprised to see the wise owl perching upon the
gate, where they slept, staring at him with eyes closed. As soon as Link
made the first attempt to move, though, the owl stared down at him with those
yellow glaring eyes, brown feathers stretching out.
"Hoot, Hoot! Well, good afternoon, young hero. I presume your accomplice
has told you about our travel plans?"
"Accomplice?" He giggled a little, nodding his head somewhat. "Yea, she told
us we were going over to the Gerudo Valley, but-- you never said how we are
going to get there."
"Fly, you dummy!" The 'accomplice' spoke up, shaking her head a little. "Forgive
him today, Gaebora, he got too much water in his brai-" Being thrown across
the ground, the girl was tackled by the Kokiiri, who began to tickle her
all over. Bursting out into a fresh stream of giggles, the girl tried to
tickle back, but to no avail. That forest child was just too strong at sometimes,
playfully repeating over and over that he wasn't the dummy--she was. Kaepora
just watched to two with a chuckling look upon his animal
features.
Separating the two apart, the owl shrugged a small feathery shoulder. He
tried to separate the two with the slip of his wings, but that didn't really
work, for Link threw himself over to another patch of overgrown grass, continuing
the tickle torture upon her. What was so strange to the owl was how gentle
the boy was with her, being how fierce he could get, how could one be so
gentle with a fairie only the size of his middle finger?
Finally deciding to separate the two beings, he pushed his wings between
the two. That didn't help, for Link crawled over the wings in an instant,
Navi flying in-between the wings, also. Throwing her head back in a squawk,
his claw grabbed Link by the shirt collar, clasping the fairie with both
wings pushing together. Struggling with the two for a few minutes, the kid's
energy finally pushed down, slumping down somewhat, as Kaepora put Navi in
Link's hat.
"Hang on, you two."
"You are gonna fly us, Kaepora-san?"
"But of course, little hero." Throwing his wingspan out, the flyer lifted
up one hundred feet into the air, staring forward at over the horizon. There
wasn't that long left until they would reach Gerudo Valley from this destination,
so taking off towards the eastern horizon, Gaebora would stop until they
reached the area of the thieves. Looking down at the boy, he had already
fallen asleep from the air travel within the first few minutes, his ears
popping the higher and higher they rose. He was very careful not to go up
too high in the sky, fearing the atmospheric conditions would make him short
of breath.
From the lake he would head east, along side the huge range of Death Mountain.
Spiraling forward for the next hour and a half, nothing else was in order
unless he ran into the occasional Peahat (which he evaded easily.) Since
it wasn't nice there were no problem of the Stalchildren, but then again,
they could never reach this high up, could they? An hour later went by with
no activity; the mountains remained the same until they carved down into
a valley. Past the structure of the valley was places were the grass grew
no more.
Streaking off the grassy plains was a rooftop that extended out, guarded
by a gate, but below that was the bare plains full of dirt and rock. Nothing
was around this area except the occasional rocks, even the Peahats weren't
in this area, and it seemed the Gerudo had the unstable environment of them
all. No grass, no water, although the river was up ahead, but it seemed that
it didn't rain out here and all. Gaebora hadn't been out here in a while
(the first hundreds of years ago), but back then again in the past it had
been beautiful as the center of Hyrule Field.
Pulling away from the breeze, the owl flapped down into the valley, pushing
down into the valley that narrowed its length to just fifteen feet across.
Maneuvering through the place in fifteen minutes, the owl came up to an area
with a long rock bridge that led into the beginning of the Gerudo inner valley,
a small little waterfall was at his right (but not the one that led to Hylia.)
Flapping up a few more feet, landing just after the stone flab of rock, he
pulled the two down on the ground, shaking them with their wings. Not even
waiting for them to awaken, the owl flew up into the air and took off away
from the valley, it gave him some bad vibes, but Navi wanted to come here
for some reason.
--------------------
The trip was a blur to Link, it seemed like the owl had some sort of sleeping
power in his talons, for he was asleep from the time he took off, until the
time he heard the animal give out a screech of farewell. Sitting up, he covered
his face with those hands, staring over at the land, surprised with not so
much as envy. The entire place was barren; all he saw from all around were
barren plains that stretched forward. Looking up, he noticed that it was
just a hill, so when he climbed to the top, his discovery was a more barren
land, but also a nice-looking rope bridge. It seemed this had been built
for good use, the thing was ten feet wide and fifty feet
across.
Carved from stone, the beginning of the bridge seemed to be. Above the bridge
were two pillars that stood five feet in the air, that was what the ends
of the bridge were connected to. On the other side was another pair of pillars
with the opposite end of bridge connected to them. Walking ahead, the boy
stepped on the footbridge as Navi began to flutter from out of his hat, staring
around at him, rubbing her eyes tiredly. Giggling, he kept his hands on the
rope that was used as the handrails.
"Mm, where did owl go?" Peeking ahead, there was a shadow up ahead, but it
didn't seem threatening, at least from right now. What really was frightening
was when he looked down at the ground. There was some way down; it reached
down into the Gerudo River that would connect to Lake Hylia. No, that wasn't
the scariest part of this adventure, it was the drop down that frightened
him past all beyond belief. Wide-eyed, the child glanced down at the ground,
feeling his legs begin to wobble a little.
"L-Link, calm down! Heights, you must be afraid of heights! Calm down, little
guy, the bridge is wide, you won't fall. Stable yourself!"
Sinking down upon his knees, the boy's vision began to sink back and forward.
Gaping forward, the boy grabbed the Rope Bridge, slamming into the bridge
and slinging back and forth. Falling upon his back, he curled up a little
bit.rocking back and forth upon the bridge, making it not seem so stable.
This would have gone on for the entire time, unless Navi hadn't lifted him
up and carried him the whole way, until she stopped and dropped him down
on his stomach. Her eyes had jolted out in an expression of pure fear, there
was no un-mistaking it, it was as if Ganondorf himself had appeared before
them.
Crying out in slight pain, the boy looked up at what had scared her so bad,
for when he looked at her she was shaking a little and pointing forward.
Ganondorf it was not, but there was a beautiful woman just less than six
feet with her arms crossed over her chest. A small scarf wrapped around her
mouth, so he couldn't view her expression, but the rest of her body gave
off a nice sensual glow. Her invisible aura shot off a beautiful feeling,
but also a deadly feeling, because the girl was stretched inside what looking
like Gypsy clothing. Gypsy clothing was strung about her body, her halter
top made of silk, showing off her flat, tanned stomach, and matching violet
silk pants upon her slim form. The traditional Arabian shoes lay on her feet,
also. Sheathed at her side was a sword, but not like his, it was small at
the bottom and curved up into a beautiful wide blade made of stainless steel
(bigger than his, that was for sure.)
No armour strung across her form, but that silky red hair, which was tied
up into a ponytail, glanced down as she stared down at him with cat-like
yellow eyes. Her nose stuck out against the purple cover, but from the imprint,
Link could make out that a grin was positioned upon her face. Bending down
on her knees, the woman leaned against an Iron Gate that had to have sealed
the Gerudo palace form the rest of the world. Without even asking, Link knew
it was a Gerudo, and taking a few steps back, his fear of the fall
dissipated.
"Where do you think you're going?" Her arms uncrossed heading for the sword,
but before she could get the thing out of its sheath, Navi slammed into it
and watched as it bounced off the ground and flew down into the
river.
"Why you--what the hell was that!" Flailing at the dot, it easily evaded
her feeble attacks with her hands. From the looks of it, the Gerudo fought
like girls, but were mastered in the blade. That was a bad disadvantage for
them, but a good one for Link. Flipping backward, his sword was pushed out
and ready to fight (his first human opponent), it seemed this would be his
first human kill. Readying himself, the child charged up at the woman, aiming
for her throat and ready for the kill.
"P-please wait!" Throwing herself upon her knees, the girl burst into tears,
crying softly into her hands. Link blinked a little, looking down at her,
to Navi, and then back to the girl. Staring down at the sharpened blade.the
boy slipped it inside of the sheath and slumped down on his knees right next
to her. Grabbing her shoulders, he smiled a little and spoke
sweetly.
"Hey, it's okay, I won't hurt you."
"P-promise?"
"Of course." Grinning, he shrugged a shoulder and stood up ready to speak
to her, but that was when he was overtaken by a slam to the gut. Gasping,
his hands fell upon his stomach, staring up at the grinning woman, eyes widened
with pain. She gripped him by the collar, spitting into his face, and reached
for his blade. Shaking her head, the woman walked over to the side of the
bridge, dangling him over.
"I hate men.I hate boys, and I hate you." Spitting into his face, she dropped
him off the edge of the bridge.
--------------------
This was it, this was the end. His own stupidity would be his demise, he
knew from the start he should of killed her, but she just looked so sweet!
He couldn't help, but feel sorry for the beautiful woman who was crying on
her knees. Must be one of the attacks against the men, Eh? Seduction was
a good term for it, and if he survived (of course I won't), he wouldn't fall
for it again. Shaking his head, the boy cried silently as the hundreds of
feet sank down from miles to miles, doing the only thing he could, which
was hide his shield above him and hope it broke the impact.
Nothing would break the destruction he imagined, nothing could save him,
even if Navi would get a hold of him, there was no way she could stop him
and float him down the feet this valley reached. Below was a river, but the
impact was going to kill him! Another alternative was that it may have been
like the water in the Zorian Domain and was soft, although he knew the answer
to that, since this was the same water he had spent thirteen hours scrounging
in. Great, no one would ever find Ruto; she would just turn into stomach
acid after a while, what a wonderful way to die!
He could feel to fluttering of Navi, trying to scream her name for help,
but his voice was drowned out by the fall. How long had he been in the air,
five, ten hours? He couldn't tell, but he believed it had only been a few
seconds, was his life flashing before his eyes? Images of everything that
had happened were weighing upon his soldiers, he was be a traitor to the
Kokiiri, brother to Goron, loser to Zoras, disappointing Zelda, Ganondorf
would rule the world, and Saria would have been disappointed he hadn't come
to visit. Hands stretched out and grasped Navi, holding him close to her,
he tried to hold it in, but the tears began to splash down his cheeks and
into the air (he was falling face-first, so they streamed
upward.)
Feeling and watching Navi, he saw she was crying and trying her best to help
him survive. She would survive, of course, he hoped that her next master
would be better than the other would. Pulling her close to him as much as
she could, he whispered into her ear to find a better master next time. That
made him receive a hard slap across the face, and her beginning to choke
over her sobs, Goddess! He made her cry that was a heavier weight on his
heart than anything else did. Holding him close, she mouthed something to
him that he couldn't understand, it started with an 'L' that's all he
caught.
--------------------
This wasn't happening! It couldn't happen this was insane! Goddess, she should
have told him to cut the wenches' throat when she had thrown the sword aside,
but her honesty rule of not killing something unarmed had kicked in. Vowing
never to use that damned thing again, the girl had been quite surprised when
she heard the boy yell and saw that nothing was where he had been two seconds
ago. Viewing downward, she saw that the girl had knocked him off, spit on
him, and said some awful words towards the kid. Flying up at the Gerudo's
face, she brightened herself and shot a chi ball right into her forehead.
There was a yowl and cursing in the ole' Gerudo language when Navi had thrown
herself, spiraling a downward speed to Link.
She reached him a few seconds later, seeing he was trying the trick in the
Deku Tree, but this time it wouldn't work, that valley had to be at least
five hundred feet deep. He was already halfway there when she reached him
and started to cuddle up with him, for she knew she couldn't stop the impact
of the fall, it would kill both of them. Here's what would happen: the impact
of stopping him would kill her and then he would drop the rest of the way
and die. Was it better to live on her own, for she knew she couldn't live
on her own? The little fairie had always been alone, but now here she was
with Link and he was going to die! No, no, she wouldn't allow him to die,
she wouldn't allow it. Cuddling up with him, she began to think as the seconds
ticked away.
No, nothing would stop them now; nothing would stop this process, for they
were doomed. All the possible choices flowed through her mind; they could
land and die. They also could do some more sensible manners and try to find
someway to float down, but how? Nothing in his satchel was a parachute, the
satchel! Maybe they could use that as a parachute? No, it wasn't big enough;
there was nothing else in here that would help them, unless it was the shield,
which was the only way to do it. All that ran through Navi's mind was if
the Goddesses' wanted their tasks accomplished they would have to thrown
out an ole' miracle at the two.
During her thinking process he brought up the part of maybe getting a nicer
master. A nicer master! How dare he, she couldn't help but slam her fist
into his cheek, and cry out in curse words, cursing him for saying such words.
How could he say something like that! How could he be so cruel? Beating upon
his chest, the girl was surprise when he pulled her towards him and kissed
her cheeks sweetly. Pushing against him, the girl yelled out at the top of
her lungs "LINK! I LOVE YOU!' her voice being drowned out by the air of the
wind. Cursing herself, she was about to give up when she heard the
squawk.
A squawk? A cucco? Her mind rattled on for the questions to the answers,
and turning sideways, she saw that to her left was a Cucco. How it got here
was a mystery in itself, but a miracle was all that could explain it. Grabbing
hold of the Cucco, she threw it at the weeping boy, he fumbled with it for
a few seconds, but caught it around the waist. All of a sudden his impact
was slowed down, as the chicken began to flap around for some pressure. The
pressure stopped slowly, easing down as the falling stopped all at once.
There he was, floating down to the rocks, and what was better was that there
were two spaces that he could land where there were places to
rest!
"Link, we did it! We're saved!" Actually, she was never in any danger, but
after this experience, he thought of them two as one in the same. Her decision
would have been to probably to stop the fall at only a few feet and die,
for she knew she couldn't have bared to watch him splat upon the water, or
the cliffs nearby. As luck would have it they were floating southward towards
the higher cliff that was only twenty feet above the lower one. Coming to
a full stop at the edge of the first cliff, he put the Cucco out inside of
she searched around for those rewards, this may have been the place that
she had mentioned earlier, but that sure wasn't the initial plan of the
day.
--------------------
My Goddess, how could a miracle like this happen? Link had presumed himself
dead, but out of the blue a Cucco appeared and Navi threw it at him. Relying
on past experience, the boy floated down the rest of the way and kept he
in one piece when he landed off of a ledge that wasn't quite at the end of
the mountain, but a pit stop. Staring around, in utter amazement at the
situation, the boy pulled the chicken into his satchel and fell upon the
rock ground. Yelling at the top of his lungs, he sighed with satisfaction
after the souring of his lungs. Who cared, he was alive! Oh, Goddess how
could this happen, did the Gerudo throw a chicken down after them, did she
feel sorry for them?
His fairie had gotten up and was already looking around the seven feet long
cliff, so he got up and went after her. Curiosity was still pondering his
mind on what exactly she said before, he hadn't gotten it out, but it wasn't
his name (even though it started with the same letter.) The lip synch was
quite different, so moving over to her, the boy sat down right infront of
where she was searching and spoke to her. What he didn't notice was that
there was a chest right infront of where Navi was perched.
"Navi-chan, what did you say earlier?"
"Say, what do you mean?" Trying to crack the huge lock upon it, she began
to perform Ki shots upon it until it finally snapped open.
"When we were falling. You said something that started with an 'L', but it
wasn't my name."
"O-oh, that! N-nothing at all, sweetheart I was just saying stuff, I forgot,
I was temporary insane." Flushing, she pushed open the chest and came out
with a piece of heart, revealing it for the boy. That would wash away his
questions, no doubt, because he grabbed the piece and grabbed the half of
one, linking them together to form the seventy-five percent of one. Squealing
and placing it down inside of his satchel, the boy stared back at
her.
"How do we get down?"
"Easy, there is another cliff down there that leads right to the waterfall,
you can float down the river until we reach Hylia and then we can head back
to the Zoras."
"How long will that take," He scooped her up and placed him on her shoulder,
walking over the edge and peering over, grabbing the Cucco, he readied himself
to launch off, but waited for Navi to answer his question.
"A few hours, we should be there at nine-thirty. Judging that from the sun
it is almost six o'clock, so we should be there at night. I think we should
go into Jabu Jabu at night though, something tells me the hear will not be
so excellent in the daytime." Pushing him off the ledge, the boy gasped out
loud, grabbing onto the Cucco for all his might, and floating down the remaining
way of the valley. Shrugging a quick shoulder, the boy actually agreed with
her, who knows what sort of stuff was inside this giant fish (or whatever
it was), it was best to come at night.
"As long as the king lets us through."
"I think he will when we show him the bottle.he was upset over his daughter's
disappearance, Link."
Agreeing silently, he could tell that the king would want them to go get
his daughter. He hoped she was as sweet at the king was, he may have been
an old fish, but he was one of the nicest people Link had ever met. The King
would respect Link for his courage, he thought he was brave for taking one
of his own guards down with the sword, and agreed that if they got the stone,
then they could keep it. That was best part of it, because he was wearing
their symbol, and if he wore their scale, he needed to keep his honor too
them. Maybe it was irony, but his Kokiiri tribe symbol was gone, since he
was thrown out from the tribe. So, maybe he had to honour himself with the
other ones, even though he really wasn't their race, but he was accepted
as one of them. It was strange, strange and stupid in a way, yet he would
keep his honor towards the Zoras and rescue the princess.
After a few minutes of floating, only six feet from the landing point, the
chicken gave out of strength. Maybe he should of let it rest, or maybe he
should of checked to see if it was in any bad condition, for when Link looked
up the chicken was dead. There was no time to retaliate, all he did was cry
out and throw the chicken down into the ground. The chicken smashed into
the ground, where a little blood splashed over, but the funny part was when
he hit the ground. He landed right onto of the Cucco, which exploded into
millions of pieces. Crying out in disgust, the boy jumped up and stared down
at the mass of pulp.
That wasn't even a chicken anymore, it was some sort of monster. Bones and
entire skeleton had been ruptured into nothing, there were guts and brains
scattered all around, surrounded by feathers. Those feathers were covered
with red liquid, the blood obviously, and Link couldn't control it. Running
over away from the waterfall (this one was about forty feet long), he hit
the ground and threw up over the edge of the water. Bile had begun to form
in his throat when he heard the cracks of the bones, but seeing it was so
different. Watching the puke flow down the river, the boy drowned himself
in the fresh water and gulped it down. Rolling away, he grabbed his stomach
as the cramp form, crying out in pain. He would have rolled into the cliff,
but a large foot stopped him.
"Well, what do we have hear?" A voice, feminine in speaking, rolled out from
the tip of a tongue. Moving his head past the foot, he saw another Gerudo,
but this one wore no weapon of choice, and was dressed in a silken suit of
white that showed no parts, aside her appendages. That, however, didn't mean
she wasn't dangerous. Navi was about to pounce with a blinding attack, but
something told the boy to stop, so he calmed her down and cupped her inside
of hands.
She must have noticed him doing something with his hands, maybe a magic spell,
perhaps, so she reached in for a hit to the throat. Pushing himself backward,
the boy caught his feet guard, and threw himself backwards a few more feet.
Reaching for his sword, the boy stopped and watched the unarmed woman, he
had some honor. No, he wouldn't attack the woman without a weapon, but holding
the sword steadily in his hands, he backed away from her. Meanwhile the commotion
was around, Navi slipped back behind Link and drifted off towards the
waterfall.
With a gasp, he realized his fairie had deserted him. Turning around to call
out her name, he was greeted with a swift kick to the back, surely would
have knocked him out, had it not been for the shield. Luckily, he just pushed
him to the ground, which he greeted with pushing his hands back and flipping
him upwards. Landing upon his feet, the blade aimed steadily behind her,
the boy nodded a quick few steps and watched her. No, she didn't seem to
be going a where now, seems she underestimated a warrior, and you were to
never do that (even if it was a child.)
A few minutes of yelling for Navi, his front form never leaving the Gerudo's
nasty eyes, and keeping her at bay with some of the few rumbles, had really
tuckered the boy out. Crying out once more, Navi returned to his side with
something concealed behind her back, so he didn't see when she slipped it
inside of his pocket and a clinking sound chimed. Immediately he knew what
the sound was, that was the sound of a fourth of a container clicking together.
That meant that the whole heart was completed, and when that happened, well,
we will just see.
Ki-ing a deep blue, the boy sheathed down his sword and ran right at the
Gerudo. It seemed these surges not only increased his stamina, speed, and
strength, but also gave him the capabilities of something far past his normal
extents, when it was charging up. That poor thief tried to throw a punch
at him, which he parried by flying back against a wall, and bottle rocketing
into her chin with his fist. Not aiming to break, he nicked it, causing her
to break down in pain. While the girl was tending to her face, Link hit her
in the side of the head with his hilt. Reclaiming the sword into the scabbard,
he saw nothing else of interest and did the only normal thing to do: dive
in.
--------------------
Navi resumed her position at his head while he fought the Gerudo, you see,
she had heard the hollow trinkets of the waterfall on their way down, which
only had to meant there was some hole carved in there. Taking her natural
instincts for granted, she flew behind the waterfall and landed right upon
a ladder that led up to the human-carved hole. Certainly not made by erosion,
the block concealed a hidden brown chest that hid upon the fourth heart piece
they would discover. Fluttering back to the one she protected, she handed
him the piece and viewed the battle with astounded ability. The view upon
his face made her beam with her own little ambition, yea, the journey out
here was not just a waste of time, it was relaxation and collection four
extra heart pieces sure helped the boy and her in their quest to defeat
Ganondorf. From her guess, Link was nine times as strong as when he arrived,
not that he was nine Kokiiri boys put together, more like he was strong as
a nineteen-year-old Hylian would was.
Not even bothering to test out her own ability, she guarded the enemy, but
gave no tips on how to beat the Gerudo. I mean, it wasn't hard to be an
undefended woman, who was deadly nevertheless, but had to be taken care of
so not to report down to her comrades. How she got down here and how she
got back up was still a mystery to Navi, maybe she was an outsider? If she
had been an outsider, she would have greeted them pleasantly, but no, she
just had to attack them with the ferociousness. From Navi's guess, she was
the Gerudo farmed of some sort, that would explain the huge cow right where
she stood, a crate, and a small soaked patch of where seeds would
go.
When she went to plant the seeds down inside of the patch, without Link's
understanding, she heard a splash and feared the worst. The guard must have
jumped in for help! Retracting around, she heard Link call her name out in
a boyish laughter, pointing for her to follow him. Clutching the newly tied
bag of seeds together, the fairie went after the boy. Yes, she almost caught
up with him, before the water seemed to disappear, or was it dip down? A
scream erupted, then a splash as Link sailed down a miniature waterfall.
He was spluttering when Navi caught up with him, nestling upon his shoulder,
chuckling silently.
When he finally returned back to breathing in oxygen, instead of the usual
aquatic features, the boy looked over to his fairie and gave her a quiet
slap on the face. She cried out loud, staring at him, holding her sore mouth
with a bit of hurt in her face. Pulling a finger forward, he stroked the
cheek softly, not really patting her so hard, it was just a punishment of
payback for not telling him of those 'little' adventures on the rapids. Almost
reading his mind, the fairie nodded and slunk down inside of his hat, which
was the driest place for all. Storing those seeds with her, so not to fall
out since he couldn't reach his side belt in these conditions, the fairie
drifted down the sleep as Link dealt with the rapids.
And what a dealing it was! Link spent the next three hours dodging rocks,
not that there were many, closing his eyes for the impact of the waterfalls,
and drifting along in the loneliness of the world. It really gave him a good
chance to think of some things, gave him the chances to study his options
when the quest was over. Gotta get the third stone first, dummy. His mind
pointed out to him in a matter-of-fact tone. Shrugging sheepishly, the boy
dodged one more rock for what seemed the thousandth time.
How was he going to end this, were they going back the Kokiiri Forest to
live? Man, why do I think like that, I am already banned from there, I would
be living in the Lost Woods for my life. There were other options, he could
stay with the Gorons, but those beasts had hugged too much. Ever since Link
had been named the 'Dodongo Buster.' (Which they said with so much prides,
it was gloating) the child got hugs from every type of Gorons. A Goron hug
was not a very nice hug to compensate with in the matter of his already weakened
bones.
Maybe stay with the Princess? Not that was a nice thought, he could stay
with the Princess (even though he didn't particularly find her as his favorite
person, she seemed to know too much), but the chance to train with Impa-sama
was a great honour. When it came right down to it, she was his first and
only sensei (unless you count the fairies, which he didn't, they just gave
him the technique coordinates, anyone could do that.) He would deal with
Zelda-sama, it wasn't that he didn't like her, she was pretty and all, it
was just that he decided the King wouldn't want a boy a junior to his daughter
living in his castle.
If I go ahead and rescue this princess, maybe here? He did enjoy fish a lot,
and the fishing arena was a fun place to be. With the new scale he would
have no problem staying here, and catching his own food. That was a mistake
for staying with the Gorons, they made him food from the Dodongo's, but after
those were gone they went back to eating rocks. His pearly whites just couldn't
suffer that sort of damage from eating those hard rambles of dirt. Zoras
were as good as any place as this, unless the Kokiiri could be reasoned with
and understood he didn't do anything to harm them or the Deku
Tree.
Maybe the Gerudos? That one gave a short laugh, he hadn't even told the Gerudos
what he was and he was already dealing with their antics. Not to mention
their king was the enemy of his, maybe if he killed Ganondorf then he would
become the King of the Gerudos? Not a fancy title, there would be no one
to mess with him, though Link didn't think he was King-material. Most likely,
he would be a visitor to the forest and a drifter from town to town, maybe
a mercenary of some sort? It was a sad destiny, but at least he would have
his companion at his side, he would be with her forever. That was a reassurance
that made him consider himself very lucky for her.
Then that other question pondered his mind, the one he had been trying to
knock back for all eternity. Why was Navi so different? It is like she had
changed over the time they met from the present day today, looking back on
the days, he couldn't count how many. Maybe he should have brought a journal
to record his history for some tales that would be told hundreds of years
from the present day. Link just couldn't understand her behavior, she was
different, but not in a bad way, she just seemed to get overzealous of him.
The lad didn't understand why women thought he was cute; maybe it was a gift
or maybe a curse, and all he understood was Navi.
Communication was different from them, sometimes it was like they could read
each other's minds, and known what the other one was thinking. Yet, in this
case she had some sort of mind block upon him, and just claimed that she
didn't want to lose him to any of those other pretty girls. Did that mean
that she thought that he-- nah, she wouldn't think of that, Navi was pretty,
but she was just a fairie. They didn't--or did they have feelings like that?
Staring up from his nostalgia, he noticed he was not drifting down the Gerudo
River anymore, how he was sitting at the base of Lake Hylia with his waist
pressed against the edge.
Four hours had actually passed by the time he found the entrance that led
back to the Zora's domain, the reason that he had delayed somewhat for the
heart pieces, and the fact that later on he discovered himself. When he had
found himself lying on the beach, he would later discover that he had been
lying on the side of the Lake Hylia for thirty minutes. Another factor was
finding the entrance, without the slumbering fairies help, was going to be
hard work. Link doubted they would start the dungeon today, he was just too
tired to even consider venturing inside the belly of a beast.
Ruto would just have to wait another day that was the answer when Link swam
inside of the door to the Zorians, pounded upon it with a message for the
King, and was promptly let inside. After making his way from the curious
squeals of some Zoras (including the guard, plus the sultry one), the boy
was let through to the Zorian King. Now, he would have been down there too
in a heartbeat, except the fact that he couldn't move. When Link went up
to the platform and yanked out a letter made in the paper of the Zoras, the
king was ecstatic.
"W-who is that from, young warrior?" Balling the letter up, Link chunked
it up at the King, who caught it with a slick flipper. Even though the Kokiiri
and his fairie couldn't decipher the message runic very well, the king was
done in three minutes and proudly announced it to Link and Navi (whom had
just been pushed from her early slumber by the tiring Link, whose lids needed
the rest even more.)
"It says this "Please help me, I am trapped inside of Jabu Jabu's belly.
Please hurry, and don't tell my father.' Her signature are there, which looks
authentic, but the strange thing is that she can't conduct these sort of
runic in her schooling lessons yet. It is either the opposition of Ganondorf,
or he wrote the note to tease us, for we might never find it and that is
where the princess has gone."
"Was her time to feed Jabu when she disappeared?" Navi blurted sleepily,
wiping her eyes a bit, reclining upon Link as support from her nearly unconscious
body, yet she heard the whole conversation in whole. Thank the Goddess' for
the long elven ears, Eh?
"Why, when you mention it, it was her time! Oh dear me, Jabu Jabu must have
been poisoned like your poor guardian and now instead of the contents being
evil, he is evil instead." He was shifting his weight back and forth, when
suddenly his eyes fixated upon Link. "You will go and rescue her tomorrow,
or tonight? Please, let it be as soon as possible, I am ready for my daughter's
safe return and I know you are ready for your present."
"Tomorrow, dear king, my partner here has been to the Gerudo Valley today
looking for clues your daughter's disappearance, I think he deserves a nights
rest and a full meal tomorrow, what do you say?"
"Well, of course, and when you bring her back we shall have a feast in your
honour. Now, go on and eat your meal for tonight, I will have you some freshly
cooked fish in the morning. Also, I want you to keep that bottle forever,
it is sort of a reward. Be sure before you visit the domain of Jabu Jabu
that you put a fish and water in there. The Lord would never let you into
his bowels without an offering, at least for the past few weeks he
hasn't.
"You actually travel inside him, how big is this guy!" -Leaning against one
of the unlit torches, Link was trying to brave the conscious world, yet trying
to listen to his next mission objectives, too.
"You'll see. Ah, look at you, poor thing." Clapping his fins together, two
guards suddenly appeared out of no where and bowed for him to serve. When
he pointed towards the tired child and his guardians, they nodded and helped
him down the stairs to a hidden room in the caves, this is where a small
bed was positioned, only one for him and her. There he was promptly tucked
into the bed by some female Zora, stripped of his tunic and left in the bed
in his undergarments for the time being.
A few minutes later, the fairie and the boy were fed a hearty meal of Octopus,
probably the kind he saw a few days ago, but nevertheless he gulped it down
in three portions (followed by the cleanest water he ever laid eyes upon.)
Wh
le the things put him to sleep and Navi also, the crew of women came in and
stripped him down to nothing. Sinking him from the bed, he was promptly given
a bath and washed from all his dirty scars upon the young body. Returned
to his bed in a pair of new undergarments, his tunic was replaced with sheen
on it. The sheen was that sort of like the one Saria had put on for waterproof
action, yet this one would be permanent and actually work in all
situations.
Having replaced all his nuts and sticks with new ones, the side pack and
satchel were emptied (not searched), and replaced with identical ones that
were just as dry. Shield was washed and polished, along with the beautiful
sword they revoked over. The Faroeians got the sword, while they got the
water, why would the children have the dagger anyway? The Zorians had a magical
triton that was sealed up, but who knew what the Gorons had. Finally when
all the action died down, all his clothes and materials were aligned along
his bedside (a fish in water in the new bottle), while the second empty one
was poured with some elixir.
Commotion had finally ceased once and for all, that night he slept as sound
as a baby did. He would never sleep like that again, maybe there were some
weird weeds in the water, or the fish was toxin for his sleeping ordains.
Whatever the case, he loved the sleep, for the nightmares were not there
that night, all he dreamt of were things he used to dream of as a kid: fighting
monsters, being a winner, and winning the girls, as in the story books. Except
instead of Mido being the monster this time and Saria being the beautiful
princess, there were two new characters in the plot. Ganondorf was the monster,
and not Zelda, but Navi took the position as the beautiful damsel.
His dreams were sound and soft, as were hers. Though they never spoke of
them, they both could be heard during most nights screaming and crying in
their sleeps. It was torture, but relief when her own nightmares were gone
from her. It had to be some special potion from the Zorians, which they wished
they could thank with all the rubies in the world. Her dreams differed from
hers, it wasn't a hero play, but that of a romantic, and the two together
were as you guessed it: Link and Navi. The whole world was blown up, except
them two, and they had to restart the population of the world. With the two
slumbering beauties down, they had no idea what awaited them.
During the middle of the night, the Zorians returned and put the dried clothes
upon the boy. Also, since the veil was off, Navi's clothes were washed and
redone. Her body even washed, although they knew it didn't need it, when
she would awake she would be as refreshed as the boy was the next day. As
the Zorians left for the night, there are another slumber awakening, yet
this one wasn't met with such a potion. This one was met with nightmares,
belonging to a beautiful princess, her guardian holding her through the tears
of pain. Elixirs like this weren't offered to the Hylians, for no one knew
they had such dreams (psychic dreams, they did have, but never discussed
them.)
--------------------
No repentance came about the fallen night, only a few hours passed. Abruptly
they both awoke refitted, relaxed, and nurtured as if they were royalties.
Being fed breakfast in bed didn't really seem to help the situation of being
spoiled, either. After finishing his meal of fish eggs (a bland taste to
them) some broiled fish, and fresh spring water; he was led to the King's
chamber for one last talk with him. The talk didn't last long; the king basically
explained what was going to be going on in Jabu's mouth, or his
hypothesis.
He said he expected it to be a long and cruel journey, that he might spend
as much as a day inside the creature, yet there was no worry, for a specific
room was located inside of Jabu Jabu where they could rest the night. When
Link questioned where this room was, the king flustered and began to dig
through out his royal garments for something. Questioningly, Navi asked what
he was looking for, yet the man ignored her and spoke something in his Zora
language. After two calls to guards, they located a firm brown piece of paper,
which one of them handed to the boy.
"A map?" Navi spoke up, while Link sat on the ground, spreading the small
map on his lap.
"Yes, that is a map of Jabu Jabu."
"We've usually found these in the main area we were searching, before, I
mean."
"Well, consider yourselves lucky, there might be a chest in there with a
map, but I am helping you out so you can find the room. The room isn't located
on that map, because it is so old and updated."
"Jabu created this room, then? How long ago, right before he changed." Link
blurted out, clasping the map. He had seen a room that quite a while away,
marked by some red ink, taking that for the room.
"No, three years ago he created if for when we would journey in him and get
lost, we could always sleep there. There are some of our own supplies, so
you don't have to sleep on his skin. Anyway, the venture will be tough, but
I am sure you will get through it."
"Are there any enemies we should be worried about."
"There are no Youma around." The King clasped his fins together, nodding
with himself. "At least, that is the last time we were in
there."
"Youma, what are you--"
"Monsters, Link, it's the Zorian language, I know that much." Navi inquired,
she couldn't speak the language, but knew a few odds and ends from the Deku
library that Deku Tree had for the children, or fairies to study.
"You are correct, little fairie. Youma are monsters, but the last time we
went in there it was empty. Now, you received a fish last night when you
slept, did you not?" Not waiting for a response, because he had seen that
it was put in there, the fish went on. "I want you to offer it to Jabu Jabu-sama.
You see, there is a large ceremonial platform where people stand and talk
to him, or offer him meals as thanks. Offer him a fish and his mouth shall
open, not matter how cursed he maybe, he still eats."
"Yes, sir. I shall do it, now where is this Jabu?" He clasped the map and
slipped it into his belt. The past maps were now thrown away, the compasses
also (or compass), since they no longer worked whenever they left the dungeon.
He had tried one on the outside area towards Death Mountain, but the stupid
thing malfunctioned with all cost together. Maybe they were paired with magic
that kept them there, maybe they returned? All he knew, was that his was
sitting on Death Mountain trail, probably being pummeled by ten of hundreds
nasty rocks. No compass was offered to them, so he figured that either the
fish didn't have one, didn't want to give one, or didn't know there was a
compass in there. Not taking it at rudeness, they looked onto the king who
began to shift.
First time he had moved in the days they had met, the huge fish shifted from
the right over to the left. He only moved an inch at a time (after each shift
the gates he was behind showed a clear path open.) Finally, ten minutes later,
after Link was sitting on the floor and waiting, Zora got over as far as
he could and contended himself back, by rubbing his robes. Sitting up, the
boy dashed up the long case that led up to where the King was. To Link's
surprise, the man wasn't holding back a waterfall, but it was just an area
with so much few water, he thought the place where Jabu was must have been
drained completely. Turning his head towards the boy, the Zora royalty smiled
a fishy smile.
"Now be careful. I seem to like you, young man, and don't want you getting
yourself killed on account of my daughter. I would normally send one of my
guards, but they seem to be weaker than you!" Bellowing out in a guffaw of
laughter, he beat upon his chest with a precedence never to do that again.
Clearing that gilled throat, he looked down at the boy with a sense of
seriousness. "You are a skilled warrior, train yourself well, and succeed.
Then you shall receive the my jewel."
Nodding an approval of thanks, the boy took off down into the darkness that
led to a lighter edge. The Zora's words rang true in his mind, for he had
never gotten such pleasure from going on one of these missions, what I mean
was he usually was pushed into it. In the Kokiiri's case, he was pushed to
be a true hero, in Daruina's matter, it was a survival bet, but this one
was different in so many ways. This case gave him a feeling of content, that
if he failed and found Ruto-sama dead, that the man would not kill him. Although,
if he failed, he would want the king to kill him, he'd fell as if he betrayed
himself to get so mad over a stupid stone.
When the light escaped from the darkness, Link was astounded to find that
the rocks had disappeared. Hell, even the domain structure had disappeared,
and what took its place was nothing short of a fountain. No, nothing was
spewing about, or like the fairy's fountains, but the place stretched out
about tens miles (not that Link had to swim that far. Wading through shallow
water, he found the holy ceremonial platform that the king had spoken of,
but he hadn't thought have been how big Jabu was.
Four pillars stretched out on each corner of the square-shaped ceremony,
and the whole thing seamed to be made of rocked, yet runic of the Zorian
language outstretched the entire full. At the end of the platform, near was
a small barrier, Link walked up towards it and stared down at the runics.
Yes, just like the letter, they were, for they changed in the form of the
language he could read, his home language, Kokiirish. Kneeling before the
platform, he reached inside of his weapon pack and pulled out a bottle, reading
the inscription to Navi aloud.
Those who want to enter the sacred fish;
Give what a fish blessed by the holy king.
Only then shouldst thee receive an opening;
To the great beyond of an open sea.
"Open the bottle, Link, and I guess he'll open his mouth." Navi retorted,
glaring around at the barrier. It was actually nothing there, no fish, nothing
at all. Stretching across the left for a few miles, he caught the sight of
a cave that lifted up eleven feet in the air. At his near right was a huge
slab of rock that was at least a mile far, with trees extending off the horizon
up to the rocky exterior. Link thought it was yet again a part of the Death
Mountain trail, those mountains seemed to dominant the entire structure of
Hyrule. Far off to the left, only a distance in the being, was a short island,
but that was all he could see. It had to be right near the end of the fountain,
for he couldn't view the full extent of it, only a gargantuan tree in the
far-reach.
"Is he under the water, Navi?"
"Yea, I imagine so." It may have been shallow until they reached the platform,
but when they reached after it, the water took a sudden dunk in depth. Staring
over the edge of his ground, he considered he couldn't see the bottom of
the fountain, it was not as deep as Lake Hylia, (he couldn't go some places
in Hylia, because they were under six meters), but it gave the domain quite
a challenge. Smiling a bit, he reached out for the bottle and popped the
cork upon the bottle.
With a flip of the wrist, the fish fell upon the ground in a splash of water.
Since the bottle wasn't that deep, the water soon evaporated in the hot sun,
while the fish began to wiggle on the ground. Quite a sad sight, but with
in two minutes the un-evolved Zora was dead as a doornail. Ten minutes flew
by in a flash, the boy growling as he kicked the fish to the edge of the
platform. It almost went in, which would have been bad, for no fish resided
down in here (except the slumbering Jabu.) Crossing his arms about his waist,
the boy sat down upon the ground and got into a waiting
stance.
Fluttering near his shoulder, she listened in silence with him, because she
knew what he was doing: he was searching for something, trying to hear a
tremble, or a rumble in the oceanic floor. Nothing at all came about this,
but more grumbling from the boy. Ten sixty seconds passed by their eyes,
before the last wisp of power came out, it seemed it took quite a while for
the scent to come to the bottom of ocean. Good enough for him, for soon he
was back on his feet, grinning a little bit. Rumbling went on for the next
three minutes, obviously the ascent to the floor, and then a shadow appeared
right above the surface. Seeing it from his feet away, he gasped at the momentous
size of it, that made anything he had ever seen disappear from his
head.
Great Deku Tree-sama rivaled the beast, rising above it in height in length,
yet that was a few eons old tree, and this was a fish. Finally when the monstrous
beast jumped out of the ocean, landing its head upon the end of the platform,
it breathed in the scent of the fish and searched around it with pupated
eyes. The beast had to at least be one hundred and sixty feet tall, its total
weight was so astronomical he couldn't begin to guess at it. Flushing, the
face was right near him, so he could study the monster in its full view.
This had to have been the God of the Zoras, but he thought that they worshipped
the Goddesses, yet maybe it was like Daruina and Deku Tree, a
symbol.
Pale skin of the other Zoras did show that it was atlas half the Zora, maybe
a full one, since he saw not a bit of Hylian in it. The pale skin stopped
until it reached near the head, where hundred of rows of aquamarine scales
aligned its his right down to the top of the tail that flapped tidal waves
about. To see the view, the boy jumped back a few feet, catching Navi even
further back than him. Giving a cute smile, he nodded and motioned for her
to come over by his side, and finally when she did, he looked back to the
beast to study it.
Right on the bridge of his nose was a golden chastise of some kind. What
it meant was a grown endowed inside of his head, so that it could never be
taken off, but it was known that the thing wasn't naturally made. This crown
was aligned with hundreds of jewels in front, diamonds at the very most,
then near the sides were rubies and emeralds. The 'crown' stopped right about
where his neck was, and then that was it for its royalty. No pupils were
in his eyes, just bulbous orbs that rocked inches from their
sockets.
A fish backed from the platform and peered at the smaller fish, but it was
strange, since the creature had never laid eyes upon a Hylian before. When
the King came out to visit, they never called Jabu to rest, for he was always
too busy slumbering and eating (his hibernation time was seven months a year.)
Sniffing the food with great interest, instead of sucking the small fish
up and opening its mouth, he raised his mouth as much as it could go, inhaling
deep with great pleasure. What it thought, since the thing had fish scent
on it, was that this was some sort of new breed of fish for him to taste.
Sliding down his throat, the fish did, but it didn't stop there, for it began
to breathe deeper and deeper for the bigger object to slither
in.
"It's gonna eat me!" Squealing, Link jumped up and began to run back towards
the domain. No, he would get the Zorian King to open up, but there was no
way he was going to be chewed up by some smelly old fish. Crying out when
his legs stopped moving, he was lifted up in the air and sucked backwards,
peering Navi off to the side, her wings begging her useless. Gripping the
tiny fairie, he stuck her between her paws so if they did survive those teeth,
they wouldn't be separated. Yea, a stupid little thought, but it was better
than succumbing to the inevitable, he knew he was going to be sucked
in.
No chi magic would work upon this beast, so Link just curled himself up into
a ball and gave into the darkness. The air pressure made his ears pop, as
what had happened on the owl, only difference was that in the air he had
been asleep, not he was in pain and crying out. Clawing upon his ears, he
entered near the mouth, yet he noticed that Jabu's mouth wasn't descending
shut. Maybe it was a twist a fate, irony, or just pure dumb luck, but as
Link was sucked in, his face broke out into a grin, yes, he was not going
to be eaten. Saying that same verse as the boy and his fairie were suckled
inside, the mouth clasping shut after it.
In actuality, the fish was more of a whale. Not that it was mammal, but it
ate like a whale, for it didn't chew up anything that was knocked into its
system, the antibodies were for that, but instead swallowed it whole. The
fish, if being normal, would have caught the scent of the Hylian and stopped
its actions, also the scent of the fairie, but something was very wrong with
this Jabu. It's expression was different, a emotionless aura came about it,
as if it was being killed from the inside, maybe it was, or being ready to
be killed. This was the punishment of Dragmire, or so it seemed, nothing
could escape it, and nothing was going to let the food out.
--------------------
Fish of the Zorians was sucked all the way down to the stomach, where acid
poured upon it, knocking it down into proteins; the same would have been
for Link, if he hadn't grabbed the piece of skin right before the mouth closed.
Hanging upon the gums, the boy waited until all the passageways of Jabu's
body closed, before letting go and falling in some sort of liquid. Liquid?
That couldn't be good. Leaping up, he brushed the liquid off his tunic (the
special power kicking in and drying instantly.) Giving a satisfactory nod,
the boy crossed his arms across his chest, opening a palm to let Navi out,
and looked about.
Pink was an understatement of the room. This chamber in what Link guessed
to be his mouth consisted of gums all around the entire room, all pink, red
near the top, and purple at the roof. Wading about the water, the boy looked
back to his fairie questionably, there were no enemies about, which had quite
frightened Link. Maybe they were smarter this time, had more stealth skills,
and were just waiting for him to come about? Halting all movement, he gave
a quick warrior's signal, and continued to explore his
situation.
There was some sort of door up ahead, looked like it was made of a thick
flab of skin, but no door or recognition that they were even going to get
inside the room. Near the door were a few harmless bubbles, so he ignored
them for now, but also near the door was dry land, as he was in the wetlands
for now. Staring up at the violet ceiling, a piece of a tooth was hanging
about, rotten with plaque and yellow crust upon it. Shivering, he was interrupted
from his thoughts by Navi's screams.
She couldn't remember their names, but when the Octaroks appeared out of
the deep end of the water, she had nothing more to do than scream. Yelling
out his name with passion, she knew he wasn't going to make it, for that
nasty ball of phlegm was already headed for Link's sweet young face. Firing
out a chi ball, it flew through the ball, making it explode into hundreds
of pieces, but it didn't stop there. No, not at all, the straight lance of
energy went through the mucus and into the head of the evil octopus. Squealing
in pure pain, it soon fell over dead, as its face was slowly disintegrated
into ashes. The corpse slumped over to the ground, as its brother saw the
action, firing a mucus ball at them.
However, Link was ready, bouncing the ball upon his sword with direct accuracy.
Navi noting mentally that before this journey, he probably couldn't balance
a rock upon his sword, now throwing balls off with the dull end of a sword.
When it clicked with ball, it reflected back and smashed back into the face
of the octopus. Not like last time, so it gave Link the distraction he needed,
and while it fumed at that he moved in for a vertical strike. Throwing himself
off the ground, he trusted fate and landed down with the strike right at
the base of its head and slid down to the end of its groin.
Rolling forward, past the damage, and upon the dry land, the boy gave out
a laugh, while behind him the thing brushed air of submission, blood pouring
down its crown, glowing eyes, and through its mouth. Sinking into the only
deep end in the saliva--yes, saliva, the thing sunk down towards the underworld
with its sibling. Navi brushed past him, noticing the bubbles had turned
from innocent floating, towards a mad rush at him, gasping, she was about
to call out his name, but Link saw the bubbles and charged at them in a light
rage.
Striking the first one, it popped on impact, but threw Link up against the
side of Jabu's mouth when he came in close contact. Gasping in the pain of
the impact, the boy sheathed his sword and tried to go for a different impact
of choice. Five other bubbles were in a line, hurling towards of them; originally
there were eight, though. Looking over, she saw that Navi had cleaned two
bubbles off in a quick chi ball. Grinning, he flipped back, right near the
door while the slingshot pulled out for battle.
Firing off a shot at the center of the bubble, it imploded inside of itself,
no scream of pain, or even realization that it was alive. If he had to guess,
the bubbles were inanimate before, but had been possessed by Ganondorf's
evil magic. Seeing them directly behind each other, there were only two shots
fired next, for each shot took two of them down at once with the right pressure
applied to the seed. Finally, when the creatures had deceased their presence,
he looked over towards the wall, calling out for Navi.
"What were those?"
"Shaboms, they are normal bubbles that have been corrupted. Feel no pain
at all, like marionettes."
"You.you pity them?"
"But of course, having no soul at all." Smiling briefly, her aura reappeared
around herself, and she flew up to the tooth with a bit of
fascination.
"Hey! Is that a tonsil, or something!"
"No! Looks like a lymph node, but I sense no activity in it. Shoot it with
a sling!" Flaring back to him, she landed upon his shoulder, watching with
that eager presentation. If her accusation was correct, this may have been
some sort switch that would open the pathway to the rooms. It seemed right,
since there would be none of those switches you stepped on down here, as
in the previous dungeons. Dungeons, that was a nice name for these places,
they certainly weren't any utopias. Her mind sank back to the scene as Link
fired a seed upon the lymph with bad accuracy, missing the node.
"Missed, dang it! One more time." Pulling back, aiming right below with the
band of the slingshot, he fired forward and sliced the shot with perfect
accuracy. Grinning, he slipped the sling into the side of his belt (he thought
he might need it later), and while doing that heard a sloshing sound. Spinning
around, hand upon the hilt, he saw that the skin upon the passageway had
split into four pieces and spread out into nothing, leaving an open path
for the boy. Unsheathing his sword, the boy walked forward the few feet and
stepped through the deep dark corridor. It seemed that the further he got
in these missions, every door was usually dark.
Fortunately, this one was only a few seconds, since the skin wasn't that
thick around the ridges. It opened up to a large piece of land connected
to the fleshy underbrush of its insides. No, not land maybe a piece of dried
crust? Oh, this place was making Link nauseous, so walking to the small section,
off to his write was nothing at all; it was as if the land to the right had
been stripped off to a lower level. Peering over the edge, all he saw was
darkness, maybe the stomach acids were down there? Whatever it was, he didn't
want to be in the shadowy abyss. Clearing his throat softly, he turned around
the study the cross-shaped room that seemed to have been ill tempered with,
finally giving out the judgement that all was well here. Boxes were situated
around the room, obviously things Jabu had swallowed, but nothing else resided
in the air except particles of blue forming together.
"Link, what're those?" Pattering about the area of the tiny water particles
forming, Navi stared at them with a deep interest in her stern gaze. Not
only blue, but also violet, other cool colours were surrounded in the underneath.
Giving a slight shrug to the boy, not waiting for an awnser to his question,
she turned back, crossing her arms about her chest in a frustrating manner.
Not knowing whether to run, attack, or leave it be, the study of evolution
had baffled her this morning. Just as she was about to turn back to Link
and fly over, a popping sound approached, as if the space and time warp had
been vexed.
Solvating in spinning, the fairie turned a three hundred and sixty-degree
angle, dashing back towards Link's side with a screech of fear. What had
appeared was only a tiny little creature (soft and gooey), with a few tentacles
stretching out in eight different directions. No eyes or any inanimate objects
on the other sea creatures, this one didn't seem to acknowledge its own existence
that was until it noticed Link. Fluttering through the air, the jellyfish's
watery exterior seemed at a slow pace, picking it up whenever a current out
small air would wish through the body. It would have made it too, but the
child was faster, smarter, and more refluxed with fighting, so the thing
never stood a chance.
Plunging in quite rage, the hilt of the sword was the only part visible when
it sank into the creature that could have fit in the palm of both of Link's
hands. Now, that should have been the end of it, the jellyfish was supposed
to have split in up different directions, dying of blood loss, but one thing
noticed is that Hyrule had no beaches. As a rule of the beach, the jellyfish
was a stinging invertebrate, so what did that mean? It meant that the retracted
metal was really going to give the poor boy the shock of his life into the
animal kingdom, where he was ready for it or not. Navi hadn't even thought
of scanning the creature, so it was to both their surprises when Link collapsed
on the wet exterior of the body.
It wasn't even known how many volts of electricity burst through the boy,
certainly not enough to kill him, or even that much of a electric eel. These
little jellyfish were small, so they couldn't hold that much electricity
at one that, which was to Link's quick advantage, when he collapsed on the
ground with a scream echoing through the second section of the legendary
Zorian God. Slinging the sword off to the right (slicing into the wall, making
vile green blood slosh about and the room violently shake), his hands curled
around his chest, throwing some bile up. Rolling away from the stink, the
boy was on his knees, trying to sit himself up as Navi flew back and forth
across his body checking him over.
"What happened, Link!" No answer was given, so she slapped his face, making
only quick few mumbles escape. Growling, a fist slammed into his jaw, knocking
him out of the misery trip. Shaking his head a little, he tried to stand
up a little, failing in the process, only to wet his waterproof tunic a little
more. What's worse was the creature (which after checking was called Biris)
wasn't like a honeybee when it strung, that monster was only a few feet from
him.
"Get away from him!" Shooting off a few manna shots, they bounced off the
Biris electrical barrier that surrounded it, it seemed after each shock it
grew a little and little more stronger. Standing her ground behind the boy,
she began to fire off blind spells (which was pointless, the thing had no
eyes!) All that resulted in was sudden stopping movements of the jellyfish,
a quick glance around the room, and coming back. This only drained her own
manna, but nevertheless she continued to launch the missiles at the creature.
Coming just two feet before the fairie, she squealed and dived against Link's
chest, hearing the heaving beatings of his rapid heard. This is it, one more
shock like that and he's dead! He'll die and then I'll be ne-- Her thoughts
cut off when the Biris gave out a squeal of pain.
--------------------
"Stupid creature." Bending over to the ground, he hawked out another load
of bile, losing the beautiful breakfast he had given in for this morning,
splintering his foot supplies. Backing away from the mess of bile, a triumphant
smirk formed around his lips, watching the slithering Biris struggle to get
up off the Deku stick that was impaled inside of it. Onto of the stick was
a bomb, so as he gathered a few feet away, holding Navi to his chest, the
explosion inquired leaving only charred remains, when the spoke cleared.
As Navi had been despairing over death, Link had gotten to thinking about
the simple fact of science. The metal made the friction occur, so he got
it in his head to use the Deku Stick instead of the sword, sure it was now
in nothing, but they had escaped the perils of the jellyfish. Moving up on
his feet, the boy reached into his satchel and took out three heart containers,
consuming them one after another. Gasping in the refreshes, he grabbed one
of those magic tubes and threw it at Navi.
She caught it with some ease, drinking half of the liter bottle and launching
it back at him. When he had secured the bottle safely into his satchel, the
boy looked over at her with a grin painted upon his face. Quick thinking
is what had saved him, the barrier had been obvious, for when the electricity
had formed, it seemed that thing hadn't shot anything off in quite a while,
why wouldn't it conduct a small magic barrier? What no one accounted on was
a Goron's special crop in its face. Watching her expression of amazement,
he recounted on how he had figured out the simple problem in the thirty seconds
they had to react to the situation.
Embarrassment caught the fairie, usually thinking she was the one that was
hardened in the fast situations, happy, but disappointed that she was outlasted
by her guarded. Did he need guarding anymore, was he capable on his own,
now? That answer was given when he threw up once more, whining out like a
small infant, so quickly returning to his side, she forced him to drink another
heart container to relieve the sickness from his body. Resting only thirty
minutes, the boy was up again, and on his way by the time forty five-minutes
had passed (getting up was hard, his legs had been numb, so he had to walk
them off.)
Across the corner, they ran into another Biris, but with a simple stab of
the Deku Stick, and smashing its brains (or whatever was up there) in, he
found out his shoes didn't conduct electric currents too, luckily, they had
rested in a dry spot, or he would've been shocked. While taking his energy
to come back, they had discovered another fleshy door to the right, where
the land was cut off, but no way to reach it without plummeting to their
doom. Deciding to take the chance of another door, their luck ran in, when
another fleshy door was right in the room of this one. Grinning, he gave
another look about the room for any signs of Princess Ruto, frowning with
a start and slipped through the thin semi-darkened room.
--------------------
H-how dare he, how dare he do this, the only punishment was death! The young
female cried out at another one of those weird jellyfish appeared before
her, shocking her wet body with the something of a grin of sodomy placed
on it. It was stupid to think that, but she couldn't help it, when it came
in contact with her pale, naturally wet skin. It was a much stronger current
than what of the boy in the back room wood of felt was. Ruto would have gone
searching for someone, she needed help, she needed it bad, but she was just
too afraid to leave this room, but there were jellyfish here! Plus, the fact
that the rooms were locked around her, as if concealing her from the rest
of the world.
Occasionally a huge Jellyfish would appear out of nowhere, but she would
hide under the many layers of fat to escape most of the Jelly fish, that's
why this room was so good, there were layers of room to hide from them, the
jellies couldn't sniff you out. As luck would have it, though, this one had
seen one of her arms lying out from the last night of famished starvation.
Sure, the fish could survive for weeks at a time, but how long had she been
in this once-playground? A week, maybe a week in a half, there was no way
to get out a message for help, so maybe they would notice the lord's strange
behavior and investigate.
All she could think of was how that Dragmire was going to pay with his life,
when she got out of here, she was the only who convinced her father to keep
the stone (she'd have to marry him one day!) Shivering at the thought of
marrying out of her race, she had always found Hylians, Gerudos, and the
other race with the small ears to be a bit of a drag, most were too stupid
in their honour to actually show bravery. All were usually stupid, running
to fight a dragon with only a metal sword and shield, I mean, really! The
possibility she was just looking over the stereotypical Hylian, but then
why would they write those stories if they weren't true, those were history
lessons, after all, or she regard them as it.
Hylians she could stand to be around, Gerudos were different on the other
hand. She had seen only one other Gerudo in her life, a few weeks before
Ganondorf came around, some Gerudo tried to attack the palace, it was really
sad because the ratio of people were 1 thief to 10 Zoras. The Zorians may
not have had an army like the Hylians, but they sure as well had their guards
in such respectful duties. The King didn't believe in knighting guards (for
they were all equally important in his eyes), so a guard was trained just
as well as a Hylian knight would have been, receiving the extensive spear
training.
Now here she was, curled under a layer of fat, her arms wrapped around herself
in a quick ball, while this damned jellyfish kept pulling its tentacle under
the small hole. A hole that had formed when he crawled in, poking her little
fanny with it, making each shock more unbeatable than the next, sure she
had only had a few of them, but they hurt so much. Squealing in pain from
one that just occurred, she wished she had her stone, then she could bash
its brains in with the flip of a wrist, but she just had have gone to lose
it! Why couldn't she have worn something with pockets, well, it was known
the Zoras were always known, since they could hide their genitalia, yet she
wished she had had a bag or something.
Unbeknownst to her, the same feeding situation with Link had happened to
her; she had been playing around with the Zora God, feeding it a fish, which
is usually lapped up sweetly. Yet this new Jabu had gulped her up in quick
second, her jewel swirling through the air-flowing holes and falling down
to where the stomach acids were. Sure, there were nothing in the world that
could burn or melt her stone, but it was the thought that counted, she hated
that her stone was gone! Disappeared in the blink of an eye, and now she
was sitting her crying over some stupid tentacle. Crying out again, the cry
drowned out the fleshy pop that only happened when a door was being opened.
Her Hylian ears perked up a bit, hearing the squeals of five Biris, almost
not containing herself when she jumped out of the hole, her face deadening
with terror.
--------------------
"Oh, no, not again." Slapping her forehead, the third they came upon was
empty upon first vial, just a huge room with some swirling holes on the bottom,
actually reminding Navi of those quicksand pits mentioned in the old stories
of the desert, since she had never been out there. She had decided to leave
Link alone while flying out to the scan the area, coming upon some Biris,
which resulted in her yell towards the boy. Yet, that wasn't the worst of
it, the worst was something she didn't even know what it was. At the right
end of the box-shaped room was a green tentacle of some sort poking up against
the end, hiding a hole. Whatever was there, seemed to be where they needed
to be, and after a few manna shots, she saw that wasn't going to happen anytime
soon.
"What's up?" Jogging past the sticky holes, almost getting drained down one,
Link appeared by her side and looked up at the hole with a bit of disinterest.
It didn't seem like a monster, for from close view, he saw it wasn't really
entrenched in them. A curvy green tentacle that stretched from the ceiling
down inside the swirl hole it was pervading inside. Looking around, he caught
a few Biris, making short work of them in a matter of thirty seconds. After
each one, it left a soft squeal, not the kind that could be heard by anyone
at all. It was as if they were decoys, so he kept his eyes out for anything
strange.
"Link, don't touch that one, we'll figure it out later. Right now we have
a door and four holes we can venture into, my guess is that this will take
us deeper into the Jabu.
"It looked one level to me."
"Probably was hiding some of its body under the water, I dunno. I say we
check out the door first, then if we find nothing, we come back here and
pick a hole, I'll go to check for stomach acid, and you can follow me if
its safe enough."
Safe enough. Glaring at her roughly, she giggled a patted his head a little.
Letting the subject drop, he evaded the holes until he came to the center
of the doorway, staring forward at it with little ease. Mm, when were they
going to find this princess of the Zoras, was she dead or something? Just
then his ears picked up some sort of muffled scream, and looked to the left,
he didn't even have time to formulate a plan. Being thrown up against the
squishy underfoot, Navi pushed him against the ground as a huge mass of jelly
fell down where he stood. Picking himself up, he looked over at the huge
mass, that could have been lifted in his hands, peering at it a
little.
"There seems to be no electricity coursing through its veins. The Biris had
a special aura about them, this one doesn't"
"My best guess is this is a home of Biris, maybe they live inside, try to
strike it open, Link, but not with your sword. I think the things might still
be active and would try and shock you if you so much as touch them with that
metal blade, now is the time for the sticks, I guess."
Of course he knew that, but the sticks weren't quite on his mind, the Gorons
special crop were, so unsheathing his sword, he dashed at the monster with
infuriating anger. Navi shouted out a warning, which he waved away, grabbing
a bomb from the bag and starting the fuse. Coming in close contact, he slid
the end of top of the jelly that led the Biris in and out, shoving a bomb
right in the entranceway of where they tried to escape. Running back with
all his might, he knew that not even seconds would count now, not because
of the fuse, but because of the shocking that they would do to move the bombs.
Those stupid creatures followed his plan perfectly, for when they shocked
the bomb, it automatically exploded leaving no remains this time, but a black
stain upon the fish's body. Chuckling a little, he had to cover his precious
ears with his hands for the five screams that came out of it. Whatever they
were, they were long dead, the screams echoing inside of his mind. Sheathing
his sword, Link turned back towards Navi, grinning, but saw she was with
a strange. Walking a few ways, he looked over at the stranger
curiously.
"Y-you! Who are you!" The female stranger announced, from the looks of it
she was definitely a female Zora, about a year older than he was. Developing
breast had already seemed to form upon her petite figures (making the boy
stare away in shame), but before he looked down there, he got a good look
of the rest of her body, quite surprised of the aftermath. She didn't really
resemble the Zora in some ways, staring with the bulb that was sitting upon
her head, stained a deep blue, with pairs of eyes on the left and right side.
Upon her face were a pair of violet eyes, a cute little face, but a nose
and ears that seemed to protruded from the Hylian descent, that was right,
she had pointy ears like his. The only difference was she had some shelled
skin around the ears (probably to stop ultra sonic waves, or piercing screams.)
The rest of her body was as a Zora, even the flipper feet.
"Who am I? Why, I am Link, was sent by your father to come rescue
you."
"And, I am Navi, his guardian. We are form the Kokiiri forest." "You lie,
there is no way!" Her voice wasn't too bad; she just seemed to be in a very
bad mood. Link groaned softly, looking up to her with a bit of a smile,
confirming that they were indeed from the forest. It was strange how you
can say you're a Gerudo, they believe you, a Goron, Zora, or Hylian, and
they believe you. But a Kokiiri? Oh, Goddess forbid if you were one of those,
maybe it was the way they were supposed to be extinct, and only a distinct
few knew about them. Obviously they weren't going anywhere for the next few
minutes, so he leaned against the wall and watched her.
"Believe us or no, you are Princess Ruto, correct?" Navi chimed on, leaving
her descent from Ruto back to Link was. The fish-girl followed them with
a bit of a stomp in her step, Goddess forbid if she walked a few centimeters.
This was exactly why she liked the system of government where they were from,
no monarchs or any of these people with supposed 'high blood.' Zelda wasn't
as worse as this girl wasn't; this one was just stuck up by her
nose.
"Fine, I will believe you--in time." She remarked with an evil grin, it seemed
that he might have been from the forest. I mean, healing fairies didn't exactly
turn blue over-night, plus the fact of his attire, the blade he bore, but
the shield had her mystified, it was a Hylian shield, wasn't it? How could
a boy so small carry such a large shield? Crossing her arms over her chest,
she stomped her feet a bit cutely, trying to give on that tough girl appearance
and began to walk away from him. "I don't need help!"
Link jumped off the wall, running after her, grabbing her by the shoulder
to stop her. Receiving a slap in the face, he blinked a few times and looked
to her a bit confused. When he didn't seem to get it, she slapped him again
and cried out in frustration. Mumbling something about having to deal with
idiots like these around the castle, but a so-called hero had to be one too.
Rolling his eyes, he watched her walk a few feet, until he noticed where
she was. "Hey, watch out, it's a suck hole!"
"I know what I'm doing--aiiiee!!!" A slurping sound occurred when she fell
through the hole, Link was already in the air to catch her, missing her hand
by such an inch, landing upon the hole. Grasping, he grabbed the speeding
Navi and fell through the hole himself, wherever he would land was probably
on top of her, so if they did fall in acid he would be saved the scars from
it, anyway. Holding Navi tight, the boys looked down to see that there was
solid ground, the princess just below him. Flipping his shield on his behind,
he evaded her and slammed down into the ground with a clanging
sound.
Before even getting a look around the room, she had appeared before his sitting
form, shadowing off a dark and sinister mood. Crying out again in frustration,
she tried to slap him again, yet he caught her hand with his own. With the
other hand she tried the same act, which he caught again, looking her deep
into the eyes, giving her the talk of her own place. There was no way he
was going to endure this torture, he wasn't some stupid wimp that she could
push around. "I am not one of your cronies, princess, you slap me again and
I'll slap you back."
She was taken aback with fear. Never had someone actually threatened her
with more than a punishment (he father, but she could tease him into stopping
it.) How dare this lowly coward try to tell him on what she could do or couldn't
do. Leaping up in the air, she put her feet into his chest and pushed herself
off, flipping out of his grasp and landing upon he feet. She could of gone
for the lower approach, but she wasn't that mean, she knew what boys had
down there, Hylian or not. Sticking out her tongue in a childish manner,
she giggled a little. Catching herself in the giggle, she looked down to
the ground speaking something in her language.
"Watch your tongue, princess!" Navi protested, letting out a furious growl
for her size. It was actually small and cute, which Link looked down at her
smiling. Nodding at the comment of "watch her tongue" he took it literally
and jumped near her, grabbing her blue tongue out stretching it out a few
inches. Struggling with him, she did, of course, it was only natural when
someone was pulling her tongue, but she did need to learn her place with
him. Finally letting her tongue go, after a punch to the chest (she was strong
for a girl), he fell upon the ground in a series of giggles, watching as
her expressions changed from anger, a little bit of joy, sadness, and back
to that infuriating rage. "How dare you, peasant! I shall teach you your
place!" Leaping upon his chest, she began to bang her fist into his chest
roughly, making she boy shiver and tingle all over, before she could continue
anymore, the fairie slung her off of the boy and turned him over onto his
back. Where they landed was a small rock upon several others that stretched
across a small landscape ten feet before. Throwing his head over the edge
of the rock, he vomited for the fourth time in a while, but still, the excitement
had caught him off guard. Gasping out, she approached him after he had cleaned
himself up.
"A-are you okay, Link?" Finally using his first name, he gave a smile and
nodded a little.
"I'm sick, I dunno, I feel bad because I got electrocuted by one of those
Biris with my sword."
"Oh, my goodness, metallic objects can intensify the electrical currents
up to ten times. And here I was mentally complaining about one tentacle shocking
me." Damn, there she went again expressing her fingers, with a small smirk,
she told him to go ahead and handle it like a man, which to her surprise
he returned the smirk and nodded off. Yes, there was something between them,
she didn't know yet, but maybe a rivalry could ensue, they seemed to enjoy
each others company, at least she did, in her case. He was fun, yet he was
a Hylian, which was weird. Ruto wasn't a jerk really, she was just raised
for high-blood, so it was hard to make friends with the other Zoras, and
maybe what she needed was someone that could be as cocky as she was? If that
was true, she had stopped her search, for Link's enchantment of cockiness
was growing as he developed in his journeys.
"So, are you gonna go with me, or not?" What was Link's general opinion of
this Ruto character? Personally, he liked her a little bit more than Malon
and Zelda. Malon was sweet and all, she just wasn't really a person he could
be with, she was too girly, but the princess was just the opposite, she could
be boyish. She even started in some of the training sessions that had ensued,
getting him pinned several times, but she just had this weird thing about
her, maybe it was royalty. It couldn't be, since he was with royalty now
and it didn't seem to bother him. Ruto was all right in his book, yet nothing
compared to Saria, Saria was girlish and boyish, she could be rough as a
rogue, and gentle as a mother.
"We really need to be going, princess." Navi had remained quiet through out
the whole escapade. She actually enjoyed Ruto's company too, which was the
opposite of Ruto, she thought that Navi was being a little meant to end their
fun. Nevertheless, Navi did like her for the reason that she didn't seem
to like Link in that way at all. From the first time they met, a gaze Link
didn't seem, she saw that Ruto didn't really like Hylians or Kokiiris in
this case. At least she noticed that it would be too weird for a breed already
in Hylian in it, to bring another into the company, but another reason was
that she helped Link in growing. He was a boy, and loved to get dirty and
such, she loved playing with Link, yet she was so small. This way he could
get out all his energy, and yet have no worries of hurting his
playmate.
"Alright, alright. Let's go." Sitting down upon the ground, she looked up
at Link with an appropriate gaze of seriousness. He, on the other hand, extended
an arm to lift her arm, but she didn't to seem to want to budge. Grabbing
her and sitting her up, she sat back down upon the ground and looked up at
him, arms crossed about her chest in anger. What did he do, he was quite
confused at this moment, and scratched his head a little. Looking to Navi
for some encouragement, she just shrugged a small shoulder, the veil off
for the time being.
"What do you want, Ruto-sama?"
"Pick me up, Link."
"But you can walk."
"But I am royalty."
"Do I look like I care?" Another argument, just great, Navi just went to
his hat and watched silently. It was like those plays, the comedy was on,
yet there was seriousness to it.
".Well, no, but please?"
Feeling a little weakened; he was about to, but straightened himself up and
shook his head back and forth furiously. "Why should I?"
"Because I said so?"
"Not good enough."
"Well, it's because me, I am naturally wet and can be shocked much easier
than you. Please? Oh, please, Link?" She let out a squeal of joy when he
reluctantly gave into her demands by sitting her upon his head, well, actually
he sat her so that her legs were wrapped about his shoulders and she used
his head as a stool. Groaning, he would rather drag her, but was surprised
to find she wasn't that heavy at all and not much of a burden, plus the fact
he discovered she didn't smell like a nasty fish. A flavor scent was about
his nose, intoxicating him for a few minutes, which he pushed aside and gaped
in the basement floor of Jabu. The tremendous room he had expected, was only
the lather of it, only the size of the previous room above him. All around
him tiny islands trenched around, some too far in the distance to reach,
and some he might be able to propel himself off, if with the right blade
maneuver. However, those all disinterested him, turning around, to catch
glimpse of a flesh hole behind him.
Giving a silent nod, the boy secured Ruto's legs around his shoulders, which
she grumbled a bit, but stopped when he threatened to throw her off of him.
Looking up towards his friend, the fairie gave a nod to proceed on, and gently
kept her away from his had and upon his shoulder (Ruto was sitting on his
hat.) Taking a few steps forward, pushing his hand against the hole, it opened
up and light poured out into the entranced doorway. Moving in ten steps,
a new room opened up, yet only a blind path was ahead for him, the path running
over a corner, so Link couldn't view what was up ahead. Keeping his sword
ready for any action, the boy walked the next few feet, rounding the corner,
seeing the entrance to the new room up ahead, but blocked by a seemingly
endless number of Shaboms.
Reaching for a Deku Stick was next to impossible, and with the sword improbable,
he had no choice but to rely upon Navi's manna skills, not that they were
bad. Some fast shooting of the eight bubbles and she was back by his side
with a grin plastered upon his face? Smiling brightly, the trio walked past
watery remains of the bubbles, opening up into the room he had plundered
for since going through the flesh. To his north was nothing but land, then
a deep pit that went out a few yards, extending up to the other side was
a matching path. Looking over the edge, he saw that the place had a tooth
placed incidentally into the ground. There were vines around (or was that
snot.) Oh, the corn silken lad was getting nauseous at these thoughts. Brushing
them aside, he jumped down in the five feet deep pit, trudging
across.
Coming upon the switch, he was about to push upon it when the princess upon
his head gave out a startled cry of help. Looking up at her, immediately
in his general directions, he saw no danger, but she was crying out so he
went through the water checking for any surprises. The shallow water was
only less than a foot deep, so nothing aside bugs could hide in there. Sighing,
he was sitting her down in the water, when again she cried out, so he sat
her upon the tooth, staring at her. "What is it?"
"W-water, I hate it." Wrapping her arms about her chest, she gave a
shiver.
"But you're part fish!" Throwing his hands up in frustration, he leaned against
the side of the land (or flesh) peering back at her with diverted
eyes.
"I-I know, but this isn't water, Link, it's saliva and when I think about
being soaked in it." Again she grabbed herself, shivering deeply. The reason
the water had arisen was she may have been smaller, but the simple fact was
she weighed a less than he did. The pounds upon her simply not enough to
eradicate the surface of the switch. A solution popped up in his head; he
could throw the five feet, couldn't he? Of course he could! Picking her up,
standing upon the switch, he pressed back and launched her upon on the platform
that led up. With a squeal she landed upon the ground, rubbing her fishy
behind, and looking down at him with a bit of anger, yet thanks. Shrugging
his slender shoulder, the boy jumped on the switch, resetting it deep into
the ground.
"I don't want to be covered in saliva, either!" He jumped from the depressed
tooth and grabbed the vines of dried snot that were attached to the wall,
and yanking himself up, peered over at the jump that lay before him. Yes,
the vines had been to his right, so a quick throw to the northeast and he
was home free, yet there proposed a new problem, one he'd never been aware
of, just until now. That was the cry Ruto had given out a few minutes earlier.
She may have been crying about the water, but when Link looked down, he saw
four of five pairs of silted violet eyes staring up at him in orgasmic rage.
Leaping to the northeast, his jump connected perfectly, leaving no time to
celebrate, because soon the first of the group of monsters leapt up after
him.
Spinning around with the sword unsheathed, he looked over to Navi. "What
is it?" She shrugged a shoulder, beginning to scan the enemy for any statistics.
Meanwhile, he gave it a little look down, surprised it had been so menacing
inside the water. It was true the thing was under a foot tall, just a discus
of deep violet skin with an akin of crimson eyes staring him down. The ability
of flight seemed present in it, somehow, so when it sped-dove at the boy,
he struck his blade out in a menacing frontal strike. A screech of pain escaped
the monsters as it was impaled between the eyes, the mashes of goo from its
cranial areas seeping out between the sword. With disgust, he threw the monster
back upon the ground, setting his sight back to Navi.
"Stingers. As the name gives, they have electric based stingers on their
bottoms, but don't worry about it. They are very weak. Since you took that
one on alone, it quite a simple battle, but these next ones might not be."
Did these Stingers read minds? After the second Navi finished her sentence,
four of the Stringers burst from the salvia, pouring out of the water and
closed in upon him. Disaster was spelt, as Ruto ran to the fleshy door, looking
up to Link for some recognition. Nothing mattered at this time, anything
was going to save him, and watching as they wretched in four behind position,
electricity crackling through the end of each tail, he fell to his knees
and buried himself with the shield.
"Nai Sui Fo!" From out of nowhere, a whirlpool tormented out of the arisen
saliva. As if claiming its young, the whirlpool broke into four tiny nozzles,
gathering up the four little tyrants and pushing down deep into the surface
of the water. Blinking with confusion, the boy had watched the entire episode
from the comfort of his own shield. Not recognizing the words as a skill
or chant of fairish, he looked to Navi, who was pointing behind her with
her hands clasped to her cheeks, they exposing red. The princess had her
hands extended forward, curving into a circle, the fresh memory of incantations
fresh upon her lips. Giving a little smile, she walked over to him, patting
him upon the head. "It's alright, I know you can't fight."
"C-Can't fight! What are you talking about, and just what was
that!"
"The Nai Sui Fo, or better translated as whirlpool. I am a Zora, so I can
conduct aquatic activities, not like a god or anything, but I can control
some water substances. And, yes you are a wimp." Poking his nose with her
finger, he snapped at her, making her jump back and sit down back upon her
behind. An urge to throw her off of his arms and into the ground probed his
mind, the good conscious pushing the nasty thought away. Best to leave it
alone for now, his mind spoke to him, and yet he couldn't help but he infuriated
at being called a wimp. How could she get off saying that he was a wimp?
He wasn't the one who ran to the corner and who cries over water, but this
only encouraged him to show off some heretics to prove himself to
her.
Without further hesitation, Link gathered her up and carried the blue-bulb
girl through the door that stood only a few feet behind him. As soon as exiting
from the tranquility of the room, checking the map for some explanations
of the hidden room, he found something he least expected: an elevator. Yes,
an elevator was positioned in the small room that contained only that and
a pool of water below, something he compensated with stomach acid. He wasn't
going to try his luck out, so he leapt the three feet to the elevator, when
landing upon it, the thing sped up towards its destination, but where was?
His answers were silently answered when he stepped back into a land of vagueness.
Yes, he was back in the room they had fallen out of; the Biris still dead
from before.
Resting his assurance, no more of those stupid levels below anymore, he did
not even bother to view the room over; there wasn't a danger around anyway.
The room was led through in a matter of minutes, dodging some of the reforming
Biris he hadn't noticed by first glance, but the big pod of a Biris wasn't
hanging around anymore, he figured that one was dead as a doornail. Doornails
didn't matter when he passed the path that the thing had preyed upon earlier,
checking up for reassurance. No telling what could reform in the half an
hour they had been wondering, his guess was just as good as anyone else's.
Looking up at Ruto, he noticed for the first time she had sunk asleep. Silently
looking over to Navi, she also was curled up in the collar of his shirt,
slumbering for the battles to come. Oh, great, all the women sleep, while
the 'wimp' has to stay awake and deal with the puzzles! Nah, he didn't really
mind at all, it was better for Navi to recharge herself for some harsher
battles, and Ruto was a princess, so she was used to pampering. Leaning against
the crack of flesh right before the door, he rested his aching body from
the small weight of Ruto. If they ever ran into the damned hidden room, he
was going to put her in there and leave her until they ran into her stone,
then they could leave this junk pile. She had explained she always used to
play around in Jabu, but new areas had been completed.who plays inside of
a huge fish, that was the million-ruby question that baffled Link. Repressing
his leisure, he unleaded from the wall and walked infront of the door, taping
it with the reverse side of his sword. A small squeal and the door opened
up.
In the blink of an eye, he had run into the center of the new room, since
nothing was at the beginning, shaking his head in a sort of sad pity. Surrounding
him north were three different pathways that led north, northeast, and northwest.
To his west and east were two other paths, totaling in five different paths
in one room. What's worse, was each was filled with the strangest skin he
had ever seen, the skin seemed to be revolving back and forth, so if he didn't
move quick, he was dragged back to the center, and each room had these! Actually,
some of the rooms were blocked by various reasons, some needing more weight
than he had, some with thinner tentacles like the one in the main room, and
some just wouldn't open for films of snot were placed across the top. After
checking them all, his choices limited down to only two or so. Then he chose
the closest entrance, the east.
As he was headed out to the eastern direction, something latching upon his
ankle in a painful manner. Falling back, Ruto slammed into the soft call,
coming awake in an instant, and gasping in fear. Shrieking, she sat down,
pulling herself away from the helpless boy and back a few feet away. Turning
around, he caught wind of some sort of parasitic insect latched upon his
leg with its jaw seeping down into his ankle. Blood must have scared her,
probably because they don't have red blood? His guess was blue, if any, but
then again the Kokiiris didn't have peach blood. Reaching for his sword,
finding it misplaced it saw that the floors had really been against him this
time, for it was stuck in-between a hedge at least ten feet
away.
"Help me!"
"I-I-I can't." She blubbered out miserably.
"Help me or I die, please. You don't have to fight, grab my sword--!" Crying
out, the grip upon his legs tightened a fresh stream of crimson pouring down
in his boots. Ruto shrieked again, shaking his head and curling up into a
small ball, shivering as best she could, crying her eyes out in pain. Cursing
silently, the boy looked up to where his fairie was, yet she wasn't there.
Gasping, he was about to call her name when the grip around his leg was gone,
and something was kissing upon it. Down there was Navi, freshly charged from
manna shot, but yet held up a small potion.
"Wait, don't let it go.we need it." The cork was gone before he could even
finish the second part of the sentence the potion was applied to the wound.
It was so great that it needed to be or infection was a great risk, plus
his running abilities would be hurt until then. Wrapping it up in a slick
bandage, the boy tightened it enough and pulled his boots up enough so it
would hardly be seen. They were saving the healing sprite for if Link went
unconscious; it wouldn't completely heal him, but revive him and give him
a good advantage point. Sure the wounds would leave a few scars, but those
were expected. Besides that, it was all right, but his attention wasn't with
Navi of the sprite, he turned towards the hidden Ruto, whom had since some
out of h
r depressed manner, staring at the ground sulking. Now, Link's temper wasn't
that great, so he calmed down when he saw a few tears pouring from those
big eyes, looking off to the side and whispering her sorry. Nodding silently,
he picked himself up, testing the leg out (which was good as new), and walked
over to comfort her, only stopped by a fuming Navi.
"Show some backbone! You should have gone and gotten his sword, if it wasn't
for me that thing would have cut his leg off and killed him, then coming
after you!" Her anger burst more than it had for Anju did, and the simple
fact was that this girl had endangered Link in some serious trouble. Panting
up and down, she noticed the cries, but only scoffed a little. "Grow up"
was her only response to the tears, telling her if she really wanted to be
a good princess, then she needed to not be afraid of a small centipede that
could fit in the palm in her hand. Navi wouldn't even let the girl weight
her evidence in, it just wasn't any good with Navi, and she had to have Link
hold her, to calm her down, shushing her silently.
While she was being shushed, Ruto collapsed on the ground, sobbing her heart's
content out with every breath she could. Not holding anything back, she buried
her face into the skin, crying out deeper and deeper for his forgiveness,
that she hadn't meant any harm by it, it was just she was going to get it,
but something had stopped her, something on his leg. Being picked off the
ground, Link (after escorting Navi in his hat) wrapped his arms around the
trembling Zora, letting her cry all she want, while he quietly whispered
that the differences between the Kokiiri and the Zora blood. After a few
minutes she was a little better, the sobs having turned into little sniffles,
still curled up in his arms.
Sitting in the center of the room, the only room without a moving floor,
he reached over the grabbed his sword, re-sheathing it back down. Staring
down at her, he saw she was about to burst into tears again, but put a finger
up to her lips and shook his head silently. Another few ramblings of how
much it hurt, if he wanted to hurt her, and about Navi rolled through her
tongue, Navi having heard the things, of course. She asked how she could
be so cruel to her, if she was mean to other people and stuff like that.
Link found it hard to explain Navi to her, and he came out with "she's a
very complex person", she has initiate, doesn't like other people sometimes,
but she isn't bad."
"You think she hates me?"
"Of course not. Listen, when I first met Navi she didn't like me very well,
either, she thought I was sort of spoiled by Saria."
"W-whose that?" She asked curiously, now that he was sitting down, she was
sitting in his lap, staring up at him with those eyes wide with curiosity.
Link couldn't help, but smile and tell her all about himself.
"Oh, Saria is like my foster mother, my friend, and my sister. She raised
me, but isn't a real mother, she acts like one sometimes, and did spoil me
a lot by keeping me inside most of the time and away from the others." "They
didn't like you?"
"Nah, I didn't have Navi at the time, I was known as "the boy without a fairie"
until she came to visit me about, oh, going on two months or so now. " Smiling,
he told her the entire story of their journey, how the monsters they battled,
who they fought, about Zelda, Ganondorf, the adventures in Hylia, Daruina,
and some of the Deku Tree. Time had really flied, for when Navi came out,
she announced that the two had been at it for two hours. Gasping with surprise,
he looked up at her with surprise, she giving a comforting nod. Her eyes
were a bit red, as if she had been asleep, but the anger seemed to swell
down. Looking over at Ruto, she smiled apologetically, which Ruto nodded
and smiled back at her, extending out a hand. "Friends?"
"Friends." Ruto answered back, taking the small hand inside of her fin one.
So different between the races, yet so common that they would get along for
the common bond to appease Link. Clasping both of their hands together, he
smiled sweetly and picked Ruto back up, sitting her back on his head, first
grabbing his hat and stuffing it down in his belt. Picking Navi up gently,
she was sat back on his collar, where she could slip back to sleep. Looking
forward, he noticed the two weren't going to go back to sleep for quite some
while, which was all right with him, he rather enjoyed the company of them
both. Picking his hat from his belt, he handed it up to Ruto, who put it
on the top of her head and gave off a slight giggle, making the boy smile
somehow in the dungeon of doom. He hoped another light would transport them
out of here, the other way out he didn't want to think about. Shivering mentally,
he turned towards the east and left the creatures behind, whatever they were,
walking to the door to the east and stepping inside. On the way to the doorway
a tooth was directed infront of him, when stepping on it with both of their
weight it didn't even budge, yet with the strength of two people the smash
swabbed open and mucus vines disappeared, letting the vines cling freely.
Brushing the contents of the remains aside, he stepped inside the fleshy
exterior, sword readying.
As soon as they were inside the room, the door shut and another impenetrable
mucus web surrounded their only exit out of this room. Sitting Ruto by the
door way (telling her to remain there so he could check out the room), the
duo was surprised only to find a bit of the room available, not very big
in size, and consisting of only the wet surface ground. No chests, no monsters,
no nothing was in here, but why was there a trap like before? Suddenly, his
eyes widened and he jumped out of the way as something zipped past him, slicing
his shoulder a bit. Sucking in a breath from the pain, fresh blood oozed
down his tunic, not a very deep wound from the feel, but quite a little crimson
tint. Catching himself in a roll, he spun around, intersecting with the Stinger
that slammed into the hilt of his sword. Link's luck was in order; the monster
had gotten his left hand, not his right.
"Link, are you okay!" Ruto screamed from behind, her eager whispers in the
language were futile in this room, it seemed the room had to be flooded like
before.
"Aye, I am alright, Ruto-sama. Just go back and--" His eyes widened as something
propelled into his stomach, sending him slamming into the sickly tissue of
the Jabu. A roar of pain surrounded the room, acting almost like an earthquake,
which sank Link down, but also made the rest of the Stingers come out of
the room. Ten were up and at battle, reading themselves for the preparations
of a meal. Slumping up, the boy looked over to his fairie, who was trying
to shoot meaningless chi shots at them, the futile of it making him bite
his lips in frustration. Why didn't the magic work! "Link, they have some
sort of barrier upon them, damn! My manna isn't affecting them in the least."
Slinking down against him, her ears perked up. "How about the fire,
Din's."
"But, the surface is cold."
"It's better than being shredded to pieces, isn't it?" Yes, that was true.
Whatever these Stringers had upon them was obviously bladed sharp, and would
mince him up in a matter of seconds. Fortunately for them, the butt to the
wall had been used with the Stringer's head, only causing a small bruise
to later appear upon Link's tender chest. Skidding down in the wet water,
moving towards the end of the room, so the marks wouldn't affect Ruto, the
boy waited until they closed in for the kill, before initiating it. Whatever
happened would happen, he had come to accept that fact from now on, he might
die in this journey, but he would give it his all, that was what he was:
a hero.
--------------------
"Link!" Screeching out, her eyes almost bulged out of their sockets. What
was that idiot thinking! He was just luring them in, with a smirk upon his
face, but she wouldn't let that happen, for in the next few seconds she began
to glide upon the wet surface (using her flippers) to reach him. Only a few
seconds it would take, but as soon as she landed next to Link, he threw her
back across the landscape, so she sunk inside of the wall near the entrance.
Fighting with all her strength, she just couldn't seem to get out of the
accursed entombment of skin. No, it wasn't going to eat her or anything,
but allowed her not to help her friend. Does he need help; he had a smirk
on his face and was preparing for some sort of an attack? No, that was silly,
he had no such powers, he couldn't attack.
Angst threw out of her heart when the ten Stingers surrounded to boy in a
miniature circle so all she could get from the view were his legs sticking
out. Biting her lip in frustration, she cried out his name as loud as possible,
the grip upon her seeming to intensify so to shut her up. Quieting down,
her form remaining sunk inside of the flesh, she began to whisper upon the
prayer, again nothing happened with her. Damn them, damn them, how was she
supposed to watch her new friend die? Well, peasant, not friend-- no, not
really. A yell of some sort ignited through the air, Link's voice, but not
a yell a pain, something in another language. In another instant the entire
Stinger collapsed to the ground.
The silken hero was in the air as the Stingers fell some all at once and
many of the others on the other spin. Submerged in the air, the blade of
his sword was turning a bright crimson, while the base lit off a deep blue.
Covering her eyes from the bright appearances, yes they reached over here,
her eyes remained shut until the tenth scream ringed out through her Hylian
ears. Hands clamped over her face, she peeked through them shyly to see that
the boy's sword had obviously calmed down, but his hair was sticking up,
swirling with the electricity of it all. Some had managed to sting them,
that was apparent in him, yet no pain was reflected upon his face, only the
static energy in his hair.
Brushing back his hair with the dull end of his sword, the colours of the
blade swirled down to the iron steel, as he laid it upon his side and stared
back at her, but before heading back, something began to appear around them.
Looking down with eyes wide, she saw that a yellow light came out of the
flesh, not burning it, but hiding the flesh under it. Concealing from the
light was a huge brown box that Link seemed oh-so-eager to look at. It didn't
really impress her, but maybe he thought it was some sort of reward. Anyway,
the light went away as he yanked open the box and took out some weird
tool.
--------------------
"Din's Fire won't work, Navi! I am gonna try the Rhiu-Kiyto, it doesn't drain
as much, and will be more effective." Link was staring dead at the enemies,
them just a few feet above the air, and descending upon them. He still thought
that the fire technique would not work for them, but would only dissipate
in the water surface, no matter how small it was. The appearance of Ruto
had actually shocked him, almost glad the dreaded Jabu had imprisoned her
inside the cage of flesh, the farther she was away from here, the better.
Yes, he accompanied that stings would come before the blade would spin around,
he did have to go 360 degrees before the blade actually shot out the manna
in a circle, but then the technique went into a full rage of
fury.
"But Link, they have to surround you, it's dangerous! You know I don't have
any special type of barriers for you." The barrier she could extend upon
him, but it was only a mass of veil, not a barrier, and wouldn't stop the
shocks of their tails as they shot through their skin. Seeing the determination
sketched across his face made her give a quick nod, wanting to get it over
as fast as they could. The mad fish were descending upon him and fast, there
was no telling how fast they would counter in and strike both of them down;
their only chance was the Rhiu-Kiyto. The last time she had seen Link practice
it, he was pretty good, she so hoped he had been practicing a technique of
the style that took out ten enemies in a row, there was no way they were
going to get all ten, maybe five at the most.
As if reading her mind, he gave a slight smirk. "I've added a slight reproach
to my Kiyto technique, I call this one the Rhiu-Buijitsu!" Now the enemies
had collapse in, only a mere five feet away from them with the tails just
a brutalizing with electricity. Gripping around him, she didn't hide, no
she wasn't going to do that, but merely stood right beside him, landing upon
his shoulder so if he got shocked so would she. Link grabbed the blade of
the sword and instead of holding it to the left, he placed it right infront
of him, an aura of blue surrounding his body. A clear blue aura of innocence
kept around him, circling her too, while the tails slashed in for
battle.
One by one they went in, each one connected with her and him, making her
scream in pain, the boy not letting out so much as a peep, for that would
break his concentration. Tears were moistened in his eyes when the second
round of strings arose, his hair rising up all the way (since his hat was
gone) the static waves showing their existence in high colours. As much as
she wanted to get up and rub his cheeks, smooth his brow, or to speak to
him, she knew she just couldn't. The shocks had actually pinned her up to
his clothes, reassuring that she would not escape this espionage alive. After
the third (and final) wave of stings hit both of them, she crying out again
in pain, the boys opened his eyes, the aura spreading about them and surrounding
each of the Stingers in it.
"Now they die. Rhiu-Buijitsu, I call upon Naryu for the winds of the Goddess!"
Screeching upon the last speech, he actually lifted in the air, his body
becoming one with the air, leaving that old rule of gravity right behind
with all the other physics laws. Spreading his sword out to the left, he
didn't even have to charge the Rhiu-Kiyto. It automatically turned crimson;
the edge of the blade, while the dull end blew out a mystical blew sound.
Crying out in fury, the hero's sword spun around in a three hundred and
sixty-degree circle, slashing half of the Stingers. Some of them tried to
escape their destiny, but he just pointed at the sword, and shot out a quick
energy ring from the side of the blade, by slashing their way.
Turning around, the boy crossed his arms and gave out a triumphant laugh,
a laugh that would make him suffer, for as soon as his back was turned something
leapt upon it and drove the tail deep inside of the wound from before. Crying
in pain, electrical shocks guttered through his body, the sword slinging
to the side of the ground, moving out of his range of reach. Not that it
would matter anyway, he was back on his knees with his sense becoming weakened,
his own little mind thrashing for hope to calm himself down. No, I won't
die! Ears didn't hear anything, the cry of Navi, the cry of anyone, all he
heard was himself praying for his own health, and that death wouldn't succumb
over his body.
Only one of the Stingers remained, wanting to avenge its siblings for their
destruction, this one quite damaged from the attack, but one of the smartest
to duck of the aftershock that door out the most. Only half of its body was
remained, some of it slicing down with the stinger strung across an open
wound that had remained from the previous tortures. Crying out in fury and
pain, it would avenge its siblings, it would make this little bastard pay
for its crimes, and sending it deeper into the wound, the elf-child's cries
were echoed through the valley, a barrier of electricity surrounding the
two.
Navi had to come noticed, for Link peered at her beating upon the glass,
tears streaming down her eyes in pain. Wha?.why is she crying, Navi, it's
alright.Then the second shot hit him, but gripping the side of flesh, it
took it with full force, looking up to see a decimated little thing with
its invisible eyes sensing him. Only one chance, this will hurt, but I have
no choice, thinking the last thought, he leapt upon the creature stabbing
his fingers inside of the creatures face. Ripping out the guts of the creature
furiously, the shocking making him whimper softer than ever, the incredible
pain was so unbearable, but he let it go. Dropping all the pain, the lad
found the part of the jellyfish that contained the brain, smashing it within
his fingers.
A crackle of electricity bared out, spreading in an invisible manner before
disappearing entirely. Without the source in place, the main power would
die, so he was free. Stupid creatures.I hate them. Resting a hand forward,
he groped for his Fairie, the skin upon him was still the same colour, parts
of his body ached all over with reflecting. Gripping her, the boy saw her
lips moving, but never caught the words that came out of them. Nodding his
head incoherently, the drone looked up at her lips, trying to read them,
but utterly failing in the attempt. Finally, the ignoramus ended up laying
his head upon the wet surface, closing those eyes and passing out from
unconsciousness, letting his dreams let through.
--------------------
"Where are we?" It looked familiar, like a place he had already visited before
in another life.or another dream. Painted garden walls were all around, the
roses blooming out from the fresh spring, the area he was, but next to him
was a separate layer of molten lava, no barrier between the two. Yet the
smoke didn't touch the beautifully grassed lands, and next to the lava laid
an ocean of organic colours, pouring out as far as the eye can see. Finally,
he saw he wasn't in the forest at all, but on top of a small platform that
reached up to the sky. Staring down at the three platforms, the images of
three being appeared, them speaking in a tongue he couldn't recognize. Nearly
falling off the platform, he stumbled over a little when a larger structure
landed over him, a hundred feet taller, a castle matching that of
Hyrule.
Except there was no royal beauty with this piece of architecture, there was
only energy of pure evil. The castle from second glance grew much taller
than the Hylian castle, additional towers moving over and crisps- crossing
in directions that seemed endless, the place pained (or stained) an ashen
black. At the top of entrance stood a being with a flowing cape, arms crossed
over his chest and smirking deeply with all concern, a deep chuckle left
his throat and the scream is what awoken him.
Link had been muddled together after the initial attack, Navi not being able
to free the reluctant Ruto, went on the search for some sort of healing items.
There were none, so she relied upon the 1st Aid Kit that Saria had posted
for them when they were on the earlier quests. Thrashing through the aid
kit like a wild man, she found some part of a potion, not that it would kill
the pain forever, but for the time being, so she applied the part all over
his skin and tarred tunic. Waterproof is may have been, but not thunder-proof
at all. Applying some of the ointments to the boy, she let him rest for the
following hours, until he finally awoken from the deep turmoil of
sleep.
--------------------
I ache all over, why? Stretching his arms out, the boy gave a small sigh,
being bombarded a few seconds later with kisses of a reluctant fairie. Smiling,
the boy bundled her up in his arms, awakening only to find himself surrounded
in some bandages around the prick holes that the Stingers had damaged. Whatever
was in this room, he thought he had earned it to say the latest. Sitting
Navi on his shoulder, he slunk up his form silently and stared around to
room, so find that a few of the Stingers were about, the ones without stingers,
obviously, so they were harmless, yet he didn't feel that way. The turmoil
he felt was to punish these creatures, make them pay for their crimes, assign
himself as the reaper. Grinning softly, he scrounged around for his sword,
raising it up and prepared himself.
Wherever he learned these, was beyond her control. The power, the fury, the
being was all inspired within that little heard. With one last slash to the
left, he went around dissecting and finishing off all what was left of those
dreaded stringers. The blade fell from his hands, as he collapsed in the
cool water, grasping it before it hit the water (with just a little bit of
shock than needed.) Maybe it was because the chi waves would have spread
out and hit Ruto? That could be a possibility and a good one while he was
at it. Feeling it was metaphorically was too heated to be put away, the boy
stuck the blade under his arm, staring to walk back towards the princess
he was guarding, when something began to appear before him. Grabbing the
sword, he readied himself, while she began to form a line of
manna.
The "enemy" was actually one of those appearing chests, as in the previous
dungeons. Quickly dispersing her hidden manna, she stared over at the boy,
seeing the fatigue and worry in her face. Must have used most of his manna
on that attack, I guess his first technique was weak, but borrowing the powers
of the Goddess' probably took more than three-quarters of his power done.
As he opened up the chest and dug through its contents, she grabbed one of
the magic slots from his satchel (the one she had drank on before) feeding
it through him slightly. Slurping up it, she also grabbed out the last of
the ten heart containers, feeding him six and herself four. It wasn't like
they were back at full strength, but at least they could survive some more
fights (as long as it wasn't another ten Stringers.)
--------------------
Was Lady Luck in his favor, or just some little toy was there? As he pulled
out the unique tool, his face was that of curiosity, it was definitely not
something he had ever lied eyes upon before. Shaped like the moon was
sometimes--oh, what was it called-- a crescent? Yes, shaped like one of those,
and pained upon an orange colour, the weapon was. A deep red jewel was fixed
in the center of the crescent, surrounded by a line of gold. That was all
for the jewelry, except the matching jewel on the back, but upon the left
and right handles were two small green marks. Scoffing a little, he held
up to Navi, just staring at it.
"What is this, Navi-chan?" Looking to his left, he saw she wasn't there.
H-had she been crushed! Gasping, he spun around, looking desperately for
her, but finding no sign of her. Whimpering sadly, he was about to go out
to the bushes to scrounge, but a voice broke his concentration.
"Urm, hello? Let me out? Link!" Flipping his head to the south region, he
broke out in a grin, staring up at the pale-skinned fish encased inside of
the barriers of the flesh. The flash of the smile caused the scar that would
be left upon his left shoulder to ache somewhat. Shrugging his capable shoulder,
as if to test it out, he threw the weapon up at Ruto or towards to skin,
to loosen the skin up. To unexpected surprise, the tool not only hit the
surface, causing Ruto to land upon the flat surface, but actually spun around
in the shape it was, returning to his hand only raised up to catch it. Staring
down at the tool, Navi had finally caught up with him, and looked down at
the tool, her arms covered with supplies.
"Navi-chan!" Grabbing her into a tight embrace, the supplies from her hands
bounced upon the soft ground, preserving them from shattering. Letting out
a small giggle, he cuddled her inside of his arms. "Awe, you had me so worried,
Navi, I thought maybe I had cut you up, or one of the bodies had gotten you!"
Nuzzling her face gently, it was Ruto who broke up the sweet reunion with
a simple question of her own, and what that was pondered on both hers and
Link's minds: what in Hyrule was that thing in Link's hands. If he had to
guess, it was some sort of weird pix-axe, that didn't use the blade, but
that was he.
"Ah, Link-kun, I missed you too. Mm, what you are holding is called a boomerang.
I haven't seen one in quite a while, but if you throw it in the right direction,
then it shall return to you. Those jewels seem to help direct the focus upon
the persons chi, obviously, so I am just guessing, but that means it shall
always come back to you, even if you don't try to catch it." Slumping upon
her shoulder, they really needed to find that room desperately, she was tired
desperate for some rest, and sick of these battles. It was fine and might
that these were going to be the last ones she would see for the rest of her
life, those thoughts really excited her. Her life with Link, oh what would
they do, how would they repor-
Focus! Focus, now, and worry about that later. Reproduction? Ha! The voice
inside of her head carried on, stupidly, the fairie rolling her eyes to no
one in particular. Ruto, however, was talking about something and caught
the roll in the general direction. Gasping, she looked away with a bit of
her hurt in her eyes, speaking out in a calm and malicious tone. Not really
an evil tone, but one that had been seriously hurt. True she didn't like
Navi more than Link, but really, she could have at least been respected in
some general direction.
"If you don't want to hear, just say so."
"Huh? Princess, what do you mean?"
"You rolled your eyes at me!"
"I-I did? Oh, I-I'm sorry, Princess, I didn't even notice." Giving a snort,
Ruto turned towards Link to comment, but all what was there was a distant
shadow of the past. Peeking around, she ran towards the door when she saw
him hacking away at the mucus that had somehow concealed them before. Now
that the monsters were dead, nothing was keeping the snot hard, so it was
quite easy to slice through it within a few minutes. As Ruto (trailed by
Navi) arrived at the scene, Link had gotten the last good gunk off, pealing
it off with the back of his sword (that was also smeared with guts, and blood.)
He couldn't help himself, as he slunk to his knees and wiped it clean from
the past battles inside of this hellhole, no he was strong, so he wouldn't
break. The only person he could do that infront of was Ruto, but as he descended
for her to climb upon his shoulders, she barely heard him.
It was only halfway past the area, heading in the western direction this
time, for tentacles like the other room blocked the others that he ran into
some previous trouble. Out of the blue popped another one of those ugly
creatures, his sword sheathed for now, the boomerang held at his side (something
telling him it would aid better in this battlement.) Flipping backwards,
he readied the rang as Navi shot out the name of his attacker.
"A Tailpasaran, the centipede type, nothing unusual about it--wait. It said
that electrical type so now sword types, use your new weapon
Link!"
"Mmhm, way ahead of you." As soon as it lunged at him, the hideous red furry
body with insect-legs teetering in the air, he let loose the boomerang of
jewels. As soon as the boomerang clashed against the end of the Tailpasaran's
neck, it locked it up against the side of the wall, instead of returning
back to its master. Link stared at it curiously as it ferociously tried to
battle away at it, desperately trying to keep alive, yet squeeze through
the hole at the same time. The blade held up, he couldn't see anymore-electrical
spots upon the centipede, so he curiously watched her scan the enemy once
more.
"Confirmed, the boomerang knocked the electricity away. You can go in for
the kill now, Link." And indeed he did that, without hesitation, he slammed
the tip of the blade down the skull of the Tailpasaran, tearing its exoskeleton
into shreds of remains. Not even a screech was rewarded with any final last
words, only the thump of the corpse as it slid up off the boomerang and down
on the swirling ground. Suddenly a small hole appeared and disposed of the
body, maybe used for food. His emotions stayed roughly hatred, watching the
wretched thing drift away, with a drift of good riddance. Staring up at Ruto,
he saw her expression was soft and pitied, pouting of the young creature,
then to Navi who nodded with her arms crossed around her chest. Yes, nothing
could have stopped it; it was just a stupid creature anyway. Reaching up,
he fiddled with Ruto a little, grabbing his hat and readjusting it upon his
head. Grabbing her, he put her so her legs were around his neck and she rested
right before his head, instead of on it.
"You alright like that? You are kinda heavy on my head, don't want to pass
out or anything." Chuckling, he patted her thigh tenderly.
"Mmhm, I am fine. I-I'm sorry." Eyes moistened a bit, Ruto
said.
"About what, Ruto?"
"About that thing, how I couldn't save you. I-I promise I'll do better next
time-- I swear!" Giving a quick nod to the girl, he shushed her softly, telling
her tenderly that it was all right. Matter of a fact, it was alright, sure
he could have almost been killed, but the fact was that he hadn't been despised
from this world, he was with his guardian and the princess whom he was guarding.
Listening to the silence of the conversation, he figured it over, heading
over towards the doors where the western edge was. Stepping upon the switch
with both of them, it slid down and the magic-based mucus gave away, yet
when he jumped off it was sliding back together. Frowning, he stepped upon
it with both of them again, and the same thing happened again! Stomping his
left foot on the switch, it popped down with only the slightest bit of weight
upon it.
"It's not weight, Link, it's mass. One of us has to stay back here and stay
on the switch so it doesn't go down. Ruto, would you mind staying while me
and Link check it out?" At first Navi thought she was going to go on a rampage
of how she was princess and she deserved just as much right out with the
rest of them, than anyone else, but she didn't. Barely even acknowledging
them, she sat upon the tooth as he sat her down, the door staying open when
they backed towards it slowly, Link's eyes resting upon Ruto with
concern.
"Are you going to be okay, Ruto-sama? If you are upset over the bloodshed,
I am sorry for it, but it's necessary. Besides, these creatures aren't real;
they are the reincarnations of evil into the goodness of beings. The spirits
are long dead, so there is no way to save them, I know it hurts to see death,
but I do not kill people, for that I have sworn my life by. It's all right
to be sad, Ruto, really it is. Just don't let it get you down too much, 'kay?"
Smiling, he turned around and ran for the door, popping on reach, and ran
through the door that closed when they were inside.
--------------------
"Is she going to be okay, Navi?" Link whispered as they walked into the new
room, similar to the Stinger's room, yet no water was there for them to hide.
This room was completely empty, not a soul in sight, and since it was so
small, and he could make an accurate guess it was all right for the time
being. Moving over towards the center, the boy looked to his fairie, with
compassion glancing through those brushed features.
"She's tough, I think she'll be all right. Well, why all of a sudden worried
about others? You have a crush upon her, or something?"
"Not really, I am just worried about her, that's all." The trick had been
a test to see what would happen, and since he didn't flush and look away
stupidly like he did with Saria, it was really love. Ruto didn't seem to
show that for the boy, either, so it seemed that this particular meeting
was in her own favor. It was probably the species that didn't attract them
together, at least for Ruto, she knew she couldn't fall in love with a Kokiiri,
for one day she would grow wise beyond his senior, dominating over him, in
the weirdest fashion."
"Is she not pretty?"
"Oh, no, she is pretty, one of the prettiest Zoras, I just don't feel that
sort of love for her. I love her, of course, as a friend, but I also love
Zelda-sama and Malon as a friend, also."
"Well, what about Saria and I?" The question rose upon her lips, what did
he really feel for her.
"Saria? I love her more than anything, she was my mother, my protector, and
my friend, I love her more than anyone I have ever met in my life, you equally."
Breaking out in a small grin, he felt the pressure that she pressed upon
him, but didn't give into it, he just shrugged a shoulder at the second part
of the question. "Maybe I'll tell you anoth--" Suddenly he was cut off as
something slammed him across the ground, unlike anything that was like the
impact of the Stringers. Whatever did it couldn't reach him from that far
away, so the boy tucked softly to the ground, crying out in pain. The moistened
land fells upon his wounds, making the ones from before even intensify from
before. Staring up at the ground, he saw what was a fifty feet tentacle staring
at him with a face-less body, it was brown and slimy, from the feel of it
all over his body. Wincing, he raised himself up weakly, backing against
the wall to secure himself from further damage.
"Link! Oh, Goddess, Link" Flying to his side, the fairie stared up at the
tentacle with her eyes widening. She had thought the tentacle not a threat,
but now they were dealing with it. Or a cousin of one, for this one was a
mahogany colour, while the other one was a dark green. Detecting no marks
upon it, seeing as it went up towards twenty-five feet up, so a projectile
weapon was out of the question. "Link, I don't see a weakness upon this Parasitic
Tentacle. I don't think there is a way, except magic." Her eyes sort of curiously
warned him when she shook his head, reaching for the boomerang with a
grin.
"I saw a weak spot, right when it smacked me."
"Projectiles won't work, Link, it'll slap it away."
"Nuh-uh, it's got a tender spot about thirty feet up the road, that's why
he is holding it in, so I can't access to it."
"How do you plan on getting it?" There was nearly no way to reach it, surely
he wasn't insane enough too-- he questions were answered when he grinned
a huge smirk and shrugged a shoulder as If to say it was nothing. Nothing
was certainly was an understatement for this; it was suicide, basic suicide.
She shook her head, blocking his path, only to be pushed out of the way softly.
No, no, no! She wasn't going to let himself get killed to get to a stupid
part down there, it just wasn't worth it, and there was no way she'd risk
it.
"You won't make it in time."
"I will, I'll dodge it after I throw the rang, besides, I need you now."
I've always needed you, nothing can stop me now, I feel the fear of this
place, but with you at my side, I can do this.
"Need me, but how?"
"I need you to go to the spot and light up with its aligned with my boomerang,
then I'll throw it and duck, as you said the boomerang will come back to
my chi level, so we have nothing to worry about, and I need your own soul
with mine." Interjection of the souls may have increased the power of the
throw, the momentum of the holding, and the breaking of however this creature
would die.
"But, Link!"
"No, buts. I don't plan on dying, Navi; I plan on surviving this. As my correct
guess there are two or more of these creepy crawlers about, we are gonna
need to knew how to mess with them. I am almost out of magic, even though
you filled me up, and my fire won't work on them, they are too oily. If this
doesn't work you can kill me yourself, okay?" At least I hope so. Sealing
the deal off with a sweet smile, the girl gritted her teeth, trying to steady
herself for the answer, but it was no use. She had swept him off his feet
and now they were going to head out for that simple place and die an untimely
death, all on the account of her weakness and his adventure sense was more
developed. She had noticed his he changed so much, it was quite ironic, but
in the distant past he would have never attempted something so stupid or
foolish. Not that he was getting dumber; his courage was rising,
though.
"A-alright. But, you'd better not get hurt!" With a quick nod, the boy let
her levitate up right above him, but thirty feet in the air. The accurate
guess on where the weak spot was, Link knew what it was, because the colours
were a lighter mahogany, that implicated a weakness, or a colour where it
slept. If his guess was wrong, then he was dead anyway, it was better than
sitting here and waiting to become foot, Eh? Running up toward the center
of the room, staring up at the slithering hole, he watched eagerly as it
slid down the fifty feet and closed in the distance between them with only
a pushpin of a difference in location. Even as he stared it up in the eyes,
boomerang positioned in his left hand, the pain in his right and bruises
on his chest crying out, he couldn't help, but laugh.
The laugh was like the pistol-shot at a horse race; it was the time to move
on with the prize in his mind. Quickly dodging to the left, he waited for
his signal, the yellow light, that the signal had been found, it was weak
indeed, and when to throw. For now, however, he had an angry tentacle that
was even more pissed overtime he dodged six foot thick matching appendage.
Throwing him to the right, the arm slammed down into the ground, causing
Jabu to scream; yet it didn't seem to affect either of them in the least.
Keeping his eyes on the beginning of the tail, noticing when it moved he,
he reacted, and when searching for Navi to light up in the dark, so it was
easy to dodge. Within the fourth dodge, the light lit up for him to throw
him boomerang, so reaching forward he threw it around in the crescent shot,
maneuvering under the tentacle, watching for the moment of truth.
--------------------
Sniffling silently, the child had watched him enter the door, watching as
the flap of tissue ceased back into a door, only seconds later. Sure, she
was depressed, but what was she saddened by? From everything, to put it bluntly.
The cowdarance she felt when faced up with a tiny centipede, the courage
the boy showed, the insides of her fellow fish God, and even this environment
itself. No, this was not the Jabu that she loved, not the fish she spent
many times wandering in alone, this was some defect, some sort of monster.
How could this be the same creature that used to let her wander his endowments
with no fear of being attacked? The simple answer was that this wasn't it,
or if it were, then it would soon be destroyed and/or cured.
Flaps of Jabu's "doors" may have been thin on the first glance, but Ruto
couldn't even seem to hear through the walls. Jumping off of the switch,
she made her way over towards the wall and pressed her ear up against it
firmly. Even with the incredible Hylian breech of her ears, the sounds through
the thin wall weren't bouncing in her direction. Taking a braver approach,
her ear pressed up against the wall, where in turn was greeted with the duplicate
effect. Throwing her hands back in frustration, she sat back upon the tooth,
the one that didn't even open, even when she was on it. Folding her hands
about her chest, her mind began to melt down to some minor
thoughts.
What was going to happen when the two got out of here? Obviously, the boy
was some sort of hero, she hadn't gotten around to asking him any personal
questions, they hadn't known each other that long, why be nosy? No, she was
nosy at this point, she wanted to know everything about him, what the Kokiiri
tribe did, had they ever interacted with each other, that sort of stuff.
She had never heard of the Kokiiri except through some history lessons with
her professors, and even then the teachers were quite skeptics, saying no
one could have eternal youth just because some "magical" tree kept them up
and about. These were the same mentors that taught her how to summon her
spells, really, how can one not believe in a mystic tree, yet teach the ancient
art of magic? The situations made no sense to her.
Was he going to leave after they got out of here? Well, sure he was, he was
an adventurer at sorts, or that's what she recommended, how could he not
be with that deviance smile, those moves from fighting, and that power! That
mystical attack from which was from the Goddess that they worshipped, how
could he learn such a technique. Having heard the name of the technique was
different, it was some other language she couldn't understand, but had Zorian
words in it. So confusing, so little time to compensate for it. Maybe a guard,
or his father had taught him the technique, it seemed to be a real drain
on his manna, hence the reason for his skin becoming light. His manna wouldn't
last much longer, unless he had himself a green potion, but she hadn't seen
those in forever.
"Oh, Naryu, help me. Give me strength to fight enemies when we come in close
contact again. But, why do I want to do this, I had never ever wanted to
do anything this weird before, especially with a peasant. Why am I treating
a peasant with such expertise, he may deserve it, but he isn't of our royal
blood--nor out species, for that matter. Ohh, tell me why, great Goddess
of wind and water, the procreator of physics." Nothing answered her sweet
prayers, only the incubated breathing of the outer world. If Ruto had one
thing on her mind when that scream came out, it was that she would never
lay a foot back here again-- a scream? Yes, a scream so loud broke the sound
barrier of the once proofed room, but it wasn't the scream of the boy she
knew, it was the scream of something else, something in terrible
pain.
Maybe the monster that he is fighting. Oh, yes, there was such a monster
behind the door, maybe it was its scent he caught, or maybe she could decipher
aura, the latter seeming more ridiculous than its predecessor could. Laying
eyes on the door, a great sigh of relief died through the winds of the great
fish, as if a gargantuan burden had been lifted from its shoulders. Something
happened then, something that she couldn't explain; some of the skin upon
Jabu began to change. When she had been first sucked in, it was the most
abnormal shade of pink that the skin had ever been, the roof a violent violet.
Now, however, the skin upon the roof was a paler pink, while the matching
skin had moved up a shade of two. Must mean he's healing, yes that was it,
nothing else could explain it? Suckling of the walls also stopped, some of
the creatures may have died, she really didn't know.
Suddenly she knew in her mind that they were going to get out. From the beginning
she had been skeptic, always thinking that this idiot would turn upon her,
turn tail and run, or simply put her out of her misery, however now she held
a certain trust towards him. Who cared if he was a peasant, a Kokiiri, or
a boy, not she, she didn't give a damn in the least. All that mattered was
that he was risking his life for her, and the best she could do was ride
on his head. No more, no more at all, for when he got out of there she was
going to hold his hand and walk by his side the rest of the way. Yes, yes,
she was going too--ohh, a slight yawn entered her train of thought, circling
her thoughts in a swirl of emotions. Just a bit of rest, yes, just a little
bit, then I'll be good as knew. Curling up in a ball on the flat tooth, she
tenderly rubbed her sides and gazed herself into unconsciousness.
--------------------
"A perfect hit, Link!" Navi cheered on as the boomerang swung upside to the
monster, slashing right across the more tender area, swerving around and
re- landing in his hands. Grinning over to Navi, he gave a light shrug and
stared up at the monster, the blow hadn't killed it, that for sure, but now
it was seriously pissed, the tail began to swerve back and forth in hectic
motions. Dodging each one with the right amount of accuracy, he later would
grant himself the beauty in his evasion, for the thing was swinging so hard,
it might have taken his head off in one clean snap. Shuddering down the sickening
feeling, the boy back-flipped away from the tail's point of attack, watching
it rise the extra thirty feet once again, holding itself at
bay.
Slightly chuckling, he leaned against the side of the walls, noticing a slight
colour change, but nothing so immediate. Pulling out the boomerang, he noticed
the guts upon the jewel, where it hit to the side, but a direct hit hadn't
happened. From his guess, if a direct hit would happen, the might beast would
succumb with a loud scream, either snapping off or dying, or shriveling up
into an old weed. Pushing back his hat, the boy looked over to his fairie,
trying to hold back the laughs. "Told you."
"Mm, yes, you did. He is a bit slow compared to you, isn't he? But be warned,
one hit with that may kill you."
"Yea, I guessed that much. Round two coming up!" The second time around was
much quicker, much more intense than the time before. Time seemed to slow
down as each little throw it threw was dodged with perfect accession, sometimes
slipping down, rolling to the side in the next moment, but hey, nobody's
perfect. Rolling upon his back, the boy dodged backward, throwing the boomerang
straight at the sparkled area where his fairie had returned, a scream of
impact illuminating both of them in pain.
Covering his ears caused the boomerang to stay up there, the jewel upon the
rang was reacting seriously, responding to the contact of flesh it came out
to touch. As it seemed, the weapon of its choices could hurt this little
monster, maybe the reason it was so well guarded. Finally the scream faded
off, Link reaching a hand out and the boomerang returned to its master, but
by that time the monster was already dead. As soon as the boomerang let out
of its skin, the tail slumped to the ground, turning a disfigured brown colour,
then disappearing inside a swirl hole that appeared out of nowhere. Clean-up
duty seemed to be on their side for a change, yet a strange feeling in the
back of his mind told him it would clean up his body just as fast, if he
had been the one punishable.
As soon as the tail disappeared, a louder scream echoed through the walls,
this one loud, but not so hearing-impaired. Link's guess was that they destroyed
the center of the larger tails that were covering some of the entrances to
the nearby doors. That might mean if they headed to those doors after disposing
of them, then it was a good chance they would find an empty path to the room.
Tucking the boomerang in his belt, instead the empty space in his side pack,
the boy looked over to Navi with his eyes falling upon her with compassion,
she had soon come down while he watched the incarnate of this creatures cruel
fate.
"Sad, isn't it?" Her words echoed like distant shadows.
"Mmhm, it is sad. Shall we go, I have a hunch there are more of these, besides
the green one, and we should clear them out as soon as possible." When he
turned to leave, his eyes brightened up--no, the room brightened up. The
entire room began to shrivel and form a new colour, a lighter shade of inner
muscle surrounding the contents they were concealed inside. "Think that means
he is healed somewhat?" Receive a small reply of approval, the boy walked
over the nasty tail, stomping the small squiggling edge into the ground,
before stepping before the layer of flesh, that led back to the old
room.
"Awe, she's asleep." Navi floated across her face, watching the little Zora
slumber upon her guarding point, so defenseless it was cute. Picking her
up with the power that Navi possessed, she put the girl up on Link's shoulder,
which he took as if some sort of relief. Thanking his partner with a nod,
he continued down the path, staring down at the tree exits. Whichever way
they would go out to be quick and easy, but the hard part was to decide which
way to go. Those paths were so slippery it was harder to get upon, plus sometimes
a deadly electrocuting tentacle was awaiting them. Well, he guessed that
they were lightning-based.
"So, which direction?"
"Northwest, it had the brownish tail."
"You sure, Navi?"
"Positive, Link, now let's go." Smiling brightly at him, the boy couldn't
help, but shrug a delirious hand and give into her pleasures. Yes, sometimes
she had the upper hand in his battles, sometimes she usually one, but there
was the occasional night when he would win, the arguments usually tedious
and childish (but wasn't that what they were?) leading to nothing real
interesting. Maybe it was interesting, but served no purpose to the point
in their adventures, usually a debate on the future, what happens next, talking
to each other, and describing each other to one another in their own
words.
--------------------
A boring room waited them in the direction they headed. Though the northwest
wasn't blocked from dangers, inside they found a chest with a compass awaiting
them, but there was a sidetrack Shaboms were the sidetrack, for they had
to defeat all twenty of them within a ticking distance, or the stupid chest
would disappear. It appeared that after several times, the seconds were in
the forties, that didn't give them much time for the exploding monsters,
especially with bullets, but Link had himself a good idea. Sitting his passenger
on the ground, away from the Shaboms, the boy flexed his muscles and prepared
for the primitive attack. Not bothering to waste anymore magic, or a good
percentage, on the Goddess attack, he would propel himself off the wall and
help out.
Running towards the wall, the lad leapt upon it, the rubbery substance using
as a polar cap and retracting him away from his initial position. Flying
in the center of the room (and the Shaboms), the boy threw his hands in the
position of Din's fire, letting loose a volcanic blast of flavor that would
stain all the bubbles with the crimson for the time being. With heat applied
to their simple bodies, the stupid creatures easily gave into popping at
the intense heat, each one popping before ten seconds were over. With the
chest now free, the boy jumped at the chance to gather what would be next,
pushing his left with the only element of the dungeon he didn't have: a compass.
Gathering up Ruto, he gave the room one last glance, before walking out of
it in a little unfit manner.
Leaving the room with a tiny bit of disgust, he headed for the room to the
northeast. In the distance, the boy and his companion saw a larger red tentacle
blocked the path, so they headed up to the west, where the path was as clear
as day. No holes to indicate that something were even here. Maybe he should
have come here before the room with the boomerang? Yet as he came into the
room, and saw the consequences, the boy was contented he had decided to leave
himself outside without so much as the live-saver he had stuck inside of
his belt.
Un-tucking his lucky crescent, the boy entered the room where a larger tail
stood upright out of the ground, guarding nothing in particular. Automatically
he knew that was the tentacle, so he went in for the high- pitched kill,
which was to his shock, not that much of a deal. The earlier version of the
tails had been smaller, more agile, capable of better blows, but this one
had to make the boy chuckle out in happiness, it was just too fat to be of
any threat. It was true if that one knocked him once he'd be crushed, but
that was problem, the thing just couldn't seem to hit its mark. Each time
it came even close to preventing damage, the boy leapt to another direction
to avoid the close combat quarts.
Another one of its disadvantages was that the spot was even larger than ever,
the boy trying the same trick of not holding his hand out to try and get
an instant kill, that was where the downside laid in. A large figure also
meant a huge neck, which led Link to be able working upon his body for fifteen
minutes, usually with maddening swings, and drilling holes within the neck.
Finally, the thing collapsed ion the ground as his fifteen turned into
twenty-five. Staring around, nothing appeared, so he quickly took up his
Zora with him, slipping out of the room before something else could be in
its place for trouble. Another scream echoed through the halls, the boy covering
Ruto's ears so she wouldn't awaken, and with that problem solved, he made
his way out to the last entrance, the north. A hypothesis was that the green
one would be there, which he diverse with the fairie on their way over there.
When finally reaching the area where the red tail had been, he saw a huge
imprint hole there. Staring down in the hole, all that was there was darkness,
but he knew damned well that the thing had twisted and turned through the
nerves to reach the room directly across from it.
--------------------
"Navi, t-there are."
"I see them, take them out first, before you deal with the tail, just stay
to the sides and you can avoid it." As he kept his distance to the sides,
she stared up at the last one of the bunch: the dreaded green tail. It was
quite the leader of the pack, for a group of twenty Biris surrounded them,
not the big ones, but the more annoying small ones. Going with them with
bombs was simply out of the questions, because seeing the green tentacle
actions worried her even more, the thing was huge and agile. They found that
out entering the room, the tail nearly slamming the door shut, if they hadn't
been blocked, it would have been them getting the slam. Now in a direct corner,
he targeted his boomerang at the first Biris and fired, if this didn't work,
he'd try to escape for a new plan.
The Goddesses loved Link! As soon as they came in contact with the boomerang,
the jewel responded and shot out some light at the Biris, burning it into
a mass of bubbles. This one happened to swerve around five of them, crushing
them into nothing within a matter of seconds. Leaping up and catching the
boomerang, he squealed with a bit of joy, launching it out again at the enemies.
Only getting them in-groups of two, he managed to eliminate all the Biris
in eight turns (the last Biris left was all alone and making a crying sound),
but he showed no mercy to them, taking it out in just a few seconds. All
the bubbles weren't like the Shaboms, they actually turned into purple bubbles,
which popped on their own and disappeared in the oxygen, what happened to
their bodies was beyond his knowledge.
"Navi, it's working, it's working!" His cheers exploded as soon as they were
all gone, running up towards the enemy with full force. This one had extended
out the same fifty feet as the others, its thick hide protecting it in all
places, yet the agility of it would benefit it in for a quick kill. Link
liked the sound of it, the odds weren't in his favor, but were they usually?
Throwing the area at the tender spot, the thing screamed out in pain, but
sent a its tail right at him anyway. Hitting the ground, it scraped across
his back, making him bite his lip to endure the pain of the slimy scales
against it. No blood was drawn, but a huge scratch in his tunic appeared,
some marks upon his back. Flipping back to the safe regions, he looked to
Navi.
"Now what, he doesn't stop with the pain."
"I.well, we should, let's see." Sitting upon his shoulder, she gave out a
loose shrug, before her mind widened up mentally. That was it, reaching behind
his belt, she produced a bag and headed towards her enemy. Patting his shoulder,
she floated up to the little thing, huge mark that was unexposed, closing
the distance between it, which wasn't all that much to begin with. From past
experiences, the monsters either didn't acknowledge Navi, or simply ignored
her; the same was with this one. When Link came out and started to dodge
the swift attacks of the monster, its most tender spot were left out for
the girls' liking. Pulling out the bag she had drawn, she yanked out something
big and black, pushing a button on it. The fuse of the bomb gave into the
pressure; the pressure causing a chain reaction inside of the monster that
mutilated it to pieces.
Flowing shrapnel was repelled, by his shield that contained the two behind
it, yet more and more guts began to splatter off in all directions, soaking
the shield in a green mass of blood, possibly not the guts had stained it,
they had leaked out at first. As the bomb blew up, Link saw the bag being
thrown to him, caught it and got the shield ready, Ruto already under it,
and later Navi zipped in. Pressed against the wall, it concealed the three
from any kind of guts that would have given through, but also no scream was
given. It was their guess, but maybe the bomb destroyed it all at one time
no need for any stupid scream.
Five minutes after the carnage settled down, he peeked the guard up, only
to be hit with the small of the rotting dead. Wiping his shield off against
the wall, he slipped it back around his face, the smell worsening. Must decompose
pretty quickly, his voice told him, gathering up the Zora and continuing
past the gut-drenched rivers that stretched out. They could have talked,
but talk seemed so unimportant for now, the only thing that seemed to matter
was living. No carcass was available for him to see; only the outpour of
tissue, the skeleton (if there was one) destroyed into tiny shreds of pieces.
Turning towards the door, he dodged the few droplets of the gunk that spread
in big puddles. Finally moving past the pain of the room, he of course had
no more rooms left, with only one more target in his grasp: to get past that
barrier now, since the green tail was gone.
Slinking past the door, checking his map for the part where the green part
was marked down, he nodded a quick hand at the little mark where there had
been something was now empty. Quickly grabbing onto Navi, the fairie silently
dragged them down through the muck-hole, into a new room that opened up to
the folks. No, not a new room, it was actually the same level they had been
upon before, the level he had a conversation with Ruto the second time. Not
at the same place though, this time they were onto one of the highest places
that couldn't be climbed up without special equipment, and what's more is
a door stood their way.
"Should we wake her?"
"No, Link, but I wish we could--" Groping the map before--she had seen this
place--, and yes she cheered out as Link grabbed the map studying the out
figures of where they were and where the map was marked red. Of course, he
shouldn't have missed it, upon a huge structure and leading forwards into
a room marked with the letter "J." Running forwards, towards the door, he
stopped there and turned towards the smaller corridor that led to the door,
pressing his hand against the skin of the wall. The thing was transparent,
as it could be seen, so he simply slipped past it with Ruto in his arms since
the entrance was so small.
His eyes illuminated with brightness, the room seeming to transform from
a glossy wet pile of mass, to a significantly filed room, the room mattered
on with the flesh from the rest of the place. This meant it also had two
large beds to sleep in, them made of the same materials the Zorians let Link
use that night. All of a Link's wounds began to ache as soon as he saw the
bed, laying Ruto on the blue silken covers of the right bed, limping to the
left one on his side, sinking down into the covers. Sleep would have overtaken
him, but it was too uncomfortable, and letting out a small groan of pain,
the boy stared up at his fairie.
"It's uncomfortable in her-."
"Take off your shield, dummy." She had already unsnapped his satchel, laying
it upon some of the flesh-made cabinets that were in the room. Dodging the
shield that flew overhead, followed by the sword, she came to lay upon the
top pillow of the bed, looking down at him on the same pillow, Hrm, no she
wasn't sleepy either. Ruto was out for the night, or so it seemed for the
time being, so she might take this opportunity to get to know the child,
they had talked over the two months. Talking had gone on over the last two
months, but Link went to sleep so early they never got into deep conversations,
but now that he was asleep it was a personal favorite time for
Navi.
"So, tell me about yourself."
Giving her a double take, he blinked. "Navi, you know me."
"No, I don't, sweetheart. We talk and all, but I want to know about you--
your past memories and your future. I already know your present,
hee."
"You really want to know?" Laying his head upon the pillow a little further
up, they were facing each other. Her laying backwards, and him in the frontward
position, the eyes never seeming to lend each others sockets to contain each
other in the moment. Lifting a hand up, she patted his cheek in approval,
where he saw up and heaved a deep sigh, as if he were about to release something
big, something so big that she might not be ready. Had she wished she had
gone back on her words, or was he happy she had finally asked the
question?
"I knew you'd ask eventually, we've known each other for you to know the
truth, so what do you want to know?"
"I want to know about Mido, I used to live deeper inside the forest, so I
never saw anything that went on in the forest, I really want to know about
your grudge about him."
Man, she really hit the nail! Seemed she didn't like to waste time and go
over the most important element of the future. Shaking his head in disbelief,
how was he supposed to word this, for he never had worded it to Saria, who
had been there, but usually through the tears. Biting his lip for compassion,
he was sitting in the bed, her held right above her face, inside his palms,
where he stared down and recollected the story of how the evil Mido had extracted
his revenge. The stupid little story that had haunted him since it had happened,
never being locked out, but staying out in the open for any mind-readers
to read. Reaching inside his satchel he grabbed the canteen full of water,
chugging some down, handing it to the refusing Navi. Gulping down another
swallow, he began.
--------------------
"Goddess, why is she with him again!" Mido bellowed out, slamming his fist
into the ground. That stupid little prick was with Saria again, no damnit,
why? It didn't make no sense at all, why would she be with a pipsqueak like
him when she could have a man like him, why love some under- experienced,
under-aged Kokiiri. Gripping the Deku stick between his fingers, be began
to draw upon the pavement that figures of them three, some stupid little
triangle this was. How could she do this? How could she disappoint the leader
of the Kokiiri?
Sitting upon the top of his house, he was peeking
ver the top when he had caught wind of the beautiful Saria and the brat (only
five years old) headed towards their house. The kid was so young that no
one else would take him, and he couldn't live on his own, that was for sure,
but Mido thought he needed to be drowned like the dog he was. In stealthy
steps, the leader trailed the two underlings for the few miles at the house,
waiting until they came out, and followed them on their way past into the
Lost Woods. Those woods were so confusing around this time year, especially
near the spring with all those stupid scrubs coming out from their
hibernation.
"Link-chan.you coming." The goddess sang out to the younger kid.
"Yup!" Embracing the older child, a giggled escaped both of them before she
lifted Link in her arms and continued through the maze, cold blood draining
from Mido's face. Squeezing his hands shut, he needed some sort of plan to
get back at Link for this, but what was there to do? If it was the winter
he could dunk him in the snow, the fall in the leaves, the summer in the
lake, but what about spring? Spring was more difficult for there were nothing
around except Deku--which is it, pure genius!" his voice ringed out. Rubbing
his hands about, the boy followed them until they reached the meadow, trailing
a quick rock trail through the forest back to the village.
Re-arriving at the village in less time than before, his first stop was right
to the Know-It-All Brothers who accepted the privilege within their own triplet
voices, then he visited a few of his other friends until the ground had expended
from the beginning Mido to seven strong. Lucky seven, that was the number
they needed to do this need, not that the child was very big, but temper
tantrums were in order. Folding infront of the group, he began to walk towards
the Lost Woods trailing over his thoughts out loud to them. "How shall we
do this? Anyone have any ideas?" Several of them raised their hands, but
most were idiots, so he called on from the smartest of the Know-It-All Brothers,
baffling the child that they couldn't speak in threes.
"I say we knock him out--first, and then do it."
"Too easy, stupid!" Hitting the child on the head, he cowered under Mido,
giving out a small bow of sadness. "I want him to suffer for his deeds, I
want him to suffer for taking her away from me!"
Lots of "hear, hears" rang out in the whistles, the group of boys banding
together to take out their known enemy: Link. No girls were present because
most of the girls still liked Link, he was such a cute little child, plus
Mido doubted they could be as rough as the boys were going to be. Passing
out weapons, each was armed with a Deku stick so resistance would be futile.
Marching quietly through the spring sun, they searched the Lost Woods until
they came upon the most ingenious spot, the hole was just right for him,
the right size so he would slip in, but climbing out was impossible. The
first task was to take out the little harem inside the tree, and that was
when Mido went in alone with only a Deku stick at his disposable. "How brave"
some of the boys cheered on, while others were trying to decide who would
be the next Kokiiri leader?
Unknown to the rest of the children, Mido had possession of the legendary
Kokiiri sword, something he had discovered a few months back without anyone
else's knowledge. Holding only the sword inside his back, the child shivered
when the small scuffling of steps was headed his way, while he fumbled around
for something to fight with. A pair of orange eyes stared deep into his eyes,
causing the boy to let out a silent scream, falling against the wall with
disgust. As the Deku Scrub turned around to fire a bullet at it, a shaky
hand shafted the blade inside of it.
Pure luck saved the boy from destruction; the snap of the sack had been done,
so he had gotten a hold of the blade pretty quickly, dispatching the criminal.
How ironic, he himself was a criminal invading ones homes, but sacrifices
needed to be made for love. Black liquid poured down the blade, which he
went throughout the room searching for more Deku scrubs (he wanted to scare
him, not kill him; at least not yet.) No other scrubs were around the room,
so after some quick rope-climbing Mido was back out of the room where a fresh
change of clothes was made for him.
The next plan of action was following the rocks, which happened pretty quickly,
not a difficult task to deflect the monster's deku nuts to the stupider-looking
scrubs, the one he killed was a long-nozzle, these the short weakened kinds
that ran away when hurt. Only using the sword, not to give the sword's location
away, they reached the Sacred Forest Meadow within fifteen minutes, to their
luck with the boy all alone, no one was on the stump, but him holding her
Ocarina in her palms, cradling it as if it was a child. Pulling his Deku
stick forward, he nodded for them to march on his mark. Counting down silently,
he cupped his empty palm together when they ran at him.
--------------------
"How do you know all these details?" Navi wondered out of her mouth, looking
over at him. It was nice to be here, the time passing within an hour or so,
the information given by Link mystified her. How could he get this information,
he wasn't there at all, he was back somewhere else, unless someone else
snickered? That was highly possible, since some of the Kokiiri boys were
known to be jerks. Not jerks, more like snoops, but which ones would dare
tattle upon their great leader, the man that Navi had come to hate after
the few confrontations with him.
"I made one to squeal, and the sword is my guess, found the corpse later
on."
"W-what did they do?"
"Well, hold your horses. Saria had told me to wait there while she went to
do some stuff, water the gardens in the deeper part of the meadow, so far
she didn't hear my cries as they dragged me away." Clenching his fist and
gritting his teeth hard, he looked down to the ground with sigh of sadness
stinging his eyes. No, not a sting just tears of pain that reflected the
past memories. Shaking them away, trying to forget it and grow up, he knew
that Navi was waiting for the story, so he went on with his recollections
of the place. Giving in every detail, so no more stops would be given for
the fairie, this was his story and he intended to finish it.
--------------------
"Get him! Get that punk!" They yelled over, tackling the young boy to the
ground. That ocarina sprung from his hands, rolling over to the side of the
ground, hovering like an unprotected animal in the grasp of a snake's mouth,
dripping venom of fangs ready to pounce. Little Link struggled, yes he did
struggle at all cost, but that futile because Mido was sitting on his chest,
the three brothers out with their arms crossed, and some of the other grunts
holding down his arms and legs with both put together. Shrieking out in pain,
calling out the pain and grasping for the name of his foster-mother, the
child was clasped with a hand over his mouth, Mido breathing down into his
face.
"Don't you dare call her!" Backslapping him across the face, he burst out
in a stream of chuckles, slapping him over and over again. The sadistic touches
each time making more and more tears stream from his cheeks, all the way
being muzzled by another hand when he took both hands and smashed them into
the tender cheeks. Blood began to stream down from his mouth, where he hit
him in the jaw with some punches; his eyes already blackened from the punches
of only Mido, when he nodded for the others to join in. They threw him over
to the side pummeling him with kicks to the ribs, curses, and chants overbearing
his cries.
Not that Link could cry anymore, his sobs were silently when they started
whispering before themselves, Link being lifted up by the shaggy-haired Kokirii,
throwing him over his shoulder. Either the crushed or tender ribs ached out
loud a moan when he was rustled from the meadow and over outside of the maze,
being gagged with a Deku nut when his screams started back up again. By the
time he reached the special hole Mido had awaiting him, Link was convinced
she wasn't going to turn out pretty, especially when he was thrown to the
ground, only to be picked up by a vicious Mido.
"This will teach you, little bitch, not to mess with my
woman."
"W-who?" He cried out in a choking gasp.
"Saria, you dumb ass, my woman! You need to be punished." Before Link could
say that Saria was raising him, he was shoved down a hole that led down into
the deep darkness of the night. The tunnel slid on for what seemed like hours,
wet water, and something else staining his smaller tunic at the time. Finally
coming to a sloshing stop in the tunnel, he fell into a goop of goo, staring
around in to darkness for some source of light, and since none was found,
there he started to call up for help. Laughs were his only response to the
eagerness in his voice, a creaking metal moving over the last place of light,
shutting him off in complete darkness.
Wrapping his arms about his neck, all the boy's thoughts focused onto the
once lighted place. Nothing was here; he was going to die here alone with
something he was slipping in. Jumping out of the goop, he landed upon some
solid ground, feeling down with his fingers that it was a grass-patch of
some sort. Link still had no idea where he was, he had never laid eyes upon
a Deku Scrub before, Saria always able to dodge them or take a higher path
up across the ledges when they came to the Sacred meadow. Saria.what would
she think of me now, acting a wimp! Gritting his teeth together, gnashing
the marrow back and forth across himself, he cupped his hands together, to
echo it, and yelled out in a fierce voice that still matched his feminine
one. "Let me out! Let me out, Mido! Let me out I am telling
Saria!"
Bustles of laughter exploded from their mouths, yelling down some words Link
didn't think too highly of. What's worse been that somehow it was getting
hot in here. Leaning up against a wall, he began to sweat profusely thought
his skin. Whimpering, he curled his knees up to his chest, shivering through
the tunic at the coldness, and hot weather in here, like some sort of winder
and summer in here, his mind reflected. That would calmed down, but the bristle
of brushes through the woods caused him to stare over at the ground and look
around.no, there was no one at all, I'm just being silly. Another bristle
made him squeal and leap for the tunnel dragging himself up there with his
hands gasping the muddy tunnel. The brushes were getting louder and louder
as it tunneled up the pathway to him. Sometimes slipping a little, he made
his best way to the top, the thing gaining.
--------------------
"What happened next?" Ruto piped up, looking over through the covers of her
bed, the eyes glazed with sleepiness.
"Huh, well, that was when Mido got what he--Ruto?!" Shaking his head, he
looked over to the grinning fish-girl, she jumped up from her bed and landed
on Link's looking him over before slipping under the covers at where he sunk,
resting his head on the pillow next to Navi and her partner. The sleepiness
in her eyes faded fast, maybe she hadn't been asleep this whole time, or
maybe these people were fast sleepers, all they knew is that she was the
one who had interrupted the story.
"How long have you been up?"
"Since I woke up."
Rolling his eyes a little, he tried again. "How long since I started the
story." Switching the position, he pushed Navi over so she was right next
to their heads, so he could face both of them. Patting the energetic Ruto
upon the head, she claimed that she had been awake before they entered the
door, that the muck hole ride had awoken her. Now she liked the story so
far, but wanted to know what happened next, since his voice was lowering
under those covers she could no longer conceal her identity. Grinning up
at him, she rested her head next to his, listening as he went on-
--------------------
"That was good, Mido. Oh, man, that was the best!" Slapping Mido upon the
back, one of the grunts watched his reaction, sometimes the boss got mad,
but this time got a slap back on his back and grinned back at the grunt.
Yes, this was his own idea, he'd thought it up entirely, why should anyone
else take credit for his creative genius. Sitting upon the hole was a huge
boulder, so he wouldn't be out for a few days. He can always live off the
Deku feces; this caused the boy to crack up in a burst of giggles, echoing
throughout the entire forest.
Combined the throwing of Link's voices, the cackles of the antagonist, someone
or something had to have noticed the trouble going on and warned someone
to help. If it had been one of girls or remaining men (hussies), they would
have reported it back to the Deku Tree without any report, but then again
we weren't talking about normal women, now were we? No, because Saria was
the one who caught the giggles from the boys, wondering how they had gotten
out to the meadow without permission and why they were laughing. Laughter
was quite contagious, so when she emerged from the bushes near Link, her
grin turned down into a dreadful downcast.
Rushing through the trees around the area of the forest, she opened the path
where they would usually sit and practice the Ocarina, only to find her beautiful
tool up against a wall, and blood sprayed across the green grass. Not just
any blood, from the scent of it, it was Link's blood. Folding her tool into
her pockets, she ran throughout the forest yelling out Link's name, hoping
it was just a mistake, hoping that he had run into a tree and wandered home,
but her hope disappearing when she was through the entire minutes later.
Coming back into the forest and hearing the laughter road on and on down
the road.
Shall I check there? No, it couldn't hurt, couldn't hurt at all. Skidding
into the bushes before Mido and his gooneys, she caught the conversation
about how it was so good. Puzzled, she was about to go back to her spot when
her name echoed through the ears of the eleven, that child looking up, peeking
around until she was sure it was coming from the underground region. A squeak
in the atmosphere made her start back at Mido, who was now sitting upon a
Deku dung-hole with a rock upon it, then suddenly, it appeared upon Saria.
Cracking her knuckles, she leapt from the bushes and upon Mido, slamming
her fist down into his face.
To say that Mido was caught off-guard was to say the least, but soon as she
had the upper hand upon him, the boy had snapped his fingers while the goons
grabbed her arms and held her down for the time being. The evil laugh returned
as he knocked upon the boulder and began to mock Link in a singsong voice
on how much trouble he was in, being up a 'shit hole' without a paddle. Saria
had ignored the comment, taking the time to break free as he explained his
situation, grabbing hold of one of her captors, and slamming it into the
other. They fell to the ground, the rest of the group staring around at what
the girl had just done.
Diving for the rock, she was caught by Mido, who tried to hole her down,
but ended up looking stupid when she slammed him down into the ground, while
the others ran away like the chickens they were. Now alone with Mido, Saria
preceded to beat the living life out of him, asking over and over where Link
was, each time deserved with that he would die down there. Saria really knew
where he was, just playing the boy on for the time being, giving him his
punishment for the punch. The only thing that stopped her seemed to he the
rustle of bushes underground, which she cried out in surprise, jumping upon
the rock and beginning to yank upon it.
"Don't just sit there, you idiot, help me! What are you--" Slapping herself
mentally. Of course, the others had just ran away, and looking back at the
Kokiiri boss he was out of commission for the time being. That wasn't what
got her moving, it was a terrible shriek of pain that came from the underground:
Link's cry. Shaking with the fear of losing him, her feet spread out, pushing
up against the rock with all her might, but it just wouldn't budge an inch.
No, no. I am not losing him! Spinning around, she desperately searched for
some sort of device, something to help her in her pursuit. Deku sticks were
spilt all over the ground, but they wouldn't work, if only she had some sort
of-- a gleam in the corner of her eye made her turn around to the
source.
Oh my.Sucking in her breath, the bag that Mido had had was now on the ground
with the contents spread for her own enjoyment, the glint having been caused
by the lone sword. Leaping at her chance, she grabbed the hilt of the sword
and spun around in a circle, landing back to her old spot. Sticking the blade
under the rock, she used herself as a catapult to jump upon the sword as
hard as she could. No good.I-it wasn't working, this is not working. How
am I going to get him out! Letting out an Amazonian cry of frustration, she
was responded with some slightly giggles, lightly pounding footsteps, and
a cry of surprise.
"Saria-san, what's going on?" Sati rushed up to her side, her other half
on Saria's right side, staring at the rock with fascination. "What happened
to Mido?" She placed a hand on Saria to pull her back from the rock, but
Saria slashed out and began to slam on the blade harder and harder, building
the steel piece into a harder metal, which was why now today the blade was
made stronger. The force of the rocks had caused it to give in to its soft
beauty, since the sword had never been used before, showing off the appeal
of a war-veteran, one that had been through so many battles in her entire
life.
"It's Link! He's trapped here, help me!" Several more gasps of surprise cried
out. Cocking her head back, she saw that most of the girls from the village
were with Sati and her sister, maybe just searching for some berries and
heard Saria's cries of help. Well, this was to her and the child's advantage,
for the girls didn't mind the younger boy. Sati jumped up on the sword too,
her sister placing the final spot on the sword, the rock beginning to rise
just a bit. Others joined in by a group of them slipping under and helping
lift the rock--although not much--off the ground. Only a few inches were
open this way, so the rest of the group grabbed Deku sticks and stuck them,
trying to do the same technique Saria had, but not sitting upon them. Those
sticks were just too weak to stand the torture of that, but being used as
a way of moving something--they were made for that--harder than most trees
around.
"Damn! It's only open a few inches! Sati! Something is attacking him, get
him out!" Kicking the sword repetitively with each jump, she slammed her
fist into the rock, crying out in fury. Yet another scream poured out, all
the female forest kids perking in fear--Saria wasn't lying. A girl by the
name of Jiu, the skinniest of them all, grabbed one of the smaller Deku nuts
from her pockets and slipped her skinny arm down there--he would be paralyzed,
but so would the monster. Dropping the nut downward, it exploded in seconds,
causing all the noise to disappear, only the slight whimpering from Link.
Returning to pushing, all that went on for the hours to be, but since none
of the victims of the nuts were being attacked it could go on for hours at
a time.
Adrenaline perused the young girl, his foster mother, and she jumped upon
the rock, slamming herself on top of it by jumping. The first time it budged
in the direct a few times, the second time coming up and sliding several
feet to the left, the sword shimmying off to the left. Falling inside the
hole, her body slammed into the young Link, whose body automatically became
undone with the paralysis activities. Taking him into her arms, she handed
him back up to the other Kokiiri (who began to kiss and smother him under
his wounds, like an infant.) The light poured in and down she saw that a
beast, a Deku Scrub was staring up at her with appeasing eyes, just asking
her to touch it. So, that thing hurt him, Eh?
"Throw down the sword, Hati!" Sati's twin sister, the shyer of the bunch,
silently handed the sword to Saria. She wasn't touching the thing, since
her legs were spread across the narrow tunnel--letting her stand without
actually touching it. Giving out a glance of hatred, like that of a lioness
whose cub had been hurt, she put all her weight in the stab that did more
damage to the creature than Mido had done to its counterpart. Sliding deep
within the wound, black liquids slid down of its body, a scream bellowing
through the smashed nozzle. Leaping for the edge, she pulled herself out,
and spread out, throwing the sword like an Olympic discus player. As it sailed
through the forest, they pushed the rock back into the ground, sealing the
tomb, and proceeded to kick the living hell out Mido.
When the leader was faced with the question of why he did the task, he said
because that he loved Saria and she was paying more attention to Link than
he was. Most of the girls (and some guys) all cheered them, congratulating
them on the new couple--that was except Saria, she simply spit down on him
and crossed her arms about his chest. Smothering him in a dung-hole, leaving
him there with a hungry Deku Scrub, and attacking her were simply not reason
enough to hurt him, that was no reason to do that. Dismissing his love for
her as bland stupidity, she to this day would rarely visit him unless it
was at the town meetings, the annual Festival of the Stars, or if he bugged
her. Those were the only reasons he would see the beautiful
girl.
Also, she and the girls put up the gates, so that no one except the female
of the Kokiiri, and Link could enter the forbidden zone. When questioned
as if to why that was to be, they simply responded that he was better than
the rest of the males, deserved more credit, and would be rewarded with that.
Try as they might, the place was usually guarded by a Deku scrub who sided
with the women, yes, they were capable of speech, at least the halfway decent
of the race. Eventually a Wolvo killed the scrub and no one ever visited
the place, except Saria and Link, who somehow could avoid the dangers and
get past with Saria's song that soothed the beast. Other events between Mido
and Link happened in those years they stayed together, but nothing that was
savage as this one.
Sure he had wounds, the wounds that had no reason to be there, yet they healed,
just as wounds always did. Nothing to savage was done to him--a few tender
ribs, one of them broken, and the bruises all over his body. Aside that,
that was it, he smelt strange for the next month and a half, also had a mark
upon his ankle. It was in the same place where the Tailpasaran had bitten,
this the place where the scrub had chewed. With some healing herbs and a
month of rest his rise to fame was all right, tightness came around it during
the winter, but besides that, it always remained all right, not a limp or
anything.
--------------------
"There are other reasons I hate Mido. His arrogance, him thinking he is the
leader, how he treated me for not having a fairie, and some of those things."
Chuckling a little, he looked over to the two girls, eating off of his very
words for the past few hours. Speaking of hours, his mind was getting a little
tired, so without warning he simply slid the covered over his body and slumbered
off peacefully. The faces of his two comrades broke out in fury, but the
simple fact was the story was over, wasn't it? Yea, it was over, the story
had been finished, there were other stories in the forest, but this one had
been so hard on the boy, they (or Navi) hadn't had the heart to awaken
him.
"Aw, man! How dare he go to sleep on me, I really enjoyed that." Frowning,
she placed her hands upon his shoulders, trying to jut him awake, when Navi
tapped her silently upon the shoulder.
"Ruto, let's just go to sleep, it's late--and we need our rest, I have the
feeling we are close to your jewel, so if we get out sleep we can be out
of her by the morning. Look a Link, he's pooped--we need him at full power
tomorrow. You tired?"
"You're no fun!" Grabbing a pillow, she hit the fairie.
"H-hey, aren't you lis--"
"Nah, nah, nah!" Placing her hands over her small ears, she began to hum
a little tune to herself. Navi, infuriated, moved over to Link and on the
pillow, sleeping right beside his face. Soon she was asleep, and the little
princess was bored, wandering about the room for something, trying to open
the doors, and going through his satchels. His extensive expertise of weapons
was remarkable; each one different in its own ways, the only one she didn't
trust were the bombs, and they just looked too dangerous. There she played
with his weapons for a few seconds, before the room darkened, signaling Jabu
was falling asleep. Stomping her foot hardly, she called out for him to open
up the lights, only to be received with a long sigh of
ignorance.
"Jabu Jabu." Whining, soon the experience of sleep overtook her, but her
own bed was so long away. Crawling up on Link's bed, she slid under the covers
with him, wrapping her arms about his waist, sliding her head on his shoulder
with a sweet sigh. So nice. she thought, sliding down into unconsciousness.
Unfortunately for the two heroes, they did have silent nightmares that night,
the elixir of the dreams had disappeared sometimes during the day, so throughout
the night each of them awoke once (different times), looking over to Ruto
with content and slipped back to sleep. Dreams only making up the happy thoughts
of the land, each night they suffered with them, but only one or two, tonight
being very lucky to live them out in peace. Ruto's dreams were always nice
and innocent, like herself, the im-purifying thoughts of evil never penetrating
her.
--------------------
"You all ready to go." Leaning against the wall, he watched the two of them
get themselves ready for the journey. Each one was wearing the same clothes
as yesterday (well Ruto still naked.) Each gave a nod of approval and they
took off outside of the room, the room led back into the room from yesterday
with a door right to the north of them. Since Ruto was wide- awake, she walked
along with them that were until they entered the new room, for as soon as
they entered turmoil of trouble hit them. Sliding the skin through, his hands
locked around Ruto's, Navi right near him, the trio slipped inside and stared
up at the place in excitement.
"Oh, oh, oh! Link, give me that, get me up there!" Struggling to reach to
the top of the room, she jumped up and down to take hold of the small little
octagon of land, sitting upon a top shaped like a dredge. Besides that little
part of the room, the room was empty, but why did she want to get on it then?
On top of the platform, with all its shining glory, was a sapphire shaped
like a flower, adorned with gold all around it. Taking a few steps back so
it could see the small piece, his immediate thoughts turned to that it had
to be the jewel, of course, judging from Ruto's actions. I haven't asked
her about the jewel yet.oh jeez. "What's that, Ruto?"
"Jeez, Navi you can be dense, it is my jewel!" Squealing in content, she
would occasionally grasp the ledge, but he thrown down for it was just to
high to climb on by her. Turning around with those hips placed on hips, she
stared down at the younger boy and gave out a huff of fury. From the look
upon Link's face he got the idea and walked by Ruto, sword sheathed, lifting
her up in his arms and placing her upon his head. Standing on his head was
just the balance she needed! Now she leapt forward, the edge just above her
stomach, and yanked herself up to the top of it. Sprinting for the jewel,
she grasped it in both hands and cuddled with it, but her celebration was
cut short when the platform began to rise.
"R-Ruto! Jump down!" It's too late; she's too high. Jumping forward, he was
pushed back by the edge of the platform and slammed into another wall. Slinking
to his knees, grasping the bruise that had been pushed upon; the boy grasped
his sword when the platform reached at its top, (becoming blended with the
roof) a scream echoing out. Ruto's scream, he knew it from the sound of it,
and clasped the edge of his sword, his boomerang tucked down inside of his
belt. Finally the platform returned to its normal level, but anything looking
like Ruto did appear.
"Link.get back!" Shoving him against the wall, she guarded him as the huge
beast jumped from the platform and down to the ground. Now from the platform
to the wall was about twenty feet wise, which this creature was an inch smaller.
Being so compacted against the thing gave it a disadvantage, especially when
the spikes from the island stuck out and impaled the creature in its skin.
The huge octopus cried out, yes, it looked like a cousin to the Octaroks.
With a bellow of pain it took off in a different direction, a small orb across
its rear was cracked open, as if a weak spots. Link would have taken it,
if that thing wasn't so fast.
--------------------
By the time he turned around, the thing was only a few feet away from him!
Skidding along the wall, the shield held out in a worrisome manner, the beast
pressed against the shield and compacted him down inside the skin. No air
was given to him this time, crying out in the pain as his oxygen disappeared
from his body. Swimming through the skin, it acting like an ocean of water,
his thoughts went aside for something. How do I beat it, how do I beat it!
Sighing, he looked along the edges for Navi, whom didn't seem to be with
him for the time being. Slumping against the wall, he waited for the Octarok
to come back around until he thought up his first plan, the thing slower
this time, for the spikes had slunk in.
When its' in pain it, it gets scared and runs; now it's walking. I have some
time to spare. With another huge bruise of the shield going to be implanted
on his, he threw it upon the platform and ran to the left of the circular
room, keeping his distance from the creature. This way it was so much easier
to think with the beast behind him, that he almost enjoyed it, but then his
thoughts went back to how he was supposed to exterminate this creature. Was
it the master of this place, maybe, since there were other Octaroks around,
but then again what about the past masters? Each one had had kin of some
kind, the Gohma babies, the Dodongo babies, and now the Octaroks? No, that's
not right, the Octaroks were outside and I've only seen two easy
ones!
"Navi where are you!" Damnit, where is she! His thoughts turned to dread,
that she was still in that abomination of the water. No, she had flown up
when that happened, hadn't she? He couldn't think, the thoughts making him
all nervous, should he save his fairie or go on and fight? His answer was
given when the Octarok gave out a roar of pain spinning around from its general
direction and taking off in a flash of speed. Seeing the crack on the octopus
gave him an idea, the thing resembled an eye, and eyes were weak. Gripping
the boomerang, he gave out a running speed towards the monster, throwing
it right at the crack of it.
Throwing himself forward, cursing silently when the boomerang returned to
him, he regretted to notice the thing had bombarded over him again. Oh, no.
My shield! Giving out a cry of pain when he was pressed up against the wall
again, this time in full force, something tender gave way in his ribs, making
him grip the edges of himself again, this time throwing himself out of the
liquid in a few seconds. Spluttering the juice out, he threw the boomerang
at the monster that was only a few feet away from him. A beam of light left
the boomerang, piercing the creatures eye-crack that opened up to reveal
a green light, it also turning a deep blue and spinning around.
What's going on! There was no point in calling out; Navi wasn't at his side
anymore. The beast began to spin round and round, moving in dizzying effects.
It went on until it stopped, the crack on its rump facing him, and began
to run away from him. Crying out, the boy grabbed his sword and threw it
forward at the open eye, and a squeal of pain jutted out as the thing spun
around, beginning to charge him. Biting his lip, he leapt upon the wall,
but this time bounced up towards the platform. Grabbing himself up, the boy
pulled his shield upon his chest, so to guard that area, looking over the
edge of the platform.
His blade was still stuck inside the giant Octarok which was bad, because
now that he had exploited the enemies' weakness, how was he going to stop
it without a sword? Tears of pain whistled down his cheeks, the pain from
the bruises were aching since his heavy shield was upon it, so he switched
it back in the normal position. Checking his boomerang out, he threw it out
with skill, aiming with the tip towards the left, so it would swing around
and hit it when it came infront of him. The rang whistled as he smashed into
the monster, which in response began to spin around in a angry manner, giving
Link his chance to pounce out.
Jumping down, he landed on the spinning monster, leaning over the edge, and
stabbing the blade in further. Green liquid poured from the already open
wound, the monster crying out in pain again, but throwing him off as it bucked
like a bronco. Gripping the blade, he landed right behind it once again,
seeing it take off in maddening speed. This is getting annoying! The fight
wasn't that hard, his experience coming in, so when the monster spun around
towards him, about to blow, he threw the sword up and sliced right at its
eyes. A mistake for the octopus, indeed, with blinding speed it began to
spin around, not stopping for anyone.
Damnit! He waited for his moment and launched the blade down inside the gut
wrenched green area. It seemed this was the monster heart, for the final
time it pierced the center, only penetrating the barriers previously. When
it moved forward, the green light shut off, the remaining green in its remaining
eyes disappearing, while the Octarok sank down in a mass of skin. One remaining
sigh gave out from its nozzle before it lay down inside the mess it had creating,
shutting down permanently. Now he had to search for his fairie, he couldn't
find her anywhere before, but now was all right. Going over to the area where
he had sunk in both times, the boy breathed back some air, diving inside
the fleshy waters.
That didn't help, the water was so thick that within ten seconds he had to
pull his head out gasping for air. Using his sword as a desecrator, the boy
hacked and slashed through the flesh (whining at the screams of Jabu), coming
out to the area that he had been secured in. Searching around the empty area,
he choked back his fears--staring down and diving back through the portal
that swam back into the Octarok room. Bipedal feet landed on the ground,
bowing his head in silence, a bit of honor to his former
friend.
Former? What the hell are you talking about! His mind screamed out at him
in range. Regretting the former thought, his head bowed as he silently
apologized. How dare he say something so vile, it made him sick? Biting his
tongue, the boy stared around the room for some sort of sign or glow within
the room, something that might lead him to the whereabouts of Navi. Gripping
the sword, he jumped at the octopus and began to scrounge around him, to
check his stomach for maybe her remains. It was a last resort, but he just
had to give it his all, for there was nothing else do to. Closing his eyes
and holding his breath, the lad dove inside the multiple colored guts of
it.
Not ever looking up, his nose was filled with the disgusting liquids, his
eyes burning to open for the satisfaction of his whereabouts. Hands palmed
around for some sort of body, some sort of evidence of her, but to his luck
he came up with nothing. Pulling out of the body, the smells from the carcass
finally gave in, Link vomiting inside of the dead animal. Wiping the bile
from his lips, he sat down and began to call out to his former
guardian.
"Navi! Navi! Where are you! Please, if you come back, I-I'll be good, I won't
complain. Oh, Goddess, Navi! Ruto is safe--I think, but what happened to
you!" His voices were in vain, his throat growing tired after a while, taking
a chug of the liquid, and cried out until his own voice becoming hoarse again.
Sitting up, the guts making him wretch with pain, he removed his clothing
and ran the rest of the canteen over the rest of the tunic, leaving only
a little left to drink. Cold water, the saliva in the ground, and some good
scrubbing got his tunic only smell half-bad, the guts knocked off of his
sword, shield, satchel, and belt. Snapping his clothes and supplies, he secured
the sword in his belt and the boomerang, so that they were at some great
reaching places, for something else that came on. Something told the boy
that wasn't the main monster of the boss. Maybe some sort of stronger minion
to help it with its dirty deeds? His mind added helpfully. Mentally shrugging,
his eyes reverted up to the top of the room, hopefully thinking she followed
him when the monster came down. But how do I get out of here?
Oh, maybe this is some sort of bridge. Climbing up the platform was stupid,
but it might act as an elevator, so it was worth a chance. Luck gave it when
he scaled up the carcass and landed on the island, the elevator's reactions
giving in as it rode up to the top of the second floor. Connecting to the
new floor, he leapt on the solid ground before the elevator returned to its
original place. Taking a look around for his two companions, he couldn't
spot a thing. Traps weren't in his path, or any monsters, hell anything to
do except another one of those idiotic doors. Huffing out some breath, he
grabbed his boomerang, for he smelt the electricity in the air, and ran out
through the door, not even waiting for it to fully open.
Nailing the two Biris in two shots, the toughened boy looked around his room,
shaking his head with utter disgust. He was on a connecting piece of flesh,
or so he thought the ground was, that led down into a spit valley, nothing
down there at all. Another piece of flesh connected on the other side of
the room, but guarded by two crimson wriggling things. Are those tongues?
Why would a tongue be down here! Considering there wasn't a tongue down at
the beginning, these must have been here. Thinking of nothing else to do,
he was going to try to do the trick he preformed on the big Octo:
paralysis.
A few misses with the boomerang, but when he nailed the first it turned to
purplish-blue colour as the Octo had just nearly a fourth of an hour later.
Leaping the four feet to where the tongue rested, it sank a few inches, shivering
with another wave of disgust. Staring forward, he hit the other tongue with
the boomerang, storing it down in his belt before leaping upon the newest
tongue just as the old one reverted to its sloppy manner of wriggling around.
Being hit with saliva in the middle of the air, he landed on the second tongue
and rolled forward the six feet length to the next piece of flesh. Another
stupid door, these dungeons so disgust me. Bitterness was around, his jewel
could be gone, his partner and new ally dead. Why shouldn't he be bitter?
Slamming his fist into the door, a long whimper occurred before it opened
up for him. Smiling a little, the force method was so useful
sometimes.
Just what I've been looking for! His next room was clear of enemies, but
a piece of land stood out for someone to step upon. Grinning, he jumped on
the new piece, it scurrying down to the first floor, connecting to what he
had expected. Yes, the new piece connected with what he considered the main
room and revealed that passage he had so long sought out for release. Ruto
would have worked for the enlarged tooth, so he went around the corner to
search for something to put in its place. A weapon would have also worked,
but he dare not leave something so valuable outside, especially if it was
something he might need in the near future.
The pain in his leg deepened as he found one of the two boxes from earlier,
picking it up with ease. It wasn't as if the things were heavy, it was just
all the walking was taking some considerable amount of pressure on his wound,
and since it wasn't getting any better when he set the box on the tooth,
he sat down. Running through his satchel, he applied some stinging alcohol
to the wound, throwing the old bandage off to the side, he wrapped the wound
up once more and lay down across the area, searching the swirling amounts
of holes upon the floor. Nothing to do but let it rest. What shall I do?
There is always wonder what will happen if I happen to find her dead? No,
I shalt think that, I shall not think such impure thoughts. Wrapping himself
up into a little ball, as in his story from last night, he rested his head
upon his chin, beginning to sob. Where is she?
--------------------
Damnit, damnit! Where am I? I can't talk, what's wrong? Only darkness surrounded
the young fairie, she could vaguely remember what happened from before. Yes,
when Ruto had gone, she had followed as the octopus came forth, not even
seeing it, trying to get to the child and the jewel. That was ultimately
her demise, for when she was at the top, she saw something huge grab hold
of Ruto, the girl screaming as she was dratted down into the skin. If Navi
had seen the Octo then she would have laughed at the size comparison to this
thing. Navi didn't get a good glance except an arm that reached out, a clear
arm that would make her shiver with pain.
When she was sucked away, the sides of the wall began to stretch out in both
directions, preventing her with no escape. Going down towards Link, the portal
closed shut on her, giving her nothing to do but cry out to anything that
would listen. That was the last conscious thought she read, for now she was
surrounded in darkness, liquids were about her, and she cried and beat within
the walls for someone to help her. Wishing that Link were all right, hoping
that he would not leave this place unless she was tucked into his arms. Sure
it was selfish, but if Link defeated that creature that got Ruto, then she
didn't want to be left in the belly of a whale her entire life. Digging forward,
she noticed the shadows remained, but that she was getting
somewhere.
Maybe I have a chance? Hell, it was worth something, but this was getting
her nowhere with her digging claws. Letting a barrier surround her entire
body, she used her chi to power it so that she could literally drill through
the flesh for a way out. Screeches of pain and thrashing around the walls
came from the outside world, her hearing it, but not caring in the least,
sure it would hurt. Nothing came easy, that was quite true for their case,
no so much as Jabu's. Giggling silently, her voice concealed for some reason
she wouldn't figure our, she only thought of Link, her determination that
kept her going on through this hellish place.
--------------------
Get a grip! Handle yourself, as if she was with you. A voice, one not that
of his own, was speaking to him directly. Blinking a little, the boy looked
up and stared around in the room, but it wasn't the room he had been laying
in only a few minutes ago, he was in a blue room. The room was actually a
small piece of ground surrounded with four platforms. Staring around, the
boy caught wind of what was below him, a bellow of fiery lava, and above
him was a sky with the sun so bright you couldn't even see the clouds. Sitting
on the platform, he stared around the find the searcher of the voice that
had commanded him, a feminine voice.
Twitching, he felt something of a cold breeze surround his body, and turning
around caught the image of a woman. Her back was turned to him, long blue
hair cascading down her back, a pair of Hylian ears peering out. So, she
was a Hylian, for her fare skin was so pale an adult she was, so Kokiiri
was out of the question. The other alternatives were out of the question,
even the more relative looking Gerudo. Walking towards her, he tried to touch
her shoulder, the arm only going through her body, and jumping back, he gasped
out loud.
Spinning around, the hair over her eyes so her blue eyes shone out, malicious
cerulean eyes. Crossing her arms across her chest, a white dress felt across
her body, and she held a white want with a Triforce on it. Staring towards
the boy, suddenly her face changing. As if warping in and out, the face of
the beautiful woman was dropped that of a dark skinned man with red hair,
the dress replaced with some black armour, and that of her wand was a huge
double-edged sword pointed at him.
Swinging forward, the boy jumped back away from her, but the ground that
had been sitting on had shrunk, somehow, him grasping the edge of the land,
hanging over the land. Staring down at the boy, the sword he gripped was
drug across the smaller land, scraping down it with all his might. Floating
above the land, the man with his face having only soulless black, grabbed
the white of the land that formed into three separate triangles. A malicious
chuckle began to form in his throat, breaking back his head to scream with
laughter.
"You shall never receive the God's powers, boy!" Throwing down his sword
upon the left hand, Link's silent scream echoed through his mind, the hand
flowing with blood. but something was weird, where the man stabbed was a
Triforce symbol, with the left one glowing. On his other hand he freed, tears
streaming through his body, but the man with no face had planned this, and
he launched out an energy attack at the boys' body. The world seemed to into
slow motion, his eyes widening with fear; the mouth cupped open in a pure
scream of agony, awaiting his doom. While this happened, the man continued
to chuckle, even as the fire of the energy penetrated his body and sent the
boy turned into a small corpse.
--------------------
Everything in the nearby distance of that room heard the loud scream. Each
one roared with fear of what was happening, even if they were evil, the pure
agony of that scream sent shivers down their spines (even the invertebrates.)
Some pulled out and covered their ears; others looking for prey just sighed
sadness and laid their heads upon the things they had killed, the once stalking
prey having the lunch lost. Why with the terror, even Navi had heard it,
crying out for Link to hang on and continuing in the distant direction she
was going. The only one not hearing it was the shivering Ruto, who was trapped
with a beast so hefty it wouldn't out large the Dodongo King, but twice as
deadly.
Shivering badly, the boy uncurled from the ball and looked over the room,
where a small hole was in the center of the room, having been there before.
Laying his head over the edge, you might have thought he was puking his guts
out, but he just let the tears drip down restlessly. Pulling up with some
strength, he reached in his bag for something to eat, disappointed to find
nothing, so with a stomp of his foot he began to stretch himself out. The
scream he had given, but didn't remember it, for he was still semi- conscious
when it happened. Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, Link faced the doorway,
blowing the mussed hair from his face, and ran through the door, hoping over
the crate (which for some reason had a Lon Lon insignia upon
it.)
Pressing downward the hill, the boy stared around his surroundings, noticing
that the walls were made entirely of stone. Strange, how did stone get out
here, his thoughts rambled as he looked down into another pit of saliva,
only this time he had to jump into it, for the landing spot was a good sixty
feet away. Falling down on knee-deep saliva, his senses numbed with disgust
while he stared up at the room he was supposed to go too.frowning that a
pack of mucus stood in its way, but nowhere to sit something down. He could
have easily gone for the other box in the following room, but there wasn't
a tooth to set it. Then his eyes roamed over to the large pillar right next
to him.
It stretched up about twenty feet in the air, and not being able to see what
was on it, he scourged the nasty mucus webs just like he had crawled across
the similar vines from the Deku Tree. Reaching the top, and taking a view
around, his eyes grasped as a pack of Biris was heading towards him. Biting
his lip, he looked down in shame for not checking the room over. Unsnapping
the boomerang, the lad began to throw the rang back and forth, missing some,
but getting most of them. Still they plundered on towards him, looking for
their prey with the tentacles crackling with shocking moments, desperately
wanting to stick them into the young flesh for a bit of shocking
sensations.
Having nailed three of them, the remaining seven scurried infront of him,
stretching out some of their stingers for full access. Biting away a cry,
he watched them come closer and closer.so close he could feel the hot breath
from their blind mouths, running down his chest. Curling up, his boomerang
headed up, he threw one last shot at the monsters, only to be relieved when
it somehow bounced off of the invisible barrier, returning to him. What is
this? Staring forward, mouth gaped in utter surprise, the Biris were ramming
towards him, but still ten feet apart. Rubbing the remaining sleep from those
beautiful hues, he saw what was holding them back: webbing of some sort was
keeping them from penetrating on his territory. Spiders, no there aren't
any of those Skull-whatever they are around here. Maybe some sort of snot
from Jabu, or the main creature of this place? Ugh! Whatever it was, he thanked
the Goddesses for it.
Not that his celebration went in vain, the things were starting to find out
the way past it and turn the corner, coming towards him, but that was, sadly,
their downfall. The largest was bunched up in a group of four, Link nailing
them with two shots of the boomerang that took the duo out at a time, and
the following happening to the other Biris surrounded in this place. Gripping
his blade, staring through the light saliva web, he noticed a rotting tooth
up past the barrier. Just like in the first room! Instead of aiming forward,
he pressed his back near against the wall of the pillar and threw the monstrous
crescent over towards the tooth, to the left. That caused the boomerang to
swing over, smashing the tooth into pieces, and return back to his gripping
hands, causing him to jump for joy when a sudden ding went overhead. He couldn't
tell what had happened, but his hunch was that a door had
opened.
Crawling down the secured vines, forgetting he didn't check them like before
a very fatal mistake, the boy would drop down each time, only to catch himself
in his death-defying (or idiotic) stunt. For his pleasure, he didn't know
what was happening, he really hated that Navi was gone, could be dead, and
that the jewel and Ruto had disappeared all at once too, maybe if they had
gone at separate times he would cope, but no! Falling the last four feet,
he submerged in the saliva, pulling out with some retching sounds. Wading
through the water quickly, he pulled out to the small hill that connected
the room he had been trying to get to this whole time, scrounging it in a
matter of seconds.
Taking one good look at his clothes, wiping them off with the most prestigious
care, the boy placed the sword in his right hand, the boomerang in his left.
Something about this room gave him a pre-destined feeling, the same he had
had before each major mass monster in the room, and it was about those Biris
that really frightened him. Dodongo babies had been hard; the Gohma's had
been tough, and now the Biris. Could that be the major boss, a giant Biris?
It was possible, yet he had faced a giant Biris before, the ones clumped
together in that single bounded shell. If it were, he'd have no use for his
silly shell for protection. Grabbing the canteen, chugging the last gulp
of water that was in it, he stored it back in its place, stepping up to the
doors, sliding in them with that feeling biting at his neck.
Darkness and a wet feeling overcame him, not at all like the saliva from
the previous rooms, but something like there was something in here producing
its own spit. Trying to get a full view over his position or something in
here, he realized he just couldn't, that it was perfect for the enemy. This
one was smarter than the others, that was for sure, Gohma had had dark
surroundings, but she had revealed herself too quickly, the King going for
a sneak attack, yet unaware at his demolitions disposal. The wetness was
up to his feet, giving him a bad feeling if the boss was a Biris; he'd have
to find some dry land or something to survive anything electrical that it
gave out. His luck was answered when he came up the crust of Jabu, sighing
with deep relief, his jovial expression turned to dread when the crackle
assured.
Suddenly the room lit up in a prestigious manner, as if it were a surprise
party, him having the birthday. Covering eyes with a smooth hand, he peeped
through the digits at what the light source was, backing up into the water
with fear. Just before him was a creature, it didn't match the size of his
former rival, but the deadliness of it gave off such an animosity he couldn't
help but weaken in the knees. Giant Biris surrounded the monster, that stood
the exact height of the room, its three tentacles connected to the roof of
the room, while scullery legs jutted at the end of it. Chewing upon his lip
nervously, he saw that the Biris were sort of like protective armour, as
his shield would be if it could protect electrical energy. Sticking the sword
back into its sheath he readied the boomerang, giving off the stance in a
showdown.
Those three slithery arms that connected to the roof were a deep crimson,
glowing brighter and brighter with some yellow tinted in it. So the electricity
is connected to Jabu, Eh! If I cut them--oh Goddess! They're not even protected!
Nodding quickly, he stared at three violet tentacles that stuck out in the
open, their distinct characteristics making him even more nervous, they were
just as long as the ones connected to the flesh, but at the end they shaped
into a cup with a piece of skin sticking out. Below the ray of tentacles
was a head that matched the colours of the slimy appendages mixed together,
but that part didn't matter, the lower region must have been the most futile,
it was least guarded. He couldn't even spot what colour that part of the
belly was, since it was covered with the monsters. It must have been done
examining her prey, for soon it shot something from that purple
appendage.
Holy! No time to react, the bolt surrounded his body, tearing inside, making
him scream in utter terror. These attacks weren't like the lightening he
saw in the clouds on Hyrule Field, they would just torture you, not offering
a sweet death, they always surrounded, not went inside. Whatever the little
Biris did to him at the beginning of this place were nothing compared to
this! Falling upon his knees, the creature closing in for the kill, Link
could do nothing but examine the room, seeing some pots only a few feet away
and scurried to them, wrapping the pots around him for protection, using
his shell too, not caring what happened to it. Was that enough to stop it?
It didn't seem, for soon the next shock missed him entirely, but destroyed
the spot where all the last line of defense was: the jars.
Oh, Goddess! First you take her away, put me up against this, how am I supposed
too.my boomerang! His mind stuck panic, noticing that it wasn't in his hands
any longer. Looking up and down, not caring that the thing was absorbing
my energy from the fish to give out another blow, he came upon the rang that
stood only a few feet behind the creature. Mustering up a hidden power he
didn't think possible, the boy limped forward (dodging the next electrical
attack by only an inch), rolling over to his boomerang and holding it over
his face in defense for the new blow.
Slamming up against the wall wasn't a nice way to go, the attack absorbing
some of the energy, but not able to hold its own with him. Sinking inside
a puddle of the water, the boy knew it couldn't help but start to cry. Oh,
no.this is it, the water with intensifies the power and I'll be fried. His
skin already had a few chaff marks upon it, but the water was going to kill
him, he knew it. Closing his eyes as the tentacles crackled louder, he gave
out one last breath of hope, aiming with blurry eyes at the line that stood
above the attacking arm, throwing with all his might at the thing.
--------------------
Oh, Goddess, Link! Flying through out the skin, the screams intensifying
as she went at a faster speed, she had heard the first scream from Link and
continued forward. His scream echoed long and hard as she continued to break
the barriers deep within the Jabu. At first the creature had resisted, trying
to attack her with those weak antibodies, but now it was actually helping
open the skin so it didn't have to suffer any more pain from the chi ball
(which was nearly running dry, for that matter.) When she had gone into
hyper-mode it began to scream louder and louder, until its paths opened up
to match hers so that she could turn off her ball and zip through at a faster
pace.
Finally the door compressed some sort of warp hole, not giving Navi much
chance to think, it literally sucked her through the hole into a region that
didn't look to familiar to her. Thoughts were washed away when another scream
of her friend echoed through, this time in the same room! Spinning around,
she caught wind of the creature from before headed over to Link, who was
slumped down in a pile of spit from the creature. Being in the water, she
saw the crackles of energy, knowing automatically it would shoot some sort
of ancient Luminaries attack at the boy, that would fry him to pieces. No,
I shall not let that happen!
Flying faster than ever, she trudged the room just in time to see that the
boy was throwing his new weapon at one of the tentacles that connected to
the top of the flesh, absorbing the energy from Jabu (she guessed.)
Unfortunately, his fate was bad and the boomerang was about to miss, when
Navi stepped in and shot a beam of energy at the jewel of the weapon, causing
some sort of chain reaction. Absorbing the blow, the boomerang spun in a
ricocheting manner, coming to a complete halt infront of the right tentacle,
and slicing through with pain. The bolt stopped dead in its tracks, the creature
crying out as purple blood violated its skin, making it retreat for the time
being. Falling to Link's side, she desperately checked over the semi-conscious
boy.
--------------------
".Up! Wake up!" A hard sting was delivered to his cheek. Feeling the pain
return to his body, he remembered his situation and jumped up out of the
water, dodging a lightning bolt, making him look stupid, for there was nothing
to dodge. Not feeling the aftershock of the wave, he looked over to the Biris
that had spread off of the monster, as it tried desperately to repair itself,
more than that just getting anger off (the wound couldn't be healed.) Reaching
his hand out, the boomerang touched his palm, but who had woken him up? Staring
off to his left, he caught wind of his girl, she was standing before him
with a worried look on his face.
"Navi! Oh, Navi! You're alright!" Crying out in joy, forgetting the pissed
off Biris and its master, he pounced the young Fairie beginning to cover
her in wet, sloppy kisses, his eyes watering with the joy of the aftermath.
Being prompted with another slap, he blinked a few times at the also
wet-in-the-eyes Fairie who shook her head blankly, pointing up at the monster.
It wasn't back to normal yet, its armour was still spinning around, not even
trying to attack him. What was up, were they just there for practice, or
could he?
"Get 'em first, Link, then we can celebrate."
"R-right, Navi. You are right, now let's go kick some behind!" Holding up
his triumphant weapon, the boy looked over to Navi with the repetitive look
on his face, some information.
"It's called the Bio-Electric Anemone Barinade."
"How do you get this information?" His eyes gazing dreamily at her, his wondrous
face formed up into a smirk. She gave a nervous chuckle of embarrassment,
covering her crimson face with her barrier, shrugging a
shoulder.
"Just do, I look into their DNA. Anyway, this creature is electric, but you
see how its belly is covered up? I think that if you rid the armour of it,
then we can attack that, why else would it be that way? I am just taking
a guess, for this creature is more complex than our previous ones, harder
to read, too." Nodding solemly, that was the data information, but he didn't
know DNA gave names, and weaknesses, but anyway, he held up his weapon of
mass destruction, charging forward at the armour. The boomerang was just
as effective as on the larger Biris cousins, for each one did disappearing
into a heap of bubbles as soon as he took care of them. A dozen or so Biris
were compacted on the monster, but he only got three when the things compacted
back on Barinade, invulnerable for the time being.
Flipping backwards, the boy caught himself before slipping in the water,
this time finding it easier to run from the shocks of the monster when they
fired it at him. Only two of the tentacles remained around, the other hanging
limply, but they were both shooting streams of attacks at him, making it
harder and harder to dodge them. Navi stood at his side, dodging with him,
and firing marks at the two tentacles, trying to disable them, finding the
only way was to shoot the boomerang with a power-up attack and launch it
forward. The only problem being that the dodging was making it too hard to
shoot a Ki attack and follow up with a consecutive aim in only two
seconds.
Their luck ran forward when the monsters began to drain back in some, giving
them a clear shot at the monster. Link was a little more chaffed, he'd been
nicked during the dodging frenzy, so it took it back ten times when the ultra
boomerang slashed across the second tentacle, the first one let go of draining
the good fish and proceeded to let loose its Biris again, like an idiot.
Maybe they had misjudged th
s one, for as soon as it let the Biris gone to go after Link this time, he
took them out with some quick boomerang attacks, grinning when the monster
was back in consciousness, only to find it without armour. Well, they hadn't
misjudged the creature too badly, for it implanted its body from the neck
down into the ground, firing off the last tentacle faster than anyone could
imagine.
Oh, no! Maneuvering past the shots became some sort of game for the next
fifteen minutes, hiding between some pots that were around, the others that
hadn't been destroyed. While this was happening, the thing would search
helplessly for them, firing off in all directions, finally finding them.
When all the pots were gone, nothing important in them, he was left with
the simple fact of nowhere to hide, and it was good place for the monster
to come back up again, this time with a dozen more monsters upon its body.
Gasping in fear, the boy backed away from the creature, his eyes widened
with terror, how were they supposed too? The invisible grin given off from
the Barinade said it all: you can't.
"It's armour, Navi, how do we stand it?" Another slower assault of attacks
from the lone creature were given off once again, the boy dodging them with
ease, since there wasn't but one of the tentacles left. Dodging them was
easy; he even had time to throw off an energy-powered boomerang, that missed
the creature. Hopping back and forth across the battlefield, eyes always
trained on the enemy (something he learned from Impa), the boy questioned
to her again. How were they supposed to stop a creature that could generate
infinite armour?
"Well, since the last tentacle is about to be destroyed, and she can't repair
them, let's go in for the assault before we take the Biris out. Yes, while
it is recuperating, only take half the Biris out, and we'll take the rest
of the shots." "Are you crazy! That's ludicrous, it's suicide.it's.it's.crazy
enough to work! Good work, Navi," Slapping her upon the back, there were
a few more dodging, before he threw out the powered rang and nailed the part
of the monster on its last tentacle. No more attacks of energy, it really
satisfied the boy somewhat, and leaping forward, he handed Navi the boomerang
as he launched in for the assault of the creature. Hearing yells of throwing
the heavy rang, he raised the Kokiiri sword from its sheath, and beginning
to launch attacks upon the creature.
--------------------
Navi hadn't expected Link to throw the boomerang at her, but that was a better
plan than hers was. This way none of them would get attacks, and then they
could kill off the armour, and the creature much quicker. Swinging forward
at the first trio of creatures, they quickly turned into the multi-coloured
bubbles, disappearing into the atmosphere. Squealing with joy, she flew up
in the air, making the Biris follow her, so they wouldn't stop Link with
his beautiful caliber, the magnetism of this plan making her bit herself
mentally. It wasn't that Link was stupid or anything, quite the contrary,
but a tactician he could not be in some cases, this one of the rare times
it surprised her to have someone like him around.
All of the jellyfish swarmed up, excluding the approach of their fellow siblings
and going off in single pairs. Great, more work. It was worth it, though,
the loud screams of the Biris making her glad to be taking care of these
minor pests, her guess was that this Anemone didn't have as many pairs of
armour that Link thought she did. How else did it take her so long, she was
scrounging them up, never did she think that they would be smart enough to
punish her for her crimes. Whipping the rang forward once again, taking down
the closest of the bunch, the boomerang was spinning around when it took
out a group of three that had so idiotically paired together again for some
sort of ambush.
Ambushes were stupid with this weapon that acted like an electricity rod,
and since Link didn't seem to need it anymore, she didn't mind taking it
off his hands when he hauled it over. Grinning, she led them further away
from the battle scene, leaving back a trail of dust that was so intoxicating
that they just had to follow for a piece of the action. Some of them were
thinking of coming in for some sort of ambush on the boy, but that was quickly
taken care of when she sent down the boomerang again (this time charged)
to ram three more of them that weren't even together. That is nine down,
three to go! Her thoughts rambled on silently as she watched them with the
eye of a sniper.
For once and all, she atoned their sins once more by throwing the boomerang
out for the final attack. They hadn't grouped together, but with her last
bit of Ki pushed into it, she was able to smash them all into the trio. Jumping
for utter joy, she caught the boomerang and stared down at the boy, whose
situation wasn't as grim as hers, for somehow the tentacles upon it had come
back and were shooting up more and more energy. Meanwhile its stomach (which
was bloated with slash marks and blood upon it) was spinning around as it
twirled like a ballerina in her last performance. Coming to a halt before
the boy, he stared back at her, his eyes having a deep and determined look
upon them.
--------------------
Yes, Link's luck had been better than Navi's, that was, until this happened.
The creature would bloat up a few inches each time he slashed it, having
gotten in a total of ten slashes while it screamed and regenerated its own
limbs. Now that the limbs were back, he had put his sword inside his belt
and began to jump back and forth across the battlefield, and yea he knew
if he tripped his leg would be sliced off. That didn't seem to be the big
problem anymore, all that did was taking out this stupid monster, it was
so invincible, how could such a creature possess such power? Finally coming
to a complete stop before the creature, he was knocked with an energy bolt
(not as powerful as before, a sign it was weakening), and slammed only a
few feet away from it. Quickly rolling away from the next one, he was back
upon his feet, his mind screaming at him that he had it all
wrong.
Look! It's not regenerated, it is sucking from it's own body.or something.
It was true; the crimson tails were still hanging limply off to the sides,
as the monster continued to fire bolts of its own energy. Okay, so maybe
the thing wasn't just a drain creature, it just drained the enemy for so
much energy, and it wasn't weak, for this was the energy it had after Link
literally tore it to shreds. Blubber hung off of the creature, giving off
a sickly display of its guts (no heart), but the rest of its body to him.
Holding back to urge to throw up, he was greeted with the view of Navi, who
promptly landed upon his shoulder. Taking a quick glance up, he noticed the
Biris gone, but the creature wasn't even going underground.
"What's happened, Link!"
"It's sucking from it's own bod--" He was cut off again, jumping to the left
with Navi tucked in his hand. Coming to a halt, he began to dodge the attacks
as she spoke to him, to concentrate on his work to add a word of
help.
"Body, hmm? I took out the Biris, well, what are we supposed to do? Oh, Link,
go in for an attack at the body."
Is she crazy! "I CAN'T DO THAT! She'll shock me!"
"Take a look, Link, she will not. Before she may have been aiming down at
you, but look. Those slime tentacles were her sense of direction, since you
took them out, I am guessing--this is just a guess--that she can't point
down, so if you go in for the kill, maybe she won't hit you."
"Maybe is a bad bet, Navi."
"If she shocks you, it won't hurt as bad, look at her energy, she is so weak
it's sad."
"That is true.fine you wi-" Being shoved off in the general direction, he
gave a growl at the Fairie with his weapon. Pulling out the sword from his
belt, he slid under the monster--not under, but right beside---and began
to slice and dice at the creature. Roars of pain went out everywhere, the
spinning creature trying to grab him with arms that just weren't there.
Heh.stupid creature. Navi's hypothesis was correct, for the bolts only came
three feet within him (at the most), never even coming close to him; the
aftershocks did make him a bit light-headed, yet that was resolved with some
quick reflexes. Jumping upon creature, he slammed the hilt of his blade within
the monster, which threw him off with a bind of its bloating becoming too
much of a habit.
The sword slung out of Link's arms, staying inside the creature, which it
would remain until the monster blew up. Yes, the bloating caused the creature
to die, with its hidden heart no where to be seen, the bloating was so immense
that it was swell three times its own size, a limit that could not be mustered
much longer. Link saw the opportunity of his winning, reaching inside of
his pocket and smashing out a bomb. Pressing the quick fuse on the demolitions,
he threw it straight inside the hole, leaping upon the ground and covering
his own ears for the protection he know wasn't needed. If it had only missed
the monster would have lived, but Lady Luck wasn't on Barinade's side this
time, it was on Link's.
Navi was at Link's side, covering under his hat with fear when the monster
exploded with sudden passion. Guts and everything else flew across the place,
covering Link and Navi (concealed under the shield) so the Hyrule shield
protected them against any nasty infections. Breathing with a small sigh
of relief, the bruises of his most horrible place, imbedded inside of his
mind, he couldn't help but sling the shield aside and break out in a cry
of relief. After all this time, it was really over, and he just didn't mean
the leader's demise, he meant the whole enchilada. Everything was gone, no
more searching for jewels, no more scars, sure it had been fun in the long
run, and he'd remember it for his long life. Frankly, he was glad it was
gone!
Finding no where else for his acute weapon, Link stored the boomerang down
in his satchel, snapping it shut. Giving a deep sigh of content, the boy
turned around, only to find the familiar looking blue light, and a particular
beaming young Zora. It was Ruto! Smiling, he pushed its sword back in its
home, running up into the blue light, with the feeling of over wealth entering
his mind. Navi was right by his side, and a silent Ruto stared on, her pale
white cheeks now giving off the brightest colour of crimson ever seen. She
must have seen the fight, maybe captured somewhere about, and saw the whole
thing, probably seeing how skilled he was in battle? Fighting Shaboms was
nothing compared to this creature.
His expectance of the overwhelming feeling of instant restoration was promptly
thrown away; sure he received the power of his accomplishments (smaller than
ever before.) So the child decided that for the first two dungeons he needed
to grow a lot, but for the last one he had had his fair share of strength,
only needing a real small dose, the healing mystified him. Maybe it was because
he would be healed at when his burden of this mission was gone, the evil
Ganondorf wiped out of existence, and him and his fairie going back to wince
they came. Stepping down into the blue light, all went white as day, as they
were sent from the bottom room of the dungeon, out of the Jabu and to a secure
spot.
Landing on his own two feet, he noticed they were right on that huge slab
of rock her had commented on mentally before. Yes, before them was the trees
and that cavern he had wanted to explore, but instead was suckled in by the
evil Jabu. Cocking his head to Ruto, he was greeted with the weirdest feeling
he didn't expect from her: shyness. Yes, the princess was staring at him--no
drooling over him-- with her eyes widened with excitement, the blush having
been contagious in her skin, as both cheeks were illuminated, not to mention
most of her face. Placing her hands back behind her back, she hunched forward,
just staring at him.
Smiling warmly, he took a few steps back, greeted with the satisfaction of
the end of the ledge, but caught himself with a tug of the silent Navi, who
was just as curious as to what Ruto's intentions were. It was quite known
that she had seen the fight, why else would she be acting this way? She was
obviously impressed with his tolerance of pain, the association of tactics
and everything else about him. Maybe she didn't see me cry. he thought out
with a shrug, staring back into her eyes, staring up at her. Only a few inches
over her, they seemed to grow as her gaze grew more and more intense, flaring
over his entire form.
"Urm, Ruto-sama?"
"YOU!" She poked him upon the chest, which he caught himself once again,
glaring at her, but her tone had calmed down, her arms going back behind
her back. "You.you were so cool! I-I couldn't imagine you could be this good,
or this cool!" Smiling playfully, she reached against his chest, running
her fingers upon them blandly, which caused the boy to flush and look down
at the ground, while Navi's jealously began to show its true intentions.
Ruto was ignoring Navi, not even having noticed her, when he pushed back
with all her strength, giving the boy a might push off the rock, herself
diving off the rock with such grace only a few seconds
later.
Splashing into the water, Navi following him down just as soon as he hit,
the boy sped to the surface, sputtering out some water. Wiping the clear
water from his eyes, he was greeted with a violet set of Ruto's gazing deep
into his eyes, suddenly as whiplash did something happen, he realized just
what she was getting at. Wow.his cheeks turned crimson, her cheeks having
disappeared to the original colour when she dove into the water. Giggling
nervously, he shrugged a shy shoulder and began to swim away, only to be
leapt upon by some fierce limps, cocking his head to the left and seeing
her upon his back. Gasping, he began to kick his feet farther and farther,
trying to stay up, but regrettably sunk down deep into the water.
Not even being prepared to breath he gasped for air, his mouth shutting just
enough to get a few swallows when he sunk down. Being under the water was
her territory, so the underwater breathing mammal stared up at him with those
eyes glancing sweetly at him. One of the advantages of the scale was he could
see underwater also, the reason he found the bottle in the first place, and
staring back at her, he looked off to the side again, shaking his head. Pulling
up towards him, she wrapped her legs around his shorter waist, her arms around
his neck and began to kiss him long and hard.
Navi had seen the tension this older girl was given, so when they went
underwater, she took her time to breath deep and sunk under to water, only
to be utterly surprised to find Ruto kissing Link. Growling a little, she
grabbed hold of Link's collar, dragging him up to the surface, next to one
of the limps he could take hold of. Emotions were getting harder and harder,
as she cursed silently towards the little Zora she had claimed as a friend
had. How dare she do something like that, especially to her partner, her
friend, and dare she say it.her future lover! Not being able to stand it,
the fairie flew up towards the sky, a few miles away from them and let out
a tremendous scream of fury.
Grappling himself up the huge tree, he sat down with only his legs in the
water, the silent Ruto resting her head upon his legs, staring up at him
with those eyes gazing. Sure, she was pretty, but no they were two different
races and with Navi's jealous fits that wouldn't work out. Navi.where is
she? That normal warmth's was gone from his side, looking up only to catch
her flying upward towards the clouds, and biting his lips he heard the screech
of terror. Ruto, however, didn't expect it and jumped at the scream, looking
up at Link.
"What was that?"
"Navi, she can get jealous, sometimes."
"Jealous? How?" She was still as innocent as he was, so the thoughts of him
being stolen never entered her mind. Such thoughts were petty and would arrive
later in her life, later when things didn't go her own way.
"Like whenever I hang around other girls, or something. I have met a lot
of them on my quest, usually girls, I guess it is because I am just a kid,
and adults wouldn't mess with me." Chuckling a little, he reached down and
petted her head, only to be rewarded with a small little sigh of relief,
nuzzling up against his bare legs once more.
"So, Link, did you want something in particular for a reward? A kiss,
perhaps."
"Hee, I already got one of those! But seriously.I happened to want your jewel,
you don't happen to still have it, do you? The Spiritual Stone of Water."
It seemed to be her personal jewel, so claiming it would maybe have to get
some sweet-talk involved. Link didn't mind kissing her again to get it, it
was his third kiss after all--this one was a bit weirder than the previous
ones. One other kisses he had been with Saria and Impa, but this was weirder
than ever, for her lips had a coldness to them, yet giving off that beautiful
warmth of a kiss. Yea, he didn't mind Ruto in the last, there was nothing
wrong with being a Zora, maybe a Goron, but not a Zora.
"Well.my jewel. It did belong to my mother, and she said I should only give
it to the man I would be engaged too. Alright!" Her face beamed with pleasure,
reaching up from behind her back and producing the beautiful Spiritual Stone
of Water. Her eyes seemed to intensify with pleasure, loving that he would
be her new fiancé. Ah, the sound made her shiver with pleasure, she
didn't care if he was a Hylian--he was her Hylian. It would be years and
years until they got married (maybe around thirteen), but she could wait
and until then he could fulfil all his duties before becoming a prince for
her, later taking over the throne with her. Lost in her own thoughts, she
felt his fingers grasp hers as he took his prize.
It quite surprised Link how much he didn't have to do to get the jewel, but
the problem was he had no idea what engagement meant. What he guessed was
that it meant something like the Sworn Brother ceremony, a bunch of phony
talk for a new friend. Grabbing up the jewel, he placed it inside the sack
with the other jewels, feeling the warmth it gave to have the three friends
placed together again, maybe it was weird, but he guessed they had been separated
a long time ago--eager to meet. Standing up, he stretched out his limbs lazily
as Navi came down with her emotions fried out, spotting the expressions upon
the two, she questions Link.
"What?" "We got our third stone!" Grabbing her, he tossed her into the air,
only to catch her when she returned down.
"W-we do?" Looking over to Ruto--who nodded a little diving off of the platform
and swimming off towards the direction of Jabu--Navi stared back at Link
in utter disbelief, it was really over? Oh, Goddess, it was finally over!
After all this time, no more monsters, no more nightmares, no more fear of
expressing herself. Yes, she was going to do it tonight that was decided,
after the party she was going to do it!
"We head back to the castle, Navi?" Looking over the rock, he noticed that
Ruto had swum out all her way and was now at the other end of the pool, waving
for them to follow. Stretching a silent wave to her, he turned his attention
back to his guardian, which she gave a silent nod and dove down towards the
surface of the water, stopping before it hit her. Slinking his shoulders,
he dove down and landed in the water, sticking to the edges of the water
so he would reach the surface in the shortest amount of time. Since the rock
was not that far from the surface he reached the surface only under ten minutes
(no way was he as fast as Ruto) coming to a halt upon the impatient princess
who was now looking over her own guardian.
Jabu Jabu seemed to be doing a lot better. Sure he would have scars within
him, scars that Navi left in particular, but the sickly pale white look to
him now was a vibrant Navajo colour, his gills now brighter than ever. Giving
the animal a swift pad on the back, he gave some sort of semi- consciousness
thought and dove down to the waters below where it would rest for the night.
Speaking of rest, his own body was on the over-load, staring upward and seeing
that it was night, so they had been out here for quite a while, it
seemed.
"You all ready to go now? I feel a bit faint, so if we have a party, let's
keep it quite and nice." Both his companions nodded, and away they strolled
down back towards the domain. To say in the lightest, no one was more
enthusiastic than the great King, holding an honorable feast in their honour
was, giving them everything that Link didn't seem to want. When they had
first arrived in the domain it was about nine-thirty that night, but after
the party ended it was just about closing in on twelve, Link's muscles crying
out for sleep, for someone to bash his brains out. Finally requesting a room,
to the King's dismay, he was lead down to the room he had slept in barely
two nights ago.
Having been made up once again, the boy sunk down into the covers, draping
himself down into only his undergarments and spreading the silk sheets about
his body. After a few hours of resting Ruto came up to him, explaining that
in three years he was supposed to be back here (three years exactly.) Shrugging
a shoulder simply, he complied that indeed he would be back here in thee
years. What was the harm anyway, maybe that was when the ceremony was? With
a perky giggle, the princess locked his door on her way out and strewed back
to her father to tell him the great news of her marriage proposal. Navi stared
at the boy, questionably looking upon him.
"Oh, there was a deal to get the stone."
"Deal? What sort of deal?"
"Navi! It's complicated and I am tired, can't we talk
tomorrow?"
"Fine, forget that subject, but we can't stop talking now--I.I have something
to tell you?" She flew up to his face, looking down at the ground with her
veil shielded upon her body. The candles within the room burnt long and hard,
giving him room to see all her expressions, frowning as she slipped that
piece back on, she knew how much he hated it when she hid her emotions. Trying
to push the veil off (of course he knew it wouldn't), he stared down at her
with a serious tone, she only got like this when she was trying to be as
honest as possible. Letting her rest her chin upon her chest, she stared
up as he looked down.
"What is it, Navi."
Don't do it, it spoke with a serious and dark tone.
Why, she herself countered back at the stupid voice.
He won't love you anymore.
That's a damn lie!
"Navi.Navi!" She felt a push upon her shoulders, shaking herself a little
and staring up. There Link placed a veil of concern upon his face; having
seen her fall down silent for a few minutes had worried him beyond all belief!
Smiling a little, he kissed her cheek, the veil now gone so that nasty
after-flavor wasn't in his mouth. Breathing out a nice sigh of content, he
placed a hand upon her head, patting her like an animal, as he spoke out.
"Tell me what's bothering you, I want to know."
"L-Link.it's just so hard, I'm afraid you won't like me anymore."
"Now why would I do that?" Was she crazy? Did she know who she was? Goddess,
that was the most ridiculous thing that he had ever heard, who couldn't love
her, more than that, how could he not love her? Navi must have been hit a
little too hard on the head for her to think that. Grinning a little bit,
he smoothed her beautiful form over, taking the time to study it, it was
true that you take things for granted until they are gone, so he should have
explored her before she was gone. She isn't going anywhere, idiot. Well,
maybe not, but it was best to make sure of the things you love. She was so
beautiful and he just sat and around and never noticed--well he noticed--he
just took it for granted.
"I-I don't know, it's just nothing we've ever talked about. It has to do
with why I am jealous."
This perked his interest. "So what you said before was a lie?"
"N-no, just half of the truth, it was partially, but I didn't tell you the
real reason."
"Look, Navi, I know it's hard, but I want you to just go ahead and blurt
it out. I know that is what is best, I mean whatever it is, we can accomplish
from it, benefit from it, or get over it--I don't care. You are one of my
best friends and y'know with my reputation I don't have that many.anyway,
I want you to know that whatever it is, I can cope with it. I mean come on--
I was just electrocuted more times than I can count, and went through a
disgusting fish's insides, I think I can take something like this."
"I love you.and not like that, the real love." Okay, maybe he wasn't ready
for that. His face dropped, from the perky expression to that of concern.
L-love me? Love me? How could. Turning to the side, he stared down to try
to figure this out, try to do what he had mentioned the previous seconds
before, but none of those things seemed important anymore, they just seemed
stupid. Turning towards her, he caught her looking off to the side, cursing
under her breath and crying out with her head placed down inside of her hands,
knocking back the sobs, but they would win. This must have been going on
for quite a while; it seemed that it had been wracked up.
"How long?"
"I tried to stop myself--believe me--I tried!"
"How long?" He asked again, being patient with her, it was best this way.
Link hadn't really been set up for this before, his situation with Saria
was that he loved her, and the other kisses had been flirtations, except
the emotion in Saria's. This really surprised him, bring him to a desperate
stop in his tracks of though. Suddenly the stones didn't seem that
important--suddenly defeating Ganon didn't seem that good at all, and suddenly
Saria didn't seem that important. All his attention was focused upon the
little fairie on his bare chest who was crying her eyes out and blaming something
she felt on herself, why she did that stupefied Link.
"S-since after the Deku Tree. I have internal conflicts to let it go, b-
but I can't. I'm sorry Link, if you want another partner fairie I'll unders--"
She stopped in the middle of her tracks, feeling the pressure of his lips
upon hers, something she had never felt in this way, this situation. Staring
up in utter shock, his cheeks and hers were both run with blood, staring
down at her with the lips puckered across her own. It lasted a good ways,
both of them enjoying the kisses in some way or manner. Link enjoying it
for what it was--not sure of his emotions to Navi, but sure that he did love
her some way or another, in some shape or form. While Navi was in pure joy,
enjoying the love she was receiving from her friend, hoping it just wasn't
a guilt trip or something to make her feel better.
Each of them kept the kiss on for the next five minutes, whenever one would
pull away--the other would push them back with utter force. This just wasn't
on Navi's part either, the first time had been Link who tried to pull back
for air, but she pointed to his nose and yanked him back into the awkward
smooth. Sure it was awkward, just look at her size, her race, her
personality--they were all clashed with Link in some shape or form, of course
Navi's attitude had changed on battle ever since she had been with the boy.
Mostly it was the size that mattered, more than the race than anything else,
she was only barely the size of his middle finger, so he had to pucker his
lips small and she had to pucker wide to get the right movement.
With such a movement from both of them, they both broke the kiss at the same
time (with no resistance to hold them back, they soon parted lips), and stared
at each other in different directions. For Link it was the best kiss he had
ever received, rivaling with Saria's, for this kiss was not a flirt, this
kiss was not a taunt, this kiss was true love--which frightened the boy.
If it was true love, there was no way he could dismiss it off as some stupid
crush on the hero, like Ruto seemed to have, or something else. Licking his
lips where her lips had been, tasting her upon him, he stared down at the
ground, beginning to speak with such movements.
"Why would I replace you?"
"Because Deku-sama said not to love you." When she pulled back from the kiss,
she saw the innocence broken upon the boy, assisting her for doing such a
stupid deep. The small imp had been winded from the Deku battle and had hidden
inside the hat, so according to her this was the first time that he ever
received a love-kiss from anyone, maybe one day he'd tell her about that
more intensifying kiss. Looking over to the boy, she answered his question
with full honesty, that is what the tree had said, yes, but she regretted
to mention she didn't listen to things that died. Things that had no say-so
in their lives, things that didn't know the emotion--the passion that she
felt during that brief kiss that only seemed like seconds. A passionate swab
so perfect that he left her aching for a rematch, this time with a little
more than just lips.
"Great Deku said that, Eh?"
"Link we should figure this out afterwards?"
"Yea, we really should. I appreciate your forwardness about me getting rid
of you, but you honestly think I could replace you so easily? Nah, I didn't
think so, now let's get some sleep and in a few days, after we're done with
this mess in Hyrule we will figure this out, and don't worry, I won't dismiss
you just because of your race." Slipping off down into the covers, Navi couldn't
help but let out a small moan of pleasure, going under the covers with him,
just as the evening lights were being lowered. That night he slept so comfortably
with her friend, not sure of their destinies together, but sure it would
be nice, since he didn't care about her size. Those other girls didn't matter
at all, the Hylians and Ruto; the only one that proved a bad cause was a
Saria. It was so bad that she happened to like Saria the best out of them,
but since nothing had happened between the two of them, she thought that
maybe it was just a simple crush that would go away.
Following him into dreamland, the same maiden servants who came back to tend
to them the two nights before adjoined the duo. Now, however, his tunic was
stripped while he was bathed and mended with matching cloth materials to
look as good as new, trying to get all the blackened marks off the stupid
thing. When the Zorians were done, the two were put in the same clean clothes
as before, his weapons getting the cuts and smells off of them, his shoes
and everything else upon his body given a good scrub down. As one o'clock
approached they were done, leaving the boy with some soup in his tummy, a
tonic that would help restore a little of his energy for tomorrow, and the
rest of his body and mind secured. Even though nothing was used on him that
night, the two still didn't dream anything bad.
A following morning they received some sort of fruit that was sealed up in
their bags for safe-keeping, this way, the king said that the fruit would
stay fresh inside a concealed area. Given a nice farewell, the duo set off
alone with the third spiritual stone in hand, ready for anything that came
their way. Zora's domain was a great deal easier this time, as they were
sunk in the river and road down the stream at a riveting forty miles per
hour, reaching the end of the domain in only two hours. With that save in
time, the boy was overjoyed to be getting back to the closer, the faster
they went on, the faster they went home to talk about this new problem that
occurred.
Traveling outside of the arena, the boy had promised Saria a visit, but called
at her with his ocarina and explained they would go and give the princess
her three spiritual powers, then visit her. Saria didn't seem to mind in
the least, only giving a little whine in her voice and announcing that when
he got back they were going to play twice as much. With a small laugh, he
agreed and shut off his connection with the beautiful forest maiden. No talk
of the kiss was occurred as they walked past the Zora's river, passing by
the alleged Kakariko Village, not giving a stop and continuing on. It was
like there was time for that; they could wait until after the quest was complete,
the hard part was over, but not the quest.
Two days of extra trudging was what caused him to get back to the castle
further than he actually expected, yet he was met with a surprise that would
haunt him for years. It was just passing midnight when they came upon the
gates of the castle, about to camp down by the water (for Stalchildren hated
water) when the large gates of the place opened up for him. A welcoming entrance
was his first thought as thunder clouds began to form above where he stood,
right infront of the castle, dripping rain down all over the scene. That
scene was what made him feel all the more uncomfortable about it, it was
as if he remember this from a past life or something, but he didn't believe
in reincarnation.
"Navi what is this--" A neigh broke his call off, gasping as from the gates
exploded a large white horses--matching in size to the ones as Lon Lon. The
mare was headed right for him, so he dodged to the right, barely missing
from being crushed. Leaping up, he looked over his shoulder only to see the
royal insignia of the Triforce placed upon the horse, it wearing all the
bearings of a steed. What was more confusing was the master of the horse
wore a fashion to somewhat of Impa, not it was Impa! At her side was the
little princess Zelda, a concerned look plastered upon her face. Staring
back at her, she reached forward and threw something forward, Link to blinded
by the lightning to see what it was and where it went.
Suddenly, he knew. "My dream! It's my dream!" Gasping, the whinny of another
horse caused him to spin around, only to find him staring at a contrast of
the beast from before. Sure this one had the trimmings of a beast, but another
insignia rode upon it, one that had the swirls of the desert. The horse was
also black all over, where the other one had blue eyes; this one shone a
lunar yellow. Gulping loudly, he stared up at the master, and gazing upward
he didn't even need to guess who the driver of the steed was. It was as if
he knew, feeling the trembling Navi at his side, all the heroism they had
felt before was dissipated.
The man everyone cursed, the one man that made Link gnashes his teeth with
bitter hate: Ganondorf. Yes, Ganondorf Dragmire rode upon the horse, that
sword from Link's dream was stretched in his hand, those matching yellow
eyes of the horse gazing out towards the sunset, not being able to catch
wind of the princess and her attendant. Hearing a loud curse in the Hylian
language, the man looked down at the boy--surprised that something so small
and weak was out during this time of the day, but Th a grin, he looked down
at the boy and spoke a deep and booming voice.
"You there.boy! I am sure you've seen a white mare with a bitch upon it,
around here. Now tell me where it went." When the child didn't reply, he
pushed his sword into the larger sheath placed on his back, the sword itself
enough to knock his own blocked up dagger. How did this boy dare not speak,
was he mute? Asking the repeated question, the boy stood frozen with fear,
a little question that Ganondorf enjoyed, but the annoyance of this pest
was getting upon his nerves. Growling loudly, the Gerudo slammed a fist upon
his steed--that whinnied loudly, but dare not run or buck its master off.
That was only punishable by death, even though it was an animal, it feared
him.
"Boy, I am going to ask you one last time! Where is that
horse!"
"I-I'm not telling you, G-Ganondorf." Reaching behind his back, he pulled
free the Kokiiri Sword, readying it for an assault on the man--it had come
up to this. Except for the change of shield on the boy, this was the exact
same dream, so recalling it, he was sad to say he feared the same ending
was coming forth. Yet instead of shooting the boy, the man took a good look
at the boy, beginning to bellow with laughter. Sure his voice wasn't as deep
as the great Daruina's, or the Deku Tree's, it rivaled those Hylians and
surely made the boy weak in the knees, his guardian floating above him, but
all the while silent.
"Hey-- you're the child from the garden, aren't you? Defending them, I see.
Hrm, I like you, you have spunk. Spunk is a good thing in this world- -as
long as you can back it up! Can you back it up, boy!" Throwing his cape back,
which Link hadn't noticed before, over his shoulder, the man reached out
a palmed hand and aimed it towards the boy. Maybe it was the destiny of the
fate that made the boy stand still, the wading of the nightly storm, or his
feet were simply stuck in the mud? No, it was that the paralyzing gaze of
the evil king of thieves was pierced upon him that made him forget who he
was, where he was, all he saw was the cupped palm. Navi was also paralyzed
when she looked, at first trying to break the boy free from it, utterly failing,
and soon falling into it herself.
"Addictive, isn't it. Boy, you will pay for your crimes, for I shall soon
be king!" Ki began to form around her palms, but not the beautiful colours
that Link or Navi would disrupt. Ugly colours consisting of yellow, orange,
and black, the Hallows Eve colours. That palmed glove formed more than Link
would ever imagine, or so he thought, so when the beam hit the boy, his sword
tried to deflect the energy like a baseball, having the sword become a little
bit more dense. A normal sword would have disintegrated, but this was the
sword of Farore, so it remained intact.
Straying from the wimp's smoking remains, the man let out a long gale of
laughter. "Alive, I see. Well, you are indeed special. Consider this a gift
from me to you, which wasn't even a fourth of my power. Next time we meet,
you shallot' be so lucky!" Kicking his heels into the steed's sides, the
horse let out a long yelp of pain, following out in a general direction that
the mare went, searching for it. For that thing the small bitch had was what
he needed--what he strive for, if her were to gain the power of the Gods,
something he had strive for as a child. Leaving the child might prove lucky
in his hands; he felt a certain aura that might cause a minor problem in
the future, not that he cared.
As soon as the man was gone, over the horizon, it was as if a spell had been
lifted from the land, for when he left the storm brewed on a simple five
seconds and disappeared along with the clouds, letting off only the moonlight
shine down at the boy. Navi was at his side, pushing and slapping upon his
body, trying to get him away, crying out for any help at all. The gates were
still down, but no one was coming, staring at his remains, she began to sob.
It had happened, what she feared all this time, he had died. She knew it
was coming, why hadn't she, they had been unprepared for that stupid bastard
and now he had taken this young life.
Navi wasn't a medical technician, for with a simple examination would have
revealed that Ganondorf hadn't been lying, he had went extremely easy on
the boy, only unleashing a load of pain. Swallowing his guilt, the boy crawled
over to the edge of the fountain, staring down at the waters as he did, looking
at something that had caught his eyes. Pulling himself up on his arms, he
stared over at the hysterical Navi, giving a little sigh of dissatisfaction,
calling her name out blandly. He ached all over, yes, but he would live,
a huge hole was no in the place where the center of his tunic was. The sword
was a few yards away, a little messed up, but overall alright.
"Link! Y-your alright!" Running a quick check over her body, she buried her
face deep into his chest, nuzzling with relief, he was okay! Oh, thank the
Goddess' he had been spared from that evil, that the dream that she had had
with him was not a reality, only a something that could have been. Looking
at his drawn face, which was pointed down towards the moat, she looked over
his shoulder and stared down at something hidden within the water. Maybe
the thing the princess threw? Of course it was, and soon she went down in
the water alone, picking up the semi-heavy object, lugging it back up to
the boy.
"N-Navi, is that what I thin--"
"The Ocarina of Time. Oh my, Link, Zelda must have thrown it, but why?" Her
question was answered when they both received a daydream, something that
really wasn't done much in this world, and maybe it was considered just a
dream since it was still around midnight. Not even asleep, the two could
see the room that they had been in before: the Temple of Time, a room so
beautiful it was beyond vast words. In the dream it was the middle of the
night, moonlight shining through the room and reflecting off the beautiful
pictures of the Triforce.
Seated before the alter Navi had read before was the majestic princess Zelda.
She was knelt in prayer, the ocarina placed before her arms, holding it up
on the altar and chanting briefly. Still dressed in the royal attire and
hat, she looked just as lovely as ever, but her face was drawn down in a
frown, as if she knew that something was about to happen. A bad something
that just couldn't be helped--it was hated by all, but accepted by everyone
else. Suddenly, he eyes opened wide, staring down into the portal they saw
the dream, and she spoke to them, as if she knew they were spying upon her
prayers.
"Link, as you can see, this message is concealed to you and your fairie.
I have incased the ocarina to you for it has been too long of a wait, now
I don't blame you, I am sure you've done all you could. Now if you have all
three of the spiritual stones, I want you to go to the Temple of Time. When
there, I want you to use this ocarina to play a song, the most powerful of
the royal family's songs: the Song of Time. Playing that song will open that
wall in the room, the Door of Time, and lead you onto your destiny. Please
do this, as a last request, and I am sorry we couldn't meet one last time,
I loved our time together, and maybe one day we can see each other again."
She pulled the ocarina to her lips, beginning to play the tune of the time.
The tune was a sad melody, that gave you the feeling of remembrance, but
nevertheless it was a beautiful tune to know, and easy to remember. Zelda
played the tune twice for Link, knowing that it took longer to learn if you
weren't some sort of musical genius.
Suddenly the dream was gone, he with the notes simplified in his head, the
ocarina in hand. Grabbing the paper from his satchel that had the other notes
on it, he wrote down the tune of time, marking it as the 'Song of Time.'
Pressing the ocarina up to his lips, the boy battled with the semi- difficult
song for the remainder of the hour, until he finally had it set inside of
his head. Placing his notepaper around, he stared over at the bitter Navi,
smiling sweetly at her and slumping his shoulders sadly. Truth was, their
journey may not have been over, she had said that it led to their destiny,
but what exactly was that? He surely didn't know, but curiosity was killing
him to find out just what it was.
"You want to go?"
"We don't have a choice, Link."
"Our talk may have to wait."
"I'm alright with that, let's just do what we can to help." Smiling sincerely,
he retrieved his sword and placed it back up, holding the Ocarina of Time
in his hand. Standing himself up, he wobbled along from the dizziness of
the energy shock, knocking it back and strode down the drawbridge. Running
throughout the midnight streets of the Town Market, he easily dodged the
lone guard that would have sent him back to bed, but he wasn't headed for
the castle, his mission this time was to infiltrate the Temple of Time. That
was a bad word, for the place wasn't even guarded, only those stupid Gossip
stones were in the way, and a few small terriers roamed around with friendly
invite.
Ignoring them as best he could, which was hard for their cute furry bodies
but the boy finally slipped past them and inside the unlocked Temple of Time.
This place had been built thousands of years ago, to hole up some sort of
Sacred Realm, he didn't know too much about it, since he lacked in that study
in history. Anyway, seven people had barricaded it up so just no one could
retrieve the Sacred Realm and wish for something, they had to do something
special, which also had slipped his mind. Stepping inside the Temple of Time,
his awe was overcome with greatness, the church was definitely a place were
people had come to worship the Goddess' sometimes, yet is did have other
uses, some of which made no sense to him.
His footfalls were spread hollowly as they walked over that huge little insignia
trapped in the Triforce he had seen earlier, then stepping over that he looked
upon the inscription that Navi had read all that lone ago. He inscription
that read one with the three stones of elements would be able to open the
door of time and reach his destiny. Grinning sadly, the boy pulled out the
three stones placing them in the order that he retrieved them from the left
and onward. Forest emerald was first, the fire ruby, and then the water sapphire
concluded the final intrusion of the hollow spaces. Obviously he did it right,
for a cracking sound came about, the spaces locking down into the
altar.
"Link, the door." Pointing at the seemingly unbreakable Door of Time, it
was beginning to move back from its hinges, and this continued on until finally
it came to a rest opening all the way. A brightness shone in the room, the
duo staring up and finding that the Triforce symbol at the top of the room
that had been a dull gray, was now a bursting golden yellow, shining as brightly
as the sun. Giggling, the boy patted the stones one last time, as if saying
a goodbye to his special treasures, and ran up the three stairs that changed
the floor from hard rock to a soft marble. Rolling along the marble briskly,
he ran into the less darkened room inside the door.
".Navi, what is that?" The new room held windows that shone in seven different
directions, each held out a beam of moonlight that reflected upon the inhabitants
of this room. From what Link could see it was as bigger walk-up platform,
and studying each insignia in the octagon that went around, he saw that each
held an insignia he had seen before. Noticing the Kokiiri, Goron, and Zora
one, the other three dazzled him, for they were ones he hadn't seen before.
Yet, in the center of the platform was all the attention, it was where a
small pedestal stood, housing a sword. "T-t-that's the Master
Sword!"
"Master Sword? I've never heard of that."
"The sword of Evil's Bane, it is said to perish all of evil. You see your
sword was made by Farore, and I am sure Din and Naryu weapons belong to other
races, but this sword was crafted with the powers of all three of them. It
is three times as powerful as your sword! Oh, my Goddess, you couldn't be.could
you?"
"Could I what?" Greater than my sword? Looks kind of big. Indeed the blade
was that meant for an adult, so now he had to deal with an adult shield,
but an adult sword? He didn't like the sound of it, but maybe if the sword
was so magical it could revert down to his size. Studying the long sword,
he gave a little sigh of content, it had a blue hilt with the sides that
sprung out like a hawk, reaching in the right and left directions. Upon the
top of the hilt was a glowing yellow jewel, it didn't seem to be activated,
but held a tremendous amount of power. From what he could see of the blade
itself, that it's power did seem more than his blade; the steel seemed stainless,
as the eye could be deep runics places on the sword in a language not known
to him.
"You could be the Hero of Time!"
"Hero of Time, what's that?"
"A hero. This sword is stuck inside the Pedestal of Time. If you can pull
it out, then you are the hero. If you are the legendary Hero of Time you
will wield the Master Sword and protect the Sacred Realm from the clutches
of evil, a.k.a. Ganon." How could he be the Hero of Time, she had always
read that it would be some brute Hylian, it never crossed her mind that a
Kokiiri would become it. Who wrote those legends, the Hylians did, they were
just presuming it would be a Hylian while the other races presumed it would
be one of theirs. How ironic that a child would become something that they
so trained their whole life to be, which is if he can lift it.
"Go ahead Link, pull on it."
"Will it hurt if I can't?"
"Of course not, you just won't be able to yank it out, if you are the Hero
then you will be able to pull it out with both hands, easily." A Hylian would
be able to pull it out for two hands, but he didn't want to risk Link any
further injury.
"Alright, I am trusting you." Walking upon the little pedestal, that could
['t have been less than a foot high, the boy spread his feet and placed his
hand upon the hilt of the blade. Whatever happens, happens. Without further
ado, the boy let out all of his strength, pulling upon the hilt as hard as
it could, with all his might. To both of their jovial astonishment, the blade
actually slid out of the slot, but something happened that both of them were
not guessing on. A blue light surrounded the two of them, an ominous, but
gentle light surrounded the boy and his fairie. Having the sword in one hand,
he tried to swing at the light, yet it overtook him and his guardian in a
quick second, sending down into the bowels of nowhere, wherever the energy
led, was where they were taken.
--------------------
Sparing the young child was exactly that had been his plan from the beginning.
Generosity wasn't one of Ganon's strong suits, but ever since he had seen
the boy through the Dodongo Cavern, he knew he would be an worthy adversary.
Yes, Ganondorf had been tracking the duo as they made their way from the
forest, traveled through Kakariko and over ruled the triumphs at the Cavern,
that had astonished Ganondorf on how a child so young could take out a beast
something so powerful. It was even more spectacular inside of that damned
fish, how he took care of the entire place in less than two days. How strong
this boy would be wasn't the only reason, the best reason is what he left
behind.
To trail the boy he had sent out a chameleon with enchanted vision powers,
a more advanced power he had rewarded the Dodongo King. This way that thing
could hide with its colour changing mechanisms, but still send shots back
to the Ganon within his quarters with the king. It was quite fun watching
some of the battles from the boy, testing his own powers, knowing he could
defeat the child, bit making himself reassured of himself. The blast he gave
the boy was just a stunning power--something to tide him over for disobeying
him (but what did he expect?) That had been so the child could open up what
he so seeded.
Getting the stones just hadn't worked for him, he wasn't a people person,
as some would say. That was when he decided to entrust the private mission
in the boy, letting him get all of the jewels. Ganondorf had planned on getting
the ocarina and then meeting Link on the way to the princess, killing him,
but his arrogance had sent him in an angry rage against the child, who had
fled with her attendant. Now he was all alone, and watched silently as the
boy yanked the hilt from the sword, and within a smoke and a flash his vision
was gone from all the world, giving him such bad-luck he had to travel down
to see what happened.
The best luck that happened next, the boy wasn't anywhere to be seen that
dreaded sword was also gone. Did this mean that he had his wish, was the
God's power his? Yes, that was the truth, the boy had been obliterated by
the Triforces' powers, and now they were his. Standing within the glory of
the room, he crossed those arms around the muscled chest, giving out a long
grin of satisfaction, with nothing spilt on his side, and all he had to thank
was a stupid little boy. That boy must have regretted betraying Ganondorf,
for soon they all would, for with this power he wouldn't become God, but
the king of the world!