K.L.K- I know, I know. "Second chapter already? The sky's gonna fall and kill us all!" Blah, blah. Just enjoy. (joking tone of voice)
TITLE: Ocarina of Time Redone
RATING: T
AUTHORESS'S NOTE: I realize that the first chapter was well over several thousand words, and that most of you will spend the longest time reading that... But this chapter will be at least half as long, if not as long. I dearly love the games, and I appear to have striken golden inspiration on this fanfiction, and as long as I have it, I will let my hands flow over the keys of my keyboard to bring this story to you. Enjoy!
SOURCE OF GAMEPLAY: I've played the game itself- So often all the temples are imprinted upon my mind that I've played, but I get all the information and such from the Game Guide from Bradygames. You wouldn't know it, unless you had one. It's almost as old as the game itself. So expect some huge chunks gone in the later temples, as I haven't quite gotten there yet.
DISCLAIMER: I would so dearly love to swat Navi several hundred times- or make Link do it- but I don't own the game, so unfortunately, I'm out of luck. For those who stopped paying attention since they think I'm rambling, it means I unfortunately don't own the masterpieces known as The Legend of Zelda.
Scarlett noted that the inside of the tree was lit by torches that were somewhat hidden, and she heard the scratching of a few Skullatula high above, irritating enough to notice, yet far enough away for her to be comfortable with it. Three Deku Babas were in the small bottom room they seemed to be in, and a circular pit was in the center, thier efforts to see to the bottom rendered useless by the thick webbing of the Skullatula's tough silk. Scarlett tested walking on top of it, and it merely bounced her slightly, thier blades refusing to slice through the tightly woven strands.
Scarlett dashed around the room, killing off the annoying plants before they could attempt to snap at her, Link picking up the spoils of her efforts behind her. they then looked to a ladder, which was rickety-looking and had some damage that came with age, but looked rightfully sturdy. Scarlett clambered up the wooden structure first, then helped Link up, him not being accostumed to carrying the extra weight of both a sword and a shield on his small form. She didn't think of him to be weakened, nay, because she remembered how she had started out, a wooden training sword and the creatures in the forest her only dummies to practice on. If what the Deku Tree had hinted at earlier during thier conversations was true, then he had enough survival instinct to learn, and learn quickly.
the cut some grass with her blade, picking up a few Deku Nuts and a rupee, slipping them into thier rightful pouches. She then turned to the direstion the winding walkway took and sighed once more. This would be rather troublesome. She started walking up, Link leading in front curiously, as the forest boy should be. He then stopped rather abruptly, and turned to her with a hurt face.
"Scarlett... you still have your front up..." He pouted, and she let the smile break onto her features.
"You look adorable when you pout." She commented, her voice lively. She decided that it was nice to let her front down; she was far less intimidating, and she could use it to her advantage. She shook her head of that nonsense, even though practical, was unneeded at this point. She would unleash her emotions for the time being. Who knows? Maybe she would come to really know herself, and let others know her too. It was about time she stopped those foolish insecurites she hid with her mask; mostly being emotionally vulnerable at times and untrusting of strangers, but maybe people wouldn't alienate her so much if she simply dropped the mask.
She then shook her head again, and then proceeded to jump across to the thick plank jutting from the wall, and then jumped to the other side, where Link was waiting. Navi was flying near them, looking everywhere she wanted to.
Link was pleased with her general disposition now, and the fact she had aknowledged he was apparently adorable when it came to pouting only made him feel less of a loser. 'She's more friendly now, maybe the other Kokiri will be nicer to her if she doesn't go back to being so cold...' He thought optimistically, as they continued thier walk up the walkway.
Scarlett's eyes turned curious as they turned to a chest at the base of a wall with vines covering much of the surface, after glaring at the Skullatula- three of them- up on the wall. Link opened the chest with a kick to dislodge the rust on the mechanism, and a simple opening of the lid. "Wow... this is gonna be helpful." he commented happily, as he showed her the Dungeon Map.
She grinned as she traced her fingers over it, then flipped through the pages. "This is great! It even shows all the floors. According to this, we'll have to get to the lower levels through... There." She pointed to the thick web covering the hole in the floor. "...Well...Shit." she cursed, the sounds echoing, and she hoped the Deku Tree didn't mind.
"Nice mouth on you, isn't it?" the floating ball of light commented.
"Well, when you live like I do you both learn alot of curses and use them quite a bit, if not often." She chuckled back, her cheeks still the ivory tint they had always been, as she was seriously uncaring what anyone thought of her cursing.
"Anyway, the only door through here is that one." Link pointed to it, and Scarlett then carefully folded the map, tucking it away in her Bag of Holding for later use. She then nodded, and they continued on with one last glance- glare, in her case- to the Skullatula. "You really hate Skullatula, don't you?" He asked idly.
She gave a shrug. "I dislike them, yes. I dealt with them alot, and they are very annoying." She 'Tsk'ed as if to express her annoyance. They finally reached the door and opened it, venturing inside. The redhead was cautious, whilst Link was pretty much in his own little world, the two only startled when iron bars sealed off the doors in the room.
Her eyes looked over the room quickly, and it centered on the Deku Flower in the center, and her face turned concerned and a bit scared for the boy, who was walking right into the Mad Deku Scrub's trap. "Link, look out!" She barely tackled him out of the way of the Deku Nut the Scrub had spit furiously at them, and Link landed under and behind her with a slight sounds of surprise echoing in this hollow room.
She put her shield up, and the thing spat another nut at her, only to have it barely miss itself when it rebounded off the wooden shield. 'Hmm...This is useful.' She snickered within her mind, and then turned it to the angle where the Scrub would get some of it's own medicine. It stupidly spit another Deku Nut at her, only to have it rebound off her shield, and was thrown out of it's flower in pain.
Scarlett quickly ran after it, knocking it to the ground with her shield and stood on it's foot so it couldn't get away. "Scrub, explain yourself!" She barked harshly.
"M-Master! I w-won't do it again, M-Master!" She then, feeling it was safe now that she had beaten it, let it go and it ran off, it's previous flowery home dissapearing into the ground.
Link was rubbing at his shoulder, and gave her an apologetic grin. "I...Uh... Better start watching out when I go into rooms, shouldn't I?"
she gave a crooked grin. "Yeah. I can't save your ass all the time, Link. Seriously, now I'm glad you made me get this shield though, otherwise it would have been harder to block that- especially with my sword." She extended her hand, and pulled him up. "Sorry I knocked you down in my haste, but that thing would've either clonked you on the head and rendered you unconsious, or given you one hell of a headache."
He shrugged. "Good thing you tackled me, then."
With that, Navi rang to get thier attention back on thier quest, proclaiming the girl was distracting him. After they had gone through the doors- as soon as the Scrub had run away they'd dissapeared into the doorframes- and entered a room with a floating block, a Chest on the opposite platform, vines on the wall connected to that platform, and a niche in the wall Scarlett barely saw with vines leading up to it.
"Okay, let's go." She sighed, as they jumped onto the block, and while they were getting ready for the next jump the platform began to shudder. "Oh crap... Jump!" She gasped in surprise, as they just barely made it to the other side before the platform slammed to the ground below them, breaking into little chunks and dark brown crumbles of what used to be a platform.
Link dug in the chest and out came two slingshots, each with a dark leather bag full of pellets. He turned to give the second one to Scarlett- but she was already halfway up the vines to the left of the chest. She hefted herself over onto the ledge using it's edge and stood, then walked halfway out of sight and then hopped back down a few seconds later- with a slight grunt- holding a shiny item. "We got the compass, so it'll be easier to navigate." She smiled, and he knew why she was happy. It was hard to make heads or tails out of the map without any direction noted, so this was quite useful.
He then looked back at the door- the only door- and his face fell. "Oh crap. We can't go back through, I think that block's gone for good."
Scarlett blinked, then she noticed the second slingshot and bag of pellets in his hand. "Hey... Is that one for me?" She asked interestedly, and he nodded. The one he took was a light shade, but the one he gave to her was a slightly darker one, so they could tell them apart. Navi flew across the room and turned a bright, luminous green and rang a few times.
"Oh hey... A ladder!" Link exclaimed. After a dead-panned stare from the redhead accompanying him, he got out his slingshot and shot into the webbing, missing Navi by centimeters. It only fell halfway down, then got caught.
"I'll get it down, Link, go ahead and hop down." She assured, then aimed with her slingshot. The first one was a utter miss- she wasn't very good with projectile weapons, she hadn't really used one often enough- and the second one snapped the last of the Skullatula silk that held it up and it fell down with a clatter. Scarlett then jumped off the platform she was on, but the only thing was that she tripped and was sent sprawling on the floor below. "Shit..." She cursed, as she poked her knee.
She'd scraped it up a little on the rough floor when she'd basically done a faceplant, the only thing saving her from a broken nose were her arms thrown over her face. She picked out the splinters- thanking the Goddesses that they were thick and easy to grasp, and looked rather annoyed at the fairy's laughter. "Shut up, I'm naturally clumsy in the worst of times." She spoke with the faintest blush ever seen by the Kokiri boy on her cheeks. That was the first time she'd tripped in a long while, at least, in front of someone.
"...You're embarrased?" Navi gaped.
The redhead's eyes turned saddened. "...Is it so much of a stretch that I can get embarrassed too? I've made a mask cold and unforgivable enough to be called inhuman, but that doesn't mean I am not subject to such emotions, Navi." Her eyes looked weary of this, tired even.
Link extended a hand to help her up, and she simply got up on her own, refusing to look at him and his fairy. Her ears twitched a bit down, as if discouraged, and she simply clambered up the ladder, her arms having little speckles of blood where the splinters once were showing brightly on her pale skin. She then exited the room for some privacy, and Link turned to Navi.
"Navi...Why'd you have to do that? Why didn't you apologize?" He asked, voice strained a bit.
"I...I couldn't free my gaze from her eyes. They were so...Tired. Weary... Sad, even." The fairy then flew inside his hat, sheltering herself until she was needed.
Link walked out of the room after climbing up the ladder, and he saw Scarlett with her head down, her hair a veil hiding her face from the world- Or, at least him. He sat down next to her, close enough to have thier arms touching. She was trembling a bit, and he was worried. "Scarlett?" He murmured.
"I...I don't want to talk about it." She spoke, her voice only wavering at the beginning.
"Navi didn't mean it. You're just... Not the type to get embarrassed so easily." He spoke, voice apologetic. "She didn't apologize because she said your eyes were so tired, sad and pained that she couldn't tear her eyes from them..."
She didn't tilt her face foreward, and she didn't speak. The trembling stopped. "Link... I left that room because I'm afraid that I stayed in my mask for too long... That I was becoming the mask. I left my emotions to be dealt with later and that ended up with them not being dealt with at all..." Her voice trailed off.
"You can show your emotions to me. I'll never hate you for them and I'll always try to help you through them, as much as I can. I want to help you, because you're strong on the outside, and through and through- but you need a friend that can relate, someone to talk to, someone who's shoulder you can cry on if the world turns upside down... I'll be that person." He smiled gently at her, and her eye was revealed to him, her face dry but the tears being blinked away.
She was vulnerable with her emotions- she'd forgotten to deal with them every so often, and that left her dazed and confused, putting up her cold front to survive through everyday life, as she had a rather tough and unforgiving one. He was willing to help her through them, and he'd try the hardest he could. She'd been the only one who hadn't scowled at him because he didn't have a fairy, even if he did now, that's what the other Kokiri did. All except Saria. She was his best friend, but even she was distant in this place, because he had a friend that would stay with him no matter what. They weren't just friends- they were companions in this destiny. He wasn't alone, with her and Navi, he was happier than he was ever in his life.
"T...Thank you, Link. We had better get to it, when we get to...Hmm..." she quickly fished out the map from her Bag of Holding and pointed to a section on the next level down. "Here, we should either take a break or get some sleep, depending on how long it takes and how tired or hungry we are."
He nodded, and Navi flew out of his hat.
"So...I...I'm sorry." The fairy apologized, floating in front of the girl. The girl paused before smiling and patting the fairy's head gently before guesturing to her shoulder, where Navi sat down.
"You're forgiven, Navi. I...I'm just a real mess on the inside right now. Attribute it to my own stupidity." She gave a short giggle, and then Link rose up to a standing position, as she tucked away the map before getting up as well.
"You aren't stupid, you know," Navi commented as they walked to the door.
"No, I didn't mean mental capacity, Navi." The girl chuckled. "I meant emotional stupidity, human instinct demanding I do everything to protect myself, even when it ends up hurting worse. That sort of thing." She replied as they stepped outside the doorway, and then they looked up to the wall with vines and the three Skullatula.
Before Scarlett could warn him not to, Link dashed off and tried climbing the vines, as far away from the spider-skull things as he could get. He only got four or five feet off the ground- he was a quick climber on vines, the redhead noted- but a Skullatula's teeth flashed red and it charged at him. And he was too busy finding decent handholds and footholds in the thick vines covering the wall to notice much.
"G-Giyaah!" He hit the ground. Hard. "T...T-Tttch..." he groaned in pain, biting his tongue
Scarlett sighed, and walked over to him, pulling him up easily. "You need to shoot those damn things down before you try climbing those vines, idiot." She smiled crookedly. "Here, I'll waste the pellets." She offered- and he nodded, as he was rubbing his shoulder- and she pulled out her Fairy Slingshot and fired at the Skullatula after a few seconds of aiming, although she wasted a few pellets on trying to hit the highest one. They all thudded to the ground, and they lay there as lifeless husks.
Link was recovered now, and he nodded his thanks to the girl before they started climbing up. When she finally pulled herself over the edge, she shuddered in disgust at all the Skullatula webbing. The dream she'd had- those terrible flashes she'd experienced before she met Link, and had dreamed again the night before- made her dispise those eight-legged things more than she did previously. Which is pretty hard to beat, she'd hated those things ever since she was little.
Of course, she'd been bitten by spiders that snuck into her room far too often so she dispised the creatures, for she always had to worry if the bites would get infected. She'd had to waste money on herbs for herself too. Those flashes had been either premonition, or childish fears of what could happen to her. She seriously doubted the latter though- she wasn't afraid of death. It would happen sometime, and only the Goddesses would know exactly when. Plus it was counter-productive and depressing to think of when one's death might occur, so she rarely let herself think about it.
Link looked down from one of the ledges, and Navi rang once- too late- and he mot thrown to the side by a Skullatula lieing in wait for the young blonde. Scarlett sighed, and then saw multiple other Skullatula around the place- three of them, to be exact, each in one of the ledge areas. She helped Link up, prodded his slash wound the spider-thing had given him, before pointing to the other skull-like arachnids. "I'm gonna go kill those damn things."
He gave a nod, and he stood up and drew his sword and shield a tiny bit clumsily- but hey, he'd learn quickly how to fight- and then faced the Skullatula. Scarlett walked over to the second one and it fell down from it's place, hissing and making clicking noises with it's mandibles at her. She scowled as it flipped around, and stabbed it quickly on it's backside. That made it more pissed, and she stuck it calmly as it turned around again, charging up it's attack. She quickly grabbed the rupee it dropped- why it did, she didn't know and she didn't want to know- and she kicked it's lifeless husk of a body off the platform, it clattering near a Deku Baba who snapped at it, deemed it dead and useless to eat, and then the plant-like enemy retracted back into it's leaves.
She then took out her Fairy Slingshot and aimed at the other one's unsuspecting back- Those damn things might have been many in number, but they seemed to share a single brain cell- And she fired upon it's back, smirking when she got the second shot in easily. "Now that's what they call sniping." She muttered. She walked back to Link- who had a slight scorch mark on his arm, he'd fallen for thier spinning attack which burned like hell, and they sat against the wall and sipped at thier water, eating the slightly warm hunk of cheese. "Alright... Now how do we get down there..." She scratched her head after she'd retrived the map from her Bag of Holding, and Link was holding the Compass.
"Well...The only way to get down there is through that stuff in the middle..." Link started uncertainly.
Scarlett's eyes narrowed and she punched the floor, making Navi jump. "Dammit, dammit, dammit, dammit. I hate Skullatula." Link's eyes were shocked. "We'll have to...Jump down from here if we positively need to go through there. Judging by the platforms and placement of the hole..."
Link's eyes widened too. "Oh shit."
the redhead nodded grimly, a grave smile on her lips. "Yeah. My thoughts exactly."
Navi flew in front of thier faces. "Are you crazy!? You guys are just kids, ya know! You aren't invincible!"
Scarlett rolled her eyes. "Hell yes I know we're not invincible, that gash on Link's burnt arm and the scabs on my arms from those splinters contribute quite clearly to that fact." The fairy's wings went down. "...Sorry. But still, we need to do this in order to proceed."
Navi looked down at the thing obstructing thier path. "I...I see."
Scarlett looked down at the web, feeling her head lighten but she forced that away with a calculative frown. "Link, if we both jump at the same time, we should be able to get through that webbing."
He gave a nod, and they stood at the edge, thier things stored carefully and kept there carefully, secured as best they could. She linked arms with him and with a sly wink just to get him chuckling and Navi chiming in laughter, the two ran at one of the ledges, jumping over. They plunged towards the floor, Scarlett's hair flying up around her head up to at least three feet out, Link getting whipped in the face by it as it flung upwards, but not as badly as the redhead herself had gotten it, and they hit the web, having the wind knocked out of them. It stretched father than it could stand and snapped, dropping them into the water below, as Scarlett hit her shoulder on something sharp as she fell, knocking her almost on her side in her fall into the cold water.
The redhead struggled for breath, the shock of cold water hitting her imminent as her body was sluggish and slow to respond after she had hit the water, and her shoulder throbbing slightly from whatever she'd hit. She struggled against her body's reaction to the shock and she swam up to the top, taking in a gulp of air and pulling herself over the edge, shivering as she had gotten completely soaked. Link swam up to the surface and looked at her in surprise.
"You swim fast," He complimented, and she shook her head as she shivered.
"N-Nah... I just didn't expect there to be fucking water down here."
K.L.K- How is it? I know, I know, it's shorter than the first chapter but hey, what can you do, right? I'm kinda busy at the moment... Singing in an upcoming festival three days after starting school, what a drag. Anyway, I'm just trying to post alot of stuff because my parents are going to try to 'Limit' my computer time. (snorts) As if. I'm not being arrogant, but when they come to taking my computer away they've got a battle on thier hands, one that they cannot win. I need it for homework and such, and as long as I get my homework done before I get home, who cares if I get on here? Getting glasses is gonna be enough of a bitch, especially my first year in High School...
Scarlett- Hell yeah it will.
Link- Sounds like you have alot to do.
K.L.K- Feh, nothing I can't handle. I just had to tell you guys why I'm more distant from my computer, that's all... I gotta post this now, and I'll probably write a longer chapter next time! I'm on an updating roll here, hell yeah!
Link- Please review for...
Scarlett- (digs in her bag of holding)...Umm... A brownie? How the hell did one get into my Bag of Holding...?
K.L.K- (snickers to herself)